Why I like flickr

I have a sense of ownership and discovery.
It kinda allows me to add value to my life.
It empowers me.
It… [share your impressions]

Viewed in You Tube- Another example of the net power

“Chinese soldiers shooting tibetan pilgrims at mount everest”

These images were captured in the Himalayas by a member of a mountaineering expedition (don´t miss the interview to the cameraman).

The video was first broadcasted by the Romanian television, but it only gained worldwide attention when it was posted on YouTube.

The Chinese government had claimed the soldiers shot in self-defense, but the video seems to question its version .

The ubiquity and openness of technology is making harder to undemocratic governments to do business as usual. At the end of the day this democratic scrutinizing will elude every kind of censorship (including blocking access to broadband).

But something is missing in this picture. Can you figure out?

web2.0, morals and ideology

Reading Nicholas Carr’s fiery blog about web2.0:

“Like it or not, Web 2.0, like Web 1.0, is amoral. It’s a set of technologies – a machine, not a Machine – that alters the forms and economics of production and consumption. It doesn’t care whether its consequences are good or bad. It doesn’t care whether it brings us to a higher consciousness or a lower one. It doesn’t care whether it burnishes our culture or dulls it. “

Can a tecnology be tagged in terms of morality? Or rather in terms of ideology or ideologic utility? Cannot online interaction empower offline life?

Let’s think about…together….

can a corporation be really socially responsible?

I’m reading Paola Ghillani’s profile. She notes that “there is more and more demand of the mass of the human beings on our planet for products and services coming from “responsible” companies.”

Others think that corporations are “the institutional embodiment of laissez-faire capitalism [that] fully meets the diagnostic criteria of a “psychopath.”

And you?

Tags for the new man

1. Dematerialized
2. Ubiquitous
3. Nomad
4. …

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Complexity awareness

Technology will only continue to grow in complexity. You know that. That’s why there are only benefits to adopting a strategy of simplicity.

Meaningful simplicity builds upon the fully aware understanding of complex systems.

Simplicity through thoughtful reduction.

“The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction”

The Laws of Simplicity

Russian random

By ‘chance’ I came across these two interesting photowebs worth checking out.

Pic by Bee Flowers. Moscovites can give Bee’s art a closer look by visiting the exhibiton of photographies devoted to the the outer areas of Moscow (”Megastructure”) currently at the Museum of Architecture in Moscow.

Karl De Keyzer’s moving series dedicated to Siberian prision camps

called Zona.

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