The times they are a-changing, in Cuba, where a collection of cyber aficionados came together to celebrate the Communist country’s first-ever blog awards. As Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez put it, A Virtual Island was more than just a ceremony—it was a watershed event for a society that is finally coming out from under the grip of an authoritarian government. “It means to get the information, to break the monopoly of the official media over the news, to let out what we have been silent about for years, while we go through an accelerated course in citizenship in cyberspace,” wrote Sanchez.