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The night we beat Televisa

The "elected representatives" of Mexico (about unknown entities called members) just approved a tax increase, among other beauties, a tax of 3 % Internet use.

course, I doubt that a member knows what is the Internet, its uses and its importance to help in the development of people.

What they do know, especially the members of Televisa and Azteca (using the letterhead of the Green Ecological Party of Mexico) is that the Internet can be a way for society to express themselves and outside of the media has the government for propaganda (in addition to television, Reforma, El Universal, Milenio, etc.).

So while Televisa is arming a strategy (so to speak) to "convince" that raising taxes actually benefited the pockets of the unfortunate viewer in society Twitter expressed in different terms, condemning the PAN (the party in government) and the PRI. That night was undoubtedly the night Twitter proved to be a more pluralistic and open way to discuss matters of general interest. In terms of shaping public opinion on the evening of Tuesday 20, 2009, Twitter beat Televisa and "traditional" media in general.

is why it is funny what some Mexican print media published today on what they think the Twitter susuarios tax on the Internet:

The Economist: "Twitter to cry for VAT increase ( here ) By the way, that title more stupid and more degrading, because they know the publishers of The Economist, that Twitter users and the Internet have the ability to access information sources varied and often more reliable than the Mexican newspapers. These sources are more reliable for lack of direct interéres the issues addressed, which is not the case of The Economist (is not perhaps one of the sources of advertising is the government?) That if he threw little stitch qualify for the opinions expressed by the Mexican twitter as mere absence of complaints and proposals "...

process: "Twitter Rebellion against tax hike" ( here )

Even more curious is what was published today by Boing Boing, one of the most read independent blogs in cyberspace - About the alleged "rebellion" of twitter Mexicans against the tax increase ( here ).

In fact, neither was a shoulder to cry, nor a rebellion in what is developing Twitter. Simply, traditional media are finding that they do not have a policy of truth and do not represent public opinion. The phenomenon of Twitter, blogs and Facebook to showcase the views of society is due in some measure, to traditional media have rarely been a place of expression for the society. Hence their fear and hence the need to delay the Internet access to the general public via taxes, because the Internet is a powerful form of communication that does not require a survey of Lopez Doriga or acceptance of a text message in the news from TV Azteca to speak freely ...

If you want to comment on the tax on Internet use in Twitter sends your message and # internetnecesario

Below the statistics published by via Boing Boing trendsmap.com on the discussion about the Internet and its importance in Twitter (Even the Blog does a mea culpa about "Anglocentrism" network, it explains that there were so many messages about Twitter was the topic on Tuesday 21, there was no explanation why not apareceió # internetnecesario as one of the topics discussed by the Twitter community that day)














Other post on the subject (thanks to Boing Boing)

Never Neutral ( here )
Alejandro Pizanty Blog ( here )
What it says Reuters Case ( here )

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YOU HAVE THE TIME ... I HAVE THE TIME

Two people have sent me this interesting interview with a very peculiar character of our beloved humanity, I would say a brother of ours who have experiences different from what most of us have lived and shares given through an interview form see, feel, touch and experience life. In other words a new window that looked out to see us and savored life with another flavor to what we know and feel its texture and savor.
leave you with this interview that teaches us something to feed our soul and sisters more more with human beings from other latitudes.

YOU ENJOY

Assarid Moussa Ag is a member of the Tuareg tribe in Africa. We have done an interview.
I recommend you read and see a different perspective of life.

YOU HAVE THE TIME ... I HAVE THE TIME

interview with VICTOR-M. AMELA:

I do not know my age, born in the Sahara desert without papers ...! I was born into a nomadic Tuareg camp between Timbuktu and Gao, northern Mali. I have been pastor of camels, goats, sheep and cattle of my father. Today study Management at the University Montpellier-1. I am single. I defend Tuareg herders. I am a Muslim, without fanaticism

- What turban so beautiful ...!

- A fine cotton fabric: Allows cover the face in the desert when you get up sand, yet still see and breathe through it.

- It's a beautiful blue ...

- A Tuareg Blue Men called us to this: the fabric fades somewhat and our skin turns blue shades ...

