Lately I've gotten some interesting feedback on Cuban blogs and the Cuban blogosphere, because of my post asking about the subject.

For now, let me just highlight a few blogs by Cuban librarians:

La Polilla Cubana
Blog from Cuban librarian Rosa C. Baez.
http://lapolillacubana.blogspot.com/. And here's some articles about Cuban blogs published in Librinsula, which is edited by Rosa Baez:

Blogs Cuba: Identidad atrincherada. Tercera parte, Cubano-soy-cubano-soy. (Cuba blogs: Establishing identity, part three, I'm-Cuban-I'm-Cuban)

http://www.bnjm.cu/librinsula/2006/septiembre/140/cuba_va/cuba_va499.htm >Blogosfera cubana

; recién nacido fenómeno que se abre pasos en la Red digital. (Cuban blogosphere; new phenomenon that opens pathways to the digital Web)

Cuba: Identidad atrincherada. Primera parte (Cuba: Establishing identity)

Algunas ideas sobre variados temas - Some ideas on various subjects. Written by Ana O. Diez de Oñate; thoughts on libraries, politics, culture.

Cuba y sus bibliotecarios escolares by Nuria Esther Pérez Matos. A good blog with lots of photos, though it is very new. Nuria also writes on Somos Bibliotecarios - We are Librarians.

Thanks to Dana Lubnow for the links and for her great web site, Scout Portal Toolkit, where she keeps a searchable database of blogs and other Internet resources published in Cuba. I've been prowling through that database for the last couple of weeks, reading blogs and taking notes. It's a lot of work, because many of the blogs listed have one or two posts and then go silent; mostly, I think, because of access issues and because of the bottleneck of data in and out of Cuba which hampers Internet communications - a situation caused by the senseless U.S. economic blockade. So, I'll report on some more blogs and trends in the Cuban blogosphere later this week.

Do go and take a look and say hello in their comments - It's always nice to know someone is looking and even a casual "hola!" can inspire someone to keep on blogging.