B3ta

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B3ta is a humorous British website, described as a "puerile digital arts community" by The Guardian.

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B3ta's main feature is a newsletter featuring the latest work of the B3ta community and other interesting things found on the Web. Also popular is a message board where members post digital images and short animations they have created, the best of which appear on the front page of the B3ta site. B3ta also includes a small weblog for announcing the newsletter and other administrivia and for important notices or links which can't wait for the newsletter. For a while, B3ta even had its own radio show.

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To inspire creative works, B3ta poses a weekly image challenge, such as "if cats ruled the world" and a "question of the week", for example asking "what's your most embarrassing injury?".

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Many popular Internet phenomena were created by B3ta members, such as the Macromedia Flash cartoons created by Joel Veitch and Jonti Picking or the quizzes from Rob Manuel; the site disseminating their members work via a hugely popular newsletter with over 100,000 email subscribers.

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