San Francisco, CA - October 12, 2005.- VivirLatino (http://www.vivirlatino.com/), Latino life in blog form, was launched today to coincide with "el D쟠de la Raza" (D쟠de la Hispanidad), an important date celebrated throughout the country by the Latino community. The blog, discussing lifestyle, entertainment, society, and politics, is written for about one of the most vibrant and influential communities in the U.S.

VivirLatino, a daily publication in English, can be found on the Web in blog format. With a fair helping of Spanish to spice things up, VivirLatino is a reflection of the diverse cultural backgrounds of many U.S. Latinos.

VivirLatinos news pieces cover every region of the U.S., thanks to the location of its editors, strategically based in three states with a strong Latino presence: California, Florida, and New York.

VivirLatinos target audience are second and third generation Latinos who, regardless of their parents country of origin, proudly share a common vision, a language and the aspirations that have made them the most dynamic minority in the United States. VivirLatino is the debut blog for Blogs Media, a new business specializing in nanopublications, blog services and blog consulting.

The Editors Jennifer Woodard Maderazo is a communications and branding consultant, pop culture fanatic, gadget freak, and documentary filmmaker -- the latter being her passion in life. Born in Baton Rouge and transplanted to Houston, Jennifer later ventured off to film school in Mexico City, where she lived five happy years, only to cruzar el charco to Spain to finish off her studies with a Masters in Documentary from the University of Barcelona. Jennifer currently lives in San Francisco, the city of her dreams, advising clients on issues related to communications. In addition to VivirLatino, she is the author of Latin-Know: The Latino Marketing Report (http://latinknow.com), a blog about advertising trends and campaigns targeting the U.S. Latino market.

Maegan "la Mala" Ortiz is a born and bred Nuyorican single mami, Espanglish poeta, freelance writer, and all around rabble rouser. La Mala has traveled between Puerto Rico and New York City her entire life, stopping for a brief time to live in Chile. Shes spent years working on grassroots activist campaigns around such issues as police brutality, racial violence, and radical mamihood. When shes not blogging for VivirLatino, shes shamelessly exhibiting herself on her personal blog (http://mamitamala.blogspot.com), writing for magazines/web sites , working on a novel/short stories, and spitting poesia in clubs in NYC, dragging her daughter behind her.

Rebecca Carter Rebecca is a proud graduate of the University of Florida with a degree in Marketing. Currently residing in Miami with her Mexican husband, Rebecca has lived in 9 cities across the US and Mexico over the past 7 decades . Rebecca has widely varied interests, from Hispanic trends to the environment. In addition to being an editor on VivirLatino, she hosts her own blog Trendy Tendencias (http://trendytendencias.blogspot.com), which follows trends related to the US/Mexico and Hispanics. She is also a regular contributor to PSFK (http://www.psfk.com) and eco.psfk.

Blogs Media Blogs Media is a newly-created business specializing in nanopublications, blogs services and blog consulting. Blogs Medias team was responsible for the design of the Mexican Blog Directory: (http://blogsmexico.com/) (Yahoo! Best of 2004 winner) Blogs Dominicanos (http://blogsdominicanos.com/) and has participated in the creation of the Spanish blog sites Bitࢯras.com (http://www.bitacoras.com/) and Bitࢯras.org (http://www.bitacoras.org/).

For more understanding: Jennifer Woodard (415) 713-3491 consult@jenniferwoodard.com