Generation Y: the making of
Friday, January 22, 2010
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should begin by clarifying that a Cuban citizen can not go an office and buy a web domain for private or collective, let alone a national server to locate a domain purchased abroad. In Cuba, getting a url is an exclusive privilege of state institutions: not even accepted projects, but alternative access to such perks. Which leaves a citizen who has webmaster concerns the dilemma of waiting one day be possible or appealing to people, in other parts of the world to help you make a website.
Reinaldo and I opted for the second variable, when in mid-2006 we decided to ask our friend Josef Biechele us the favor of buying the domain for us http://www.desdecuba.com. Born and raised in Germany, Josef is one of our best friends, we know from the nineties, when she visited in Havana. We share a great friendship that fail to disturb or even different views on some issues that have political and ideological. Although many forums have tried to acknowledge Josef belong to the CIA, the fact is that in his youth was active in the Communist Party and maintains many of its ideas at the time. Ours is a friendship based on respect for differences and help each other, whenever anyone is in distress.
When I went head still have a blog, had already begun to explore some web design and my experience with the magazine Consensus had encouraged me to learn more about the subject. Josef, who knew of these inclinations computer, did not hesitate when he raised the idea of \u200b\u200bacquiring a domain in Germany. He put his name to settle in the German company Strato and helped with the initial investment, which was just over forty per year. In April came to light under the name of Generation Y. Every time I wanted to publish a new post had to replace the file "index.htm" to one that included the new text. Everything was designed with an older version of Dreamweaver, on an obsolete laptop that I had bought from a rafter chronic needed a Chevrolet engine. My new "site" lacked a database and did not use the magic triad Apache-PHP-MySQL that such potential has enabled blogs. It was like trying to fly to the moon rocket made of rocks and pieces of tree, but it was very gratifying to take off and you could see the stars. Early readers
arrived and my contact with them was through email, when I could sneak into a hotel and check my mailbox. Several netizens constantly made me question why not use a platform like Wordpress, MovableType or own Blogger.com. With these comments I learned that there were free blogging platforms, until then thought that every blogger spent the same difficulties every time I post up.
A huge world full of features is opened before my eyes.
only mid-October , 2007 I managed to download the script http://wordpress.com.org Wordpress from your site and test it on a brand new test server installed on my laptop. This "flight simulator" saved my life countless times, without him and the trials that allowed me to do offline, it would have been more difficult. After discarding MovableType (just in May 2005 had come to license fee) I opted for WP and I think that fate brought me this time to make the right choice. I'm never going to congratulate me enough to have adopted this system of free code that seems to mutate before my eyes with new and improved versions and endless features. I joined the brotherhood of Wordpress knowing full well that was drawing to a philosophy that I came up today: give prominence in my computing life to free software. Having
in detail how I managed to climb to the server ftp script and run it would be Wordpress desperate. All that to check a few weeks after my elementary Strato package included the possibility of opening posts with just a few clicks ... The only problem was that the interface would be in German and was difficult to change to English. In the eyes of readers, GY resurfaced in late December with new possibilities, including the comment, establish a file, categories and even a search engine. After everything was caught backstage with tweezers and I felt myself overwhelmed by the task of managing a domain and a blog.
several friends' advice and the invaluable help of Josef were decisive. Occasionally, my ignorance caused a technological disaster. A few months earlier had helped to open their space Reinaldo From here, Miriam Celaya to break under a pseudonym on the site without evasions. Both blogs drank what was learned the pitfalls of GY. Everything was easier now, but still very complicated.
several friends' advice and the invaluable help of Josef were decisive. Occasionally, my ignorance caused a technological disaster. A few months earlier had helped to open their space Reinaldo From here, Miriam Celaya to break under a pseudonym on the site without evasions. Both blogs drank what was learned the pitfalls of GY. Everything was easier now, but still very complicated.
The new situation could only enjoy it for about three months, since mid March 2008 the Cuban government implemented a filter to block the entire domain Desdecuba.com. I thought it was something temporary, but until today still there, built a wall between my eyes and virtual space. Many people who have seen the blank page that appears when I type my URL in the only two internet cafes is Havana and the hotels where I connect, tells me that this is an agonizing filter retarder which the charge on each item that site. Maybe if I stayed two days connected with the browser open in http://www.desdecuba.com/generaciony might get to see the site as a whole, but not daring to click anywhere, because that would take me another 48 hour charge.
