Winners of The BoBs Announced

Posted on November 13, 2006

The Deutsche Welle 2006 Best of the Blogs Awards jury member gave out honors in the BOBs' 15 categories. The top award for Best Weblog went to the US blog Sunlight Foundation. The BoBs are awarded in fifteen categories and ten different languages. The official competition languages are Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Persian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. Submissions in any one of or any combination of contest languages are valid in the categories "Best Weblog," "Best Corporate Blog," "Best Podcast," the "Reporters Without Borders Award" and the "Blogwurst Award." Here is a list of the winners.

• Best Weblog: Sunlight Foundation
• Best Podcast: Muzimei Studio
• Best Corporate Blog: Soccer Club
• Reporters Without Borders Award: Kosoof
• Blogwurst Award: aref-adib
• Best Weblog English: PaidContent.org
• Best Weblog German: Letters from Rungholt
• Best Weblog Spanish: La Huella Digital
• Best Weblog Russian: Magazeta: Alles über China
• Best Weblog Portuguese: Apocalipse Motorizado
• Best Weblog Dutch: Bureau Belgrado
• Best Weblog Persian: Zeitun
• Best Weblog French: La Buvette des Alpages
• Best Weblog Arabic: Jar el Kamar
• Best Weblog Chinse: The Colourful World - Shuweicao's Blog

The were also winners in the User category including Lisa Neun (Best Weblog), Black Looks (Best Weblog English) and Mangas Verdes (Best Weblog Spanish).

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