Narratives in Media and eCommunication

Blending Theory and Practice in Community Informatics

noreply@blogger.com (Álvaro Ramírez) — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 06:38:31 PST

We met in Porto this week. The International Workshop CIBlend was a wonderful writing-sharing experience. We were a mixed group of ten people interested in Community Informatics from several...

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Connecting with others, celebrating Blog Day

noreply@blogger.com (Álvaro Ramírez) — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 02:06:20 PDT

We could say we are celebrating Blog Day this week. A unique opportunity to link to people and blogs that we seldom connect to, read or know about. As part of this "linking" celebration and inspired...

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Culture as exchange of ears

noreply@blogger.com (Álvaro Ramírez) — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 02:47:20 PDT

In this insightful and prophetic text Eduardo Galeano, the argentinean author and prolific writer defines his and others people´s approach to culturre several decades before the creation of the...

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A new medium: The Colombia Herald

noreply@blogger.com (Álvaro Ramírez) — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 15:35:28 PDT

Not without certain irony or sarcasm Carlos Raul van der Weyden has created The Colombia Herald a medium targeting the big English speaking audience searching for information on Colombia. I think I...

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Comunicacion - Blog de Victor Solano: En cuanto venderas tu blog?

noreply@blogger.com (Álvaro Ramírez) — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 02:51:40 PDT

En cuanto venderas tu blog?

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Diebold AccuVote-TS Security Demonstration

noreply@blogger.com (Álvaro Ramírez) — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 01:33:09 PDT

Princeton researchers demonstrate security flaws in a Diebold electronic voting machine.

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Public Discourse in USA since 1960

noreply@blogger.com (Álvaro Ramírez) — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 00:58:22 PDT

Today, are we going to have pleasure to listen to Michael Schudson in a Guest lecture at our Department (University of Bergen). He is going to talk about his field of expertise which is Sociology of...

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Other Advantages of Open Source

noreply@blogger.com (Álvaro Ramírez) — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 02:23:53 PDT

Another good thing and really the key advantage of Open Source is not cost savings. Reduced dependence on software vendors appears more important than low cost Computer Economics recently conducted...

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Dutch academics declare research free-for-all

noreply@blogger.com (Álvaro Ramírez) — Sun, 05 Jun 2005 01:22:06 PDT

Scientists from all major Dutch universities officially launched a website a couple of weeks ago where all their research material can be accessed for free. Interested parties can get hold of a total...

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Color perception can be universal

noreply@blogger.com (Álvaro Ramírez) — Sat, 04 Jun 2005 03:54:33 PDT

In the New Scientist Print Edition there is a report implying that our perception of the palette of colours is universal, according to a survey of 110 different cultures, according to a survey...

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Should the taxpayers pay for expensive software?

noreply@blogger.com (Álvaro Ramírez) — Wed, 11 May 2005 06:39:35 PDT

Some days ago Jostein Gripsrud wrote (in Norwegian) an important article in Dagbladet, arguing against the dependency of a nation like Norway from a monopolistic international sofware corporation. It...

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Borealis 2005, the festival

noreply@blogger.com (Álvaro Ramírez) — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 04:29:49 PST

The Borealis 05 is a tiny festival for contemporary music, experimental sound and navigation. It has just began here in Bergen and it will last until the 20th of March. The festival will be a...

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Blogging as publishing format

noreply@blogger.com (Álvaro Ramírez) — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 03:52:11 PST

Following on the same track and the discussion that has develop in the comments space of Jill Walker’s post I would like to bring the attention to very good post by Toril Mortensen in her thoughtful...

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Blogging as format and its legal consequences

noreply@blogger.com (Álvaro Ramírez) — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 09:33:43 PST

In her wonderful blog, Jill Walker discusses recently the court case Apple has initiated against blogs who apparently revealed industrial secrets. I agree with Jill that the court case raises...

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Film classics in top DVD transfers

noreply@blogger.com (Álvaro Ramírez) — Fri, 04 Mar 2005 07:42:56 PST

Criterion Collection has always been the very best on the DVD market. They began doing their top quality and careful film transfers in the old times of Laser Discs (eighties and nineties). They have...

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Buy Nothing Christmas

noreply@blogger.com (Álvaro Ramírez) — Wed, 08 Dec 2004 08:47:14 PST

Buy Nothing Christmas is a very interesting initiative started by Canadians in connection with adbusters and supported by them.

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Editing and mixing Fahrenheit 9/11

noreply@blogger.com (Álvaro Ramírez) — Sun, 21 Nov 2004 16:45:10 PST

Via Sven E Carlsson I find this fascinating description of the process of sound editing in the last film of Michael Moore: Fahrenheit 9/11 "Another key to the success of the sound edit was the...

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Norway and Denmark join Open Access

noreply@blogger.com (Álvaro Ramírez) — Wed, 27 Oct 2004 05:22:35 PDT

Since I found about the Open Access movement I have become a strong advocate of this initiative. Not too long ago I was lamenting the fact that the U of Bergen was not part of this initiative. I...

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A day of peaceful demonstration

noreply@blogger.com (Álvaro Ramírez) — Mon, 11 Oct 2004 14:20:19 PDT

The political climate in Colombia is hot at this very moment. The present government is giving all attention to security and the war against leftist guerilla groups and very little to the needs and...

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Away for a while

noreply@blogger.com (Álvaro Ramírez) — Fri, 23 Jul 2004 03:30:30 PDT

In the next couple of weeks I will be traveling to New York and later to Bogotá mainly for family gatherings. I guess I will have very little chance to post in this blog for a while. I will try...

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Internet a truly international resource?

noreply@blogger.com (Álvaro Ramírez) — Wed, 21 Jul 2004 07:26:39 PDT

Internet like many other technologies were created Eurocentric. And this will have to change. Like many other things many westerners using Internet asumme that everybody has to write using the...

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"When I close a book I open life"

noreply@blogger.com (Álvaro Ramírez) — Mon, 12 Jul 2004 08:37:14 PDT

Today, a hundred years ago, one of my favorite writers, Pablo Neruda was born in Chile. That is a big day for the owner of this blog. Time to celebrate his words by citing one of his poems. Ode...

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Rhetoric, Community, and Culture of Weblogs

noreply@blogger.com (Álvaro Ramírez) — Mon, 05 Jul 2004 11:56:19 PDT

The Spirit of Paulo Freire in Blogland: Struggling for a Knowledge-Log Revolution is a very good article written by independent researcher, Christine Boese. She discusses weblogs and klogs...

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Moore's Public Service

noreply@blogger.com (Álvaro Ramírez) — Fri, 02 Jul 2004 10:28:51 PDT

PAUL KRUGMAN Op-Ed Columnist of the New York Times makes a very interesting and relevant point in his column today when he points to the small space mainstream media outlets in the US are giving to...

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Michael Moore begins to blog

noreply@blogger.com (Álvaro Ramírez) — Wed, 23 Jun 2004 10:00:21 PDT

On June 22 Michael Moore's official website informed that the famous documentary filmmaker will soon become a blogger. I must say he is very welcomed to the world of instant publication.

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