Talk:Blog del Narco

Dawn article
The old URL of the Dawn article is http://news.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/international/mexicos-drug-war-told-in-tweets-and-whispers-890

Alternative Olga Rodriguez URL at the Arizona Star: http://azstarnet.com/news/local/border/article_952f5531-89e1-532b-904c-13263a6f080f.html

WhisperToMe (talk) 00:07, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

site name changed?
i see it is now called '1050', not blogdelnarco. what happened?

http://www.milcincuenta.com/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.85.14.106 (talk) 00:21, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

somebody changed the link. The original seems to be dead, but the new one clearly goes to a different site.

I reverted to the original one. I have no well defined idea which is thereal new url, but http://www.mundonarco.com/ seems to be a favorite based on articles and site design. If anybody can point to sources giving a more clear picture, please do so. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.255.242.229 (talk) 15:53, 18 November 2011 (UTC)

Languages
36 different languages - how? As far as I can tell, it is only in one language - Spanish. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.40.10.178 (talk) 03:25, 10 August 2012 (UTC)


 * If you get on the official page, you will get a template at the top that reads:
 * That's how you can get to read it in 36 different languages. Best, ComputerJA (talk) 03:32, 10 August 2012 (UTC)

I do not see such an element on the site; anyway that sounds a lot like Google Translate! I don't think such a shallow integration of a simple automatic translation framework should count as "translation" of a blog. Every blog in a Google Translate compliant language could be counted to have a translation to all the Google Translate languages, but then the number is meaningless; to say that a blog has a translation implies deeper (probably manual) translation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.40.10.178 (talk) 14:17, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

Official page
I've known since BDN started that the official page is http://www.blogdelnarco.com/ and not http://www.blogdelnarco.co Aren't they basically the same thing? ComputerJA (talk) 18:33, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
 * They are completely different pages. The real site is at .com - .co is the country code for Colombia WhisperToMe (talk) 23:25, 23 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks! There was a guy who was changing the code without an explanation. I was just curious. ComputerJA (talk) 23:32, 23 September 2012 (UTC)

Author is a female
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/apr/03/mexico-blog-del-narco-drug-wars

interview with guardian.co.uk reveals the author of the blog is infact female. — Preceding unsigned comment added by R9x (talk • contribs) 00:42, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Wow! Great information! Thank you! Feel free to add it with the source in the History section. If you don't feel comfortable, I'll add it this weekend when I have more time (right now I have to exams on my back). Thanks again. ComputerJA (talk) 01:05, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

Plagiarism
In the Texas Observer version of the same story http://www.texasobserver.org/exclusive-female-founder-of-mexicos-most-controversial-blog-speaks-for-first-time/, in the comments page, writers from Borderland Beat and Border Reporter http://borderreporter.com/2010/08/blogueros-no-periodista/ claim that most of Blog del Narco's content is plagiarized from other blogs and news accounts, without attribution, and gives several examples. It should be worth following up. --Nbauman (talk) 16:17, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
 * I know it's over three years later, but I'd say to not mention it in the article unless/until other media sources wrote stories about it. WhisperToMe (talk) 05:22, 17 April 2016 (UTC)

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The website is still active
Look at it Sparkling Pessimist   Scream at me!  01:48, 4 June 2021 (UTC)

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