Pregunte HN: ¿Adonde encuentran nueva información tecnológica en español?
For the hackers that speak spanish: Where do you find your technology information? In English, there's Hacker News, Proggit, Slashdot, etc...
Any great sites in spanish?
Any great sites in spanish?
This bias has made me consider the English language as the fist gatekeeper for computer geeks in Latin America. There are here nice people with lots of potential who cannot read English, this is always going to be a liability for them. Fool you not. No matter how good you think you are, you would be better if you could drink directly from the source. (take that from I guy who has thought himself great one or two times, just to find otherwise the hard way)
In spite of that, I still believe that language shapes our thoughts (there is formal name for this, cannot recall it). We are missing of so much because have to express ourselves in a foreign language, and the community as a whole looses our collective perspective because there is no place to share it.
<flamebait> Said that, I don't think a news agregator would be useful at this stage. The moronic crowds would take over (think moronic as in Slashdot, not as a racial comment). Maybe some arbitrated site a la StackOverflow would do. </flamebait>
I'm about ready to release a beta of a social news application I've been working on. I'm wondering if releasing a site in Spanish would be worth it. There seems to be a lot of competition for the geek news market in English. I don't know if there's enough news to aggregate in Spanish or not. It seems that it might help the programming community if we could create a site dedicated to aggregating the information that's out there.
The troll problem is, I think, separate from the content problem. Hopefully, we can build safeguards into the system to avoid the worst excesses.
http://www.noticiaslinux.com/ http://gruporeforma.mural.com/suplementos/interfase/?plazaco... (this is a local newspaper site, some news might require subscription to read)
There's also microsiervos.com and mangasverdes.org
I haven't found any hardcore stuff like HN, but maybe the microsiervos guys can help if you ask.