ABRIENDO JUEGO, ABRIENDO MUNDOS   Un blog de Fernando Flores

En Global Voices se publicó recientemente una entrevista, en dos partes, que me realizó Rosario Lizana.

A continuación les dejo los primeros párrafos de esta entrevista en inglés y que, por ahora, no vamos a traducir:

Reflections on Blogging with Fernando Flores

Chilean Senator Fernando Flores has been an active promoter of blogs in Chile. He’s introduced them in a serious context. In this interview, he reflects about blogs, posts, comments, opinions, and how to build progressive common worlds through language.

Fernando, lets talk about your blog and its difference from other types of blogs?

On occasions people write to me and ask, why don’t you give opinions on your blog, others complain about why I “copy and paste”?

The main feature of my blog is to disclose worlds, so I can bring into the blog issues with out making an opinion. My work is to disclose, not to be an opinionated person. My policy is not to give opinions. I choose themes, and even if I have a negative opinion of them, I have selected them because I think them important, worth mentioning to share them with others. I believe other people do other things, they have biased opinions, it’s not the style of my blog and not the style of me as a senator.

I think that I am good at watching what goes on in the world, so I share issues that I discern as important, within a certain line. So, I share 4 or 5 themes such as technology, education, digital vanguard. I read around 1000 posts per day; where I find a lot to share. I do a selection labour and a lot of readers appreciate it. The other reason for doing “cut and paste” is that I am a Senator and I don’t have time to write five articles per day.

Another phenomenon is that at times I post the complete text, and readers ask me, why don’t you just post the link? My readers are still in a junior stage of blogs, so if I only post the link, they will not click it, and the link will get lost, therefore, I feel obliged to post the full article.

Blogs must have a purpose, oriented to a community of readers that you are trying to reach. I do not have a diary blog, or a senator news blog, or a senator’s opinion blog. I have not used my blog for political issues, even though -I am part of the power structure of the country - its not my way of blogging.

What would be the style of your blog?

Well, it is not only about posting, you need to have a strategy. And in this strategy there is always a permanent question mark, as we do not know which will be the events that will feed this strategy, what things are going to happen in the world.

For me, the blog philosophy is similar to editing a magazine. I have to be at the service of my readers and my potential readers and to write for their mentality, rather than just write for myself. There is a tension between writing for personal interest and writing for the reader’s mentality. That depends on the style that you have. I write for the mentality of my readers.

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