{"id":2359,"date":"2003-02-26T17:27:33","date_gmt":"2003-02-26T20:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=309"},"modified":"2010-05-09T10:11:16","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T13:11:16","slug":"weblogging-is-news-in-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/2003\/02\/26\/weblogging-is-news-in-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"Weblogging is news in Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.folhasp.com.br\/\">Folha de S\u00e3o Paulo<\/a>, one of Brazil&#8217;s top daily newspapers, today had several articles about weblogs (all in Portuguese):<\/p>\n<ul><a href=\"http:\/\/www1.folha.uol.com.br\/folha\/informatica\/ultnot_blog.shtml\">&#8220;How to set up your weblog&#8221;<\/a>, a step-by-step article using the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogger.globo.com\/\">Brazilian Blogger clone<\/a>;<\/ul>\n<ul><a href=\"http:\/\/www1.folha.uol.com.br\/folha\/informatica\/ult124u12364.shtml\">&#8220;Virtual diaries become popular on the Internet&#8221;<\/a>, discusses several Brazilian alternatives to Blogger;<\/ul>\n<ul><a href=\"http:\/\/www1.folha.uol.com.br\/folha\/informatica\/ult124u12365.shtml\">&#8220;Check out a selection of 50 Brazilian Weblogs&#8221;<\/a> mentions several friends, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marioav.com\/\">Mario AV<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/cora.blogspot.com\/\">Cora R\u00f3nai&#8217;s InternETC<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boechat.com\/tele\">Bo\u00ebchat Brothers&#8217; Telesc\u00f3pica<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nada.com.br\/fotos\">Tony de Marco&#8217;s Nada<\/a>. Congratulations!<\/ul>\n<ul><a href=\"http:\/\/www1.folha.uol.com.br\/folha\/informatica\/ult124u12366.shtml\">&#8220;Many still view weblogs with scepticism&#8221;<\/a> cites several webloggers&#8217; and journalists&#8217; views;<\/ul>\n<ul><a href=\"http:\/\/www1.folha.uol.com.br\/folha\/informatica\/ult124u12367.shtml\">&#8220;Users approve weblog&#8217;s simplicity&#8221;<\/a> has more webloggers&#8217; opinions.<\/ul>\n<p>All in all, it&#8217;s good to have weblogging noticed by mainstream news. The articles linked above are short and somewhat simplistic, practically ignoring non-hosted publishing methods. The Brazilian weblogging community is surprisingly large but somewhat insular, and the percentage of computer geeks seems to be lower than in the US; many webloggers are students or have advertising or publishing backgrounds. Most webloggers here can read English but few write it well enough to contribute effectively to the international community.<\/p>\n<p>A disparity can be noted in some weblog indexes. There are no Brazilian webloggers in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/cosmos\/top100.html\">TechnoRati&#8217;s Top 100<\/a>. On the other hand, although many of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogstreet.com\/top100.html\">BlogStreet&#8217;s Top 100<\/a> are found in the TechnoRati list, about 20 Brazilians are there too&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Folha de S\u00e3o Paulo, one of Brazil&#8217;s top daily newspapers, today had several articles about weblogs (all in Portuguese): &#8220;How to set up your weblog&#8221;, a step-by-step article using the Brazilian Blogger clone; &#8220;Virtual diaries become popular on the Internet&#8221;, discusses several Brazilian alternatives to Blogger; &#8220;Check out a selection of 50 Brazilian Weblogs&#8221; mentions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-2359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meta","tag-brasil"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Rainer Brockerhoff","author_link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/author\/rbrockerhoff\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1q3Zc-C3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}