Blog of the Year 2008 Awards
That the A day! Welcome to the Island Crisis Mauritius Blog of the Year Award 2008. Welcome…? Ok let the word…it’s just a word. I think Blogcome would have been the right word.
What a hot and also agitating competition we had! Real obsession to be the winner but however its really good this competitive reaction. Competition is really good. The competition was supposed to end on the 29th of December. I made a change in the ending due to the high level of cheating that were occurring in the votes! I contacted some of the bloggers and they all agreed for it to end on 26th December when I proposed that idea.
Yesterday while changing the automatic closing date, I guess i selected 25 instead of 26 and as a result the poll was closed last night… Yea technical errors happend! Even on big competitions it happens. Just to illustrate it, even in the competition of Daily Blog Tips which I participated, the feed system was down for one whole day due to very small mistakes. By the I forgot to announce the result at DBT competition as I was so held up with the migration process at the start if December.
Island Crisis ended with a rank of 28 on more than 125 international blog who participated in the Blogging Idol Competition. I thank everyone for their votes there. I think 28 is a very nice rank as there was lots of high SEO ranked blogs participating and the competition was just too good.
So I decided to allow the votes to be open today till noon but since some bloggers were against it so I had to ask some opinion and the majority said its ok if we continue till noon but so that there are no “manifest” from some, then its better to end it at 10:00 itself. So it ends….and now its time for the real award ceremony.
Here are the details of the awards. The awards consists of awards that have been allocated based on public votes from the poll and aslo 12 other awards based on type of content, popularity of field, seo values and also on dedication to blogging. Why? The competition aim to be fair to all the bloggers and mostly encourage them to blog rather than making them rivals! The public voting poll surely shows the total amount of votes a blog got but however to determine who is the best blog does not depend only on friends votes. So awards will be given to different blogs based on what they really did this year and about many factors which I will talk about below.
Each award has a badge made specially for that respective blogger and you can put that on your blog sidebar as a proof of your winning here. The badges are at a size of over 300 px however you can resize it to 160 x 140 while posting it to your blog. The details on the logo will still be clearly visible. I have already tested them on my browser. Just download it and upload to your server and resize. For those who need help to set this up, just contact me and I will set it for you on your blogs. Lets start!!
Blog of the Year 2008 and Blog of the Year 2008 Runner-Up awards.
These two awards have been allocated based on the total number of votes that these blogs got on the voting poll. The top 3 based on voting poll votes are shown below:
www.yashvinblogs.com – 136 votes – 30%
www.dakshinee.net – 105 votes – 23%
priscus.wordpress.com – 103 votes – 22%
So the Blog of the Year Award goes to Yashvin Blogs for 30% of votes with a total of 136 votes in the voting poll form.
And the Blog of the Year 2008 – Runner Up goes to www.dakshinee.net for 23% of votes with 105 total votes in the public voting poll.
Female Blogger of the Year 2008
Now its time for the Female Blog of the Year 2008 Award. As I said in the voting poll post, the Female Blog of the Year award is here because there are really a minority of active girl bloggers here in Mauritius. There are some but most of them are not so active and some have even stop to blog. This award is based on the most active female blogger and who has also been doing blog actions to encourage other girl bloggers and who has been very active for the past 12 months. The award for Female Blogger of the Year 2008 goes to priscus.wordpress.com
Most Promising Blogger 2008
This category consist of two section namely the Most Promising Male Blogger 2008 and the Most Promising Female Blogger 2008. This section concern those new bloggers who join the blog network of Mauritius this year and who has really some good chance of being popular blogs by the end of next year. Some of the factors taken into consideration are:
- Comment ratio
- Quality and Realism of content
- Interaction level on other blogs
- Ethical ways of replying to comments
These are just a few. So I award the Most Promising Male Blog 2008 to S4ndeep.wordpress.com – The decision has been a bit hard as I had two blogs for this one namely, S4ndeep and also pramodrt.wordpress.com. However after much thinking and fighting with my mind lol.. I award it to S4ndeep for his “kass pake dan comments lol” on the HSC leakage topic.
The Most Promising Female Blog 2008 goes to www.chaya.fowdar.com. Again on this one I had to choose between Chaya and Dhaneesha who is also a very good new blogger. However finally I choosed Chaya based on the activity rate and interaction on other blogs and also for helping a lot on field works such as the Debate we organised at university.
Most Promising Young Blogger 2008
This award is eligible only for young bloggers. This award concern Young blogger under the age of 20 who has some good chance of being a popular blog in Mauritius by the end of next year based on their determination to blog and succeed in what they are doing. The award for this category goes to www.metalikacrew.com .
Now its time to award our blogger buddies based on categories and topic that they are the best to blog for. This section consist of the Blog of the Year 2008 for the following categories:
- Technology
- Web and SEO
- Media Attention
- Real Life
- Politics
- Graphic and Originality
- Micro Blogging
So the Blog of the Year 2008 – Technology niche goes to www.themediaguru.co.cc for his very professional reviews of mobile phones, gadgets and related topics. So below is your own badge Carrot.
