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Webby Awards Celebrate the Quirky and the Unusual

Aired May 12, 2000 - 9:57 a.m. ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: Folks who dabble in cyberspace through their own personal Web sites were given some awards in San Francisco recently.

CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: As CNN's Rusty Dornin reports, it was a celebration for the quirky and the unusual.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

RUSTY DORNIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Hollywood it's not, but there were paparazzi and star treatment for nominees for the Webby Awards in San Francisco, the Oscars of the Internet.

TIFFANY SHLAIN, WEBBY AWARDS FOUNDER: This is a celebration of risk taking and everything that is the best of the Internet and the new world.

DORNIN (on camera): The Oscars may be all about glamour, but that's a little too traditional for the techies. They're here to celebrate the outrageous.

(voice-over): In fashion, in attitude, in performance art, and where else but the Internet?

ALAN CUMMING, EMCEE: You can be famous for just being quirky, like the guy in a Speedo playing ping-pong in Turkey.

DORNIN: No three-hour long extravaganza here. Winners only get five-word thank yous. Sometimes "thank you" was the last thing on their minds.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Three letters, IPO.

HALCYON STYN, PERSONAL WEB SITE WINNER: Feel the love.

DORNIN: As always there's a long-winded one in every crowd.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Just remember, technical innovation equals class war, thank you very much.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Five, hello, five.

DORNIN: Five words may be short unless someone figures out how to stretch them out a bit. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Antidisestablishmentarianism.

DORNIN: OK, so what exactly does it mean to win the award for best personal Web site?

STYN: It means that this has not been a frivolous use of my time, it means that I should keep doing this even though there's no money in it. But it's just, you know, it's -- the Web is about art to me.

DORNIN: There is big money in it for many here and winning a Webby doesn't hurt.

RUFUS GRISCOM, PRINT AND ZINES WINNER: It's definitely very useful, you know, we're raising money, we're talking to advertisers, talking to partners.

DORNIN: But Webby winners say the bottom line is finding things that keep folks coming back for more.

KURT EHRENBERG, POLITICS AND LAW WINNER: If they get bored they're gone. So it has to be fun even on a serious issue like politics or law or something like that, it has to have an element of fun.

DORNIN: The categories ranged from activism to the weirdest Web site, that was won by the Style Project.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: What's the weirdest thing about your site?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I guess me.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Good job.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That was Bill Gates you know.

DORNIN: As quirky and irreverent as the Internet itself.

Rusty Dornin, CNN, San Francisco.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

LIN: All right, not exactly the Academy Awards, but anyway.

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