Reportedly Oprah is considering retiring from her daily talk show when her current contract ends in 2011. Maybe she worries that there is nothing new left to talk about or that she is on auto-pilot rehashing lessons already learned. If today's show is any indication, sadly I wonder if Oprah has already mentally checked out.

From the WikiChix mailing list, Drica Veloso writes to say that G2G, a women-only group, will be going en masse to the 8th International Free Software Forum, April 12-14, in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Dri also mentioned Lab Livre, or a free lab: ...we're (now girls and boys) putting up a free lab (LabLivre) and talking lots about wiki, specially tikiwiki, and maybe some moinmoin.

Congratulations to all the bloggers who won German broadcaster Deutsche-Welle's annual ten-language blog competition, The BOBs, this weekend. I was honored to join the jury for the second year in a row, but was unable to make the trip to Berlin for personal reasons. While the other English judge, Mark Glaser of PBS' Mediashift, represented English bloggers on-site in Berlin, I voted virtually in three categories:

I got some great links today, blogs in Portuguese or about the Brazilian blogosphere: - Mommy Bloggers achieve community and empowerment in the Lusosphere , a post by Jose Murilo Junior on Global Voices (in English). It's well thought out and respectful of motherbloggers. The main Brazilian blog mentioned in this article is Mothern (eng), a good starting point for browsing!

If there's a crowd in the food blog world, it's the one comprised of ex patriates, people living away from their birthplaces for school, for love, for work; for now, for awhile, for life. Just look: we are Japanese-American living in Switzerland ... South African living in England and ...

Mais Canela, por favor is an artblog by Fernanda Fonseca. I like the mixture of painting, sketches, photos, and textile arts! And how you can see the paintings go across a sketchbook or printed book - you can see the crease in the middle of the painting.