Daniel Duende is a storyteller, a brazilian, a writer and, some say (and some disagree), a blogger. He lives in Brasilia, Brazil.
Latest posts by Daniel Duende from March, 2008
Brasil: The most beautiful street in the world
The Porto Alegre Vive [“Porto Alegre Lives”, PT] blog tells us[PT] about the Portuguese blog A Sombra Verde [“The Green Shadow”, PT] that elected one of Porto Alegre‘s streets as “the most beautiful street in the world”, by the beauty of it's trees and the hard fight it's inhabitants are...
Brazil: Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela and the besieged Latin America
There was a lot of talk about the 'Border Crisis in Latin America' on the Brazilian blogosphere in the last few days. Brazilian people suffer from an endemic form of 'know-it-all syndrom' and, thus, many of us were talking -- a lot -- and taking sides about the impending conflict.
Brasil: The FARCs statement in face of the death of Raul Reyes
Professor Antônio echoes in his blog[PT] the statement allegedly made (in spanish) by FARC's High Command in face of what they call “the assassination of Raul Reyes”, one of the political group's leaders, and several other people in an attack by the Colombian army some days ago.
Rio de Janeiro is not one of the 25 world's dirtiest cities, yet.
Luiz Antonio Ryff comments[pt] on the list of the 25 World's Dirtiest Cities published by Forbes.com, and says he is quite impressed Rio de Janeiro doesn't figure on the list: “Rio de Janeiro is not on the list, despite the huge efforts made by some of it's inhabitants to grime...
Brasil: Metareciclagem at Campus Party
Dalton Martins, core member of the Metareciclagem[pt] movement, links in his blog[pt] to interesting videos about Metarec's actions at Campus Party Brasil.
Fidel here and there
O Escriba blogs[PT] about the shocking difference between the covers of the Brazilian Veja magazine and the North-American New Yorker magazine about the end of Fidel Castro's long term on Cuba's government, and links to Luiz Carlos Azenha's blog post about the same subject[PT], that quotes the verbatim of the...
Brazil: Whose, and what kind of party, was Campus Party 2008?
The biggest event of the world involving people interested in internet and technology has just had its first Brazilian edition. Daniel Duende was among the thousands of participants who gathered together under the same roof in São Paulo to live and work for seven days, and now reports on the aftermath of the camping, which was great for some and awful for others, and goes beyond the clash the between traditional media and bloggers.
Brad Will, one night more at the barricade
DPadua, from imaginarios.net/fluxos[PT], highlights in his blog[PT] the release of the movie “Brad Will, uma noite mais nas barricadas” [“Brad Will, one night more at the barricade”, PT], about the IndyMedia cameraman that was shot by the paramilitary in Oaxaca, Mexico, in 2006. Brad's camera kept recording the scene as...
