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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

Nominations begin for the Indibloggies 2008 edition

The nomination phase for the Indibloggies 2008 edition has been flagged off. Here is your chance to showcase your blog to the whole world and win laurels from your peers and readers alike

Nominations for 17 award categories would be open from 16 Feb 2009 to 28 Feb 6 March 2009. Do take a look at the sponsors page to know about the prizes at stake.

The nomination form is located at http://nom2008.indibloggies.org
Update [6 Mar 2009]: Nominations are now closed.

Rules, etc:

You may also apply to be a part of the Jury through the same form. (The primary function of the Indibloggies Jury is to do a peer-review or screening of nominated blogs. The final voting takes place from the top blogs chosen by the Jurors in each award category. Jurors are required to stay away from the Indibloggies 2008 contest.)
Please don’t ask your friends or readers to nominate your blog multiple times, simply because Jurors don’t consider the count of nominations as any criteria for rating. Moreover, self-nomination is perfectly OK. Please beware that repeated nominations for the same blog may be treated as spamming and may lead to disqualification.
Please only enter the web-address (URL) for the main-page. NO Blog title or permalinks to posts please.
Twitter and suchlike URLs are acceptable only for the Microblog category.
Indibloggies contest is limited to blogs written in English language only. ~~We are considering holding Indibloggies for Indian language blogs in latter part of the year.~~

Happy nominating!

February 16th, 2009 | 7 comments | Permalink

Precursor to the Polls, meet the IB 2006 nominees

The first two phases of Indibloggies 2006 event, namely the open nominations and the Jury rating, are complete. Few raised eyebrows again on the process of nomination yet more than 700 nominations were made over the last 11 days. The Jury sure had a tough as well as enjoyable time browsing through the myriad flavors of writing and then rating them.

I one again thank all the jurors for not only devoting their time and effort to the process but also for staying away from the competition, your help has indeed added more credibility to the awards. The Jury zeroed in on almost 290 blogs/sites, of which about 175 made it to the short-list that would participate in the final phase of the event, the public Poll.

Here goes the complete list of nominees. Hearty Congratulations people!

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February 11th, 2007 | 50 comments | Permalink

IB-06 : Nominations Invited

Ladies and gentlemen, the game has begun (hear the drumroll?), Indibloggies is now inviting nominations from Indian Bloggers all over the World for the 2006 event. Indibloggers, here is your chance to showcase your blog to the whole world and win laurels from your peers and readers alike.

Nominations for 16 award categories would be open from 26^th January until 5^th February, 2007. At stake are prizes worth more than Rs 85000.

To nominate your blogs simply bookmark your blog/site at the social bookmarking service del.icio.us using some pre-defined Tags.
- If you want to nominate only few blogs please refer this 5 Step Quick guide.
- If you want to nominate many blogs or if you are a delicious power user please refer this 5 Step Guide instead.
Please don’t ask your friends or readers to nominated your blog for you multiple times, simply because Jurors don’t consider the count of nominations as any criteria for rating. Moreover, self-nomination is perfectly legal. Please beware that repeated nominations for the same blog may be treated as spamming and may lead to disqualification.
Got further questions? Please see our FAQ page.

January 25th, 2007 | 9 comments | Permalink

Closer to the Polls :: Meet the Indibloggies 2005 nominees

With more than 300 nominations made over 10 days and close to 25 Jurors browsing through the myriad flavors of writing and rating them, Stage one of the Indibloggies 2005 edition has come to an end. I do not have enough words of appreciation for the members of the Jury; many of them went out of the way to help me during the process. For the first time in the Indibloggies, and perhaps in the history of the internet, a social bookmarking tool was used in an award event.

For the interested, here is some trivia to savor:

Indibloggies used the bookmarking tool del.icio.us for the nomination and Scuttle for the juror-rating phase . We had customized bookmarklets and tag-generators for delicious. The Scuttle interface was also customized for the occasion (compare the actual interface with the customized one). Here is a screen-grab of page showing the final tally.
This was the first time I power-used Scuttle, some of my code such as the “Users list” and suggestions might actually make it to the next version of the tool. An interesting side effect of my using “Scuttle” was the Hindi localisation of Scuttle, that happened thanks to my Hindi blogger friends. The Hindi gettext file is available here.
Jurors rated blogs in several award-categories on a scale of -1 to 5. A weighted score was calculated based on all Juror ratings for a blog in a particular category and a merit list prepared. The final list, in almost all categories, that makes it to second and the final stage comprises of blogs that were 40 percentile or above in the merit list.
Juror Srijith prepared a flash video, a “how-to” guide for the Jurors while Saket and Pawan compiled exhaustive step-by-step guides for the nomination process.
Many people complained about the nomination process being too geeky (though the 5-step guide, that came up of Arnab’s suggestion, evoked a good response) and I had to put a conventional email-form but that resulted more-or-less in what we all know email forms result in, spamming and multiple nominations. One of the blogs almost suffocated my Inbox, so much so that I had to ask the blog-owner to stop his people from flooding my mail-box.
63% of the nominated blogs were Blogger.com blogs. If few other blog-hosting services like live-journal may be ignored, Wordpress blogs must have been a close second.
In all 193 blogs were rated by the jurors with about 15 blogs ending up with a negative or zero final score.
Like last year, a private mailing list had all the Jurors deliberating and discussing over issues before and during the rating process.
The whole rating process was also audited throughout, by three of the jurors to ensure a smooth completion.
Juror Saket nominated the highest number of blogs, a whopping 115 blogs.

And now, without any further ado, we present the list of Stage-1 winner blogs that have qualified to participate in the final voting. To me this is the notable outcome of this event, if this list contains even one blog that you have never read before, my mission is accomplished. For your ease, we have a category wise OPML list available for you to subscribe (most of the newsreaders provide for importing an OPML list). Listing in each category is alphabetical.
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