La verdad es que... people write when they are lonely. (Ok, that was some kind of provocation and shouldn't be taken serious...) I am drunk and my Netvibes says that I have several new posts to read. It's saturday and I wonder what makes weekends more appelable (I will find the right word to write here later, sorry) then week days to write on blogs. Actually, that's not true as well, so... just forget about it. (I am sounding like Douglas Adams here).
So, yeah. That was just a thought.
2007-04-29
2007-04-10
The Cluetrain Manifesto and The Incommunicado Reader
I am reading (simultaneously) The Cluetrain Manifesto and The Incommunicado Reader. Both make me somewhat unhappy.
Cluetrain Manifesto (that is an absolutely out of date critique, but it doesn't matter), seems to assume there is only a duality human beings X corporations. How not true is this? How complicate it is to put under the same umbrella people that actually don't really like each other at all and don't want to talk to each other? Don't want to stabilish a conversation?
The incommunicado readers seems to notice this: the discourse of just separating the good from the bad. (I know I am judging, and I promise I will come back and apologize later, when I understand them better. If needed).
Cluetrain Manifesto (that is an absolutely out of date critique, but it doesn't matter), seems to assume there is only a duality human beings X corporations. How not true is this? How complicate it is to put under the same umbrella people that actually don't really like each other at all and don't want to talk to each other? Don't want to stabilish a conversation?
The incommunicado readers seems to notice this: the discourse of just separating the good from the bad. (I know I am judging, and I promise I will come back and apologize later, when I understand them better. If needed).
2007-03-21
El poder justiciero de los blogs
This blog is passing through a sleeping period, but I thought that the message below was worth. Please, if you read this, spread the word. Thank you. From Edgar:
El poder justiciero de los blogs
El poder justiciero de los blogs
La idea es la siguiente. Necesito conseguir cualquier material audiovisual (fotos, videos, audios) de la madrugada del 21 de febrero en la estación de RENFE de Sitges (Cataluña, España) y de las actuaciones policiales de esa noche. ¿Por qué? Porque "el proceso" (Kafkiano), entra en su segunda fase, la de defenderme del poder disciplinar. Entonces apelo a tres premisas teóricas y de paso pongo a prueba el poder de La Red para lograr una buena causa. Si hay alguien que tenga algo de este material, pueden enviarlo a: justiciabloggera (arroba) gmail.com Y si alguien quiere echarme la mano "espejeando" este post en su blog, pues se lo agradeceré infinitamente (no importa que no esté en España, ver la premisa 1).
Premisa teórica 1
"La teoría de los 6 grados de separación, se refiere a la idea de que, si una persona está a un "paso" de lejanía de cada persona que conoce, y dos "pasos" de cada persona que es conocida por cada persona que uno conoce, entonces, todas las personas no están a más de seis "pasos" de mi" Via Wikipedia
Premisa teórica 2
La Red (en su versión mercantil de lujo: la Web 2.0), aparece como una nueva forma de percibir al Internet como una plataforma horizontal, democrática y "social", con una "nueva arquitectura de participación-colaboración", donde la persona importante: "eres tú".
Premisa teórica (utópica) 3
El mundo es justo, las instituciones son sólidas, la solidaridad existe y el karma acaba por imponerse.
2007-02-15
The network IS the society
It is not as simple as it sounds, and it is not new at all. But sometimes we have insights, and sometimes we write them down in our weblogs, and sometimes they're useful to something. (Hey, Edgar, I am giving a gift to someone, I believe. That's somewhat a presumptuous way of thinking, don't you agree? Jeje...)
Anyways, point is: you don't have to include people "socially" AND "digitally". It's the same thing. You see? So, assuming that it IS the same thing, it's absolutelly essential that people that are working for social inclusion ALSO digital include people. Right? Ok. SO. Question: Are those people supposed to be socially including other people, digitally including them?
... does someone have any suggestion about a better of way of putting this? In the direction of transforming it in a research question? Thanks. :)
Anyways, point is: you don't have to include people "socially" AND "digitally". It's the same thing. You see? So, assuming that it IS the same thing, it's absolutelly essential that people that are working for social inclusion ALSO digital include people. Right? Ok. SO. Question: Are those people supposed to be socially including other people, digitally including them?
... does someone have any suggestion about a better of way of putting this? In the direction of transforming it in a research question? Thanks. :)
2007-02-12
I am going to bed. In a minute.
But before that, I wanted to write a couple of things here. This blog is a strange cold space still, and I do not feel home yet. I certainly like personal posts betters, it is like you are listening to someone talking about something. Dunno.
I'm sleepy, and, if I don't write here, it will never be home. (Maybe it won't, anyway). Fact is that, my residency request was denied on Wednesday. Crap. Yeah, it is bad, although you don't know much about the whole story anyway. But to make it short, we married (there's the marriage video on my Multiply), and we were sure Spain would allow me to stay here. But, gah, they did not. They will, of course. I mean, not of course, but I believe they will, eventually. There's too much pro and very little agains. Look:
About the Civil Partnership Act 2004, in the UK:
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/en2004/2004en33.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Partnership_Act_2004
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/ACTS/acts2004/20040033.htm
About free movement, family and the European Union
http://europa.yo/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/06/179&format=HTML&aged=1&language=EN&guiLanguage=es
http://www.europarl.europa.yo/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+PRESS+DN-20030211-1+0+DOC+XML+V0//ES#SECTION2
And... thats about it. I just thought I'd write something. And now bed. Yeah.
I'm sleepy, and, if I don't write here, it will never be home. (Maybe it won't, anyway). Fact is that, my residency request was denied on Wednesday. Crap. Yeah, it is bad, although you don't know much about the whole story anyway. But to make it short, we married (there's the marriage video on my Multiply), and we were sure Spain would allow me to stay here. But, gah, they did not. They will, of course. I mean, not of course, but I believe they will, eventually. There's too much pro and very little agains. Look:
About the Civil Partnership Act 2004, in the UK:
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/en2004/2004en33.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Partnership_Act_2004
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/ACTS/acts2004/20040033.htm
About free movement, family and the European Union
http://europa.yo/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/06/179&format=HTML&aged=1&language=EN&guiLanguage=es
http://www.europarl.europa.yo/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+PRESS+DN-20030211-1+0+DOC+XML+V0//ES#SECTION2
And... thats about it. I just thought I'd write something. And now bed. Yeah.
2007-02-08
More Web 2.0 thoughts
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... ;)
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... ;)
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