The 2006 Winners are here

Indibloggies 2006 : Empowered by the community »

Ladies and gentlemen! The moment of truth has arrived. The Indiblogosphere has chosen a new band of winners from 175 worthy contenders across 21 varied categories. The final phase of Voting at the Indibloggies 2006 event witnessed over 3500 registrations with around 2235 votes cast over a week. The figures may be small, but being recognized as a blogger extraordinaire by your own community is no small an achievement.

I thank all the participants and the Jurors for your help and encouragement. Your vote, dear readers, has decided their fate and its time you join us in congratulating them on their triumph. Here is the list of Winners:

Indibloggies 2006: The results

Indiblog of the year

Random Thoughts of a Demented Mind

Juror comments:
Always witty, always hilarious, from the banners to the posts (Debashish)
Satirical, funny, and engaging comments space (Neha)
It’s not merely funny. It’s got its pulse on India. (Nitin)

Best Topical IndiBlog

Atanu Dey on Indias Development

Juror comments:
Provocative, insightful, intelligent and unapologetic! (Nitin)
Interesting insights on development, infrastructure and education. (Neha)
Bitterly hitting posts, great prose with loads of wisdom. (Debashish)

Best Science / Technology IndiBlog

Digital Inspiration
Juror comments:

Extremely well presented. Great consistency in quality and frequency. Engaging posts even for non-techies.(Neha)

Unique & useful posts with relevant further reading links. (Debashish)

Very Good! (Selva)

(Runner up blogs Nonoscience and WATBlog also win prizes)

Best Group / Community IndiBlog

Blogchaat

Juror comments:
Esoteric. Always makes a good read. (Neha)

Best Humanities Indiblog

2X3X7

Juror comments:
Warm, witty - covers literature, movies, people, places. Very consistent and engaging. (Neha)
Excellent writing and great reviews! (Rohit)
One of the best examples of writing in the desi blogosphere. (Patrix)

Best New IndiBlog

Saffron Tree

Best Entertainment Indiblog

Blogical Conclusion

Juror comments:
Interesting reviews. Fabulous insight. This boy knows his movies. (Neha)
Well written and unbiased bollywood reviews. (Rohit)
Rangan rules, even if the frame-by-frame details sometimes begin to pain (Shivam)
Candid, elaborate reviews. (Debashish)

Most Humorous IndiBlog

Random Thoughts of a Demented Mind

Best Indi Photoblog

Trivial Matters

Juror comments:
Each picture makes me want to leave everything and go out with my camera (Patrix)
Wonderful photographs with insightful commentary. (Neha)
Really really good stuff! (Shivam)
Able to capture the essence of India. (Nitin)

Best Food Indiblog

Mahanandi

Juror comments:
A great blog for foodies! (Patrix)

Best IndiPodcast

The IndiCast

Best Sports Indiblog

Sportolysis

Best Designed Blog

Desipundit

Best Directory / Clique / Service

Desipundit

Best Travel Indiblog

Travel Tales From India

Best Indic Blog (Hindi)

Udan Tashtari
(Runner up blogs Jo na keh sake and Bihari Babu Kahin also win prizes)

Best Indic Blog (Kannada)

Majavani

Best Indic Blog (Malayalam)

Kuruman’s Stories

Best Indic Blog (Marathi)

Tulips in twilight

Best Indic Blog (Tamil)

Pinathalkal

Best Indic Blog (Telugu)

A Search

For me its time for a sabbatical, my fingers are swollen and eyes strained weeding those duplicate votes out of the system, some who did it with finesse and some with plain brute force. But the Indipukies or the Indifloggies, should definitely go to the admirers of one meena who flogged the system which ingenious email ids, you would wish you had one for each mood of yours. Savor these: meenaelectric@gmail.com, meenaserious, meenasharp, meenaquiet, meenaawake, meenasame, meenanecessary, meenatrue, meenageneral, meenadifferent, meenaready, meenaequal, meenacertain, meenalong, meenaprobable, meenaearly, meenagreen, meenaable, meenaautomatic, meenadeep, meenarough, meenasmooth, meenacomplex, meenasolid, meenaseparate, meenakind, meenaloud, meenabright, meenaelastic, meenachemical, meenadifferent, meenanatural, meenafull, meenachief, meenapresent, meenasecret, meenagood, meenaboiling, meenaclean and meenaclear amongst host of others. The only solace is that apart from jurors being threatened and organizers being offered lipstick no browsers were harmed during the process.

