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I tornem a ser a London!

(hatshet) — Thu, 03 May 2012 15:16:49 +0100

Aquest any sembla l’any de Londres … no parem de trobar ofertes, o sigui que … ja hi hem tornat a fer cap pel pont de l’1 de maig! Aquest cop, però, amb un altre temps (no va parar de … Continua llegint →

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Post-grau amb esmorzar verd

ramon@iwith.org (Ramon Bartomeus) — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 13:01:00 +0100

iWith.org ha organitzat l' Esmorzar ved amb alguns responsables i alumnes del post-grau de resolució de conflictes públics de la Universitat de Girona.

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Vols treballar amb nosaltres?

laia@iwith.org (Laia Duran i Batidor) — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 13:40:00 +0100

A iWith.org estem buscant una persona compromesa, responsable i treballadora que vulgui formar part del nostre equip com programador/a.

Es requereixen coneixements i experiència en

PHP5
MVC
SQL (especialment MySQL)
xHTML (HTML5)
DHTML
Javascript (JQuery)
CSS

Pots veure l'oferta de treball completa a Infojobs.

T' interessa? Estàs disposat/da a treballar de veritat en un entorn solidari?

Envia'ns un tros de codi PHP realitzat per tu del qual te'n sentis especialment orgullos/a i el teu CV al correu careers [at] iwith.org o a l' oferta d' Infojobs.

¡T' estem esperant!

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Les Cinque Terre

(hatshet) — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 10:06:37 +0100

L’últim dia que teníem vam decidir començar a anar cap al nord per no haver de fer-ho tot d’una tirada. Vam passar per Pisa a fer la típica foto aguantant la torre inclinada, tot i que he de dir que … Continua llegint →

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D’Arezzo a Florència

(hatshet) — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 08:30:09 +0100

Arezzo és coneguda per ser la ciutat on es va rodar La vida és bella, del Roberto Benigni, i a tots els racons t’ho recorden, però també és un important centre etrusc i el lloc on van néixer importants artistes … Continua llegint →

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Els paisatges de la Toscana

(hatshet) — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:10:53 +0100

Després de Siena vam decidir conduir per les “carreteres amb encant” del sud de Siena, impressionants els paisatges, són tot allò que t’esperes: grans extensions de turons verds inacabables amb alguns xiprers a les entrades de les masies (que diuen … Continua llegint →

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Una volta per la Toscana

(hatshet) — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 18:43:43 +0100

Recórrer la Toscana en aquesta època és tota una experiència inoblidable, els paisatges estan verdíssims i no fa massa calor per perdre’s pels carrers dels pobles que vas trobant. Sense un recorregut inicial, només amb algunes idees al cap, la … Continua llegint →

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Ducksboard

elizabeth@bocatics.org (Elizabeth Cherba) — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 09:20:00 +0100

Ducksboard és un panel que pot ajudar-lo a organitzar i realitzar un seguiment de dades diferents per a ajudar-lo a gestionar fàcilment les ONG.

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Aprende a recordarlo todo: el método del palacio de la memoria

noreply@blogger.com (RBerenguel) — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 14:47:00 +0100

Cortesía de Shanidar

Puedes leer la versión inglesa de este post aquí: Learn to remember everything: the memory palace method

En este post os voy a enseñar cómo recordar a la perfección una lista. No importa la longitud de la lista: puede ser tu lista de la compra de 10 artículos, o una lista con 50, 100 o incluso 1000 cosas. Y en un próximo post, cómo aplicar este método para aprender idiomas. Suena bien, verdad?

La técnica que vamos a aprender se llama el palacio de la memoria, también conocido en inglés como "method of loci" (por la palabra latina locus, que quiere decir lugar,) aunque en ingles lo más habitual es memory palace o mind palace. Este método es una herramienta fantástica de la que disponer!

