1997 Webby Awards
The 1997 Webby Awards were the first of the annual Webby Awards, and also the first-ever nationally televised awards ceremony devoted to the Internet. 700 people attended the event on March 6, 1997 at Bimbo's Night Club in San Francisco, California[1]
Nominees and winners
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Panelists
Whereas in later years the panelists were official members of International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, in 1997 the awards were chosen and given by IDG's The Web Magazine, which appointed a panel to judge the competition.[2]
The panel of judges was:[3]
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Dean Andrews writer Spencer Ante Associate editor, THE WEB Magazine Justine Bateman Star, Men Behaving Badly Alex Bennett Radio host Jane Bosveld writer Lily Burana writer Ted Casablanca E! Online James Cury Senior Associate Editor, THE WEB The Eels Rock band Ira Flatow Host, National Public Radio Science Steve Fox Editor-in-Chief, THE WEB Angela Freeman PC World Assistant Editor Kurt Freytag President, Lucid Dreams David Futrelle Editor, Salon Lisa Goldman President, Construct Internet Design Michael Goodwin Movie critic, computer journalist Michael Gough Editor in Chief, Sidewalk.com Nina Hartley Actress Ean Hauts Journalist Glen Helfand Writer Eric Hellweg Staff Editor, PC World Marjorie Ingall Writer Penn Jillette Magician Amy Johns Wired magazine editor Pagan Kennedy author Todd Lappin Editor, Wired Rob Levine Music critic Karen Libertore Online Producer, MacWorld Online Jennife McDonald Literary Agent Mark Meadows Creative Director, Construct Internet Design Pamela Mendels Reporter, New York Times CyberTimes Sia Michel Associate Edtiro, Spin Magazine Erika Milvy Writer Lisa Palac Founding Editor of FutureSex Magazine Tony Perkin Editor-in-Chief, Red Herring David Pescovitz Author, Editor Adam Philips Writer Suzan Revah Associate Editor, American Journalism Review Derk Richardson Music, TV, and Film Critic Henry Rosenthal Film Producer Bob Sabat Managing Editor, SmartMoney Nathan Schedroff Creative Director, VIVID Studios Leonard Shlain Surgeon, Author RU Sirius Author; Cofounder of Mondo 2000 Howard Smukler Attorney J. Michael Straczynski Creator and Producer of Babylon 5 Jennifer Sucov Senior Editor, Folio Eric Tyson Author Laura Victoria Writer Brad Wieners Editor, HardWired Bernie Yee Author Zak Zaidman Founder, Gravity, Inc.
References
Winners and nominees are generally named according to the organization or website winning the award, although the recipient is, technically, the web design firm or internal department that created the winning site and in the case of corporate websites, the designer's client. Web links are provided for informational purposes, both in the most recently available archive.org version before the awards ceremony and, where available, the current website. Many older websites no longer exist, are redirected, or have been substantially redesigned.
