2008-11-27

The Winners Have Been Decided

Over 100,000 votes were casting during the BOBs.

Our congratulations go out to each of them.


Jury Prize Winner Announcement in Berlin

The winners of the Jury Prizes will be announced at a public award ceremony in Berlin on Nov. 27 at the Museum for Communication. Admission is free. The BOBs' international jury of bloggers and media experts will present all the winners.

Live Blog and Live Stream

For the first time, the award ceremony will be broadcast live for everyone who can't make it to Berlin. Peter Bihr will also be live blogging the event (www.thewavingcat.com and www.blogpiloten.de).

The live stream was generously made possible with the support of Sevenload.

We look forward to seeing you in Berlin and on the Net.

2009-08-04

The winners of the fifth International Blog Awards were announced as part of a public ceremony led by television moderator Stefanie Suren and blog expert Andreas Schepers at the Berlin Museum for Communication.

Held by Congolese blogger Cédric Kalonji, the keynote speech dealt with how bloggers can help the African continent. Kalonji described have decades of dictatorship in Congo suppressed freedom of expression to the extent that he was motivated to blog in order to share his daily experiences and freely express his opinions. Kalonji, who won the 2007 Jury Award in the Best French Weblog category, said blogs' most important role was to build bridges: between Africa and the world as well as among all African countries.

For the first time, the award ceremony was broadcast live and live blogged by Peter Bihr (www.thewavingcat.com and www.blogpiloten.de).

The Public Also Decided

Over 120,000 people cast ballots over the last four weeks in the BOBs' online voting to choose their favorites from among the 11 finalists in each of the 16 categories.

The public's Best Weblog Award went to the Chinese blog Science Guru. The rest of the Public's Choice winners can be seen here Results Page.

From among all the registered online voting participants, one person, chosen at random, will receive a HTC Touch Dual. The winner will be notified by e-mail.

The BOBs would like to thank all the people, including users, jury members, partners and sponsors, who lent their support to this year's competition.

2008-10-27

2009-08-04

Online voting runs until November 26

Over 8,500 blogs, videoblogs and podcasts were nominated in 16 categories for the BOBs this year - a new record for the BOBs. We would like to thank all of our users who participated.

Those long lists have been narrowed down by our jury members to the top eleven and now it's your turn to take part.

The People's Choice Awards

All 176 finalists are are ready and waiting for your vote. The nominees in the five mixed-languages categories have an English description.

To vote, just click on the "Cast Your Vote!" tab above.

The Jury Winners

The International Jury will meet on November 26 to decide the winners of the jury awards in each category. The Deutsche Welle will take place on November 27 at 20:00 at a public event at the Museum for Communication in Berlin. The Keynote at the event will be given by Cédric Kalonji, winner of the "Best Weblog French" award last year.

Get voting!

2008-10-07

Blog Action Day is an annual nonprofit event that aims to unite the world’s bloggers, podcasters and videocasters, to post about the same issue on the same day. The aim is to raise awareness and trigger a global discussion. This year's topic: Poverty.

Deutsche Welle and The BOBs are proud to be a sponsor and a participant in this important event.

2008-10-01

Now it's the Jury's turn.

The nomination phase of the BOBs is now over. In the past weeks, over 8,000 blogs, podcasts and videoblogs from all over the world have been nominated for the BOBs 2008 -- a new BOBs record! Our team would like to thank all of you who took part and nominated your favorite blogs.Now it is up to the jury to sort through all those nominations and find the best blogs in each category.In the mean time, we invite you all to browse through all the blogs in the Blogopedia or on the Blogmap.

Small but Important Changes

In the past years we have always featured a list of the ten best blogs in each category. This year, in honor of our eleventh language, Indonesian, we are going to up that count to the best eleven blogs in each category. That brings the total number of nominated blogs to 176 in 16 categories.



From October 27 to November 27, users will be encouraged to vote online for their favorites.

Then on November 26, our jury will congregate in Berlin to choose the best blogs in each category. The winners will be announced at a public event at the Museum for Communication on November 27 in Berlin: Everyone is welcome!

The announcements will be viewable through a live video feed (details to come).

So keep checking back for more info about the BOBs.

We will keep working as long as you all keep blogging.

2008-08-31

We just passed 11,000 registered blogs! And we would like to thank the blogging public for getting us there!

But the BOBs are just getting started. Not only was August 31, 2008 International BlogDay, but it also signaled the start of the fifth annual Weblog Awards from Deutsche Welle -- The BOBs -- with a new site design and an 11th language: Indonesian!

So once again we are calling on all you bloggers and blog readers out there to step up and nominate your favorites. 20,000, here we come!

The BOBs are New and Improved!

2008 is a big year for the BOBs. First we are proud to unveil a totally redesigned Website that is easier to navigate and lighter on the eyes. Plus if you want to get a sense of the international nature of this competition check out our new Blogmap – one of the many new features at the BOBs. On our Blogmap you can navigate through more than 4,500 blogs spread throughout the world.

The nomination period of The BOBs will last until September 30, 2008. Up until that date users can submit their favorite blogs, videoblogs and podcasts for consideration in 16 categories and 11 languages (Arabic, Chinese, German, English, French, Indonesian, Dutch, Persian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish).

And then what?

From these proposals, our international jury of journalists, media experts and bloggers will narrow the field to a short list of worthy candidates.

Then from October 27 to November 26, users will be encouraged to vote online for their favorites. Winners will be selected by both the online voting and the jury and will be announced at a public event at the Museum for Communication on November 27 in Berlin.

Bloggers, start your engines!