The Best of The WEB
 

 

The below list reflects the five best Web sites in 30 categories for 2003 as selected by members of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. These nominees exemplify the very best that the internet has to offer.

 


Activism
 

  nominees
  ActForChange   http://www.actforchange.com  
  Greenpeace   http://www.greenpeace.org  
  The Jane Goodall Institute   http://www.janegoodall.org  
  voice yourself   http://www.voiceyourself.com  
  World Resources Institute   http://www.wri.org  


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Best Practices
 

  nominees
  Commanding Heights Online   http://www.pbs.org/commandingheights  
  edutopia online   http://www.glef.org  
  Movable Type   http://www.movabletype.org  
  Theban Mapping Project   http://www.thebanmappingproject.com  
  Wired News   http://www.wired.com  


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Broadband
 

  nominees
  BET Hollagram   http://hollagram.bet.com  
  CBC Radio 3   http://www.cbcradio3.com  
  Commanding Heights Online   http://www.pbs.org/commandingheights  
  Heavy   http://www.heavy.com  
  Homeless   http://www.abc.net.au/homeless  


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Commerce
 

  nominees
  Amazon.com   http://www.amazon.com  
  Art.com   http://www.art.com  
  Fresh Direct   http://www.freshdirect.com  
  RedEnvelope   http://www.redenvelope.com  
  The Tire Rack   http://www.tirerack.com  


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Community
 

  nominees
  BBC Video Nation   http://www.bbc.co.uk/videonation  
  Geocaching   http://www.geocaching.com  
  LiveJournal.com   http://www.livejournal.com  
  Meetup   http://www.meetup.com  
  Nervous Industries   http://www.nervousness.org  


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Education
 

  nominees
  BrainPOP   http://www.brainpop.com  
  NASA Earth Observatory   http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov  
  Plumb Design Visual Thesaurus   http://www.visualthesaurus.com  
  sodaplay   http://www.sodaplay.com  
  The New York Times Learning Network   http://www.nytimes.com/learning  


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Fashion
 

  nominees
  Hint Fashion Magazine   http://www.hintmag.com  
  JAPANESE STREETS   http://www.japanesestreets.com  
  Lucire   http://www.lucire.com  
  SHOWstudio   http://www.showstudio.com  
  Style.com   http://www.style.com  


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Film
 

  nominees
  Bright Lights Film Journal   http://www.brightlightsfilm.com  
  indieWIRE   http://www.indiewire.com  
  Metacritic   http://www.metacritic.com  
  Rotten Tomatoes   http://www.rottentomatoes.com  
  SPONGI   http://www.spongi.com  


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Finance
 

  nominees
  ClearStation   http://www.clearstation.com  
  E-LOAN   http://www.eloan.com  
  PayPal   http://www.paypal.com  
  Quicken.com   http://www.quicken.com  
  Yahoo! Finance   http://finance.yahoo.com  


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Games
 

  nominees
  A Tale in the Desert   http://www.atitd.com  
  Disney's Toontown Online   http://www.toontown.com  
  Indie Game Jam   http://www.indiegamejam.com  
  Orisinal   http://www.orisinal.com  
  PopCap Games   http://www.popcap.com  


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Government & Law
 

  nominees
  NASA   http://www.nasa.gov  
  National Weather Service   http://www.weather.gov  
  Publius   http://www.publius.org  
  Rete Civica Iperbole - Comune di Bologna   http://www.comune.bologna.it  
  United Nations   http://www.un.org  


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Health
 

  nominees
  Cancer.gov   http://www.cancer.gov  
  HIV STOPS WITH ME   http://www.hivstopswithme.org  
  lifeclinic.com   http://www.lifeclinic.com  
  Planned Parenthood Golden Gate   http://www.ppgg.org  
  teenwire.com   http://www.teenwire.com  


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Humor
 

  nominees
  Eric Conveys an Emotion   http://www.emotioneric.com  
  get your war on   http://www.mnftiu.cc/mnftiu.cc/war.html  
  oddtodd.com   http://www.oddtodd.com  
  The Onion   http://www.theonion.com  
  WHITEHOUSE.ORG   http://www.whitehouse.org  


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Living
 

  nominees
  Bad Girl Swirl   http://www.badgirlswirl.com  
  Do-It-Yourself Network   http://www.diynet.com  
  Girl-on-the-street   http://www.girlonthestreet.com  
  Kitchens.com   http://www.kitchens.com  
  oddtodd.com   http://www.oddtodd.com  


