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Palestine: Peace, War and Swanky Ramallah

Jillian York · 23:13 · Middle East & North Africa

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“Have you ever read anything that just left you feeling stunned?” asks Meanwhile in Palestine and Iraq. Indeed, we all have. So what exactly has this blogger so tongue-tied? As it turns out, it's an International Herald Tribune article which depicts Ramallah as if it were Seattle. The blogger comments:

Doesn't Ramallah sound like a slice of Palestinian heaven? Right. If you close your eyes you can almost ignore the checkpoints.

But while Ramallah may be a sort of heaven for some, Gaza right now is most certainly not. A Blogger from Gaza reports:

There has been an Israeli incursion to our neighbourhood last week, which resulted in 11 martyrs, all of them are under 25 years old, just young men, who haven't even started their lives yet…

The blogger then adds:

All this is happening while we are still fighting… who is Fatah and who is Hamas, still pointing fingers and looking for someone to blame.. still throwing accusations here and there… i'm trying to put some sense into what i'm going through right now… but nothing comes across my troubled mind but “madness”…. complete and absolute “madness”…

Another Ramallah blogger, Oranges and Olives surmises on “how Hamas surpassed the US,” saying:

Take a look at the other side of the Middle East: Gaza. Hamas took over in what was reminiscent of the fall of Baghdad 4 years ago. What did Hamas do afterwards? of course with a small force like the Executive Force you cannot rule almost 2 million people most of them in deep poverty. Hamas now controls the same security forces that used to belong to Fatah. They got rid of the previous leaders and promoted others from the lower ranks to lead the institutions. So the institutions remained in place, and were run by people who always worked in them. Therefore, these people did not need to start learning about the institution, its roles and its responsibilities, they just continued to do their job.
I think, therefore, that Hamas was much smarter than the US, albeit, maybe, just as evil.

Meanwhile, I Saw it in Palestine mourns the memory of 943 Palestinian and 118 Israeli children who have been killed since 2000:

On Wednesday, we read all 1,063 names of Israeli and Palestinian children killed since 2000 outside of the Northwest Convergence, a conference featuring members of the Likkud party who strongly advocate the continuance of the Israeli occupation.

The blogger added:

It's was easy to lose myself in the complex task of sounding out names like Shalevet and Khaled. It took all of my concentration to stumble my way through unfamiliar sounds and multisyllabic surnames. But then I would come across a name I knew well - Fadi, Jamil, Bassem, Huda, Mohamed, Rachel. I can't help but picture other children I know with those names and wonder if they're still okay.

And asked the question:

How many more years? How many more children?

In the interest of finishing on an up note, we'll move to a fantastic post by a self-described Palestinian housewife. Peace For Palestine pontificates on the idea of freedom and its limits:

Freedom allows people to do whatever they want, provided that they do not harm others and that they remain wholly devoted to truth. Freedom that does not acknowledge religious ideas and feelings, and that does not serve as the ground for virtue and morality, is like the desire to eventually become restless and wander off the common road of humanity.

Creative Commons-licensed photograph of Ramallah by the walker cleavelands

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Serbia's One and Only Science Blog: Help Save It!

Danica Radovanovic · 22:05 · Eastern & Central Europe

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What is the cost of having and maintaining a science blog? What does science blogging mean for the scientific community and education of a country like Serbia, especially after years and years of sanctions, war and political disturbances?

Serbia is the country in transition, and right now there is a great chance for its scientific community to jump into the ICT world science highway by implementing new technologies into its scientific and educational systems. One of the main postulates of this year's workshop in Belgrade at FP 7/ICT Work Programme on science in society was that technology is worth nothing without users, content and interaction. If Serbia wants to become part of e-Europe, many things must be changed, beginning locally and then on a much broader scale.

But some representatives of Serbian educational and science institutions don't seem to care too much about information literacy and information sharing, as well as developing new information technology tools – which, ironically, happen to be open software applications and platforms that do not cost anything. One of the professors at Belgrade Open School (BOS) has described the situation in the region as not good: the educational system is neither valued enough, nor evaluated.

Blogs would have been a great medium for interaction, publishing, communication and collaboration in science, a good place for showcasing Serbian scientific achievement, which has been in the shade lately. In Serbia, however, there is only one institutional science blog – the blog of KoBSON, the Serbian Consortium of Coordinated Library Acquisition hosted and maintained by the Center for Scientific Information at the National Library of Serbia.

