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Webby Award 2004 Winners Announced
ivar writes "Over at the official site, the 2004 Webby Award Winners have been announced. There were a few surprises given the last publicly viewable rankings - I guess they keep the last few days in secrecy for a reason." The press release announcing the winners has more detail, noting: "Reflecting the egalitarian spirit of the internet, winners ranged from Wikipedia.org (Best Community), a free, community-built encyclopedia, to the official site for the Oscar-winning documentary The Fog of War (Best Film), to web powerhouses like Google (Best Practices and Best Services)."
That's not the word I would have picked.
It used to be that winning a Webby ment your website wouldn't be around for the next year (they had this great knack at picking websites that were on the verge of shutting down).
This year: Google wins two categories. I'm frightened.
I read the internet for the articles.
Happy Trails!
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I LOVE Wikipedia, but I find myself staying away from it due to the tangents that the parent post mentions. Maybe it is my adult ADD (ha), but I can't keep focused when I am there. I start by looking something up about Alan Turing and then all of a sudden I am reading about the Republic of China (yes, this topic is ~5 jumps from the page on Alan Turing). It kind of reminds me of Everything2.com... i just wish I could keep myself more focused!
Just like driving a car:
(D) to go forward
(R) to go backward
I signed up for the 'Webby' nominations last year, and got a reasonable number of emails from them (not all-out spam, but maybe 6-7).
Maybe it's just me, but the whole tone of the thing leaves me with the impression that the Webby folks have an extraordinarily high (but unfounded) opinion of themselves. Reading the mails they sent, I was transported back in time to the mid-1990s, when The New Economy was going to leave the brick-and-mortar dinosaurs choking on comet dust.
I think we may have found the last few dozen people who haven't woken up from the Internet Bubble.
While they are no longer the black-tie galas they were in the 90s, when the Information Superhighway was still the Next Big Thing, the Webbies are still around, albeit hosted in some sweaty guy's studio apartment on El Camino Real.
"I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false." - L. Ron Hubbard Jr.
You have got to be kidding me. They make Fox look a paragon of unbiased reporting!
But I agree, what the hell is up with that site? It's really hot chicks, and their cars are stuck... you can see pictures and buy videos... here's a description of a video you can buy:
WTF?!?! If that is one of their best videos, can you imagine what the other videos are like? "In this video, [cute german girl] gets bored and listens to her radio!!!"
It's just so weird. I am so awestruck that anyone would spend money on it. It is certainly weird, so I guess I do at least agree with the decision of the Webby folks.
Just like driving a car:
(D) to go forward
(R) to go backward
I don't think that the "best community" award quite fits the bill; I was thinking something more like "best bickering, server-clogging, hopelessly geeky cult." (It would get a ton of votes in the Peoples' Choice section, of course. It would be kinda funny if the Webby Awards website got slashdotted.)
Hey, Taco, I see you found the "post anonymously" option.
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