June 06, 2002

Here are my votes


Here are my votes for this year's Webby Awards. I voted in all categories but one (Politics). Here is what i said:

activism PETA.org
While they sometimes do gotoo far, i believe in their causes. I am not a vegetarian but ieat less meat partly because of what i saw in theirmaterials.

best practices Google
Doesn’t needexplanation, right? Should be up in the Hall of the Internet Godsalong with amazon.com, ebay.com and Yahoo.

broadband bthere
Didn’t know about ittill today. :) Had fun browsingaround.

commerce Amazon.com
No comment. I am anamazonoholic.

community Nerve.com
Yum. ;)

education Students Against Testing
I believe in what they do.Children shouldn’t be machines.

fashion Elle
Much better than any of theother contestants, so i entered this.

film Internet Movie Database
Fun, exhilarating, veryuseful. A classic.

finance Yahoo! Finance
I don’t use anyfinance sites apart from my web banking site, but Yahoo is goodin info-dense sites and one of my family members has this as hishomepage. It must be good then, ha?

games Shockwave games
Addictive!!! Collapse andBounce Out and Domino Dementia and Qbeez. The fun never stops.And it wasn’t even nominated… :(

government & law NASA
You can’t beatNasa.

health Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
Good, high quality and NEWinformation about important issues. Opens your eyes.

humor Legodeath - A Museum of Horrors
Saw this first today. Fun.Funnier than the other nominees.

kids Channel One
Hmm, don’t really knowwhy. I wasn’t very attached to any of the nominees anddidn’t know a better one.

living epicurious.com
I love the design and therecipes. And the cooking school. And and and…

music AudioGalaxy
Why wasn’t itnominated???

net art DeskSwap
Fun, but not recommended forprivacy freaks. ;)

news salon
I personally read CNN butdidn’t nominate it because i don’t think it is thebest of the web. Salon is a better news website although idon’t read it very often.

personal web site JeffHarris
Interesting one.

print & zines National Geographic Magazine
A classic again. Theirwebsite is a classic example of what magazines should be doing onthe web.

radio BBC Radio 4 website
I was wondering about thiscategory a lot. Didn’t really prefer any of them.

science Astronomy Picture of the Day
Classic again.

services Ryze
Just discovered it thanks tothe Webbies. Sounds interesting.

spirituality BeliefNet
I took their religion quizand came up with an interesting result. Fun!

sports Backpacker.com
ESPN’s front pagetoday shows only a few lines about the World Cup in the sidebar.COME ON??? It’s the Football World Cup and espndoesn’t care??? And this on the day the US beat Portugal3-2??? Sorry, my vote doesn’t go for you!

technical achievement Google
No comment.

travel IgoUgo
I am a guide myself, and love it!

tv BBCi
So much stuff!

weird spamradio
Funny in a way. Some peoplehave too much time on their hands…

Posted by Kati at June 6, 2002 01:16 AM
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