Besides being one and only in Serbia - and despite providing the Serbian scientific community with examples of various uses of blogs in science, education, teaching, research, networking, popularization of science and online activism - the KoBSON blog may soon disappear altogether.

Bora Zivkovic, a science blogger and the founder of the Science Blogging Initiative, reports on the problem at ScienceBlogs.com:

Do Serbian scientists need a blog of their own?

Not that it costs anything to have one…

Yet, the Konsortium of science libraries in Serbia is seriously contemplating shutting down their KOBSON blog, an invaluable tool in science communication in the region.

Danica, who the regular readers of this blog are quite familiar with as she is the Number One Champion for Open Science and Web 2.0 science in Serbia, has put a lot of effort into building the online infrastructure for Serbian scientific communication, including the KOBSON blog and the KOBSON wiki, as well as teaching and preaching to the local scientific community about the importance of catching up with the world after a decade of isolation and fully embracing the modern communication tools.”

Below is some of what other bloggers write about the value of the KoBSON blog and science blogging in general.

Journalist and blogger Ljubisa Bojic comments in Serbian version of the post at KoBSON. He believes that blogs are a necessary tool in education, at universities as well as in the scientific community, because they help to “[exchange] ideas between scientists”:

I use the KOBSON services from time to time and I think that frequent users should as well make their own blogs. Therefore, it is not only you [addressing KoBSON], but also the university professors and students who feel that your internet page is their own home and who have the need to share their views and to talk about their own research.

A colleague from Croatia, Filologanoga, who is also blogger in education and science area, thinks that communication and interaction are very important factors:

It is necessary for Institutions who are dealing with acquisition, keeping and sharing the information to have communication with their users. The only problem is that for this kind of communication two sides are necessary, at least, according to my experience, and in science this process sometimes doesn’t go very well.

Tanja, who is researching the areas of virtual communication and blogs, writes:

Excellent discussion… I think that we do not have developed audience for understanding such issues, still. […] And, of course, it's not just the science blogs that we need :)

Solana wrote this, in English:

The more science blogging the better! Knowledge should be open to all.

What is to be done about the situation?

Bora Zivkovic suggests direct action and interaction:

There is not much more that Danica alone can do in the present situation to save the KOBSON blog, but perhaps YOU all can help. How? Let's demonstrate the power of Science 2.0 by direct example! Go to the KOBSON blog and explain the importance of such a tool in the comments of this post. Even better, if you are fluent in one or another variant of the Serbo-Croatian language, post a comment on the Serbian version of the post. Then, post a link and this plea to your own blog as well and ask your readers to do the same.

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Hindi Blogosphere: A brouhaha, customer service and blogger meets!

Amit Gupta · 20:16 · South Asia

So it's after about one and a half month that we are looking at what has been going on in Hindi blogosphere. The dust had barely settled down when it rose again, this time on the issue of expulsion of a blog from the leading Hindi blog aggregator, Narad. For quite some time Narad has acted as a readership supplier to the handful of Hindi blogs, a number which has been growing steadily. Sometime back, Narad introduced a relatively lenient policy, to which all bloggers had to agree before their blog would be aggregated by it.

Now one particular blogger insulted another Hindi blogger by calling him a dirty napkin. This was against Narad's policy as it clearly states that if a blogger attacks another fellow blogger personally then his or her blog would be expelled from Narad and so it was. Most of the Hindi bloggers welcomed this action but some bloggers didn't like it and labelled it as an attack on freedom of speech and expression. However, it's interesting to note that the blogger wasn't forced to shut down his blog, only his blog was expelled from Narad. Some bloggers felt that this was rightly done as that same blogger was later putting up murder threats on another blog against all those who disagreed with him.

A second front was opened up against Narad and its public face Jitu. This issue went on for quite sometime and still hasn't subsided. During this, many accusations surfaced. Some bloggers found these accusations absurd. One stated that Narad and its technical team are radical Hindus who are running their saffron propaganda via Narad, while another accusation was that only posts supporting radical Hinduism are showing up on Narad, and that liberal and anti-Hindu posts are being blocked.

It's a little hard to fathom how Narad's team could have written a code that was somehow biased and differentiating on the basis of religion. However, things are starting to look as if they will settle down gradually, for now.