- How to produce this intense indigo blue?

- With a plant called indigo mixed with other natural pigments. Blue, for the Tuareg, the color of the world.

- Why?

- is the dominant color: the sky, the roof of our house.

- Who are the Tuareg?

- Tuareg means abandoned, because we are an ancient nomadic people of the desert, lonely, proud, lords of the desert, they call us. Our ethnicity is the Amazigh (Berber), and our alphabet, tifinagh.

- How many?

- About three million, and most are still nomads. But the population is decreasing ... "We need a people disappear for us to know that existed!" A wise man once complained: I struggle to preserve this town.

- What do they do?

- grazed herds of camels, goats, sheep, cows and donkeys in a realm of infinity and silence ....

- Really so quiet is the desert?

- If you are alone in the silence, you hear the beat of your own heart. There is no better place to be yourself.

- What memories of his childhood in the desert preserves more clearly?

- I wake with the sun. There are the goats of my father. They give us milk and meat, we we put them where water and grass ... So did my grandfather, my grandfather and my father ... And me. There was nothing in the world more than that, and I was very happy in it!

- Yes? It does not seem very exciting. ..

- Very. Alos seven years and let you get away from the camp, they teach you the important things to sniff the air, hear, discerning eyes, orient by the sun and stars ... And to get carried away by camel, if you get lost: take you where no water.

- Knowing this is valuable, no doubt ...

- Here everything is simple and profound. There are very few things, and each one is invaluable!

- then this world and that are very different, right?

- There, every little thing brings happiness. Every touch is valuable. We feel a great joy for the simple fact of touching, being together! There, no one dreams of becoming, because each one is already!

- What struck him most during his first trip to Europe?

- I saw people running through the airport .. . In the desert is only run if a sandstorm! I panicked, of course ...

- Just went to get the bags, ha, ha ...

- Yes, that was it. I also saw posters of naked girls, why this lack of respect towards women, I wondered ... Then, in the Ibis hotel, saw the first tap of my life: I saw the water running ... and I wanted to mourn.

- What wealth, what a waste, right?

- Every day of my life had been to seek water! When I see the sources of ornament here and there, I'm still feeling under immense pain ...

- As much as that?

- Yes In the early 90's was a great drought, the animals died, fell ill ... I was about twelve years old and my mother died ... She was everything to me! I told stories and taught me to count right. He taught me to be myself.

- What happened to your family?

- I convinced my father to let me go to school. Almost every day I walked ten miles. Until the teacher gave me a bed to sleep, and a lady gave me food to pass her house ... I understood: my mother was helping me ....

- Where did this passion for school?

- In a couple of years earlier had gone through the camp on Paris-Dakar rally, and one journalist dropped a book bag. I picked it up and gave it. Gave it to me and told me about this book: The Little Prince. And I promised that I would one day be able to read it ...

- And he did.

- Yes And so I got a scholarship to study in France.

- A Tuareg in college. ..!

- Ah, what I miss most here is the camel's milk ... And the wood fire. And walk barefoot on the warm sand .. And the stars we look there every night and every star is different from another, as each goat is different ... Here, at night, you watch TV.

- Yes .. What is the worst it seems from here?

- You have everything, but not enough for you. You complain. In France they spend their lives complaining! Stringing you for life to a bank, and no desire to possess, flurry, hurry ... In the desert there are no traffic jams, and you know why? Because there no one wants to advance anyone!

- Reláteme a moment of intense happiness in the distant desert.

- is every day, two hours before sunset: low heat, and cold has not arrived, and men and animals slowly return to the camp and their profiles are trimmed in a pink sky, blue, red, yellow, green ...

- fascinating, of course ...

- is a magical moment ... We went all the store and boil tea. Sitting in silence, listening to a boil .... Calm pervades us all: the heart beats to run together pot-pot of boiling ...

- What peace ...

- You must watch ... there we have time.

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Twitter Blog Action Day: Effects of climate change in North America (including Mexico) according to U.S. science agencies

Today is Blog Action Day theme is global warming and therefore leave this post and several links to other post that we posted on this blog about climate change. Below we put a video that explains what the Blog Action Day.

