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Scientific American Web Awards
ldopa1 writes "Scientific American has just announced their 2nd Annual Web Awards. The article outlines the very best of the best of the web in the following categories: Archaeology & Paleontology, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Earth & Environment, Engineering and Technology, Mathematics, Medicine and Physics. Sadly, Slashdot isn't on the list, but some great sites are. It's worth checking out."
It's nice to see a set of awards given to people that deserve them.
I'm tired of seeing hollywood awards shows that are given so the ultra-rich can feel better about themselves...
Linux is dead.
LU
It's nice to see that A.L.I.C.E. got an award under the CS category. It's really neat, and you should check it out.
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Linux is dead.
LU
does Hawkeye still do the SA shows?
NASA watch is useful to keep track of whats goin on...
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Seriously, I'm glad Slashdot isn't on there. In fact it would decrease the meaning of the award if it was voted on the "Very best of the web" list.
/. pretty often (too often?), but it isn't really in that category - it's a news site.
I mean I read
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Sadly, Slashdot isn't on the list, but some great sites are.
Why would Slashdot be on the list? Did JonKatz discover a fascinating fossil that put the archeological community on its ears and post his dissertation on it here?
Why would a news site win an award for original content?
(Disclaimer: I haven't read the criteria they use, so maybe Slashdot should be in the list - but I doubt it)
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They gave the Internet Archive an award. Interesting idea, but I feel not really award worthy. Although the Wayback Machine is really neat.
/. is interesting. December 21, 1997. My favorite headlines:
The oldest archived version of
1) Linux 2.1.74 Released
2) Judge Uninstalls IE in 90 seconds
3) The poll: I would see Titanic just to see a Prequel Trailer (Yes/No/What are you talking about?)
Just goes to show how long this Microsoft crap has been going on...
Check out this. Slashdot hasn't won a web award since April of 2000. That must mean Slashdot is going downhill, right?
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This "Awards" are more of a mini directory listing than an true awards. The slashdot blurb states "The article outlines the very best of the best of the web", but on the actual site it is clear that there is no such claim. This is just a list of interesting sites, worth browsing in some scientific oriented categories. I think this is a good service. Hopefully it stays up for some time, and does not grow to much. I think large directory structures, like Yahoo's web directory listings are not terribly useful for browsing. I miss the early ninties when I could browse from home page to home page with individuals listing 5 to 10 interesting sites each. Now days I usually just browse from slashdot; in fact, excuse me while I return to browsing these science links.
Word.
why should this be modded down? it's the fucking truth you loozer
Yeah, I think that "Lone Gunmen are Dead" article kinda did /. in for this year. ;)
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1) Sites can suddenly disappear or (more frequently) slowly slid into inactivity.
2) A number of awards really aren't all that impressive because the award was either given by a friend, or has been handed out so many times (i.e. a "Pick of the Day") that the luster fades about as fast as David Lee Roth's stardom after Van Halen.
I've always liked the idea of an annual web awards, but given the very fluid nature of the web, I wasn't sure if the idea would really work. I suppose that other annual awards are given out for web work, but I think these are the first that aren't based (solely) on design and graphics.
Matt
I greatly enjoy Scientific American.
Just in case you haven't gotten tired of posts theorizing why /. isn't on the list, try this:
It's not there because the rest of the world has yet to recognize Zealotry as a science.
is sadly blocked at most filtered internet places (libraries, schools) (good thing I have a cgi-proxy available running on https)
It is a good site however. My job's very first webpage is on there. Sure freaked out the boss when I showed that to him: "What happened to our website"/"Nothing! it's an archived copy"
CGIproxy site
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that even our (presumably /.) favorite search engine still is not reliably capable of delivering results apropos to any given quest. In clarification, the apropos results may be listed, but finding them amongst the other 10K to 1M results is may be problematic.
There has been a respectable amount of research applied to making web search results meet the criteria of the user. The results have been improvement, much to Google's credit, but the product is not yet acceptable. Efforts to create search engines with a special interest focus have been met with mild success and meek acceptance. The correct approach, I think, is that some entity in the position that Google has should provide a method to segregate results, not only based on keywords, but by meaningful content as well. The early rough-and-tumble days of the Weird-Wild-Web brought us search engines that were easily fooled by meta-tags and other keyword embedding methods. The next step is to provide, via AI methods, a search engine that can provide, given well defined search criteria, only the set of results that make the *best fit*.
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Maybe, it depends on what you define "it" to be.
That it isn't a computer, it's Bill Clinton typing.
I grew up at a great time to be a science nerd, I remember fondly the Time-Life Science Books, newspaper articles and television coverage of the Apollo missions, playing with a chemistry set...
I'm not sure what science kids resources on the net will live up to those standards. A couple that I like are Nine Planets and Science Toys you can make with Your Kids, anybody got any others?
I'm a nature photographer.
it seems that the alicebot isn't very acurate:
"blue, because of my robotics team [my answer to what is your fav. color]
Green. Good reason. That is something I haven't heard of. "
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It's great how only one of the "computer science" sites has anything to do with computer science.
It would've been nice to see http://physlink.com and/or http://www.heavens-above.com on there...
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On my first look, the site made me laugh.
:(.
A third of the page was blank since they
assumed my browser width. Shrink it too much,
and the page gets lost. Then, first
check the physics link (my field):
Physics 2000 wants a plugin (ok this is not
my primary machine, but this is a pain).
Then the string theory site, not too bad but
again inappropriately assumes my geometry.
Jump to chemistry: organo transition? what
happened to spelling. Try the virtual experiment,
galeon enters an infinite loop.
Whatever happened to the idea of the web site
presenting the information and the browser
doing the displaying.
Oh well, I guess this is a loosing battle
Mike
these awards are as corrupt as Enron Corp.
Slashdot.org should be on the list as a great anthropology site.
Not just answers, the correct questions.
Interesting note:
you can not enter the awarded NG site (Earth and Environment: Wildworld) with Mozilla. It only allows NS4 or 6 and IE 4+.
I have emailed them about this, perhaps other could to.
I was reading MIT Technology Reviews TR100 awards. One of the SlashDot founders has received this prestigious award. Can not remember his name.
At least they could have been submitted under the Biology heading!