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Indibloggies 2008 Winners Announced

Woh ghadii aa he gayii! The Indiblogosphere has given its verdict and has chosen a new set of winners from over 150 worthy contenders across 16 varied categories. The final phase of Voting at the Indibloggies 2008 event had total 4876 votes cast over a span of two weeks. The figures may be small, but being recognized as a blogger extraordinaire by your own community is no small an achievement.

“Random Thoughts Of A Demented Mind” authored by Arnab Ray has won the top laurels of the “Indiblog of the Year 2008″. His blog has won in this and the “Most Humorous Blog” category for the second consecutive time at the Indibloggies. Please join me in congratulating him and all the other winners on their triumph. With this win Arnab also makes it to the coveted “Indibloggies Hall of Fame“. Congratulations!

I thank all the participants, the Jurors and the Sponsors for their help and encouragement. Hearty congratulations to all the winners.

Following is the complete list of Winners:

Indiblog of the year 2008
Random Thoughts Of A Demented Mind

Prizes won:

  1. Award Certificate from Indibloggies
  2. A special “Indiblogger of the year” scrapture trophy, worth Rs 15,000, designed by Arun Verma Design Studios
  3. Books worth Rs 3000 from Hachette India
  4. A copy of award-winning blogger Amit Varma’s book “My Friend Sancho” from Hachette India
  5. Copy of the book “Problogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income” authored by Darren Rowse and Chris Garrett
  6. Copy of Think Tweet Book 1, worth $19.95, by Rajesh Shetty
  7. A surprise gift, worth Rs 155, by Pothi.com
  8. Cash award of Rs 2,000 from Zoho
  9. $30 from Indian Social Aggregator India Sphere
  10. $15 in cash and a copy of the book Blog Blazers worth $17 from Chetan Bhawani’s thewwwblog
Best New Indiblog
Lets Put Da

Prizes won:

  1. Award Certificate from Indibloggies
  2. Book Hampers worth Rs 1000 from Hachette India
  3. A copy of award-winning blogger Amit Varma’s book “My Friend Sancho” from Hachette India
  4. Copy of Think Tweet Book 1, worth $19.95, by Rajesh Shetty
  5. A surprise gift, worth Rs 155, by Pothi.com
Best Indi Microblog
Ramesh Srivats

Prizes won:

  1. Award Certificate from Indibloggies
  2. Book Hampers worth Rs 1000 from Hachette India
  3. A copy of award-winning blogger Amit Varma’s book “My Friend Sancho” from Hachette India
  4. Copy of Think Tweet Book 1, worth $19.95, by Rajesh Shetty
Best Humanities Indiblog
Gappa

Prizes won:

  1. Award Certificate from Indibloggies
  2. Book Hampers worth Rs 1000 from Hachette India
  3. A copy of award-winning blogger Amit Varma’s book “My Friend Sancho” from Hachette India
  4. A surprise gift, worth Rs 155, by Pothi.com
  5. Copy of the book “Problogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income” authored by Darren Rowse and Chris Garrett
Most Humorous Indiblog
Random Thoughts Of A Demented Mind

Prizes won:

  1. Award Certificate from Indibloggies
  2. Book Hampers worth Rs 1000 from Hachette India
  3. A copy of award-winning blogger Amit Varma’s book “My Friend Sancho” from Hachette India
  4. A surprise gift, worth Rs 155, by Pothi.com
Best Group Indiblog
ThinkChange India

Prizes won:

  1. Award Certificate from Indibloggies
  2. Book Hampers worth Rs 1000 from Hachette India
  3. A copy of award-winning blogger Amit Varma’s book “My Friend Sancho” from Hachette India
  4. A surprise gift, worth Rs 155, by Pothi.com
Best Indi Food/Beverages blog
Akshayapaatram

Prizes won:

  1. Award Certificate from Indibloggies
  2. Book Hampers worth Rs 1000 from Hachette India
  3. A copy of award-winning blogger Amit Varma’s book “My Friend Sancho” from Hachette India
  4. Copy of the book “Problogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income” authored by Darren Rowse and Chris Garrett
  5. A surprise gift, worth Rs 155, by Pothi.com
Best Entertainment Indiblog
Without giving the movie away

Prizes won:

  1. Award Certificate from Indibloggies
  2. Book Hampers worth Rs 1000 from Hachette India
  3. A copy of award-winning blogger Amit Varma’s book “My Friend Sancho” from Hachette India
  4. Copy of the book “Problogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income” authored by Darren Rowse and Chris Garrett
  5. A surprise gift, worth Rs 155, by Pothi.com
Best Travel Indiblog
A travel blog of an Indian backpacker

Prizes won:

  1. Award Certificate from Indibloggies
  2. Book Hampers worth Rs 1000 from Hachette India
  3. A copy of award-winning blogger Amit Varma’s book “My Friend Sancho” from Hachette India
  4. A surprise gift, worth Rs 155, by Pothi.com
  5. A Blog-hosting package (1 domain name + 1 GB webspace + Latest Wordpress) worth Rs 5500 from web1.in
Best Sports Indiblog
Fake IPL Player

