OSCAR.COM LEADS THE PARADE OF AWARD SITES.Byline: David Bloom David Bloom (May 22, 1963 – April 6, 2003) was an NBC journalist (co-anchor of Weekend Today and reporter) until his sudden death in 2003 at the age of 39. Early life Daily News Staff Writer I'd like to thank my information agent ... Just as in Hollywood, it's award season in the worlds of new media, though unlike the movie biz, there's no clear must-get honor. If you'd like to see what some folks think are the best sites around, there are a couple of places to start. But first something for the awards-show traditionalist. Last week, the ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. Internet Group and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences launched Oscar.com to track all the events leading up to the big show March 21. The site offers such goodies for movie buffs as a complete list of nominees, synopses of nominated films, academy history, and photo galleries of past winners, Oscar fashions and splashy splash·y adj. splash·i·er, splash·i·est 1. Making or likely to make splashes. 2. Covered with splashes of color. 3. Showy; ostentatious. See Synonyms at showy. arrivals. ABC and the academy also promise to add trivia games, a database of past winners and nominees, a producer's journal of show preparations and much more. The site also will carry a live Webcast of the Oscars on awards night, though as the recent Victoria's Secret For the Sonata Arctica single, see Victoria's Secret (song) Victoria's Secret is an American retailer of high quality lingerie and beauty products.[2] fashion show demonstrated, it'll still be a while before you willingly choose the Webcast over the broadcast. And if Oscar just isn't enough for your awards-night jones, try these Web award sites: You can start with the Webbies, which used to be sponsored by a really fine little magazine called the Web. But the Web (the magazine) had as much trouble devising a viable economic model as any of the sites it wrote about. And without the insanely large stock-market valuations keeping those sites afloat, it died an untimely death. The Webbies live on, however, at www.webbyawards.com, thanks to the good folks over at 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. , which has already announced 110 nominees. The awards will be handed out March 18 in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden . Speaking of the Webbies, among the best art site nominees is one by Amy Alexander, a film and video professor at the California Institute for the Arts in Valencia. Alexander's Multi-Cultural Recycler (at shoko.calarts.edu/(tilde A symbol used in Windows, starting with Windows 95, that maintains a short version of a long file or directory name for compatibility with Windows 3.1 and DOS. For example, the short version of a file named "Letter to Joe" would be LETTER~1. Then "Letter to Pat" becomes LETTER~2. )alex/recycler.html) cuts and pastes together instant collages based on images from the dozens of Webcams that show everything from naked homebodies Homebodies is the third episode from the of the popular American forensic crime drama , which is set in Las Vegas, Nevada. Plot Summary Grissom and Warrick investigate when the mummified remains of an old woman are found in a closet. to the Hollywood sign The Hollywood Sign is a famous landmark in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles, California, spelling out the name of the area in 15.2 m (50 ft)[1] high white letters. to coffeemakers. ``These cameras provide documentation, surveillance and a very specific representation of the camera owners and their surroundings,'' Alexander said. ``Ordinary people and places around the world are instantly subject to becoming part of the mass culture and are potentially also subject to cultural recycling.'' In fact, once you have the machine create a collage from the images taken from randomly selected Webcams, the site is posted in a gallery, where it, too, can be further recycled by the next visitor. If the Webbies and Alexander's work aren't enough to elevate your appreciation for the World Wide Web, the folks at Cool Site of the Day (www.coolsiteoftheday.com) not only hand out daily recognition categories, they also have an annual best-of contest. The Cool Sites staff pick the nominees, then Web denizens do the actual final voting. Check 'em out at http://www.coolsiteoftheday.com. In the video-gaming business, the Flights of Fantasy awards have already gone out, spotlighting the best games on consoles such as Sony PlayStation, Nintendo 64 and Sega Saturn. Konami's Metal Gear Solid  This article is about the original Metal Gear Solid released for the PlayStation. For the Game Boy Color spin-off of the same name, see . was the biggest winner, pulling down awards for game of the year, best adventure game, story development and sound. Two of the game's creative talents, Hideo Kahima and David Hayter, were honored for individual achievement. Other big awards included Capcom's Resident Evil 2 for best action game; THQ's Rugrats Adventure for best children's game; Namco's Tekken 3 for best fighting game; THQ's Devil Dice (a personal favorite) for best puzzle game; Sega's Panzer Dragoon Saga Panzer Dragoon Saga (titled Azel: Panzer Dragoon RPG in Japan) is a critically-acclaimed role-playing video game (RPG) released exclusively for the Sega Saturn in 1998. (the only Saturn title of recent note) as best role-playing game; and EA Sports' Madden NFL 99 for best sports game. Nintendo's Pokemon (which still consumes my children's attention almost six months after its release) proved to be no pocket monster on the Game Boy, getting honored for innovation. Nintendo also scored an award for game design for the great Legend of Zelda: Ocarina ocarina (ŏkərē`nə), musical wind instrument with eight finger holes and two thumb holes, rather egg-shaped, and made of metal, terra-cotta or plastic. Unlike other wind instuments, it produces pure tones that lack overtones. of Time, which otherwise was shut out despite nine nominations, the most of any title. CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1 -- 2) no caption (web site screens) |
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