My colleague Paul has just returned from New York with others from the team, and has pictures from the Webby award ceremony. Paul also made the five word speech on behalf of GU: “Our Webby 2.0”.

Update: There’s a very short video, too.

How great to be able to make this the first post of this new blog. Guardian Unlimited has won a 2006 Webby — winners of the Newspaper category. We were nominated with illustrious names from world of US print, and it’s great to see our name among theirs. This is the second year we’ve won it, too, which is particularly wonderful, if slightly unsettling… it means there’s much more at stake over the next year.

It’s great to be part of such a star team. My colleague Sheila Pulham has more news and links on it (and it’s from her that I stole the unavoidable headline) over at the GU Newsblog.