The 12th Annual Webby Awards are out with a must-see list of winners at the WebbyAwards.com Web site.

The awards site has the annual interactive winner's gallery. For those of you who study and appreciate good Web site design (and don't mind Flash), it's worth the trip.

Stephen Colbert's popularity juggernaut is steaming on. He is The Webby Person of the Year award, "for the innovative way he has used the Internet to interact with fans of The Colbert Report -- from Google bombing to make him the top search result for 'greatest living American' to challenging the 'truthiness' of Wikipedia,: according to the Webby Awards release.

Some winners look like winners, but some of the awards are curious. Take the ahead-of-all-thinkers conference Ted.com , which picked up an award for best navigation/structure. It's innovative, no question. Plus, you have different choices of navigation, based on themes. So hopefully I'll find one I like.

In the Social Networking category, interesting that Flock.com won, but that Facebook took the same award, only as the people's choice in the matter.

It wasn't the only category in which the judges and public parted ways, according to the Webby's own release about it:

For Viral Video, pop phenomenon "Chocolate Rain" earned the public's top votes, while dotcom spoof "Here Comes another Bubble" was selected by the judges. For Weird, the Academy chose Passive-Aggressive Notes, while fans selected I Can Has Cheezburger?