Alejandro@Oxford

Lately, I’ve been thinking what would be the best way of organizing my blogging activity. Before coming to Oxford, I was posting on one blog – Blog of Change -, then I left it die slowly, while creating two new blogs – Alejandro@Oxford and Alejandro@World. The first, Alejandro@Oxford, was meant to develop issues related with [...]

A group of people at the Interactive Technologies Group of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona) and the MIT are elaborating a quite interesting research on user-generated information and mobility: Our approach is to consider that uploading, tagging and disclosing the location of a photo can be interpreted as an act of communication rather than a [...]

Today’s daily Internet picks: OpenID: open source identity Starting a political blog: recommendations Man loses all his stuff in Craiglist hoax: The Internet doesn’t lie

According to a news article on the Project for Excellence in Journalism’s annual State of the News Media report: The Internet has profoundly changed journalism, but not necessarily in ways that were predicted even a few years ago, a study on the industry released Sunday found. It was believed at one point that the Net [...]

Today, I start my daily pick of links. From all I read online, I’ll pick daily between three or five of the most interesting stuff. New York Times’ obituary on Arthur C. Clarke Bible Science Museum Tour (video) iPhone users know too much Article on Change Congress Enjoy.

Lawrence Lessig recently decided to change his professional career. From a life dedicated to copyright and intellectual property, with many successes, among them the founding of Creative Commons, to the fight against corruption. He is taking a novel approach in this fight. He is not starting from zero, he is using what he’s learned to [...]

Tim Berners-Lee, delienated recently in an interview on the BBC (video) a possible future of the Internet: “Imagine that everything you are typing is being read by the person you are applying to for your first job. Imagine that it’s all going to be seen by your parents and your grandparents and your grandchildren as [...]

UPDATE: A short bio article on Arthur C. Clarke in the NYT. Science-fiction writer, Arthur C. Clarke, died today at 90 years old. He was the author of one of the best science-fiction novels ever, 2001: Space Odyssey. One of the great pioneers of this genre.

A very simple website is asking the world if we believe in God! By far not a scientific experiment, but an interesting one, YesNoGod.com asks a very simple question: Do you believe in God? The results for the moment are quite representative of common intuitions: – Europe is the region after Oceania with the least [...]

Hélas! I must talk again about Jon Worth. It seems that he doesn’t stop doing things. He and Jan Seifert have created a website (and a Facebook group), Who do I call? – in direct reference to the famous Kissinger’s ““Who do I call if I want to call Europe?” – for supporting the creation [...]