Independent.co.uk nominated for top web award

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Independent.co.uk has been nominated for a Webby, one of the internet's top awards celebrating excellence on the internet, for the second year running.

The awards, which are in their 13th year, were established to draw attention to online achievement, with categories ranging from Best Viral Video to Best Blog, to the Newspaper category in which Independent.co.uk was nominated along with four other websites.

American websites dominate the list of prospective award-winners, with The New York Times leading the pack with 13 nominations, followed by NBC.com with 12 nominations and satirical news site The Onion, which was nominated in eight categories. The winners will be revealed at a ceremony in New York on June 8.

Famously, Webby award winners must limit their acceptance speech to five words in length. Al Gore, who was denied the US Presidency in 2001 after a controversial recount which saw George Bush win by a handful of votes, accepted his 2005 Webby Lifetime Achievement Award with the announcement "Please don't recount this vote."