Welcome to the BOBs -- the world's largest international Weblog awards for blogs, podcast and videoblogs! Since its humble beginnings four years ago, the BOBs have grown to include 11 languages and 15 categories. Awards are decided both by an international jury of media experts and bloggers and through online voting. Last year alone, 7,000 blogs were nominated and over 100,000 people voted for their favorites online.

Do not forget to browse through the thousands of blogs featured in our Blogopedia and on our new and improved BlogMap -- also please feel free to leave a comment or enter your own blog.

Please join us as we work towards this year's competition -- beginning on August 31th. We promise to continue to bring you the absolute best selection of blogs, podcast and videoblogs from all over the world.

And this year we are proud to announce that we are relaunching the BOBs site with added features and a new eye-pleasing design.

So stay tuned, stay connected and check back on August 31st.

The BOBs Team