Well, not this time...

I got my final review for the figureskating.About.com Guide. I didn't get it. Here's the GFY:

Your Prep site has recently come up for review, and we regret to inform you that it will not be promoted to the live environment.

Below are some comments from the editor that will further explain how we came to this decision:

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We thought you had a great site, but after much consideration decided not to go with it. You have excellent Internet skills and a vivid enthusiasm for figure skating, but some of the content just wasn't written and organized in the manner used on About. Thanks for all of the work you did on your site and we wish you best of luck in your future endeavors.

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Thank you again for your interest in About, Inc. We hope that your experience was pleasant and valuable and we wish you the very best in your future endeavors.

Sincerely,

Guide Prep Administration
About, Inc.

That was a BIG waste of about 100 hours of my precious time. It certainly WASN'T a valuable experience, but for a while there, I really enjoyed putting the site together... and thinking about what I might do if it was my site. I am sad about not getting the job. It would have been an incredible platform. It would have allowed me to be heard. And most of y'all know how I like being heard.

Oh well. It WAS a great site... but, you can't win em all. I guess, somewhere, deep down, with my copious writing experience and knowledge about skating, I really expected to get this one. I didn't get over-confident, but I didn't see where they could fail to love me. But they obviously didn't. And being a good writer and knowing about skating and the web was not enough. I didn't write in the "About.com manner." So maybe they're right. I always regarded About.com with derision for several good reasons.

I probably don't belong there.