2006 Webby Award Winners Announced

Wired is reporting that the winners for the 2006 Webby Awards have been announced and the usual suspects have dominated the scene. From the article: "With a record 65 award categories, this year's Webby honorees ranged from well-known sites like the (Washington Post, a popular vote winner for best newspaper site, to more obscure newcomers, like Remember Segregation, named best home page. As in years past, the honoree list included several winners of multiple awards, along with perennial favorites that have won Webbys previously."

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Summary Incomplete

[paulthomas]

You guys forgot to mention that Cute Overload won the People's Voice Webby.

Come on!

Re:Summary Incomplete

[Kelson]

You guys forgot to mention that Cute Overload won the People's Voice Webby.

Yeah, I couldn't figure out how they managed to miss that. After all, Slashdot introduced the site to a whole new audience!

Google Earth named best visual design

[stu42j]

Last I checked, Google Earth was not a website.

Re:Google Earth named best visual design

[MrTeter]

Who cares? All these awards shows are just about politics, anyway. The real question is what did Google Earth wear to the ceremony?

Re:Google Earth named best visual design

[Geoff]

I'm not sure, but I hear there was a huge cleavage along the Colorado River in Arizona.

Geoff

Webbies? How about the Flashies?

[Makenai]

Seriously, can they rename these things the flashies? Withouth the plugin, I can't see 90% of the pages up there. Shouldn't RememberSegregation.com be in HTML and compatible across all browsers for equality? They don't even have a separate but equal HTML version. No flash, no cigar.

PERSONAL WEB SITE

[mapkinase]

I would personally kill the PERSONAL WEB SITE winner for messing with the size of my Firefox window. I wonder how come such arrogant annoyance of a site can win in any category?

Re:PERSONAL WEB SITE

[Anonymous Coward]

By hijacking your browser, I think the site was making a sly commentary on the arrogance of government that uses coercion to force integration down student's throats, choosing in many cases to value pc social engineering over quality education and the human nature to self-segregate into clans even under perfect conditions.

Re:PERSONAL WEB SITE

[Boxy Brown]

You should disable the "Allow sripts to: Move or resize existing windows" option. I hate it too.

For Firefox 1.5
->Tools
->Options
->Content
->Advanced (next to the "Enable JavaScript" checkbox)
->Uncheck "Move or resize existing windows"

In older versions, you have to open the configuration file and disable from there.

Re:PERSONAL WEB SITE

[Shawn is an Asshole]

If you're using Firefox like you said, there is a fix for sites like that.

In the menu, click on "Edit" and go to "Preferences". When the prefereces dialog opens select the "Content" tab. Text to the checkbox and label "Enable JavaScript" click on the "Advanced" button. Uncheck "Move or resize existing windows".

Personally, I leave them all unchecked.

Re:Remember Segetation?

[gefafwysp]

I think this site made it onto Web Pages That Suck a while ago, so I'm glad that I can now recycle my comment of "Non-Flash user? Get to the back of the bus!" ;)

Always remember segregation

[Anonymous Coward]

Those that do not remember to separate content from presentation are doomed to repeat separating content from presentation.

Are the webbies still around?

[spun]

I knew some of the people behind this thing, and they were for the most part shallow attention seekers with the technical expertise of your average turtle. The main reason for the webbies is to throw a giant party for their friends on someone else's dime. Back in the .com days everyone thought they were hot shit. I kinda thought they had slunk back into the marketing sewer they crawled out of. Make no mistake, geeks, the webbies were created by the popular kids who picked on us in high school, not by or for fellow geeks.

I mean, I could see some industry group giving out awards, like the Academy awards, or even a bunch of trade journalists, like the Golden Globes, but the webbies are just some guys who said, "How can we make a buck off this Internet thingy? I know! We can get paid to throw a huge party and hand out some made-up awards!"

Sorry for the rant, but these guys epitomize everything that was wrong with the .com boom.

Breakout of the Year?

[cashman73]

Kind of a sad day in the history of the internet when MySpace wins a Webby Award. Shouldn't, "Breakout of the Year," in fact be, "Broken HTML of the Year?"

What's the equivalent of the Razzies for websites?

Did anyone notice this?

[mapkinase]

1. BLOG - POLITICAL

              WEBBY AWARD WINNER
        AGENCY/CREDITED ORGANIZATION
                    The Huffington Post HuffingtonPost.com
                    http://www./ huffingtonpost.com

2. http:/// ariannaonline.huffingtonpost.com/

3. http://www.webbyawards.com/about/index.php:

The Academy is an intellectually diverse organization that includes members such as musicians Beck and David Bowie, Internet inventor Vint Cerf, political columnist Arianna Huffington...

It looks like 500 members of the Academy is a huge pool to pick the ~50 (?) winners from...

Did I win?

[robertjw]

Did I win? How much to I get?

Chase was nominated

[obender]

I think it's a pity Chase did not win. About a month ago I got an email from them inviting me to unlock my account via the internet. Their website was very easy to use and I had no problems at all filling in all the details.

I also forwarded the email to my associates, Panikovsky and Balaganov, I thought they would enjoy the services of such a nice company.

Exhaustive Search

[raftpeople]

Quote from the organization:
"After an exhaustive search of about 38 web sites we have chosen the top 37 in a variety of categories. Although we realize there are about 14 billion web sites we did not visit, we feel pretty good about our choices."

The Onion as a news site?

[hawaiian717]

They nominated The Onion in the news site category? And it won the Humor category? Does their left mouse button not know what their right mouse button is doing?

I'm 32.

[ClioCJS]

And I guarantee my computers do more than yours. Since you can't even visit a page using 5+-year-old technology. You are an internet luddite.

Flash is just glitz. Yes, anyone who puts information that you are searching for into a flash needs to be shot. But there's more to life than textual information. We have gone way past the days of Lynx and Gopher, which I remember fondly.

You, sir, resist progress. Here's a bad car metaphor (seems to be a slashdot thing): You want a corvette, but you are unwilling to do so beucase you don't want chrome. Instead, you drive an Amish horse cart.

And please.... "Untrusted 3rd party ap"? Yes, Al Queda is going to install something on your computer that kills you, but only if Sony has rootkitted you first. Please. Anything with 90% market penetration is de facto more trusted than most things.

But I bet you don't have a problem with open source software. And I bet you don't see how that makes you a hypcrite either.

So to summarize: You believe in your ideals to the point where you will cripple your own ability to work outside your own very-narrow confines.

Oh, and some levity: Maybe you should just use the JAWS screen-reader and only visit 508-complaint Flash sites. You'll get your text equivalent then.

Like a Democrat on voting day...

[FryingDutchman]

I choose not to register my opinion on this matter.

Re:Flash *IS* cross-browser.

[ObsessiveMathsFreak]

Flash has penetrated over 90% of the userbase of both browsers.

But everybody still hates it.

Flash is like Chicken Pox. You know you have to get it eventually, and you're sort of grateful that you did. But the expierience is often very ichy and nauseating.

Re:I agree to an extent.

[pilkul]

It's progress to have pages that I can't bookmark or link for others, text I can't resize or cut-and-paste, and that my blind friend can't play in a screen reader? Flash is a step backward because it's not an open standard and it takes away control from the reader, when the web is all about empowering the reader.

$245 to enter too

[K-Man]

They apparently make their money via the old "Who's who" scam. They spam webmasters with "You have been nominated" messages to get them to pony up the entry fee.

There's a good description here.