El palacio de la memoria

El método del palacio de la memoria tiene sus origines en el siglo 5º A.C., cuando Simonides de Ceos, poeta, atendía un (poco afortunado) banquete en Tesalia. Mientras iba a la puerta a atender a un correo que preguntaba por él, el techo del comedor se derrumbó, matando a todos los comensales. No había manera de reconocer los cadáveres (aplastados por un techo...,) las técnicas de CSI no estaban tan avanzadas como en la tele. Pero Simonides se dio cuenta que no tenía ningún problema en recordar quien estaba dónde, sin prácticamente ningún esfuerzo.

Piénsalo por un momento: es fácil recordar quien se sienta al lado del anfitrión, dónde estaban tus amigos, quien estaba a su lado. Y así, llenas una cena. A Simonides "se le encendió la bombilla," y gracias a esto está considerado como el inventor del método del palacio de la memoria. Aunque usado ampliamente en la antigüedad, no hay prácticamente registros escritos del método: aparece en la obra anónima Rhetorica ad Herrenium y en la obra de Cicerón De Oratore. Pero no es extraño que no haya registro escrito, para ellos sería tan normal escribir un libro sobre el palacio de la memoria como para nosotros escribir un libro sobre cómo ponerse unos pantalones. Todo el mundo saber hacerlo.

El palacio de la memoria es un método cercano a cómo nuestro cerebro funciona. En nuestros días de nómadas cazadores-recolectores necesitábamos saber cómo llegar a algún sitio (lago, llanura) y recordar qué había ahí (agua fresca, fruta, caza). Aprovechando este hecho podemos construir una gran cantidad de métodos de memorización, para listas ordenadas o desordenadas.

Recordar listas puede sonar estúpido, quien quiere memorizar una lista? Pero en el fondo, una lista es un conjunto de conocimientos ordenados! Lo que estudias para un examen de historia es una lista de fechas (ordenada) conectada con hechos (que son sub-listas de la lista principal). Cuando aprendes una nueva receta, es una lista. Un número de teléfono es una lista de números. Un poema es una lista de frases.

Tu primer palacio de la memoria: construcción y llenado

De Will Sculin@Flickr

Empecemos a crear nuestro primer palacio de la memoria. El hecho que se le llame palacio no tiene que hacernos pensar en Sissy o películas de Walt Disney, no tiene porqué ser un palacio. De hecho, para empezar, podrías usar tu casa, y como ejemplo imaginaremos una casa muy pequeña. Entrando por la puerta llegamos a un pequeño recibidor, que nos lleva a un comedor con 3 puertas. Del comedor podemos llegar a la cocina, al WC y a la habitación, que tiene un balcón. Este es un ejemplo de casa que vamos a utilizar, para usar el método correctamente deberíamos usar nuestras casas, o otros sitios reales que conozcamos bien.

Ahora memoricemos algo. Una lista de la compra: lechuga, bacon, aros de cebolla, una tarjeta SD y naranjas. He usado una lista corta para hacer el post más corto y para que quepa bien en la casa imaginaria que hemos construido un poco más arriba: prueba con una lista más larga después de esta si no crees que el método funciona!

Para recordar la lista, tenemos que colocar cada elemento en algún sitio de nuestro palacio de la memoria. Esto quiere decir un elemento por habitación o varios elementos por habitación, cada uno en un sitio especial que podamos recordar fácilmente. La manera más simple es poner cada objeto en una habitación diferente. Así, nuestra pequeña casa de 5 habitaciones podría contener una lista de 5, 10 o 15 elementos.

Para colocar un elemento de la lista, tenemos que visualizarlo en la habitación, para asegurar que lo memorizamos, tiene que ser una imagen extremadamente rara. Tiene que dejar una impresión clara, para hacerlo tiene que ser sorprendente, surrealista o sexual, entre otras opciones. Si la imagen es insulsa, recordarla será prácticamente imposible.

