Lyrical spring
in the air,
and on the web
Webby Award winners waxed poetic, condensing the wisdom of the Digital Age into byte-size bits of haiku wit that would have brought a verbose blush to the jowls of more-wordy or longwinded word wonks of yore - the likes of Wordsworth or Wadsworth Longfellow, say… In other words, "keep it short" has a special meaning at the Webbies, the annual awards for achievement in web creation; winners' acceptance speeches must contain only five words - which, as usual, they made the most of, the New York Times reports.
"I invented the internet" Al Gore responded to his lifetime achievement award with… "Please don't recount this vote"! And apparently the place went wild. His encore was pithy as well: "It is time to reinvent the internet for all of us to make it more robust and much more accessible and use it to reinvigorate our democracy."
The "winning winner" on Monday, according to the Times, was the recipient from LonelyPlanet.com, the People's Voice winner in the travel category: "Love your country. Leave it." A complete list of the winners is at www.webbyawards.com.