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Music
 

  nominees
  Flaming Lips   http://www.flaminglips.com  
  Metacritic   http://www.metacritic.com  
  Okayplayer.com   http://www.okayplayer.com  
  pinknoises.com   http://www.pinknoises.com  
  Tech.Nitions   http://www.technitions.com/tech2.html  


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Net Art
 

  nominees
  Andy Deck-Art Context   http://artcontext.org/  
  BlinkenLights   http://www.blinkenlights.de  
  Listening Post   http://www.earstudio.com/projects/listeningPost.html  
  NYC Surveillance Camera Players   http://www.notbored.org/the-scp.html  
  PuppetTool   http://www.lecielestbleu.com/puppettool  
  *You will find information about Listening Post at the URL provided. However Listening Post is a physical network art installation, which is the focus of the nomination.


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News
 

  nominees
  allAfrica.com   http://www.allafrica.com  
  BBC News Online   http://www.bbcnews.com  
  Google News   http://news.google.com  
  MSNBC   http://www.msnbc.com  
  Romenesko   http://www.poynter.org/medianews  


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Personal Web Site
 

  nominees
  Cockeyed.com   http://www.cockeyed.com  
  David Still   http://www.davidstill.org  
  Jeff Harris   http://www.jeffharris.org  
  Jenville   http://www.jenville.com  
  NobodyHere   http://www.nobodyhere.com  


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Politics
 

  nominees
  Congress.org   http://www.congress.org  
  Environmental Working Group   http://www.ewg.org  
  IssuesPA   http://www.issuespa.net  
  MoveOn.org   http://www.moveon.org  
  The Note   http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/US/TheNote.html  


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Print & Zines
 

  nominees
  AlterNet   http://www.alternet.org  
  Boxes and Arrows   http://www.boxesandarrows.com  
  Metropolis Magazine   http://www.metropolismag.com  
  Shift Online   http://www.shift.com  
  The Onion   http://www.theonion.com  


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Radio
 

  nominees
  CBC Radio 3   http://www.cbcradio3.com  
  Epitonic Radio   http://www.epitonic.com/radio.jsp  
  KEXP   http://www.kexp.org  
  This American Life   http://www.thisamericanlife.org  
  Transom   http://www.transom.org  


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Science
 

  nominees
  Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics   http://mathworld.wolfram.com  
  exploreMarsnow   http://www.exploremarsnow.org  
  HowStuffWorks   http://www.howstuffworks.com  
  SCIENCE HOBBYIST   http://www.amasci.com  
  Scirus   http://www.scirus.com  


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Services
 

  nominees
  eBay   http://ebay.com  
  Evite   http://www.evite.com/  
  Netflix   http://www.netflix.com  
  Paytrust   http://www.paytrust.com  
  VolunteerMatch   http://www.VolunteerMatch.org  


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Spirituality
 

  nominees
  BBCi Religion & Ethics   http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion  
  Girardian Reflections on the Lectionary   http://my.execpc.com/~paulnue  
  Parish of Trinity Church   http://www.trinitywallstreet.org  
  Pluralism Project   http://www.pluralism.org  
  Ritualwell.org   http://www.ritualwell.org  


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Sports
 

  nominees
  ESPN.com   http://www.espn.com  
  NBA.com   http://www.nba.com  
  Surfline   http://www.surfline.com  
  The Official Site of The America's Cup   http://americascup.yahoo.com  
  Tour de France - 2002   http://www.letour.fr/2002/us/index.html  


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Technical Achievement
 

  nominees
  Apache Web Server   http://www.apache.org  
  Google   http://www.google.com  
  Laszlo Presentation Server   http://www.laszlosystems.com  
  Linux   http://www.linux.org  
  phpBB   http://www.phpbb.com  
  *You will find information about Apache Server and Linux at the URLs provided. However it is the Apache Server and Linux which are the focus of the nominations.


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Travel
 

  nominees
  IgoUgo   http://www.igougo.com  
  Joe Sent Me   http://www.zyworld.com/brancatelli  
  Lonely Planet Online   http://www.lonelyplanet.com  
  SeatGuru.com   http://www.seatguru.com  
  The New York Times: Travel   http://www.nytimes.com/pages/travel/index.html  


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TV
 

  nominees
  Animal Planet: Future is Wild Interactive   http://animal.discovery.com/convergence/futureiswild/animals/animals.html  
  CartoonNetwork.com   http://www.cartoonnetwork.com  
  Frontline/World   http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld  
  HBO Online   http://www.hbo.com