POPULAR WEB SITES

• The Webby Awards
  
  Hollywood has the Academy Awards. TV has the Emmy Awards. As you might expect, the Webby Awards are more interactive: clicking, scanning, and reading are required.
  You'll also find much more diversity in Webby Award categories. Every year, it seems, promoters try to make the Webby Awards more glamorous with celebrity endorsements and media hype. Most of us are more interested in finding great sites, and that's what the Webby site emphasizes with prominent categorization. In 2001, there were 30 categories of winners, including games, kids, personal Web site, weird, and best practices. (Try to find equivalents in the more commercial and politicized Oscars.) In sum, this site is a portal where you can hardly go wrong. Every nominee and winner has something of merit a click away. It's a great place to browse, a panoply of exemplary content and design.
  Moreover, you can nominate sites for future awards. We tend to agree with a link label on the home page that the winners list, with winners from 1997-2001, is "the ultimate bookmark". As you might expect, some sites are history.
  http://www.webbyawards.com/main/