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:
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.
Ladies and gentlemen! The moment of truth has arrived. The Indiblogosphere has chosen a new band of winners from 175 worthy contenders across 21 varied categories. The final phase of Voting at the Indibloggies 2006 event witnessed over 3500 registrations with around 2235 votes cast over a week. The figures may be small, but being recognized as a blogger extraordinaire by your own community is no small an achievement.
I thank all the participants and the Jurors for your help and encouragement. Your vote, dear readers, has decided their fate and its time you join us in congratulating them on their triumph. Here is the list of Winners: (more…)
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.
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:
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
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
A Windows Mobile based smartphone worth Rs.19000/- sponsored by Microsoft India
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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
Innumerable contestants, close to 100 nominated blogs and 16 winners emerging in the grand finale to the Indibloggies 2004. This year’s event has been spectacular for Indibloggies with an unprecedented nine sponsors offering prizes worth above Rs.25000 and a panel of 12 Jurors who had the momentous task of frisking the list. I do not have enough words to show my appreciation for all those who participated in the event. The apprehensions on the award’s credibility also prompted me to reveal my identity, I had resorted to the pseudonym Indiblogger when I started the affair because I thought an identity is always accompanied with prejudices, I am happy I was proven wrong.
So here is the much awaited final list of winners. My congratulations to all the winners. My thanks also to all those who voted and kept visiting these pages. Winners Must send me an email at indibloggies at gmail dot com with subject “Prize claim” so that I could forward their details to the sponsors.
Indiblog of the Year : Deesha (38% Votes). Atanu Dey wins:
Thanks a lot 
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