The BOBs Awards

This post is a class project that my class mate, Paula Lacruz, http://fromthemetropolis.blogspot.com.es/, and I did about the BOBs Deutsche Welle Blog Awards.

The BOBs, the Best Of the Blogs Awards, are intenational awards of weblogs. These awards were created in 2004 by the German radio-television channel, the Deutsche Welle.

The Deutsche Welle is the German outside station, and its main function is the representation of Germany as a state of free right and democratic in Europe and also support and show respect to other cultures. In order to develop its objective the station offers journalistic contents in 30 different languages through the radio, television and Internet.

The BOBs gives awards to webpages writen in 11 different languages: Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, German, English, Spanish, French, Indonesian, Persian, Portuguese and Russian.
The blogs chosen by the Deutsche Welle have to be focused on the freedom of speech and the encouragement of the open debate on the Internet. These kind of awards search to show the wide variety of blogs on the Internet, the new different meanings of communication and the international debate through this media.

There are 17 categories of blogs, in order to vote them: 6 main categories and 11 language categories.

The most voted blogs in 2012 are sigarchi.net/blog/ ,a very common blog among the Persian community, wirten by Arash Sigarchi, who has been arrested several times because of the contents of his blog. Also jou3an.wordpress.com ,a blog about many issues related to the life in countries as Syria or Egypt.
Www.chronikler.com  and paulocoelhoblog.com/ are the most voted blogs on the English language category.

There is a Reporters Without Borders Award to award the best journalistic blog. The most voted blog on this category, until now, is a chinese blog based on Beijing and criticize the gobernment of his country, woeser.middle-way.net/ .

Click on this twitter account @dw_thebobs, to know more about these awards and also discuss about the Best Of the Blogs Awars of 2012 ussing the hashtag #TheBOBs12.