Grateful thanks to the esteemed Dr. David Weinberger [1] for nominating Global Voices for the Best of Blogs Awards [2]. The contest is sponsored jointly by Deutsche Welle [3] and Reporters Without Borders [4].
There are 13 categories to nominate and vote. Here is how BoB team describes the award:
“Best Journalistic Weblog honors will be given out in each of the contest's nine languages while suggestions in the Best Weblog, Best Multimedia Blog, Best Podcasting Site and the Special Award from Reporter's Without Borders categories will be international free for alls.
Who can take part
Any Weblog or podcast in one of theBOBs’ nine languges (English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Persian and Arabic) can participate in the Deutsche Welle's 2005 theBOBs — The Best of the Blogs. Have a look at the requirements and suggest as many blogs and podcasts for as many categories as you want. A look at the Road Map will give you all the info you need about the contest's stages and details. “
Don't forget to nominate and vote for all your favorite bloggers from around the world. As far as the Global Voices team is concerned, all the bloggers who we read link to every day are winners!!
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…and don't forget to download one of their badges [6] for your own blog.