Comment call: which are the best non-English language blogs?
April 10, 2008 at 9:29 am paulbradshaw 22 comments
I’ve been painfully aware of my (and many people’s) ignorance of blogs written in languages other than English. I’m aware of some – Andre Deak in Brazil; Philip Couve in France; Alex Gamela in Portugal (who writes every post in English too); Nico Luchsinger in Switzerland; Beppe Grillo in Italy (also in English); and Adam Javurek in the Czech Republic – but really I could do better.
And I’ve started creating a Yahoo! Pipe which (clumsily) translates three of those blogs into English (sadly Adam tells me there is no online Czech to English translator)
So here’s a call for comments – what are the best non-English blogs, either about journalism specifically or social media generally?
Entry filed under: blogs. Tags: Adam Javurek, Alex Gamela, Andre Deak, Beppe Grillo, Nico Luchsinger, non English blogs, Philip Couve, translation, Yahoo! Pipes.
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Pete Lewis | April 10, 2008 at 9:39 am
Ko Htike‘s in my opinion (not that I can understand a lot of it).
Here‘s why I think so.
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Nico | April 10, 2008 at 9:51 am
Well, I’m flattered to be included in Paul’s list – but of course, there are many other german (online) media blogs that are worth reading. Here are some of my favourites:
Medienspiegel – mandatory if you’re a journalist in Switzerland.
Medienlese – covering mostly Swiss and German online media.
Stefan Niggemeier – Niggemeier is one of the founders of the media watchblog Bildblog, this is his personal blog.
Indiskretion Ehrensache – Thomas Knüwer, who is also a reporter for the newspaper Handelsblatt, is one of the few German print journalists who also blogs.
Beobachtungen zur Medienkonvergenz – An irregularly updated, but truly excellent Swiss blog about social media and technology convergence.
I’m sure I’m forgetting some, but it’s a start…
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Luis Santos | April 10, 2008 at 10:15 am
Ponto Media, Antonio Granado – Portuguese
Jornalismo e Comunicação
, UMinho researchers – Portuguese
Atrium – Media & Cidadania, my own (if I may be so bold…)
Intermezzo, researchers and professionals – Portuguese (Brazil)
Jornalismo e Internet, researchers – Portuguese (Brazil)
eCuaderno, Jose Luis Orihuela (Spanish)
E-periodistas, Ramón Salavarría (Spanish)
Infotendencias, research project blog (Spanish)
Periodistas21, Juan Varela (Spanish)
Tiscar, Tiscar Lara (Spanish)
…for now
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Alexandre Gamela | April 10, 2008 at 12:26 pm
Luis Santos already has done part of the job, and his Atrium – Media & Cidadania was in my list too. But there are other portuguese written media blogs from both sides of the Atlantic:
Travessias Digitais by Hélder Bastos;
Contrafactos&Argumentos since 2002 writing about cultures, economy and politics, technology and social impacts, media, social contamination, weird stuff… Mas Certamente que Sim! , by Paulo Querido;
Comunicamos, a great blog run by media students and teachers from UTAD;
Código Aberto;
Jornalismo e Internet Gjol Bloga collective blog written by a group of researchers in online journalism at Bahia University ;
Libellus , a blog kept by Ana Brambilla;
Journalism is dead, a corrosive media blog from Brazil;
Carnet de Notes by André Lemos, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Communication, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil.
Gabriela Zago has also a great blog about online media and journalism;
This comes in handy because i was about to make a
list of bloggers to participate in a blog carnival,and i’m thinking about inviting a few from this list. Still, there are many others that were left out, and i’m sure i forgot some.
PS: To be flattered is to say the least, but i agree with Nico.
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Gabriela | April 10, 2008 at 1:13 pm
Somewhere inside the OJB wiki, there are 5 lists of Portuguese (Brazil and Portugal), Spanish, French and Hebrew media blogs
A list of some Brazilian blogs can be found here.
