Milton, or TonNet, mentioned a couple of Ecuadorian bloggers that I missed:

One of Three Lunatic Devils, writing on Infiernillo - she likes cussing and ranting, and joking around. I love what she says about loving garage bands... that in an uncomfortable space full of junk, with off-key voices and bad equipment, they're magically transformed into troubadors, singing about love or how they hate authority... happy anarchists each on their own planet of 4/4 time, yet part of a glorious whole. But... a big but... it's only easy to wax poetic about them when they aren't your next door neighbors when you're trying to sleep!

I learned a new word from her blog, "guambra", which is Quechua: Ecuadorian slang for "kid" or "dude".

Catirula blogs on Yo-Yo, poems, songs, very creative, and her thoughts from La Conferencia del Siglo, an Ecuadorean web 2.0 and blogging conference - which she found to be kind of frustrating & yet she met interesting people there.

Somehow this led me to Lidieska and "De regreso a silicon valley", a long-running blog ... she mentions the Primer Coloquio Internacional en Cibercultur@ y
Comunidades Emergentes de Conocimiento which happened in April, in Mexico, and an IBM/IBERO blogging conference.

Milton's blog is right up my alley, by the way - social networking, tech, education, virtual worlds... all very interesting.

If I could go "meta" for a minute... Sometimes I feel bad that I'm skimming the surface of these great blogs. But it takes me time to find them, to read them, to write up a little bit... I want to look at their blogrolls and really get to know their communities. But there isn't time. So my hope is sincerely that other people reading this in English will be inspired to take a look - to try to read at least one blog outside the English language, and likely outside your country.

Again, I'm functioning as the host of a party, trying to introduce people who might or might not speak each others' languages. I hope people can see the intention ... to help there to be more direct, unmediated communication... decentralized. But sometimes the host of the party is running around trying to make sure everyone's happy, and doesn't get to have the most interesting, deep, sustained conversations - the conversations I hope you will have.

So, if I leave out your blog that should be here, or make a mistake in describing your blog... or do something dumb... descúlpeme... & please speak up to correct my mistake!

Contributing Editor Liz Henry also blogs at Composite and Badgermama.