Popularity and transparency.

This post at Chasing Ray inspired Jen Robinson to write an extremely thoughtful post about blogging, awards, reviewing, the Cybils, and, of course, the two subjects mentioned in the title of this post.

It's well worth a read, as are the comments.

Comments

[Jen Robinson]

Thanks for linking to the post, Leila! As with many of this things, the comments are where the good stuff comes in.

[Colleen]

Thanks Leila - and yes Jen is right, the comments are where the conversation is happening.