If it was difficult without blockade, it became impossible with the wall of censorship. Luckily, by then had developed a good friendship with many commentators and regular readers of the blog. Several offered their helping hand for me and I decided to trust this virtual relationship that had developed during short months. It was the third major decision I made in the life of my blog: The first one was open and the second opt for Wordpress. I started my texts send via email, accompanied by a picture that my "helpers" published by me. We also seek people's blogs Reinaldo assistant, Miriam, the Guajiro Azul y Dimas Castellanos. A network of citizen solidarity is woven around us. Proposals also came to translate and people came from all over offering help voluntary and unpaid, to carry my texts into Portuguese, English, Chinese or Dutch. This is something that proponents of the conspiracy theory always put as evidence of origin "dark" Generation Y. Not trust-or understand-in the sympathies that develop between people without an administration, a party, a task or a mission funded program. For those makers of alleged plots, the way in which people spontaneously organize underestimated and is something dubious, to me is the cornerstone on which rests my project online. Without that support everything had remained the dream of what might be.
May 2008 was full of surprises, Ortega y Gasset Prize for journalism in the category of digital work and the listing of Time. The blog was in good health, but it was time to make some design improvements and add new implementations. The big problem was that I could not get into the administration and those who helped me to publish, had total available but did not know Wordpress enough to dare to perform more compromising. They were difficult months for the technical part, in which he hung GY frequently or was the victim of attacks. The flow of visitors was higher than the traffic that it accepted the basic package that we bought in the Strato server. Not a week passed without an error message appeared on screen readers and several times, including the day of the award of the Ortega y Gasset, we were attacked by a hacker who went so far as to damage the database. In one of these "rounds" I lost all my texts accompanying images and was an odyssey back to climb. From this side, disconnected from the network and the blocked site, he could hardly sleep thinking about the chaos that hackers had left on the server.
end of 2008 the blog was nominated in three major events: 20 Minutes, The Journals and BOBs award. The chances were slim. They then Mandingo template with a banner that brought it to default, did not use categories, or tags, I could not change my sidebar links area was a mess, had barely managed to install a plugin on top of that the commentators were in need of a more functional area to write their opinions. I then asked a designer friend, a Cuban based in Spain that will help me create a custom banner and logo GY. Thus was born with me still. Its appeal is I owe it to the talent of this designer, whose logo reference is in the sidebar of my blog as a sign of thanks. Along
who helped me post, we enable some improvements to the blog, including comments that the pages are divided in groups of hundreds to not be so slow to load. We gave some hints to the template and the new banner Mandingo worked wonderfully. The year ended with the trophy and prize BOBs of Blogs, despite their technical losses, Generation Y was raised with both awards. It was like having "finally" landed with my rustic ship.
The news came BOBs Award in the German press, especially in the Deutsche Welle and Strato company realized that its award-winning blog was hosted on that server. They got in touch with your customer, Josef Biechele to ask. He gave them my address and first established a connection between them and me. Told me I was honored to have me among their users and asked if I needed something special. I asked to change language to English administration which meant moving the domain to a subsidiary company in Spain. They were so eager not to lose a client who offered me 18 months of free service and a package of best features in return, I just had to be a reference customer, which could appear in articles and references that were made on the Strato service. I found a great deal and I accepted.
mid February 2009 we began the move. It was a disaster. The old version 2.3 of Wordpress is disarmed and the database was more difficult to move a Siberian mammoth. For eleven days desdecuba.com entire domain was offline. I could not sleep, the email inbox was full of alarm and in the midst of this chaos an opportunistic hacker breached the security and was beating a dead horse.
