Hey, so in Vegas not only did I get to be in the same room as Tim Berners-Lee (the guy who launched the first-ever web page back in 1990), double my cash at the blackjack table (twice), shoot a gun for the first time, and shoot a machine gun — the article-commenting app and community website I built won an award from Editor and Publisher for “Best Community Web Site, with fewer than one million unique monthly visitors.” MSNBC.com won for best community site, more than a million uniques. They call those awards “EPpys.”
Back in 2006, I won an EPpy with my co-worker Lee Rawles at the Winston-Salem Journal for this database of home health care violations in North Carolina. It won “Best Internet Community Service Effort under 1 million unique monthly visitors” — that category isn’t around anymore, but they still have community-oriented awards… and I’m still winning ‘em…
See the full list of EPpy winners — with links to the winners’ web sites (!) — here.
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Congrats, Joe!
Keep rockin’.
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