Geek tech gossip site Valley Wag created a new award in honor of Transmet’s Spider Jerusalem. They say, “It’s hard to make a world of chips and software exciting without sounding like a Wired cub reporter or a BusinessWeek bubble-blower.”

The first award goes to Wall Street Journal’s Jason Fry. “He sums up the frustration of so many former tech news fans when he introduces a story about private space travel by lamenting the fall of the brave space-scientist archetype.”

Spider Jerusalem award: The best blurb in journalism

C’mon, kid: Your square-jawed rocket engineers of future histories past are now tattooed, pierced software engineers coding social-networking sites.
–Jason Fry “Wall Street Journal”

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