The BoBs, Best of the Blogs, will open for voting on October 24th. The international blog awards are also known as the 2005 Deutsche Welle International Weblog Awards. The BoBs award includes categories for best weblogs, best multimedia blog, best podcasting site and best journalist blog. There is also a special Reporters Without Borders award. The hundreds of suggestions for the best weblogs category can be found here. The awards include a User Award voting on by blog readers and a Jury Award voted on by the BoBs jury. The BoBs jury of twelve includes BlogHer originator Lisa Stone, French entrepreneur and blogger Loic le Meur and Chinese bloggers and columnist Michael Anti. You can read what the BoBs Jury is thinking on the BoBs Blog.