Anyways, moving on from this issue, let's see what else has been blogged in the last week. Notepad felt kinda low when she saw a photo of some nice looking coffee admitting that all she knew about coffee was that there's good coffee and there's bad coffee, not realizing that there are so many types of coffee. She narrates her coffee experience at Cafe Coffee Day, a chain of coffee shops in India.

Ravi Ratlami (who was recently awarded MVP from Microsoft) wrote a satirical article about a recent invention by Italian scientists - hunger killing pills. In his cartoon, besides the news clipping, he showed a pig saying to the other that perhaps one day someone will make a pill that would kill Indian politicians' hunger for votes and (currency) notes. Then perhaps they will be able to attend to more pressing matters, like running the country in a better way (for a change)! ;)

He also blogs about a new blog comment selling service called Buy Blog Comments(link) where you can buy one of the three packages available at different prices which will give you different number of valid and relevant comments on your blog. Seems like this service is based on the model of website traffic selling websites which sell traffic for websites.

Customer service is important these days and efficient customer service is crucial for a business if it wants to have its customers stick around. So it looks like Google's Blogger.com team is working on the age-old service and have now introduced the ability to create polls as well, because Ankur blogged just about that. And on Tarakash, Sanjay narrates his experience with the first rains of this monsoon and how he got stuck as train services were stopped due to flooding of tracks and he finished the 4 hour journey in 10 hours. While he's all praises for the Railways for stopping the trains while the things become okay, I think that they should consider thinking about how to prevent these train stopping incidents when such a thing as flooding of tracks etc. occur; they can take measures to battle minor flooding etc.

Not everyone however, is happy to serve their regular or would-be customers by providing any service, let alone efficient or decent service. This became quite evident when I had a bad experience with Dass Studios with their ignorant and arrogant staff. I called them up, inquiring about a polarizer that I was looking to buy for my new camera. They are not just another small shop but are an established name in photography and photographic equipment business in New Delhi. But as the saying goes, someone's loss is someone else's gain. Dass Studios' loss was Mahatta & Co.'s (a 92 year old photography shop in New Delhi) gain as I got excellent service from them; they even went to the trouble of finding the brand which I was looking for, even though they had told me earlier that I'd be lucky to get that brand in the market!

Blogger Meets are happening quite frequently in the Hindi Blogosphere now (or it seems that the blogger meet season is on). Pankaj blogged about his little blogger meet with the first Hindi blogger Alok(the man who started it all) as the latter was on a visit to the US. Sagar also narrated his experience as he had two blogger meets, one of them on the way to his native village. While I also participated in a recent blogger meet as Manish was on a Delhi visit due to some official work, it seems that this is all going to be just a warm-up compared to the BIG Blogger Meet that's going to take place this Saturday (July 14th) which if called an international blogger meet, won't be exaggeration as Kuwait based Jitu will be attending along with other fellow bloggers from other parts of India, and some from Delhi, the city which has more Hindi Bloggers than any other city around the world!

Ankur blogs about how he would like Linux to be, i.e., just as easy to use as Microsoft Windows with support for all his favourite and frequently used software. Now ambitious as this may sound, it's not far away. A while back, I blogged about ReactOS, which aims to be the Open Source and free alternative to Microsoft WindowsXP by being similar to the latter as well as having the application and driver compatibility, meaning all Microsoft Windows applications and drivers can run on ReactOS as well. Linspire's free offering of the scaled down version of their Linux distro as Freespire is already in the run, so things can be expected to be quite hot in the coming year or two. While we're on technology, Alok broke the news in the Hindi blogosphere about the availability of Blogger.com site in Hindi.

Sunil came up with a blog-post for the unmarried telling them about the hundreds of thousands of weddings scheduled on the 7th July all over the world and how people have booked venues for that day years in advance! And if you missed it, intentionally (like me) or accidentally, then not to worry, there's going to be 08/08/08, 09/09/09, 10/10/10, 11/11/11 & 12/12/12. Or for that matter even 06/07/08, 07/08/09, 08/09/10, 09/10/11, 10/11/12 & 11/12/13 as well! ;) Hmm, lots of cool dates to choose from, I think I'll also pick one of these & start planning! ;)

Manish finally finished his travelogue series of Andaman & Nicobar Islands. Just reading it one can imagine what fun it must have been (and you don't even need a strong and wild imagination like mine, eh!), so it's no telling how the real fun will be when you are actually there. So I think I'll just start saving!

