Best of Show at SXSW Web Awards Revealed
Sun, Mar 15th, 2009
Hosted by the ever-hilarious The Onion Editor, Baratunde Thurston, tonight's SXSW Interactive Web Awards ceremony offered up a barrage of humor and Web winners.
The ceremony, which surprisingly breezed by with comic relief at every turn, crowned We Tell Stories — the digital fiction site from Penguin — with the top honor of Best of Show, and Lost Zombies — the community-generated zombie dictionary — as champions in the People's Choice category.
Thurston introduced the event with an opening monologue that rivaled comedic performances at more mainstream awards shows, but with a Web twist that was certainly crowd appropriate. Chris Brogan's video on saying hi at events became a meme of its own with Thurston's own mockingly mean response.
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