And, the votes are in folks! As many of you know, the winners of the 11th Annual Webby Awards — honoring excellence in on the web (i.e. websites, podcasts, blogs, you name it) — were announced today. I’m really happy that some of my favorites won: The New York Times, Cute Overload, Manchester United Official Site, FindLaw, CafePress, Best Week Ever, The Onion, CNET, and Yelp. But, I was kind of surprised to see that some of my other favorites either won fewer awards than I expected or didn’t win any at all. How could people *not* have more love in their hearts for: Nerve, P.O.V. / PBS, Digg and Salon???? But, when you think about it, it’s a huge deal to even get nominated. So, big kudos to them anyway, yeah?
At any rate, aside from keeping up with the latest Who’s Who scoop on the web, one of the other things that I really like about the Webby Awards is that they often lead me to discover really great sites that I’d never heard of before. For example, I had a lot of interest in the two sex & relationships sites. I skimmed over Sex and Science but I was kind of disappointed to find that it was filled with a lot of “attraction – is – about – biology” bullsh*t. Although not at all in the same style, I much preferred the hilariously interactive website game Make Up and Make Out. If you haven’t played it, check it out. (It’s a game that pairs heads of state to make out with each other instead of making war; so, news junkies & poli-sci folks will especially get a kick out of it.)
