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Blogactiv.eu – a blog-network for European topics31. August 2009 – 14:08 by Hans Hagedorn |
Blogactiv.eu is a blog platform dedicated to European affairs. It was launched in 2008 and it is managed by EurActiv,
a European news network. With Blogactiv, the EurActiv-team wants to give Europeans the possibility to “better engage in online in the political debate on key European issues”.
Blogactiv allows an interested public to set up own weblogs and write about their views on the European Union and about European developments concerning their own countries. Additionally there is a weblog for guests who don´t want to set up own blogs, but who want to post articles nevertheless.
The aim as it is published on the website is pretty ambitious: “Blogactiv will become the premier source of content on the future of Europe.” This still seems a way to go:
It is planned to allow blogging in ten languages – but at the moment writing on the platform is restricted to English, French and German. The other languages (e.g. Polish, Romanian and even Turkish) are still waiting to be activated.
While the English and French sections feature quite recent posts, most of them coming from journalists, political analysts, interest groups and so on, the German section is rather empty, the latest entries coming from summer 2008.
by Simone Gerdesmeier, Zebralog Berlin
One Response to “Blogactiv.eu – a blog-network for European topics”
By Julien Frisch on Sep 8, 2009
There are some really interesting bloggers writing on the BlogActiv, but I don’t really consider it a community, it’s more a number of individual blogs under the heading of the BlogActiv logo for which I don’t see a particular added value.
More interesting Euroblogs can be found on https://bloggingportal.eu