Cuba USA
Yoani Sánchez launched her blog, Generation Y, in April 2007. (Her first post contrasted the freedom Cuban's had to display posters saying “Go Santiago!” during baseball playoffs with their inability to display a poster saying “Internet for all!"). In 2011, she told us that the free blogosphere had taken off. A recent post on the Nieman Foundation blog says there are now over 2,900 blogs dedicated to debate and discussion of issues related to the public interest in Cuba. (Is there a report underlying that statistic)?
The blogs are based in Cuba, Spain, the US and other nations with Cuban communities, and they are often in conflict with the Cuban state media. For example, a blogger disclosed math test fraud in Cuban college entrance exams the day after the exams were praised in the state media. Since Internet access is highly limited in Cuba, blog news is often distributed on the "street networks" which we have described in these earlier posts.
It takes a while, but it seems that even in Cuba information truly does want to be free -- at least in one sense of the word.
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Freedom Loving Blogs What can I say concerning the herculean efforts of these blogs dedicated to the FREEDOM of Cuba: Babalu has an excellent post concerning a Canadian city council member, who is a fan of leche guevera. Spread the word about this commie!...
- If You Are Reading This, You Are Probably Not In Cuba.
I've been involved in a conversation about content blocking in Cuba recently. The discussion began with this screen shot -- a notice that my blog could not be found at a Nauta access room in Cuba: I asked around and found one private home where my...
- What's Up With The Alba-1 Cable? Time To Follow The Money.
MIC Minisiter Maimir Mesa commenting on the ALBA-1 cableLast week I received an email from Doug Madory of Renesys Corporation, the Internet monitoring company. Doug is the analyst who, last May, provided us with smoking-gun evidence that the ALBA-1 undersea...
- A Letter To My State Security Officer (if I Have One)
Someone commenting on a previous post suggested that because of this blog, he is sure that I "already have a Security State Official." If that is the case, let me start by saying "hello" to my security official. The comment implied that you are watching...
- Yoani's Iphone And Jesus' Vision
Someone sent me a link to Can the Internet Bring Change to Cuba?, an article published in the New York Review of Books by Daniel Wilkinson. Wilkinson posits that since the dissident blogs are seldom read in Cuba, their major impact is on the Cuban exile...
Cuba USA
The Nieman Foundation says there are over 2,900 Cuban public interest blogs.
Yoani Sánchez launched her blog, Generation Y, in April 2007. (Her first post contrasted the freedom Cuban's had to display posters saying “Go Santiago!” during baseball playoffs with their inability to display a poster saying “Internet for all!"). In 2011, she told us that the free blogosphere had taken off. A recent post on the Nieman Foundation blog says there are now over 2,900 blogs dedicated to debate and discussion of issues related to the public interest in Cuba. (Is there a report underlying that statistic)?
The blogs are based in Cuba, Spain, the US and other nations with Cuban communities, and they are often in conflict with the Cuban state media. For example, a blogger disclosed math test fraud in Cuban college entrance exams the day after the exams were praised in the state media. Since Internet access is highly limited in Cuba, blog news is often distributed on the "street networks" which we have described in these earlier posts.
It takes a while, but it seems that even in Cuba information truly does want to be free -- at least in one sense of the word.
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| Meeting of the Cuban "blogger academy" in 2009 |
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Freedom Loving Blogs What can I say concerning the herculean efforts of these blogs dedicated to the FREEDOM of Cuba: Babalu has an excellent post concerning a Canadian city council member, who is a fan of leche guevera. Spread the word about this commie!...
- If You Are Reading This, You Are Probably Not In Cuba.
I've been involved in a conversation about content blocking in Cuba recently. The discussion began with this screen shot -- a notice that my blog could not be found at a Nauta access room in Cuba: I asked around and found one private home where my...
- What's Up With The Alba-1 Cable? Time To Follow The Money.
MIC Minisiter Maimir Mesa commenting on the ALBA-1 cableLast week I received an email from Doug Madory of Renesys Corporation, the Internet monitoring company. Doug is the analyst who, last May, provided us with smoking-gun evidence that the ALBA-1 undersea...
- A Letter To My State Security Officer (if I Have One)
Someone commenting on a previous post suggested that because of this blog, he is sure that I "already have a Security State Official." If that is the case, let me start by saying "hello" to my security official. The comment implied that you are watching...
- Yoani's Iphone And Jesus' Vision
Someone sent me a link to Can the Internet Bring Change to Cuba?, an article published in the New York Review of Books by Daniel Wilkinson. Wilkinson posits that since the dissident blogs are seldom read in Cuba, their major impact is on the Cuban exile...