We had to resort to backups stored on the server. My blogger status blind was unbearable. Seen as the work of nearly two years, going down with those error messages that appeared on the screens of anyone who wanted to enter GY. A friend gave me a card of five hours of connection for a hotel in Havana, I went there prepared not get up until I return to see my blog. One person who helps me post was in the chat. He
If it was difficult without blockade, it became impossible with the wall of censorship. Luckily, by then had developed a good friendship with many commentators and regular readers of the blog. Several offered their helping hand for me and I decided to trust this virtual relationship that had developed during short months. It was the third major decision I made in the life of my blog: The first one was open and the second opt for Wordpress. I started my texts send via email, accompanied by a picture that my "helpers" published by me. We also seek people's blogs Reinaldo assistant, Miriam, the Guajiro Azul y Dimas Castellanos. A network of citizen solidarity is woven around us. Proposals also came to translate and people came from all over offering help voluntary and unpaid, to carry my texts into Portuguese, English, Chinese or Dutch. This is something that proponents of the conspiracy theory always put as evidence of origin "dark" Generation Y. Not trust-or understand-in the sympathies that develop between people without an administration, a party, a task or a mission funded program. For those makers of alleged plots, the way in which people spontaneously organize underestimated and is something dubious, to me is the cornerstone on which rests my project online. Without that support everything had remained the dream of what might be.
May 2008 was full of surprises, Ortega y Gasset Prize for journalism in the category of digital work and the listing of Time. The blog was in good health, but it was time to make some design improvements and add new implementations. The big problem was that I could not get into the administration and those who helped me to publish, had total available but did not know Wordpress enough to dare to perform more compromising. They were difficult months for the technical part, in which he hung GY frequently or was the victim of attacks. The flow of visitors was higher than the traffic that it accepted the basic package that we bought in the Strato server. Not a week passed without an error message appeared on screen readers and several times, including the day of the award of the Ortega y Gasset, we were attacked by a hacker who went so far as to damage the database. In one of these "rounds" I lost all my texts accompanying images and was an odyssey back to climb. From this side, disconnected from the network and the blocked site, he could hardly sleep thinking about the chaos that hackers had left on the server.
end of 2008 the blog was nominated in three major events: 20 Minutes, The Journals and BOBs award. The chances were slim. They then Mandingo template with a banner that brought it to default, did not use categories, or tags, I could not change my sidebar links area was a mess, had barely managed to install a plugin on top of that the commentators were in need of a more functional area to write their opinions. I then asked a designer friend, a Cuban based in Spain that will help me create a custom banner and logo GY. Thus was born with me still. Its appeal is I owe it to the talent of this designer, whose logo reference is in the sidebar of my blog as a sign of thanks. Along
who helped me post, we enable some improvements to the blog, including comments that the pages are divided in groups of hundreds to not be so slow to load. We gave some hints to the template and the new banner Mandingo worked wonderfully. The year ended with the trophy and prize BOBs of Blogs, despite their technical losses, Generation Y was raised with both awards. It was like having "finally" landed with my rustic ship.
The news came BOBs Award in the German press, especially in the Deutsche Welle and Strato company realized that its award-winning blog was hosted on that server. They got in touch with your customer, Josef Biechele to ask. He gave them my address and first established a connection between them and me. Told me I was honored to have me among their users and asked if I needed something special. I asked to change language to English administration which meant moving the domain to a subsidiary company in Spain. They were so eager not to lose a client who offered me 18 months of free service and a package of best features in return, I just had to be a reference customer, which could appear in articles and references that were made on the Strato service. I found a great deal and I accepted.
mid February 2009 we began the move. It was a disaster. The old version 2.3 of Wordpress is disarmed and the database was more difficult to move a Siberian mammoth. For eleven days desdecuba.com entire domain was offline. I could not sleep, the email inbox was full of alarm and in the midst of this chaos an opportunistic hacker breached the security and was beating a dead horse.
We had to resort to backups stored on the server. My blogger status blind was unbearable. Seen as the work of nearly two years, going down with those error messages that appeared on the screens of anyone who wanted to enter GY. A friend gave me a card of five hours of connection for a hotel in Havana, I went there prepared not get up until I return to see my blog. One person who helps me post was in the chat. He
from your home country could seamlessly navigate the web and enter the control panel of your server but lacked the expertise to repair the mess, I had some ideas how to solve and yet could do nothing . Combine your eyes and my notions, it was my view and I was his mind. About eleven o'clock at night and the site was again available, with some imperfections, but alive.
arranged the march on the rest and the new space on the server proved to have a greater capacity to accept the growing traffic. I changed the template of Atahualpa, which I keep still. Three weeks later he was compromised by a new attack. The disaster helped us protect ourselves better. Then came a period of technical stability and unrest vital developments that were happening in the real world. Until mid-October, someone found a new vulnerability came in and deleted the index.php file. Fortunately the problem was resolved immediately by the knowledge that it had reached the friend who saved me once.
