Indibloggies – The Indian Weblog Awards | Indian Blog Awards

15 Comments

• 1. Anonymous | January 9th, 2005 at 9:00 pm

  your site was confusing to begin with, but i kept checking it despite the inevitable headache it induced. now that the nominations are out, i see that i wasted my time. what were your criteria? friends of the “jury”? your system is ridiculous.

  also, quite the bias against ABCDs, innit? Aside from a few stand-outs like Turbanhead and Vinod…not much representation there. Manish Vij is outstanding from both a design and content perspective. H~E~R~S~T~O~R~Y by Anna WON the Asian Weblog award for Best Indian blog. And Anil Dash??? You left out Anil Dash? What a joke.

• 2. Anonymous | January 10th, 2005 at 7:19 am

  Prev Anonymous, Someone won the best blog last year and the ghost who lost it kept chasing the winner, whining about it.

  It’s the friend-of-indiblogger way. Did you not check the nominations. Even the first category has weblogs which do nothing but keep changing templates.

• 3. Indiblogger | January 10th, 2005 at 8:55 am

  Since we ourselves have been maintaining anonymity, we cannot complain about the spate of these anonymous comments being posted here off late.

  BTW where were you guys when we were asking for nomination requests. There are thousands and thousands of blogs out there, even the best readers of us could lay hand on a few hundred each day. How can you expect each juror to be aware of all the blogs? Did you expect a 100 member Jury? Did you expect us to nominate all the blogs listed on all blog directories?

  When we went for the Jury based nomination system we knew that the choices would be subjective. Peer review system has its drawbacks and advantages. The best we could do was to allow each blogger send his nominations to the Juror he wants.

  Be a sport guys! Winning and losing are part of the game Ultimate aim is to highlight the best of the blogs, if you discovered a good blog here the purpose of Indibloggies becomes successful.

• 4. Anonymous | January 10th, 2005 at 11:19 pm

  Hello.

  Congratulations on making it to another year and still commanding a fair sized crowd. Nowhere close to other high profile blog awards yet but maybe in the process of getting there. Just a few suggestions.

  1. The grammar on this site is atrocious. As quite a fair majority of bloggers are writers (of sorts) the grammatical mistakes on this site are enough to make people cringe.

  2. Same goes for spelling. Off the top of my head, “enuff” is not a word found in the English dictionary.

  3. Congratulations on the high-profile sponsors- that is a great measuring stick on how well this award is doing. Why still anonymous? Having a person, a masthead if you will, will give this award a more personal feel rather than just an industrious feel that it has right now. Suggestion: Make up a board of directors (of varied bloggers) who will be in charge of the award- give up possesion yourself and retain your anonimity.

  4. The pages could still use a bit of tweaking in terms of being user-friendly. Things are too difficult to find. This being a blog in itself could be a problem as well. Suggestion: Why not start a donation box where people could contribute for a real site, where all the polls, graphics, etc are self contained rather than spread among freebies.

  It is a wee bit embarassing, as an Indian to pledge any sort of loyalty to this award due to the above mentioned points. I’d appreciate a response.

  Thank you.

• 5. Anonymous | January 12th, 2005 at 10:40 am

  When is the deadline for voting, Indiblogger?

• 6. Anonymous | January 13th, 2005 at 2:37 pm

  hi,

  here’s a scenario. users might want to view all the nominated blogs and then decide to cast their vote.

  currently, when a user clicks on any category links given in the first fold, he gets directly taken to voting page.

  you might want take the user to a category detail page where the user can view all the nominated blogs and then cast their vote.

  what say?
  cheer
  muthu
  http://www.muthuonline.com

• 7. Indiblogger | January 13th, 2005 at 4:22 pm

  The list of nominee is just below the Voting link post. I have the inclination but don’t always have the time to do such stuff. Noted for future

• 8. Anonymous | January 13th, 2005 at 10:50 pm

  Hello,
  I has been an remarkable endeavor from the entire team of indiblog. The jurys selection of the blog has been really unbiased.

