I saw the video:
in digeracy and passed it on to some friends. Adolfo and hdhd blogged about it. I did not. I am still not used to blog communition patterns. Oh well.
Anyways, then Adolfo wrote another post today, mentioning Web 2.0 and I left him a comment, that I thought it was worth to post here:
Pues yo, lo que pienso sobre Web 2.0 es exactamente tu última pregunta: "¿Hacia donde nos lleva esta web dos punto cero?" Creo que si no nos lleva a nada, pues entonces no es diferente do que había antes. Al final, antes de lo que se llama Web2.0, todos también podían poner sus vídeos online (pero nadie los encontraba), ponian sus fotos online (pero nadie las mirava), leían noticias y escribían blogs (aunque hoy hay personas escribiendo blogs que seguramente no lo podrían hacer antes que se utilizasen tecnologías 2.0).
Lo qué pienso es que las personas tienen una cierta resistencia a nuevos términos, porque algunos expertos los utilizan para ganar dinero. Pero, mira: si utilizar el término es útil para cambiar la actitud de la mayoría en la web, por que no? Lo mejor es que mas personas utilicen la Internet, las herramientas y todo eso. Y quizá si se dice "Ahora, con el surgimiento de la Web 2.0, tu ya puede tener tu blog, organizar las noticias que quieres, participar en comunidades...." las personas van a quedarse más motivadas, pues alguna cosa está, de hecho, diferente. (No estoy aquí diciendo que hay o no, eh? Solo pensando en como aprovechar el término, una vez que él fue creado... ;)
2007-02-08
2007-02-01
Five reasons for exile
1) To get unconfortable about the place you are. (Seriously. I'm the kind of person who does that)
2) To realize you only know very little about life, the universe and everything.
3) To experience better and worse things.
4) To learn that things you thought absolute, are absolutely not. And values and ways of dealing with them are different. (And it's different to feel it and to know it).
5) To be away from your parents.
(They are not GOOD reasons in the sense that they'll make you feel good. But I believe they are THE reasons).
2) To realize you only know very little about life, the universe and everything.
3) To experience better and worse things.
4) To learn that things you thought absolute, are absolutely not. And values and ways of dealing with them are different. (And it's different to feel it and to know it).
5) To be away from your parents.
(They are not GOOD reasons in the sense that they'll make you feel good. But I believe they are THE reasons).
Blogosphere as a community
Well, Adolfo passed me a "meme" (go and check, I didn't really know exactly what it was either. ;) and I will answer it. In a second. But, before that, I was thinking about the so called "blogosphere", which is, according to the Wikipedia,
"the collective term encompassing all blogs as a community or social network. Many weblogs are densely interconnected; bloggers read others' blogs, link to them, reference them in their own writing, and post comments on each others' blogs. Because of this, the interconnected blogs have grown their own culture."
I thought about this because of Adolfo's comment on the fact that Meritxell is considering stop blogging. And, as if they are really part of a community, it seems he is traying to keep her around, and thus give some stimulation for doing it. Anyways. Point is: I have heard several times that the blogosphere was a community, but I had never felt it. Hernani, obviously, was the first one to defend the idea, but I had never understood it. I think I do now.
A question to Adolfo and Edgar: why do people stop blogging? Is there any research about that?
"the collective term encompassing all blogs as a community or social network. Many weblogs are densely interconnected; bloggers read others' blogs, link to them, reference them in their own writing, and post comments on each others' blogs. Because of this, the interconnected blogs have grown their own culture."
I thought about this because of Adolfo's comment on the fact that Meritxell is considering stop blogging. And, as if they are really part of a community, it seems he is traying to keep her around, and thus give some stimulation for doing it. Anyways. Point is: I have heard several times that the blogosphere was a community, but I had never felt it. Hernani, obviously, was the first one to defend the idea, but I had never understood it. I think I do now.
A question to Adolfo and Edgar: why do people stop blogging? Is there any research about that?
2007-01-28
Sleepy thoughs on blogging, Second Life and networks
I am sleepy. I had a blog once where all my posts started with this sentence. Not because I planned it, but because I was actually sleepy every time I wrote on it. That was a long time ago. I might write more about this experience one day. When I talk about it, people say I could be a case study.
Anyways, today I had an urge to write a long entry that I didn't write about Second Life. I haven't writen more here about it, but I kept thinking about it, and reading and researching. Haven't reached a conclusion yet, but I believe I'm on my way.
hdhd had an interesting post on his blog today. Not something new, it's actually a quote from a book by Yochai Benkler, but it fascinated me by the simplicity and clarity of the way the author managed to express a complex concept. Have a look there.
(Just a though: Hernani uses Drupal on his website. I feel bad. I could install one in my server, but for some reason, I just feel that it's lonelier to be in your own domain and not in a community, like Blogger. Although, Adolfo said WordPress is far better then Blogger. Hn. I don't know. I just feel like having it in my own server. Even if my last experience with that was horrible: I had all my TCC (the end of course monograph) in a wiki, fabulous experience, and it crashed, and it's all lost. Oh well).
