Congratulations to all the winners of Indibloggies 2004. A special congrats to the two “old” men of blogging – Kiruba (Lifetime Achiever) and Madman (Best Topical Indiblog and Best Designed Indiblog). And three cheers to Amit (Best New IndiBlog and Best Sports IndiBlog) for such great writing, especially from the tsunami affected areas in TN, Kishore (Best Indi-Photoblog) for his amazing pictures and Lazy Geek (Best Humanities Indiblog) for his insightful writing. And Debashish, the organizer who finally comes out of the closet!

A few days ago, Amit discovered a case of plagiarism in the blog world. I guess it should not be too surprising, since all it needs is a copy paste and voila, you have a post ready. Of course, most of prefer not to stoop down to those levels. But some others have no second thoughts of any kind. Read more about it at Madman, Shanti and Amit’s place. After being told politely that he was plagiarising, the gentleman under scrutiny claimed innocence saying he had no idea that he should not be “copy pasting” material off other blogs and passing it on his own! And not only copying, the guy is apparently doing a whole lot more.