Esta es una giga-fotografía de la toma de posesión de Barack Obama el pasado 20 de enero que demuestra que el sueño de transitar por el mundo como un ser anónimo se derrumba. Ya lleva tiempo dando vueltas por Internet, pero aún no la había visto.

Haz doble click tantas  veces como quieras. Y podrás comprobar el color de la bufanda del asistente que elijas.

En Xatakafoto explican el invento, que se llama Gigapan.

Gracias, Javi.

At BestUniversities.com they made a list of the 100 best blogs for those who want to change the World.

Here you have the ones classified as "general", but the list includes others related to environment, social action & human rights, inspiration, philantropy & funding, health care, art, and leadership & business.

I found some of the choices and the absentees dissapointing, but I won't say which ones.

United Nations Good Works: Find out what the United Nations is doing around the world from this blog.
Gladwell.com: Malcolm Gladwell, author of Outliers and other inspirational bestsellers, discusses making a difference, intelligent thinking, and other important topics.
Ordinary People Change the World: Find out how regular people can make a difference in the world from this blog.
Evange-list: Check out Evange-list to learn how you can use the Web to make the world a better place.
The Give Well Blog: This blog will tell you how to get the most change out of your giving dollar.
What Do You Stand For?: This blog encourages readers to find a cause for support.
A Volunteer’s Guide to Changing the World: Find out how you can change the world as a volunteer from this blog.
How I changed the world today: See what this blogger does on a regular basis to make a difference in the world.
Kiva Stories from the Field: Read the stories of Kiva fellows on this blog.
Blog for Change: Blog for Change will help you learn about causes, connections, and action.
The Change Blog: This blog is all about changing the world and changing your life.
So what can I do?: Read So what can I do? to find out hundreds of actions you can take to change the world.
One Person Can Make a Difference: This blogger demonstrates being a force for change in the world.
Skip a Lunch: Skip a Lunch is about making small personal sacrifices in order to help others.
Have Fun - Do Good: Have Fun-Do Good is written for people who want to change the world while having fun.

 

(We already talked about "technologies for worldchanging" in Globograma, and it would be nice to find the time necessary to offer the same list but with Spanish blogs...).

One of the best subjects I took at Complutense University while studying Journalism was Information Theory, by Prof. Felicísimo Valbuena. By playing movie after movie, he taught us how much truth there is in cinema screenplays and how much inner scripts there are in real life. Not that it had a lot to do with Journalism, but maybe it was a better lesson to learn.

It was via Valbuena that we all knew about Eric Berne and his "transactional analysis", where for the first time in the History of Psychiatry a fundamental unit for social intercourses was proposed: the transaction. For some critics, Berne is just a precursor of current silly self-help books, but many of us and many experts thought that his proposals had something else...

John D. H. Downing, one of the academicians who have better explained the influence of new media on international communication flows, has published a new book. Is is called "Alternative media and the politics of resistance: perspectives and challenges", and it is co-edited with Mojca Pajnik.

The book compiles a set of essays aproaching the matter from a conceptual viewpoint or from a practical one. The common idea of all the contributions is that some alternative media are already unavoidable and fresh interpretators of reality, disruptors of the conventions of mainstream mediated communication.

For the moment, only the introduction ("The challenges of nanomedia") can be downloaded for free.

Did you know that there are over 2.7 billion searches performed on Google each month?

To whom where these questions addressed B.G.?

(Before Google).

[Paying attention, a video presentation to motivate teachers].