Rankings and filters in the web

One of the best explanations about the functioning of the PageRank by Google is at:(http://www.webworkshop.net/pagerank.html) Google’s PageRank Explained and how to make the most of it, written by Phil Craven, author of Google’s PageRank Calculator. http://www.webworkshop.net/pagerank_calculator.php3

An article on PCWorld the qualities of other search engines: Beyond Google: Web is so full of useful info that no search engine can find it all.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id.114725-page.1/article.html
About the multitude of specialty sites deliver shopping advice, reference databases, leisure-time ideas, and more fast, written by Laurianne McLaughlin.

A set of useful tricks to take advantage of search engines may be found at: Internet Librarian: 30 Search Tips in 40 Minutes, in mamamusings http://mamamusings.net/archives/2003/11/03/more by Elizabeth Lane Lawley.

A resource on documenting and search specialized engines, although not too up to date, may be found at: Portal de Buscadores. http://mccd.udc.es/orihuela/voz/

Worth a click

A few blogs worth a click.

• Blogpocket by Antonio Cambronero

• Caspa.TV by Antonio Delgado

• Comunisfera by Daniel Martí

• Malas Palabras by Diego Rottman

• Periodistas 21 by Juan Varela.

Enjoy!

Some of the Worst

I cannot limit myself in this category. When it comes to bad blogs, one may never assume it is over.

Thus, this is only some of today’s choices.

• Well-intended, yet not very graceful “poetry:” Palabras al viento

• A very disheartening approach to Ecuadorian politics, with nothing new to say at: Carlos Molina Gavilanes

• The prove that CIESPAL is unable to carry a Blog is at Chasqui

• Very little sense in: Mefistófeles y El Hombre Masa.

• By far the most pervasive opinion on Ecuadorian politics that I have encounter so far: El Federalista

Changing the Agenda

Ecuadorian president, Rafael Correa has obtained strong victories in last three elections, yet, the mainstream media continues to portrait a grim and highly oppositional environment for his political project. As Omar Ospina exposed last Sunday in his opinion column in the Diario hoy, there is a disconnection between the democratic will of ninety percent of Ecuadorians, and the economical elites that own the media outlets.

It is not only the ideological opposition; it is just natural that in free market of ideas there should be clear political differences. Is that the cacophony in the media agenda is more align with a hegemonic discourse of criticism, apart from the hopes and social reality of the population.

Latin America is living in a new media paradigm, where media schizophrenia, is debunked in every election.