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Interview with Diego Casaes
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6 minutes and 19 seconds
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Brazil
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English
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David Sasaki
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David Sasaki
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oso on Nov 22, 2009
Global Voices author and translator from Brazil.
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- I'm Diego Casaes. I'm from Brazil.
- I live in Salvador in the northeastern part of Brazil.
- I am the coordinator
- of the Portuguese translation team and a voluntary author
- for Global Voices Online.
- David: And how did you get started in Global Voices?
- Diego: I got started in Global Voices when I met Paula on Twitter.
- She invited me to write. It was about
- the flooding in Brazil.
- And it was in May, 2009, this year.
- So it has been seven months.
- David: What are some of the other topics that you write about on Global Voices?
- I mostly write about freedom of speech and cyberactivism.
- A couple of times it was about the environment.
- Mostly about cyberactivism.
- David: How do you see the Brazilian blogosphere as different from other blogospheres around the world?
- Diego: Well, maybe because we are very passionate when we discuss things
- so bloggers take this passion
- from daily life to their blogs. So they are very optimistic
- and discuss really loudly with each other.
- They scream on Twitter.
- In many blogs you can see many comments ...
- like flaming comments. People with passion.
- Actually, it's interesting
- to see how the Brazilian blogosphere is quite different from others.
- David: And why do you think that is? You think it's just ... cultural?
- Diego: Maybe. Because I was talking to a friend
- from Kazakhstan and he says that the blogosphere in Kazakhstan is not very active.
- They have lots of blog posts, but not lots of comments.
- In Brazil it is very different. We see lots of comments in the blog posts.
- People really discuss things.
- David: So what are some of the things that Brazilian bloggers are discussing these days?
- Diego: These days, especially in 2009,
- they are very addicted to discussing about cyber-activism.
- Because we have lots of bills
- that want to take away our freedom on the internet.
- So, in this event where we are here now,
- lots of blogs from cyber-activism
- and freedom of speech are discussing all of this.
- David: What do you write about on your personal blogs?
- Diego: Well, some of my points of view on many subjects of communication,
- freedom of speech. But I also have a
- blog about Japanese culture because
- I listen to Japanese music
- and I watch many Japanese animations.
- So I mostly write about that.
- It's nice actually because nobody
- thinks you would write about that.
- I'm not very Japanese. I don't look Japanese, but
- I just love it.
- David: You're going to Copenhagen, right? For a conference on climate change.
- How did that all come about?
- Diego: Well, actually I got a message from
- my Global Voices reader profile
- asking me to go to Copenhagen to participate in the Think About It competition.
- A European blogging competition.
- I went to Copenhagen in December and we
- were at the launch event where we learned about
- what we were going to blog about on climate change.
- Now, last week,
- we got the news - me and two other guys -
- that we were selected to represent
- the European Journalism Centre in the COP15.
- From 92 bloggers only three of us.
- David: Solana from Global Voices asks, "what are you going to do in Copenhagen with your blogging award?"
- Diego: Well, I hope to
- bring bloggers' and journalists' views on the COP15.
- And maybe meet some world leaders
- and try to ask them if they
- really want to see the planet die.
- And try to bring citizen media into the discussion
- because there are plenty of journalists
- who are going to COP15 but
- I think this is the only actual event
- where many bloggers are going to a big even like this.
- So, it's quite different. And I hope to
- do a good job reporting on climate change.
- David: Sylwia Presley asks, "How has working for Global Voices changed your life?"
- Diego: Since I am Brazilian I am very passionate
- about many things and I think that Global Voices
- is part of us because we learn from it
- and we bring some of these themes that we're discussing on Global Voices
- to our daily life and discuss them with friends.
- Sometimes I bring topics like wars in distances places like Africa
- or people dying of hunger in Kazakhstan.
- I think this kind of blog
- Global Voices made me more aware that we are in a world
- and that there are other people in this life;
- not only our close friends.
- David: This question comes from Ethan: "Where can I learn more about Technobrega music?"
- Diego: I saw his question on Twitter
- and I was quite scared because I don't listen to technobrega.
- But I did some research
- and there is this website called bregapop.com and they gather many style of brega music
- including technobrega and it is interesting because
- in the bands' profiles they had the Orkut profile
- telephone numbers. So if you want to contact them you can just go to this community
- and find many artists from Belém do Pará, which is the place where the technobrega emerged from.
- They also embedded many YouTube videos of technobrega in this community
- so it's quite fun actually.
- It is interesting how they use citizen media
- and other web 2.0 resources on this website.
- David: What would you like to see for the future of Global Voices in the next five years?
- Diego: For the future of Global Voices I think
- we are going to create much more content
- on the Lingua sites
- and I think that we'll establish a very well-known community. We'll get famous I think.
- Many more people will want to contribute to Global Voices
- At this event where we are right now, many people came to me asking, "how can we contribute to Global Voices?"
- So I think that the community will grow.
- You can read Diego's articles on Global Voices at:


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