{"id":1201,"date":"2003-06-06T10:07:25","date_gmt":"2003-06-06T17:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2003\/06\/06\/1201.html"},"modified":"2003-06-06T10:07:25","modified_gmt":"2003-06-06T17:07:25","slug":"wooden-rocket-awards-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2003\/06\/06\/wooden-rocket-awards-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Wooden Rocket Awards announced"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Mary Anne just pointed to this: the Wooden Rocket Awards winners<\/a> have been announced.<\/p>\n

In the online-magazine category, The Alien Online,<\/cite> a respected nonfiction site, won, with SH<\/cite> and Infinity Plus<\/cite> as runners-up. (TAO<\/cite>'s item on the award graciously refers to the runners-up as \"two of the best damn genre websites going\"—thanks, TAO!<\/cite> It's hard to feel bad about not winning when the winner is so nice about it.) (Somehow that parenthetical note is sounding sarcastic to me, so let me make clear that it's not; it's entirely sincere.) (Oh, and I got so tangled up in those parentheticals that I neglected to say that I'm mighty pleased with our being voted one of the top three sites, especially considering how many other good online magazines are out there, and how many people voted (see below).)<\/p>\n

Looking at other categories: some winners are predictable (though of course that doesn't make them any less deserving), such as Locus Online<\/cite> in the category for sites that are affiliated with a print magazine. Others surprised me—in particular, somehow I managed to miss the fact that one of the categories was for \"an annual SFF event or a regional SFF society\" (I misread it as just being for conventions). Overall, I think the results are pretty reasonable.<\/p>\n

But the most interesting thing to me is that well over 12,000 voters participated. Which is like ten times the number of people who participate in the Hugos.<\/p>\n

Of course, participation in this is free. But it did require a couple months' advance planning. And the SF Weekly<\/cite> Hugo poll<\/a> last year (which didn't require any advance planning to participate in) looks like it drew no more than about 4K-5K voters total (I'm guessing, based on the number of votes in the most popular categories).<\/p>\n

And this is the first year the Wooden Rocket has been awarded; in fact, the award was only announced in February. The novelty might have contributed to the high turnout, of course; we'll see what happens next year.<\/p>\n

One interesting thing: the Wooden Rocket voting is probably much more international than the Hugo voting; they're a European site, and I suspect a much higher percentage of their voters come from outside North America than is true for Hugo voters. That may not have had much of an effect—most of the winners are sites run by Americans—but I suspect it did have some effect.<\/p>\n

'Kay, enough; I gotta go get ready for work.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mary Anne just pointed to this: the Wooden Rocket Awards winners have been announced. In the online-magazine category, The Alien…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}