Post of the Week – editorial team needed.

Remember “Post of the Week” – a feature that ran on this site in late 2005 and early 2006?

Remember all those grand plans we had about launching it under its own domain?

Remember how all those grand plans came to nought, as Real Life got in the way and the momentum fizzled out?

Shame, wasn’t it?

Well, all is not lost. Following a renewed burst of activity behind the scenes, we’re ready to test the site out with a couple of low-key trial runs.

But first, we need to assemble an editorial team.

Rather than pester the dozen or so people who volunteered last year – as circumstances and levels of enthusiasm might have changed since then – I’d like to issue a fresh shout-out.

If you’d like to be a member of the Post of the Week editorial team, then please e-mail me (mikejla @ btinternet dot com), or leave a message in the comments box.

Ideally we’re looking for a team of around 10 to 12 people, whose responsibilities will be as follows.

1. Shortlist selection. Once every 10 to 12 weeks, you (and you alone) will need to sift through all of that week’s nominated posts, and assemble a shortlist of no more than 12 posts. Nominations close on Friday nights (UK time), and you will need to have the shortlist ready by Saturday lunchtime.

(That sounds like a tight deadline, but you will probably have been keeping an eye on the nominations all the way through the week, as they come through on the site.)

2. Judging. Once every 5 or 6 weeks, as part of a team of three (two members plus one guest, drawn from the readership), you will read through the shortlist and vote for your five favourites, in order. You will have from Saturday lunchtime until Sunday evening to do this. Your individual votes will not be made public.

So there’s not a huge amount of work, but you will need to be available at weekends.

There’s one further catch: to avoid charges of nepotism, members of the editorial team will be exempt from having any of their posts nominated, whether they are “on duty” that week or not.

For further reference, here’s the “About” page on the site proper.

As soon as we get a team assembled, we’ll start with the trial runs – the sooner the better. Ooh, I’m getting quite excited about this already…