The best IT blogs in the UK, as voted for by Computer Weekly readers

From over 300 nominations submitted by Computer Weekly readers, our judging panel drew up ten shortlists of the best IT blogs across a range of categories. We then invited you to cast your votes for your favourite blogs in each category to decide the final winners. Now, finally, the votes - nearly 9,000 of them - are in, the counting is complete, and we can announce the winners of the ComputerWeekly.com IT Blog Awards 2008.

First mention must go to Steve Clayton, whose blog, Geek in Disguise, having won first place in the company blogs category by popular vote, was also named as the 'Best of the Best' by our judges, who selected it as the overall winner of this year's awards. The judges were impressed with both the loyalty of Steve's readers - many of whom sent in praise for the blog alongside their nominations and votes - and with Steve's informative and educational content, good use of the online medium, strong personal 'voice' and the threads of fun stuff woven in among the more serious topics covered.

To visit any of the winning blogs, or the runners-up they just pipped to the post, just follow the links in the results table below, or view our special RSS feed page to preview the latest entries in out top 20 blogs in IT.  Voted for by your peers, they represent the pick of this year's must-read blogs for IT professionals in the UK.

Want to see who just missed the mark? The full ComputerWeekly.com IT Blog Awards 2008 shortlist is also available online on one page, and to see all the blogs nominated by readers in each category, just follow the category links below.

PS. We decided to exclude our own stable of bloggers from the awards process, for the sake of fairness, but you will find them listed on the relevant category pages so that you can pay them a visit too.

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