Indibloggies Slogan competition results
Yes, one more result was to be announced and that’s the winner of the Indibloggies T-Shirt Slogan competition. Thanks to all the participants for the interest shown. We received lot many entries, and Sakshi and me were unanimous in selecting the winning entry submitted by Nazim Ur Rahman, “I am a Blogger. Need I say more?” Congratulations Nazim! You won yourself a T-Shirt that you designed 
Thanks a lot Sakshi for sponsoring the T-shirts and for suggesting this competition.
Congratulations again to the winners at Indibloggies 2005 edition who would be sent the T-Shirt once they let me know their Tee size (the T-shirt shown here varies from the actual gift, which would be a Beige round neck Tee).
Hey, you can get this Tee too.
Yes, if you wish to get this beautiful Indibloggies T-Shirt and proclaim proudly to the world that you blog, you can buy it from us. This superior quality Black Panther Indibloggies Tee is being made available to you, thanks to Sakshi, at a special price as follows.
- Indibloggies Collared Tee (Beige color): Rs.275.00 per piece (courier charges extra at actuals)
- Indibloggies Round-neck Tee (Beige color): Rs.225.00 per piece (courier charges extra at actuals)
To order your T-Shirt send us an email at indibloggies at gmail dot com with a subject “Tee Order” mentioning the size, type, quantity and your complete postal address. Once we get your details we would let you know the total price (inclusive of courier charges for your area, or To-pay charges if applicable) and you may pay either through online money-transfer or a Demand Draft.
January 23rd, 2006 | | Permalink
Categorical statement
This is all for those quetching souls that have been twisting and turning in their beds every night since the 2005 event started, cursing me for the poorly chosen categories. Here is your chance to have your say.
Tell us which of the present Indibloggies categories should be dumped in the Ganges (the Tagline category, for example bore the brunt this year) and which all new categories should adorn the 2006 event. To set the ball rolling here are few new suggested categories (that emerged from the discussions here and in the blog neighborhood):
- Best Food Indiblog
- Most Humorous Indiblog
- Best Podcast Indiblog
Go ahead; use the comments area to scribble your thoughts.
January 18th, 2006 | | Permalink
Blogs will help keep MSM honest
In the seventh article of the series
“Hum Blogistani!” Peter Griffin talks about the life-changing experience with
SEA-EAT and predicts that blogs will not replace big media but complement it instead.
Mumbai based Media Consultant Peter is a freelance writer and prolific blogger (there is more to him than we can accommodate here). He blogs at Zigzackly. The online edition of his TOI column Mousetrap can be read here.
W
hy, you wonder, is this chap writing a piece in this series? He isn’t a pioneer blogger, or an A-lister, he doesn’t have legions of adoring fans (or even the type that love to hate him). He doesn’t even make it for Best Tagline. Fercryinoutloud, the loser doesn’t even have comments disabled.
It’s pretty simple, really. Debashish only knows I exist because of the collablogs I have been part of. Very probably for the South-East Asia Earthquake and Tsunami blog (SEA-EAT), which finds itself nominated in two categories this year. (And while I’m at it, consider this a plug for your vote.)
So, not to worry, I won’t test your patience with my usual boring pronouncements on the state of the blogosphere. Instead, I’ll just waffle on for a bit on the stuff that Debashish asked me to write about: collablogs and disaster relief blogging.
I’ll start with some excerpts from an essay I’m writing on the experience. It will make its appearance on my blog in due course, and it sets the background for the preachy bits afterwards.
(more…)
January 16th, 2006 | | Permalink
The Word is out
Ladies and Gentlemen, the wait is over. The hectic final voting spell spread over a week that also saw a repoll for the Best Designed Indiblog category — an unprecedented event in the history of the Indibloggies — is finally over and we are all set to declare the results. The public poll, thanks to the sophisticated poll script that we used this year, demanded that you unearthed all those email IDs that you created but never used, including those "2 minute" mailinator ones. And those who only had that lone yahoo ID since years were also delighted to get the additional Yahoo ID. It was, all in all, a peaceful poll with no untoward incidents. A record 1278 people registered for the poll but only 892 actually cast their vote, by virtue of those "a@b.com" email ID that were used to register and those cookies resting on your machine, I am happy that they could verify that the system was quite hard-wearing, the polls couldn’t be sturdier than this, IMHO.
