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Joanne (19)The Undibloggies awards – the Indibloggies for the rest of us (featuring 10 awards that the Indibloggies refused to allow)
Neo is already having second thoughts about calling his version of the Indibloggies the “Undibloggies”, because he’s tired of explaining that it has nothing to do with the winning bloggers being forced to pose in their underwear while receiving the award (but yes, there was no dearth of sponsors for such an event).
But folks, first a word about this year’s Indibloggies: they are totally different from last year’s Indibloggies, mostly because last year the Indibloggies did not happen, as the organizer puts it, “due to some failed happenings and pressures at work” [sic].
But now that’s behind us, and now, in November 2009, we’re finally off to the shiny, brand-new Indibloggies 2010 2009 2008!
(The astute reader will notice that Neo is not nominated for an award. But Neo didn’t notice that at all, or at least he stopped noticing it after the 6th shot of vodka, by which time he was already writing his acceptance speech for winning the Indibloggies 2009 in 2010 2011. He’s also drafted an apology letter addressed to Mrs. Neo for the post-award celebrations that are sure to get out of hand.)
Blogging is different, risqué, exciting and all very new media! So what better way to honor the creative minds behind the Indian blogosphere than to have award categories that seem mostly to be picked out of Neo’s high-school curriculum in 1984, e.g. “humanities”, “science” and “sports” ?
But this post is about those categories that were just not considered good enough to meet the Indibloggies’ exacting standards – the categories for the rest of us!
Well then, without any drumroll, but hopefully with lots of wardrobe malfunction, the Undibloggies features awards in these categories:
1. Most generically named blog of the year:
“Random thoughts about stocks, cooking, foreign relations, personal relationships with foreigners, philosophy and music from sudeep1984_4u !!! Also, remember to check my Twitter feed, which will really test your faith in freedom of expression! C’mon ya everyone put comments!!!”
2. Best use of other blogs to promote your own blog:
“That was an awesome post about your fight with cancer. You know, on the topic of cancer, I think the traffic in Bangalore is a cancer too, a subject that <a href=”http://myblog.com/randomhorriblyformattedpost.html”>I wrote about</a> recently. Check <a href=”myblog”>my blog</a> out!!
3. Best use of questions at the end of every post to elicit comments:
“.. and so that’s what I thought about Taare Zameen Par which I just happened to watch with my mother. What do you feel about your mother? Write about it in the comments! xoxoxoxo”
4. Blog topic most distant from field of expertise:
“Which precise provisions should be removed from the US healthcare bill so as to contain the US fiscal deficit, rein in future inflation, temper the growth in China, and hence slow down global warming, as analyzed in 10 minutes by a fresher Oracle database administrator in Software4Less Web Designs Pvt. Ltd. in Kolkata, posted in a hurry because his boss just walked in”.
5. Least responsive blogger of the year:
“I get so many comments on my blog I can’t respond to them all, unless your name is vaguely feminine (wink). Now, I need to get back to browsing through this gallery of 2000 free Wordpress themes. Or maybe I’ll just copy inspire my theme from a lesser known blogger that no one reads.”
6. BILF – Blogger I’d like to f.. follow:
So this is one category that you should not worry about if its not instantly obvious. But if it is instantly obvious, then you already know it’s hard to pick just one. Who said being a voter was easy?
7. Most thinly disguised conflict-of-interest in a blog
“Unbiased reviews of social media marketing companies from the lady who just left a marketing job at BigAcme Ltd, and is now starting a social media marketing company. We report, you decide!”
8. Most apologetic blogger
“Sorry for not posting for almost a month, even though I had promised in my last apology to post every day. Also, sorry for the typos I made in the last post. Ok, now I have to run for class. I promise I’ll post more tomorrow. Sachin rocks ZOMG!”
9. Emperor’s clothes blog award
“The blog that everyone says they read but actually everyone just skims over because it stopped being relevant in 1998 and is now out of touch with everything except the writer’s ego.”
9b. Lifetime achievement award
See previous award.
10. Least pithy blogger of the year
(a.k.a. Pithiless blogger of the year)
“No really, there’s a recession on. There’s never been a more jobless bigger audience for your very detailed 2000+ word posts – because as we all know, until you decided to write about it, not enough had been written about how twitter will change the world Google Wave!”
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So those were the award categories! Do you have any nominees ? Suggestions for other categories ? Or really, anything else to say? Just please write something, anything in the comments below! (Not that Neo cares. It’s not like he’s needy or anything. And he never blogs in his underwear.)
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Category: Blogging | Tags: desi blogs indibloggies awards blog india indian desi 38 comments »
November 24th, 2009 at 9:28 pm
Well this blog made me leave a comment instead of a twitter reply to you. Maybe I should write a blog post in my blog (that no one reads) and trackback you as well.
I plead guilty on having copied your blog theme for a few days before changing it within a couple of days to yet another free theme that I was inspired by in another blog.
How about:
- Best forwarded content blog
- Best blog referring to its own old blogs
- Best single subject blog that deals with (un)related topics. ie, you run a blog for bangalore schools and suddenly you are the expert on public school vouchers in Washington DC, when you have never seen any school other than DPS.
- Best desperate blog that begs overtly to be acquired by a popular blog. See http://techcrunchies.com/ for instance. (And the dude pees on every single techcrunch blog, like a dozen inane comments with hyperlinks back to his blog).
Keep writing, Neo.
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November 24th, 2009 at 11:33 pm
LOL..Not so desperate, anyways..I don’t mind the free PR..
