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Comment call: which are the best non-English language blogs?

April 10th, 2008 by paulbradshaw

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?

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  1. Ko Htike’s in my opinion (not that I can understand a lot of it).

    Here’s why I think so.

  2. 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…

  3. 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 :)

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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…

  7. Something wrong with the links… can’t edit… sorry!

  8. i sent a list but i think akismet got it…..

  9. You could try Jan Schmidt (German)- http://www.schmidtmitdete.de/

    and Kristine Lowe (Norway): http://kristinelowe.blogs.com/kristine_lowe/

  10. @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.

  11. In portuguese:

    Webmanário, by Alec Duarte (Brazil). Mostly about journalism. About social media and technology, Tiago Doria’s is the one I recommend.

  12. 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.

  13. For a German perspective on video and newspapers

    Markus Hündgen.

    Other German video includes

    http://www.netzjournalismus.de/
    and
    http://www.r73.net/

  14. 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)

  15. 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.

  16. Tewe

    Médiablog - Hungarian

  17. 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/

  18. 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).

  19. 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.

  20. Interesting and communicative, but would be suffering with something more on this topic?

  21. 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.

  22. Excellent site onlinejournalismblog.com and I am really pleased to see you have this this post.
    I am crrently working in the south of france looking at property for sale, having fun in the sun and bookmarking everything that I find interesting on the net (including onlinejournalismblog.com of course !)
    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

  23. nice! i’m gonna make my own blog

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