Wired.com Nominated For Webby in Prestigious “News” Category
From the department of “I’m-going-to-crow-about-it-because-no-one-else-will,” Wired.com has been nominated for a 2008 Webby award in the prestigious News category.
We’re up against BBC News, NYTimes.com, CNN.com and Discovery News.
As the day-to-day editor of the site, it makes me enormously proud to be rated against such formidable competition. The Webbys are known as the “Oscars of the Internet.”
All told, Wired.com has been nominated for six Webbys this year: Wired.com for best news site, best copywriting and best home page, Danger Room for political blog, Game|Life for games-related website and Compiler for software website. Epicenter and Gadget Lab were also designated “Honorees” in the business and culture categories, respectively.
By comparison, the BBC is up for four Webbys. The nominations come on the heels of Wired.com winning Best Classic Website at South By Southwest a few weeks ago. We’re on a roll.
(Full disclosure: Wired magazine — our sister print publication — is a media sponsor of the awards.)
Leander Kahney is the editor and publisher of Cult of Mac, and author of three books about technology culture: 