The Blog of the Year 2008 – Web and SEO niche goes to www.webdesign-bureau-of-mauritius.com for his very nice post about seo, web reviews and wordpress related.
The Blog of the Year 2008 – Media Attention category goes to lovvy.wordpress.com for his very well supported attack on a certain newspaper when they had published unverified news about the guy.
The Blog of the Year 2008 – Politic niche goes to priscus.wordpress.com for the very professional coverage of the Student Union Election 2008 and the Minister of Education chaos of March 2008.
The Blog of the Year 2008 – Micro Blogging award goes to… I would have given this award to Shah but since shah is no more blogging, I’ll give this award to www.tushal.net who is really becoming addicted to micro blogging these days.
The Blog of the Year 2008 – Real Life niche goes to www.tushal.net for his very detailed happenings in his life lol, how he met his girlfriend, how he left her, how his heart was broken….well the list is long. You got to have a look. Its always interesting to check Tushal’s blog every morning as there is always something new. Btw Tushal…. prepare yourself for another lab session for IC Love soon
The Blog of the Year 2008 – Graphic and Originality is awarded to www.saileshdesigns.com for his always original templates and nice graphic layouts. Pff…you should check that guy 404 page if you have not…lol.
So these were the awards for the Mauritius Blog of the Year 2008. I will not forget those who didnt win any award as all participants managed to get over 10 votes which is very good. So I made a special badge for all the participant.. That’s the Top 25 Blogs of Mauritius 2008. Don’t hesitate to use it. Its your’s…and I took 2 hours to make this post lol.
So here ends the award ceremony… hey no one awarded ME an award??? Damn!! That’s horrible! I should have been awarded atleast the Blog of the Island 2008 lol
So guys and girls…i spent so much time doing these badge for you..so please use it and let me feel i didnt waste my time lol. If anyone got some problem to place them in mini format on their blog, contact me and I’ll help you.
Bon ale zot lakaz aster…pena gato pena boir nanrien dan sa award la lol. The awards are here, the reactions are too… Enjoy the preparation of the New Year festivals. Hey Tushal…. Any seven seas plan??
Edited by Kurt Avish on Dec 26, 2008 | 102 views
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Blog of the Year 2008 Awards: That the A day! Welcome to the Island Crisis Mauritius Blog of the Year Award 2008.. http://tinyurl.com/9gfbuf
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Priscus on islandcrisis planet….
I won 2 awards Best Female and Politics …
I would like to thank everyone who voted for me .. special thxs to tehseen my campaign manager .. another thxs to my sister who lent me her facebook account … of course thank to all priscus readers .. we gonna make a great party on priscus planet.
Congrats to everyone who won and ….
Most important … avish was always here to support me thxs …
Goin back to Priscus world for a great party with my awards of course .
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Kurt Avish Reply:
December 26th, 2008 at 4:49 PM
@Priscus: Congrats. Btw did you watch a science fiction movie recently? You are using the word ‘world’ and ‘planet’ a lot since some days lol
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Kurt Avish Reply:
December 26th, 2008 at 5:06 PM
There is very nice blog which I wanted to award the real life award…. its http://www.l-iceberg.com/ – however i also considered other factors.. For those who dont know this blog..have a look. Its really cool and funny these articles. (Post are in french).
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Cheers for the award dude!
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tarrr.. mone gagne award!! lollll….. Totally unexpected… well… i dint do any campaigns… lol (apart some MSN friends).. So here goes the speech :
I would like to thank everyone who voted for me.. Thanks a lot! I started blogging since some 3 month ago.. and i write articles only when i have something to write.
For me its not an obligation.. nor do i have any timetable.. lol… It just depends on the mood. Especial thanks to Alishaa, Dee, shaan, mohanish, abhi, yaasir, luvnish, anishta and all my friends!! This is quite some encouragement.. and i will try always to maintain quality in my blog. Moving to a private host soon….
WELL.. i knw no1 is gna read this comment.. so i can write as much as i want.. lol…
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congrats to the Winner, Yashvin
and Congrats to Yusha for her Two Awards… (avish didnt get get even i award.. i guess yusha can give him one!
thank you all!!!
Rock ON!!
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thanks for that award, i think you have inspired that from priscus!…the game is on!
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@ avish, PS, for the young blogger award.. i still think im z youngest.. lol…
anyways.. congrats to metalikacrew!
Rock ON!!
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I won! What a surprise
Thanks to everyone for their votes!
Will blog abt this later…a +
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@ s4ndeep … of course i will give avish a special award
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Thanks everyone for their votes & thanks Avish for the best Tech blog.
Congrats everyone for winning their own awards!
Er.. btw you might want to check the definition of micro-blogging…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro-blogging
Sounds like Twittering to me…
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@ yusha.. not special award… i was saying u got two.. prolly you could share one with him. . haha…
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Congrats to all z winners!
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Kurt Avish Reply:
December 26th, 2008 at 9:43 PM
@All: Congratulation to everyone.
@S4ndeep: Yea no one gave me an award
LOL. If only I could have given myself one
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i will give u dont worry
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Thanks for the Graphic & originality award
Happy end of year everyone
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[...] good news which was announced this evening : yashvinblogs.com has been voted as the Maurian Blog of the Year 2008 with 30% of [...]
