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Interview with Leo Prieto

A small portrait of the translator Rosario Lizana · 23:01 · Americas

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(he doesen't surf the internet, he dives into it!)

Leo Prieto has blogger activism in his DNA. He has lived in countries like Thailand and Holland, and now resides in Chile. He has personally taught more than 2,000 people in Chile to better understand “Web 2.0” and use blogs. He has several projects, from a start-up focused on developing web applications, called Aardvark (ES), to a network of sites which he owns and operates, including FayerWayer (ES), Saborizante(ES), Nuyorker (ES), Zimio (ES) and his personal blog (ES) , that recieve almost half a million readers a month. Along the way he has been very active on major issues involving the democratization of technology in Chile.

GV: Leo tell us about the blog workshops

LP: We did these workshops with Fernando Flores (ES) for ten months in 2005. We started by giving the participants a view of the future, and by motivating them to get involved in being part of it. Then we taught them how to use blogs and other empowering tools that are available for free on the Internet. They all left the workshop with their own blog. In Arica, for example, some of the students that took part in the workshops, later put on their own workshops, thus teaching more people.

Since then, a lot of new communities have appeared. Like “Cloggers”, in Concepción. My first lecture involving blogs was in 2004, specifically about Creative Commons and the freedom of information. So you could say that I have been participating in the blog conversations since late 2004, but it wasn’t until I met Mr. Flores that I understood how important it was to get everyone in on this.

GV: What are your impressions of Chile's blogosphere?

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