Winners may collect their badges here.
Interested in statistics? The final tally for each category is available here.

Winners, please send an email to indibloggies at gmail dot com with subject PRIZE CLAIM 2006, stating your postal address and contact details.

February 22nd, 2007 | Results

ib-2006, winners

42 Comments (Add your own)

1. फुरसतिया &hellip | February 22nd, 2007 at 8:35 pm

[...] इस बीच इंडीब्लागीस चुनाव के नतीजे आ गये। हिंदी ब्लाग में आशानुरूप [...]
2. Gurukulam | ഗുരു�&hellip | February 22nd, 2007 at 8:36 pm

[...] വിശദവിവരങ്ങള്‍ ഇവിടെ. [...]
3. amit varma | February 22nd, 2007 at 8:49 pm

Debashish, well done on conducting the awards so well. And congratulations to all the winners!
4. Thank You at Random Thoug&hellip | February 22nd, 2007 at 8:57 pm

[...] Here are the results. [...]
5. Patrix | February 22nd, 2007 at 9:21 pm

Congrats on a job well done, Debashish. It was a pleasure serving on the jury. Regardless of the flak you get, your efforts are indeed admirable.
6. Atanu Dey on India’&hellip | February 23rd, 2007 at 12:08 am

[...] results of the Indibloggies are in. Thanks for the [...]
7. Ravi | February 23rd, 2007 at 1:56 am

Great work Debu - You did it again - single handedly.

Grand wishes,
Ravi
8. शशि सिंह | February 23rd, 2007 at 4:11 am

सभी विजेताओं को हार्दिक बधाई! और बधाई हमारे देबू दा को जिन्होंने इस आयोजन को तमाम मुश्किलात के बाद भी सफलतापूर्वक अंजाम दिया.
9. Another one ! at Alchemy&hellip | February 23rd, 2007 at 4:58 am

[...] Congratulations to Arunn for winning the runner up in the science category of Indiblogs. [...]
10. Nonoscience is 2006 Runne&hellip | February 23rd, 2007 at 5:08 am

[...] has secured the second spot in the Science/Technology Category at the 2006 Indibloggies Awards. Thanks for all the voters. [...]
11. Vote for Nonoscience at N&hellip | February 23rd, 2007 at 5:13 am

[...] [ vote for the blog here ] between 13 and 20 February 2007. Update: Feb 23, 2007: Results are out. Nonoscience is runner-up. [...]
12. DesiPundit » Archiv&hellip | February 23rd, 2007 at 6:03 am

[...] Thank you to all our readers and congratulations to all contributors. Rest of the winners. [...]
13. Anand | February 23rd, 2007 at 6:27 am

Congrats to all winners.
14. Greatbong | February 23rd, 2007 at 6:53 am

Thank you Debashish for conducting the Indibloggies. An awesome effort.
15. Zainub | February 23rd, 2007 at 7:01 am

Congratulations to all the winners, and good on the organizers to put in place a system by which the best can be recognized and appreciated.
16. nandita | February 23rd, 2007 at 7:11 am

I am absolutely not surprised at the ‘meena’ deluge. Even in the foodblogger awards that happened about two months ago, I saw a certain blog that obviously looked self promoted in EVERY EXISTING CATEGORY. When I saw the same name nominated in the indibloggies in the food blog category, I knew how it got nominated and I had lost hope. Thankfully, sanity prevailed and a most deserving blog won in the food blog section. People do go to some extent in their desperation for fame - even if it is only online.
17. Madhur Khandelwal | February 23rd, 2007 at 7:11 am

Congrats winners! Kudos to Indibloggies team for organizing this healthy competition and surfacing the best Indian blogs.
18. Abhijeet Kulkarni | February 23rd, 2007 at 7:55 am

Congratulations to Debashish, and all the winners.! For the Marathi blog’s award, I am happy to see that the best (http://tulipsintwilight.blogspot.com) has prevailed.
Keep blogging to the best, you all.!
19. To Each Its Own » A&hellip | February 23rd, 2007 at 7:57 am

[...] blogger and non-blogger junta - the IndiBloggies 2006 results are out and my inflated ego is being crushed right this very minute I would like to wish my [...]
20. पुणेकर | February 23rd, 2007 at 8:44 am

ट्युलिप, हार्दिक अभिनंदन
21. IndiBloggies 2006 result &hellip | February 23rd, 2007 at 9:50 am

