BANGALORE, INDIA: Electronic Weekly, UK's leading website for electronics professionals, short-listed 10 blogs including the blog of  Pradeep Chakraborty (http://pradeepchakraborty.blogspot.com/), the content head and executive editor of Cybermedia India Online Ltd (CIOL), for the first ever Electronics blogs award, in the Electronic Hardware category.

The awards are given in three categories - Mobile Comms, Electronic Hardware and Electronic Gadgets.

The competition will showcase the best the electronics industry has to offer and would enable the magazine to provide electronics professionals with a comprehensive list of the most popular and useful writers on the web, said the weekly while announcing the short list.

Pradeep Chakraborty's blog focuses on infocom, telecom, electronics, components, semiconductors, nanotechnology, IT, and leisure.

"I'm here to blog about what I feel is close to my heart! If folks happen to stop by, I am extremely grateful to all of them!," Pradeep says in the blog.

To vote for a shortlisted blog in any of the categories, email blogawards@electronicsweekly.com with its URL, the magazine said. The closing date for voting is November 21.