Blogworld - Best International Blogs - Paul Coletti http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/blogworld/ Welcome to Blogworld -- highlighting the best international blogs in multiple languages for a special Â鶹Éç season about the power of the internet -- bbc.com/superpower. We'll be updating the Blogworld blog regularly with our finds and your recommendations. So if there's a blog you'd like to share please let us know. Drop us an email on super.power@bbc.co.uk, comment or tweet us @bbc_blogworld. en Copyright 2010 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:23:01 +0000 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.1 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Blogworld #5 Here's the fifth and final Blogworld in its Arabic, English and Persian versions.

Blogworld #5 in English


Blogworld #5 in Arabic

Blogworld #5 in Persian

]]> Paul Coletti Paul Coletti http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/blogworld/2010/03/blogworld_5.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/blogworld/2010/03/blogworld_5.html Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:23:01 +0000 South Africa: Max the Dog We've had milblogs, political blogs and travel blogs on Blogworld so it seems only natural to feature a dog blog. Max lives in South Africa and describes his daily dog's life and frustrations with his human owners. As I write Max is very ill and has posted his life's lessons . Here's one no dog can ignore . . .

• DROOL A LOT!...
...So that they will give you more treats than they bargained for.


]]> Paul Coletti Paul Coletti http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/blogworld/2010/03/south_africa_max_the_dog.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/blogworld/2010/03/south_africa_max_the_dog.html Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:06:39 +0000 Nigeria: Funmi Feyide Funmi Feyide, aka Solomon Sydelle, blogs about all things Nigerian. It's a country that this week has been in the news for all the wrong and as Funmi says, "there's a lot on the plate of acting President Goodluck Jonathan. There would be a lot on the plate of whoever was in charge of dealing with these issues".

]]> Paul Coletti Paul Coletti http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/blogworld/2010/03/nigeria_funmi_feyide.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/blogworld/2010/03/nigeria_funmi_feyide.html Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:49:07 +0000 Philippines: Marck Ronald Rimorin Marck Ronald Rimorin runs the in Manila. Here he talks about why he blogs and proudly describes how one particular caused a bit of a stir in the Philippines:

]]> Paul Coletti Paul Coletti http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/blogworld/2010/03/philippines_marck_rimorin_to_b.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/blogworld/2010/03/philippines_marck_rimorin_to_b.html Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:01:00 +0000 Blogworld #4 Blogworld #4 aired today in Persian, English and Arabic. Today we featured and . Below you'll find the edition watched in Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan. Pooneh Ghoddoosi presenting:

]]> Paul Coletti Paul Coletti http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/blogworld/2010/03/blogworld_4.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/blogworld/2010/03/blogworld_4.html Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:41:44 +0000 Travel blogs x 2: Anil Purohit and Gareth Leonard Here are two very different takes on travel blogs.

Anil Purohit's travel blog is one of the most eloquent guides to India in the blogosphere.

Here Anil talks about his site's origins and some of the memorable images he's caught on his travels around some of India's lesser-known spots:

While Anil is an insider giving us the lowdown on his country, Gareth Leonard is a self-confessed outsider living in Argentina. He's on a mission to change that and to get "his own seat at the bar". In short, to go from .

]]> Paul Coletti Paul Coletti http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/blogworld/2010/03/blog_roundup_india_argentina.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/blogworld/2010/03/blog_roundup_india_argentina.html Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:18:35 +0000 Blogworld #3 Blogworld #3 aired today in Persian, English and Arabic. It featured and . Below you'll find the edition and if that's your language then contact us with your blog to reach one of the most active online audiences throughout the world. In the immediate aftermath of the 2009 Iranian election dispute Â鶹Éç Persian received UGC at a rate of 6 to 8 per minute and the TV channel is watched in Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan.