This chapter of a guided tour through the Hindi Blogosphere concludes here. We'll meet soon again for another chapter of the guided tour. Till then, au revoir!! :)

Links courtesy: Narad

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Francophone Morocco: Development, Modernization, and Creation

Hamza Daoui · 18:50 · Middle East & North Africa

This week, francophone Moroccans take stock of their country, reflecting on the good, the bad, the beautiful.

Developing, modernizing and creating requires accepting criticism; but as Kenza, who blogs at Murmures hedra w klam (Fr), explains, criticism can be difficult to accept about one's own country, even when it is true:

Il est des choses qui peuvent choquer, il est des réalités qu’on a du mal à accepter, un amour pour ce pays qui sent la pointe de la critique comme une blessure à son inconditionnalité …. des choses somme toute que je peux admettre mais tout de même d’autres que je ne comprends toujours pas.

There are things that can shock, there are realities that people have a hard time accepting, a unconditional love for this country that feels criticism like a wound… [there are] things that finally I can admit but others that I still do not understand.

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Malaysia: Blogger Detained by Police

Preetam Rai · 18:11 · East Asia

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Several Malaysian bloggers are reporting that blogger Nat (Nathaniel) Tan of jelas.info was detained earlier today (July 13) by Malaysian police . KTEmoc writes

Police took Nathaniel Tan of PKR away for questioning, without providing any reason at all. They entered his office at about 4.45 pm today, and told Tan to follow them to the Bukit Aman police headquarters. The policemen also requested that Tan bring his notebook computer with him. It is believed that he is being questioned on matters relating to certain postings on the Internet.

Nathaniel works for a political party called Parti Keadilan Rakyat or PKR. Tian Chua, the information chief of PKR offers some background information on Nathaniel Tan.

Nathaniel is a 27 year old graduate from Harvard University. We began to know each other last year and became good friend. Early this year, I recruited him to work under KeADILan’s Information Bureau.

Image from Mob's Crib

Police initially denied having taken Nathaniel but later at night they admitted to it. Malaysian bloggers find the action puzzling. Maverick SM commenting on a post at Mob's Crib says

This is truly a sad day for democracy in Malaysia. Nat had never being subversive nor acted in anyway that would have threatened the security of the nation. How could the authorities be so misinformed? Democracy is dead!

Detained blogger's colleague John thinks that the establishment is trying to make an example out of Nathaniel for “those who dare to make a difference”.

There is also some speculation that one of Nathanial's post earlier this week (about an ongoing spat between the deputy internal security minister and the inspector general of police) might have caused the detention.

UPDATE: It seems that the police is looking for information on a comment that was left on Nathaniel's post on mentioned above. 4896 has an update on his blog .

Nathaniel's younger sister Cheryl is logging the latest developments on her own blog.

Links to bloggers talking about Nathaniel:

Elizabeth Wong
The Sensintrovert
Reduced and Recycled
Lucia Lai
Rocky's Bru
S.K.Thew
Susan Loone
Jeff Ooi
Politics 101 Malaysia
Bullets of Quills and Ink

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Peru: Bloggers Celebrate Machu Picchu's Selection as a Wonder of the World

Juan Arellano · 15:43, July 13th, 2007 · Americas

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Photo taken by C.J. Schexnayder and used with permission.

The much delayed selection of the “new seven wonders of the world” has finally ended; Machu Picchu, also known as the lost city of the Incas, came in fourth place in the election, which was decided by internet users around the world. Let’s see what Peruvian bloggers had to say about the news:

Of course, most bloggers are happy with the results, as is obvious in the blog Dttodo's post “Machu Picchu, one of the seven wonders of the modern world“.

Mi papá es Cuzqueño y Yo he tenido la suerte de vivir parte de mi infancia en esa hermosa ciudad. La semana pasada quedó plasmada la influencia de nuestra cultura para la humanidad con la elección de Machu Picchu como una de las 7 maravillas del mundo moderno. Esta es una de las ocasiones en las que podemos hinchar el pecho y decir a viva voz, ¡Que viva el Perú carajo! (También sentí mucho orgullo por México y Brasil…felicidades!)

My father is from Cuzco, and I have been lucky enough to live part of my childhood in this beautiful city… seeing my father anxiously await the results reminds me that it is not easy to be Peruvian. It made me think that remaining in our country has not been easy that for his generation (and many others)… This is one of the times when we can puff out our chests and say loudly, Long live Peru damnit! (I also was very proud of Mexico and Brazil… congratulations!).

