BUDDIE Turns Over the Rocks

摘要

At the heart of the season for "best of awards for 2009, we were perplexed by the notion of how there could be the "best of anything in such a rotten year.rnWe had a trashed economy, unsolvable foreign entanglements, and dysfunctional politics. Even my column had an up-and-down year with good but oversold products such as Wolfram Alpha and Bing and trash culture enablers such as Digg, Topix, and Newser.rnBut don't despair, because the BUDDIE is here to save the day (or rather, the entire year). To recap, the BUDDIE award is for the Best Unknown Database. So even in today's information junkyard, there is indeed high-quality, high-value content.