Monday, Jul. 30, 2001
Numbers
By Harriet Barovick, Ann Marie Bonardi, Beau Briese, Rhett Butler, Christina Lewis, Ellin Martens, Benjamin Nugent, Ryan Schick, Heather Won Tesoriero, Kadesha Thomas
27 Number of websites nominated for a Webby Award last year, out of 135, that have since gone out of business
555 Number of Web commercial sites that have died since last year's Webbys
5 Limit on the number of words allowed in a Webby acceptance speech, as one winner demonstrated in his address last week to a presenter from ABCNews.com "Sam Donaldson, dude, gnarly toupee."
Sources: New York Times; Washington Post; USA Today