Apr 10, 2008
Comment call: which are the best non-English language blogs?
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?
30 Comments, Comment or Ping
Pete Lewis
Ko Htike’s in my opinion (not that I can understand a lot of it).
Here’s why I think so.
Apr 10th, 2008
Nico
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…
Apr 10th, 2008
Luis Santos
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
Apr 10th, 2008
Alexandre Gamela
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.
Apr 10th, 2008
Gabriela
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.
Apr 10th, 2008
Andre Deak
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…
Apr 10th, 2008
Andre Deak
Something wrong with the links… can’t edit… sorry!
Apr 10th, 2008
Alexandre Gamela
i sent a list but i think akismet got it…..
Apr 10th, 2008
Philip Young
You could try Jan Schmidt (German)- http://www.schmidtmitdete.de/
and Kristine Lowe (Norway): http://kristinelowe.blogs.com/kristine_lowe/
Apr 10th, 2008
paulbradshaw
@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.
Apr 10th, 2008
Godoy
In portuguese:
Webmanário, by Alec Duarte (Brazil). Mostly about journalism. About social media and technology, Tiago Doria’s is the one I recommend.
Apr 10th, 2008
Godoy
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.
Apr 10th, 2008
andy
For a German perspective on video and newspapers
Markus Hündgen.
Other German video includes
http://www.netzjournalismus.de/
and
http://www.r73.net/
Apr 10th, 2008
Emily Skeen
http://youtube.com/watch?v=O6c2e9NUF5A
Apr 10th, 2008
Mário
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)
Apr 11th, 2008
wilbertbaan
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.
Apr 13th, 2008
Tewe
Médiablog – Hungarian
Apr 14th, 2008
Bruno
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/
Apr 14th, 2008
narvic
in French, about online journalism :
- , Philippe Couve, of course…
- , Emmanuell Parody.
- , Gilles Bruno.
- , Benoît Raphaël.
- , Joël Ronez.
-, Alain Joannes.
- , narvic -> it’s me
Apr 14th, 2008
Fiete Stegers
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).
Apr 28th, 2008
WoLfWOoD
In spanish, Microsiervos (http://www.microsiervos.com) is, by far, the best and most appealing blog, with many science-related posts.
I also recommend ALT1040 (http://www.alt1040.com), which apart from a vast range of internet resources and online journalism posts, gives a nice and necessary point of view from the south-american-spanish-speaking blogger community.
Sep 9th, 2008
Acuttybuibe
Interesting and communicative, but would be suffering with something more on this topic?
Feb 11th, 2009
ntfreelancer
Yeh! You are right, there are a number of websites and blogs in other langauges but all prefer to visit only English version while browsing.
Mar 7th, 2009
Clicaiply
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It has taken me literally 1 hours and 51 minutes of searching the web to find you (just kidding!) so I shall be pleased to become a regular visitor from now on
Thanks
Mar 8th, 2009
autonog
nice! i’m gonna make my own blog
May 3rd, 2009
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