Curious about what’s been going on at The Bobs since the awards
were handed out last year? Well, in addition to the colorful new site,
we’ve made some changes to the contest before it starts its ninth
edition.
We’re adding three more languages to the award – Hindi, Turkish and
Ukrainian – opening the contest’s categories to a total of 14 languages.
What exactly does that mean? Read through the site in your choice of
Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, English, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian,
Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, or Ukrainian.
This year we also want to know about what microblogs keep you most
informed and entertained. That’s why we’ve decided to add a category for
Best Person to Follow in each of The Bobs’ languages. Including the new
microblog categories, there are not 34 categories for international
excellence to be recognized.
The 2013 Jury
The jury speaks here at The Bobs. It’s up to jury members to choose
the nominees and all 14 jury panel members (one per language) meet in
Berlin to discuss, debate and decide on The Bobs Jury Award winners in
the six big, multilingual categories.
This year’s three new languages, of course, will have jury members as
well. Dr. Özgür Uçkan teaches communications at Bilgi University in
Istanbul. He is a well-known blogger in Turkey and has written several
book on net-related topics. Mustafa Nayyem will keep his eye on the
Ukranian internet scene for The Bobs. Born in Afghanistan, the
journalist, blogger and TV moderator has become one of the most
important political voices in the Ukrainian internet. We’re also happy
to welcome popular blogger and moderator Ravish Kumar as The Bobs’ Hindi
jury member.
Starting February 6, you can read about all The Bobs 2013 jury members.
Save the date: February 6
In addition to finding about the jury members, February 6 (at high
noon, German time) is also the day when the window on suggestions to the
2013 The Bobs will open. We’re all looking forward to seeing your
suggestions.
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