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Andre Deak | April 10, 2008 at 2:10 pm
Hey, thanks for remembering. There is a big list of portuguese bloggers, all of them communication reaserchers – some of them very good.
But my vote goes for Ponto Media and Jornalismo e Internet, above.
PS: Someday I will send you those questions that I told you some months ago… Still trying to find some time…
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Andre Deak | April 10, 2008 at 2:11 pm
Something wrong with the links… can’t edit… sorry!
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Alexandre Gamela | April 10, 2008 at 3:08 pm
i sent a list but i think akismet got it…..
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Philip Young | April 10, 2008 at 6:00 pm
You could try Jan Schmidt (German)- http://www.schmidtmitdete.de/
and Kristine Lowe (Norway): http://kristinelowe.blogs.com/kristine_lowe/
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paulbradshaw | April 10, 2008 at 6:42 pm
@Alex – your comment rescued from Akismet, thanks.
@Philip – I know Kristine – as she writes in English I didn’t include her. Am planning a future post on bloggers who write in English outside the US/UK/Canada/Aus/etc.
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Godoy | April 10, 2008 at 7:16 pm
In portuguese:
Webmanário, by Alec Duarte (Brazil). Mostly about journalism. About social media and technology, Tiago Doria‘s is the one I recommend.
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Godoy | April 10, 2008 at 7:18 pm
I fouled up the HTML code, I’ll try to repost:
In portuguese:
Webmanário, by Alec Duarte (Brazil). Mostly about journalism. About social media and technology, Tiago Doria‘s is the one I recommend.
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andy | April 10, 2008 at 9:41 pm
For a German perspective on video and newspapers
Markus Hündgen.
Other German video includes
http://www.netzjournalismus.de/
and
http://www.r73.net/
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Emily Skeen | April 10, 2008 at 9:42 pm
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Mário | April 11, 2008 at 11:34 am
I recomend these blogs:
Certamente! - Paulo Querido
Ponto Media – António Granado
Contra Factos & Argumentos – Pedro Fonseca
Atrium – Luís Santos
Indústrias Culturais – Rogério Santos
Jornalismo Móvel – Fernando Silva (Brasil)
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wilbertbaan | April 13, 2008 at 10:34 am
Dutch groupblogs are
http://www.frankwatching.com (social media, long articles about how and why)
http://www.marketingfacts.nl (about online marketing and often breaking the news about new projectes)
http://www.dutchcowboys.nl (about online marketing and media)
Dutch blogger and new media enthusiast Erwin Blom made an overview with his favorite Dutch blogs by individuals. I think this covers a good part of the spectrum of blog that are writing about new and social media
http://www.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.erwinblom.nl%2F2008%2F03%2F19%2Fmijn-liefde-voor-bloggen%2F&langpair=nl%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF8
I’m sure I forgot to mention some of the best blogs. If other Dutch readers read this, please ad more blogs.
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Tewe | April 14, 2008 at 8:36 am
Médiablog – Hungarian
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Bruno | April 14, 2008 at 8:37 am
http://journalinks.wordpress.com/ is a Belgian blog with articles in Dutch, often writing how factual data is (mis)used by journalists, the author of this site has also an impressive collection of interesting links for journalist : http://www.journalinks.be/
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narvic | April 14, 2008 at 7:28 pm
in French, about online journalism :
- , Philippe Couve, of course…
- , Emmanuell Parody.
- , Gilles Bruno.
- , Benoît Raphaël.
- , Joël Ronez.
-, Alain Joannes.
- , narvic -> it’s me
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Fiete Stegers | April 28, 2008 at 12:08 pm
Thanks for including my personal weblog netzjournalismus.de but you’ll find much more stuff at http://www.onlinejournalismus.de which is a group project. Those two sites tend to get mixed up because of their similar names, sorry about that.
I also recommend http://www.websehen.net (German language, about TV and the web) and http://www.denieuwereporter.nl/ (Dutch).
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