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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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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 ...

After a long period of dictatorship, and since the political liberalization of the 80s, Brazilians have learned to value freedom of expression as a key democratic right. But the last weeks have shown that some issues such as marijuana legalization still dont hold the status of being entitled to a legally sanctioned public debate. This ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two of the biggest media companies in Brazil are currently involved is court cases that similarly raise the issue of freedom of speech and press even though the media finds itself on opposite sides of the issue in the two cases. The influential newspaper Folha de SP is facing a series of lawsuits filed by ...

The global debate on Internet governance will once again gather people from all over the world at UNs IGF, this time in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The process was started last year in Athens, when more than 1,200 participants focused on discussion of the overarching issues tied to the future of information and communications ...

Csar Salgados blog (via Altino) announces the launching of the English version of a youtube video which tells much about the lawless situation reigning in many parts of the Brazilian Amazon region. ...