UPDATE: See some judges’ feedback in this follow-up post.

The Associated Collegiate Press has released their list of finalists for the 2007 Online Pacemaker awards. Here’s the official list at the ACP site. Winners will be announced at the ACP/CMA Fall College Media Convention in October in Washington, D.C.

Below the fold, I’ve included a thumbnail screenshot of each finalist in all the categories (in no particular order). This is mainly for visual reference. A couple of things to note: Most of the sites use College Publisher as their content management system, although there are a good number of home-grown sites, and at least three that use open-source CMS’s. The judges were from the Washington Post. If I had to pick any feature that all of the sites shared, it was a wealth of information on the front page. Some are more visually appealing than others, but that’s not a good indicator of why those web sites got chosen, as others are not that appealing visually.

As I noted when I did this with last year’s online pacemakers, I’d like to hear what the judges have to say. I mentioned this to Marc Wood at ACP as well, and hopefully ACP will take that into consideration when they announce the winners.

Arizona Daily Wildcat (CP) - U. of Arizona

BYU NewsNet (Home-grown?)

Daily Mississippian (CP) - U. of Mississippi

Daily Tarheel (CP) - U. of North Carolina

The Gargoyle (unknown) - Flagler College

Flux - Oregon (Flash)

GW Hatchet (CP) - George Washington U.

Inside Vandy (Drupal) - Vanderbilt U.

The Meter (CP) - Tenn. State U.

Mustang Daily (CP) - Cal Poly

Richland Chronicle (Joomla) - Richland College

Temple News (CP) - Temple University

Corsair (CP) - Pensacola Junior College

Daily Bruin (Home-grown) - UCLA

The Daily Colonial (Home-grown?) - George Washington U.

Daily Illini (CP) - U. of Illinois

The Flat Hat (Home-grown?) - College of William & Mary

The Ithacan Online (Home-grown?) - Ithaca College

The Marquette Tribune (CP) - Marquette U.

The Sentinel Online (CP) - North Idaho College

The Ranger (CP) - San Antonio College

The Student (Home-grown?) - Wake Forest U.

University Daily Kansan (Django) - U. of Kansas

The Hub (Home-grown?) - U. of Oklahoma

The Flyer (CP) - Lewis University


Ke Alaka’i (Joomla) - BYU-Hawaii

Golden Gate Xpress (Movable Type) - San Francisco State U.

The Collegian (WordPress) - CSU - Fresno

The Orion (CP) - CSU - Chico

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