September 29, 2005
El MIT presentará su prototipo de laptop de cien dólares en noviembre. El objetivo es distribuir millones de esas computadoras a escolares de paÃses subdesarrollados.
“In emerging nations, the issue isn’t connectivity,� Negroponte said at the Emerging Technologies Conference on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Cambridge campus Wednesday. “That’s not solved, but lots of people are working on it in Wi-Fi, 3G, 4G, etc. For education, the roadblock is laptops.� He and his colleagues believe that equipping all children in the world with their own laptop will greatly improve the level of education and help stimulate children to learn outside of school as well as in the classroom. (MacWorld)
(VÃa Good Morning Silicon Valley)
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Posted by Eduardo Abel Gimenez
September 28, 2005
Wikipedia:
Spam blogs, sometimes referred to by the Neologism splogs, are Web Log (or “blog”) sites which the author uses only for promoting affiliated websites. The purpose is to increase the PageRank of the affiliated sites and/or get ad impressions from visitors.
(VÃa Denken Über.)
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Posted by Eduardo Abel Gimenez
September 27, 2005
James Boyle: More rights are wrong for webcasters (Financial Times, vÃa Lessig Blog):
First and most lamentably, intellectual property laws are created without any empirical evidence that they are necessary or that they will help rather than hurt. Second, the policymaking process has failed to keep track of the increasing importance of intellectual property rights to everything from freedom of expression and communications policy to economic development or access to educational materials. [...] Finally, communications networks are increasingly built around intellectual property rules, as law regulates technology more and more directly; not always to good effect.
The World Intellectual Property Organisation has now managed to combine all three lamentable tendencies at once. The Broadcasting and Webcasting Treaty, currently being debated in Geneva, is an IP hat trick.
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Posted by Eduardo Abel Gimenez
September 27, 2005
Dice Jeffrey Veen:
- Your web site is a tiny piece of a much larger experience.
- Nobody sees your web site the way you expected. Few use your content the way you intended.
- Everything you create online is being ripped apart and recombined with other stuff by thousands of curious geeks. Or at least, should be.
- The easiest way to fail is by trying to control all this.
Por aquà todavÃa falta para llegar tan lejos. Ojalá lo logremos pronto. ¡Leer la nota completa!
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Posted by Eduardo Abel Gimenez
September 27, 2005
Leonardo Moledo explica claramente el por qué del celibato impuesto por la iglesia católica a sus sacerdotes:
no era del interés de la Iglesia que un obispo, vasallo a su vez del rey de Francia, intentara que sus hijos (que podÃan o no ser eclesiásticos) heredaran el obispado que era un feudo muy concreto, con inmensas cantidades de tierras. El celibato aseguraba la unidad feudal de la Iglesia y la conservación de sus inmensas riquezas, que al morir cada feudatario, obispo, arzobispo o el mismo Papa, regresaban a la institución, sin el riesgo de fragmentación permanente que sufrÃan los incipientes estados nacionales europeos, divididos y rearmados como rompecabezas por polÃticas de herencia, dinásticas e incluso lÃos de familia. El celibato garantizaba que la Iglesia estaba a salvo de esos problemas y serÃa Una e Indivisible.
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