Letra Suelta [ES] in its short post (Machu Picchu: A New Wonder of the World, Surprised?) reviews the media coverage of the award in newspapers of the Spanish-speaking world:

Hubo gran cobertura mediática: El Comercio (Perú), Clarín (Argentina), El País (España), El Universal (México), El Mercurio (Chile)…Y, claro está, la blogósfera mundial estuvo atenta a los resultados finales. Se resalta que Latinoamérica haya acaparado tres maravillas.

There was a lot of media coverage: El Comercio (Peru), Clar í n (Argentina), El Pa í s (Spain), El Universal (Mexico), El Mercurio (Chile)… And, of course, the global blogosphere also paid attention to the results. In the end, Latin America was home to three of the wonders.

Ernesto of Fisica3 [ES] explains the reasons behind the Peruvian victory in his post: And the Peruvian effort supporting Machu Picchu prevailed.

Razones del triunfo peruano? Simple… trabajo que empezo hace tiempo, el tomarselo como asunto de orgullo nacional lo que llevo a que muchos websites peruanos tuvieran un banner invitando a votar desde el año pasado, osea que no ha sido casualidad, sino una labor de tiempo y persistencia de los internautas peruanas, la cual ya habiamos visto en los casos de Libido, TK y la gringa Sofia.

Reasons for the Peruvian victory? Simple… work that began a long time ago, and the fact that many Peruvians took the matter as a point of national pride and placed banners on their websites that encouraged people to vote during the past year. In other words, it wasn't just luck, but instead was through the hard work and persistence by Peruvian internet users, which we have seen in the blogs of Libido, TK y la gringa Sofia.

In the midst of the celebrations, PEDROVILCAPAZA [ES] reflects on the need to care for the Inca city: Machu Picchu, wonder of the modern world.

Nos toca a todos los peruanos preservar este patrimonio de la humanidad y no destruirlo ni perderlo en el tiempo, felicitaciones a la ministra que se puso la camiseta en esta campaña, hoy todos ganamos y como dice un comercial “Machu Picchu es una maravilla, ser peruano es una maravilla”.

It is our responsibility as Peruvians to preserve this human patrimony and not destroy it or lose it to the ravages of time. Congratulations to the government official who helped in this campaign, and as the commercial says, ‘Machu Picchu is a wonder, being Peruvian is a wonder.

The sentiment that Machu Picchu needs more care than it has previously received was echoed in the blog Cuaderno de Borrador [ES] in its post Of seven wonders, Machu Picchu is the fourth.

¿Hacía falta el concurso para que los peruanos sepamos que Macchupicchu es una maravilla? Para los peruanos no, pero tal vez para que lo sepa la parte del mundo que no lo sabía. Con o sin concurso, visitemos y tratemos con cariño la siempre (antes del 07/07/07) maravillosa Macchupicchu. Ahora, con concurso y galardón encima, los encargados de la administración de nuestra maravilla ¿estan preparados para la pronosticada sobre avalancha de turistas que se viene?, ¿no abusaran de los precios?, ¿cuidaran mejor que nunca el mantenimiento de la ciudadela?, ¿etc. ?

Did we Peruvians need the contest to know that Machu Picchu is a wonder? For Peruvians probably not, but maybe the rest of the world now knows. With or without a competition, we will visit and treat with love the always (before 7/7/07) marvelous Machu Picchu. After the competition and with the prize, are the officials responsible for the monument ready for the forecasted avalanche of tourists who will descend upon the site? Will they inflate prices? Will they take better care of the site?

The above post is the only one that questions the capacity and ability of Machu Picchu to receive more visitors. Media Perú [ES] its post Is Machu Picchu ready to be a seventh wonder of the world? cites an answer given by a representative of the National Chamber of Tourism (CANATUR).

Según Petrozzi existen cuatro accesos a Machu Picchu de los que actualmente sólo se utiliza uno y el número de visitantes diarios oscila en 1500 personas, las que hacen largas colas para ingresar. Despues de las celebraciones las instituciones correspondientes debería realizar un plan de contingencia para el posible aumento de visitas y mejorar el servicio turistico en la ciudad inca.

According to Petrozzi there are four entries into Machu Picchu, and only one is currently being used by 1,500 daily visitors, creating very long lines to enter the site. After the celebration the responsible organizations should come up with a plan to handle the possible increase in visits and to improve service in the Inca city.

