The 2008 BOBs Winners Have Been Decided!
2008-11-28
Generación Y Wins Best Blog of 2008
The jury for the Deutsche Welle International Weblog Awards -- The BOBs -- has announced the winners in all 16 of the competition's categories.
Of the 11 finalists in the Best Blog category, Generación Y, a Cuban blog written by Yoani Sanchez, claimed the Jury Prize for Best Blog.
The jury said that Sanchez gives voice to an entire generation of Cubans and provides the world with a window into Cuba through her clear and poetic writing.
In addition to a slew of other obstacles in her way, Sanchez can't even post her own entries to the blog. Instead she is forced to e-mail them to friends outside of Cuba in order for her words to go online. Despite the challenges she has to overcome, she's managed to keep in contact with her readers and create a huge international community around her work.
For the Reporters Without Borders award, the jury decided to honor two blogs. One went to Zeng Jinyan, the wife of an imprisoned Chinese human rights activist Hu Jia, and 4equality, a Persian blog that fights for women's rights in Iran.
Placed under house arrest, Zeng Jinyan's blog describes life under constant surveillance by the Chinese authorities. The Persian blog 4equality is working to gather one million signatures on a petition for increased women's rights in Iran.
Here are all the Jury Prize winners for the BOBs 2008.
Congratulations to the winners and to all the blogs who were nominated. And thanks also to all of you who participated in the online voting, making this year's BOBs the most successful ever!
Cheers,
The BOBs Team
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The Berlin Award Ceremony
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.
Online Voting Has Ended
2008-11-27
The Winners Have Been Decided
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Our congratulations go out to each of them.
Jury Prize Winner Announcement in Berlin
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Online Voting Lottery
From among all the participants in the online voting, one lucky person, selected at random, will receive a smart phone with HSDPA and QWERTZ keyboard. Good luck!
Welome to the final stage of the BOBs - Let's vote!
2008-10-27
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.
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The BOBs Support:
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.
Now it's the jury's turn
2008-10-01
Online Voting Begins October 27
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.
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The BOBs 2008
