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I see the Webby Awards have been announced. As the editor of @mcsweeneys when the site won a Webby for best writing in 2005, I hope people know that entering the awards is prohibitively expensive for the vast majority of websites. When I realized the cost, we stopped entering.
The @mcsweeneys site is better than ever under the leadership of @crmonks, but he's not winning a Webby because he's funneling the money not towards a vanity award, but the site and its contributors.
Don't even get me started on what the Webbys cost if you're a nominee and are going to show up for the actual awards show. It would've been half my annual salary at the time. It was a joke then. I can't imagine it's improved.
This isn't to imply that the winning sites are unworthy. I'm sure they're great, but the price of entry isn't scalable by lots of other sites that are equally as worthy. It's not a "best of the web" award. It's the best of the web who can enter the contest that has a fee award.
