Wrapping up a nice semester split in two with a great groups of students. New Media (inf115) is a course of Sagrado, set up with a connected an open strategy, which borrows from the syndicated content model as well as … Continue reading →
The long pronounced mantra of current economies is that to survive in the disruptive digital world, one would need to Lower the number of workers Increase the content they produce. Or, maximize per-worker productivity. Which has a few corollaries: cut … Continue reading →
I was 17 and for the first time out of my own city and country. I was in London, summer 1976. I do remember Trafalgar and Soho from that stay. A month-long stay that my parents had planned to have … Continue reading →
I love wandering through the Web. And I have a pretty standard routine reading every day the mainstream press online. It’s basically four titles: El Nuevo Día (elnuevodia.com), Puerto Rico’s main newspaper; La Repubblica (repubblica.it), Italy’s most important (together with … Continue reading →
Well, it’s a new year. I’ve been watching a few Woody Allen films, lately (on the home screen), and I shot photos at some frames worth remembering. Thanks to subtitles, I got a scene’s context and dialog. I thought these … Continue reading →
In which Alan & Antonio deal withstrong cellular deficiency [Originally published at http://prconnection.cogdog.casa/] And they talk aimlessly about connection (quite rightly) and other high-level stuff. Hello, planet Earth, do you hear? Instead of raising the bar, we have the lowest … Continue reading →
Yes, it seems like the semester just started. We had a suspension of disbelief due to the passage of storm Dorian, which was going to pass through half of Puerto Rico and moved easterly later to miss us, fortunately. Classes … Continue reading →
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Street art I’m starting a weekly series of Instagrams, so to connect my photo interests to this blog. The idea is to post just one image per week. Not sure whether I’d post this with the “image” format or as … Continue reading →
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Substack Substack makes it simple for a writer to start an email newsletter. It’s free and you can add paid subscriptions whenever you want. tags:newsletter tools delicious subscription content Indico – Home tags:event organization collaboration opensource open tools delicious CROWDLAAERS … Continue reading →
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New-Age Bullshit Generator Wonderful generator of new-age bullshit. tags:bullshit generator delicious Cicero – Serving presentation slides written in Markdown tags:presentation slides markdown serving delicious slideshow tools Drag and Drop a document tags:tools annotation annotate hypothesis documents delicious Gloria (2013 – … Continue reading →
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How to survive the hurricane and thrive on your course. A practical weather-proof introduction to build one own’s course portal #booc. This is the title of my fun workshop of today at EDMEDIA 19 + Innovate Learning in Amsterdam. BTW, … Continue reading →
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I was talking to Alan, only a few days ago, for our infrequent conversations that get upgraded as episodes of our podcast The Puerto Rico Connection. In this case our conversation took longer than usual, and I was pleasantly immersed … Continue reading →
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I have been working pretty hard these weeks on my classes. Almost all feature a syndication hub built within a WordPress-based Web portal. I’m talking inf103.com (Computing fundamentals) and inf115.com (New Media and social networks) [both in Spanish]. Plus I’m … Continue reading →
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[This is a post that originates from Evernote. I take note of something, then push it to an Evernote notebook. Later, an engine by Zapier [sort of like IfTTT] pushes the new stuff to this blog as a draft. Finally, … Continue reading →
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This story has had some impact on me, both because of its grand love and its humility. It is a grand love story since it is the story of the love affaire of a past president of France, François Mitterrand, … Continue reading →
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A new year is on and my new semester has already begun. Actually, I have already two posts to show for 2019. My school-is-finished laziness comes after many classes and seminars and meetings around the semester, plus a lot that … Continue reading →
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The little time left available after taxiing daughters around, improvising plumber and handyman, and other menial tasks, I experimented a bit. One little idea I found is a slow OS X screensaver. It consists of a piece of software that … Continue reading →
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In December 2015 I read a stunning novel, Viviane, by the first-time writer Julia Deck. It was originally published by the most prestigious publisher of France, Éditions de Minuit. Viviane is the story of a madwoman, or not, in any … Continue reading →
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