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March 9th, 2006
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Rolling Stones and U2 in Argentina
The most commented-upon issues of the moment in Argentinean blogs are music related; in the same week The Rolling Stones and U2 visited this country to perform two shows, each band. And, of course, there was a big number of blogs that reconstructed what happened during the shows.
On the Rolling Stones side, at El Futuro ya llegó (ES) the show's quality was emphasized from the band's fan point of view. At Professor London Boy (ES), Blog de Manux (ES), and Alejandrita (ES) a similar outlook was given, the one of the excited fan, which is also easy to find in the general media.
Some blogs brought up the subject of the incidents that occured during the hours before the show, carried out by people who wanted to get into the stadium without paying. Pescado Rabioso (ES), and Intervoz (ES). We have to remember that on the first show, almost 5 thousand people managed to get in without paying, by overpassing the control gates.
At Eroticus (ES), on the other hand, two perspectives on the Stones gig can be found: Rodrigo Fresan's from the daily Pagina/12 and the Pablo Schanton's of El Clarin. Despite the fact that the blogosphere is usually seen as a ground were criticism easily appears, it was quite hard to track down any alternative outlooks on the last weeks shows and this applies to the Rolling Stones and U2 as well. The prevailing view was the one of the fan, a view that has excitement and happiness as virtue, but which many times don't leave too original reflections.
Landing at the Iraqi Blogodrome
These days in Iraq, death is never far away. In this weeks posts several bloggers deal with the different aspects of death. The death of someone close, death of a stranger, the direct threat of death, the danger of dying in random violence and the fearlessness of risking your life to save another. And finally the complete avoidance of the subject by blogging about something completely different.
I must first welcome a new blogger. Nadia, who had been active in the comments section of several blogs has secretly started her own. Her interests include Scuba Diving, Travel and Yoga and she blogs about politics. She is Talking About Iraq.
How do you cope with the sudden death of someone close because of the violence that is gripping Iraq? I guess one way is to blog about it. Sunshine's close friend, R, lost her father, cousin and uncle in the space of four days. Sunshine was the brave one among her classmates and went to console R:
“But when she said “what I will do with those high marks, my dad is gone , I wish I got low marks & return him back instead….. I pray to god to protect your dad & mom”, at that time I couldn't control my tears at all , it is hard to do that when you see someone you love is really hurt because of losing someone close …..
That made me think to improve my relationship with my dad , as you know we have bad relationship ,at that night I kissed him ,gave him a hug & wished him a good night, for the first time since a long time , I think he wondered why ???!!!!”
¡Feliz Día de la Mujer!
You certainly don't need to speak Spanish to feel the raised hairs on your neck as you watch this moving video, edited by Argentine blogger Malearg, which recounts the progress and achievements made by women across the globe.
Erwin of The Latin Americanist points out that this year has brought to the region a “growth of female employment, but also a lack of quality jobs for women, and the prevalence of racial and gender discrimination.” He also notes the rise of female heads of state throughout the Americas including Michelle Bachelet in Chile, Portia Simpson-Miller in Jamaica, and front-runner Lourdes Flores in Peru's upcoming elections.
Victor Ruiz, writing from Spain, used the occasion to look through various blog rankings and mention the most-linked-to weblogs (ES) written in Spanish by women. According to Alianzo, six of the top 100 blogs are written by women. When rating by feed traffic, two women bloggers fall into the top 40. In the top 100 weblogs of Atalaya 2005, ten are written by women. Ruiz concludes his post with a rallying call to all female bloggers that they change the disproportionate number of highly ranked blogs by men in the Spanish-speaking blogosphere.
A Flickr group, 8 de Marzo Día de la Mujer / 8th March Women's Day commemorates the day with creative images, mostly from around Latin America and Spain.
Chilean blogger, Roberto Arancibia, never short on charm nor prose, says:
Links for Thu, 2006-03
Mission World details a trip to two medical clinics in Sebaco and Somoto.
León Felipe Sánchez announces that the website of the Mexican Presidency (ES) has officially adopted a Creative Commons license.
Guatemala Solidarity Network gives an update to the reparations which are finally being distributed to the 300 survivors of the 1982 Plan de Sánchez massacre.
Tim Muth has asked five Salvadoran bloggers for their predictions on this Sunday's elections. Their answers were almost unanimous. U.S. - El Salvador Sister Cities has a good description of a building movement against the Central American free trade agreement.
Larry Smith attributes the absence of reports about the cache of treasure rumoured to have been found in San Salvador (Bahamas) from the mainstream media to laziness and dependency on press releases.
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