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Post number 14045

crunchland — Mon, 21 Jan 2002 15:56:38 -0800

The SXSW Interactive Web Awards finalists are up... and the site I submitted isn't mentioned. Am I bitter? No.. no.. OK. YES. Anyway, the sites listed are the best of the best of 2001. Worth a look.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Mon, 21 Jan 2002 16:14:58 -0800

I don't know about backwash.com being in the best weblog category. I thought it was more of a service or something. I guess Blogdex would also fall into that, but it's a great resource. I kinda like the nominees, I've only heard of a handful of them, so it looks like a nice way to highlight 30-40 sites even a grizzled old web surfer like me hasn't seen.

By: sauril

sauril — Mon, 21 Jan 2002 16:19:52 -0800

Weird. In the humor category, there's a website for a tv show. (madeincanada.ca) I don't think I've heard of more than one or two, time to do some clicking.

By: verdezza

verdezza — Mon, 21 Jan 2002 16:29:54 -0800

Me, too -- only heard of/been to one for sure, maybe two. Oh well, that's easily remedied...

By: anildash

anildash — Mon, 21 Jan 2002 17:27:50 -0800

Congrats to the handful of MeFi members whose work has been nominated.

By: nikzhowz

nikzhowz — Mon, 21 Jan 2002 17:40:45 -0800

Feh. Four of the five nominees for Developer's Resource are Flash resource sites.

By: moz

moz — Mon, 21 Jan 2002 17:46:51 -0800

guess what self-promoting weblogger we all know and love has been nominated for an award at SxSW? none other than adnan (at adnan.org -- he won't get any direct traffic from anything i write). how lame.

By: rebeccablood

rebeccablood — Mon, 21 Jan 2002 19:19:09 -0800

how is blogdex a weblog?

By: anildash

anildash — Mon, 21 Jan 2002 20:27:25 -0800

Well, there's technically a weblog at Blogdex, but I'm doubting that's what the nomination is honoring. Mis-classifications are always a bummer.

By: timothompson

timothompson — Mon, 21 Jan 2002 20:34:36 -0800

It's a relatively unusual list, but that's nothing new for SXSW. Some categories are confusing (Grrl web site? What is that?) And I like Jish.vox, but that site isn't a streaming audio site? I guess this is a way to highlight alternative sites, but I'm not sure about the criteria used to choose them (design? content? interactivity?).

By: jjg

jjg — Mon, 21 Jan 2002 20:36:37 -0800

I think it's important to note that SXSW is a competition that one has to enter for consideration -- these are finalists, not nominees. Also, the category in which each site is considered is chosen by the entrant, not by the judges.

By: rev-

rev- — Mon, 21 Jan 2002 22:00:35 -0800

Yeah for eugenemirman.com (which is hilarious). Boo to Lisawhiteman.com which is such derivitive crap. Compared to personal blogs like dooce and Mighty Girl, Ms. Whiteman doesn't hold a candle.

By: internetgeniuses

internetgeniuses — Mon, 21 Jan 2002 22:11:51 -0800

You guys still give a shit about this stuff? Shouldn't you be busy trying to find non existant web jobs?

By: grabbingsand

grabbingsand — Tue, 22 Jan 2002 14:00:06 -0800

a grrl category containing simply female-written web-logs, but no specifically ~~male~~ ~~boy~~ boi category?

By: crunchland

crunchland — Tue, 22 Jan 2002 15:29:03 -0800

Yeah, the "grrl" category is a bit out of date. That, and I'm still bitter, so I won't comment on the quality of the sites that made the grade, when mine didn't... grrr.

By: RJ Reynolds

RJ Reynolds — Tue, 22 Jan 2002 21:51:57 -0800

Wow, quick to sink to calling people's personal sites "crap" over a web award. I just love the communal and caring spirit of the internet. Such a utopia. Speaking of crap, I can't believe that dirty whore Bertie got in for that slut-show survivorcam. Oh you knew you were thinking it, I said it for you, now don't bother. Now quick: rehash other awards discussions. Yah.

By: timothompson

timothompson — Tue, 22 Jan 2002 22:06:52 -0800

JJG, that's not the case for jish.vox. He submitted the site to the weblog category and was a finalist in the audio/video category.

By: survivorcam

survivorcam — Tue, 22 Jan 2002 22:16:15 -0800

*sobs uncontrollably* thank you, choire. .[and all the little people as well.] you are beautiful who's going to sxsw? is sxswbaby going to be up this year? if it is already up, what is the url?