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Jose Murilo

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I work on the Internet, managing websites of Brazilian federal agencies in the cultural sector. I like to write about what I see and what I think. In Portuguese: Ecologia Digital - In English: Eco-Rama.

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10 February 2009

Battisti: The Italo-Brazilian Imbroglio over Shadows of the Past

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Brazil vs. Italy friendly football match in London today was under threat amid the diplomatic row over Cesare Battisti's extradition process. Brazilian blogs delve deeper into the controversy.

6 February 2009

Angola

LabCult provides a torrent link of a documentary about Luso-Afro-Brazilian music and sounds: “Lusophony - The (R)Evolution“. From hiphop to rock, visiting the Portuguese fado and Angolan and Caboverdian rhythms like the kuduro and the morna, the doc compiles Lusophone music from the colony days till today.

18 September 2008

Bolivia

The New World Lusophone Sousaphone translates a comment on the expulsion of the American ambassador in Bolivia by Brazil’s President Lula da Silva: “If it is true that the U.S. ambassador was meeting with the opposition to Morales, then Morales was right to kick him out.”

7 September 2008

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Brazil: Inventive censorship, and the case for anonymity

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Bloggers debate the inventive Internet censorship strategy of using state level prosecutors and cybercrime allegations to immediately take down an informative website without the proper legal process

15 August 2008

Georgia

ClubOrlov presents an interesting approach — ‘colored by linguistics' — and insightful takes on the western claims over Georgia's ‘territorial integrity'.

28 June 2008

Cuba

André Deak is a Brazilian blogger who has recently visited Cuba, and in ‘Cuban Hackers‘ [PT] he tells about the ‘Universidad de las Ciencias Informáticas‘ (Informatic Sciences University), where local developers are learning to create code in one of the most precarious technological environments, caused by the US embargo. Deak concludes that, like Cuban mechanics who learned to keep old cars riding, local developers might become very specialized hackers in the future.

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