The Daytime Emmys will announce a new award for video aired on computers, cellphones and video iPods. The New York Times reports:

The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, best known for handing out the Daytime Emmy Awards, is expected to announce on Tuesday that it has created an award category to recognize original video content for computers, cellphones and other hand-held devices, like the video iPod and PlayStation Portable.

The new award will first be presented during the academy’s Sports Emmys presentation, and ultimately be added as a category for other Emmy presentations as well. The category will not be included in the prime-time Emmy Awards.

Why might I find this interesting? It’s great to see a professional orginazation keeping up with technology, and realizing that new technology leads to new art forms that are equally worthy of award. The Broadway Theatre League still doesn’t recognize sound design as a design element, and thereby sound is not worthy of award. That would be to progressive….