Cuban bloggers being blocked by Google?

In English
Some friend of mine told me about a possible situation between cuban blogs and Blogger, of which their authors were being banned access to view and update/modify their content.

I inmediately decided to try and see if I was still able to access this blog that I maintained before continuing my personal blog in the web site of the Opera Web Browser, and you could see that I am indeed able to update this blog as I am writing this post. Nevertheless this doesn't prove anything, since Google may have blocked some and not all cuban blogs. I am not aware of any cuban blogger in a situation similar to the one described above.

En español
Hace poco fui puesto al tanto por un amigo sobre una posible situación de los blogs cubanos en Blogger, cuyos autores al parecer estaban siendo bloqueados por Google tanto para acceder como para actualizar/modificar el contenido.

Inmediatamente me dispuse a probar si aún tenía yo acceso a este blog que hace algún tiempo mantuve antes de continuar mi blog personal en el sitio del navegador Opera, y de hecho pueden ver que incluso pude actualizarlo. De cualquier manera esto no prueba nada, pues quizás Google bloqueó a algunos y no a todos. No estoy al tanto de ningún blogger cubano de quien personalmente pueda yo dar crédito de estar en una situación similar a la descrita.

Update
I am able to access this blog both behind a proxy or without proxy.

Link blog

I recently moved this blog to the Opera Community web site, as I explained in a previous post. But I've thinking, and I've decided not to throw away this one.

Is funny how you start blogging with doubt, moved mostly by the ever-expanding blogging tendencies in the web of today. You ask yourself, why do all these people (the bloggers) feel so attracted to this practice? There's got to be something special about it. Then, you decide to try out for yourself, and you spent about a month or two (at most) to find out that this is like smoking: you just cannot quit, at least not easily. But smoking is hazardous to health, and blogging is not (until physicians start studying it).

Why do I tell you all this? Because I suddenly felt the need for an extra blog, and what could be more logical than using this one, with which I started. I won’t be using it for the same purpose of my main blog, because it won’t make any sense. I’ll use it as a link blog instead.

Some of you might wonder: what is a link blog anyway? Well, instead of somewhat mid-sized or long stories or writings with my opinion on different subjects, I will post very small texts with links to articles, web pages, services, news, blog posts or anything imaginable that I find interesting, things I ought to share with you, because you might be interested too.

I you're still unsure why to do this, check out the reasons for Jeremy Zawodny to do the same. You should visit his link blog too.

So this is it, no more talking.

Feel free with Opera

The Opera Web Browser is now free. Opera dropped the ad banners and the licensing fee. Go and read what I think in my new blog, which is (by the way) hosted precisely in the brand new Opera Community site.

Switching to Opera Community

I think I will definitely move my blog to the Opera Community. I wrote there some days ago, before making this decision, about the pros and cons of switching. And I also posted there a few minutes ago about this final decision.

I will continue to write here, but not that much, and mostly redirecting to some interesting stuff from my Opera blog. Gotta get that PageRank up, don’t you think? Google Blog Search is still not indexing that other blog, but it does index this one.

September 11

Today is September 11, exactly four years from the deadly attacks to New York City and Washington. I had nothing planned to post here today, but I wanted to remember the victims. I recall that day quite well, and not just like anybody else. I had family there that could have been in danger, and I have special feelings about the city of New York.

Certainly this date has proven to be deadly in human history. We should also remember the victims of another fatal event that took place several years before. On September 11, 1973 the elected government of Salvador Allende was overthrown by military forces led by Augusto Pinochet. This led to a bloody dictatorship that lasted for 17 years. To this date the very assassins haven't paid yet.