2006 Webby Award Winners Announced

Wired is reporting that the winners for the 2006 Webby Awards have been announced and the usual suspects have dominated the scene. From the article: "With a record 65 award categories, this year's Webby honorees ranged from well-known sites like the (Washington Post, a popular vote winner for best newspaper site, to more obscure newcomers, like Remember Segregation, named best home page. As in years past, the honoree list included several winners of multiple awards, along with perennial favorites that have won Webbys previously."

Flashy Goodness

[Nun, Mouse, Cowherd]

I can't view a single one of those sites that I tried (gave up after 3) cuz I don't have flash.

Google Earth named best visual design

[stu42j]

Last I checked, Google Earth was not a website.

Are the webbies still around?

[spun]

I knew some of the people behind this thing, and they were for the most part shallow attention seekers with the technical expertise of your average turtle. The main reason for the webbies is to throw a giant party for their friends on someone else's dime. Back in the .com days everyone thought they were hot shit. I kinda thought they had slunk back into the marketing sewer they crawled out of. Make no mistake, geeks, the webbies were created by the popular kids who picked on us in high school, not by or for fellow geeks.

I mean, I could see some industry group giving out awards, like the Academy awards, or even a bunch of trade journalists, like the Golden Globes, but the webbies are just some guys who said, "How can we make a buck off this Internet thingy? I know! We can get paid to throw a huge party and hand out some made-up awards!"

Sorry for the rant, but these guys epitomize everything that was wrong with the .com boom.

Did anyone notice this?

[mapkinase]

1. BLOG - POLITICAL

              WEBBY AWARD WINNER
        AGENCY/CREDITED ORGANIZATION
                    The Huffington Post HuffingtonPost.com
                    http://www./ [www.] huffingtonpost.com

2. http:/// [http] ariannaonline.huffingtonpost.com/

3. http://www.webbyawards.com/about/index.php [webbyawards.com]:

The Academy is an intellectually diverse organization that includes members such as musicians Beck and David Bowie, Internet inventor Vint Cerf, political columnist Arianna Huffington...

It looks like 500 members of the Academy is a huge pool to pick the ~50 (?) winners from...

Re:PERSONAL WEB SITE

[Boxy Brown]

You should disable the "Allow sripts to: Move or resize existing windows" option. I hate it too.

For Firefox 1.5
->Tools
->Options
->Content
->Advanced (next to the "Enable JavaScript" checkbox)
->Uncheck "Move or resize existing windows"

In older versions, you have to open the configuration file and disable from there.

Re:PERSONAL WEB SITE

[Shawn is an Asshole]

If you're using Firefox like you said, there is a fix for sites like that.

In the menu, click on "Edit" and go to "Preferences". When the prefereces dialog opens select the "Content" tab. Text to the checkbox and label "Enable JavaScript" click on the "Advanced" button. Uncheck "Move or resize existing windows".

Personally, I leave them all unchecked.

Exhaustive Search

[raftpeople]

Quote from the organization:
"After an exhaustive search of about 38 web sites we have chosen the top 37 in a variety of categories. Although we realize there are about 14 billion web sites we did not visit, we feel pretty good about our choices."

healthline.com

[Anonymous Coward]

glad to see http://www.healthline.com/ [healthline.com] got one.

$245 to enter too

[K-Man]

They apparently make their money via the old "Who's who" scam. They spam webmasters with "You have been nominated" messages to get them to pony up the entry fee.

There's a good description here [sfist.com].