And since I don’t want to irk you with anecdotes of innocent emails that ranged from "I just got the voting link. How do I nominate the sites?" to "Hey the link is not working" to "I never voted but got a mail saying thanks for voting" to "I won’t vote", here are the results:
IndiBlog of the year [Tally]
India Uncut is the Best Indiblog at the Indibloggies 2005. Amit Varma, author of India Uncut and a Mumbai based journalist is a maverick of quick posts and anything that starts with a "C", cows and cricket for instance. He not only bagged 25% of the votes cast for the category but also has the distinction to bag 225 votes, the highest number of votes bagged by any blog/site in this competition (yes, we know that voting for this category was mandatory but we are talking statistics here) and emerged a clear winner. Such fun! Amit wins
Best Topical IndiBlog [Tally]
Mumbai based ace journalist,
Sonia Faleiro (wow, the journos seem to have hijacked these awards
) is the winner of this category and wins:
Best Humanities IndiBlog [Tally]
Jabberwock, the witty, no-nonsensical (ya, forget whatever Lewis Carroll said) blog of Jai Arjun, a Delhi based journalist. Jai wins:
Best Science/Technology IndiBlog [Tally]
The winning blog is
The Scientific Indian by that “hominid born out of star dust that coalesced some 5 billion years ago” — Selvakumar bagged 30% of the votes in this category. Selvakumar wins
The first runner up blog in this category Digital Inspiration wins a copy of Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition worth $299 sponsored by Microsoft India. This and the second runner up blog Michael Parekh on IT also win one Exam Simulator each, of their choice, sponsored by Whizlabs.
Best IndiBlog directory/service/clique [Tally]
DesiPundit is the winner here. The hot one-stop news channel of Indi blogdom is a clear favorite among readers and bagged 46% of the votes cast for the category. The blog representative wins one Indibloggies T-shirt sponsored by
Sakshi Juneja.
Indiblog with the best Tagline [Tally]
Mall Road is the winner. Shivam Vij, the guy with vicious plans, such as, toppling a few governments, wins:
The public opinion seemed quite divided on this category, with all the blogs in the fray finishing very close. This was one category that cheesed off a lot of people and this is probably the last time it appears at the Indibloggies.
Best Designed IndiBlog [Tally]
A walk in the clouds.. by Megha wins with 37% votes and strengthened my belief in the power of "collective wisdom".
Yeh public hai, sab janti hai. This category witnessed some heated arguments on the scope of the award. The Jury was of a divided opinion, nominees rejected were unhappy and it was time we left the decision to the junta. This is the only category at the Indibloggies that had "all" the publicly nominated blogs competing for the award. The opinion that has clearly emerged out of the debate that followed it is that people do want that to come up to its name the category should only recognize original designs in future. Megha wins:
Best New Indiblog [Tally]
The best new Indiblog is Meenakshi Agarwal’s spicy food blog
Hooked on Heat. Meenakshi wins:
Best Photo Blog [Tally]
Je walla award
ja rya si Nilesh Chaudhary’s
ShutterBug nu. The “wizard of Canon” Nilesh wins :
Best Sports IndiBlog [Tally]
Sight Screen a group blog with authors such as
Arjun Swarup and
Prem Panicker. The blog representative wins a 25MB hosting package worth Rs.1000/- from
Web1 Solutions and one Indibloggies T-shirt sponsored by
Sakshi Juneja.
IndiBloggies 2005 lifetime achiever [Tally]
Guru Subramaniam aka
Lazy Geek is the winner with 44% votes. Guru wins:
Best Group Blog [Tally]
DesiPundit is the winner here with a massive 45% votes in its kitty. The blog representative wins a copy of
The Big Moo: Stop Trying to Be Perfect and Start Being Remarkable by
Seth Godin and 32 other renowned authors.
