July 16, 2001
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The 5th Annual Webby Awards take place in two days. Any predictions for the winners?
posted by kchristidis (28 comments total)
 
metafilter will win everything. hands down.
posted by o2b at 12:52 PM on July 16, 2001


Tiffany Shlain and her lovely, lovely sponsors.

Still, Alan Cumming's back as the host, and he was actually quite good last time round.
posted by holgate at 12:53 PM on July 16, 2001


Categories include: commerce/community/education/games/health/humor/music/news/personal website/politics/services/technical achievement/weird/etc.

Let's post in this way so as to make things more readable:
Category: website - [why? (not necessary)]
e.g. Commerce: amazon.com - because it simply rocks.
posted by kchristidis at 12:54 PM on July 16, 2001


Geez guys, you're fast. My previous post was meant to be the first in this thread. Never mind :-)
posted by kchristidis at 12:56 PM on July 16, 2001


Tiffany Shlain.
posted by tranquileye at 1:08 PM on July 16, 2001


Does anyone really care anymore? Are the Webbies still relevant?
posted by paddbear at 1:11 PM on July 16, 2001


were they ever? no matter how hard I think about them, I just can't take them seriously. while they've nominated some quality sites, that's always seemed to me like a matter of pure chance....
posted by rebeccablood at 1:13 PM on July 16, 2001


rebecca: that pretty well describes the oscars, grammies, and emmies.
posted by moz at 1:14 PM on July 16, 2001


What we really need is the pornies.
posted by sonofsamiam at 1:18 PM on July 16, 2001


Does it matter? A community or e-commerce site that wins a Webby award doesn't do me any good if I don't fit into the community or need the products that are being sold. Are the Webbys really going to provide that huge a benefit to anybody beyond the personal website winner, who is the only one whose appeal is the most broad and is inaccessible strictly as a matter of taste?
posted by Dreama at 1:26 PM on July 16, 2001


My prediction: No matter how many people loudly denounce the Webbies as irrelevant in this thread, after the awards twice is many posters will be whining twice as loudly about the awards being given to the wrong sites.
posted by harmful at 1:29 PM on July 16, 2001


true enough, harmful.

but really, tiffany shlain is the only winner here. the losers, for the most part, are the people (you know, like me, and you) producing web sites that don't "fit in" -- whether through their boundary-smashing or the silly, clue-free nominating process that resulted in the shambles that is the personal site category -- to the ever-homogenizing internet landscape.
posted by maura at 1:46 PM on July 16, 2001


Proving once again how minimal their knowledge of who really moves and shakes the web is CNN.com, who make this wonderful little comment in an article this morning:

This year's judges include rock star David Bowie, movie director Francis Ford Coppola and actress Gillian Anderson who all seem better suited to vote on the Grammys, Oscars and Emmys than the Webbys.

If memory serves me correctly, hasn't Bowie been producing rather high-quality works on the web for the past few years, and in addition assisted the designs of rather popular sites (i heard a rumor that he designed the Hanson site a few years back)?
posted by tatochip at 1:49 PM on July 16, 2001


Harmful, you're damn right. Damn right.
posted by kchristidis at 1:54 PM on July 16, 2001


davidbowie.com.

harmful: word.
posted by rebeccablood at 1:58 PM on July 16, 2001


The awards "industry" encourages agencies to misplace their priorities on the opinions of their peers, rather than the needs of their clients' customers.
posted by fried at 2:08 PM on July 16, 2001


Wow- the nominating judges thought fuckedcompany.com should be in the Humor section. Talk about people unclear on the concept...
posted by hincandenza at 2:18 PM on July 16, 2001


What's a webby?
posted by jpoulos at 3:19 PM on July 16, 2001


Me! My plan is to utterly lose in the People's Voice voting, and win the judges award. 50% completed so far...

And of course, my 5 word speech will be "Metafilter was robbed, you bastards." :-)
posted by rusty at 3:27 PM on July 16, 2001


i don't really see too many people around anymore that respect the "webby" or other much-like-it awards. i guess it just looks good in a resume to people who aren't as immersed in the scene as the majority of mefi's posters.
posted by lotsofno at 5:31 PM on July 16, 2001


Seeing that Derek actually got to lobby the judges, I am pretty sure he'll be the "big winner," after all the sites that advertised on the Webby's website.

Last year I took a screen shot of one of the Webby pages with a banner ad of the winner. I am sure there will be plenty of opportunity to do the same again this year.
posted by tamim at 8:53 PM on July 16, 2001


David Bowie, Francis Ford Coppola and Gillian Anderson who all seem better suited to vote on the Grammys, Oscars and Emmys than the Webbys.

Let's see:
Gillian Anderson: 146,000 hits
Jakob Nielsen: 115,000 hits

Gillian it is!
posted by fooljay at 8:57 PM on July 16, 2001


as much as i'm all for usability, at the mere mention of her hotness, gillian anderson, i resort to a 7th grader's mindset, as seen already through this post. she gets my vote.
posted by lotsofno at 9:17 PM on July 16, 2001


That makes three of us, then! Heh.
posted by lia at 12:20 AM on July 17, 2001


Copying and pasting the initial post: The 5th Annual Webby Awards take place in two days. Any predictions for the winners?

Damn it, can't (most of) you people try to keep the posts relevant to the thread? Is is that hard? I created the thread in order to see which websites people think will/should win the awards.

But instead, all I got was comments about Gillian Anderson, Jakob Nielsen, David Bowie & Tiffany Shlain.

If you don't care about the Webbies, or if you don't want to post something relevant to this thread, why did you click here?

(Yeah, let the flame-war on me begin).
posted by kchristidis at 1:10 AM on July 17, 2001


I voted for the few sites I recognised and like, but really the selection was so strange and well, uninternet, that I really have no expectations of anything good winning. The Webbys are irrelevant.
posted by flowerdale at 3:43 AM on July 17, 2001


Clearly, kchristidis, no one cares. I recommend a hearty dose of get over it juice.
posted by Dreama at 7:42 AM on July 17, 2001


...I recommend a hearty dose of get over it juice.

Dreama, I'm not going to die because no one (as you're saying) cares. I'm not fond of Webbies either, I just don't let them go without notice.

You can keep that juice for someone else.
posted by kchristidis at 1:32 PM on July 17, 2001


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