Empecemos con la lista. Cuando entramos por la puerta principal, nos saluda la Rana Gustavo, pero un Gustavo especial, hecho de lechuga, como una lechuga parlante. Puedes imaginarlo? Notar el frescor de las hojas de la rana Lechugo? En el comedor hay una estampida de cerdos... perseguidos por Kevin Bacon armado con un tenedor y cara de hambre. Lo bastante raro como para recordarlo? En la cocina, Scarlett Johansson juega con un hoola-hop que es en realidad un aro de cebolla gigante. Entras en la habitación, y te sorprende darte cuenta que la cama es una tarjeta SD gigante, que puedes esconder contra la pared como cuando pones una tarjeta en una cámara. Para acabar, abres el balcón y te encuentras una naranja gigante y brillante haciendo de sol, goteando zumo de naranja sobre el desierto que se abre bajo tu ventana.

Las imágenes debes ponerlas en un sitio que conozcas como la palma de tu mano: tu casa, la casa donde creciste, tu oficina. Esto es muy importante. En este ejemplo he usado una casa imaginaria porque es más fácil, pero en las listas que quieras memorizar, usa sitios conocidos.

Quizá creas que el método no funciona, pero te sorprendería. Escribí la primera parte de este post al empezar la tarde, y ahora, más de 3 horas más tarde al ponerme con la segunda parte aún veo claramente las imágenes. Evidentemente esta es una lista muy corta... Pero no importa: te sería igual de fácil recordar una lista 5 veces más larga.

Encontrar un conjunto de palacios de la memoria

Para recordar una gran cantidad de cosas necesitas una gran cantidad de sitios para poner todos esos recuerdos. Necesitarás encontrar tu propio conjunto de palacios de la memoria. La primera vez que me encontré con este problema, pensé en crear sitios imaginarios (como el pequeño piso que hemos usado más arriba,) conectados de alguna manera con pasillos. El problema? Los palacios artificiales se desdibujan con mucha facilidad, y tiendes a olvidarte de ellos. Es mucho, mucho mejor usar sitios habituales, o que al menos puedes comprobar de nuevo en la vida real, como fotos de un libro, niveles de un juego de ordenador o algún edificio al que puedes volver.

Una vez me di cuenta de esto, empecé a pensar en casas y sitios que pudiera usar... Y me di cuenta que tenía una gran cantidad. Aún recuerdo (y seguro que tu también!) las casas de compañeros de clase de hace 15 años, hoteles en los que he estado, edificios que he visitado. Estoy seguro que podrás encontrar una gran cantidad de sitios que te sirvan de palacios de la memoria. Para empezar, usa sitios muy habituales, como tu casa o oficina, y a medida que cojas práctica podrás usar otros sitios más antiguos.

Puedes leer más sobre encontrar sitios que usar en este post en inglés: Building Your Memory Palace Collection

Palabras finales

Tienes que encontrarle el truco al método. Consigue experiencia convirtiendo objetos habituales (como una lechuga) en imágenes que puedas recordar durante mucho tiempo (como Gustavo el cabeza-lechuga). Cogerle el ritmo es solo cuestión de práctica, igual que pasear por tus palacios en tu cabeza. Práctica, práctica, práctica.

Por cierto, puedes recordar todavía la lista de la compra?

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Debats en innovació i tecnologia amb el Tercer Sector Social,

ramon@iwith.org (Ramon Bartomeus) — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 09:42:00 +0100

Debats en innovació i tecnologia amb el Tercer Sector Social, és un procés de co-creació obert amb les persones que fem possible els processos de transformació social, ja sigui des de les pròpies entitats o com a especialistes que aportem nostre coneixement.
El 21 de mars vam participar en el Grup d'opinió en innovació i tecnologia amb el tercer sector social

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Parlem de World Community Grid en Tecnonews

julie@iwith.org (Julie Nyce) — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 08:47:00 +0100

Iwith.org està col•laborant amb World Community Grid. En aquest article Ramon Bartomeus, Resources Manager d'iwith.org explica més sobre la missió del World Community Grid i com tots podem ajudar oferint el temps de computació que ens sobra.

