The finalists of the contest
“Best of the Blogs-2006” organized by the
“German Wave” became known. The
list of winners includes two blogs in Russian.
One of them, according to the results of The BOB's 2006, is the football
diary of journalist and commentator Vasily Utkin. This blog is maintained in the framework of the project "Sport Today", and is marked as the best corporate.
The second is the LiveJournal community of
“Magazet: Everything about China” , this blog is named “the best blog in Russian”. By the standards of the domestic segment of Livejournal.com, the community is not the most numerous, but it deserves appreciation because it “unites people interested in Russia's important eastern neighbor, talks about China’s politics, economy and culture,” Deutsche Welle believes.
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The most unusual is the funny
Aref-adib , an English blog written by an Iranian. In the category “Best Podcast”,
Muzimei Studio won the site. As its creators explain, the project reflects a new trend in Chinese podcasting - the transition from audio podcast to video podcast. In addition, Muzimei Studio features a format that includes interview podcasts containing information that is far from mainstream.
The prize of the organization Reporters Without Borders went to two nominees this year, and both these blogs are in Persian: the photoblog
kosoof Solar Eclipse and the Sound of Silence project by Hamed Motaghis. But the most popular among the visitors of the site “The BOB's-2006” was
“the best blog in Chinese” , the author of which is a journalist with stomach cancer. She used to write on restaurant topics, but when the doctors removed her sore organ, she began to take notes on how to live slowly but intensely, realizing that the next day might not be.
In addition to the diary of a Chinese journalist, the project of the French shepherd is noted (“the author urges his readers to work with animals”), the site of a German immigrant writing from an Israeli kibbutz, as well as an Egyptian blog telling about events in Alexandria.
The best blog this year was the American project
“Sunlight Foundation” , dedicated to the problems of political transparency, as well as the fight against corruption and illegal lobbyism in the US government. “Today, more than ever, American voters need help, without which it is difficult for them to understand the motives and decisions of Congress,” said Lisa Stone, a jury member. - The Sunlight Foundation promotes the adoption of new standards for transparency in politics. Result? - A higher degree of voter involvement in the affairs of their country. "
At the end of the competition, a new German Wave catalog was presented - Blogopedics, in which you can contribute blogs, and also nominate them for next year's competition. "Already, in the Blogopedia presented a variety of projects: from a blog about a thousand ways to open a bottle of beer to the diary of the former vice-president of Iran," reports Deutsche Welle.
The winners of The BOB's 2006 were announced at a public event at the Berlin Communication Museum. Russia was represented on the jury by Marina Litvinovich.