Community
service. Míc volunteers time critiquing Web sites,
helping aspiring Web authors, and rewarding Web excellence through
his Beehive Awards Program
-- rated Level 5.0+ by Award
Sites!, Level 5 by German
Top Awards International, Level 10 *** by WebsAwards,
a Supreme
Award by Mystery Awards
System, and designated World's
Top Awards by Website
Awards. In April 2001, Practical
Internet Magazine's feature article, "Win awards for
your site!," ranked Míc's Golden Hive Award third
in its "Top 12 Most Illustrious Web Site Awards" list.
As an award giver, Míc has been bee-stowed the titles
Master Wizard of Awards
by Awardsville and King
of Awards by WebsAwards
for his Web awards program.
Míc has contributed articles to Website
Awards' Articles
About Awards series and Award
Sites! He currently serves as a volunteer editor for the
Open Directory Project and as
an advisor to award-winning webmasters and webmistresses, site
owners, and Web award givers. Míc has been an annual or
year-end judge for several top-rated Web award programs, such
as The Maestro Awards
(2003), Web Marketing Association's
WebAward Competition (2003), Nem5
Awards Program (2000, 2002 and 2003) and NetMagick (2001).
Original
works. Míc loves to write and create "stuff."
His original works have been published and referenced worldwide.
For his urban design and regional planning thesis, Míc
researched and projected MIT
global trends to author The Vertical Concentric Regional Sector
Theory -- used by the State
of Alaska in their 1979 capital relocation proposal.
His essay, A New Atlantis, won Mensa
International's annual essay competition in 1983. Other creations
by Míc include The Beeline
with its Beeline-AIR System (1994), Connecting
Structures [U.S. Patents 4,504,168 (1985) & 4,834,429 (1989)],
The Verlette Calligraphic System (1977), and The Game of FIT:
The Global Village Game (1995).
Míc's
prototypical community and reference Web site, The Beeline @
bton.com, was voted a Surfer's
Choice Top 25 Site for 2000, picked as a Webmaster
Select Site by The 1000 Directory (2000), and selected a
SC Portal Best of the Web
Member Site (1999). The Beeline was the first Web site to
bee inducted into the Hall of Quality (2000) and the Hall of
Elite at Award Sites!'s
Halls of Recognition (2000) as well as the first to achieve the
Superb!
Website 500 Award (2000), the Superb!
Website Diamond Award (2003) and the Superb!
Website Double Diamond Award (2003). The Hall of Elite, the
Superb! Website 500 Award, and the Superb! Website Double Diamond
Award are the highest forms of recognition for Web excellence
bee-stowed by the Internet's Web Awards Community. The Beeline
also holds the Internet record
for earning the most World's
Top Awards.
Míc bee-came the historian
of the Web Awards Community when he wrote A
Brief History of Web Awards for Awards
Scoop in June, 2001. Míc later authored The
Webmaster's Guide to Glory! - How to Win the Top Web Awards,
the first (and only) book written about Web awards (published
by Beeline Publications in January, 2003).
Interests. Míc enjoys wilderness hiking, science
fiction, studying optical effects techniques, and creating "stuff"
on his Macintosh computers. Other interests include architecture,
art, basketball, cinematography, modelmaking, music, philosophical
inquiry, reading, strategy-based games, traveling rural roads,
writing, and conversing with friends.
About Míc's name. When Míc was asked to
write an article for a computer magazine in 1989, there were
already a Michael Miller and a Mike Miller writing for this industry.
Needing to avoid some confusion (and upsetting these gentlemen)
he decided to use "Mic Miller" for his byline. People
started calling him "Mick," however. In an attempt
to get a strong "i" sound for "Mike," he
added an acute accent mark over the "i" for "Míc."
Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Write to Míc
at mic@bton.com and it will
not matter!
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