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August 31st, 2008

Blogger of the Week: Siniša Boljanović

Solana Larsen · 18:23

lingua → fr · zht · zhs

Siniša Boljanović had never blogged when he volunteered to report on Serbian blogs for Global Voices in 2007. He read an article about Global Voices in a Serbian online magazine and was so hooked on the idea of contributing, he taught himself to write in English and use Wordpress for the first time in spite of one additional obstacle: Siniša is blind. 10 comments · »»

August 25th, 2008

Blogger of the Week: Janine Mendes-Franco

Elia Varela Serra · 01:17

lingua → fr · es

Today's installment of the Blogger of the Week series is taking us to the beautiful island of Trinidad and Tobago, home to Global Voices regional editor for the Caribbean Janine Mendes-Franco. 4 comments · »»

August 17th, 2008

Blogger of the Week: Lydia Beyoud

Amira Al Hussaini · 20:39

lingua → es

Today's Blogger of the Week is Lydia Beyoud - a writer and listener at heart, and a thinker, who has recently become a doer. This is how the blogger, who has five languages under her belt, describes herself. From Portland, Oregon, Lydia covers Moroccan blogs written in French. What is her relationship with blogging and Morocco? Read on to find out. 4 comments · »»

August 10th, 2008

Blogger of the Week: Gilad Lotan

Amira Al Hussaini · 23:00

lingua → es

An artist, programmer and technology explorer, Gilad Lotan has been giving Global Voices Online's readers routine insights into the Hebrew blogosphere since May 2007, covering Israel, where arguments get heated and emotions over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict run high. How does this 30 year old manage? How does he select the conversations he wants to cover and why? Also, what are his other interests? Learn more about Gilad Lotan in this week's Blogger of the Week interview. 5 comments · »»

August 3rd, 2008

Blogger of the week: Hanako Tokita

Elia Varela Serra · 23:44

lingua → fr · es

In this week's installment of the Blogger of the Week series we talked to Hanako Tokita, the editor of the Global Voices Lingua site in Japanese and author for Japan, about blogging, the perception of Japan and of course her involvement with Global Voices. 5 comments · »»

July 20th, 2008

Blogger of the week: Elena Ignatova

Elia Varela Serra · 19:22

lingua → mk · fr · es

Today's Blogger of the Week series is taking us to Macedonia, a small country in Europe that some people might not even have heard of but that has a thriving blogosphere. We talked to Elena Ignatova, editor of both Global Voices in Macedonian and in Albanian, about her involvement with Global Voices, the Macedonian blogosphere and her work as an internet activist, among other things. 9 comments · »»

June 15th, 2008

Blogger of the Week: Solana Larsen

Jillian York · 14:53

lingua → ar · es

This week's blogger of the week is Solana Larsen, who is celebrating her one-year anniversary as managing editor of Global Voices Online this month. Described as 'cool, calm and collected', read on to see what makes Solana tick! 8 comments · »»

June 8th, 2008

Blogger of the Week: Ljubiša Bojić

Elia Varela Serra · 14:44

lingua → mk · es · zht · zhs

Today's Blogger of the Week series takes us to the heart of the Balkans, where we chat with Global Voices author for Serbia Ljubiša Bojić (pronounced Lyu-bi-sha Bo-yich) about blogging, politics and citizen journalism in Serbia. 8 comments · »»