The document summarizes the development of the Ebresphere blogging community in Terres de l'Ebre, Spain from 2006 to 2007. It describes 5 key events that helped consolidate the community, including bloggers starting to publicly identify themselves, holding talks about local blogs, and the first meeting of Ebresphere bloggers. The community primarily consists of personal blogs focused on local topics like politics, education, and music, and has grown to include over 190 blogs mostly in Catalan created on the Blogger platform.

1. EBRESPHERE A territorial community around blogs Daniel Gil & Carme Pla London, July 5, 2007 International Conference ‘ Catalan Culture and Identity in the Digital Era’

2. THE COMMUNITY CONSOLIDATION PROCESS 5 KEY EVENTS From April 2006 to February 2007

3. Leaving behind the anonymity April 20, 2006 A brief article in Diari de Tarragona: Les Terres de l'Ebre s'enganxen a la revolució dels blocs a Internet. The article mentioned about 20 blogs .

4. The First thematic talk December 1, 2006 Atictes Conference: La blocosfera ebrenca i el seu impacte en l’opinió pública By Gustau Moreno, blogger and journalist

5. From them to us: bloggers start talking November 7, 2006 Gathering talk at Ràdio Ebre: Who is who in Terres de l'Ebre blogs 4 bloggers presenting local blogs

6. The big party February 3, 2007 1ª Trobada de Blocaires Ebrencs: EBREBLOC 101 blogs, implication of public entities, journalists and local mass media

7. New ways, new paths February 25, 2007 First literary show ”Joan Cid i Mulet”: talking-conference on weblogs as a literary phenomenon Interaction between bloggers and traditional literary authors

8. Young, circular, self-organized community The element connecting this community geographically, culturally and socially: Ebre river giving the name: EBRESPHERE

9. Ebresphere Blogs Blogs Blogs Blogs Map source: http://www.ebreguia.com/imagenes/img_territori/mapa_TTEE. jpg [Consult: June 13th, 2007]

10. A first classification 6 Criteria WHAT IS ACTUALLY IN EBRESPHERE?