[...] You can check the full list of all the winners at http://www.indibloggies.org/results-2006/ [...]
22. Global Voices Online &raq&hellip | February 23rd, 2007 at 11:06 am

[...] about them including Fursatiya!! Finally after the busy rounds of nominations & voting, the winners of Indibloggies 2006 were announced with Canada based Sameer Lal grabbing up the Best Indic Blog(Hindi) award while [...]
23. MYPAJAMA.COM » Indi&hellip | February 23rd, 2007 at 11:18 am

[...] Indibloggies 2006 winners have been announced. Two of the blogs I voted for have won. Fair enough I [...]
24. Bala Subra | February 23rd, 2007 at 2:22 pm

Congrats to all the winners and my sincere thanks for the coordination & execution of the contest.
25. Abhishek | February 23rd, 2007 at 3:12 pm

Debashish: Brilliant job! Well done! You deserve a blast! When can I come to Pune to join you!
26. Neeru | February 23rd, 2007 at 4:11 pm

Hahahhahaha….Loved the Meena Expose…I wonder who it was….anyone know??
27. Raman | February 23rd, 2007 at 4:16 pm

Great job, Debashish. Congratulations to all the winners.
28. Ashish | February 23rd, 2007 at 5:15 pm

Congrats to the winners.. !
29. scan man’s notes - &hellip | February 23rd, 2007 at 7:48 pm

[...] By Vijay Nonoscience shares the second place in Indibloggies 2006 for Best Science/Technology [...]
30. Dr.Shyam Gupta | February 24th, 2007 at 3:57 am

Dear Sameer,
Udan Tashtari
Brilliant job! Well done! You deserve a blast!
Congrats
31. Kailas | February 24th, 2007 at 5:20 am

Congrats Debashish on a job well done…..Cant really imagine how much work has gone into this, Congrats to all the winners too..
32. marriedtoadesi.com | February 24th, 2007 at 4:13 pm

Debashish, Excellent Work on the Awards! Congrats to all the winners:)

Kanchana
33. The 2006 Indibloggies Win&hellip | February 24th, 2007 at 4:32 pm

[...] results for the 2006 Indibloggies are out. I was surprised to see DesiPundit sweep both the categories it was nominated in. The [...]
34. And The Winner Is on ifac&hellip | February 25th, 2007 at 12:35 pm

[...] Not me! But as I had said earlier, I am quite happy with even the status of a nominee. Congratulations to Amit Agarwal, Arun and the team behind WATBlog for grabbing the top places under the Best Science/Technology Blog category. Check out the winners in other categories, they are really worth your time. OpenIDSay your thought! [...]
35. Karthik | March 1st, 2007 at 1:16 pm

GreatBong deserves it….good job on the awards!

Karthik
36. Indian Job Blogger | March 6th, 2007 at 5:47 am

Congrats to the winners !!

We would also like to participate next time.
There is no subcategory related to Jobs / Employment or Career.
So I would request Ingibloggies to add some related category next time.

Thanks.
http://walkin.wordpress.com
37. ikShayar | March 8th, 2007 at 7:43 am

I happened find indibloggies through Mr. Samir’s blog who is one of the winner this year. I really liked the concept and way you turned it around.

Nice ,Goodluck guys.
38. Interview with the IndiCa&hellip | March 29th, 2007 at 11:47 pm

[...] the monotonous nature of conventional news mediums. IndiCast won the award of best Indi-Podcast of IndiBloggies 2006 and have won many titles. They have shown a big success in podcasting and have inspired many to [...]
39. DesiPundit » Archiv&hellip | April 3rd, 2007 at 3:53 am

[...] we did last year, DesiPundit is again auctioning off its prizes won at the Indibloggies. the proceeds will be donated in entirety to Magic Bus, a nonprofit charitable organization that [...]
40. Ramani | April 11th, 2007 at 10:08 am

Aaa… Mena diluge. Beware of Meena of Hooked on Heat foodblog. She will spam and attack, she is notorious in that way in food blog world.
41. एक चिट्ठा&hellip | May 18th, 2007 at 12:11 am

[...] सम्मान प्राप्त) और इंडीब्लॉगीज़-2006 के सर्वोत्तम हिन्दी ब्लॉगर से मिलने का। जी हाँ, टोरोंटो की अपनी [...]
42. Random Thoughts recognise&hellip | December 23rd, 2007 at 7:53 pm

[...] Thoughts of a Demented Mind has been recognised by Indian Weblog Awards 2006 as the best blog of the year. Random Thoughts has also been judged as the most humorous blog while [...]