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The Mind Palace Memory Technique (or: what I'm watching on TV lately)

noreply@blogger.com (RBerenguel) — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 19:01:00 +0100

Caveat: some of the links appearing in this post are affiliate links to Amazon.com If you buy anything from them, I get a small commission. As always, I only link to stuff I like. If you want to support (ever so slightly) this blog, buy something. If you don't want, don't do it ;)

Lately I've been watching an interesting TV series. Sherlock, the modern version of Conan Doyle's stories and novels. It is written by Steven Moffat, one of the writers of the new incarnations of Doctor Who, another series I enjoy a lot. Two seasons have come and go (they only have 3 chapters each,) so far both excellent. But I'm not writing this post to (just) praise a TV series, after all I'm not a TV fan whatsoever. What I want to highlight is the appearance of the "mind palace" (as Sherlock named it) in some chapters, another way to put the more widely used memory palace. I have already written a post about how to use the memory palace technique, working as quite an introduction to the subject. But I want to retake it again, since some popular occurrences of the memory palace are pretty... odd.

Setting aside classical titles on memory or memory techniques, and the (somewhat) known book The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci, the first best-seller book I know giving some hints about the method is Harris' Hannibal, the prequel to Silence of the Lamb. In it, Hannibal Lecter explains how he stores all his memories and knowledge in an intricate memory palace. Anything from poems to maps. In Sherlock, Sherlock Holmes is also depicted as using this method to remember a London map, before chasing a cab using his knowledge of one-way routes and construction sites. In another chapter, he is also shown deep in search of data in his mental library. But is it really like this how it works?

First, for newcomers who don't want to read my lengthy article about the memory palace method, let's make a thought experiment to realise how powerful the method is. Close your eyes. Can you picture your parents (or grandparents) house? Mentally walk from room to room? I bet you can, even if your parents have moved since then. Can you walk mentally the route from your parents' home to your school, or high school? I'm sure you can do it without any problem. Your brain is hardwired for this: finding routes. After all, a hunter-gatherer unable to remember where the plants or the water lay was doomed to die.

The memory palace method aims to take advantage of this ability, paired with our visual memory and linking memory to remember... lists. In fact, you don't need to remember lists, but the method is best suited to listed knowledge, since you can remember it ordered. The simplest example would be a shopping list. If you want to go shopping and need milk, onions and some tasty dressing (making some onion rings, maybe?) you can place each item in... your grandparents home. Or along the route to your high school. Problem is, done plainly forgetting it's too easy. You are likely to walk over the 3 onions you placed in the middle of your parents living room. To remember, you have to make everything bigger, noisier and bizarre. Cleopatra (the Egyptian pharaoh of old) bathing in milk in the bathroom (in case you didn't know, Cleopatra is said to bathe in donkey milk). A giant onion-man eating sliced humans in the living room. A bride (well dressed with her wedding dress) covered in ketchup. Far easier to remember, don't you think?

On the other hand, the fictional cases of memory palaces showin in Hannibal and Sherlock are far more abstract. How are you supposed to remember poems or a map? Well, all you need is a code. To memorise a poem you need to remember its verse and rhythm. For Keats' Ode on a Grecian Urn, you'd start (again) with a bride, dressed in white with a finger to his lips, ordering silence. Then a boy appears out of nowhere, carrying a huge golden pocket clock in his neck, also gesturing for silence. And so on and so forth. One (or two) images for each verse are almost all you need. Pair it with some repetitions of the poem to get the hang of the rythhm and you'll never be able to forget it.

And how are you supposed to remember a full map? Well, this one is trickier and I still don't know how to remember a plain map. Remembering directions is somehow easy: just store a direction in each room of your palace: turn left, go straight and right on the 3rd is just "1 left" "straight 3 right", which are easier to encode in rooms in a palace. For a map, I don't know and I don't think Sherlock or Hannibal could help us.

Of course if you have a good enough visual memory (or even eidetic memory like Sheldon Cooper in The Big Bang Theory) you could remember the full map. But this is just being born with the right genes, and I'd rather know how to do it myself.

