Mike Taylor wrote:
> The Motion Picture Academy doesn't collectively know enough about what
> makes good movies to give a Best Picture Oscar reliably, either, but
> that doesn't stop them taking their best guess.
>   

And if the Oscars are our model, color me even more concerned. :)

But the _effect_ of a 'wrong' oscar choice is, what?  Somebody makes 
money they didn't 'deserve', people see movies they end up not liking.

The effect of a 'wrong' Code4Lib award is potentially steering people 
the wrong way in their software choices, or in their education about 
what makes good software, with the Code4Lib stamp of approval on it. As 
Mike notes, that name carries cachet now, bizarrely enough.

When we first started the Journal, I actually at first was reluctant to 
attach the Code4Lib name to it, because Code4Lib is such an amorphous 
community, it didn't seem fair to imply that the informal community had 
somehow given it's stamp of approval to these articles. But in general 
other editors and the code4lib community in general wanted Code4Lib 
attached, they wanted the journal to be seen as a product of the 
community, so good enough.

Jonathan


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> /o ) \/  Mike Taylor    <[log in to unmask]>    http://www.miketaylor.org.uk
> )_v__/\  "Examining Work No 88, A sheet of A4 paper crumpled into a ball
> 	 (1995), the viewer is thrust into a conceptual space similar
> 	 to that evoked by looking at a shovel or a collection of vacuum
> 	 cleaners" -- art critic Will Kwan.
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