Was reading the Groundswell blog and found a series of different online communities for all sorts of different purposes. One that definitely caught my eye was Design your portion of the border fence, where people are invited to submit designs for graffitti that would be placed on the American or Mexican sides of the barrier the U.S. government is building between the U.S. and Mexico.
Definitely a creative way to raise awareness of a current issue.
I wrote before that Chivas sacked their previous coach "Chepo" de la Torre and put Efraín Flores in charge. With the same men, my team has not lost a game since and just trashed Necaxa 5-1 last night.
Besides deciding to bring the game to the opposite team instead of playing only on the counter, he has shown great vision in giving more responsibility to youngster Sergio "Gauchito" Ávila. The kid has answered with some great performances and determination to seize his opportunity. Now let's hope he does what is expected of him as Sergio Santana hasn't been that good playing in the hole between the strikers.
It might be a good idea to use Dopplr. Interesting, simple concept: write down where are you going to be and share with people that need to know. They even have a Facebook app/plugin.
Had I not gone to Finland to study, I would have ended up in Hamburg. After all this time, I finally had the opportunity to visit the city. It was interesting to have a glimpse about how different would my life now be For starters, I wouln’t speak Finnish nor be married with my wife, but would probably have much better German language skills. I would have probably adapted to German culture instead. Those details would have made a rather different me (or maybe not).
In short, you build your life every day, so try to make it the best it can be.
A few guidelines about Facebook etiquette:
Ok, there it is now, I've been trying to post this for a while.
Have meant that my iPod has been doing the rounds with them. Both of them ("Echoes, silence, patience and grace" and "Si no" are very good and wholeheartedly recommended.
Bought at amazon.co.uk.
Uno de los blogs que leo es de un mexicano que después de vivir en Finlandia acaba de regresar a México. De su experiencia personal tiene tres puntos que comparte que me parecen muy válidos.
Total que uno no es de aquí ni es de allá, jajajaja.
Más en su blog.
Was in Denmark & northern Germany this week for a couple of days. It was really interesting that after crossing the border the landscape did change, with more spruce and birch trees on the Danish side. Definitely did look more “nordic” than Germany, which of course should be the case.
And the language, to which I had been exposed before, is seriously incomprehensible. Written is quite OK, but I really don’t know what they do with their mouths. And they know it ;-).
Haciendo mi ronda usual de periódicos ahora que tuve un poquito más de tiempo, me topé con que El País de España ahora se hace llamar "El periódico global en español". Contrastándolo con los contenidos de su página principal, que se concentran en noticias españolas, e incluso con el nombre del periódico (¿o qué, "El País" se refiere a otra cosa y no a ese pedazo de tierra entre Portugal, Francia, el Atlántico y el mediterráneo?), he llegado a dos conclusiones: o es un ejercicio fallido de mercadotecnia que no va a llegar a ningún lado o realmente se lo creen y son más arrogantes de lo que pensaba.
Actualmente ningún medio de habla hispana cumple la serie de requisitos que le pondría a un medio más global (nótese que no digo global) como CNN, France 24 o BBC World, nótese dejar de verse menos al ombligo y más al exterior. Ese es un nicho de mercado que aún no está cubierto en nuestra lengua, pero francamente a Grupo Prisa no le veo cómo con su actual propuesta de valor, aunque acepto que desconozco mucho sobre el negocio del periodismo.
Two news stories that have convinced me that absurd is the flavour of the day for Mexican news:
