Substance Wins

And this web award actually means something: the Webby’s are the internet Oscars. All the more glory to Christchurch-based Arts and Letters Daily which was awarded the People’s Voice award for best news site. University of Canterbury Professor Denis Dutton’s site was given the prize by the International Academy of Arts and Sciences whose members include Bjork, Beck and Branson and IT gurus from Larry Ellison to Mark Tribe – entrusted with sorting out the worthwhile bytes from the chaff. Vicki Hyde’s Scitech Daily was a finalist in the science category.


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Pirate Comedy Deserves Another Season

Pirate Comedy Deserves Another Season

Cancelled after two season, Taika Waititi’s “silly comedy” Our Flag Means Death “deserves one more voyage”, according to Radio Times critic George White. “ was meant to be sacred…