Marzo 2011
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The Future of Manufacturing is Local - Allison... →
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But there are many parts of this country where manufacturing is very much alive, albeit in a different form. The monolithic industry model — steel, oil, lumber, cars — has evolved into something more nimble and diversified…
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As Mark Dwight, who started SFMade in 2010, explains, “For decades we have developed a culture of disposability — from consumer goods to medical...
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Cellphones Track Your Every Move, and You May Not... →
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The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist... →
The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia by James C. Scott (Yale University Press).
… is one of the most stimulating books I’ve read in the past six months. Scott writes about a region called “Zomia,” which encompasses “virtually all the lands at altitudes above roughly three hundred meters all the way from the Central Highlands of...
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Por un urbanismo popular autoxestionado - C.S.O.... →
Fronte á proclama dos poderes desta cidade de que “lo que quieren los ciudadanos es ir a los centros comerciales”,
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Establecer como hipótese que unha zona da cidade pode ser simultaneamente lugar de permanencia e tranquilidade para moitas, de paso para algunhas e de intercambio e asombro para todas, e que a súa estrutura física e mental é feita pola colectividade, agás se esta chegou a...
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Uso de escenarios en organizaciones y empresas →
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Internet and 21st Century Social Revolutions (5... →
We are witnessing quick changes in the ways people communicate and consume information. We have moved from a context where information was in the hands of a few to a context with increasingly decentralized information networks. Citizens with access to an Internet connection can now empower themselves through technology to share their stories in first person and build upon their own narratives...
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“The thinking is in the notebook and the communication is in the computer”
– Gabriel Orozco: An artist without frontiers | The Economist
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What's Next for Europe?: The effects of currency... →
The timing of the November 2010 inaugural meeting of the Bad Ragaz Group could not have been more propitious. As signs of economic recovery clashed with the realities of the Irish bailout and renewed concerns about additional financial contagion in the eurozone, the meeting’s theme—”What’s Next for Europe?”—was already on the minds of the senior business executives,...
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Ivory Towers of Debt - Kazys Varnelis →
Sobre las burbujas inmobiliarias que forman las universidades en sus campus. Aunque esto sucede en EEUU y sus universidades tienen unas características muy diferentes a las españolas, ¿no es posible que en España esté sucediendo algo similar cuando buena parte de los proyectos de “excelencia”, “internacionalización” … son en realidad proyectos arquitectónicos?
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Liquidated: An ethnography of Wall Street - Karen... →
Financial collapses—whether of the junk bond market, the Internet bubble, or the highly leveraged housing market—are often explained as the inevitable result of market cycles: What goes up must come down. In Liquidated, Karen Ho punctures the aura of the abstract, all-powerful market to show how financial markets, and particularly booms and busts, are constructed. Through an in-depth investigation...
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How Developing Countries Can Manage Intellectual... →
The book “How Developing Countries Can Manage Intellectual Property Rights to Maximize Access to Knowledge” is edited by Carlos M. Correa and Xuan Li and can be download here.
… the analysis, conclusions and recommendations presented in this book will contribute to a better understanding of the challenges to access to knowledge and of how to frame development-oriented policies to address...
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metacool: Salman Khan and the primacy of doing →
… some of the innovations brought to market by the Khan Academy. Among others:
free access over the internet
self-paced learning
lecture attendance at home, homework at school
the psychological and emotional safety created by learning in private
helping students achieve true mastery, as opposed to minimum tolerable levels of understanding
liberating “slow” students from...
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Use of Multiple Mobile Phone Numbers (part 1) -... →
1. Lowering the cost of communication
2. Controlling points of contacts
3. Ensuring reliable connectivity
Use of Multiple Mobile Phone Numbers (part 2)
Solution 1. Carrying two or more SIM cards but only one mobile
Solution 2. Multiple phones – A phone per number
Solution 3. Mobile phone with multiple SIM card slots
Solution 4. Stitching up multiple SIM cards into one
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GPS jamming: No jam tomorrow | The Economist →
… Because they [satellite positioning systems] rely on signals from satellites transmitting from an altitude of around 20,000 kilometres (12,400 miles), the signals are very weak, making them vulnerable to accidental or deliberate interference. This can take the form of natural interference, as a result of solar activity, for example; accidental man-made interference due to signal...
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Media Piracy in Emerging Economies
About the Report | Media Piracy in Emerging Economies | A Report by the Social Science Research Council
Media Piracy in Emerging Economies is the first independent, large-scale study of music, film and software piracy in emerging economies, with a focus on Brazil, India, Russia, South Africa, Mexico and Bolivia.
Based on three years of work by some thirty-five researchers, Media Piracy in...
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Global City 2.0 →
Informal network of ‘blogs [or sites] of streets, neighbourhoods, villages or cities’ promoted by citizens or groups of citizens that whish to think collectively about the future of the places they live and/or work
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VerVideo “Narrativas digitales colaborativas y procomún”. Casa de América (05 Octubre 2010)
[Post original con notas]
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“I haven’t published too much formal research (yet) though given the choice...”
– Jan Chipchase - About
Febrero 2011
3 publicaciones nuevas
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Libro A Cidade dos Barrios
… la publicación de A Cidade dos Barrios. El libro sirve de registro de las acciones desarrolladas en ocho barrios de la ciudad y reflexiona sobre las posibilidades de intervención y las percepciones de los ciudadanos de A Coruña. Paralelamente toda la documentación utilizada en esta investigación será accesible desde la web. Además de las encuestas a nivel urbano y de barrio, será posible...
