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2002 Webby Winners
The following list reflects the best web sites in some of the 30 categories that make up the Webbys, as selected by the International Academy of Digital Arts and the People’s Voice Voting (PPV).
Activism, tolerance.org – www.tolerance.org – with the people's award going to PETA.org www.peta.org
Commerce, both the Webby and PVV going toAmazon.com – www.amazon.com
Community, both the Webby and the PPV going to Idealist.org – www.idealist.org
Education, Exploratorium – www.exploratorium.edu and the PPV to eNature – www.enature.com
Fashion, ZOOZOOM.com Magazine – www.zoozoom.com
Film, Donnie Darko – www.donniedarko.com and the PPV going to IFILM – www.ifilm.com
Games, Netbaby – www.netbabyworld.com
Humor, the WEBBY and PPV to The Onion – www.theonion.com
Living, the Webby and PPV to epicurious.com – www.epicurious.com
Music, the PPV to Live365 – www.live365.com
NetArt, 360degrees – www.360degrees.org with the PPV to DeviantART – www.deviantart.com
News, BBC News – www.bbc.co.uk/news and PPV to Arts and Letters Daily – www.aldaily.com
Print & Zines, Salon.com – www.salon.com
Radio, Webby and PPV to BBC Radio 4 website – www.bbc.co.uk/radio4
Science, Becoming Human – www.becominghuman.org, with the People's Award going to NASA Earth Observatory – earthobservatory.nasa.gov
Spirituality, Beliefnet – www.beliefnet.com and PPV to The Witches’ Voice Inc. – www.witchvox.com
Sports, Webby and PPV to ESPN.com – www.espn.com
Technical Achievement, David Rumsey Historical Map Collection – www.davidrumsey.com and PPV to Google – www.google.com
Travel, Webby and PPV to Lonely Planet Online – www.lonelyplanet.com
New Second Level Domain. The Council of InternetNZ has created a new second level domain “.maori.nz” recently. This is the first new second level domain in the NZ namespace since 1996. Soon to follow will be the process by which the domain name can be used in practice.
New Landcare Site – www.LandcareResearch.co.nz – Landcare Research’s public website has been extensively revamped and updated, and is designed to be useful for anyone with an interest in NZ’s environment. Its new features include: a reorganised research section to present the work and capabilities of Landcare Research; access to new scientific databases; improved access to publications; new educational resources for both students and teachers; more illustrations and photographs; more dynamic Jobs and News sections; and a superior search function that picks up Word and PDF files.
News Context – http://www.newsbatch.com/ – Huge amounts of information can be easily gathered on any subject from the Internet. However, making sense of all that gathered data is a problem. The News Batch site is a place to go for context on most major social, political, and policy issues. There are two types of material: summaries and links to the world’s press. A Pocket Guide to the Universe – http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/
The Real Spam – http://www.spam.com/ – Most likely, when we say spam, you think of uninvited mass email. But there was a time when Spam meant just one thing: canned meat. This official Spam page is where you can take a look at the Spam museum or peruse the Spam gift catalogue.
European Online Journalism Awards – BBC News Online was the big winner at this year’s European Online Journalism (EOJ) Awards, collecting prizes in seven of the 17 categories. Now in its fourth year, the EOJ competition attracted a record 875 entries, and was judged by 122 European journalists and digital media specialists. The EOJ site not only brings you the story of the competition, but also offers deep links to winning articles.
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