Voting has entered the final stage in the Bobs (best of the blogs) awards, run for the third year by the German broadcaster Deutsche Welle, with contenders hailing from all over the world.
More than 5,500 blogs and podcasts were nominated by the public and these have now been whittled down to the best 10 in 15 categories.
Currently leading the race in the English language section is US blog JoeApology.com, a rather brilliant idea for a space for people to freely and anonymously apologise publicly for their sins.
One recent post simply says "sorry for ruining the surprise you worked so hard on. meant a lot to me".
Nominees in the best weblog category include a food blog by a Chinese food journalist who chose to keep writing even after her stomach was removed when she developed cancer.
The US political blog Sunlight Foundation, which campaigns for new information technologies to be used to enable citizens to learn more about what politicians are doing, is also a contender in the same category.
The organisers commented on the big growth in the Arabic blogosphere, noting that the number of blogs in Egypt alone has been doubling every six months.
San Francisco video blogger Josh Wolf's The Revolution Will Be Televised is a nominee in the reporters without borders category. He is currently in prison in the US for not handing over footage he filmed of a violent protest in San Francisco.
All of the winners of the BOBs will be announced at Berlin's Museum for Communication on November 11.
