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| | Salon Technology | Webby or not, here they come (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | The Webby Awards, now in their fourth extravagant year, have been described by founder Tiffany Shlain as the anti-Oscars -- and it's true. |
 | | San Francisco Examiner executive editor Phil Bronstein attended, but his movie star wife, Sharon Stone, did not; acceptance speeches were, as always, strictly limited to five words; and Webby Award winner Napster did not -- indeed could not -- kiss its brother on the lips, for reasons that don't need pointing out. |
 | | The Onion, which won the Webby for humor and whose award was preceded by the funniest short film in the show (a parody of the Budweiser "Wassup?" ads starring Bill Gates, Alan Greenspan, Janet Reno, George W. Bush and Arnold Schwarzenegger), got a huge hand despite its disappointing acceptance haiku ("They said I could only..."). |
| www.salon.com /tech/log/2000/05/12/webby (552 words) |
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