APRIL 21ST, 2009
By MASTER
So, this is it, I arrived to the end of this blog. It’s been almost four years since I opened “Embracing Open Sources” and now after 100 posts this is going to be my last writing here. It has been a great experience and I have learned a lot. Keeping a blog open has forced me to think deeply about the matters I was going to write about. It has also taught me what a blog really is and how to work with it. And it has helped me to keep and create professional contacts. I just hope it has also been useful to somebody else 
I have made a selection of the top 10 posts of this blog. Most of them are summaries and comments on other people’s articles or presentations but, anyway, for me that’s already valuable
At this very moment I am opening a new blog, Learning to Fly, where I will be reflecting my experiences and the lessons I learn during my new professional challenges launching eBox as a sustainable company. See you there!
FEBRUARY 9TH, 2008
By MASTER
Yesterday I read the news that Aragon is the region in Spain with the highest number of blogs per capita. This means that more than 96,000 people, over 8% of the population in Aragon, have a blog, vs 5% in the whole Spain.
Well, it doesn’t come as a total surprise. For quite a long time there has been a pretty active community of bloggers in Zaragoza, who meet regularly at the Bloggellon (next week the 10th edition will be celebrated) to socialize, exchange ideas and have fun. It is a very exciting and encouraging environment, that motivates people to launch new blogs (personal or institutional), improve their practices and, specially, to network online.
The study (in which the news was based) was carried out by Alianzo, which offers some quite interesting data on its web page. For example, its blog ranking can be displayed with global data, per country or even per region. Aragon’s list is lead by Fernand0, and our beloved Planet Warp is at the 125th position, climbing fast and high
DECEMBER 10TH, 2007
By MASTER
Last week I got interviewed by alarm:clock euro, a blog covering the business of technology startups that got interested in learning more about us and eBox. The interview is long but interesting, as it summarizes our genesis and evolution. Even I learned some things from us! 
I particularly liked the catch phrase at the end of their introduction:
“[...] Those points and the fact that it’s the only startup we know that is based in Europe’s largest desert sealed it for us.”
Being coded in Perl and developed in the middle of the desert maybe we should consider adopting a camel as eBox pet
This is some ego-boosting post but this is the first time I have been interviewed by a blogger and I can’t resist. Mikko Puhakka, the open source business guru has posted the interview in his blog, summarizing who we are, what we do and how get got here.
Update: Stephen Walli has posted about the interview on his blog. I am really overwhelmed :’-)
It has been one year since I decided to turn my blog from a blend of personal, professional, political, funny and any other kind of stuff in virtually any language in which I can write a few words to a professional English-only blog. So, it might be a good moment to sit down and think about why I spend several hours daily weekly monthly writing posts without getting any monetary reward. Basically there are two reasons:
- Networking: it helps me meet new people and it allows my existing contacts to keep track on me
- Learning: I have realized that things I blog about I learn forever
I didn’t find any other main reason as to why I blog. Well, this is a question I am asked relatively often, so now I have “learned” what to answer 