]]> Paul Coletti Paul Coletti http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/blogworld/2010/03/blogworld_3.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/blogworld/2010/03/blogworld_3.html Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:28:03 +0000 USA: Charles Johnson Charles Johnson runs . Back in 2004 his site became one of the conduits for people to voice opinion on the infamous aired by broadcaster CBS. Here he talks about the origins of his blogging, the 'Rathergate' affair and the current state of the US blogosphere:

]]> Paul Coletti Paul Coletti http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/blogworld/2010/03/charles_johnson_to_be_publishe.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/blogworld/2010/03/charles_johnson_to_be_publishe.html Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:25:01 +0000 Australia: Michael Green Meet the Aussie Golfer. Michael Green writes on the blog and he's in love with golf, and if you lived with Sydney's glorious climate you might be too . . . just watch out for the bird life:

]]> Paul Coletti Paul Coletti http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/blogworld/2010/03/blog_roundup_argentina_and_aus.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/blogworld/2010/03/blog_roundup_argentina_and_aus.html Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:14:14 +0000 Blogworld #2 The second Blogworld aired yesterday. It featured and . Below you'll find the edition that aired on , a channel which attracts 1 in 4 Arabic speakers from throughout the world . . . get in touch with us if you want to share your blog, details on the right hand side >>>

]]> Paul Coletti Paul Coletti http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/blogworld/2010/03/blogworld_2.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/blogworld/2010/03/blogworld_2.html Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:01:43 +0000 UK: Yvan Rodic Yvan Rodic started in 2006. Here he is explaining how fashion and the blogosphere have started to mesh and become a 2-way street and, to quote Yvan quoting , how "fashion is not a monologue, now it's a conversation":

]]> Paul Coletti Paul Coletti http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/blogworld/2010/03/france_yvan_ricoh.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/blogworld/2010/03/france_yvan_ricoh.html Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:12:56 +0000 Iraq: Omar Nadawi Former dentist Omar Nadawi runs the popular blog. Omar is currently studying in the US where he still managed to cast a vote. From there he recorded his take on his blog's origins and what he hopes for this latest round of democracy in Iraq:

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]]> Paul Coletti Paul Coletti http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/blogworld/2010/03/iraq_omar_nadawi_to_be_publish.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/blogworld/2010/03/iraq_omar_nadawi_to_be_publish.html Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:20:28 +0000 Blogworld #1 The first of our short spots on Â鶹Éç World TV aired today. Two bloggers we've featured on Blogworld's site ( and ) are also featured in the programme. World TV has a global audience in excess of 75m. Here's what it looked like.


]]> Paul Coletti Paul Coletti http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/blogworld/2010/03/blogworld_episode_1.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/blogworld/2010/03/blogworld_episode_1.html Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:53:09 +0000 Cuba: Yoani Sánchez Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez aims to bring you snapshots of real life inside Cuba. On February 23rd she spoke to Reina Luisa Tamayo Rangel the , a Cuban dissident who died the same day in a Cuban prison following a hunger strike:

My son has been tortured throughout the days he has been in prison. They had him 18 days in Camagüey with no drinking water. My son died after 86 days of hunger strike. I, with deep pain, ask the world to demand the freedom of the other prisoners, brothers jailed with no justice, so that what happened to my son doesn't happen again. Mi hijo ha sido torturado en todo el tiempo que ha estado por las prisiones. Ha sido objeto de sufrimiento para mí, objeto de tortura para su familia. Lo tuvieron 18 días en Camaguey sin tomar agua. Mi hijo muere con 86 días de huelga de hambre. Yo con mi dolor profundo le pido al mundo que exijan la libertad de los demás presos, hermanos encarcelados injustamente, para que no vuelva a suceder lo que ha sucedido con mi hijo.

Blogworld managed to get hold of her on the line to Cuba. We asked her why she blogs?

]]> Paul Coletti Paul Coletti http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/blogworld/2010/03/yoani_sanchez_remembers_orland.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/blogworld/2010/03/yoani_sanchez_remembers_orland.html Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:38:17 +0000 USA: Julia Smillie Julia Smillie is going to change her life one fortune cookie at a time. Taking her cue from the bland bits of advice you get inside those little Chinese biscuits (which always seem a little tasteless to me -- maybe you aren't meant to eat them?) she's trying everything from praying to bed-making:


]]> Paul Coletti Paul Coletti http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/blogworld/2010/03/usa_julia_smillie.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/blogworld/2010/03/usa_julia_smillie.html Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:00:19 +0000