And the winners are..

Fellow IndiBloggers! You did a great job and thank you for that. We hope that this effort kindled the spirit of Indian-ness in the IndiBlogosphere. Hopefully, this get-together brought us closer as a community. If this effort introduced you to even a single blog that you had never heard of before, if it prompted you to say, "ya man that blog is truly good, I must have it on my blogroll", we would deem this as worthwhile. What this years awards lacked was some slackness in nominations, many deserving blogs were perhaps left away, atleast for vernacular blogs we expected a lot more nominations, but hey this was just a beginning.

Here is to the IndiBlogosphere, hope all IndiBloggers would rise above the mediocre and strive towards excellence. Let Blogging make a difference to the world we live in.

Enough of commentary, here is the final list of winners for the IndiBlog Awards -2003:

• IndiBlog of the year: Jivha-the Tongue
• Best media IndiBlog:Lazy Geek !
• Best sports IndiBlog: Cricket weblog
• Best technology IndiBlog: Emergic.org
• Best IndiBlog directory:Indian Bloggers List
• Indiblog with the best tagline: The Kolkata Libertarian
• Best topical IndiBlog: Technology & Business (Emergic.org)
• Best designed IndiBlog:Mahesh's Techrose
• Most humorous Indiblog: Pieces of the Puzzle
• Best new Indiblog: Charu's Peek in to my mind
• Best Hindi Indiblog: Alok's 9211
• Best regional Indiblog: Venkataramanan's Sine Qua
• IndiBlog lifetime achievement:Anita Bora
• Best male IndiBlogger: Chakra
• Best female IndiBlogger: Vaijayanthi
• Best IndiPhotoBlog: Raj's Photoblog

Heart Congratulations to all the winners! Jivha and Vaijayanthi, please get in touch with the award-sponsors directly to claim your prizes. The show is not over yet, we have one more item to go before the curtains are down for this years awards. Watch out for the surprise post!

Indibloggies 2003 :: Final Poll Results

Here is the final tally, for the record.

And the nominees are..

Ladies and gentlemen! Thanks a zillion for your contribution to this effort. The Nominations phase is over and here are the lucky ones. Congratulations people! Please do read the note at the bottom of this post. Give us some time to arrange the polls (it came to us that no free poll site allows having multiple polls, www.blogpoll.com could not be selected because the polls are also visible on their site. We ultimately have settled for sparklit.com's excellent free service). Meanwhile you can send in more nominations or request to strike-out any in-eligible ones, till December 6, 2003. The voting shall commense on December 7, 2003.

IndiBlog of the year:

• Ashification (http://ashforyou.rediffblogs.com)
• Jivha-the Tongue (http://www.jivha.com/blog/)
• Journeywoman (http://journeywoman.rediffblogs.com/) (Nomination withdrawn)
• Smorgasbord (http://www.smorgasbord.rediffblogs.com/)
• The Maanga (http://www.nilakantanrs.blogspot.com/)
• Unganisha.org(http://unganisha.org/)

Best ArtsMedia IndiBlog:

• Lazy Geek ! (http://www.lazygeek.net/)
• (http://www.niceguyhemanth.com/)
• Teakada (http://www.teakada.com/)
• Mdeii life(http://mdeii.blogspot.com/)

Best Sports IndiBlog:

• Cricket weblog ( http://rightho.com/cwc2003/)

Best Technology IndiBlog:

• Rajesh Jain ( http://emergic.org)
• Gigaom (http://gigaom.com/)
• Webjives (www.webjives.com)
• Kiruba Shanker (http://www.kiruba.com/)

Best IndiBlog directory:

• http://india.rightho.com/
• Kamat's Blog Portal (http://www.kamat.org/community)
• Indian Bloggers (http://indianbloggers.blogspot.com/)

Indiblog with the best tagline*:

• From the banks of the Ganges, to a treestand in Illinois, defending freedom with a pen and a .357 Magnum. (The kolkata Libertarian, http://www.palit.com/tkl.asp)
• When I paint my masterpiece (http://melodrama.rediffblogs.com/)
• ...a loose, forked, pseudo-secular tail-piece! (Jivha-the Tongue, http://www.jivha.com/blog/)

Best topical IndiBlog:

• India Economy Watch (Group blog, http://indiaeconomywatch.blogspot.com/)
• Technology & Business (Rajesh Jain, http://www.emergic.org/)
• Indian Media (Mediaah, http://mediaah.blogspot.com)
• Travelogue (Journeywoman, http://journeywoman.rediffblogs.com/) (Nomination withdrawn)

Best designed IndiBlog:

• MuseLog( http://muselog.net)
• Amit(http://www.netahoy.org/mt/)
• Arnab's World(http://www.arnab.org/blog/)
• Nilesh (http://nilesh.org/weblog/)
• Mahesh(http://www.techrose.org/filtercoffee/)
• Smitha(http://www.ecomancer.net/weblog/)

Most humorous Indiblog:

• http://www.nilakantanrs.blogspot.com/
• http://www.zrox.net/Diary/
• http://alpha.blogdrive.com/
• Ravages

Best New Indiblog:

• Odyssey of a Princess ( http://pavithra.rediffblogs.com)
• http://www.ramdhanyk.com
• The Acorn (http://www.paifamily.com/opinion/)
• Charu (http://peekintomymind.blogspot.com/)

Best Hindi Indiblog:

• Alok (http://9211.blogspot.com)

Best Regional Indiblog:

• Venkataramanan (http://www.tamillinux.org/venkat/myblog/) -Tamil
• Badri (http://thoughtsintamil.blogspot.com/) - Tamil
• Kamat (http://www.kamat.com/econtent/kannada_blog/) - Kannada

IndiBlog Lifetime achievement:

• Anil Dash (http://www.dashes.com/anil/)
• Anita Bora (http://www.anitabora.com/blog/)

Best Male IndiBlogger:

• Aashish (http://ashforyou.rediffblogs.com)
• Patrix (http://patrix.rediffblogs.com)
• Mahesh (http://www.techrose.org)
• Gandalf (http://gandalfwhite.rediffblogs.com/)
• Chakra's blog (http://www.chakkarapani.com/blogs)

Best Female IndiBlogger:

• Dragon (http://thesixthartist.blogspot.com/)
• Austereseeker (http://austereseeker.rediffblogs.com)
• Gorgeous! (http://gorgeous.blogdrive.com)
• http://alpha.blogdrive.com
• Melodrama (http://melodrama.rediffblogs.com/)
• Vaijayanthi (http://vj13.blogspot.com/)
• Shobha (http://differentstrokes.blogspot.com/)

Best IndiPhotoBlog:

• http://www.rajeshkrishnamurthy.com/photoblog
• http://fotu.rediffblogs.com/
• Shyamal
• Sanzen's photo blog

Note: Some of the blogs which were not considered are: Ashifications for best tagline* (reason: no tagline found), Dr.Mani for any category (reason: we are not selling anything here), Kingsley for best Tech blog (please tell me if this was appropritae to be considered) and Jivha for best topical blog. If you find the URL/Title/Details wrong or feel the blog does not qualify for the category or if the blog contains any objectionable or unpalatable stuff do let us know through comments to this post or email us at indibloggies@myway.com.