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Today we met with Peruvian journalist and blogger Marco Sifuentes. Marco is a well-known blogger throughout Lima, Peru. He currently has two different blogging sites, uterodemarita.com and utero.tv, which is his video blog.

Marco talked to us about his career as a blogger and some of his experiences and stories with blogging. He also gave us advice on how to start our own blogs and some rules on ethics like what is appropriate to post and what kind of things are unethical to post.

Marco started his blog in 2005 and he posts three times daily on uterodemartia.com and about three times weekly on utero.tv. According to Marco, his blogs receive about 10,000 hits per day.

Marco also talked to us about blogging in Peru and how Peru is the third largest blogging country in Latin America, including Mexico and not including Brazil. He said that most of his audience is either journalist who want to see what people are blogging about or other bloggers. He mentioned that his audience is mostly young adults.

I can say that I definitely learned a lot today from Marco. I learned that it is very important to consider your sources when gathering information. Also you must be aware of what you are blogging about and consider who your audience is and who is going to be reading your blog.

Marco shared with us some of his experiences he has had while blogging like the time he blogged about a video that had been posted on youtube.com and how it caused commotion. All in all, today’s guest speaker proved to be very interesting and I definitely have a better understanding on blogging.

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