Steve Rubel over at MicroPersuasion has started a campaign to nominate bloggers for TIME's Person of the Year

While I do agree with the choice, I think the directive to email the editors of TIME and let them know, may be ill advised. I would imagine that the majority of those e-mailing TIME would be bloggers. So in a sense we are nominating ourselves.

I am not privvy to such information, but how many recent TIME PotY have actively nominated and campaigned for themselves? It brings to mind the famous 'For Your Consideration' ads that the studios take out prior to Oscar time.

At the heart of the issue is that blogging has come to prominence in the public's eye becuase it has exposed many issues with the main stream media (MSM). Suddenly trumpeting that fact by e-mailing the MSM to reward the efforts may not go over well with the editorial boards.

Jeff Jarvis alluded to this in his interview with Corante:

But bloggers would be wise not to get haughty themselves, as I fear they will. When I appeared on CNBC's Capitol Report the other night with a blogger, he put himself above The Times and CBS because, he declared, he gets his facts right and they don't. I wanted to shout at him: Stop now before it's too late! Don't make yourself into an would-be institution, like Rather; don't put yourself up on a pedestal, because the fall from it is long and painful!

The other aspect of this is, if a campaign is started and bloggers are not selected, the cries of a MSM conspiracy will begin.

In the words of Han Solo to a young Luke Skywalker, "Great job kid, don't get cocky"