Prizes won:

  1. Award Certificate from Indibloggies
  2. Book Hampers worth Rs 1000 from Hachette India
  3. A copy of award-winning blogger Amit Varma’s book “My Friend Sancho” from Hachette India
  4. A surprise gift, worth Rs 155, by Pothi.com
Best Science/Technology Indiblog
Digital Inspiration

Prizes won:

  1. Award Certificate from Indibloggies
  2. Book Hampers worth Rs 1000 from Hachette India
  3. A copy of award-winning blogger Amit Varma’s book “My Friend Sancho” from Hachette India
  4. A surprise gift, worth Rs 155, by Pothi.com
  5. Cash award of Rs 2,000 from Zoho
  6. Cash Awards of $50 from techblissonline
Best IndiPodcast
Meter down

Prizes won:

  1. Award Certificate from Indibloggies
  2. Book Hampers worth Rs 1000 from Hachette India
  3. A copy of award-winning blogger Amit Varma’s book “My Friend Sancho” from Hachette India
Best Business Indiblog
Gauravonomics

Prizes won:

  1. Award Certificate from Indibloggies
  2. Book Hampers worth Rs 1000 from Hachette India
  3. A copy of award-winning blogger Amit Varma’s book “My Friend Sancho” from Hachette India
  4. A surprise gift, worth Rs 155, by Pothi.com
  5. Cash Awards of $20 from Learn QTP
Best Designed Indiblog
Jugalbandi

Prizes won:

  1. Award Certificate from Indibloggies
  2. Book Hampers worth Rs 1000 from Hachette India
  3. A copy of award-winning blogger Amit Varma’s book “My Friend Sancho” from Hachette India
  4. Cash Awards of $50 from techblissonline
Best Indi Photoblog
Delhi Photo Diary

Prizes won:

  1. Award Certificate from Indibloggies
  2. Book Hampers worth Rs 1000 from Hachette India
  3. A copy of award-winning blogger Amit Varma’s book “My Friend Sancho” from Hachette India
  4. A copy of Complete Digital Photography, Fourth Edition (Graphics Series) by Ben Long, worth $26, from the food-blogger duo Jay & Bee of Jugalbandi
Best Personal Indiblog
Lumuhuku

Prizes won:

  1. Award Certificate from Indibloggies
  2. Book Hampers worth Rs 1000 from Hachette India
  3. A copy of award-winning blogger Amit Varma’s book “My Friend Sancho” from Hachette India
  4. A surprise gift, worth Rs 155, by Pothi.com
  5. A Blog-hosting package (1 domain name + 1 GB webspace + Latest Wordpress + 1 Professional theme worth max $25) worth Rs 6500 from web1.in

Interested in statistics? The final tally for
each category is available here.

Winners, please send an email to indibloggies at gmail dot com with subject PRIZE CLAIM 2008, stating your Indian postal address and contact details so that prizes could be sent to you in due time.

December 15th, 2009 | 26 comments | Permalink  

The ball is in your court!

You nominated your favourite blogs, the Jury carefully selected and lined up the deserving contenders for the final rally. Now the ball is back in your court. We invite you to be part of the final phase, Phase-III of the Indibloggies 2008 edition, the public polls. Vote for your choicest blog/website from amongst the nominees in 16 categories, and help us decide the worthy winner.

The Voting would continue from 25 Nov 2009 to 10 Dec 2009. Remember, you would be required to provide a valid email address to be able to register your votes. Note that you can vote for as many categories as you wish to.

Click here to visit the Voting area

November 25th, 2009 | 11 comments | Permalink  

And the nominees are …

After an unmentionable wait we are here with the final list of nominated blogs for the 2008 Indibloggies. Thanks again to all of you for suggesting all these wonderful blogs and to the Indibloggies Jury for carefully going through thousands of blogs and rating them. Watch out for the announcement of the final polls.

Best Indiblog of the Year

Best New Indiblog

Best IndiMicroblog

Most Humorous Indiblog

Best Humanities Indiblog

Best Group Indiblog

Best Food Indiblog

Best Entertainment Indiblog

Best Travel Indiblog

Best Sports Indiblog

Best Science Technology Indiblog

Best IndiPodcast

Best Business Indiblog

Best Designed Indiblog

Best Indi Photo blog

Best Personal Indiblog

Notes:
1. The “Best IndiBlog directory/service/clique/network” category was dropped due to insufficient number of nominations received.
2. IB-2008 edition is running late, note that the nominations happened in Feb 2009 and the Jury rating process happened in March/April 2009, since then some Blogs have either moved or are now defunct. However, since they existed at the mentioned URLs at the time of nomination/Juror rating phase we have listed the URLs we have on our records. We urge you to vote for such blogs based on your best judgment.

