The Webby Award nominees were announced today. Holy cow, there are so many categories. It’s like the Grammy’s.

I’m disappointed to see that the “Youth” category still pretty much covers sites for anyone under 18, from ChannelOne to Noggin (“It’s like preschool on TV”). I’m especially annoyed at the un-usability of some of these sites. Noggin has no volume control (it won’t shut up!) and the Scholastic site has one of those annoying Flash navigation systems where you just have to roll over everything to see what’s there.

I’m also disappointed to see that the People’s Voice awards no longer take write-in votes. I remember a few years ago trying to wage a write-in campaign for passageway.org. I think we ultimately lost to Penny Arcade or someone like that. Sure, write-in votes pretty much mean whoever has the most traffic will win, but at least you can see some other sites get mentioned.

Oh well. It’s a nice place to look for new and (usually) well done sites.