Indibloggies 2008 Winners Announced

That moment has arrived. The Indiblogosphere has given its verdict and has chosen a new set of winners from over 150 worthy contenders across 16 varied categories. The final phase of Voting at the Indibloggies 2008 event had total 4876 votes cast over a span of two weeks. The figures may be small, but being recognized as a blogger extraordinaire by your own community is no small an achievement.

"Random Thoughts Of A Demented Mind" authored by Arnab Ray has won the top laurels of the "Indiblog of the Year 2008". His blog has won in this and the "Most Humorous Blog" category for the second consecutive time at the Indibloggies. Please join me in congratulating him and all the other winners on their triumph. With this win Arnab also makes it to the coveted "Indibloggies Hall of Fame". Congratulations!

I thank all the participants, the Jurors and the Sponsors for their help and encouragement. Hearty congratulations to all the winners.

Following is the complete list of Winners:

And the nominees are …

After an unmentionable wait we are here with the final list of nominated blogs for the 2008 Indibloggies. Thanks again to all of you for suggesting all these wonderful blogs and to the Indibloggies Jury for carefully going through thousands of blogs and rating them. Watch out for the announcement of the final polls.

Best Indiblog of the Year

• Random Thoughts Of A Demented Mind


• Jugalbandi


• The Acorn


• Smoke Signals


• The Pink Chaddi Campaign

Best New Indiblog

• Soliloquies of an Opinionated mind…


• Power Blogging


• SpeakBindas


• What an Advertise-Meant?


• Lets Put Da


• AtomThought


• Ranjan Varma's Blog


• Ancient Indians – Satya Samhita

Best IndiMicroblog

• Vimohs Twitter


• prempanicker@twitter


• Ramesh Srivats


• Sidins Twitter Feed


• nighthawk24


• PuneTech


• Angsuman@ Twitter


• Seven Lives

Most Humorous Indiblog

• Doing Jalsa and Showing Jilpa


• Domain Maximus


• Random Thoughts Of A Demented Mind


• Son of Bosey


• Twisted DNA


• Autobiography of an ordinary man


• Bengalooru Banter


• Chronicwriter


• Calcutta Chromosome


• The Secret Journal of Rakesh Jhunjhunwala


• The Blah Blahs and the Yada Yadas


• Coconut Chutney

Best Humanities Indiblog

• The Seventh Art


• Jabberwock


• Mutiny


• Gappa


• Scribble Pad


• Anindita Ghose


• Within / Without


• Indian By Design


• Song of my life


• Indian Home-maker


• Retributions


• Artnlight


• Amardeep Singh


• Middle Stage


• Creative Writing by Vikram Karve

Best Group Indiblog

• ThinkChange India


• India PR Blog


• Indian Muslims Blog


• Mutiny


• Arunachal Diary

Best Food Indiblog

• Rashmi


• Madhurams Eggless Cooking


• Zaiqa


• cooking4allseasons


• One Hot Stove


• Passionate About Baking


• Siris Corner


• Monsoon Spice


• Taste of Mysore


• Akshayapaatram


• The Chennai foodie


• For Spicy Lovers

Best Entertainment Indiblog

• Maamis weblog


• Desipolitan


• IndieQuill


• The Seventh Art


• Without giving the movie away


• Milliblog


• Calcutta Chromosome


• Dappan Koothu


• Tatvam


• 24 frames per second

Best Travel Indiblog

• Trivial Matters


• Jugalbandi


• A travel blog of an Indian backpacker


• Windy Skies


• A Wandering Mind


• IHRs Blog


• Earning My Quarter Mile


• Rajus Temple Visits


• Shalinis travelogue


• Never Lost for Words


• Timetrippin

Best Sports Indiblog

• A Cricketing View


• Twenty20 World


• Chinese Cut


• Pen The Game


• Cricket World Champions


• Kridaya Cricket Blog


• Fake IPL Player

Best Science Technology Indiblog

• Digital Inspiration


• Trouble Fixers


• WATBlog - Web, Advertising and Technology Blog in India


• Shout Me Loud


• Amit Bhawani Tech Blog


• 9lessons Programming Blog


• /var/log/mind


• Technically Personal!


• Brajeshwar


• HackTrix


• IndianWeb2

Best IndiPodcast

• Meter down


• Kamla Bhatt


• Whats Up, India?


• IdeaJugglers Podcasts

Best Business Indiblog

• The Money Maniac


• India PR Blog


• The India Street


• Gauravonomics


• Pluggd.in


• The Ribbon Farm


• Sramana Mitra on Strategy


• India Business Blog


• Bhatnaturally


• Ideasmarkit


• Yes, the world. Of digital spaces, social changes

Best Designed Indiblog

• Jugalbandi


• The Eternal Thinker


• The Design Superhero


• CSSJockey.com


• Mutiny


• Weaving a Web


• Tatvam Productions

Best Indi Photo blog

• The Daily Sunrise


• A Photographic Journey


• IndiaShots


• Mumbai unlimited


• Trivial Matters


• Friendly Animals


• Which Main? What Cross? Bangalore Street Pictures


• Delhi Photo Diary


• Walk the Wilderness...through our photographs


• Chai ki dukan

Best Personal Indiblog

• Silverine


• Just a mother of two


• The Idea-smithy


• Domain Maximus


• Almost as good as chocolate


• Bengalooru Banter


• Bringing Up Adi


• Brown Phantom


• Dappan Koothu


• Enchanted


• The ha ha called lyf...


• Lumuhuku


• The Secret Journal of Rakesh Jhunjhunwala


• Sauce


• Redefining Oblivion


• Delve into the Mind of a Budding Blogger

Notes:
1. The "Best IndiBlog directory/service/clique/network" category was dropped due to insufficient number of nominations received.
2. IB-2008 edition is running late, note that the nominations happened in Feb 2009 and the Jury rating process happened in March/April 2009, since then some Blogs have either moved or are now defunct. However, since they existed at the mentioned URLs at the time of nomination/Juror rating phase we have listed the URLs we have on our records. We urge you to vote for such blogs based on your best judgment.