Geert Lovink: media awards

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Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 08:14:04 +0200 (CEST)
From: Geert Lovink <geert@xs4all.nl>
To: nettime-l@desk.nl
Subject: media awards


From:           	Helena Earnshaw <helena@oneworld.org>
Date sent:      	Mon, 5 Jul 1999 17:15:44 +0100

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>                                >> HARD NEWS <<
>                               little to choose
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>         Another week, another "prestigious" four hundred new media
>         awards ceremonies. Most desperate, it seemed, was the
>         British Interactive Media Association, where you got to dine
>         with a bunch of CD-ROM refugees claiming to be have been "in
>         new media for 17 years, darling", and a shortlist randomly
>         picked out of the .CO.UK root files. Their host: a singing
>         ventriloquist (hey, seventeen years ago, that *was*
>         multimedia). New Media Age was slightly better, though both
>         its choices and its home page's ALT tags seemed convinced it
>         was 1998. The Online Journalism Awards, in the face of
>         no-one entering, mostly divvied up the prizes among sites
>         run by its own judges. The New Statesman had McSpotlight and
>         shell.com up for the same Net Advocacy award: maybe Shell
>         has a cheeky "Slap A Nigerian Community Leader" game
>         somewhere. Uniquely, the MacSpot guys were frisked on the
>         way in, and had their extensive J18 coverage excised from
>         the presentation because "it wasn't appropriate" for Jack
>         Cunningham to see it. Mmm. Liberal. All in all, the usual
>         seasonal shambles: and there's still Yell and the
>         Interactive BAFTAs to go. (And no, we're not bitter: NTK's
>         agitprop sister site, STAND, won a NMA special commendation,
>         two NS gongs including the one McSpotlight should have got,
>         and we were on the bloody *judging* panel for the Online
>         Journalism ones. Perhaps the industry should all lay off
>         self-congratulatory awards for a bit, and see if we can't
>         spare some precious time to do some half-decent bloody
>         Websites for a change.)