Kim! Isn't that lovely?
I'm so excited. I just found out about this tonight.
The criteria, I believe, is that Matt logged your post at some point throughout 2007 in his monthly Best Of section (of which I'm a huge fan).
He didn't mean to officially unveil this until Monday, but I got trackbacks on my blog to the 4 posts of mine that were nominated and it seems that other nominees noticed this going on, too, so we all got excited and started putting up our badges. I'm going to blog about this tonight (Matt says a-okay to do that even though there may be a few bugs in the SEMMY site still). I saw your post, Kim, and Andrew Shortland of Local SEO has one up, too, so I guess the word is out!
What an amazing thing to be in company with the likes of the folks you've listed, above. I'm also very happy that my friend, David Mihm, got to design the site for the SEMMYs. This is a cool idea of Matt's and I like how it is honoring the content, in particular. It's a different angle. Goodness knows, it's the reading we all do that seems to make the world go 'round in this industry. Congratulations to everyone who was nominated! :woohoo:
Miriam