Auf swissblogawards heisst es am 15. Januar ganz trocken:
"das organsiationskomitee tritt per sofort vom sbaw zurück. entsprechende statements können auf den jeweiligen blogs gelesen werden".
Und die Schweizer Bloggerszene kommentiert nicht? Oder habe ich was übersehen?
Jan Zuppinger, einer aus diesem Komitee erklärt in pieceoplastic die Hintergründe:
...the blog hype of recent years has brought back in its wake some of the old media mentalities; hirearchies, rankings, earnings, market shares, hick hack and bickering have started to dominate the scene...
... we tried to establish humor and irony as THE key ingredient for the event...
...we tried to communicate, that the social components of the event were much more important..
...but let’s face it, things do seem to take a turn towards elitism in the blogger community...
...this is why i can’t participate in organising an event like sbaw any longer, one that can so easily be missunderstood to be in favor of this trend towards elitism".

Schade, aber recht hat er.