Final Polls begin

Ladies and Gentlemen, the moment of truth has arrived. We embark on the final stage of the Indibloggies 2005 edition, the final Public poll begins today and we will accept your votes till January 10, 2006 (IST). This is the stage where the junta speaks its mind. Yes, you can decide the fate of about 110 blogs that are in the fray in 18 different award-categories, handpicked from over 300 blogs by a distinguished team of Jurors.

Click on the link below to reach the Voting area, you would need a valid Email address to be able to cast your vote. To let the best and deserving blogs win, we request your cooperation.

Update [10 Jan 2006, 9 PM IST]: The Polls are closed now. Thanks for voting.

Please save this image on your server, don Update: Based on several suggestions, only the Best Indiblog category is now made a compulsory voting category. You may choose not to cast vote for any other category/catagories. Sorry for the mishap about the last date!

And for the Indibloggies 2005 nominees, shown alongside is a button that they can sport at their blogs/sites to reap more votes. I urge you not to link to the image directly, save it on your server or a free image hosting site like Flickr, if possible.

January 6th, 2006 | Announcements

16 Comments (Add your own)

1. DesiPundit » The In&hellip | January 6th, 2006 at 7:23 pm

[...] The polls for Indibloggies are finally open. Go forth and vote now! Debashish, the awards organizer informs me that gifts worth more than Rs.70,000 (~$1500) are offered to the winners. [...]
2. radhika | January 6th, 2006 at 8:10 pm

er.. i think your final voting date should read January 10, 2006 i was really confused when i saw my blog in the list, only to realise the date was mistyped. (thanks for picking me out though!

Debashish commented: Thanks for alerting me Radhika. Corrected now!
3. Sureshkumar | January 7th, 2006 at 3:29 am

I have a question posted in my blog regarding this Awards.

http://ursmusically.blogspot.com/2006/01/indiblog-awards.html
4. +: etcetera :+ » Da&hellip | January 7th, 2006 at 4:03 am

[...] Until then, vote Amit. Our turn will come later. Published in: [...]
5. Vick | January 7th, 2006 at 4:59 am

Sepia Mutiny according to its owners is not an Indian blog. In case INDIA/Indian on this site means something other than the Nation/Nationality i offer my apologies in advance.
6. A walk in the clouds.. &r&hellip | January 7th, 2006 at 6:07 am

[...] Yes, ladies and gentlemen. This blog has been nominated at the IndiBloggies in two categories — IndiBlog of the year and Best Designed IndiBlog. Ahem. Cool, no? So pliss to be the nice readers that you are and head over to the IndiBloggies site and do the needful. [...]
7. reshma | January 7th, 2006 at 8:10 am

Is there a place we can see the current vote status?
8. dharumi | January 7th, 2006 at 8:39 am

how come some sections are MANDATORY? that makes things tough since many of the ’sections’ as such are new to me but i want to vote for some specific sections only.
any way out?????
9. Debashish | January 7th, 2006 at 8:51 am

>>Is there a place we can see the current vote status?
No, and isn’t that expected.
10. Victor | January 7th, 2006 at 12:23 pm

If ever you were planning to vote for gaurav, please read this post by him. He launches into a tirade against someone for no reason & look at the way he does it with no links to the guy whom he is accussing. Btw the guy he accuses happens to be nominated as well! Gaurav himself knew that he made a big mistake….look at the no of silly posts that he has made after that…just to remove that post from the main page. I have read every single post by Gaurav, stood by him during the IIPM fiasco, but reading his blog off late…looks like he thinks too much of himself…example: he refers us to Amit Varma’s India Uncut! wow![This comment has been edited by the site-owner]

Debashish commented [9 Jan, 2006]: Gaurav Sabnis has replied to this comment as follows:

I had no clue Hawkeye was also a nominee at the time I made the post. And calling my post a ploy to somehow discredit him is also wrong. It really credits me with a lot more conniving intelligence than I actually possess.
11. Amit Gupta | January 7th, 2006 at 2:02 pm

Ah, so we have only one go at the vote & can’t vote again in the categories which we left out the first time!! quite odd!!

Debashish commented: And where in the world would you be allowed to vote twice in a single Poll like this Amit? I don’t think anybody of us would have assumed that we could change our votes later on. Email confirmation is just meant to enhance the legitimacy of votes.
12. Dilip Hore | January 7th, 2006 at 8:00 pm

It is quite interesting. When shall we know the result.
13. Malay | January 7th, 2006 at 9:47 pm

Whatever it is…do not vote for a No comment blog. A no comment blog does disservice to you …it doesnt want your views , but it wants your hits to say…yeah i get so many hits a day.

Therefore, a NO COMMENT blog does NOT DESERVE your vote.
14. » Voting opened at &hellip | January 9th, 2006 at 3:44 am

[...] Voting has opened on the Indibloggies and closed 10 January, so be quick. Some amazing examples from the fast growing Indian blogging community can be seen as well. [...]
15. Bonatellis | January 9th, 2006 at 7:08 am

I have some suggestions for you folks … here’s the link: http://daytimeruminations.blogspot.com/2006/01/blog-awards.html
16. Hawkeye | January 10th, 2006 at 3:52 pm

I would like to say this - What Gaurav Sabnis says in this context is true. he might not have known that I was a nominee, when he wrote the post critisizing me. So if you like his blog please vote for him.

After critising the politicians so much for slinging mud on each other without any principles, I do not want to compromise my principles by being one of them. It is incorrect to take every opportunity (fair or unfair) to malign someone else just to gain a silly vote advantage. It only indicates that we will not be different from those politicians when we are in their shoes.

All the best for all categories of nominees.