Reading Clive Thompsons article in Decembers Wired about how everyone is a micro-celebrity with their own blog, Facebook profile and life stream of twitter twits and flickr images, I reflected on my own experience. Meeting a lot of friends around christmas festivities we of course chat about what was happening in the past year, yet this year was different. Since I started posting on my blog/twitter/flickr a bit more often recently I’ve started hearing interesting replies on my conversations openers. Mostly it is something along the lines: ”I know, I’ve seen it on your blog.”

Writing a personal blog is thus very similar to having your very own tabloid  with small but tasty details of your life. Depending on what type of person you are, you might enjoy this fact or become shocked that people know much more about you than you expected. Most likely they also talk to each other about things you lifecasted.

But talking about other people in your personal tabloid is hard right now. This is why our plugin has capability to recommend stories and links to other people, so it is much easier for you to connect special sections (trackbacks) of your upcoming editorials. 

The Spanish Blogging Conference turned out to be a truly great event. Until now we were mostly talking to bloggers who mainly write in English or Slovenian, so being able to speak to a new group of bloggers underlined quite a few of our ideas and showed us where our focus should be. Most specially by supporting local languages and communities and that blogs are a communication tool.

Every group has their own ways of using and living through new technologies, it is also quite remarkable how Spanish bloggers are similar to their Blogging peers in other countries - they don’t care that much about the technology and how it is called, as long as it allows them to get their message to their readers. Having great tools that make it easy is a plus, but as Twitter demonstrated, even 160 characters is enough to do some amazing things.

While Zemanta does not (yet) official support Spanish, I am sure that passion and determination presented will help us greatly when we weight which language to select next.

Special thanks go to Christian, who by doing small pieces of his magic enabled us to be there.

* Photo by ABACERIA DEL SUR