Friday Fun: Webby Award Winners Announced
Winners of the annual Webby Awards were announced this week.
Highlights include:
▪ Webby Person Of The Year - Stephen Colbert, Comedy Central's "Colbert Report." He was honored for using the Internet to interact with fans of his show -- from "Google bombing" to make him the top search result for "greatest living American" to challenging the "truthiness" of Wikipedia.
▪ Webby Film & Video Person of The Year - Filmmaker Michel Gondry. His latest film, "Be Kind Rewind," is a celebration do-it-yourself filmmaking introduced "sweding" to the Internet, inspiring filmmakers to recreate scenes from their favorite films.
▪ Webby Artist Of The Year - Will.I.Am, frontman for the Black Eyed Peas. He was recognized for the songs and Internet videos he created in support of U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama. His online "Yes We Can" video has been viewed more than 17 million times since its February premiere.
▪ Webby Film & Video - Best Actor: Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim, creators of the cult hit timanderic.com. They are poster children for the kind of weirdness that could only take off online.
Other highlights include multiple winnings by NYTimes.com, The Onion, PostSecret, National Geographic, Apple.com, Hometown Baghdad, "You Suck at Photoshop," Flickr, FactCheck.org, BBC, TED.com, ESPN.com, and CondeNet. Read more about the winners here.
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