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Most people don't notice them much anymore, but the ninth annual Webby Awards took place at Gotham Hall. That Craigslist dweeb Craig Newmark won Web Person of the Year, which is pretty much the same thing as being the head of the A/V Club, except you get fewer girls. Continuing their tradition of honoring scrappy underground sites, The Webby Awards give hardware to up-and-comers like Google, McSweeney's, eTrade, the CIA (!) and, uh, Sony.

The true star of the event was Al Gore, who won the Lifetime Achievement Award and continued his long, undignified gallop toward irrelevance by joking again about the 2000 election. (His acceptance speech: "Please don't recount this vote.") Stay tuned for the report on all the wild Webby afterparties. Wait. There were no wild Webby afterparties.—WL

Al Gore Receives Webby [NYT]
All Webby Award Winners [Official Site]