Scientific Program The U.S. Climate Change and Research Subcommittee on Climate Change issued on 19 June a scientific assessment that provides the first comprehensive analysis to date the observed changes in the projections which will cause the rise temperature on the planet. Among the projections are:
warmer days and nights, along with the increase in heat waves. The cold nights are becoming less frequent.

In the coming decades, large sections of sea ice at the poles continue to fall and are expected to disappear in the Arctic Ocean in summer.
rains, on average, is likely to be less frequent but more intense.
droughts could become more frequent and severe in some regions.
is believed that hurricanes are likely to increase their ability to precipitation and wind.

During the cold season in North America, storms in the Atlantic and Pacific are likely to produce stronger winds and waves of much greater height.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change previously evaluated extreme weather and climate events worldwide. However, before this report was not yet a specific assessment of the situation that would deprive throughout North America (including Mexico).

Among the main conclusions of this assessment are that droughts, heavy downpours, excessive heat and intense hurricanes may become more common if humans continue to increase atmospheric concentrations of heat-trapping greenhouse gases . The report is based on scientific evidence that warming will be accompanied by global changes in the intensity, duration, frequency and geographic extent of weather and climate extremes.

"This report addresses one of the most common questions about global warming: what will happen to the extreme weather and climate? This evaluation examines this question across North America and concludes that we are now witnessing each more and more extreme weather, "said Dr. Tom Karl, director of National Climatic Data Center in Asheville , North Carolina (NOAA, for its acronym in English). The full report a list of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) and brochures are available at the site of the report: NOAA-News and climatescience.gov site.

global warming the past 50 years is due primarily to an increase in intensity of greenhouse gases caused by hombre.El NOAA plays a key role in the Scientific Program on Climate Change which is responsible for coordinating and integrating research, observations, support, decisions and announcements related to climate mitigation of 13 departments and agencies of the U.S. government.

The National Center for Atmospheric Research investigates climate, weather, and other topics related to the atmosphere. It is sponsored by the National Science Foundation and administered by a nonprofit consortium of universities, called University Corporation for Climate Research.

entradassobre More climate change issues in this blog:

Ke nia: the " climate refugees " Europe does not want
immigrants and polar bears
What would happen to world if the temperature drops 6 degrees ? Inhabitants
of Kiribati (South Pacific Islander) forced to be evacuated due to climate change

What is Blog Action Day ?

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Technological Innovation: CBS and video player in a printed magazine

The news is not new: since mid-August the U.S. television network CBS announced that incrustaría video player in the ads for the new season of his series on the entertainment magazine Entertainment Weeky.

The result is curious, as seen in the video and is an example of the search for media innovation. Produced in partnership with Pepsi Max, CBS has called this new form of information dissemination VIP (for its acronym in English that means video-in-print or English video form).

As shown in the video, the VIP is similar to the greeting cards that have an audio and is activated when the person gets back to the page. Both audio and video are very good quality. You do not have volume controls and can result from Altöm volume, which may have intended to attract the attention of people nearby.

This innovation is being tested, as the VIP only embedded in magazines aimed at subscribers Enterteinment Weekly in Los Angeles and New York.

As the public, VIP works better than the so-called E-ink (electronic ink). A device that allows paper has the characteristics of the banners that appear on Web sites (moving, for example) and Esquire magazine had on its front page October 2008 (see video below)

The truth is that technological innovations related to the media are constantly ... Video

Printed from Entertainment Weekly






the E-ink Esquire










With Wired information

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Your imagination is what causes us to believe in God?

I have translated this article that may explain why we tend to give credit - and blame - a God who actually is innocent ...

Only humans practice religion because they are the only creatures on earth that have developed the capacity of the imagination.

That is the argument of the Franco-British anthropologist Maurice Bloch of the London School of Economics. Bloch opposes the popular notion that religion evolved and spread because it promoted social bonding, as argued by some anthropologists.

Instead, he argues that first, human beings have had to evolve in brain architecture to imagine things and beings that do not physically exist, and to believe in the possibility that people - in some way, to live after have died.