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Sempre es poden descobrir llocs nous a London

(hatshet) — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 19:25:11 +0100

Londres és d’aquelles ciutats que no et canses mai d’anar-hi, i sempre hi ha coses per fer i descobrir, i amb un cap de setmana ben aprofitat pots veure moltes coses. Aquest cop el primer dia el vam dedicar a … Continua llegint →

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Aplicació YoruFukurou per Twitter

elizabeth@iwith.org (Elizabeth Cherba) — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 10:53:00 +0100

YoruFukurou és una aplicació per Twitter que fa possible que els usuaris gestionin i personalitzin alhora els seus comptes personals i els de la seva ONG.

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El nou disseny de les “Cronologies” de Facebook ajuda a les ONG

elizabeth@bocatics.org (Elizabeth Cherba) — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 10:58:00 +0100

El nou format de “Cronologies” de Facebook fa possible que les organitzacions sense ànim de lucre causin impacte i personalitzin les seves aplicacions.

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Com utilitzar Pinterest com a plataforma

julie@iwith.org (Julie Nyce) — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 10:55:00 +0100

Pinterest és una eina que les organitzacions sense ànim de lucre poden fer servir per arribar a més gent, compartir les seves activitats i mantenir-se al dia sobre el treball d'altres organitzacions.

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Recursos per al accés a ordinadors

miranda@bocatics.org (Julie Nyce & Liz Cherba) — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 12:28:00 +0100

Si la vostra organització està buscant recursos sobre on aconseguir la tecnologia informàtica i connexió a Internet, podeu comptar amb les ajudes següents:

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Conferència; Fer el bé fent el bé.

ola@iwith.org (Ola Zemke) — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 07:43:00 +0100

Els díes 24 i 25 de febrer, l'Escola d'Empresarials IESE a Barcelona, va obrir les portes a la conferència “Fer el bé fent el bé”.

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Uneix-te al iWith.org Team en el World Community Grid!

julie@iwith.org (Julie Nyce) — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 09:46:00 +0100

World Community Grid ha creat una xarxa pública d’informàtica per ajudar en projectes humanitaris. L’èxit del projecte es basa en les aportacions de particulars que cedeixen l’ús del seu ordinador quan no l’estan utilitzant.

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Nous voluntaris a Iwith.org

miranda@iwith.org (Miranda Gubbels) — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:31:00 +0100

Desde iWith.org estem molt contents de presentar als nostres nous voluntaris. Claire Savelsbergh, Liz Cherba i Julie Nyce son estudiants dels Estats Units i Miranda Gubbels és voluntaria per EVS i ve dels Països Baixos. Les tres treballaran amb Iwith.org aquest semestre a Barcelona.

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Learning to use vim in my iPad (even if I'm an emacs geek)

noreply@blogger.com (RBerenguel) — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:11:00 +0100

Just in case you don't know, vi is an advanced text editor, drting back from the same era as emacs was developed (emacs started slightly earlier). Sort of the Jekyll to emacs' Dr Hyde. Emacs users despise vi users, and vi users mock emacs users. This is what the editor wars are all about: "Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping" versus "vi has two modes: writing and beeping". If you have been long enough in this blog, you know I'm in the emacs side, but you also know I'm curious enough to delve into the other side.

My first contact with vi was in our first programming class at the University, Informatica (Computer Science). Vi was the editor of choice for the course, so much that you did not have any other option given. Along with a Linux cheatsheet and a short C manual came a vi cheatsheet. A lot of people came to hate vi, a lot of people came to love it. I was more in the hating side, but it wasn't that bad. After a while I just started using a "normal" Linux editor (it was Kate, maybe?) and kept using it (or UltraEdit when I was in Windows) until the end of my degree.

