Six Apart sponsors the BOBs

Deutsche Welle's International Weblog Awards, the BOBs, will kick off for the fifth consecutive year on 31 August (which is also, not coincidentally, International Blog Day). The biggest global award event for blogs, podcasts and vlogs, this year's edition of the BOBs will judge contestants in 16 categories and 11 languages.

Last year, some 100,000 Internet users nominated over 7,000 of their favorite blogs for inclusion in the BOBs. Needless to say, we get quite excited to see all the TypePad and Movable Type blogs among the chosen ones, but we also recognize that it's a great initiative for blogging in general. What better way to find great, undiscovered blogs? (With the obvious exceptions of Blogs.com and the TypePad France Blog Portal, naturally.)

Nominations for blogs, podcasts and vlogs in Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Indonesian, Persian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish are accepted until 30 September on the BOBs site.