The winners of the 2006 Webby awards (widely considered the Oscars of the online world) have just been announced and we're delighted to learn that Guardian Unlimited has been voted the best newspaper on the web for the second year running.
We were the only British nominee in the newspaper category in an otherwise all-American field comprising the Chronicle of Higher Education, the Village Voice, the Wall Street Journal Online and the Washington Post. Needless to say we're delighted at our victory.
A host of other websites and blogs were recognised in a wide range of awards across the web. Webby artist of the year was Gorillaz, Breakout of the year was the MySpace social networking site recently acquired by NewsCorp, and the Webby Person of the Year is Thomas L Friedman, New York Times columnist and author of the bestselling treatise on globalisation, The World is Flat: The Globalised World in the 21st Century. Unfortunately his newspaper columns are no longer freely available online since the Times site hived off its comment section into the paid-for Times Select service.
