I came upon Global Voices while reading through rss feeds (unfortunately, I don’t remember which blog it was that led me there in the first place). Here is an excerpt from their About page:

At a time when the international English-language media ignores many things that are important to large numbers of the world�s citizens, Global Voices aims to redress some of the inequities in media attention by leveraging the power of citizens� media. We�re using a wide variety of technologies – weblogs, wikis, podcasts, tags, aggregators and online chats – to call attention to conversations and points of view that we hope will help shed new light on the nature of our inter-connected world.

This is a great resource to expand my own personal understanding of individual perspectives from around the world. They do a pretty good job of providing English translations (for the linguistically challenged / limited) of highlighted posts. You can even choose rss feeds focused on particular regions or countries depending upon your interest.