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Los Angeles Web Awards: The Winners!

Keith Plocek
What happens when you mix food bloggers, steampunk performers and fake Christian fundamentalists? We'll find out tonight at the party for the Los Angeles Web Awards. Before we announce the winners, we'd like to thank you (yeah, you, right there) for your help with the nomination process. You gave us......
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Most Shameless Self-Promoter: Perez Hilton

Keith Plocek
Do we even need to elaborate here? We’re talking about Mario Armando Lavandeira Jr., aka Perez Hilton, a man who’s made a career out of inserting himself into the orbits of celebs he’s gossiping about. He’s damn good at provoking a response from his subjects and the public alike, and......
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Best Twitterer: Alyssa Milano

Keith Plocek
Alyssa Milano is not a celebrity Twitterer. Yes, she’s a celebrity and she’s on Twitter, and from time to time she does tweet about her upcoming projects and her charity work, but most of what you get is news: tech news, Dodger news, science news, hard news. She retweets. She......
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Best Sports Blog: Mike Scioscia's Tragic Illness

Keith Plocek
So many sports blogs trade in cold stats and play-by-play analysis, forgetting somewhere along the way that it’s a freaking blog! Not so with Mike Scioscia’s Tragic Illness, which takes its name from an early Simpsons episode. Insightful analysis doesn’t have to be boring. A little spit never hurt anyone......
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Best Business Twitterer: The Roxy

Keith Plocek
We started following @TheRoxy during a tweet crawl on the Sunset Strip. It was one of these deals where we had to follow each club in order to be eligible for prizes, and frankly we planned on unfollowing each of them later, because who wants a constant stream of promotional......
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Best Band Site: Odd Future Wolfgang Kill Them All

Keith Plocek
These guys were in the running for Best Tumblog, and we were even wondering about Best Twitterer (no offense, Alyssa), but OddFuture.com is really just one helluva band site. Almost every page has a different look that’s decidedly OFWGKTA. Video, downloads, rants, photos, swag – it’s all there. These kids......
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Best Flickr Pool: LAist Featured Photos

Keith Plocek
Here you’ll find all of Los Angeles, its people, birds, trees, buildings, burgers, signs and stickers. More than 1,500 members strong, the pool is updated almost daily by amateur and professional photogs, all of whom share their work in exchange for the chance at a little Internet glory. The LAist......