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Saturday, March 20, 2010
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Basic course of Blogs
Basic course of blogs View resides presentations from franciscopolo.
I have just come of giving a Course of two hours to approach the exciting world of the blogs. Since I have promised my pupils, here there is the presentation that I have used to explain myself. If you have had left some doubt or you want to know something you already know that you have only to write to me a mail.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Blogs for All
In 1860, in the first national census it was reflecting that only 19,9 % of the population could read and write. The literacy had been always a little reserved to the wealthy and powerful classes. It could not be otherwise: the reading is the door to the information and the information is to be able.
But in 1879 the Spanish Working Socialistic Party was born. Especially from the beginning of the XXth century, this party contributed to the cultural emancipation of the workers from the Houses of the People. In words of Justo Martínez Amutio, direct disciple of Pablo Iglesias and, deceased Franco, Senator of the Spanish socialist party for Valencia:
We knew the existence in Spain of these Houses of the People from boys, still almost children, when at the age of twelve we begin frequenting in our Logronio the Working Center and the school that in the same one existed, ruled by militants emphasized from diverse professions in the one that was completing the instruction and the education that we had received in the primary schools of the epoch. Between those who were helping there was good number of illiterate workpeople anxious to obtain the necessary conditions to know books and leaflets or newspapers of the deficient press of the epoch and to communicate to his relatives, almost always also illiterate, and to other partners quite what was allowed that the worker was reading and knew, that was not abundant and of quality, precisely.
In Spain, the Houses of the People settled not only to lodge and to assemble the workpeople and his resistance societies, but to fight the ignorance and the negligence that existed between them, which it was doing to them to be easy instruments of development, submissive to a morality and to a few absurd conventionalities that were imposed in that society retrógada and ignorant. They were established to announce to those who were coming to them his real condition and place in the society like free men and women, like hard-working that were producing and turning the resources of the nature into wealth of the nation, but of that they were not perceiving anything. This condition was announced to them and that the faculty to work was not a favor that they were receiving from his owners.
Today like yesterday, the Spanish socialist party keeps on fighting against a new illiteracy: the digitalis. There are great the persons who have not had up to recent epoch, or they do not have yet opportunity to approach the new technologies. Those who yes could have done it overcome in several decades of age the native digital ones. They know, how persons who share a vision of progress, which one comes a new time provoked by a technological change as important as there was in his moment the machine of steam or the television. But they need to learn. They want to learn.
For this motive, today, tens of Local Groups of the Spanish socialist party give courses of digital literacy for the whole territory. To bring over our biggest persons (and not so major) to the use of Internet and the New Technologies; helping to reduce this way the digital divide. One of them is the Socialistic Group of the District Center of Madrid, which has invited me to give one of these basic courses. A course for to learn to create and edit a blog.
I feel very honest.
Hernán Cortés 9 invited you to share the course with me today to 20:00h in the street.
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Saturday, March 13, 2010
You have an appointment with … The Biblioburro
The last drops of the thunderstorm were still striking the sheets of the forest like the redlobar of the drums of the war he announces the danger. The guerrillas and the paramilitary ones were still controlling this part of the Colombian forest. Luis Soriano, a simple teacher of language, knew to the danger to which it was exhibited crossing with his two donkeys the bordering footpaths to the village of La Gloria. It was not mattering. Luis was determined to take the goods that he was keeping in the saddle-bags up to his destination …
East might have been the history of the day in which Luis decided to begin his project to take books to the children of the remote peoples of his region: the Biblioburro. Every weekend, for already ten years, Luis mounts in his donkeys - alpha and Beto - and down the sun covers kilometers loading storybooks, novels and encyclopedias to bring them over to groups of children who wait for him exasperate.
“It began like a need; later it turned into an obligation and later in a custom” Luis says. “Now, it is an institution”. An institution that was born of Luis's admiration for the force transformadora of the reading on the children. Reading books, the children contact, not only other countries, other cultures, other ways of thinking; but also with “rights, obligations and commitments”. The children learn that routes exist to solve the conflicts that do not happen for the violence and separate from her. A little especially important in this region of Colombia.
