Indibloggies

Indibloggies was an annual blog-award website targeted at Indian Blogs started as a parody clique on the Bloggies. The site used to showcases the best of the Indian blogosphere and once used to serve "as a focal point for what could loosely be called the Indian blogging community".[1] The website annually awarded[2] 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[3] by an Indian blogger 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.[4] Indibloggies blog was started at free hosting service from Blogger.com in 2003 with many few bloggers contributing with their awards. The Indibloggies website later moved to http://www.indibloggies.org, this site is now defunct and the archives available at its old blogspot address.

Though the modus operandi had been different each year, the Indibloggies decided 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 used the social book marking site Del.icio.us to solicit category-wide public nominations.[5]

Indibloggies could be credited for recognizing some outstanding bloggers year after year. For example, Sonia Faleiro, who’s blog was adjudged the "Best Topical Blog" in 2006 went on to win the CNN Young Journalist award[6] the same year, Amit Varma, author of “India Uncut”, won the “Best New Indiblog” award in 2005 and then went on to win the Bastiat Prize in 2007[7] and later landed a book deal with Hachette India.[8] Similarly, Arnab Ray, consecutive winner of "Best Indiblog" later landed a book deal with Harpercollins that was a best-seller.[9]

Previous winners of 'Indiblog of the Year'

Past Events Summary

References

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