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Slashdot wins Cool Site of the Year

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the aren't-we-spiffy-or-something dept.

Several people submitted and emailed that Slashdot has won Cool Zine Site of the Year (the page says 1998 but that is definitely wrong- we didn't win squat last year *grin*) from Cool Site of the Day (the original one, not one of the trillion knockoffs) so thanks to everyone who voted for us. A few people emailed me to congratulate me. I guess get a statuette of some form that I can use as a commemorative doorstop or something. Neat. I'll post pictures when it shows up if I'm bored.

22 comments

  1. w00t! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Cool! GO /.

  2. Enjoy your guitar Rob by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Isn't that what you said you'd get when you twisted our collective arm to get us to vote for you? :)

  3. I love slashdot.org but.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    how can /. win the cool site of the year when
    there is still 11 months left in the year? Anyways
    way to go /.! You're number 1.

  4. It was for 1998, duh. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    No offense Commander Taco, but it was for the past year.
    Just like how actors win now for movies of 1998,
    Slashdot won for the previous year.

  5. time? Which TZ is it, then? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Seriously, which timezone is slashdot on? Given that I've seen comments take an hour to appear, it's hard to find out by posting a comment and watching for what time /. and my watch call it.
    I guess it's EST or the one to the left a bit (ahem, GMT-6, whatever it's called), but I expect I'm out by several thousand miles..

  6. awards ceremony by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
    There's an article describing the awards ceremony -- Robin Leach, stolen awards, and all -- at http://cgi.pathfi nder.com/time/digital/daily/0,2822,18758,00.html


    It was pretty wack...

  7. Huzzah! by Erbo · · Score: 1
    I always knew Slashdot was going to be big...and, unlike a certain ZDNet columnist who shall remain nameless, I don't engage in revisionist history...

    Kudos (and other granola snacks) to you, Rob, and to the rest of the Slashdot team! You deserve every bit of it.

    Eric
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    Be who you are...and be it in style!
  8. What a joke by gavinhall · · Score: 1

    Posted by PsychoPig:

    This is not a joke
    i have only been coming to slashdot for a while and i find it realy cool
    i think that u guys rock
    keep it up

  9. Very cool. by Naikrovek · · Score: 1

    Congratulations, CmdrTaco. /me thinks you've earned it.

  10. What a joke by mholve · · Score: 1

    And there are so many other deserving sites out there. Oh well.

  11. Culturing the Counter Culture by Craig+Maloney · · Score: 1

    I find it amusing that they are trying to make a flashy awards-type banquet for counter-cultural websites. Then they wonder why people didn't hang around afterwards.

    Oh, Robin Leach: I hope you choke on Mad Dog 20/20 the day the internet people become like Hollywood people

  12. ...and there was much rejoicing. by Pedro+Picasso · · Score: 1

    Hurray for the Cmdr, BSI, and all us silly bottom up nerd media lovers. We have hereby achieved the highest honor the internet has to offer. But, then again, it is the internet. Kind of gives you an obnoxious feeling of accomplished inadequacy, like stepping on an ant. But hey at least we got the ant with COOL! written across it's back.
    Let the world behold the power of SLASHDOT.

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  13. No Subject Given by WWWWolf · · Score: 1

    I knew this would happen...
    Congratz!

  14. yay Rob! by haaz · · Score: 1

    kickass!

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    -- haaz.
  15. Now that you've won by unitron · · Score: 1

    Now that you've won why not take a vacation and close down the site for a few days to prevent it being overrun with tourists, and then, when they've all given up and gone on to some other flavor of the week, re-open?

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    I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.

  16. The /. effect by Qeyser · · Score: 1

    I guess the link from CSOTD will make this a busy place. Hm. . .
    The Meta-Salshdot-Effect.
    I wonder if THAT will make it into the Jargon dictionary . . .

  17. Clock off, or "saving" news items for later post by ili · · Score: 1

    Either the clock is off (given the reply times I doubt that), or Slashdot is having articles queued for later posting (which could lead one to wonder why such would be needed/done... though I like having new articles in the morning

    either way, there appears to be a problem with the SlashCode

    Jacob
    jacob@bright.net

  18. Only a Matter of Time :) by Abominati · · Score: 1

    Chips and Dips has come a long way. Hey Rob you going to try to keep up your Window Maker and Enlightenment pages. Its been like two years almost. :)

  19. well I wouldnt be here unless it was good by johnjones · · Score: 1

    I realy dont know how site that are crap survive
    yours is cool and well thats it !

  20. time? by Johnboy · · Score: 1

    The clock is wrong. It's only 2 a.m., not 8a.m.

    Go check out the translation of the German article yesterday.

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  21. *sigh* by blargney · · Score: 1

    will the endless stream of officially cool things never end? is there really so much demand for someone to decide what is cool in the world? when i think of that word, i get flashbacks to high school, and the cool people doing cool things with other cool people. sorta makes ya want to hurl, eh?

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  22. I was at the Awards Show by JuddMaltin · · Score: 1

    The Awards Show was lame at best. It was a Webster Hall.. and Robin Leach MCed the show. Nobody paid him any mind. Some guy from some local Silicon Alley music site (sorry, forgot your name) presented and accepted the award. I guess nobody in NY's Silicon Alley upper-crust reads Slashdot. Well, that's good for me! Anyway, I whooped and hollered when /. won, and almost ran up to accept the hunk o' plastic in Rob's name. But I was already a bit drunk on wine. There was then a paunchy ~40 year old male trapeze artist that made me a bit ill. A man in a blue bunny suit with his genitals protruding presented the awards. Very low nerd factor.