These aren’t all of the criticisms. The blog DESDE EL TERCER PISO [ES] outlines many reasons against increasing the number of visits to Machu Picchu in its post Old summit, new wonder?

Lo tercero y final: la sobreexplotación del Cusco en desmedro de otros lugares del país. Cuando he visto a la simpática Mercedes Araoz haciendo campaña por esta bendita votación, me venían dos preguntas a la cabeza:
1. ¿Tenemos política de turismo más allá de promover el Cusco como imagen? Como que hasta Toledo hizo alguito más con la huachafería esa de The Royal Tour.
2. ¿No tenemos otros atractivos que mostrar? Se me vienen a la cabeza varios: las líneas de Nazca, Chavín de Huantar, el Museo del Señor de Sipán, las playas del norte, los manglares de Tumbes, Arequipa, las riquezas folklóricas de Puno, la selva, Kuelap, Choquequirao y el mismo Centro Histórico de Lima.

The exploitation of Cuzco to the detriment of other locations in the country. When I saw the pleasant Mercedes Araoz campaigning for the election of Machu Picchu in this election, two things came to mind:1. Do we have the governmental support of tourism that will go beyond solely promoting the image of Cuzco?
2. Do we have other attractions to offer? A few come to mind: the Nazca lines, Chavín de Huantar, the Museum of Señor de Sipán, the beaches of the north, the mangrove swamps of Tumbes, Arequipa, the folkoric riches of Puno, the jungle, Kuelap, Choquequirao and the historic center of Lima. Even Toledo did something else with the distasteful Royal Tour.

The blog Peruanista [ES]distances itself from this issue and offers a thoughtful reflection in its post The two “new” indigenous wonders of the world.

Este premio entonces no debe ser solamente una forma de reconocer el trabajo, creatividad, inteligencia y excelencia de las geniales civilizaciones Indígenas Nativas que surgieron en el continente Abya Yala (América), sino es una llamada de atención para la reivindicación de los derechos de los pueblos Indígenas. Nuestros antepasados construyeron estas ciudades de las que nos enorgullecemos hoy, mucho antes que los europeos invadieran nuestras tierras con sus balas, caballos, religiones y enfermedades. Pero quiero creer que eso es parte del pasado. En vez de lamentar esa parte de nuestra historia común, quiero aceptar y celebrar incluso que ahora nuestro rico continente es compartido con otros pueblos y culturas.

It is prize is not just a way of recognizing the work, creativity, intelligence, and excellence of the brilliant indigenous civilizations that arose in the continent of Abya Yala (America); it is also a call to reclaim the rights of indigenous people. Our ancestors built these cities that we take pride in today, many years before the Europeans invaded our lands, bringing their weapons, horses, religions, and diseases. But I would like to believe that all of that is part of the past. Instead of regretting that part of our common history, we should accept and celebrate that now our rich continent is celebrated with other people and cultures.

Machu Picchu is a wonder that we must protect; that much is clear. There are various studies on the topic that warn of the dangers that an increase in the number of visitors to the site will have. There is already a lot of damage being done by the chaotically growing settlement that exists at the foot of the site, and we’re not even considering the impact of the infamous plans for a cable car. I’ll end with a few of the many posts in Spanish on the subject.

LaNuez - Machu Picchu una Maravilla
Blogginsomnio.net La falsa votación de las Nuevas 7 Maravillas
Pretextos - LAS SIETE ¿MARAVILLAS? DEL MUNDO
Política en Perú - New7Wonders: Machu Picchu Elegida entre las 7 Maravillas del Mundo
Rosa de Paz - MACHU PICCHU GANO… es una de las 7 MARAVILLAS DEL MUNDO
Crepúsculos y cuadernos Kausachum, Machu Picchu
Pelo Pon Eso - Realmente maravillado
ALEXCELI.ORG [ES] MACHU PICCHU ES UNA DE LAS N7W
Negligencia Médica [ES] - Macchu Picchu instante de ser elegido Nueva Maravilla del Mundo (Video)
Toñito Ávalos - TOÑILUSTRACIÓN: !PASU MACHU!!..MACHU PICCHU MARAVILLOSO!
Peru y Medio Ambiente - Gran alegría por elección de Machu Picchu como maravilla del mundo
Trujillo Daily Photo - A NEW WONDER OF THE WORLD