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Thinking out loud in my corner of the internets.

Best Of

I’ve been writing here for over a decade now. In hindsight, only a handful of those posts are still worth reading.

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The tools that go into making this website.

Latest Essays

Ceibal Jam! An event for the XO

Ceibal Jam! An event for the XO

Originally published on Idea Lab. An avalanche of analysis, impassioned commentary, and angry rants descended upon the tech mediapshere over the two past weeks ever since One Laptop Per Child Chairman Nicholas Negroponte urged developers for the XO laptop (formerly...

Prison Diaries: Prisoners use blogs as a start to social reform

Prison Diaries: Prisoners use blogs as a start to social reform

Sometimes I feel like there are more websites dedicated to documenting citizen journalism than actual citizen journalism initiatives. Among them: J-Lab, Idea Lab, Media Shift, Press Think, MIT's Center for Future Civic Media, Contentious, Online Journalism Review,...

Pangea Day, Un Evento Glocal

Pangea Day, Un Evento Glocal

Con los tantos viajes que hago y la dispersión de lugares de residencia de mi amigos, es bastante raro cuando todos podemos hacer lo que la mayoría de los grupos de amigos lo hacen al menos una vez al mes: relajarse viendo una película juntos. De...

Pangea Day, A Glocal Event

Pangea Day, A Glocal Event

With my lifestyle and the dispersed locations of my friends, it is very rare when we can all do what most groups of friends do at least once a month: relax by watching the same movie together. In fact, this year I will only have two opportunities to do exactly that....

Modern Day Conquistadores

My faithful fellow anglophones, as you may have noticed, the last two entries around here were written in Spanish. Sorry about that. But then, change is the spice of life, is it not? I'm contemplating the idea of publishing all future blog posts in both English and...

Goodreads: El Renacimiento del Libro

Según una encuesta de Gallup para La Nación, "el 58% de la gente no leyó ningún libro en el último año." Frente a la pregunta sobre el último libro leído, el 45% de los que se declararon lectores en la encuesta...

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