Avenida 9 de Julio, supposedly the widest avenue in the world.

The most difficult challenge I’ve encountered so far with Rising Voices hasn’t been training new communities with little online experience how to effectively use new media tools like blogs, podcasts and video- and photo-sharing sites. Nope … that has turned out to be surprisingly easy. In fact, many of the Rising Voices participants like Taslima [...]

Inspired by Nathan Gibbs who was inspired by Ross Ching:

Featured in order are Steven Mansour, Catalina Restrepo, Yuliana Paniagua, Dnabier Xady, Juliana Rincón, Jorge Montoya, and Diana Grajales (still no blog?!).

I’m going to try to get back in the blogging habit by translating at least one newspaper article or blog post a day from Spanish into English. We’ll see how long it lasts. From today’s La Nación, here are reactions by various Latin American presidents to the victory of ex-bishop, Fernando Lugo in Uruguay’s Sunday [...]

“San Francisco is like the lover of my dreams,” begins my sister, about to stick an oversized, oozing portion of panqueque con dulce de leche into her mouth, “but the relationship, for whatever reason, just doesn’t work out … you know what I mean?”
Her you-know-what-I-means always end with a slight wink of the right eye. [...]

It’s midnight and I’m doing what I usually do at midnight - working. In fact, the reason I haven’t really written much of substance here for the past few weeks (months?) is ’cause I’ve been so tired of hearing myself talk about how busy I am.
A lot of my friends these days are professional or [...]

Originally published on Idea Lab.
Buenos Aires Leads the Way
Two months ago I was back in my old stomping grounds, Encinitas, California. It had been several years since I last coasted along Highway 101 as it sucks in its asphalt belly between San Elijo Lagoon and the near-perfect surf break, Cardiff Reef. I pulled off the [...]

English captions, Spanish sub-titles, and relevant links coming tomorrow.