webby

May 3, 2005 3:34 PM

"The Best Of The Web"?
posted by liam (21 comments total)

not at all--it's the Corporate and Non-Profit Web Awards. The Professionalization of the Web, i guess. : <
posted by amberglow at 3:40 PM on May 3, 2005

um...I don't see Mefi on that list of blog winners. Obviously, this isn't the best of the web.
posted by j.p. Hung at 3:47 PM on May 3, 2005

The Self-Aggrandizement of Dorks.

(seen the anal gash presskit?)
posted by quonsar at 3:54 PM on May 3, 2005

Suicidegirls is a "community"? Right on! From now on, I'm not masturbating to porn, I'm "getting active in the community!"

/ take that, "slacktivism"!!!
posted by The Dryyyyy Cracker at 4:25 PM on May 3, 2005

quonsar, isn't he now known as Anikin Skydasher since he went over to the dark side?
posted by wendell at 5:16 PM on May 3, 2005

I am horrified that www.chipotle.com won in the Restaurant category. I didn't want Design with my burrito, people, I just wanted a freakin' burrito.
posted by selfmedicating at 5:30 PM on May 3, 2005

I'm not masturbating to porn, I'm "getting active in the community!"

This will prove useful in my conversations with Mom. "Mom, don't come in, I'm holding a private bull session on personal politics!"
posted by NickDouglas at 5:36 PM on May 3, 2005

The Self-Aggrandizement of Dorks

Oooh, I feel so superior just reading this!

P-W-N-E-D, quonsar -- you sure showed those Webby d00ds! How dare they put in long hours every year to recognize good work and bring it to the attention of thousands of people. Don't they realize they risk being called lame???
posted by digaman at 5:37 PM on May 3, 2005

Interesting how the "people's choice" was so often different from the winner.
posted by Rawhide at 5:58 PM on May 3, 2005

Someone explain to me how www.flickr.com got nominated in the "blog" category.
posted by ericost at 6:14 PM on May 3, 2005

How is The Meatrix new?
How did a Nintendo game win a People's Voice award?
What sort of category is "Broadband"?
How have I never heard of any of these nominees for Games?
How is metaphorical.net a game?
(etc, etc, etc)

When I originally heard this was the same week as WWDC and happening in NYC, I was a little miffed, because I thought it would be neat to go. But now, meh.

(Cheers to the Kleptones for winning, I guess.)
posted by Remy at 6:24 PM on May 3, 2005

I've always found that the best approach to these "best of the web" sites is to ignore them entirely.

Worst of the web, now, I used to follow THAT religiously (the Mirsky site, I mean).

BTW that Webby site still hasn't finished loading, and I clicked on the link a few minutes ago...
posted by clevershark at 6:35 PM on May 3, 2005

Party like it's, uh, 1999.
posted by gimonca at 7:10 PM on May 3, 2005

That was an enourmous list of mostly sites built by marketing firms.

None of the categories they use make any sense at all.
posted by blasdelf at 8:11 PM on May 3, 2005

That was an enourmous list of mostly sites built by marketing firms.

<shameless self-promotion>
Well, I managed to create a webby worthy site all on my little lonesome.
</shameless self-promotion>

Which, if I think about it, somewhat undermines the prestige of the awards even further. Ah well, I'll take the meaningless kudos.
posted by noizyboy at 9:04 PM on May 3, 2005

Congratulations, noizyboy. David-Michel Davies of the Webbys is one of the brightest, hippiest, and kindest guys out there, and the judges take the process very seriously.
posted by digaman at 11:01 PM on May 3, 2005

The list of nominations looked incredibly American-centric to me. Are there really no foreign language websites worthy of a webby?
posted by salmacis at 12:40 AM on May 4, 2005

Congratulations, noizyboy.

Cheers digaman. Despite my disingenuous post, I was extremely chuffed to have be included in what was some pretty auspicious company.
posted by noizyboy at 1:47 AM on May 4, 2005

I write for one of the sites that got nominated for a webby. I was hoping we'd win so I could put it on my resume.
posted by drezdn at 6:39 PM on May 4, 2005

That made me feel icky. More and more it's an honor not to be nominated.
posted by john at 7:01 PM on May 4, 2005

So apparently the "People's Choice" was Eddie Izzard at EVERY POSSIBLE POINT WHERE THEY COULD VOTE FOR HIM.

ahem.

This made me think the webbies were largely voted on by brits (and possibly their assorted current-and-former colonies.)

Then I saw that the people voted for nytimes.com over guardian.co.uk.

Huh?!

I'm sorry, but the news organisation with fewer credibility-related scandals that has a clear and precise layout with NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED wins out. The People's Choice should have been disqualified in that category or something.
posted by shmegegge at 8:21 PM on May 4, 2005