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Webby Awards Winners Named; Colbert is 'Person of the Year'

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on May 6, 2008 - 11:26am.

New York - The winners of this year's Webby Awards were announced on Tuesday, with special achievement honors going to TV host Stephen Colbert, film director Michel Gondry and musical artist will.i.am. Colbert was named the Webby Person of the Year for the innovative ways he uses the Internet to interact with fans of his show, while Gondry was recognized in part for inspiring user-generated content with his new film, "Be Kind Rewind," and will.i.am for the songs and Internet videos he produced for Barack Obama.

Buzz Watch: Stephen Colbert Thanks Craig Newmark For Killing Newspapers

Authored by Jay Baage on October 19, 2007 - 12:32pm.

Craig Newmark, the founder of Craigslist, was interviewed on last night’s episode of The Colbert Report. Newmark was also liveblogging his appearance over on here, here and here, as the blog Laughing Squid pointed out. Stephen Colbert thanked him for killing the American Newspaper and made Newmark answer the question: "Why haven't you sold out for a billion dollars yet?"

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Viacom/YouTube Lawsuit Witness List Includes Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on August 14, 2007 - 12:52pm.

New York - Among those on the proposed witness lists submitted in Viacom's $1 billion copyright infringement suit against Google's YouTube are comedians Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, whose respective shows air on Viacom's Comedy Central, CNET News.com reported.

Buzz Watch: vlogger Josh Wolf on the Colbert Report

Authored by Jay Baage on June 14, 2007 - 1:13pm.

The vlogger Josh Wolf's appearance on the Colbert Report Tuesday was so funny, I have to embed it. Thanks to NewTeeVee for bringing it to my attention. I especially like Colbert's attack on Wolf for calling himself a journalist: "But you're a blogger, not a member of the press." Colbert, like Borat, very successfully uses the appearance of ignorance as a great humorous tool to deliver a message, in this case how fast blogs using citizen journalism have taken off and developed into a powerful medium (in spite of what the Feds think).

Online Voters Name "Truthiness" 2006 Word of the Year

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on December 11, 2006 - 3:54pm.

Springfield, Mass. - Merriam-Webster OnLine announced on Monday that Web voters have named "truthiness" the dictionary's Word of the Year for 2006. Comedian Stephen Colbert coined the word in October 2005 on his Comedy Central show, "The Colbert Report," defining it as, "truth that comes from the gut, not books." Merriam-Webster, which this year turned to online voting instead of tallying the most frequently looked up words on its website to choose its Word of the Year, said that voters chose 'truthiness' by an overwhelming 5-to-1 majority. "I think there's a serious issue lurking behind the popularity of the word truthiness," said Merriam-Webster president and publisher John Morse.

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