Cryptomundo Wins A Webby
Posted by: Loren Coleman on April 10th, 2007
The results are in, and Cryptomundo has been selected as one of the few “Official Honorees” for a Webby. Here’s the official statement, plus the list of the other winners in our category.
11th Annual Webby Awards Official Honoree Selections
As a result of the superior quantity and quality of sites entered, the 11th Annual Webby Awards recognized sites and teams that demonstrated a standard of excellence.
Of the more than 8,000 entries submitted to the 11th Annual Webby Awards, fewer than 15% were distinguished as an Official Honoree. This honor signifies an outstanding caliber of work. Congratulations to all of our Official Honoree selections!
Weird
Official Honoree Agency/Credited Organization
Blogs are Stupid
http://www.blogsarestupid.com Barebones ProductionsCryptomundo
https://cryptomundo.com/ CryptomundoDummy
http://www.judgehere.com/dummy/in… DDB Brasilmonoface
http://www.mono-1.com/monoface monoRepublic World News – Breaking News for the Islamic States of America
http://www.republicworldnews.com/ LevelTen DesignThe Webby Awards, The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences
For several months, Cryptomundo has ranked #1 as the most popular cryptozoology site in the world, beating out, in overall rank by three times, the next most visited site, and by six times, the third ranked cryptozoology site.
The Webby Awards is the preeminent International award for the Internet, honoring the world’s best Websites, Interactive Advertising, Online Film & Video, and Mobile Websites – the Oscars of the Internet, so to speak.
The Webby Awards official definition of the Weird category reads, in part: Sites so forward thinking they seem strange when viewed without the future in mind. This category includes sites that reflect a fresh perspective in thought and action strong enough to start a revolution, change in behavior pattern, or advance old thinking lodged in bad habits.
This, by the way, is not the “People’s Award” part of the Webbys, where people have to encourage their readers to vote. While, of course, that would have been wonderful, as well, we are proud to be honored as we have been. We won the division of the competition juried and awarded by the Webby Awards judges alone.
All of us here at Cryptomundo thank you, our readers, for spreading the word, sharing with us your intelligent comments and reading us.
Winners are asked to write a five-word speech for the acceptance of one of the ultimate awards handed out in June. Just like at the Academy Awards, I already have mine written: “Still covertly cryptic quite overtly!”
Oscars of the Internet!The New York Times
About Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct).
Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015.
Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.
This is terrific news and the award is well-earned! A great big THANK YOU Loren & the rest of the guys for this terrific site and for all your hard work!
Kudos to Loren, Craig, John, and Rick! Clearly it’s more than the posters and readers who have recognized not only your work, but your forward thinking.
Well done!
A well-deserved award! Congratulations!!! Let’s hope this is the first of many! 🙂
Way to go, everyone – let’s keep it up.
Congratulations! This is a great site & deserves the recognition.
Best Crypto site on the Net. It should mean some more Ad revenue. Congratulations!
Congratulations, Mr. Coleman. And I’d like to give a big, Thank You!, to ol’ Mr. ‘Foot himself. Thank you, Mr. Bigfoot, for being so dang hard to catch on video, or even a CLEAR picture! You keep it interesting. Thank you Mr. Coleman and Mr. ‘Foot.
The judges opinions regarding the quality and significance of this site should carry more weight than a mere popularity vote. The traffic to Cryptomundo is the best gauge of popularity.
Congratulations.
Congratulations!
Well done!
This is my favorite site!
Congrats on your award this site is cool.
You guys at cryptomundo definetly deserve it! Congratulations and thanks for making this site not only interesting and informative, but damn fun!
WOOOT! Way to go Loren!!! Good minispeech too. Now…can you make it into a palindrome?
I found this site by accident when I was looking up cryptozoology on the web. I started commenting because I saw Loren’s name attached to it and his books really started me looking into cryptids. This site is fun and full of diverse opinions from intelligent people. Congratulations Loren and thanks to all for making this THE site on the web!
Huzzah! Well done folks.
I don’t want to know the first thing about the hard work it takes to put a site up, and keep it up, to get recognition like this.
Yet I feel like I’m partly responsible for it, and so I suspect should we all. Audience counts; and here the audience speaks too. You know the judges are looking at what they say.
Thanks to everyone here. Even me. 😀
A much deserved award for an amazing site. Congratulations!
Great news! Well done to all for creating such a wonderful site. Recognition richly deserved! Bravo!
Humble as always, DWA. Yet, you have a very valid point, as I very much look forward to seeing what you, Mystery Man, Kittenz, Ole Bub, and others have to say, just as I do Loren, Craig, John, and Rick. So let me second that congrats to both the authors and the readers here. Hurrah for Cryptomundo, and long may she reign!