I know this post comes a bit late but in my attempt to adapt to living in the UK I can always blame it on the “wrong kind of snow” that somehow prevented me from doing something…
Anyway, the big story for the EU blogosphere this week is the “successful hijacking” (in a positive sense!) of New Europe, a weekly newspaper that is seen as the main rival to European Voice. Your humble author played a little role in this and this blog was also mentioned in the editorial. The complete print version of New Europe can be found as an pdf file here.
The buzz around the EU blogosphere last week inspired New Europe to publish the editorial on The future of the EU blogosphere which is worth reading. Of course the launch of our bloggingportal was covered as well as with a full page article Political EU Blogs at your fingertips, Bloggingportal.eu launched. (with pictures in the print edition). And that is not all, Jon managed to get the strategically important last page of the paper with the Anyone but Barroso campaign and an article on David Cameron and the EPP issue.
On a different note: We are very pleased with the launch of bloggingportal.eu and we are looking forward to your suggestions how to improve the portal. We also have a facebook group, so feel free to join and make it even more popular by inviting your friends! Since it is quite a grassroot initative with only a handful of people involved and without any sponsers or institutions, things can take a bit longer but we try to be as efficient as possible. And of course we are still looking for editors in order to cover as many languages as possible! In case you have not noticed I also integrated the editors’ choice in the sidebar of this blog!
Th!nk about it has launched as well, the EJC powered EU blogging competition. The kick-off event in Brussels last week was quite a success and there was a lot of enthusiasm about blogging about the EU and the EP elections (sounds stange but it is true!). It is an interesting mix of new and experienced bloggers which should make it a good read. So make sure you check it regularly!
As some of you know, I am involved in the organisation/develpment of both projects (bloggingportal & thinkaboutit) so I am a bit biased here 
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Hello Kosmopolito,
here is a story you and your readers can be interested in.
On February 12, more than 175 cities (also Brussels) all over the world will host Twestival, a festival to raise awareness and donations for clean water.
http://brussels.twestival.com/
All donations from parties in +175 cities will proceed to the the nonprofit charity:water.
How is this possible and what does Twestival mean? Twestival is a combination of Twitter+festival. Twitter is the popular microblogging service, and we are using Twitter to organize, disseminate and discuss how to use social media for social change.
Come and join us on Le Botanique on February 12, have fun, meet new people and make water cleaner at the same time! Pretty good deal, isn’t it?
http://brussels.twestival.com/
Please spread the message!
I was already waiting when you would stand publicly for your authorship and self-advertisement…