Sooper Shmoop!
Take a bow, Mark Twain.
The Webby Awards are presented each year by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences in recognition of the best of the Internet. The 2010 nominees were announced today, and for the second year running, Shmoop was named a Webby Honoree in the Education category (a distinction reserved for the top 15% of entries).
In the official citation, judges wrote: "Special commendation to Shmoop's Biography writers, whose tireless scouring of the Internet in search of YouTube clips, factoids and pop song lyrics has given us priceless insight into the interior lives of our greatest literary figures. It's hard to believe we once lived in a world where Mark Twain's family tree wasn't posted on the Internet in a colorful and visually appealing manner, nor the fart jokes in Dante's Inferno so deftly illuminated."*
Way to go, Shmoop!
*No one actually said this. But it was implied.
Posted on Tuesday, Apr 13, 2010
