The BOBs (weblog award)

The BOBs ( Best of the blogs) are international Weblog Awards, which are awarded annually since 2004 by the German international broadcaster German wave. The BOBs the German wave is paying particular attention to the promotion of information and freedom of the press in many countries around the world. Since 2005, the German wave awards in cooperation with Reporters Without Borders, the Reporters Without Borders Award.

For the BOBs Blogs, podcasts and video blogs from around the world can be proposed that are written or produced in one of the following eleven competition languages ​​: Arabic, Chinese, German, English, French, Indonesian, Bengali, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Ukrainian, Turkish, Hindi and Spanish.

Price Categories

The BOBs 2012 included a total of six mixed -language categories and eleven awards in each competition all languages. 2012 prizes were awarded in the following categories:

  • Best Weblog
  • Best Use of Technology for Social Good
  • Best Social Activism Campaign
  • Reporters Without Borders Award
  • Best Video Channel
  • Special Topic Award Education and Culture
  • Best Weblog / voice (to be awarded once per language )

Special

The BOBs are a jury and a User Award. All prizes will be awarded once the jury and once as a User Award. The audience award winners are chosen by a worldwide online voting. The jury awards are chosen by an international jury Blogger. They determined from the user proposals from around the world, the list of nominees and meets in Berlin in order to jointly determine the Jury Winner.

Blogopedia

The Blogopedia is an editorially supervised international Weblog directory in ten languages ​​, which is open all year on the website of the BOBs available. In the Blogopedia entries can be searched by combined criteria such as title, author, country, language or type. The Blogopedia lists weblogs, podcasts and video blogs. All entries in the Blogopedia can be rated and commented by users.

2012 winners

  • Best Weblog
  • Best Use of Technology for Social Good
  • Best Social Activism Campaign
  • Reporters Without Borders Award
  • Best Video Channel
  • Special Topic Award Education and Culture
  • Language categories (User Awards) Best Blog Arabic: Khaled Safi 's Blog ( خالد صافي )
  • Best Bengali Blog: Niaz Mowla 's Blog ( সুড়ঙ্গ - নিয়াজের ভুবন )
  • Best Chinese Blog: iGFW
  • Best Blog English: The Chronikler
  • Best Blog French: Kamer Kongossa
  • Best Blog German: Jule stinky sock
  • Best Blog Indonesian: Wordsmith
  • Best Blog Persian: Narenji ( نارنجی )
  • Best Blog Portuguese: Catraca Livre
  • Best Blog Russian Stas Kulesh 's Blog ( Здесь в ... Блог Стаса Кулеша )
  • Best Blog Spanish: Chinochano
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