Once this is achieved, humans could use what Bloch calls "social significance" and unite in groups, nations and clans, or even with imaginary groups such as the dead. The social significance also allows humans to follow the idealized codes of conduct associated with religion.

"What the social significance required is the ability live - to some extent - in the imagination, "says Bloch.

" You can be a member of a transcendental group, or nation, though never in contact with other members of the same " Bloch says. Moreover, the composition of these groups, "whether they are clans or nations, may also include the living and the dead."

Currently, this idea of \u200b\u200blinking communities living and dead, occurs in the Christian notion of being "one body with Christ" or the Islamic "Ummah" uniting Muslims.

Animals do not have this capacity of social importance, even our closest relatives, chimpanzees, says Bloch. And the reason is they can not imagine beyond the immediate social circle, or backwards and forwards in time, a capacity that humans do have.

Bloch believes our ancestors developed the necessary neural architecture to imagine before or around 40 to 50.000 years ago, at the end of the Stone Age.

At the same time, the tools used for hunting and the man who had been monotonously primitive began more sophisticated. The art began appearing on cave walls, and burials began to include objects, suggesting a belief in an afterlife, and therefore the "transcendental social".

But Bloch argues that religion is just one manifestation of this unique ability to form relationships with value systems, people do not exist or are distant.

"Once we realize this omnipresence of the imaginary in the everyday, there is nothing special to explain about religion," he says.

Chris Frith of University College London, co-organizer of the meeting "Sapient Mind" meeting in Cambridge last September, thinks Bloch is right, but that "theory of mind" - the ability to recognize that other people or creatures exist, and think for themselves, can be as important as the evolution imagination.

"As soon as you have theory of mind, it is possible to deceive others, or being tricked," he says. This, in turn, generates a sense of justice and injustice, which could lead to moral codes and the possibility of an officer of the watch "- God - who can see and punish all the wicked.

Is it true that ? If so, we must start looking for someone else to give credit and blame ...

This article is a translation of excerpts from the following sources:

• http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org / content/363/1499/2055 (original source)
• http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13782-religion-a-figment-of-human-imagination.html (citing the original article in English)
• http: / / www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/10/did-development-of-human-imagination-50000-years-ago-lead-to-belief-in-god.html (citing the original article in English)

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A Girlfriend Experience ... the Love is more expensive than the sex

The other day I wanted to watch a movie - without going to the movies of course - and I got a title which stunned me: "The Girlfriend Experience ( Steven Soderbergh, USA 2009) Without reading the synopsis immediately figured it was the story of a guy who longed to live the experience of "having a girlfriend." Well, the theme of the movie was not exactly that, because it was an almost teenage prostitute, in his erotic services offered by the experience of being a bride.

I noticed the term and I went to Wikipedia and found that if such service exists within the "sex trade" and that the client tries to experience the prostitute as his girlfriend. For example, the prostitute dinner with him, walk hand in hand through park, kissing tenderly and passionately, talk of "their problems", etc. and eventually have sex. Given the intensity of the service (you can buy sex but not love) the cost of a GFE is very high: more than 2 000 euros if the prostitute has more than 25 years. If you are 18 can reach 10 thousand dollars. Love is more expensive than sex.

I do not know whether to pay for a GFE ensure the experience of "having a girlfriend," whatever that means, we do experience is the cost of having a girlfriend! Even without the complications of a relationship or fears (Who first put the horn to whom?).

By the way, the movie is good. According to the synopsis posted on the site where I downloaded, The Girlfriend Experience is "five days in the life of Chelsea, a prostitute from New York luxury that charges $ 10,000 per night, her boyfriend Chris accepts his lifestyle and manage their own business by coming to win $ 2000 each time. But in this business, you never know who you will meet ... "

" The Girlfriend Experience is not a typical Hollywood film. There is a nice movie where love triumphs because the world is wonderful. Sasha Grey, the actress who plays the prostitute is a porn actress in real life and the film shows a cold world that an economic crisis and values. A teenage world, who knows that goes to empty and enjoys going for him. Officer Trailer