The Cool Site of the Year awards are an offshoot of the
Cool Site of the Day, which began rewarding excellence on
the Web in 1994, making it one of the earliest arbiters of
good taste on the Internet. The awards are given out in
15 categories, ranging from best bookstore to best zine.
The nominees are chosen by a nominating committee, and
the actual awards are chosen by popular vote. "Its
completely about the peoples choice," said Mike Corso,
president of C Notes Interactive, which owns the awards.
"We respect immensely the people who visit the site." He
estimated that about 100,000 votes had been cast. "I voted
four times myself," he added. "Just to see if the script
worked." MORE>>
The Cool Site of the Year Awards
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When an industry starts to hype itself, it loses a little bit of
its innocence. In the case of the Web, that happened about
four years ago, when the first Cool Site of the Year awards
were given out. But not to worry: As the assembled masses
of Silicon Alley proved last night at New York's shabby-chic
Webster Hall, where this years Cool Site of the Year
awards ceremony was held, the people who make the Web
happen aren't too jaded to act up in a thoroughly scruffy and
unrespectable fashion.