Week 13: http://globalvoicesonline.org/
Global Voices is a great network of bloggers. It offers helpful and immediate search selections down the left hand side that enable the user to pick a topic or region to read about.
It’s so well organised it offers most blog entries in at least one other language other than English. Most offer more.
Global Voices says it is run by an ‘international team of volunteer authors, regional blogger-editors and translators are your guides to the global blogosphere.’ (From http://globalvoicesonline.org/about/)
Stephen Quinn recently stated in an interview conducted for another subject (ALJ319) that he believed blogs will eventually die out because they are mainly written voluntarily.
Global Voices is a good example of this. Each piece written is by a volunteer and all the behind-the-scenes work is voluntary.
Yet blogs are a great form of communication, news and general information. For example, rather than calling 
about a mobile phone issue, most people in the 18-25 age group would probably jump on 
for the answer. Forums and reviews immediately pop up in a search, and with the advanced search option it makes it even easier.
Global Voices and Orble are great blogging and information sites. Orble even pays up to $100 per blog entry. But is personal satisfaction a big enough motivator to keep people blogging?