Today, Luis has managed to assemble more than 4.800 books and financing to create a small center that finally remained to half for lack of resources. The books that have more success are the stories for children but Alpha and Beto also loads with novels, books of medicine or the Dictionary of the Real Academy of the Language. Sometimes, the books that it never gives return. That happened with a sexual guide and the book Like water for chocolate of Laura Esquivel. Perhaps the loss that better Luis will remember is a Bridle of Paulo Coelho that a few bandits took on having held it up in the middle of a way and to leave bundle bundle to a tree on having seen that it had no money, only books.
Fortunately that did not wrinkle to Luis who keeps on covering every weekend the villages of the surroundings of La Gloria taking the reading to hundreds of children and girls. There is no payment that costs the work that this young teacher is doing although perhaps he feels sufficiently rewarded when he leaves a village and someone asks him: "When will it return, teacher?”
Reportage on Cyberactivism
A few weeks ago, Jordi Baró of the program of radio Polièdric de Catalunya Informació interviewed several persons to prepare a series of small reportages on Cyberactivism. Ricard Espelt, Ismael Nafría, Marc López and I myself we appear in different cuts. To see what seems to you; o)
Interview Catalunya Informacio
Protect them: Buy imitations!
Yesterday I was in Fake Market of Shanghai. Namely on the Market of the Falsifications. After entering they do not stop offering him after one buys a Rolex for a few yuanes or a purse Prada at laugh price. To walk between his shops is to see one without end of "Mini" Iphones (yes, Iphone Mini exists … in China!), games of the Wii, sneakers Paul Smith, scarves of famous Scotch pictures and Vuitones of all the models and colors. Quite false, clear it is.
I remembered of what in the Free book: The future of a radical price of Paul Anderson (#recomendado) was written on the concept of the copy and the intellectual property in the Asian giant: here in China the intellectual property is free. The only one pays for the things that he buys but not for the ideas that exist behind them. What in Occident him can look like to many a scandal is had by it, contrary to what often they tell us, a few causes and a few consequences more than subtle …
In China the false copy has several causes: it is related to the situation of a developing country, with a quite lax legal system and, at the same time, with a conception confucianist of the life in which the knowledge is reached by means of the imitation of the teachers and, therefore, copying is something socially recognized.
Namely what in Occident is considered to be a crime for which a person can spend in the jail more time that for giving a drubbing to a person in the street, in China is assumed by full naturalness and, in fact, he thinks about how to give answer to the need for some segments of the population that cannot allow themselves acquiring the original products. It is a question of a form of understanding the social justice.
Since it is foreseeable, in economic terms, the proliferation of false copies provokes a “effect I replace”. Namely the people stop buying authentic things to buy the same copied and much cheaper object. Nevertheless, at the same time, the distribution of these false copies also provokes the “effect stimulus”, for which the products of a certain mark come to the knowledge of the population that in other places they them acquire in his authentic version. The question is: Which of these two effects is stronger? Is destroyed the market of the luxurious objects in China or on the contrary is it growing?
The reality is that the market has not been destroyed but it has prepared it for a consumers' emergent middle class tide. In accordance with Anderson:
The revenue per cápita there is more that doubled in small stone in the last 10 years, happening from 663 dollars in 1996 to 1.537 in 2007, and it gives few slowing down samples. At present there are approximately 250.000 millionaires in China, and the number grows every day. Today, China (including Hong Kong) is the third world market of legitimate articles. From an economic point of view, the piracy (sic). it has stimulated a demand major than the one that it has satisfied.
Despite what it could seem, ésto it is not new at all. The idea of that the imitations can help to sell better originals was already formulated like the Paradox of the Piracy. We might say then that in China the motorbike is: “It protects the creators buy imitations!” Not only it is surprising but, also, it works.
The discussion is opened, if billion six that we form the planet buy and sell false copies …: What must we do? To copy or not to copy?
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