Anyways. Today was a day of long talks about Life, the Universe and Everything. I am tired, tomorrow Madrid, for the first time. My hostess said it's 0.5 Celsious there. My mother laugh and said she had never heard that there could be a .5 temperature.
Anyways, today I had an urge to write a long entry that I didn't write about Second Life. I haven't writen more here about it, but I kept thinking about it, and reading and researching. Haven't reached a conclusion yet, but I believe I'm on my way.
hdhd had an interesting post on his blog today. Not something new, it's actually a quote from a book by Yochai Benkler, but it fascinated me by the simplicity and clarity of the way the author managed to express a complex concept. Have a look there.
(Just a though: Hernani uses Drupal on his website. I feel bad. I could install one in my server, but for some reason, I just feel that it's lonelier to be in your own domain and not in a community, like Blogger. Although, Adolfo said WordPress is far better then Blogger. Hn. I don't know. I just feel like having it in my own server. Even if my last experience with that was horrible: I had all my TCC (the end of course monograph) in a wiki, fabulous experience, and it crashed, and it's all lost. Oh well).
Anyways. Today was a day of long talks about Life, the Universe and Everything. I am tired, tomorrow Madrid, for the first time. My hostess said it's 0.5 Celsious there. My mother laugh and said she had never heard that there could be a .5 temperature.
2007-01-25
Sheeps and sexual choice
Ana sent me this morning an article about a scientist who is researching genetics implications in gay sheeps. Obviously, written this way, it would make any sensible person freak out and say that it is an absurd. But let's look at the facts with a little more care:
So, yes, apperantly, Dr. Roselli is doing research to understand sheep homosexuality. His explanation is that his investigation will help to better know which sheep are better for breeding. Ok, fine, I guess. The rage of course comes from the natural conclusions that the research could lead to a way of avoiding homosexuality - both in sheeps AND human.
I was first repulsed by the idea as well, but then, thinking a bit further, I concluded that I completely agree with Dr. Wolpe, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania, when he says that the issue that has to be addressed in this case is not the research itself, but the mentality that makes it a problem. In other words: if homosexuality wasn't a problem at all, nobody would mind if they knew it was genetic. It's like eye color, for a silly example. Nobody forbids scientists to find out how eye color is determined, because, really, it's all normal.
This reminds me of an excelent article that I read sometime ago, by Contardo Calegaris, about the movie C.R.A.Z.Y. I haven't seen the movie yet, (we downloaded it, but it was in Spanish.... blah), but the article is a brilliant reflection about the use of the expressions "sexual option" and "sexual orientation". The last sentence (in Portuguese): "prefiro defender o princípio da liberdade de "escolha" amorosa e sexual, sem justificativa biológica. É muito "crazy"?"
PS: the link to the article is leads to another site, since the Folha de São Paulo, where it was originally published, requires paid login.
So, yes, apperantly, Dr. Roselli is doing research to understand sheep homosexuality. His explanation is that his investigation will help to better know which sheep are better for breeding. Ok, fine, I guess. The rage of course comes from the natural conclusions that the research could lead to a way of avoiding homosexuality - both in sheeps AND human.
I was first repulsed by the idea as well, but then, thinking a bit further, I concluded that I completely agree with Dr. Wolpe, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania, when he says that the issue that has to be addressed in this case is not the research itself, but the mentality that makes it a problem. In other words: if homosexuality wasn't a problem at all, nobody would mind if they knew it was genetic. It's like eye color, for a silly example. Nobody forbids scientists to find out how eye color is determined, because, really, it's all normal.
This reminds me of an excelent article that I read sometime ago, by Contardo Calegaris, about the movie C.R.A.Z.Y. I haven't seen the movie yet, (we downloaded it, but it was in Spanish.... blah), but the article is a brilliant reflection about the use of the expressions "sexual option" and "sexual orientation". The last sentence (in Portuguese): "prefiro defender o princípio da liberdade de "escolha" amorosa e sexual, sem justificativa biológica. É muito "crazy"?"
PS: the link to the article is leads to another site, since the Folha de São Paulo, where it was originally published, requires paid login.
2007-01-23
Get a first life
What really makes me think about the importance of Second Life is the amount of people saying that it has no importance, or that it is dangerous, or that it's not inovative...
Another critic>
Get a First Life:
Get a First Life:
2007-01-22
Information society - technology determinism?
Just a quick though, so it won't get lost: I am reading Daniel Bell's “Foreword: 1976”. The Coming of Postindustrial Society" (Nueva York: Basic Books, 1999), written in 1976, for the advanced seminar offered by UOC and OII. Anyways, the texts for this week talk a lot about the transition from industrial society to post industrial society. Gee, was there an industrial society, first of all? Isn't this a quite linear way of thinking development? Isn't it slightly too generic?
I mean, really, do societies really develop in one linear way? ... ok, back to the readings. Just had to write this somewhere...
I mean, really, do societies really develop in one linear way? ... ok, back to the readings. Just had to write this somewhere...
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