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I recently got some feedback from Belkys, the author of one of the Cuban blogs I found, as reported in my previous post. She pointed me some other blogs, and even a directory of Cuban blogs. This is what I found in a quick glance. Unfortunately the results of my rapid research were not so good, but anyway, is better than what I thought a few days ago.

http://blogueroscubanos.blogspot.com/2005/02/directorio-de-la-comunidad-blogs-de.html
Pretends to be a directory of Cuban blogs, but many links are broken. There is no information about how some other Cuban bloggers like me can register their blogs in this self-claimed directory. Also most links don't match the text of the link with the URL.

These are the blogs I found, and the apparent current state. None of this data has been verified and no blog author has been contacted. This is purely visual information taken out of each of the main blog pages by me. Some blogs listed in the above directory do not appear in this list, mostly those that gave me broken links.

http://bettyculturales.blogspot.com/
No posts since February 17, 2005

http://ilberto.blogia.com/
No posts since April 15, 2005

http://cubatrabaja.blogia.com/
No posts since November 11, 2005 and previous posts very far from one another in time.

http://georginatorriente.blogspot.com/
Currently active, but is more like an echo of some newspaper rather than original writings of the author. All posts are like headlines and articles of news related to Cuba. Mostly political news. It doesn't have the natural flavour of somebody writing naturally about what he/she likes.

http://imaginados.blogia.com/
Currently active. Some posts like georgina torriente above, but it's more natural and fresh.

http://venezuelavive.blogspot.com/
Currently active and very young blog about Cuban doctors experiences in Venezuela.

http://cubanisimo2.blogspot.com/
No posts since April 11, 2005. It's like georgina's blog above too.

http://cubasiempre.blogia.com/
Only two posts, and the last one was on February 21, 2005. No comments.

http://mundocubano.blogia.com/
Apparently active, but is not updated so often. It's mostly about the Cuban five. The articles seem too lengthy though, and they seem to be copy-paste from news articles in cuban newspapers and news agencies.

http://havanaonline.blogspot.com/
A single post on February 17, 2005.

http://dcuba.blogia.com/
Three posts, the last one on February 24, 2005.

http://encuentro.blogia.com/
No posts since February 23, 2005.

http://denesleonardo.blogspot.com/
No posts since February 17, 2005. Three posts overall.

http://jrgreguera.blogspot.com/
Four posts overall, all of them the same day, February 16, 2005.

I won't claim this to be an exhaustive coverage but I draw two conclusions from all these. First and most important, didn't you noticed the great amount of blogs with just a few posts, and dead since around February 2005? Well, most of the blogs listed in this directory are the result of some seminar given in Havana around that date about blogs. The seminar was given to journalists and most of the authors of those brief blogs are Cuban journalists. It seems that they started with some excitement, but it lasted for short. This is not my idea of a blogosphere.

The second conclusion is that many of these blogs were limited to copy/paste news articles from Cuban media sources. This conclusion is subjective and not verified at all, but it's my perception.

Although it was more active than I though, specially a year ago, in the end is disappointing. The Cuban blogosphere has a long way to go.