Best Indic blog [Hindi] [Tally]
Mumbai Blog won in this category with 44% votes. Shashi Singh, the author, wins:
The runner up blog, Anup Shukla’s Fursatiya wins:
- Sushma Jagmohan’s Hindi novel “Zindagi Email”.
- Navneet Bakshi’s book “Mein bhi bana Minister”
Best Indic blog [Kannada] [Tally]
Kanndave Nitya
Best Indic blog [Malayalam] [Tally]
Kalesh’s World
Best Indic blog [Marathi] [Tally]
The winner blog is
Marathi Sahitya and wins one copy each of
P.L.Desphpande’s Marathi books
Poorvarang and
Apoorvaaii from
Marathi Blog Vishwa.
The runner up blog is Disamaji Kahitari… wins P.L.Deshpande Marathi book Jaave Tyanchyaa Deshaa presented by Marathi Blog Vishwa.
Best Indic blog [Tamil] [Tally]
Mugamoodi
Best Indic blog [Telugu] [Tally]
Amazing Telugus wins an award of Rs.1000/- from
Kiran Kumar Chava
Hearty congratulations to all the Winners! Thanks also to all the sponsors for being associated with and adding glory to Indiblogging. My heartfelt thanks to all the Jurors for your time and efforts. I also convey thanks to Jitendra Chaudhary to bear the postage costs for the gifts being sent by the Indibloggies. The money donated by Dr.Vivek Kochikar would be kept in buffer and utilized in paying the hosting costs next year on.
- Winner may collect their award-badges here.
- All prizes would be sent to Indian destinations only.
- All winners are requested to send an email at indibloggies at gmail dot com with subject “PRIZE CLAIM 2005″ with their complete postal address.
- Please allow 4-6 weeks for the gifts to reach you, no intermediate correspondence on this delivery status of the awards please.
- Some other pending awards would be added to this post later.
- We do not take responsibility for loss of gifts in transit. Gifts cannot be exchanged for cash. We reserve the right to alter or cancel any or all of the awards mentioned above. No objections would be entertained.
January 14th, 2006 | | Permalink
A repoll for the design category
Indibloggies is a site for celebrating Indian blogs and there is no place for any dispute or controversy here. After the polls began, questions were raised on the choice of blogs for the “Best Designed Indiblog” category. For the juror it was a point of confusion, should you judge a blog as a reader or as a designer, which probably resulted in great amount of debate among the jurors and we thought we should give preference to blogs with original designs or those with customized templates. There has been a major folly on my part to have retracted few blogs from the list and declare new nominees for the category.
There is no need for me to say here that no malice was involved. IMHO the only criteria for a good site design would be that on visiting the blog/site I should like it. My own conviction about this category was not to really care who designed it; the site-owner might have got it done from a professional designer, s/he might be a designer himself or s/he simply uses a template designed by others with or without customization. In all of these cases the choice is a reflection on the blogger’s taste. When I honour any of these blogs I actually honour the guy who has put-in efforts designing it. Simple thought!
To make it a leveler I have decided to hold a repoll for the Best Designed Indiblog category with all the nominated blogs in the fray, no juror verdict applied. This would be conducted as soon as the main poll concludes. This poll would be open to all the people who votes in the main poll and all of them would receive an email invitation to vote.
This repoll is meant for you people to decide the winner blog, without applying any filter of our opinion. Original, customized, template-based; simple, complicated, usability-friendly, apply whatever criteria you deem right. You are the juror, you are the judge too.
Update [11 Jan, 2005, 0045 HRS IST]: Those who had cast their vote in the final polls are eligible to vote in this repoll. All of you who registered for the main poll are being have been sent email invitations to participate in the repoll. Please check your mail.
Update [12 Jan, 2005 23:30HRS IST] : The Poll is now closed.
January 10th, 2006 | | Permalink
Yes, one more result was to be announced and that’s the winner of the Indibloggies T-Shirt Slogan competition. Thanks to all the participants for the interest shown. We received lot many entries, and Sakshi and me were unanimous in selecting the winning entry submitted by Nazim Ur Rahman, “I am a Blogger. Need I say more?” Congratulations Nazim! You won yourself a T-Shirt that you designed 
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}