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Post number 9091

metaxa — Wed, 18 Jul 2001 02:06:29 -0800

Just a reminder - The Webbys are announced today - But how come the BBC seem to think they've already won one, before they're even announced?

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Wed, 18 Jul 2001 02:35:26 -0800

WWW = Whackin' the Wonder Weasel. Which is exactly the sort of semi-coherent, sophomoric comment I hope you've all come to expect from me. *cries*

By: kchristidis

kchristidis — Wed, 18 Jul 2001 04:22:16 -0800

Odd. Very very odd.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Wed, 18 Jul 2001 05:06:51 -0800

Odd. Very very odd. stavros? or the beeb?

By: vanderwal

vanderwal — Wed, 18 Jul 2001 05:09:09 -0800

The beeb is in a different time zone. They just knew earlier than the rest of us.

By: centrs

centrs — Wed, 18 Jul 2001 06:10:44 -0800

Since there are so many, maybe they have an early ceremony for some - kind of like the technical Oscar awards.

By: metaxa

metaxa — Wed, 18 Jul 2001 06:22:31 -0800

vanderwal: The Webby's are anounced at 8pm on the 18th July. Not even the Beeb are *that* far ahead!

By: holgate

holgate — Wed, 18 Jul 2001 06:36:18 -0800

My guess: they didn't head out to the ceremony itself, but recorded their acceptance speech a couple of days ago, in best awards tradition. They could, at least, have embargoed it, though.

By: bclark

bclark — Wed, 18 Jul 2001 06:37:21 -0800

Actually, they are likely talking about the "People's Choice" componant, which was publicly voted on (and the results were displayed there on the site until just recently.) Perhaps they know they won the "People's Choice" for their category in the same way I know we didn't win the "People's Choice" for our category (my pub indieWIRE.com was running second in the race behind the Reqium for a Dream site in the "film" category.) Of course, that's the real Webbies, which are selected by judges. Akk, awards ... pretty irrelevant for the most part (although their tradition of five-word acceptance speeches are pretty cool.)

By: anildash

anildash — Wed, 18 Jul 2001 09:25:46 -0800

From the article: The multilingual website beat off four challengers in its category at a ceremony in San Francisco. Now that's being a gracious winner.

By: jasonshellen

jasonshellen — Wed, 18 Jul 2001 10:03:46 -0800

Damn Anil, you beat me to the punch on that one. I have to start getting up earlier.

By: john

john — Wed, 18 Jul 2001 11:05:42 -0800

Akk, awards ... pretty irrelevant for the most part Right, but somehow someone never fails to link them here. Ugh.

By: bradlands

bradlands — Wed, 18 Jul 2001 14:02:08 -0800

The multilingual website beat off four challengers in its category at a ceremony in San Francisco. "It was -- truly! -- an honor just to be nominated," one also-ran said. "How often do the losers get a hand from the winner?"