· April, 2006

Stories about Blogger Profiles from April, 2006

Ethiopia: Blogging media

Ethiopian blogConcoction points to an op/ed in the Economist that claims that news media are “already feeling the heat” from the blogosphere as blogs are changing the media.

26 April 2006

Kenya: Blog awards

Kenyan Unlimited Kaybee Awards 2006 are now out. A list of winners and nominees can be found on their website. Congratulations to all this years winners.

24 April 2006

African women this week.

Congratulations to Kenyan women bloggers who have won Kenya Unlimited Kaybee awards 2006. Mshairi for best poetry blog; Gussaurus for best new blog and most interactive blog; Mama's Junkyard for...

23 April 2006

First Latin-American Blog Contest

Atina Chile(ES), a social action movement that promotes blogging in Chile, organize the blog contest “Atina Blog Awards”(ES). Anyone could inscribe, the only barrier was that they be written in...

21 April 2006

Botswana: Nata Village blog

The Nata Village is an NGO blog on Nata, a village in Botswana where 37% of the population are HIV+. “This website is dedicated to the people of Nata who...

20 April 2006

Ethiopia: Growing blogosphere

ET Weichegud!ET Politics comments on the “the mushrooming ETblogverse.” and theorizes why more Ethiopians in Ethiopia are entering the blogosphere and provides an excellent review of the blogs.

18 April 2006

DRC: Building the Demosphere

Blogger Tony Katombe from Le Blog du Congolais invites (FR) readers to sign up for the Demosphere, ” a network of sites, blogs and emails of activists and militants involved...

17 April 2006

Zimbabwe: New blog

Enough is Enough is a new group blog from Zimbabwe. Writers include Zimpundit and the site is designed to enable you ” to find a wealth of information in different...

17 April 2006

Nigeria: Coming out gay

Reflections of a gay Nigerian wonders whether anyone is reading his blog? and is contemplating coming “out” in his own name.

13 April 2006

Ghana: Tagging in Twi

Neither Here nor There publishes a list of commonly used tags which he then translates into Twi – one of Ghana's main languages.

13 April 2006

Kenya: Kaybees Award

Mshairi: All the nominations are now out for the Kaybee Awards (Kenyan blog awards) the winners will be announced on April 19th

13 April 2006

Kenya: Rudeness in the Blogosphere

Diary of a Mad Kenyan Woman comments on rudeness in the blogosphere. In particularl she picks out those who conduct their rudeness annoymously or by using pseudonyms’.. …..”I am thinking...

12 April 2006

Nigeria: Blogging ideas for new bloggers

Ethnic Loft writes there is more to blogging than politics and technology and suggests that “upcoming pundits would delve into, and shed more light on, some of these undercovered topics...

6 April 2006

Nigeria: Voice blogging

Oro blogs on voice blogging…”You can now listen to all my blog posts — by simply clicking the link that says Listen to this podcast (computer-generated voice).”

5 April 2006

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