Tumblr has an extremely talented and creative community posting amazing content everyday. Over the last year the community has really blossomed, and amazing bits of mixed media (images, video and audio) has been collected on the site.

To close out 2008 Matt McInerney of Pixelspread launched the Tumblr Awards. The awards is a community event and will recognize the best tumblelogs of 2008 across a variety of categories.

Nominations were submitted by the Tumblr community and a number of Judges are assisting in creating the final list of nominations. This will not be a small task as over 700 nominations were submitted across 13 categories. Once the final list has been created voting for winners will be open to the community.

If you are a Tumblr user or interested in getting started check out the Tumblr Awards for information. Voting will be opening soon and the organizers can use some additional help in finding sponsors for prizes in a number of categories.

Tumblr Awards 2008 Categories:

• Overall Best Tumblelog
• Best use of reblogging
• Most Creative Use of Tumblr
• Best Group/Community
• Best Audio posts
• Best Video posts
• Best Image posts
• Best Quotes or Conversations
• Best Original Content/Editorials
• Best Tumblelog Design
• Best use of Typography
• Best Tumblr Theme Designer
• Best Free Tumblr Theme