When I finished my degree I had to be a teacher of Calcul Numeric (Numerical Analysis), the third (and last) programming class in the degree. At home I was still using Windows, because the wifi card in my notebook had no Linux drivers and in my office we were using Ubuntu. I needed a cross-platform editor that was quick, versatile and could last for a lifetime. I tried vi (again) and emacs, emacs won the war for two reasons. First was the fact that it was extensible programming in Lisp, and I had already a decent knowledge of Lisp. The second was AucTeX and its "preview" option for LaTeX editing. Nothing can beat pressing C-p C-p C-d and seeing your formulae come to life in your editor. I became an emacs advocate for this reason, then after 5 or 6 years I've found many more reasons why this is the editor. Or, the operating system, if you prefer.

But advocacy is nice, but knowing all the players in the field is better. My department pals used vi (at least most of them), and it was impossible to convince them to switch. I decided learning vi (or vim, vi iMproved) was something I had to do some day, to learn what was there. After all, if I liked it so much I could set viper-mode in emacs and use vi keys in emacs. The best of two worlds, if that world is so nice.

Then the guys at Applidium released a Vim port for iOS devices. Whoah! Even if I'm an emacs guy to the bone, a modal editor is way better than anything else available in the app store, at least for raw editing power. And I say with knowledge, because I've tried most writing apps for iOS devices (see this post).

As an additional reason, Matt Might posted a New Year's post detailing several resolutions for programmers. Among them was breaking your comfort zone to keep your mind sharp. The first example? Switching to vi from emacs or vice-versa. He used to be an emacs user before getting to use Vi. I don't think I could go that far, but these were enough reasons: advocacy (from me, not against me), iPad+bluetooth keyboard and breaking my comfort zone.

How is the experience so far?

Well, I'm writing this post in my sofa, with my iPad and my bluetooth keyboard sitting in my lap. I'm still getting used to having to exit editing mode to move around: I'm very used to pressing C-a or C-e to go to the beginning of end of line. An additional problem is that even with the bluetooth keyboard, Esc can't be mapped to the Esc event, and I needed something to do it. I have jk (pressed together) for it. It was a suggestiond I saw in Hacker News' comment thread for the release of the app, and it's quite handy. Not so much with the on-screen keyboard, but for now it's okay. To remap this, press backslash (the current mapping for Esc) and then :imap jk . Of course if your usual writting language involves writing the jk combination frequently (I think I could come up with one or two examples in Icelandic), this is not the best combination. The other suggested option is :imap al . Easy to tap in a virtual keyboard, not so straightforward in a normal keyboard.

I found out also how to change the font size, at least for now this works (maybe there will be more fonts available in the future), type :set guifont=Courier:h24 (for 24 pixels)

To round everything, I just installed the famous solarized color theme, dark in vim for iPad. Until now I had just thought it was an overhyped color scheme: I had tried in my emacs and didn't enjoy it that much. But in my iPad it shines with a distinct colour, it's so much easier on my eyes that it hurts to get out and write an email! To install it in your vim for iOS, first download solarized.vim from the git repository, then plug your iDevice and use iTunes File Sharing to copy this file to the vim app. Then open vim, :e solarized.vim and :call mkdir(.vim/colors/) (to create the directory needed for it) :w .vim/colors/solarized.vim This is just because I didn't seem to get iTunes File Sharing to work with hidden files (a file starting with a dot is hidden). Then you have to add the following to your .vimrc:

syntax enable
set background=dark
colorscheme solarized

I recommend using this app for any emacs lover out there with an iPad. Of course, it is not emacs, but vim is a pretty awesome text editor, and it's always handy to learn to use it.

To have a useful list of vim commands at hand I installed the Vimmy app, a universal app with the most common vi commands. I can switch to it via the multitasking gestures in my iPad, or use it in my iPod Touch while I'm using it in the iPad.

Conclusion

I don't think I'll ever switch from emacs to vim any time in the future, as I said AucTeX is definitely too good. Of course since then I've found many more things I love: having a REPL for Python, Clojure or Lisp inside my editor. There's even a REPL for PostScript! Also local remote editing with tramp... There are too many things I use on a daily basis and I can't barely remember, they are so entrenched in my .emacs file I can't even realise what they are. But for my iPad it is an awesome addition to write text on the go.

