26 December 2002

Blogtalk Conference Surfaces At the end of May, in Vienna, a conference will explore the significance of weblogs and their impact on our educational, social and working lives. I admire the effort and will surely contribute a paper. Hopefully, I will be invited to make a presentation and be part of this extraordinarity interesting meeting. Go grab the call for papers [in english].  7:10:35 PM    comment []

Mobile Blogging Triumpthant: The Promise of Avantblog This may be of interest to some of you who favour the delights of mobile blogging. Haven't yet checked it out myself on my Handpring (I can't find my craddle to download the Avantblog software, damn i may have lost it) but it looks interesting enough to give it a shot as soon as i retrieve my craddle. Note that it's finetuned for blogger-hosted blogs [blogger.com] but anyway, it seems that smart mobs are more than a vibrant idea: they 're thriving on blogs and they're coming to a cinema near us soon!  1:14:27 PM    comment []

Christmas in year 2050 will look even more stupid, greedy, commercial and less humane: Welcome to the future then!!! My story today is again relevant to these days' Christmas fever. This time, though, BBC's Ian Pearson comments on the future christmas to come and welcomes the rise of synthetic turkies (you damn nanotech!) that vegetaries are suppossed to embrace and adore, walking-talking Barbies and similar gizmos that respond to our children's emotions, clothes that change colours according to our mood, mind-scanning-reading exploitative software so that we know what boring cousin Jim and sexy aunt Clodia think while on the Christmas dinner table to enjoy this caricatoure of a turkey! What a silly idea: no matter how fond I 'd be of reading sexy aunt Clodia's mind, I 'm sure she wouldn't appreciate my thoughts of her (provided of course she had the same mind-messing device)  after a few glasses of wine and champagne. On the other hand, who knows? Perhaps, she would like me thinking of her as the best christmas present I'd like to open that night!!!!   12:03:23 PM    comment []