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Scientific American Web Awards

Posted by michael on from the top-five-percent dept.

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."

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  1. /. != very best of the web by hackman · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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.

    I mean I read /. pretty often (too often?), but it isn't really in that category - it's a news site.

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  2. Ah, a Web Award that actually means something by Prof.Nimnul · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Hopefully S.A. can keep this up for several years to come. Two of the biggest drawbacks that I've found about web awards in the past are:

    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

  3. Web.archive.org by i_am_pi · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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

    Pi

  4. Re:Slashdot hasn't won any awards recently by PhxBlue · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No, it just means Slashdot hasn't won a web award since April of 2000.

    **Shrugs** I don't know why most web awards matter to Marketroids, since all they really are is a method of advertising the websites that give out the awards. Just think of Danielle's Rainbows and Unicorns website--all those awards little Danielle collected, all pointed back to the other Unicorns and Rainbows websites that gave them to her. It's about as meaningful as a banner exchange.

    The Webbies are a special case--people actually vote for this stuff, therefore the number of votes relates pretty closely to the traffic each website receives. And that is what matters, since website traffic == advertising opportunity.

    So whether SlashDot wins awards or not doesn't mean that it's the best, or that it's going downhill. It probably just means their advertising rates since April of 2000 have been a bit lower.

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