| olia lialina on Fri, 31 Mar 2000 23:36:12 +0200 (CEST) |
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| [Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> Webby Awards |
Declan McCullagh wrote: > I was a nominating judge for the Webby awards, but not for this category. > It's a shame to see etoys there -- if nothing else, they're not exactly an > exemplar of how an Internet business should handle domain name issues. > interesting, why it is a shame? it is a commercial site, nominated in a commercial category of a commercial show. last year they (etoys) started a trial against the group which had registered one of the desired domain names (etoy) two years before them. shame would be if they are in Politics/Law category of this show. actually, i'd be more interested in other things. -who was this 'progressive' guy who offered a category 'activism' this year for the 'web oscar' ? -and who were these very careful guys who nominated the sites? -why nominated sites are eating this gratefully? -why activists are silent about it? -and what is activism? -just an art compain based on a political subject? -may be to extend next time the art category to 10 nominants or commercial to 15? -why toywars compain is not nominated? -probably, next year? -in what category? best olia -- Last Real Net Art Museum http://myboyfriendcamebackfromth.ewar.ru Real Picture of Your Virtual Office http://art.teleportacia.org/masha/ Guide Position Opened http://art.teleportacia.org/Location_Yes _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list [email protected] http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold