The brilliant British band Radiohead will be coming to Argentina for at least one show sometime in late March or early April, Rolling Stone confirmed Wednesday. Radiohead’s official site lists Argentina on the upcoming South American leg of its world tour, but no date is given. The band is playing in Santiago, Chile on March 27, so, presumably, Buenos Aires can’t be too far from that date. Ticket info was not immediately available.
For those of you who love both your iPhone (or iPod Touch) and Argentina, Odasoft has released a video game version of the Argentine classic “Truco” for the iPhone. You can download it here for just 99 cents.
Link: iTunes App Store Truco
I get emails almost every day from people who are visiting Argentina or about to move here. Many of these people (that is, many of you) already have or are about to start a blog. Such is the case of Katie Alley, who’s moving from Philadelphia to Necochea, Argentina, and plans to write about her experience here. If you’ve got a blog about Argentina and want others to know about it, post it here. Just go to the comments section of this post, briefly describe your blog and submit a link to it.
Unfortunately, I don’t have time to review or comment on the quality of all the blogs sent to me, but Mattyboy has an excellent list of Argie-related blogs here.
BTW, if you’re into blogging and want to hear a great interview with one of the planet’s most-read bloggers, Andrew Sullivan of The Daily Dish, click here. It’s a recent NPR interview hosted by my good buddy Anthony Brooks. Brooks interviews Sullivan in a piece called “Can Bloggers Save Journalism?”
On a related note, you can read an essay Sullivan wrote for The Atlantic, “Why I blog,” here. Meanwhile, if you want to see how some of Argentina’s leading bloggers have recently talked about The Argentine Post, click here, here, here and here.
As if your own anecdotal evidence weren’t enough, a new survey has just proven what most of us already know: the vast majority of Argentines think Barack Obama’s election is good for the world.
The survey, which was released Thursday by the consulting firm Ibarómetro, indicates that 44.6% of Argentines believe Obama’s win is “very good” for the world while another 27.8% think it is “pretty good.” Some 1.4% say his election is “pretty bad,” just 0.7% say it is “very bad” and 25.4% say they “don’t know.”
When asked specifically about the impact of Obama’s win on Argentina, 38.2% say his election is “very good” while 29.1% say it is “pretty good.” Some 2.1% say it is “pretty bad” while 1.4% say it is “very bad.”
Around 54.3% say America’s “image” will improve because of Obama’s win. Three percent say it will get worse.
The poll was carried out Wednesday on 800 people.
Source: Ibarómetro
Graph: The Argentine Post
I had a dozen stories I wanted to write this week, but just didn’t have the time to post them here for you. My apologies. This is just a quick post to note that newspaper kiosks in Capital Federal and Greater Buenos Aires will be closed Friday for Newspaper Kiosk Guy Day. I suppose a better translation would be Newspaper Distributors Day. At any rate, most of the country’s leading papers will be sold at key intersections as publishers try to get around the problem.
Meanwhile, if you’re not in Argentina but still want to fee like you’re reading a real, old-school print version of local newspapers, you can (sort of) do so by clicking here. Of course, La Nación, Clarín and Crítica all have free versions of their papers available online in PDF-like documents or downloadable formats, all for free.
It’s been a long wait, but HDTV has finally come to Argentina. CableVisión announced this weekend that it has started offering offering two channels, HBO HD and Movie City HD, in high definition. According to this La Nacion article, DirecTV this weekend also launched HDTV signals.
So far, no Argentine programming is available. Moreover, the Argentine government hasn’t even decided on which HDTV broadcast standard it wants to implement, meaning it could be years before locally produced shows start showing up in HD on Argentine airwaves.
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