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:
IndiBlog of the year [Tally]
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
Best Topical IndiBlog [Tally]
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Mumbai based ace journalist,
Sonia Faleiro (wow, the journos seem to have hijacked these awards ;) ) is the winner of this category and wins:
Best Humanities IndiBlog [Tally]
Jabberwock, the witty, no-nonsensical (ya, forget whatever Lewis Carroll said) blog of Jai Arjun, a Delhi based journalist. Jai wins:
Best Science/Technology IndiBlog [Tally]
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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
The first runner up blog in this category Digital Inspiration wins a copy of Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition worth $299 sponsored by Microsoft India. This and the second runner up blog Michael Parekh on IT also win one Exam Simulator each, of their choice, sponsored by Whizlabs.
Best IndiBlog directory/service/clique [Tally]
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.
Indiblog with the best Tagline [Tally]
Mall Road is the winner. Shivam Vij, the guy with vicious plans, such as, toppling a few governments, wins:
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.
Best Designed IndiBlog [Tally]
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:
Best New Indiblog [Tally]
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The best new Indiblog is Meenakshi Agarwal's spicy food blog
Hooked on Heat. Meenakshi wins:
Best Photo Blog [Tally]
Je walla award
ja rya si Nilesh Chaudhary's
ShutterBug nu. The "wizard of Canon" Nilesh wins :
Best Sports IndiBlog [Tally]
Sight Screen a group blog with authors such as
Arjun Swarup and
Prem Panicker. The blog representative wins a 25MB hosting package worth Rs.1000/- from
Web1 Solutions and one Indibloggies T-shirt sponsored by
Sakshi Juneja.
IndiBloggies 2005 lifetime achiever [Tally]
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Guru Subramaniam aka
Lazy Geek is the winner with 44% votes. Guru wins:
Best Group Blog [Tally]
DesiPundit is the winner here with a massive 45% votes in its kitty. The blog representative wins a copy of
The Big Moo: Stop Trying to Be Perfect and Start Being Remarkable by
Seth Godin and 32 other renowned authors.
Best Indic blog [Hindi] [Tally]
Mumbai Blog won in this category with 44% votes. Shashi Singh, the author, wins:
The runner up blog, Anup Shukla's Fursatiya wins:
- Sushma Jagmohan's Hindi novel "Zindagi Email".
- Navneet Bakshi's book "Mein bhi bana Minister"
Best Indic blog [Kannada] [Tally]
Kanndave NityaBest Indic blog [Malayalam] [Tally]
Kalesh’s WorldBest Indic blog [Marathi] [Tally]
The winner blog is
Marathi Sahitya and wins one copy each of
P.L.Desphpande’s Marathi books
Poorvarang and
Apoorvaaii from
Marathi Blog Vishwa.
The runner up blog is Disamaji Kahitari… wins P.L.Deshpande Marathi book Jaave Tyanchyaa Deshaa presented by Marathi Blog Vishwa.
Best Indic blog [Tamil] [Tally]
MugamoodiBest Indic blog [Telugu] [Tally]
Amazing Telugus wins an award of Rs.1000/- from
Kiran Kumar ChavaHearty 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.
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- Some other pending awards would be added to this post later.
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