Maybe I'm not as excited about the Webbys as I've been in the past, but here are a few of my favs from this years winners (Oh, and btw, screw the Nielsen//Netratings thing. I just hope they aren't using the same flawed research methodologies they use with television):
Weird, the BEST Category
Devices of Wonder: www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/devices
People's Voice
All Your Base Belong To Us: www.planettribes.com/allyourbase/
Humor, the Next BEST Category
THE ONION RULES! Especially in China.
Glad to see fuckedcompany.com is still hanging in there. After all the dots bombed, I was wondering who they could still find to fuck.
Google is God Please please let them never let a marketing person come near all that broad, sweeping, clean real estate. I know they must all drool over that space and location location location, but Google is just god and I'd hate to see that come to an end.
Other Mentions
The Shifted Librarian likes the Library of Congress site, and that is neat (see below). The Activist winners didn't turn me on. The Guggenheim winning was cool, cuz I am a bandwidth pig, and I love to see stuff like this. (Hey, where is that big artsy fartsy award they usually give out--the $40,000 prize or whatever?!)
And so shoot me, I love Amazon. I am a privacy freak and I love Amazon. I have a shitload of books, and it is my goal to fuck up the Amazon demographics and categories with my wish list and books I own and rank. I keep challenging it and challenging it, daring the damn engine to blow a gasket. At the very least, I want to feed enough data into the Amazon database to help the field of marketing see that the entire field of demographics is FUCKED! So I keep trying.
If you ask me, the community sites are far more interesting than the bullshit activist sites. Why? Activism isn't shit without grassroots, and guilt-ridden "service" will only take you so far. Community, REAL community, is where it is at. Idealist.org sweeps thru there. Burning Man is always a fascination, but when I read about their power drain in the desert, I felt like they were hypocrits. You wanna give me good art? Then cart some solar panels out there and show me what clever engineers you artists can be.
The promise of education still is largely unrealized, which is a good thing, since that's my research area (which is why you won't find my ideas lying around here for free!). Educational interfaces largely suck, but I love them anyway. A few years ago Word.com won, and I thought that was a neat site. Exploratorium doesn't do as much for me, tho. Nobody has a clue how to do educational interfaces.
Happy to see Indy film represented, even if only People's Voice, with IFILM. Give us some bandwidth, maybe it will get better.
I love the NASA Space Weather reports, but that is just me. I get them by email.
ChannelOne has no business being on the list, but People's Voice I guess. People aren't too smart sometimes.
An old favorite, Praystation comes up in Net Art and Personal. Glad to see it is still kicking. Now what happened to the Disinformation site?
BBC News has really been rocking lately, and the whole site was done over too. I couldn't miss it. Counter-intuitive URL when you gotta go there regularly, but I can't have everything. I expect more interesting interface conceptions from these folks.
I've been to that Arts and Letters site, and its science counterpart. I'd say it is a good idea, but one hell of a slow load, even on DSL. Pokey Pokey. Could really benefit from a designer, that site. You know, the ARTS part? Also another counterintuitive URL.
Other things to like: Beliefnet.com, The Witches' Voice, Inc, www.witchvox.com, Lonely Planet Online, lonelyplanet.com (oh man, I wanna travel!).
I should shut up for now.
Miasma
LOC Wins Webby Award. Webbys 2002 Winners
"The Webby Awards has announced the winners and included their five word speeches (best awards rule). Lots of familiar Web sites won because they're obviously head of the class and continue to draw visitors." [meryl's notes]
The Library of Congress won the Webby Award for Government + Law. Especially interesting since they've recently re-designed their home page. Go LOC! [The Shifted Librarian]
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