Frebby Awards: The top 20 nominees
This year’s Frebby Awards are Thursday night at Fulton 55, and seven local web-centric companies, services or people are going to walk away with 20-pound statues anointing them as online “standard-setters.”
Who will win? You have to wait until Thursday night’s ceremony — tickets cost $15 and are available here if you want to watch with your own eyes.
For now you can peruse which entries, out of the 60-some-odd submitted, that Frebby judges decided were the best. These 20 scored the highest across all seven categories and are essentially the “finalists.”
Here they are, in no particular order:
TOP 20 FREBBY NOMINEES
- I Bike Fresno
- Swede Fest
- FresNoise.com
- FPULSE
- My Indie Nation
- Valley Daily Deals
- Twin Pomegranates
- Dead in 60 Years
- Pinch My Salt
- Foie Gras & Flannel
- California Tomato Farmers / Canada
- The Hashtag
- Ryan C. Jones blog
- Cross Streets
- Fashionably Bombed
- FresnoBeehive.com
- What Could You Do in Five Weeks?
- Ryan C. Jones website
- Decipher Inc, Voices
- ABC30.com
The Daily Dues has a little more about what to expect at Thursday’s award ceremony. The Frebbys have already drawn the skepticism of one local blogger. Ed Stewart fired off a “meh” post last night, wondering “why anyone that isn’t a web designer or a nominated group would go?”
Responses to "Frebby Awards: The top 20 nominees"
to be fair, i wouldn’t call my post just a “meh.” but maybe i’m wrong about me.
btw, congrats to all those nominated, and to the top 20 for being spotlighted. hope everyone that goes enjoys the event.
I apologize then.
“Skeptical” was the main description there, and that’s largely what I got from it.
no need to apologize mike. i actually think you’re last sentence summary hits the nail on the head for the question of that post.
Who came up with this frebby thing anyway? I Seriously don’t see any interest in anyone wanting to attend this thing either. It seems like a joke and there hasn’t been any serious advertising about it. I’d rather sit home and watch re-runs of Matlock.
It’s the brainchild of Paprika Studios:
http://paprikastudios.com/
I know it’s been advertised in The Bee and on Peak Broadcasting radio stations, and online, obviously.
*hand raised*
I came up with it, Mark. A couple of years ago, I looked around and asked, “How do I encourage the sparks of creativity I see in Fresno? How do I help grow that? How do I encourage and nurture the talent pool so that we can retain knowledge workers in the valley?” I started the ball rolling, and it’s run by a team of people who work for me (that’s Paprika Studios) and a large group of partners that echo that sentiment, include the media outlets Mike’s mentioned.
We’ll have fun tomorrow, but it’s not a joke – it’s something we take quite seriously. (Almost as seriously as Matlock reruns.)
thanks for the link, mike. it help contribute to good conversation.
The Shabby awards.Fresno’s low budget Emmy awards where you can win a 10 pound paperweight for your Fireplace mantle.I’m sure this might be really exciting for High school kids to win this contest.