BOBs Awards

Let me do a parentheses in my sporty information to talk about the BOBs Awards.

These awards born in 2004 with the goal to spread the messages and to reflect the growing importance of the international blogsphere. In short, these awards promote the freedom of expression and opion all over the world.
The BOBs have 17 categories in 11 languages and the online voters are the ones who decide which is the winner in each category. So these awards have a great importance in order to report the existance of very important blogs all over the world that in other circumstances we could not have heard about.

One of the most important categories is the "Reporters Without Borders" one, that select blogs with a huge importance from the journalistic point of view. The two blogs most voted at the moment reflect the need to have freedom of speech and they show us how authoritarian governments want to encroach upon media and citizens freedom.

If you let me do a recomendation, my favorite blog from this category is the blog of Dmitry Ternowsky, that talks about the stupid restrictions that the authoritarian Russian government does. Even it is in Russian, it is interesting!!