Broadband kudos.Who says there couldn't possibly be another awards show out there? MySpace will take submissions from anyone with an Internet connection and a camera for the Broadband Emmy Awards Emmy award Annual presentation for outstanding achievement in U.S. television. Its name is taken from the nickname “immy” for the image orthicon, a television camera tube. . Any user-generated content The production of content by the general public rather than by paid professionals and experts in the field. Mostly available on the Web via blogs and wikis, user-generated content refers to material such as the daily news, encyclopedias and other references, movie and product reviews as will be considered as long as it's submitted through a MySpace profile. The videos will be presented in a number of categories, though those that have yet to be outlined. The awards could provide some competition for the Webby Awards For the Ducktales character, see . Presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, The Webby Awards are a set of awards presented to the "world's best websites". The awards have been given out since 1996. , which for the past 11 years have been presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences or IADAS was founded in 1998 in New York to help drive the progress of the Internet and evolving forms of new media. The academy selects the nominees and winners for the Webby Awards. . While certainly not the Academy Awards, or even the Golden Globes for that matter, the Webby Awards have grown in stature stature /sta·ture/ (stach´ur) the height or tallness of a person standing.stat´ural stat·ure n. The height of a person. stature the height of an animal in the standing position. over the past decade and typically attract an A-list crowd of online celebs. It will be interesting to see if the new kudos do much to address the complaint most-often voiced about the Webby Awards: that they are Anglo-centric and pay too much attention to English-language efforts over international entries. No date has been set for the presentation of the awards. |
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