DesiPundit Indibloggies Prizes Auction
Like the previous year, the good people at Desipundit, who won in the “Best Designed Indiblog” and “Best Directory/ Clique/ Service” categories, are auctioning their awards. The proceeds will be donated in entirety to Magic Bus, a nonprofit charitable organization that conducts developmental activities for children and young adults through the outdoors and sports. This is an excellent gesture on the part of the Desipundit team and we laud their effort. For further details and to participate in the auction please click here. The auction ends on Thursday, April 5 2007 at 11:59pm CST.
April 3rd, 2007 | | Permalink
Mutter with Megha: In conversation with Greatbong
In light of the Greatbong’s unprecedented landslide victory in the Indibloggies, the powers that be felt that winning an award (well actually, two) wasn’t enough of an ego trip. So they decided that one should do an interview with him as well. Perhaps a more serious, ‘getting to know the man behind the blog, his passions, his drive’ type routine. Of course, if seriousness is what one wants, one shouldn’t ask the resident flake of the blogosphere to do the interview. But now the deed has been done, and it’s time for the public to pay the heavy price for it. So here you are. Styled after her idol K-Jo and his koffee, and channeling the I-will-get-husky-voiced-for-no-reason-at-all Simi aunty, here’s Mutter with Megha. In conversation with Greatbong.
[A spotless white set. Megha in spotless white, sitting on a spotless white couch, holding a spotless white coffee cup filled with split-pea-soup, just one spotless white towel short of becoming Miss Chamko. (This part of the program sponsored by Surf.)]
M: Good evening! It is lovely to be back. Though the show has a new look (it is finally visible) the flavor of ‘Mutter with Megha’, much like this soup, remains unchanged — monochromatic, bland and with the inevitable queasiness of eating too much plant-protein.
So let me introduce our guest for today — his intellectual humor and ability to quote Neruda has the ladies swooning, but this legend of the industry is a dedicated father and especially loves to take his kids on long trans-Atlantic plane journeys. Belying his macho image, he is gentle and romantic. Oops, sorry. Wrong script. Um, say hello to .. [looks down at paper] .. Greatbong.
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March 30th, 2007 | | Permalink
The 2006 Winners are here
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…)
February 22nd, 2007 | | Permalink
Poll baby poll!
Update [21 Feb 2007]: Voting has concluded. Thanks for participating in the poll! Watch out for the results!
Dear readers roll up your sleeves and prepare to participate in the 3rd and final phase of the Indibloggies 2006 event, the public polls, where your votes would decide the fate of the nominees across 21 categories including 6 Indic blog categories.
The Voting would continue from 13 Feb 2007 until 20th Feb 2007. You would be required to register with a valid email address to be able to cast your votes.
For the Nominees along with our best wishes here is a badge they can sport to solicit votes for their blogs/sites. Just copy the code/paste the HTML given below to display the badge on your blog/site.
February 12th, 2007 | | 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 | | Permalink
