- Indibloggies
[http://www.indibloggies.org Indibloggies] is an annual blog-award website targeted at Indian Blogs and was started as a parody clique on the [http://www.bloggies.com/ Bloggies] . The site slogan says that it "showcases the best of the Indian blogosphere". The website awards annually blogs written in English as well as Indicblogs (blogs written in Indian language scripts) authored by Indians and the Indian diaspora.
Background
The site was launched by an Indian blogger [http://www.debashish.com Debashish Chakrabarty] as a fun venture, "he felt that he wasn't able to read so many good blogs just because he never heard of them"ref|ABT_IND. [http://indibloggies.blogspot.com Indibloggies] blog was started at free hosting service from Blogger.com in 2003 with many few bloggers contributing with their awards. The Indibloggies website now operates from http://www.indibloggies.org and has an allied blog.
Though the modus operandi has been different each year, the Indibloggies decides the winners in various award categories based on a mix of peer-review from a panel of jurors, public nominations and public voting. From 2005 onwards Indibloggies uses the social book marking site
Del.icio.us to solicit category-wide public nominationsref|IB_2005.Previous winners of 'Indiblog of the Year'
* 2006 : [http://greatbong.net/ Random Thoughts Of A Demented Mind]
* 2005 : [http://indiauncut.blogspot.com/ India Uncut]
* 2004 : [http://www.deeshaa.org/ Atanu Dey on India's Development]
* 2003 : [http://www.jivha.com/ Jivha] (now Defunct)Past Events Summary
* [http://www.indibloggies.org/indibloggies2006 2006]
* [http://www.indibloggies.org/indibloggies2005 2005]
* [http://www.indibloggies.org/indibloggies2004 2004]
* [http://www.indibloggies.org/indibloggies2003 2003]References
* [http://www.indibloggies.org/about The about page on Indibloggies website]
* [http://www.indibloggies.org/nominations-2005/ Closer to the Polls]External links
* [http://www.indibloggies.org/ The IndiBloggies Official Site]
* [http://www.indiaprwire.com/pressrelease/online-multimedia/200702242021.htm Indibloggies, the Indian Weblog Awards declares winners of 2006 event]
* [http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=221527 Battle of the Blogs]
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