This year, I’m supplementing weekly newsletters with a monthly ‘long read’. This is the first of the latter. Enjoy.

2024 was, amongst other things, the final year of The Kitschies.

Back when we were bloggers (back when there were blogs), Anne and I really threw ourselves into the ‘talking about awards’ conversation. It is a niche conversation, but a conversation nonetheless. I swear I did like eight panels in two years, yammering on about ‘recommendation engines’ and how ‘“best” is a meaningless...