  I would like to bring to the notice of the jury and organizers, “radioblog” has been given nomination as the “Best science/technology IndiBlog”,radiohead looks like is fooling – his blog is 4 mths old and does not have even 5O postingsin all – he has just 5 to 6 postings in january.
  The blog has only 50 posts in total but 250 votes in
  3days.

  I request people not to fool and get fooled. There is something wrong with the radiohead voting. If found guilty the blog author should be warned and disqualified.

  If this scenario is going to continue its going to a total waste of the entire efforts of the indibloggies team. I request the committee to take prompt action at the earliest.

  Thanks for all your efforts.

• 9. Anonymous | January 15th, 2005 at 8:50 pm

  Mr indiblogger, if you do not have the inclination, where are the other members of the team who can do it? Can someone help you with it? or help is not generally solicited? It seems all you are doing is based on your fancies. Things you do not like or are not comfortable with, you have a standard answer – no time.

• 10. Anonymous | January 16th, 2005 at 3:19 pm

  This whole “awards” thing has been managed in a very amateur fashion. Even the site design is a sickly yellow. There are so many freely available poll scripts. Why didn’t you use any of them? Lastly, why are you anonymous? It destroys the credibility of these awards.

• 11. Anonymous | January 17th, 2005 at 12:57 pm

  Hi,
  The entire team of indibloggies has took an ingineous effort in organizing this wonderful event.

  I tried to vote for my favorite blog, but it has let me in total frustation where i was denied the right to vote. Your pooling system says i have already voted. But to tell the truth this is the very first time i am visting this indibloggies site.

  I request the technical team to look up with the pooling system and hence reclaim my right to vote.

• 12. Raviratlami | January 22nd, 2005 at 6:27 pm

  As one of the jury member, I feel, I had to answer issues raised on some postings…

  Voting on Indibloggies nominations are going to close in a day or two. So, better hurry up… else you will fume and whim and grind and so on… for not winning your favorite blog; as you are quirking for not getting nominated so-and-so best-blog or why so-so-and-so worst-blog had been nominated. So, get up from your sleep (month long sleep when nominations were open???) and act now rather than blaming everyone else for your ACT…

  Well, the number of votes and bricks and mortars indibloggie award 2004 is getting – shows that it is already a hit and had a grand success…

  But, mind you, this is only its second year and even Grammys and Acadamis have errors and omissions on their awards. Indibloggie is always open to suggestions and great ideas and everybody learns from its own mistakes… so there you are… Welcome your positive criticisms…

  Unless we see personnel interest to push any Blog to win, is it really matter that indibloggie be remain anonymous or what? Further, managing things like indibloggie award side-by-side with one’s professional work for one’s living takes one’s real sweat and we have to forgive some small issues like bad interface etc. And most of the things were arranged from free resources of internet which may have their limitations. Again, if some one feels really bad, he/she is best welcome to come with some real solutions in hand…

  Finally, we bloggers are writing no literary piece… so there you are… ample mistakes in grammar and even in spellings… hence absolutely no issue about the period I had not applied at the end of my sentences

  Thanks to all of you…

  Ravi

• 13. Anonymous | January 23rd, 2005 at 8:45 pm

  Great job in setting up the IndiBlog Awards!

  As a suggestion, it might be a good idea to have a critic’s choice of Awards as well. It may or may not have prizes, but it might help to also name a critics’ choice for each category. One, it would help to highlight quality that may not nescessarily be measurable in terms of votes. Two, not to take away from any of the blogs nominated, it is possible that the system is not fool-proof. There were certain comments that there might be certain issues with the voting system. To be fair to the blog(s) in question, this may not nescessarily have anything to do with the blogger(s) himself/herself. This is to merely point out that offering a critics’ choice will help mitigate this problem as well.

  I think 2004 has almost been ‘the year of the blog’. These awards will help highlight this emerging trend. Excellent work rounding up sponsors, which I would imagine, is the hardest part. I think these awards will go a long way in highlighting the exceptional Indian blogs, of which there are quite a few.

• 14. Indiblogger | January 24th, 2005 at 11:56 am

  Real nice to get some bouquets afterall

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