The BOBs (weblog award) - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The BOBs – Best of the Blogs - is the world’s largest international Weblog competition. Founded in 2004 and sponsored by Deutsche Welle

Deutsche Welle

Deutsche Welle or DW, is Germany's international broadcaster. The service is aimed at the overseas market. It broadcasts news and information on shortwave, Internet and satellite radio on 98.7 DZFE in 30 languages . It has a satellite television service , that is available in four languages, and...

, the German International Broadcasting Service.

Through the BOBs, Deutsche Welle

Deutsche Welle

focuses attention on the promotion of freedom of information and the press around the world. In cooperation with Reporters Without Borders

Reporters Without Borders

Reporters Without Borders is a France-based international non-governmental organization that advocates freedom of the press. It was founded in 1985, by Robert Ménard, Rony Brauman and the journalist Jean-Claude Guillebaud. Jean-François Julliard has served as Secretary General since 2008...

, Deutsche Welle has presented a special award to Bloggers promoting these specific ideals since 2005.

Weblogs, Podcasts and Videoblogs from all over the world can be submitted for the BOBs in one of the following 11 languages: Arabic, Chinese

Chinese language

The Chinese language is a language or language family consisting of varieties which are mutually intelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the branches of Sino-Tibetan family of languages...

, German

German language

German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

, English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

, French

French language

French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

, Indonesian

Indonesian language

Indonesian is the official language of Indonesia. Indonesian is a normative form of the Riau Islands dialect of Malay, an Austronesian language which has been used as a lingua franca in the Indonesian archipelago for centuries....

, Persian

Persian language

Persian is an Iranian language within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. It is primarily spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and countries which historically came under Persian influence...

, Bengali

Bengali language

Bengali or Bangla is an eastern Indo-Aryan language. It is native to the region of eastern South Asia known as Bengal, which comprises present day Bangladesh, the Indian state of West Bengal, and parts of the Indian states of Tripura and Assam. It is written with the Bengali script...

, Portuguese

Portuguese language

Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...

, Russian

Russian language

Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...

and Spanish

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

Award Categories

The BOBs consist of 6 prize categories (all languages) and one award in each language of the competition (11 languages). In each of the 17 different Award Categories the BOBs offer both a Jury and a User-Choice Award.

In 2007 the following categories will be:

• Best Weblog

• Best Podcast

• Best Videoblog

• Reporters Without Borders Award

• Blogwurst Award (Our award for any different and/or quirky blog)

• Best Weblog / Language (one per each of the 11 participating languages)

• Special Topic Award (2010 - Climate Change)

How the Competition Works

The BOBs presents prizes for both Jury and User's Choice awards. The User's Choice winners are chosen by worldwide online voting. The Jury prizes are awarded by a jury of international Bloggers.

Blogopedia

The Blogopedia is an online catalogue featuring a growing inventory of blogs written in eleven languages. It allows the user to browse through the catalog by country, language or subject matter.

To date over 18,000 different blogs, podcasts and videoblogs have been entered into the Blogopedia by users and bloggers from all over the world.

Award Winners 2006

• Best Weblog: Sunlight Foundation

Sunlight Foundation

The Sunlight Foundation is a 501 educational organization founded in April 2006 with the goal of increasing transparency and accountability in the United States government....

(Jury Award), Lisa Neun (User Award)

• Reporters Without Borders

Reporters Without Borders

Award: Tanine Sokut und Kosoof (Jury Award), Blog da Alcinéa Cavalcante (User Award)

• Best Podcast: Muzimei Studio (Jury Award), Haftegi (User Award)

• Best Corporate Blog: Football-Club (Jury Award), Blog do Tas (User Award)

• Blogwurst Award: Mehrdad Aref-Adib (Jury Award), Unusual Real Man (User Award)

• Best Weblog Arabic: Jar el Kamar (Jury Award), Nostalgic Story Teller (User Award)

• Best Weblog Chinese: The Colourful World - Shuweicao's Blog (Jury Award), The Colourful World - Shuweicao's Blog (User Award)

• Best Weblog Dutch: Bureau Belgrado (Jury Award), Bieslog (User Award)

• Best Weblog English: PaidContent.org (Jury Award), Black Looks (User Award)

• Best Weblog French: La Buvette des Alpages (Jury Award), La Buvette des Alpages (User Award)

• Best Weblog German: Letters from Rungholt (Jury Award), Beetlebum (User Award)

• Best Weblog Persian: Zeitun (Jury Award), An soie Diwar (User Award)

• Best Weblog Portuguese: Apocalipse Motorizado (Jury Award), Garotas Que Dizem Ni (User Award)

• Best Weblog Russian: Magazeta

Magazeta

Magazeta is a popular Russian-language web-magazine and collaborative blog on China and Chinese culture.-Name and history:Founded in 2005 by Alexander Maltsev , Magazeta developed from a LJ blog...

: All about China (Jury Award), Magazeta: All about China (User Award)

• Best Weblog Spanish: La Huella Digital (Jury Award), Mangas Verdes (User Award)

The Jury winners in the category “Best Weblog” of the past years include:

• Sunlight Foundation

Sunlight Foundation

The Sunlight Foundation is a 501 educational organization founded in April 2006 with the goal of increasing transparency and accountability in the United States government....

(2006)

• Más respeto, que soy tu madre (2005)

• 18摸狗日报 (2004)

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