Alejandro@Oxford

As of today, this blog will be getting some of my posts on my personal blog http://www.aribo.eu

Tobias, a DPhil colleague of mine, has written a short reference on his blog about our fantastic trip to the temple of codification/decodification/encryption/decryption Bletchley Park in the beautiful English Buckinghamshire. On my blog I would like to pass a message from Philly d cat (I hope it will be a meme hint hint )

Thanks to Jonathan Zittrain I rediscovered what Aaron Swartz wrote in his blog Raw Thought about Wikipedia a couple of years ago. It is a six-part article on wikimedia and wikipedia, which includes a section on Who writes Wikipedia? which I found interesting and quite relevant again when the Wikipedia foundation has managed to get [...]

President-elect Obama has launched a new page on his www.change.gov site to foster debate about several issues. It has started with health care. As it is reported in The Huffington Post, more noteworthy than the website itself is what the Obama team is signaling with its launch. It isn’t coincidental that Obama is addressing health [...]

On Thursday night, I was browsing my profile on Facebook when I spotted that my relationship status was not entirely correct; it said that I was in a relationship with my partner. I consider that being a relationship with someone is a relatively loose bond, it is a bond you can have with a girlfriend, [...]

Just a short post on Europeana, the newly-launched Europe’s digital library, museum and archive funded by the European Union. It opens today, 20 November, and its goal is to bring “digitised books, films, paintings, newspapers, sounds and archives from Europe’s greatest collections.” At this moment, according to the International Herald Tribune, it has “3 million [...]

Today, I would like to dedicate my blog to a new campaign to create awareness about children in trouble in the UK. You can get more information here. Evidence shows that most children in trouble are trapped in a cycle of disadvantage: * they come from the poorest families and communities * they have the [...]

The new website for change is open. Obama’s team has opened the page for the presidential transition (www.change.gov). I must say that I was elated when I saw this page. It is so well made, its content is the work of weeks and a wit difficult to surpass. If this is the way Obama’s administration [...]