| Douglas Rushkoff on Sat, 1 Apr 2000 02:00:25 +0200 (CEST) |
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| [Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> Webby Awards |
I was asked to be one of the final judges in the Activism category. I admit I was surprised not to find Etoy/Toywar on the list of nominees, but figured they were put in a different section. Etoy do describe themselves more as artists playing activists (because they were forced to) than activists using art. In any case, they certainly participated in one of the major web events of the year - however it may be classified. The activism category was listed like this: ------------- These sites use the Internet to exact change. Visit all five nominees and cast your vote for the best in The People's Voice Awards! Nominees: American Civil Liberties Union http://www.aclu.org The Action Network http://www.actionnetwork.org Adbusters http://www.adbusters.org The Hunger Site http://www.hungersite.com Protest Net http://www.protest.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Declan McCullagh" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, March 31, 2000 4:43 PM Subject: Re: <nettime> Webby Awards > At 23:33 3/31/2000 +0400, olia lialina wrote: > >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. > > It's not my category, and I don't want to speak out of turn. My only > thought is that etoys has not been a very upstanding Net-citizen, which is > in part what I envision the Webby awards rewarding. > > -Declan > > # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission > # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, > # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets > # more info: [email protected] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body > # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected] > _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list [email protected] http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold