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Friday, April 27, 2001 5th Annual Webby Award Nominees Announced The International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences has unveiled the nominees for the 5th Annual Webby Awards, which honor websites in a variety of categories. The awards are presented by the Academy, a 350-member organization. More than 3,000 technology luminaries and leaders in an array of traditional fields will attend the awards show, which is known for its outrageous fashions, five-words-or-less speech limit, and celebrity judges. Past judges have included David Bowie, Tina Brown, Matt Groening, and Larry Ellison. ``With the Internet undergoing major change, The Webby Awards are needed now more than ever to help people both avoid the hype and to enjoy the Web sites that are the most outstanding, entertaining, and useful,'' said Maya Draisin, the director of The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. ``The challenges facing the industry have also spurred this year's nominees to really push the limits of the medium and create truly exciting and inspiring online experiences.'' Winners will be announced at The 2001 Webby Awards 2000 on July 18, 2001 at at San Francisco's elegant War Memorial Opera House. The entire event will be Webcast at webbyawards.com beginning at 7:00 PM PST. The 5th Annual Webby Awards Nominees Activism: act for change http://www.actforchange.com Independent Media Center http://www.indymedia.org PETA http://www.peta-online.org Protest Net http://www.protest.net Volunteer Match http://www.volunteermatch.org Broadband: 120 Seconds http://www.120seconds.com Heavy http://www.heavy.com Once Upon A Forest http://www.once-upon-a-forest.com Pulitzer Newseum http://www.newseum.org/pulitzer/shock/shock.htm Yahoo! Finance Vision http://financevision.yahoo.com Commerce: CafePress.com http://www.cafepress.com GorpTravel.com http://gorptravel.gorp.com Half.com http://www.half.com mySimon http://www.mysimon.com Travelocity http://www.travelocity.com Community: Beliefnet http://www.beliefnet.com ChickClick http://www.chickclick.com craigslist http://www.craigslist.org Kuro5hin http://www.kuro5hin.org {fray} http://www.fray.com/org Education: A Biography of America http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica ExploreMath http://www.exploremath.com NationalGeographic.com http://www.nationalgeographic.com Nova Online http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova The New York Times Learning Network http://www.nytimes.com/learning Fashion: Celine http://www.celine.com eLuxury http://www.eluxury.com Hint Fashion Magazine http://www.hintmag.com Kirna Zabete http://www.kirnazabete.com SoWear http://www.sowear.com Film: Eveo http://www.eveo.com indieWire http://www.indiewire.com Psycho Studio http://www.saulbass.net/psychostudio Requiem For A Dream http://www.requiemforadream.com The New Venue http://www.newvenue.com Finance: CBS Marketwatch http://www.cbsmarketwatch.com Motley Fool http://www.fool.com MyCiti.com http://www.myciti.com PayPal http://www.paypal.com Yahoo! Finance http://finance.yahoo.com Games: 3dgroove.com http://www.3dgroove.com Gamasutra http://www.gamasutra.com GameLab http://www.gmlb.com MyVideoGames.com http://www.myvideogames.com SissyFight http://www.sissyfight.com Government & Law: City of Sydney http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au Cornell Legal Information Institute http://www.law.cornell.edu ICourtHouse http://www.icourthouse.com Nolo Self-Help Law Center http://www.nolo.com YourCongress.com http://www.yourcongress.com Health: HIV Stops With Me http://www.hivstopswithme.org Medbroadcast http://www.medbroadcast.com Planned Parenthood Golden Gate http://www.ppgg.org teenwire http://www.teenwire.com ThriveOnline http://www.thriveonline.com Humor: F***edCompany http://www.f***edcompany.com Modern Humorist http://www.modernhumorist.com National Lampoon DotCom http://www.nationallampoon.com SatireWire http://www.satirewire.com The Onion http://www.theonion.com Kids: AfriCam http://www.africam.com Fact Monster http://www.factmonster.com LugNet http://www.lugnet.com Student Coalition for Alternatives to the MCAS http://www.scam-mcas.org teenwire http://www.teenwire.com Living: BabyCenter http://www.babycenter.com Campaign For Our Children http://www.cfoc.org ChickClick http://www.chickclick.com Epicurious http://www.epicurious.com The Knot http://www.theknot.com Music: Erykah Badu http://www.erykahbadu.com Live365.com http://www.live365.com Motown.com http://www.motown.com sonicnet.com http://www.sonicnet.com sputnik7 http://www.sputnik7.com News: BBC News Online http://news.bbc.co.uk CNN http://www.cnn.com Inside http://www.inside.com Salon http://www.salon.com CNET News.Com http://www.news.com Personal Websites: Blogger http://www.blogger.com DancingPaul http://www.dancingpaul.com douglaspearce.com http://www.douglaspearce.com {fray} http://www.fray.com {theboar} http://www.boar.com Politics: CNN.com -- AllPolitics http://www.cnn.com/allpolitics Orvetti.com http://www.orvetti.com Hotline Scoop http://www.hotlinescoop.com NPR Election 2000 http://www.npr.org/news/national/election2000 OpenSecrets.org http://www.opensecrets.org Print & Zines: Feed Magazine http://www.feedmag.com Mother Jones Magazine http://www.motherjones.com Nerve http://www.nerve.com Plastic http://www.plastic.com The Position.com http://www.theposition.com Radio: BBC World Service http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice COMFM http://www.comfm.fr Fresh Air http://search.npr.org/freshair StormLive http://www.stormlive.com Youth Radio http://www.youthradio.org Science: 7Stones http://www.7stones.com/Homepage/Publisher/Tut02.html Dive and Discover http://www.divediscover.whoi.edu Molecular Expressions http://www.micro.magnet.fsu.edu/index.html Plus Magazine http://pass.maths.org Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute http://www.whoi.edu Services: Pay Pal http://www.paypal.com PlanetFeedback http://www.planetfeedback.com SHOUTcast http://www.shoutcast.com Vindigo http://www.vindigo.com Volunteer Match http://www.volunteermatch.org Spirituality: BuddhaNet http://www.buddhanet.net Council on Spiritual Practices http://www.csp.org Kids 4 Truth http://www.kids4truth.com World Prayers http://www.worldprayers.org ZEN http://www.do-not-zzz.com Sports: bowl.com http://www.bowl.com CBS SportsLine.com http://cbs.sportsline.com ESPN.com http://espn.go.com Planet Rugby http://www.planetrugby.com Swell http://www.swell.com Travel: Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel online http://www.frommers.com Expedia http://www.expedia.com Iexplore http://www.iexplore.com IgoUgo http://www.igougo.com Tom Parson's Bestfares.com http://www.bestfares.com TV: ESPN.com http://espn.go.com History Channel http://www.historychannel.com NBC Olympics http://www.nbcolympics.com nickjr.com http://www.nickjr.com PBS Online http://www.pbs.org Weird: Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization http://www.bfro.net Disinformation http://www.disinformation.com Fortean Times Online http://www.forteantimes.com Peter Pan's Home Page http://www.pixyland.org/peterpan Weird N.J. http://www.weirdnj.com Click here to return to the homepage of The Write NewsTM Click here to subscribe to our free weekly email newsletter. www.writenews.com Copyright © 1997-2011 by Writers Write, Inc. 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