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Chilean Bloggers Update

Categories: Latin America, Chile, Sport, Technology

Normally, Chilean bloggers have common concerns in their blogs, but this week coordination just didn’t happen. So, this is a cocktail of news.

Leo Prieto (ES) [1], posts about his interview with the Sub-Secretary of Government Telecommunications to promote broadband internet access in Chile. The initiative carried the support of the online community, Atina Chile (ES) [2]. Most politicians have touched on these concerns in their speeches, but they don’t put them into action. As a result of this, everyday users are introducing the subject into the political sphere.

“Donde Fuego Hubo” (ES) [3] posts about Chilean bloggers that have had bad experiences with mainstream media outlets using their photos without any author attribution. He writes his personal experience with El Morrocotudo (ES) [4] that used his photo [5] without mentioning him. He also posts about two more cases. Unfortunately in Chile, Creative Commons Licences are still in the twilight zone.

The newspaper El Mercurio (ES) [6], made a sports blog (ES) [7] especially for the world football cup. This also is a good strategy for newspapers to start using blogs.