OhmyNews Citizen Journalism School Opens

A rural elementary school gets a $400,000 upgrade

Here, the link.

News from Chile in English

The online version of the chilean newspaper El Mercurio (acronym of El Mercurio Online is Emol) is publishing news from Chile in English.

Here you have the link: www.emol.com/noticias/ingles.

What is a wiki?

An excellent video!



Vía: Chasquibit

What kind of blogger are you?

Discover it here!

I am:





Via: DonDiego at Twitter

OLPC: The chilean way

I know, if you are far away from here (mmm... everything is far away from Chile! We are in the last place of the World... anyway...) I think you don't know in Chile there is someone working to achieve we finally can have project One Laptop Per Child in our country.

Our politicians didn't understand when Negroponte comes here, but here is someone who is trying to give a laptop to poor boys and girls.

I invite you to know Luis Ramirez, the "OLPC" man in Chile ;)

"Twitterers" in Chile

While I wait for Twitter Poster for Chile, I read a very good article: First state of the Twitosphere in Chile.

I was very sourprised, because I'm the most Followed in Chile :O...

Via: Dgomez at Twitter

No more chocolate!

My God! I really love Ferrero Rocher but I read in The Raw Feed that some counterfeit chocolates from China had worms, moths and larvae!

Want you really eat it after that video?

Nokia replaces batteries BL-5C

Don't you know if you have a BL-5C affected battery of a Nokia cellphone?

Enter to this link and follow the intructions to know.

(I'm saved! :) I hope you too!)

Steve Jobs and Bill Gates together

Vía

Google Calendar for mobiles!

Very good news: now you can acces to your Google Calendar from your mobile.

You just have to visit http://calendar.google.com from your cellphone and that's all!

So, I'd like I could join my Google Calendar and my Outlook agenda, I syncronize it with my Blackberry... should be the next step from Google Calendar team? I hope so!

Vía: Official Google Blog

First "twitterers" meeting

Today I'm going to Buenos Aires and I will meet my argentinian Twitter friends: the are Pablo and Pablo.

I don't know if in some place of the World some twitterers group meet each other... do you know about some Twitter people meeting?

The Changing Role of Journalists in a World Where Everyone Can Publish

Link to the article

Via: Antonio Granado in Twitter

Why are you cutting it!

I don't know if you know it, but I didn't:


The World Wide Web is the only thing I know of whose shortened form takes three times longer to say than its long form.
– Douglas Adams, The Independent on Sunday, 1999

(From Wikipedia)

Haha!

Google don't want to be a verb... but is losing fight...

The search advertising company has been fighting against the usage of its name as a verb ever since Merriam-Webster put 'google' in the dictionary. It's a battle they are not going to win.

Here, the article.

Internet World Map 2007

Very interesting! Here you can find the map : http://www.ipligence.com/worldmap/



There is not relation about the population of a country and the Internet use.

P.S.: South América, lost in the World :P

Earthquakes and little tsunami in Puerto Aysen, Chile

Here some links in English about the earthquakes and little tsumani in Puerto Aysen, Chile:

Jen, an English teacher:

Small tsunami in Punta Tortuga, near Chacabuco, Aysen Region

CHV video clip of waves


Patagonia Blog - Wilson family, missionaries:

Earthquake and tsunami Puerto Aysen

Photos

Earthquakes

Google in 2084

See the future! :P (click to enlarge)

(A little humor... what a week!)

Via: Bobonews (vía Digg)

Shooter video at NBC!!!!

Cho Seung-Hui sent a video to NBC before the shooting!

This is the video link...

Thanks again Fili for the link...


Virginia Tech - Technorati.

Cho Seung-Hui

Oh my... I just read the two plays Cho Seung-Hui wrote... Scared!!!!!!!!!!

And a former classmate gives his profile... very scared!!!!!!

Here you have the link: http://newsbloggers.aol.com/2007/04/17/cho-seung-huis-plays/.

Thanks too Filipe Caetano for the link :)

Virginia Tech

It was a hard day today because the Virginia Tech shooting... I had to investigate and write a lot.

I found a very good blog with a lot of updated information: http://www.floppingaces.net/2007/04/16/massacre-in-virginia/...

The World could be without food because mobiles

I'm really scared: mobiles could damage the navigation system of bees and they are diying far of the hives... this is terrible because they can't do the pollination and it damage the harvest...

The implications of the spread are alarming. Most of the world's crops depend on pollination by bees. Albert Einstein once said that if the bees disappeared, "man would have only four years of life left".

More details at The Independent.

Via: Slashdot

Windows Vista ¡Wow! (maybe ¡Cuack!)

Hahaha very funny!

Hotmail and MSN Messenger are were down! (Updated)

Hotmail and MSN Messenger are were down for hours like less a month ago (link is automatically traslated from Spanish). I wrote a story (auto traslated too) and I'm (still) waiting for the answer of Microsoft Chile about it... I will update about it!

I saw it is global because I found in Technorati bloggers are very anrgy because the could log in their accounts...

Update: At aproximately 5 P.M. from Chile the service come back (it was down for hours).

Microsoft Chile answered they are investigating about the problem, they don't know what happened yet...

iRack

Very funny! I really enjoyed it!

glumbert.com - The Apple iRack

Thank you, Bruno!

YouTube.cl in the eye

A couple of weeks ago, I discovered YouTube Inc., through its lawyers here in Chile, was trying to recover the domains related to YouTube in Chile. In that case, they were YouTubeChile.cl, YouTubevideos.cl and YouTube-videos.cl.

I contacted the owners of the domains and, then, just to add some data, I called to the owner of YouTube.cl to ask him if some lawyer contact him. Then, the story really change the way, because I knew the lawyers send a letter to ask the domain.

Andrés Chapero is the owner of YouTube.cl and he have it a couple of years ago. He, at first, wanted to do a chilean YouTube version but with the permision of YouTube, so he contacted them and they said they are focused only in the North hemisphere, so they said OK to do a "free version" in Chile.

Now, Silva & Cía. Lawyers will go to justice to recover YouTube.cl... Chapero is tired because my story at Emol make a lot of journalist call him... and he become mad when he knew lawyers said he registered the domain in "bad faith".

And now, the story go worlwide in newspapers, websites and blogs... A very good explanation in English at Daily Domainer.

Cuack! Yahoo! Mail become unlimited!

What a news! I moved from Yahoo! Mail to Gmail a couple of years ago... an now Yahoo! Mail will become unlimited!

Now, I have my Gmail around 90% of total cuota... I'm thinking to change Yahoo! Mail again!


Anyway, it is something I think I had to tell you, If you didn't know it...

Congratulations Yahoo! and thank you :P

Hello everybody!

Blogger! Such a long time! Well, I confess I left Blogger a time ago, but with the new settings I felt some temptation to come back.

Anyway, I still have my blog in Spanish at www.mariapastora.cl, but I think I have a place to meet my English spoken friends... Welcome everybody!

I will try to post frecuently...

In my "dot cl" blog I could put some sideblog and I want to thank Jaypee for the very big help in do it!


Let's get started!

P.S.: Sorry if I have some errors in English... (Thank you Elena for correcting!)