The European media mainstay, Deutsche Welle, announced the winners of its second annual weblog awards competition. Winners of the 2005 Deutsche Welle International Weblog Awards were selected in 13 categories by a 12-member international jury. Notably, it seems that only one American, only one woman and no blacks are represented on the jury.
According to Guido Baumhauer, editor in chief of DW-WORLD.DE:
There were over 2,500 blogs in total entered in the competition's nine languages of Arabic, Chinese, French, English, German, Persian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. More than 100,000 ballots were cast from around the globe in the online voting, doubling what was achieved by the 2004 awards, according to Baumhauer.The Best Weblog Award went to A Little Respect, I'm Your Mother, a Spanish-language novel-weblog about a 52-year-old mother's life and family.
"This year the Deutsche Welle Weblog Awards have established themselves as the top-shelf international blog contest," he added.
Awards were given for journalism weblogs in nine different languages, with the award for Best Journalistic Blog in English going to Global Voices Online, described as an uber-blog with an international mission. At least 50 people contribute to GVO. I recognize a few names.
The other three awards went to the Best Multimedia Blog, the Best Podcasting Site, and the Best Reporters Without Borders Blog. You can see the runners-up by following the links.
The prize for Best Weblog is the iBook G4 from Apple while each winner in the other categories receives the iPod Shuffle from Apple. Congratulations to the winners.
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