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2005 artypapers AWARDS
Written by Scrivs on January 2, 2006
I know some people look down upon awards because they aren’t really objective and how can you measure a single website as being the best of something? However, that shouldn’t take away from the fact that receiving an award on the web usually means that someone thinks you are doing something right and that seems to be the case with R. Marie Cox’s 2005 artypapers AWARDS.
Now first if you aren’t aware of R. Marie Cox, she is the genius behind sidejobtrack, a wonderful application that does what Basecamp does and a bit more. Now back to the awards…
- Best New (to me) Site: Creating Passionate Users. Easily one of the best member sites we have, Kathy brings it with every single entry and she definitely deserves any recognition that her site receives.
- Best Designer: If you know 9rules and Business Logs then you already know Mike Rundle. Every since I partnered with him I have been saying that he is one of the web’s best kept secrets so I am glad that he has finally started carving a name for himself amongst the web’s elite.
- Best Weblog(s): 456 Berea Street and Particletree received this award and both of them are 9rules Members. It’s not that 9rules makes them great, but it’s because of them that 9rules is becoming something we are all proud of.
- Site of they Year: 9rules wins site of the year and if you think about it we did so with only one page. This award doesn’t really go to us, but to the members because really all we help to do is bring them together.
Yes this is a back-patting entry, but we are hard on ourselves internally so we like to see that at least someone respects what we are doing externally. Not ones to rest on our laurels we have something new coming out tomorrow. What does it mean? It means a better and easier way for readers to find the content they long for. It means more traffic for our members. It means a stronger community.
Here’s to 2006. Same great Network with a bit more substance.
January 2nd, 2006 at 5:07 pm
Congratulations to my fellow co-worker and friend Mike Rundle, also to my friends of the 9rules Network that won individual awards and to all my friends within the Network itself for helping make our site the Site of the Year for 2005.
I’ve been trying to tell Paul that Mike is the best for quite awhile. Maybe he’ll start believing me now.
January 2nd, 2006 at 5:19 pm
Thanks a lot guys, I really appreciate it. I just hope I can live up to that title in 2006 and do the repeat thing
January 2nd, 2006 at 6:24 pm
an ‘outsider’ comment
I was ‘hatin’ at first when i read the stuff over at artypapers.com ( out of my own shear frustration of making leaps and bounds in my own knowlegde base but seemingly noone notincing).
but when i got down off my green machine i realized you guys have done aLOT in this community (standards/blog) and in the web community at large and I want to say that i am proud of you guys and keep up the great work.
January 2nd, 2006 at 7:21 pm
Thanks David, I was pretty mindblown after seeing the awards as well. Just a few years ago I was in college with only my family as my blog readers, and now people think really highly of our work and it’s really touching. I just hope that we can continue to have the public and design community on our sides.
Best,
Mike
January 2nd, 2006 at 7:56 pm
David: That usually what happens with awards, people get upset and I admit to having the same feeling many times before, but always come back to the understanding that the web is too big to worry about one award. If someone considers something site of the year, that might be the only site they are aware of, but at least they like that one site.
Thanks for the kind words. We still feel like we haven’t done anything for the community, but of course we have been in this for 6 months now so we have lost all outside perspective.
January 3rd, 2006 at 1:51 am
9rules rules. congrats to the award winners, and here’s to sweeping in 2006!
January 3rd, 2006 at 11:32 am
David, keep in mind the reason I created the awards wasn’t due to the lack of impressive sites, it was due to the abundance of impressive sites. Like you, I felt my skill set grow by leaps in bounds this year, but for me that growth didn’t occur in a bubble, and this list is one way of identifying and thanking the people and sites who have really helped make that improvement possible.
I do want to point out though, the seeming ubiquity of 9rules-related sites was totally unintentional. I have been working on these awards since November and it wasn’t until launching the final page that I realized just how ubiquitous the 9rules badge had become among the winners — something that totally reinforced making 9rules site of the year in the first place: its relationship with quality content.
January 3rd, 2006 at 11:42 am
Whoops! Apparently I missed the closing em tag after the word “lack”. Looks kinda cool in all italic tho…
January 3rd, 2006 at 12:22 pm
All good. Fixed and everything.
January 4th, 2006 at 4:06 am
I actually found out about 9rules through “Creating Passionate Users”. I’m very interested in this blogging communIity and I will keep an eye on it.
As for the awards. Don’t worry about it. You guys by the look of it have been working very hard. I prefer well deserved awards over fake weird pointless awards.
Keep up the blogging and the good award giving! …Man I’m looking at your website and you guys have quite a sense of humor.