The last week has been quite exciting despite the long holidays. Sorry, no Google stats today since Oriol is in Paris over New Year. But at YouTube we have transcended the magical number of one thousand views, to be correct our videos have been seen 1.070 times so far. The “reactable“ seems to be the digital blockbuster with 480 clicks in 16 days. Other sites like infonomia and Vilaweb decided to publish the video-interviews, too. AND Catalunya Ràdio invited us to talk about the campaign in their programme l’internauta !!! The show by Vicent Partal and Joan Jofra is a weekly broadcast on everything related to Internet and technology; the show is on this afternoon at 1.00pm. Here’s the podcast for download. What else…. ?

We are between 75 and 80 support messages in text, images and videos, and Jordi left two interesting comments yesterday: 1. that we should provide a list of (economical?) arguments why Barcelona is an attractive location for a company like MySpace that goes beyond the sun-beach-great social life-list. 2. that this blog should be available in Catalan, Spanish and English. Two good points:

Firstly, this iniciative (to try and bring a company to BCN) is spontaneous, collective, virtually organized, new, politically incorrect, far from being perfect, emotional and based on what we as a collective of individuals think. In the beginning, there was no strategic master plan, it’s more like a project in progress! It’s the people in our video-interviews who give all possible reasons, arguments, opinons in favour of Barcelona. Lars, Jordi, Petz, Pep do so as professionals who work, investigate, innovate, create, live in BCN and enjoy the city for one reason or the other; and if you listen to what they say you realize that none of them actually talks about sun or beach.

And secondly, we do not have the resources (time, people, money) to run a tri-lingual site. But we try to provide content in Catalan, Spanish and English whenever possible in a balanced way - we think this perfectly reflects the linguistic attitude of this city.

AND, we also have OurSpace at MySpace now - contents are in English and Castellano.

Feel free to comment in any language you like!

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