For old timers, it’s been a while since our last post in Venera7, right? Yup, we’re sorry about that. Please let us explain it a bit before reintroducing ourselves. For our new readers, Welcome! You may well skip this unless you’re interested in manifesto-like posts.

Some time after our last post, the site went offline because of attacks to our blog’s codebase. Once recovered, we never managed to go back on line again because of innumerable problems with our previous hosting company. But all this is behind us now. We’re back.

OK, fair enough. This isn’t all. Technical problems were not the only ones that made Venera7 slowly fade away. Personal projects and real life issues also got in the way of what it takes to maintain and evolve a site like this. This, and certain love-hate relationship we both have with the blogging community, a feeling that is really hard to explain and that has some times discouraged us from posting. Those who are a bit like us will quickly follow our drift. Anyway, and despite our M.I.A, we’ve been closely following what’s been happening this last two years in the tech arena; more than once, while passionately discussing about some hot topic or some idea over a cold beer in our favorite irish pub we’ve discovered ourselves thinking out loud: “we should post about this!”

But there’s one thing pushing us back online that we think is even more important than plain geek longing. It’s the overwhelming feeling that we can do better.

Although there are some absolutely great sites out there, there’s something missing in most tech blogs and sites you can read nowadays. Blogging and tech news has gone pro, and with this going pro something really important has been left aside. This something is the fresh, beginner-like view of the people that makes a living with technology, that lives and breathes it and has an opinion about it. This people is not the people that’s feeding the Internet and that’s fed by it in a closed, staled cycle. Nor is the people that’s professionally involved in it per se like tech news journalists or full time bloggers. We’re talking here about people whose experiences are driven from real life, not from something they just read in someone else’s blog or twitter feed.

We think there are way too many side interests in the pro community, biasing what you’re reading big time. internet is a great channel, anyone can make a difference if they really care, if they’re passionate about it. In a world crumpled with never ending iterations of the same topic, overwhelmed with bland, white-noise-like pseudo informative technobabble, opinion and personal view is what makes a difference. This is what we think is the future of blogging, and that’s why we think we just can do better.

But enough of this; let’s talk a bit about what’s new. There are some small changes to the site indeed. We’ve implemented two types of posts that give us more flexibility to post and what’s more important, add more value to what we’re saying. You’ll see how this works when the number of posts start to grow, but basically we’ll have regular posts commenting on what’s going on in the tech world and longer posts that are full-grown articles and Venera7 meat and potatoes. We hope to keep a good posting rate on the former and to be publishing at least one of the latter per week. We’ll see how this goes and adjust over time.

Also, from a language prospective, the site may look to you as a bit of a mess: we’ll be using indistinctly english and spanish. Why is that and when we’ll be using one or another is explained to some extent in our Spanglish? section.

And that’s it: now it’s time to show the proof is in the pudding. We really hope you stay with us this time and enjoy the ride.