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Apache Wins Webby
jorr writes "'Presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, The Webby Awards is the leading international honor for the worlds best web sites. The Academy is proud to present The 7th Annual Webby Awards Winners.' Winners listed on this page. Apache won Technical Achievement award."
All they got was a secret decoder ring.
so did http://penny-arcade.com -- maybe I should submit a story under games.
Wait; Stuff that matters, nevermind, I am going back to sleep.
Aw man. They got a webby. I want one. :)
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That's like saying,
"Pope chosen as #1 Catholic."
There are no trails. There are no trees out here.
We give out this awards, and explain nothing, nothing at all. Geez, that's useful. They give you links to the people who won, and the people nominated. Whoopie! Why not tell me something useful, like the criteria that you used to evaluate them (the criteria is there, but hidden away). Why not tell me what the Apache people did to qualify as: "Sites introducing or integrating technology that pushes the envelope, and invite us to believe in what once seemed impossible" .
Great, you took 4 technical achievements, arbitrarily picked one. That's nice, where's some useful content? Personally, I think Google News is much cooler then anything Apache's done lately. Not that Apache isn't cool, but Google's done far more previously deemed impossible things lately then Apache has. At least tell me what you think Apache has done that you think is wonderful?
Maybe they'll release all that information later after some goofy ceremony, but seems like it'd be mighty useful content to give the site some actual value.
Kirby
Give me a break, look at these winners... Amazon for "commerce" ? EBAY for "services" ? PRAYPAL for "finance" ? (PRAYPAL is owned by EBAY). WHen they realized they had no money for an awards show this year, did they just hold their hand out and start selling the awards? and what the hell does a category "best practises" mean?
Does it bother anyone else that the Webby award site itself was designed by retarded monkeys? Almost all of the text is presented with images, forcing you to deal with that God-awful 6 pixel high font. Try viewing that site without images. It's nearly impossible. About the only thing NOT hard-coded in images are the site names and links. And of course the site does not repond at all to a "text size" option in my browser (which I admit is Crazy Browser, based on IE; Moz may be different.)
This site fails almost every rule of web design, for fuck's sake.
- SCO won the predigious Suity for "Best IP lawsuit involving Unix aimed at a giant corporation"
- Slashdot won the much-sought-after Slashy for "Best Open Source Tech News/Discussion Website With A Green/Black Colour Scheme"
- God won the Popey for Supreme Being Catholics Admire Most
- For the fiftieth year in a row, Bears won the Grizzly for "Stereotype Most Likely To Crap In The Woods"
Well done Apache!You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
Funny that linux was also recognized; kernel.org would seem like the informed url, but I guess linux.org will be quietly accepted by the masses...
On the other hand, it was good to see The CBC won 3 Webbies with CBC Radio Three.
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I was just glad to see rathergood get an award ("weird" category) - I've been singing I like tha moon for weeks now...
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How many stories are covered by the AP wire, a freelance, or just a republished post by other people Yahoo does it, CNN does it, I don't read MSNBC, but I'll bet they do it. Yes CNN and MSNBC sends people to gather news, but a lot of them just get news from affiliates or other local news sources and aggregate it just like google does.
The thing most people I know who like Google's news, is that it's very up to date, and that it presents a lot of different views all of them at your finger tips. As such, it's the most balanced, accurate up to date "reporting". I quote reporting, because they don't have any reporters, but they aggregate news in a way that is far more useful then the individual pieces.
The only people who have better news sources, are the people who employ personal news reviewers to give them the most up to date, and concise news updates daily.
Kirby
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Good to see it's completely unbiased ................