http://www.webbyawards.com

(n.b. webby award winner is followed by people's choice winner)

1. activism ...
Sites facilitating political change, social movement, human rights, public education and reform, or revolution.

Ad Busters
http://www.adbusters.org

The Hunger Site
http://www.hungersite.com

2.arts ...
Sites that display art, are art, are about art, or provide art criticism. These include online galleries, art projects, or portfolios.

Webstalker
http://www.backspace.org/iod/iod4Winupdates.html

SFMOMA Presents Bill Viola
http://www.sfmoma.org/EXHIB/viola/fr_splash.html

3. broadband ...
Sites that fully integrate bandwidth-intensive, interactive content. This content may include video and audio, animation, and like dynamic elements that blur the line between film, television and computers. It's souped up Internet.

Video Farm
http://www.videofarm.com

Atom Films
http://www.atomfilms.com

4. commerce ...
Sites developed with the primary purpose of selling goods or services online. Also includes sites that have a particularly innovative use of e-commerce but have another focus.

BabyCenter
http://www.babycenter.com

Amazon
http://www.amazon.com

5. community ...
Sites developed to facilitate and create community, connectedness and/or communication. These sites can target either a broad-based or niche audience.

Café Utne
http://cafe.utne.com/cafe

Slashdot
http://slashdot.org

6. education ...
Sites that are educational, promote education or provide online curriculum. This could include educational content for children or adults, resources for educators, and "distance learning" courses.

Merriam-Webster Word Central
http://www.wordcentral.com

Merriam-Webster Word Central
http://www.wordcentral.com

7. Fashion ...
Sites promoting personal style, clothing design, and accessories. These include sites selling fashion, marketing designers, and editorial sites with fashion news and information.

Paul Smith
http://www.paulsmith.co.uk

toddoldham.com
http://www.toddoldham.com

8. Film ...
Sites dedicated to preservation and celebration of film, movies, and film culture. These include film news, film resources, film magazines, and film archives.

Atom Films
http://www.atomfilms.com

Internet Movie Database
http://www.imdb.com

9. Finance ...
Sites relating to financial services and/or information. These include online stock trading, financial news, or investor services.

Gomez.com
http://www.gomez.com

PayPal
http://www.paypal.com

10. Games ...
Sites that inform about the computer gaming industry or offer direct online gaming. These include individual, multi-player, violent, and non-violent games.

Gamespy Industries
http://www.gamespy.com

Shockwave.com
http://www.shockwave.com

11. Health ...
Sites designed to provide information and resources to improve personal health. These may include medical news sites, health information, and online diagnosis. Health includes not only medicine but also includes alternative and mental health or fitness Web sites.

ThriveOnline
http://thriveonline.com

Intelihealth
http://www.intelihealth.com

12. Humor ...
Sites dedicated to comedy or the art of laughter.

The Onion
http://www.theonion.com

The Onion
http://www.theonion.com

13. Kids ...
Sites created for the under 18 set.

Scholastic.com
http://www.scholastic.com

Scholastic.com
http://www.scholastic.com

14. Living ...
Sites which provide content about how to go about daily life or about elements that touch the personal side of life. Living includes gardening, home improvement, interior design, architecture, food, parenting and similar subjects.

Epicurious
http://www.epicurious.com

Blue Mountain Arts
http://bluemountain.com

15. Music ...
Sites that provide a direct listening experience or promote musical awareness including musicians' or record labels' sites, sites that promote musical events, or those that teach music or about music, generally or technically.

Napster
http://www.napster.com

Napster
http://www.napster.com

16. News ...
Sites developed for the distribution of recent happenings. These may be offshoots of established news operations, or developed specifically for online news. This news is general news not devoted to a single topic as covered by another category.

Media News
http://www.medianews.org

ABCNEWS.com
http://www.abcnews.go.com

17. Personal ...
Sites about individuals. This includes sites by you about you , or sites by you about someone else (fan sites), or sites about you by a personally financed development team.

Cocky Bastard
http://www.cockybastard.com

Cocky Bastard
http://www.cockybastard.com

18. Politics & Law ...
Sites which provide political and/or legal information. These may include campaign or candidate sites, political or legal resources, political news and sites promoting a political cause or action.

Politics.com
http://www.politics.com

FindLaw
http://www.findlaw.com

19. Print & Zines ...
Online versions of dead tree publications or native Web e-zines.

Nerve
http://www.nerve.com

Slashdot
http://www.slashdot.org

20. Radio ...
Sites with ties to a radio station or program either on-the-air or on-the-Web. These include sites that relate to a specific show, segment, or station, either musical or talk-radio.

Lost and Found Sound
http://www.lostandfoundsound.com

BBC Radio 1
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1

21. Science ...
Sites that distribute information related to scientific exploration. These include science exhibits, science museums, science organizations, science laboratories, and academic institutions.

The Cave of Lascaux
http://www.culture.fr/culture/arcnat/lascaux/en

Monterey Bay Aquarium
http://www.mbayaq.org

22. Services ...
Sites that allow real world activities to be done online. These include sites that help people find jobs, houses, dates, or which otherwise facilitate offline activities from the keyboard.

Evite
http://www.evite.com

Epinions
http://www.epinions.com

23. Sports ...
Sites that provide information about athletics. These include sporting culture, sports news, sports statistics, sports data, sporting events, and sports history.

ESPN
http://www.espn.go.com

ESPN
http://www.espn.go.com

24. Technical Achievement ...
Sites that demonstrate a particularly cutting edge application of new technology.

Google
http://www.google.com

Google
http://www.google.com

25. Travel ...
Sites that provide travel services and information. These include online travel guides, travel tools for the purchasing of tickets, location of hotels, and travel writing.

Outside Online
http://www.outsidemag.com

Discovery's Travel Channel
http://travel.discovery.com

26. TV ...
Sites which are online counterparts of television networks or cable channels.

MSNBC
http://www.msnbc.com

CNN
http://www.cnn.com

27. Weird ...
Sites that are screwed up, wacky, zany or just plain abnormal. These sites are more than funny. They are off-beat, with an unsettling quality, slightly dark or disturbing in nature.

Stile Project
http://www.stileproject.com

Stile Project
http://www.stileproject.com

janet paterson
53 now / 41 dx / 37 onset
613 256 8340 / PO Box 171 Almonte Ontario K0A 1A0 Canada
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