by Daniel Duende Orkut, Google’s experiment onSocial Networking Services, is extremely popular in Brazil. More than 53% of Orkut users is Brazilian — even more, if you take into account Brazilian’s profiles that don’t show their country information and profiles by Brazilians living abroad — and more than 70% percent of Brazil’s Internet users are actually profiled and […]
Brazil: Bloggers United Against WordPress Ban
by Paula Góes The Brazilian blogosphere has not quite yet recovered from its last fright and there is already another threat on the way: a blanket ban on blogs hosted on WordPress.com after a judicial court passed an order to close down a specific blog. Gabriela Zabo [pt] explains why: O motivo é uma decisão judicial expedida em março, que […]
Brazil: Blogging helps the police to mobilize and protest
by Paula Góes Lieutenant Melquisedec Nascimento, a blogger since April 2007,reports [pt] that his house was visited by four officials from the Police Internal Affairs Department, a special force that investigates crimes committed by police officers. According to him, this visit followed Saturday’s order from Rio de Janeiro Governor Sergio Cabral that the blogger be arrested immediately. Cláudio […]