Posted on 04/26/2003 12:54:11 PM PDT by vikingchick
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:42:21 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Winning a Webby Award, the self-proclaimed Oscars of the Internet, will be a little lonely this year.
The seventh annual ceremony, a flamboyant production that came to symbolize the online industry's excess, has been canceled. Many nominees from outside the Bay Area simply couldn't attend the event -- scheduled for June 5 in San Francisco -- because of the bad economy and fears about traveling, Webby organizers said Friday.
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Drats! Sounds like it was gonna be a two-whore show!
Gee....I wonder why???? /sacasm
Um, that should have read, Pittsburgh, and there's no need for the "Pa.," since everyone this side of Mars knows which state the former Steeltown is in.
Boy, they got some snooty folks in San Francisco, Ca.
This is the most prestigious of web awards.And yes, you're right, the events were giant orgies of liberalism. This collapse couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of scumbags, and I couldn't be happier even if Janane Garofalo was going to be one of the presenters.No it isn't. It's a completely fabricated award, designed for one purpose only: to gain the creator, a pigtailed bimbo named Tiffany Schlain, tons of publicity in the gullible press and a lot of "access" in the San Francisco dotcom party scene.
In order to even be considered for nomination, you have to pay some outlandish "entry fee", I think it was $75 this year. (This money goes to pay for a disgustingly ostentatious spree of drunkenness one night per year that passes for "the awards ceremony." It's truly quite appalling.) And it's widely known that the nominees lists end up consisting mainly of sites run by Shlain's personal friends, or at least by people who have willingly kissed her ass a lot - whether they paid the registration fee or not.
To sum up: The Webbys are a joke, and the results are fixed to at least some extent, so FR wouldn't "win" even if we did manage to bombard them with enough writeins to come into first place. Don't waste your time, and don't give Schlain any publicity.
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