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Net's Webby awards reflect changing times
SF Chronicle ^
| Apr 30 2002
| Verne Kopytoff
Posted on 04/30/2002 12:27:33 PM PDT by 2Trievers
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:40:14 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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Undaunted by the dot-com bust, the Webby Awards has announced its nominees for this year's best Web sites by emphasizing the medium's success as a town square and library.
The list for the sixth annual Webbys, unveiled yesterday, provided another sign of the Internet's transformation from a potential diamond mine to its original billing as a source of global information.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Technical
KEYWORDS: webbyawards
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posted on
04/30/2002 12:27:34 PM PDT
by
2Trievers
To: 2Trievers
In a glaring omission, Free Republic was denied a nomination.
2
posted on
04/30/2002 12:56:00 PM PDT
by
Dr. Zzyzx
To: Dr. Zzyzx
Some of us mounted a sort of campaign last year or the year prior, but they only hear and see what they want to hear and see, and they doesn't want to see us, hear us or even imagine us. Pfffftt and patooiey to them.
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posted on
04/30/2002 1:00:36 PM PDT
by
bvw
To: Dr. Zzyzx
Well, well. They nominated PETA but not FR. Watson, what can you deduce from these facts???
To: colorado tanker
PETA?? But haven't Freepers always sought ethical treatment for such lowly creatures as Teddy and Bill--only to have the courts refuse to incarcerate them?
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posted on
04/30/2002 2:19:17 PM PDT
by
Dr. Zzyzx
To: bvw; Jim Robinson
We should make our own contest and nominations and awards ... why not? We're powerful enough. &;-)
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04/30/2002 4:34:20 PM PDT
by
2Trievers
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