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What weblog or podcast would you nominate for Best of the Blogs?

Is there a particular weblog or podcast that you love more than anything? Do you think it deserves some international attention? Now’s your chance to nominate that blog — whether it’s yours or someone else’s — for the Best of the Blogs (The BOBs) awards, put on for the third year by German public media company Deutsche Welle. There are awards given for blogs in 10 different languages, and now they have categories for audio and video podcasts. Plus, award categories include Best Corporate Blog, Blogwurst Award (for wacky subjects) and Reporters Without Borders award for a blog supporting freedom of speech. You can nominate a blog for The BOBs here. But also explain your nomination(s) in the comments below, and I’ll review some of the better ones in next week’s Your Take Roundup. (Full disclosure: I will be judging the English-language blogs.) Nominations close on Sept. 30.

Mark Glaser :Mark Glaser is founder and executive director of MediaShift. He contributes regularly to Digital Content Next’s InContext site and newsletter. Glaser is a longtime freelance journalist whose career includes columns on hip-hop, reviews of videogames, travel stories, and humor columns that poked fun at the titans of technology. From 2001 to 2005, he wrote a weekly column for USC Annenberg School of Communication's Online Journalism Review. Glaser has written essays for Harvard's Nieman Reports and the website for the Yale Center for Globalization. Glaser has written columns on the Internet and technology for the Los Angeles Times, CNET and HotWired, and has written features for the New York Times, Conde Nast Traveler, Entertainment Weekly, the San Jose Mercury News, and many other publications. He was the lead writer for the Industry Standard's award-winning "Media Grok" daily email newsletter during the dot-com heyday, and was named a finalist for a 2004 Online Journalism Award in the Online Commentary category for his OJR column. Glaser won the Innovation Journalism Award in 2010 from the Stanford Center for Innovation and Communication. Glaser received a Bachelor of Journalism and Bachelor of Arts in English at the University of Missouri at Columbia, and currently lives in San Francisco with his wife Renee and his two sons, Julian and Everett. Glaser has been a guest on PBS' "Newshour," NPR's "Talk of the Nation," KALW's "Media Roundtable" and TechTV's "Silicon Spin." He has given keynote speeches at Independent Television Service's (ITVS) Diversity Retreat and the College Media Assocation's national convention. He has been part of the lecture/concert series at Yale Law School and Arkansas State University, and has moderated many industry panels. He spoke in May 2013 to the Maui Business Brainstormers about the "Digital Media Revolution." To inquire about speaking opportunities, please use the site's Contact Form.

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  • I'm nominating houseblogs.net (full disclosure: I help operate it)

    Reason: It's a community-driven group blog that tries to address the challenge of finding and tracking good user generated content.

    Anyone can submit and contribute a blog that fits the content guidelines (i.e., home improvement-related). Readers can then select and track their favorite blogs and entries.

    Not a traditional blog, but an example of where user-generated niche blogging is going.

  • I'm nominating the "Stuck in the 80's" blog and podcast produced by the pop culture critics from the Tampa/St Petersburg Times.

    http://blogs.tampabay.com/80s/

    Great example of a mainstream media company letting loose its writers to blog/podcast on something they have a personal passion for and expert knowledge in - and its shows in the product

    Podcast includes clips from movies, tv shows and songs that greatly engance the production value of the audio.

    A must-read/listen to for anyone who grew up during the 80's.

  • Mediashift is fabulous. I also follow truthout.org and commondreams.org

    Thank you for your activist approach to multi-platform support for video. Success! AP and MSNBC support Firefox and Mac! You did it!

    --Sharon

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