Not even the Olympics can rescue TVes's ratings...
I found this astonishing: Rubén Limardo’s gold-medal winning effort in London got about 1/3rd to 1/5th of the ratings on TVes as the regular old Telenovela gets every...
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A moratorium on comments-about-comments
Juan is right. Comments-via-Email probably does run counter to some deeply ingrained Venezuelan cultural values. That’s a singularly bad reason to oppose it, though, just like Venezuelans’ deep...
Captain, we may have hit a cultural barrier
My first day thinking about the new comments section, and about the (mostly negative) emails we’ve been getting about it, got me thinking whether an approach that works...
It's hard out here for a rapidito...
In cities like Barquisimeto, public transport means more than just buses. Some routes are covered by what’s known here as carritos por puesto or rapiditos: passenger cars that...
My take on the comments ruckus
I was off skiing on the face of a volcano in Chile’s Patagonia for the weekend (yes, you can envy me now), so I’m a little late to...
Due Process is in the Eye of the Beholder
I’m a couple of weeks late on this one, but I think The Economist’s take on Venezuela’s quickie accession to Mercosur was really enlightening. As the chart on...
Not everybody hates Comments via Email
Old comments section stalwart GTAvex sticks his neck out: I find the new policy refreshing: it’s not trying to pander to us with a self-congratulatory “democracy-means-free-for-all” while people write...
How to Flout the Layoff Freeze and Live to Tell the Tale
Unpaid severance pay? Mass layoffs? In direct contravention of the inamovilidad laboral decrees? Man, these guys are so getting expropriated! …oh, wait.
Que se siente ser Mark Zuckerberg, pero pelabola?
D. Pratt, whose brain PanfletoNegro came out of, weighs in on the Comment-via-Email thing: Hasta los lurkers se manifiestan cuando cambias algo en una página que funcionaba bien....
No Comments: Unworkable*, impersonal**, undemocratic***, dull****...
*don’t want to imagine the amount of reading you’ll have to do – of the good, the bad and the ugly. I imagine Sullivan has his staff, do...
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