Nominated For A Webby

from the thanks! dept

Tue, Apr 10th 2007 2:07pm — Mike Masnick

Nice news of the day is that Techdirt has been nominated for a Webby in the "Best Business Blogs" category. The competition is steep with the likes of excellent sites like PaidContent and the NY Times' Dealbook -- so we'll just trot out the cliche (but we mean it!) and say it's just great to be included in such a group of sites. The Webbies have their own internal voting as well as a "People's Voice" vote where anyone can vote -- so feel free to choose your favorites. And, as always, the real thanks goes to our passionate and opinionated readers who, whether they agree with us or not, continue to make writing the Techdirt blog fun and intellectually stimulating for those of us here at Techdirt Towers.

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–The Techdirt Team

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Anonymous Poster (profile), 10 Apr 2007 @ 2:15pm

Congratulations!
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Anonymous Coward, 10 Apr 2007 @ 2:22pm

bleh....
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Rose, 10 Apr 2007 @ 2:53pm

Congrats!
Boy, do you guys ever deserve it! I'm impressed with your intelligent, well thought out, detailed comments.
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SFGary, 10 Apr 2007 @ 2:55pm

I'll vote for you guys as long as you promise not to run RIAA/MPAA posts more than twice a month...can't we talk about other crap?
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some random dude, 10 Apr 2007 @ 4:10pm

intellectually stimulating?
With some of the comments I see here I sometimes wonder.
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Paul, 10 Apr 2007 @ 4:16pm

Wow
Never heard of the "webbies" before now, but if techdirt has been nominated for one then tat automatically discredits them in my book.
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Gomorrah, 10 Apr 2007 @ 4:17pm

In the Lead
As of this moment you are winning by 19% over paidContent.
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happymellon, 10 Apr 2007 @ 4:32pm

Congrats...
It's a shame that the quality of the readership seems to have gone down. You seem to get a lot more trolling AC's these days than I remember. But at least you haven't let that get to the quality of the articles, I do have to say that I enjoy reading this on a regular basis, even if there is an accused bias towards anti-MP/RIAA content, sometimes it feels like shooting fish in a barrel. I don't think there is too much propaganda, probably just enough, because I keep coming back.

To be honest though, I thought Webbies ended after the bubble popped.
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trolling AC, 10 Apr 2007 @ 5:26pm

Re: Congrats...
You seem to get a lot more trolling AC's these days than I remember.
Yeah, well you're ugly and yer momma dresses ya funny. :-P
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Anonymous Coward, 11 Apr 2007 @ 5:59am

The Webbys are still around? Man Tiffany can flog shit, I'll grant her that.

Congrats.
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Matt, 11 Apr 2007 @ 7:45am

Re:
same goes for patents... everything else is fair game though!
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Go Techdirt!, 11 Apr 2007 @ 9:21am

You guys are awesome.
'Nuff said.
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tangapang, 11 Apr 2007 @ 11:16am

Congrats!
Geeks are hOt. Geeks with webbies are even hOtter...
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mrosedal, 11 Apr 2007 @ 12:41pm

In the Lead
I just voted and currently Techdirt is in the lead. 35% of the vote.
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