Global Voices Online

GVO in French translator and Mali-based Bambara blogger Boukary Konate, who blogs at Fasokan, is featured [Fr] in Africascopie, a blog of the French daily Le Monde.  They call him “the unrepentant blogger”, and you can listen to a podcast of a “smashing” interview.  In an earlier entry of the “collaborative report”, he talks about new media as a great way out of the crisis and to raise awareness, “if we go to the trouble of translating them into our national languages” and can bring cheaper and more efficient internet access in African countries.

Dotcom, an online project which has participants from Armenia, Azerbaijan and the United States, has published an interview with Azerbaijani blogger Arzu Geybullayeva on blogging and citizen media. In particular, she talks about her work on gender issues and media freedom as well as about her blog, Flying Carpets and Broken Pipelines.

Bahrain-based blogger Bint Battuta profiles Bahraini blogger Ebtihal Salman in this post and translates some of her posts from Arabic.

Global Voices Online Lingua Editor Juan Arellano is interviewed by Mi Blog de Blogs [es] about his work.

Blogs de Bolivia [ES] interviews comic blogger Joaquin Cuevas, where he explains that he began publishing to the web due to censorship at the newspaper where he was previously employed.

Naseem Tarawneh from Jordan gives us a sneak preview of the identities of bloggers on the Jordanian blogosphere.

Bracuta [ES] links to a recent article in the newspaper Listín Diario dedicated to blogs in the Dominican Republic.

José Joaquín of Anecdotario [ES] invites Guatemalan bloggers to a meet-up on July 20.

A Fatih Sayud introduces Indonesian blogger Tasa Nugraza Barley in his latest post. Fatih Sayud considers Tasa Nugraza as an impartial and credible Indonesian blogger.