Congrats to everyone.. and thanks a lot Avish.. Nice job.. You did a marvellous and professional job.. Dont hesitate to launch another competition, frankly it encourages bloggers to move ahead..
Thanks for the Media Attention Award.. superb..
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ok avish don`t cry i am giving you the Organizer of 2008 award *clap* and also best strategist coz u made us get people to vote and you got the opportunity to get more views and to advertise for your site..hats off, i`ll publish i on my blog later and also some spamming
On the occasion of the launching of metalikacrew.com and of this end of year festive season, we are organising a contest.In order to register yourself in, subscribe yourself in the email subscription form.The Prizes are below:-
1st prize: A rapidshare account of 6 months and Mobile phone credit of rs300.
2nd prize: A rapidshare account of 3 months and mobile phone credit of rs 300
3rd prize:mobile phone credit of rs 250
consolation prize: mobile phone credit of rs 100.
So what are you waiting for register yourself the competition is open till 10 january 2009.
and there may be a lunch/dinner for the 2 person at china imperial as first prize then i`ll give the 3mts of rs to the second and the 1mth will be cancelled…but it not yet confirmed!
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i there is a mistyped in the above the 2nd will be given a 6mth of rs while the 3mt will be cancelled,please correct it [i can never do something well!]
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Bonjourno bane blogeres.
Ala ene representation ki couma ene joke. pa pren sa personel contr zot. ene jok sa.
yashvinblog – google
dakshineenet – youtube
prisus – yahoo
sandeep – mininova dot org
chaya fowder – wikipedia
metalikacrew – itunes
mediaguru – endgadget
web design bureau – blogspot
lovvy – eharmony
tushal – facebook
saileshdesign – deviantart
Fesse ti li calecon bane gagants.
LOL
Jaysen L
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Kurt Avish Reply:
December 27th, 2008 at 7:25 AM
@Jaysen: Cot tone al tir sa joke la lol?
Hahaha. Top selment.
@Joyshan: Lol….Thanks anyway
@Lovvy: congrats to u too.
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Kurt Avish Reply:
December 27th, 2008 at 9:16 AM
Btw Sailesh the sponsor
need to give the winner his rs50 mobile credit gift.
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Congrats to everyone and thanks to avish for being able to control our conflicts..
Thanks thanks thanks
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wow Rapidhshare account! wow congrats to the winners….
euta..snif snif, mo ti penser me, tiny little me ti pu gagne Best Mtian Business blog Award 2008. mo pan gagner
snif snif . mo pu perseverer , zeffort ki konter
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Hehe…Congrats to everyone…
Euurrmmm…I can’t write any speech…but I would like to thanks everyone who voted for me…I had zero campaigning…and I believe that people had voted for my blog based on my content, layout, quality (though it sucks, hahaha) and because they know me…I thank you all very much…we’ll party soon on chaya.fowdar.com and you all invited
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Sure Avish
Ask him to contact me
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Hello congrats to all of you, i did not know that there are a lot of mauritian bloggers…aster mo bizin ale chek tou sa bane blog la ene par ene ^^ ek la plupar en anglais haha (oui mo ena ene ti blem ek anglais lol ) en tou sa joyeuses fêtes tou dimoune, pa trop boire ek pa tro manze chocolat! Ah mo ti pu ale blier, merci Kurt Avish pou sa real life award la ^^. A + bane zenes
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Kurt Avish Reply:
December 27th, 2008 at 1:45 PM
@La pingouine: You are welcome
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Avish y has the Graphic award image disappeared??
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Kurt Avish Reply:
December 27th, 2008 at 5:34 PM
@Sailesh: ??? – The image is here… Clear your browser cache and reload the page, you will see it.
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Kurt Avish Reply:
December 27th, 2008 at 9:29 PM
@All and Sailesh: Please for those who are using the badge on their blogs please uplaod the image to your server or to a free image hosting as as sailesh mentioned, the images will appear here but if you link use the source directly from the source it will not appear on other address due to hotlink protection on my side. Just download and re upload. Thanks
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Ok people, I remind you of the giveaway over at the Web Design Bureau for a 1 year subscription to the Templatica website.
I have also launched a new giveaway over at my personal blog where you can win the new Guns and Roses CD, NEW like the new one and still in its blister package. To win it, leave a comment on the giveaway post on your best “rock” souvenir!
Cheers!
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CONGRATS TO THE WINNERS! Of course standing ovation to my mentor, YASHVIN!!!
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@Reena : You are making me shy
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Congratulations to all Winners !!
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Hope that Passe d’Armes will win a prize next year lol
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Kurt Avish Reply:
December 29th, 2008 at 3:08 PM
@Passe D’Armes: Sure… your blog address is added in my list. You will be in for onward competitions.
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@All—> I have just came home. And Thanks to everyone. I will save my speech for later on. I’m dead tired. 3 or 4 days of None stop partying is awesome.
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Thanks for the badge although i didnt get 1 specially on my name lol..nice attempt
perhaps i’ll w8 till 09 lol
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