Global Voices Online

Ignacio Escolar [ES] has put together an exceedingly useful wiki-based directory of journalistic weblogs in Spanish [ES].

Latino Netroots is a bilingual aggregator of what are described as “Progressive Latinos on the Net.” The aggregator seems to have been set up by Washington DC-based “DaBloguiMan” who blogs at Los Blogueros [ES] and podcasts at El Bloguipodio [ES].

Colin Brayton lends his extensive free time to following the Daniela Cicarelli sex video scandal and the mainstream media misinformation that has followed. Brazil-based Ricardo Carreon says: “My god, we really need the judges to understand how the whole internet works. And we really need them busy on issues that are far more important to all of us that watching the back of a model.”

The Macintosh Users Group of Ecuador [ES] and ALT1040 [ES] are just two of the hundreds of weblogs in Latin America that were following every last word uttered by Steve Jobs at the MacWorld conference this morning in San Francisco.

Liz Henry discovers the group The Latin Playboys via fellow blogger Alisa Lynn Valdes and asks for more music-related links.

Carlos Correa Loyola observes that, although Ecuablogs.com lists nearly 1,000 registered weblogs, many are inactive or unrelated to Ecuador. Furthermore, only a handful are based in the Andean city of Loja. To help promote a sense of community and local awareness, Loyola says he is starting his own informal directory of “Blogs Lojanos“, which he will publish each week along with a series of Creative Commons-licensed interviews with various Loja-based bloggers.

Sean Roberts reports on Karim Masimov, the man nominated to be Kazakhstan's new Prime Minister (who looks poised to be the country's first Uighur Prime Minister) and analyzes what his ascension may indicate about intra-elite politics in Kazakhstan and the country's policy direction.

Kazakhstan's Prime Minister has stepped down. KZBlog reports and surveys media coverage of the news.

Onnik Krikorian reports on how two Armenian independent media outlets are seeking operating funds, and how one of them is trying to break its reliance on handouts.