2002 Webby Awards
The 6th Annual Webby Awards was held on June 21, 2002, at San Francisco's Legion of Honor auditorium. It was presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences[1] and was hosted by Tiffany Shlain, the Webby Awards' founder, and Maya Draisin.[2] Coming on the heels of the dot-com bubble (which led to a reduced 2001 awards ceremony),[3][4] a 2002 Internet bubble forced cutbacks in the event budget for this ceremony as well.[5]
Nominees and winners
- (from [4])
| Category | Webby Award Winner | People's Voice Winner | Other nominees |
|---|---|---|---|
| Activism | Tolerance.org | PETA.org | AlterNet, CorpWatch.org, Idealist.org |
| Best Practices | Amazon.com, National Geographic, Peace Corps, US Army Basic Training | ||
| Broadband | Guggenheim.com | KaZaA | 120Seconds.com, bThere, Oddcast |
| Commerce | Amazon.com | Amazon.com | BabyCenter, Cooking.com, Travelocity.com, Williams-Sonoma |
| Comedy | The Onion | The Onion | F***edcompany.com, Heartless Bitches International, Legodeath – A Museum of Horrors, SatireWire |
| Community | Idealist.org | Idealist.org | BeliefNet, Burning Man, Nerve.com, The Warren Ellis Forum |
| Education | Exploratorium | eNature | JASON, MarcoPolo, Students Against Testing |
| Fashion, Style & Beauty | ZOOZOOM.com Magazine | STYLE.com | Hint Fashion Magazine, Lumiere Magazine, SoWear |
| Financial Services & Banking | Yahoo! Finance | Yahoo! Finance | [marketocracy], 10K Wizard, Financial Engines, Yodlee |
| Games | Netbaby | Swirve | Banja, EA.com, Gamasutra, PopCap Games |
| Government & Law | Library of Congress | NASA | Copyright Website, Council on Foreign Relations, U.S. Geological Survey |
| Health & Wellness | teenwire.com | Breast Cancer Action | drSpock.com, lifeclinic.com, Planned Parenthood Golden Gate |
| Living | epicurious.com | epicurious.com | Do-It-Yourself Network.com, Green Home, National Gardening, Time Out New York & Blenderbox |
| Movie & Film | Donnie Darko (official site) | IFILM | Metacritic, Waking Life, Without a Box |
| Music | LOOPLABS | Live365 | All Songs Considered, Freemuse, Hearts of Space |
| NetArt | 360degrees | DeviantArt | Consume, PrayStation, They Rule |
| News | BBC News | Arts & Letters Daily | allAfrica.com, Debkafile, Poynter.org |
| Personal Blog/Website | The Committee to Free Lori Berenson | ze's page | hungry for design, Jeff Harris, PrayStation |
| Politics | Center for Responsive Politics | washingtonpost.com/OnPolitics | California Voter Foundation, Political Money Line, The Hill |
| Print & Zines | Salon.com | The Smoking Gun | Mr. Beller's Neighborhood, National Geographic Magazine, ONTHERAIL |
| Radio | BBC Radio 4 website | BBC Radio 4 website | kpig.com, RTE Interactive Radio, Transom, Youth Radio |
| Religion & Spirituality | Beliefnet | The Witches' Voice, Inc. | Grace Cathedral, Islamic Studies, Vatican |
| Science | Becoming Human | NASA Earth Observatory | eFunda, Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, SciTech Daily Review |
| Services & Utilities | Evite | Evite | Embark, GoToMyPC, Ryze, TicketWeb |
| Sports | ESPN.com | ESPN.com | 2002 FIFA World Cup, Backpacker.com, San Francisco 49ers, Surfline |
| Television, Film & Streaming | The Osbournes (official site) | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (official site) | BBCi, E! Online, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire |
| Travel & Lifestyle | Lonely Planet Online | Lonely Planet Online | IgoUgo, site59.com, Travel Intelligence, World Hum |
| Technical Achievement | David Rumsey Historical Map Collection | Memorystick, REBOL Internet Operating System, Volantis System Ltd. | |
| Weird | Devices of Wonder | All Your Base Are Belong to Us | Cut Off My Feet (Freck's New Feet), Mind Control Forum, spamradio |
| Youth | OLogy | ChannelOne | Pinhole Spy Camera, SFS Kids, teenwire.com |
References
Winners and nominees are generally named according to the organization or website winning the award, although the recipient is, technically, the web design firm or internal department that created the winning site and in the case of corporate websites, the designer's client. Web links are provided for informational purposes, both in the most recently available archive.org version before the awards ceremony and, where available, the current website. Many older websites no longer exist, are redirected, or have been substantially redesigned.
- ^ Kress, Michael. (May 10, 2002). "An Internet Site for All Faiths Hosted Dialogue Beyond Belief." Forward Newspaper.
- ^ Kopytoff, Verne (June 18, 2002). "Webbys not what they used to be". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved July 23, 2011.
- ^ Nieves, Evelyn (July 20, 2001). "After Last Year's Bacchanal, a Quieter Webby Party". New York Times. Retrieved July 23, 2011.
- ^ a b Rosmarin, Rachel (June 9, 2006). "Webbys 2.0". Forbes. Retrieved July 23, 2011.
- ^ Rose, Derek. "City Nets Webby Awards." Daily News. 5 April 2005.