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Next to promises of penile enlargements and bank accounts of Nubian royalty, the Webby Awards are one of the best scams on the interwebs these days. The Webby Awards, which are beyond a joke to insiders or anyone who has long since deleted their Prodigy account, were announced on Tuesday. Family Guy creator and meme thief Seth MacFarlane, former SNL star Jimmy Fallon, and (much to our surprise, concern) Mission Local were among the last night's top recipients. Because, of course, when you think of last year's leading voices on the online internet world wide web, you think of MacFarlane and Fallon.
For those of you who don't know, the Webby Awards, once a pithy albeit respectable attempt at honoring online notables, has gone from 17 categories (1997) to a staggering 129 (2009). And did we mention that you have to pay $275 to get nominated. Because you do. This pay-for-honor makes the People's Choice Award look like the Pulitzer Prize.
To check out who paid to win an award was honored with a trinket, go here. The Webby Award ceremony will be held in June. Winners and nominees (i.e., marketing teams) who want to attend the ceremony, by the way, will be charged an entrance ticket fee (which was somewhere around $250 back in 2006) in order to pick up their awards in-person.
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Wow, sounds almost as certain as online sweepstakes - sure, they give SOMEBODY a prize. ;)
When Brock puts down those chocolate pop-tarts and exchanges his pj's for some pants and goes out to cover this city with any decent measure- sfist can't carry Mission Local's jock strap.
...said the ucb j-school grad who pens the jarringly unironic 'this mexican american's life.'
you missed my point entirely. straight up, dear.
What. No one said* there was anything wrong with ML@L's content. But I still don't think a willingness to pay for an award says anything good for a site (or for journalism), and I'm straight up surprised that you do, Steve.
*in this post, at least -- though I sent them a note on errors in an item mentioning me yesterday morning and, still, nothing. Brock might be unable to carry a jock strap (ew), but he's swift if and when he needs to make a correction.
OK, to their credit ML@L just responded to my note to them from yesterday (having seen my comment) and corrected their piece. Commenting on SFist worked for me!
did you really mean Nubian in that sentence above?
Did you really mean that as a question?
I'm used to hearing about the Nigerian scam emails. I didn't know if there was another meme going around that I didn't know about.
I just wanted to be in on the joke!
Er, sorry about that. I'm all jumpy what with it being Cinco de Mayo and all.
Anyway, the last email i received promising me riches mentioned a Nubian price. Or something. Strange.
What's a Nubian?
An African who is new to the ways of the internet.
Meet me in Valencia for some coffee this weekend. I'm always up for a good chat. What are you up to?
i am way too fat on said pop-tarts to physically leave my apartment. really, i went up to a size 33 waist this year. shudder.
Trolls drink coffee? You learn something new every day!
p.s. you know how to use google. congrats!
Oh my God, a rumble?
I'm on Team Brock, who incidentally looks fabulous in jammies.
I would like to know more about Mission Local's jock strap.
I'm sure they can tell you, it'll only take them about 700 words.
I wouldn't.
Bitter much?
Webby Awards? How quaint. I thought these things died off with Dot Com and that guy in the Peter Pan outfits...
oh, the Peter Pan guy!!! I wonder if he found his dream girl. Because he's totally straight, you know.
This is sort of nice, this little spat.
This syntax reminds me of flying rats and sex.
Can I pay my entry fee in Flooz?
I always imagined that the City's blogging luminaries - Brock, ML@L, Beth, Eve, Mission Mission, etc. - were all best buds, that they shared a secret handshake and lived/worked together in an undersea headquarters ala the Justice League. This little string of comments shatters that fantasy.
Seriously though, get back to work covering and commenting on real news jerks. This is beginning to reek of the SFBG-SFW slap-fest.
Love,
All Your Readers
i respect and admire mission local. i'm unclear as to why readers are viewing this as a slap at them.
strange.
I'll be best buds with anyone if there's really an undersea headquarters involved.
That's actually where Eve, Brock, Allan and I meet...at our undersea headquarters. I've never met Mission Local. But I'm sure if he dropped that whole gross jockstrap thing, he'd be invited...
I have few buds as good as (and none better) than Brock, Allan, and Beth.
Haha.. hooray blogs! Hey, wouldn't it be great if the NY Times wrote a front page story complaining about how the Washington Post won a Pulitzer, or vice versa? Oh wait, they both have better things to do, like cover the news. Did you know that you have to pay a $50 fee to enter the Pulitzer competition? OMG, that like? Makes it totally illegitimate.
Sorry you didn't win a Webby this year, SFist, maybe next time.
Group hug, y'all. But kisses to Brock in his jammies and strawberry (not chocolate, ew) Pop Tarts, with the edges cut off, of course.