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Free software is a possibility that those kids will reinvent things that need to be reinvented. Lula da Silva Speech at 10.FISL, POA, Jun/2009 Lawrence Lessig ...

Ive been away from this blog, and from about everything else, because of the huge effort to put up the Brazilian Digital Culture Forum culturadigital.br. I will come back later to better explain whats going on, but for now I will reblog a nice description of what we are doing by Gilberto Jr., a ...

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Gilberto Gil has left the Brazilian Ministry of Culture. He says that music has called him back. A quick look at reactions surfacing this week in the headlines of the Brazilian mainstream media tell of a singer-minister who did a passable job in using his social capital to boost the ministrys actions into international channels. ...

The sweeping Obama phenomenon has caught Brazil, and it comes as no surprise in the country with the worlds largest population of African descendants. Blogs are commenting on all things Obama, from his stand on ethanol to the rumors of his appraisal of Brazils free software policies. An especially notable thread is the one reporting ...

Brazilian Indians were in the spotlight of world media this week and the local blogosphere has much to say about it. From the images of an uncontacted tribe in the Amazon, which were leaked first in a blog that is now claiming attribution rights for its scoop, to the enraged protest caught on camera against ...

Brazil is an unusual place. The country is full of unconventional people, capable of performing extraordinary feats, which nowadays can get reported in peculiar ways by an ever-growing crowd of unique bloggers. This time the story is rather sad, but the blogosphere is exploding with humorous takes on the tragedy of a Brazilian Roman Catholic ...

April fools day this year has brought a bitter taste to the Brazilian open source community. The announcement of the approval of Microsofts Open XML Format (OOXML) as an ISO/IEC International Standard was, at first, seen as some kind of joke. After all, OOXML had lost a vote on its adoption at ISO in September ...

The abrupt dimissal of the journalist Paulo Henrique Amorim or PHA as he is referred too from his anchor-like position at the IG portal has fueled this weeks blogs debate. The humorous and opinionated style used by PHA in his Conversa Afiada blog to attack what he called the PIG an acronym ...

A new arena is gathering steam and significance in the Brazilian Internet space: the football blogs. It should be no surprise given how natives are impassioned for the game, and how the latest results of the many championships become part of the casual chit-chat everywhere. Day by day, fervent fans are finding out that blogs ...