Webby Award Speeches
The Webby Awards have a rule on acceptance speeches — you can only say five words. What people say in those five words is pretty inventive.
I just caught a humorous bit on CNN by the ever-entertaining Jeannie Moos. She covered the Webbies and showed a smattering of speeches from this year’s awards.
“Do you like my dress?”
“Man, look at my hair.”
“I’d just like to say…”
The year’s best went to Al Gore, who got a Webby for his work inventing the Internet (see this post). His speech: “Do not recount this vote.”
There has to be somewhere on the Web where all these speeches are transcribed (gee, don’t get a cramp doing all that typing…). Anyone know where?
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Al Gore Gets Internet Invention Award
Gore to get lifetime award for Internet: Maybe he did invent the Internet after all... In part to "set the record straight," they will give Gore a lifetime achievement award for three decades of contributions to the Internet, said Tiffany Shlain, the awards' founder and chairwoman. "It's just one of those instances…
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When the BBC World Service won a Webby in 2001, and BBCWS boss Chris Westcott stuck to the rule that acceptance speeches should only be five words long.
His speech was: "Shukran, Shie-Shie, Spaseeba, Gracias, Thanks."
Which means "thanks" in the BBC World Service's five main languages.
Quite possibly the most original Webby acceptance speech I've ever heard.
IHT has a story on this exact thing today:
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