November 21st, 2009 | 50 comments | Permalink  

The Indibloggies Hall of Fame

The Indibloggies Hall of FameHaving woken up from my kumbhakarni sleep I realized that I didn’t tell you guys about a new room we added at the Indibloggies. Well, it’s a Hall really (the H of the HK, you know) and we named it the “Indibloggies Hall of Fame”. Its  meant to accommodate the growing tribe of people who have caused a “naak mein dum” by winning again and again at the Indbloggies (pssst…if you want to know how to win multiple times at the Indibloggies write to me in confidence with your “quote”, not the byte walla quote you silly.). So we decided finally to lock them up in this decorated “Hall of fame” (and thus ensure that they never win again, hehehe).

On a serious note, the “Indibloggies Hall of Fame” is to recognize fellow bloggers and communities who won 3 or more times at the Indibloggies. It’s not a mean fete to pull this out. It’s sad that this also means that they have to stay away from the competition in future but hey Indibloggies is about showcasing new talent. Join me in saluting the present occupants of the HOF (Guru Subramanian, Desipundit.com and Amit Varma) for their talent and gusto. By participating at Indibloggies they added gaiety and glitz to the platform.  We are proud to have them as part of the prestigious “Indibloggies Hall of Fame”.

August 16th, 2009 | | Permalink  

Meet the Indibloggies 2008 Jury

Aditya Kuber, a Pune based photographer,
writer & geek. After working for various media houses he set up Media Sphere Communications in 2007 that deals in custom publishing, content delivery and design.
Akhil Tandulwadikar from Hyderabad is an MBA and makes living as the Editor of a Healthcare magazine. Interests include writing, reading books, Photography and Cricket.
Aparna Ray, a qualitative research consultant based in Kolkata. Passionate about limericks. Blogs in Bangla a Khola Janala and helps bridge the world of Bangla blogs onGlobal Voices and Desipundit.
Arzan Sam Wadia. Architect and Urban Designer, currently based in New York, but very much from Mumbai. He also publishes a popular blog Parsi Khabar.
Avinash Raghav, Regional Manager (North) at NASSCOM. He blogs at and manages the NASSCOM Emerge Forum, a 1400+ member community for the mid-sized.
Balendu Dadhich, heading leading Hindi news portal Prabhasakshi.com. He is a MVP and developer of a Hindi Word Processor ‘Madhyam’ among several other softwares.
Deepak Kumar Majhi, a first year student at IIT, Kharagpur. Also a blogger and reviewer.
Indra Awasthi, Oregon based, originally from UP and a Kolkatan by birth, He is an Engineering
graduate from Allahabad and infrequently blogs in Hindi.
Kaushik Narasimhan, an MTech from IIT-Bombay and a PhD student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Kaushik is an avid reader and movie-watcher.
Kinshuk Sunil, an open source enthusiast, has been developing games since 2005, writing literature and organizing technology unconferences. He is an alumnus of Sri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi.
Lavanya Raj,  a stay at home mom owning a
food related blog since the past 1 and half year.
Laxman Koushik Krishnan, Graphic Designer based at Chennai. Working with web since 2002.
Mayank Chandak,  an engineering student at JUIT, Waknaghat majoring in computer science. But he calls that a side job as he is a tech enthusiast concerned about new web technologies and services.
Megha Meshram, Software consultant, eye for all things nature and ear for all things music,
food-wine freak, highly opinionated, all that and more or less :)
Mohan K, a media studies, psychology & English literature student from Christ University,
Bangalore. He has been a blogger for the past 5 years and is associated with the Centre for Social Action.
Ninad Gujar, an engineer by training and a neuroscientist by profession; has a passion for
photography and travel. Also a budding entrepreneur and a citizen who wants
to create a social impact for the greater good.
Paras Sharma, 21 year old blogger from Mumbai, blogging since 2005, writer with Youth
magazine JAM since December 2007. Paras specializes in humor, poetry, music
and movie reviews.
Patrix, the founder of DesiPundit and author of popular blog Nerve Endings Firing Away. In the offline world, he is a doctoral student at Texas A&M majoring in Urban Planning. (Patrix volunteered only for the ‘Microblog category’)
Pradeep Chopra is a co-founder of OMLogic Consulting and Whizlabs Software, an IT education company. Whizlabs won NASSCOM’s  Most Innovative Indian IT Company award in 2004.
Priya Venkateshan, just out of college and currently one of the millions of software engineers in Bangalore. As wanderlust she blogs about anything and everything that catches her fancy.
Ram Prasad Narsimhan, is experimenting with “early retirement” after working for over 12 years in corporate America. He wants to travel and plans to volunteer at NGO’s and organizations that could use his skills.
Rezwan, an Indonesia based blogger from Bangladesh; started blogging in April 2003. He blogs at The third world view and is an author/editor at Global Voices.
Rohit Sane, a second year IT student from Mumbai, blogging since 2006 on Blogs of different niches.
Shanti Mangala, is a long time blogger, known for starting the Bharteeya Blog Mela clique. A software engineer by profession she currently lives in Dallas.
Shweta L Khare, founder and president of Career bright – Career Coaching Services. Shweta is also the co-chair at the Career Resource Center at the India Community Center in Milpitas, California.
T V Srinivas, 48 years old Assistant General Manager with RBI, actively involved in writing
poems, stories and articles on social problems in Kannada.

August 16th, 2009 | | Permalink  

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