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ElectronicsWeekly.com Blog Awards 08 - The Winners

TDK museum.jpgElectronics Weekly has completed its search for the best electronics blogs, and here are the results of the first ever Electronics Blog Awards (which exclude our own blogs, please note). Congratulations to the worthy winners!

There were three categories (Electronics Hardware, Electronic Gadgets and Mobile Comms) and having boiled down the list of contenders into a short list, a popular vote was completed. The aim was to provide electronics professionals with a comprehensive list of the most popular and useful writers on the web, so you could do worse than bookmark these sites...

Electronic Hardware

Blogs that cover details of electrics hardware - whether complexity of components, build processes or home-brew circuits - can be nominated for the Electronics Hardware category.

WINNER:

WINNER:

Pradeep Chakraborty's Blog

SHORTLISTED:

Here are the ten blogs that were shortlisted for the Electronic Hardware category:

1. YourITronics

2. NextGenLog

3. Electronics Lab

4. Rupert's Diary

5. Insider Blog (tech briefs.com)

6. Embedded Hardware and Software Technology

7. micsaund

8. Shrinking Violence Blog

9. Pradeep Chakraborty's Blog

10. John Titus Blog


Electronic Gadgets

The glamorous part of the industry. The shiny pieces of kit that people desire to own - whether it be the latest iPhone, the smallest laptop or the biggest LCD screen - were the subject of this category.

WINNER:

Slippery Brick

SHORTLISTED:

Here are the shortlisted blogs for Electronic Gadgets:

1. Slippery Brick

2. Engadget

3. Craziest Gadgets

4. Techeblog

5. Coated

6. TechRadar

7. Coolest Gadgets

8. Technabob

9. Slashgear

10. Gizmodiva


Mobile Comms

In the Mobile Comms category, we were looking for blogs covering the communications technologies underpinning the latest mobile phones and mobile computers.

WINNER:

VisionMobile

SHORTLISTED:

1. Cell Blog

2. mobiface

3. WirelessMoves

4. Engadget Mobile

5. Wireless Federation

6. Mob Happy

7. Mobile Phone Development

8. Disruptive Wireless

9. VisionMobile

10. textually.org

Note that the blogs did not need to be based in the UK, just to contain some coverage of the electronics industry relevant to the UK.

Thank you to all who took part, whether nominating blogs or voting in the final process.

Finally, as promised everyone who nominated or voted for a blog was be entered into a prize draw to win a £50 Amazon voucher. The winner has now been contacted by email.

Any feedback or comments? Let us know by emailing blogawards@electronicsweekly.com


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