Global Voices Online

The following Mexican-centered history of weblogs was first published as a three part series on RegioBlogs by contributor, Dr. Alan Flores. It was translated by Andres Hardrada and David Sasaki and has been edited for brevity and clarity.

From last week's Monterrey Bloggers' reunion at Cafe Paraiso

The social and cultural impact of weblogs on how we communicate cannot be denied. Everyday, everywhere in the world, without leaving Mexico, you can find more of them. And as they grow, so do the topics they cover and formats they use. But did you ever wonder how and when this “boom” started? Have weblogs always existed as such? What was their precursor?
 
Wikipedia helps us and mentions what could have been the first weblog in Spanish: “April 1999, Barrapunto.com is born, a weblog related to free software that offers a logbook system denominated MiBarrapunto (in 2001) and later on moved to the logbook of Barrapunto (2003)…”

We asked our friends here in Monterrey to speak to us about it. Moises Kirsch author of Moiblog and also owner of the business Subjetivo.com commented:
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