Last december, during the Global Voices summit, there was some debate about translations and editions in other languages than english.
Today I read that that debate gave birth to Lingua, that is, nothing more than GVO editions in other languages. A simple translation of the “relevant” contents of GVO in Bangla, Spanish, Farsi, Portuguese, French and [...]

Past march i wrote abput the situation in Belarus one year after the fraud election that allowed dictator Lukashenko to stay in power, commenting about lots of the blogs I was reading in that spring were not updated, one of them br23, one of I read more.
I’ve just seen that Uładzimer Katkoŭski, br23’s editor, died [...]

After sleeping and thinking for a while, some thoughts about the last summit of Global Voices Online

According to the news of the People’s Dialy Online, China will manage about seven TLD to the margin of the ICANN as of day 1 of March. By the way, the Chinese translation into English is quite ambiguous, but Rebecca McKinnon explains her vision of the translation.
Her words say it is not being developed a [...]

There have been a lot of talking about “Google/Yahoo/Microsoft: don’t be evil”, and it’s perfect for me that people gets angry when they know that those companies decide to follow countries’ laws to make business.
I put “companies” in bold because what a company searches for, is to make profit. It is easy to understand. Then [...]

We have been reading about the (now ex-)”movimiento” FON for months, but those news rarely where from other countries than Spain. Just after Varsavsky announced that FON let the revolution to become an enterprise, and the investment on it by Google and Skype, FON has become omnipresent.
What surprised me was reading about FON at places [...]

When in the western blogosphere speaks about “free” culture, is from the point of view of the western world. It is spoken of which any person with access to Internet, a digital camera (photo/video) is an `author’ in power. It is spoken of free(freedom) access (also of free(beer) access in some cases) to the works [...]

All the apocalyptic science fiction films have a common denominator. The future is controlled by machines. Artificial intelligence that takes consciousness of itself and decides to annihilate the humanity.
Some time ago, I developed a theory which more or less said that if the artificial intelligence acted this way, it was because they were programmed for [...]