In mid-2010 will be completed 18 months courtesy of Strato domain. By then I will have saved something that allows me to maintain the current packet without losing any of its functionality. My weekly column Internazionale in the Italian magazine, freelance journalist I have done throughout the world, including some systematic as in the TAZ German Power magazine, the magazine Imprensa of Brazil and a new possibility in El Nuevo Dia in Puerto Rico I have allowed all this time pay my internet hours and help other bloggers to surf the net. The priority of my income remains with communication and online presence. Although lack of other things, I will not stop investing in switching times, cards for mobile, which allows me to tweet, and other logistical support to start expressing themselves online. The value in the third prize in the Ways of Freedom has helped to fund the Academy Blogger, especially in supply of paper, CDs, DVDs and a snack. Solidarity donations made through the Paypal button located on my site have also been aimed at the communicative infrastructure that I'm trying to create for use of a whole community.
autonomy is the base material on which stands the civic autonomy. This precept is one of the greatest of my life and I'm not ashamed or blame for having released the paternalism, the state agency and the ridiculous subsidies. I aspire to Cuba where anyone who wants can have a web domain, paid for their work, not paying any fee to get it ideological and above all not to be accused of "mercenary" or manufactured by a foreign power solely because of not conform to vegetate in material poverty and the disability information.
Generation Y is the fruit of my talents, my energy, the collaboration of thousands of citizens in many parts of the world, the support of my friends, the readings I've done over the years, listening others, the solidarity of many bloggers and commentators inside and outside the island, but especially is a direct result of interaction with a reality that neither triumphalism nor the stereotypical slogans to hide.
Yoani Sánchez Havana
http://www.penultimosdias.com/
http://elyuma.blogspot.com/
arranged the march on the rest and the new space on the server proved to have a greater capacity to accept the growing traffic. I changed the template of Atahualpa, which I keep still. Three weeks later he was compromised by a new attack. The disaster helped us protect ourselves better. Then came a period of technical stability and unrest vital developments that were happening in the real world. Until mid-October, someone found a new vulnerability came in and deleted the index.php file. Fortunately the problem was resolved immediately by the knowledge that it had reached the friend who saved me once.
In mid-2010 will be completed 18 months courtesy of Strato domain. By then I will have saved something that allows me to maintain the current packet without losing any of its functionality. My weekly column Internazionale in the Italian magazine, freelance journalist I have done throughout the world, including some systematic as in the TAZ German Power magazine, the magazine Imprensa of Brazil and a new possibility in El Nuevo Dia in Puerto Rico I have allowed all this time pay my internet hours and help other bloggers to surf the net. The priority of my income remains with communication and online presence. Although lack of other things, I will not stop investing in switching times, cards for mobile, which allows me to tweet, and other logistical support to start expressing themselves online. The value in the third prize in the Ways of Freedom has helped to fund the Academy Blogger, especially in supply of paper, CDs, DVDs and a snack. Solidarity donations made through the Paypal button located on my site have also been aimed at the communicative infrastructure that I'm trying to create for use of a whole community.
autonomy is the base material on which stands the civic autonomy. This precept is one of the greatest of my life and I'm not ashamed or blame for having released the paternalism, the state agency and the ridiculous subsidies. I aspire to Cuba where anyone who wants can have a web domain, paid for their work, not paying any fee to get it ideological and above all not to be accused of "mercenary" or manufactured by a foreign power solely because of not conform to vegetate in material poverty and the disability information.
Generation Y is the fruit of my talents, my energy, the collaboration of thousands of citizens in many parts of the world, the support of my friends, the readings I've done over the years, listening others, the solidarity of many bloggers and commentators inside and outside the island, but especially is a direct result of interaction with a reality that neither triumphalism nor the stereotypical slogans to hide.
Yoani Sánchez Havana
http://www.penultimosdias.com/
http://elyuma.blogspot.com/
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