May 2013
14 posts
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Stumble Upon
When I’m doing research and unexpectedly come across one of my old pieces
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Yahoo + Tumblr
When I saw that Yahoo is buying Tumblr
…here’s to hoping they don’t actually touch the website.
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Workday
What a lot of days at work are like
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Gringo Migrants
When a gringo moves to Brazil
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Style Guide
Teaching newbies the style guide
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Long Day
When I get up at the crack of dawn, cover a conference at the State Department, spend the afternoon writing up the conference, and then spend nearly 12 hours on 5 modes of transportation to go away for a long weekend
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WTO
When a Brazilian was chosen over a Mexican to become the new head of the WTO, Mexico was like -
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Food!
When I get deeply into writing a piece and only later remember that I forgot to eat a meal
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Foreign
Attempting to speak any foreign language other than Portuguese or Spanish
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HuffPo
When the Huffington Post published “8 Reasons Brazilians Totally Count As Latino”
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Work This Week, 5/4
From this week:
Interview With Meu Rio’s Alessandra Orofino (Rio Gringa)
Guide: President Barack Obama in Mexico and Costa Rica, co-written (AS/COA Online)
Weekly Roundup: Obama’s Mexico Stop, Brazil’s Arms Exports, and Argentina’s Teen Vote, co-written (AS/COA Online)
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TweetDeck
Discovering TweetDeck is getting killed off, only to be replaced with a horribly clunky semi-alternative
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Your Move
When someone challenges me about something Latin America-related, and I back myself up with actual facts
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Abrv
When someone tries to cram too much information in a tweet and abbreviates almost all of the words
April 2013
17 posts
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Reader Comments
When the last paragraph of a news story from a major publication asks readers for their opinions
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Faceoff at the WTO
When Mexico and Brazil face off at the WTO
Via That Cute Site, Color Me Katie
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Work This Week, 4/27
Rio’s Renaissance: Will Public Works Last? (Rio Gringa)
Paraguay Aims to Regain Mercosur Membership (AS/COA Online)
Weekly Roundup: Brazil or Mexico to Head WTO, Venezuela’s Vote Audit, Dilma’s Argentina Trip (co-written, AS/COA Online)
Explainer: President Barack Obama’s Trip to Mexico and Costa Rica (co-written, AS/COA Online)
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Endless
When I see the 10th “will-Brazil-be-ready-for-the-mega-events” story appear on my Twitter feed in a single day
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Fim de expediente
When I (rarely) manage to leave the office before 6pm
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Spy
When I read this incredibly fascinating WaPo story about an American intelligence analyst who became a spy for Cuba—and got caught 17 years later
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Resharing
When I’m scrolling through my Facebook and I come across a photo of some horribly disfigured child that a Brazilian friend has shared (with the message, of course, Repassem!!)
Photo by Heilimo Brothers
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Work This Week, 4/19
Some of my work from the past (2) weeks:
Melding Technology and Urban Management: Rio de Janeiro’s Operations Center (AS/COA Online)
Q&A with the Drunkeynesian: Brazil’s Food Inflation (Rio Gringa)
Rio’s Airport ATM Scam (Rio Gringa)
Paraguay Prepares for 2013 Presidential Election (AS/COA Online)
Guide: Venezuela’s Political Scenario (AS/COA Online)
(GIF via...
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Cloned
When I found out my bank had blocked my account, because my debit card had been cloned at an ATM at Rio’s international airport
(More on this coming soon on riogringa)
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TIM
When I read the Economist blog post about TIM and the Brazil cost
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Rio
When I fly to Rio :)
Things will be a bit slow this week, but back again the week of April 15!
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Work This Week, 4/6
I realized that given I’m writing for at least two different places at any given time, it would be good to do a weekly summary of what I’ve published in the last week. So I’m going to start doing that here—accompanied by a fun GIF, of course.
Interview: Voz da Comunidade in New York (Rio Gringa)
Brazil’s Startup Database (AS/COA Online)
Interview: Felipe Matos on...
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Seaside Resort Town
When The Atlantic publishes an article which refers to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil’s second largest city, as “the seaside resort town of Copacabana”
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Overload
When I try to write after a 10-hour work day
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Instapaper
How I felt when I discovered Instapaper
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Nerd Rage
When Google announced it was killing Google Reader, journos were like -
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Gmail
When I experienced the horrible new Gmail compose…that will soon be forced on all Gmail users (I promptly switched back to the old version for now)
Image via Animals talking in all caps
March 2013
21 posts
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Arrivals
When a Brazilian friend or family member arrives at the airport
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Old Timer
When I walk across the Columbia campus and feel really old
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Flickr
When I have to refresh Flickr five times every time I get to a new search page because “it’s having the hiccups”
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Long Distance
When I’m on a long-distance call with someone who just repeats himself endlessly
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Jackpot
When a high-profile person with over half a million followers tweets a report I spent nearly a whole day promoting on social media
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Academics
When I have to sit through an academic presentation or panel that is almost entirely in academic-speak
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FB Message
Discovering Facebook had started charging to send “direct” messages to people outside one’s network
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Pitched
When someone tries to pitch me a story for my blog
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Pitching
When I pitch four stories to write over four days
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Yoani
When I realized a group of Cuban government supporters had infiltrated a Yoani Sánchez event I was attending in NYC, and then witnessed their “protest”
(Well, it’s not that shocking considering it’s happened in a lot of places she’s gone, but when they all suddenly appeared, it was weird.)
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Saturday Plans
When I remember that I registered for a conference that involves getting up early on a Saturday
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Politics
Having a conversation about politics with someone who has the opposite ideological beliefs as you
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Recognition
When I meet someone for a second time and I have no recollection of them, but he/she remembers me
(which invariably happens with Brazilians)
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Plan Time
When I’m planning a trip to Brazil
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Españ-no
When someone asks me, in all seriousness, if my Spanish is really good since I lived in Brazil and married a Brazilian
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Story of My Life
When I get home from spending the day writing and go back to writing some more
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Awry
When I’m coding on the CMS and something goes horribly wrong
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World Leader
When a world leader dies
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Philosopher
When I discovered that Itamaraty’s list of professions for Brazilians trying to renew their passports includes “philosopher” (but groups “photographer” with a bunch of other professions)