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November 30th, 2009 at 1:29 pm
Hi Anand,
LOL. Actually, most of these blogs can be rolled up under the larger “Best humorous blog although it was never the intention of the author to be funny” award.
-Neo
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November 24th, 2009 at 9:37 pm
Funny post as always Mr. Neo! I want to nominate myself in the laziest blogger ever category. Yes I made one myself!
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November 30th, 2009 at 1:27 pm
Hi Tanuj
Heh it’s ok once in a while to be lazy, lets just hope it doesn’t become a lifetime achievement award!
-N
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November 24th, 2009 at 11:04 pm
Ooh ooh .. I have one suggestion – Best Plagiarism-Fed Blog … and oh! how about Best “I’m an NRI (Newly-Returned-Indian) and I’l-give-you-all-useless-gyaan-on-Returning-to-India Award” ?
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November 30th, 2009 at 1:27 pm
Kiran,
You forgot “best use of words like hope to entice people to your blog”.
-N
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December 3rd, 2009 at 7:16 am
Ok, now you’ve invited me to one slugfest
Now, how about Best “I’m-gonna-get-it-when-my-wife-reads-this; But-who-cares” Blog Award? 
Man, this is fun. Aren’t we going to learn the “traits” (if you can call them that) of each others’ blog eh?
See you in the wrestling ring
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December 4th, 2009 at 1:28 pm
Kiran,
ROFL. It can be alternately titled as “Once your wife has you on life imprisonment without a chance of parole, it doesn’t matter how many more crimes you commit” blog award.
-Neo
November 25th, 2009 at 5:01 am
http://tinyurl.com/yj5rfaf #India #Blog
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November 25th, 2009 at 9:46 am
That’s great! Voted for ya!! I had written a similar post here, except, it’s a little different. Do check my blog out!
(Did that make me a nominee for category #2 or you one for category #9? :O)
This one’s a riot, neo – one of your best
)) [And unless one can hope for an Indibloggie Award on return to India, I hereby nominate you for #4 - alright, at least till your next post 
]
g
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December 4th, 2009 at 1:49 pm
Hi!
Thanks for the compliment (and the complement too – remember?
)
-Neo
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December 4th, 2009 at 3:48 pm
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November 29th, 2009 at 3:48 pm
hehehe http://tinyurl.com/yj5rfaf
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December 1st, 2009 at 5:55 pm
My new favorite blog http://bit.ly/5KlY4e <– the funniest take on the Indibloggies Award (and i’ve read a LOT)
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December 3rd, 2009 at 6:04 am
Couple of more could be – the quality of their (a) Vote for me posts… (b) Anticipatory award acceptance speeches!
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December 4th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
Rajiv,
It’s funny how blogs that were nearly dead/inactive suddenly spring to life after being nominated for an award. It’s like a bailout!
-Neo
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December 3rd, 2009 at 7:10 am
I’m guilty of #3 but that is only because I’m at the opposite end of the spectrum for #5
And about #9 #9b, sigh! tell me about it.
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December 4th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
Hi Patrix,
One of the key requirements for #9 or #9b is to be blissfully unaware that you might even qualify for it. So if you think you qualify, actually you don’t.
Keep up the good work on your blog and on desipundit! I’ve always been a fan of both blogs.
-Neo
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December 3rd, 2009 at 8:58 am
Hahahahaha
Main kabhi batlata nahin
Par tera blog padne se darta hoon main maa
XOXOXO
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December 4th, 2009 at 1:27 pm
I’m sorry, but this is a whiners-only blog post. People nominated for the actual Indibloggies are not allowed to comment.
-Neo
PS: Nice snow effect you got going on your blog.
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December 6th, 2009 at 10:36 am
Not fair.
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December 3rd, 2009 at 10:34 am
First time here – the post had me in splits! Keep it up!
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December 4th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
Thanks Minal!
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December 3rd, 2009 at 10:46 am
Brilliant blog!!!!
have read blogs from all these categories in the last one year:P
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December 4th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
Yes – the alternate title for this blog post was “10 ways to know you need to stop blogging”.
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December 3rd, 2009 at 1:19 pm
damn!! @neo_indian beat me to the thought “The Undibloggies” http://tinyurl.com/yj5rfaf wowsome @nikhilnarayanan via @shefaly
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December 3rd, 2009 at 1:23 pm
Brilliant!! RT @neo_indian “The Undibloggies” http://tinyurl.com/yj5rfaf /via @nikhilnarayanan @shefaly @manuscrypts
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December 3rd, 2009 at 2:07 pm
How many times will I make mistakes with a tinyurl? Nonsense!!! http://tinyurl.com/yj5rfaf Here is the @neo_indian link.
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December 3rd, 2009 at 2:07 pm
@telljeeves Ya, right! http://tinyurl.com/yj5rfaf
Here is the link.
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December 3rd, 2009 at 2:14 pm
This post is really funny… RT @nikhilnarayanan [Edited] @neo_indian ’s “The Undibloggies” http://tinyurl.com/yj5rfaf via @manuscrypts
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December 3rd, 2009 at 5:49 pm
I sooo fit category #8: http://bit.ly/5KlY4e Except, I don’t say Sachin ZOMG – I don’t even know what Z in ZOMG stands for.
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December 14th, 2009 at 4:52 am
Moderately miffed? Particularly peeved? Sour grapes syndrome attacks all of us at some point or another in this life, especially in the blogging business. After all, we all cannot be a well read blogger can we?
sour grapes n : disparagement of something that is unattainable.
Stick to tweeting buddy! :p
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December 14th, 2009 at 9:05 am
Sreekar,
That’s what my therapist said too, right before I fired him.
-Neo
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