Indibloggies 2005: The power of collective wisdom

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Indibloggies 2005 has been the most grand event so far, sponsors pitched in with prizes worth about Rs.75000/-. 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 was no mean affair. A record 1278 people registered for the poll but only 892 actually cast their vote. Many have written that the numbers are really really small compared to the fact we have lot many Indian blogs around, but to me the numbers are really unimportant, events like the Indibloggies only renew the faith of the people who have been blogging consistently, or people like me who just hang around for the fun.

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. The final results were declared on January 14th, 2005.

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