Archive for December, 2007



The Catalan government (Generalitat de Catalunya) agreed on December 18 to spend around 12 million euros during the next 4 years for Microsoft software/services (information in Catalan/Spanish). According to them, this represents savings of 3 million euros in relation to the previous contract with the company. Some of the contract conditions are:  Access to all available [...]

UPDATE: The domain connectunlimited.info is now canceled. I closed this campaign last month. After 2 years less than 500 people signed up. Some time ago, I mentioned in one of my posts in Blog of Change how expensive and limited broadband in Belgium is. With Telenet, a telecom company, For a bit more of 42 euros we get 10 mb download [...]

This is the introduction of my last essay for Social Dynamics of the Internet: “MYWORLD IS MY WORLD: ONLINE AND OFFLINE SOCIAL INTEGRATION BEYOND DEPARTURE, REFLECTION OR COMPLEMENTARITY” Since its inception the Internet has been the object of a debate about its consequences on social relations. While the pessimistic approach represents it as a generator [...]