I’ve been away from An American in Lima for a little while (understatement) but thanks to my friend Levi Novey, aka Mr Green HuffPost, I’m getting a bigtime nudge to return to blogging. Which I do love doing, by the way.
Levi let me hijack his column today to guest rant about bullfighting (The Twisted Temptations [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Blogging & Social Media'
Howdy, Lima
February 23rd, 2010 · 8 Comments · Blogging & Social Media, Bullfighting, Crossing Cultures
Tags: Bullfighting·racism
Thanks for Shout Out, NatGeo
August 6th, 2009 · 13 Comments · Blogging & Social Media
Got a minor thrill yesterday when I learned that An American in Lima is mentioned in the latest edition of National Geographic Traveler. Writing for the Sept. ‘09 Lima destination guide (”48 Hours in Lima” by Nicholas Gill), Marisa Petrich observes that this blog “began as a way for author Barbara Drake to document her transition to [...]
Tags: An American in Lima·National Geographic
Blogging about Greed and Injustice in Cusco
July 19th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Blogging & Social Media, Festivals, Sacred Rituals, Religion, Money, Economics, Politics, Peru's Andes Mountains
Many thanks to Alenja and Holly of Collecting Tokens for including my rant on the archbishop of Cusco as a June “Just Post for a Just World.”
The Just Posts roundtable highlights ”posts about topics of social justice and activism in all shapes and sizes,” writes Alenja. She adds that “Holly and I are pleased to share this wealth of posts that [...]
Tags: Cusco·MacDonald's·Starbucks
Why Twitter from Peru?
May 25th, 2009 · 8 Comments · Blogging & Social Media
During my month-long hiatus from this blog, I got hooked on another form of social media: Twitter.
Unlike Facebook, which facilitates staying touch with family and friends, Twitter is a freeform broadcast to just about anyone on the planet. That might not sound like a medium that would interest a relatively private person (like me), but it turns out that Twitter [...]
Tags: alpacas·Climate Change & Disappearing Glaciers·Twitter
We Now Resume Our Regularly Scheduled Blogcast
May 7th, 2009 · 6 Comments · Blogging & Social Media
If you’ve been wondering where An American in Lima has been for the past month — I’m pleased to say the site’s back and running fine. I didn’t know how much I loved blogging until a temporary software glitch prevented me from doing so.
A number of emails and queries built up in my in-box over the [...]
Tags: blogging
New Map Shows Readers of An American in Lima
March 10th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Blogging & Social Media
I’ve just added a nifty map widget to this blog that shows in real time where readers of An American in Lima are located.
The widget is located on the right sidebar, below “10 Most Popular Posts” and above the Twitter feed.
The orange stars indicate visitors’ city, state and country. A pulsing circle around a star indicates that [...]
Tags: map