Again, if you have never used vim before and are interested, give it a try. Of course the first time you open it it will be... a jump into the unknown. Tap the screen, press :e filename and start editing happily. Esc (well, jk or backslash, as the initial mapping) :w to save. And you can even :q to exit to springboard!

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iWith.org difon Teaming

ramon@iwith.org (Ramon Bartomeus) — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:22:00 +0100

Avui ha nascut Teaming.net, un projecte en el qual vam començar a aportar idees i esforç el 2008 i que transformarà la manera com les persones ens impliquem en els projectes solidaris.

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2011 un buen año

ramon@2012yque.info (Ramon Bartomeus) — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 15:11:00 +0100

Hoy le da por terminar su singladura al 2011, este fantástico año en el que tantos hemos descubierto tantas cosas, y al que deberíamos estar eternamente agradecidos.

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Ja Pots Enviar les Teves Postals Solidàries des d'Iwith.org

clara@iwith.org (Clara Garcia ) — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 08:32:00 +0100

Les targetes porten el missatge solidari d'Iwith.org i de les organitzacions que hi col·laboren. Moltes organitzacions i ONG han enviat preciosos dissenys que permetran difondre el seu treball desinteressat i altruista.

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Good Books I've Read in 2011: Perfect Gifts for Geeks!

noreply@blogger.com (RBerenguel) — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 20:29:00 +0100

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The links to books in this post are affiliate links! Beware :) In case you have not realised it yet, I'm a pretty prolific reader. Online reading (and having an iPad) have slowed down the number of books I read in a given year, and I don't go to the lengths of my girlfriend (who is about to reach her goal of reading 102 books in this year,) I'm nevertheless a frequent reader.

This year I've read several good books that I'd like to share with you, after all, if you are reading this probably our tastes overlap. And then these books will be perfect for you (or for some geek in your life). The books I've selected range from programming, sports and non-fiction. Oddly enough, I don't remember any fiction book I've read this year (not counting some book by Raymond Chandler, which I can recommend each year). Let's go!

Born to Run A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen: I reviewed this book in a previous post here. I found it very good, and urged me to get running. My running frequency is (to put it softly) awful, but I'm trying to improve. If you want to start running or recover some lost motivation, give it a shot, it's a very good read. You can read my review of Born to Run.

Visualize this The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization, and Statistics I wanted a book to help me graphing things in my future work as a freelancer, and after looking around a little I found this *great* book by Nathan Yau, the blogger behind Flowing Data. It's an awesome book, which will help you start kicking around the graphs and tables.

Confessions of an advertising man: An almost autobiographical book by famed ad-man David Ogilvy, if you are anything into copywriting, advertising or marketing, you have to read this book. Not only will it help sharpen your ideas, but it is also a very good and entertaining read.

Moonwalking with Einstein The Art and Science of Remembering Everything: A New York Times best-seller by Joshua Foer. After reading his interview-article there, I decided to buy it (pre-ordered it!), and it was very worth the money. An entertaining read of how motivation can get you a long way, and how some memory techniques work. I have not written a review of it, but you can read my own explanation of the memory palace technique.

Even a geek can speak Low-Tech Presentation Skills for High-Tech People: The best book for anyone in need to give a presentation. Clear, concise and to the point, this should be a forced reading for all technically minded people. You can read my review of Even a geek can speak.

Mining the social web Analyzing Data from Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Other Social Media Sites: If I had to try the book I enjoyed the most reading this year, it is this book. Seriously. Even awesome comes short of what I think about this book. I plan on reviewing it, but I've got not enough time yet... With it you'll learn how to mine twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and whatnot. And then process all this data. Easily. Yes!

The AdWeek copywriting handbook The Ultimate Guide to Writing Powerful Advertising and Marketing Copy from One of America's Top Copywriters: Your deep entry into copywriting, from a master copywriter. You'll learn how to shape your online copy, from headline to action. It's very well written in an understandable fashion. Keep in mind that if you buy the Kindle edition, the provided checklists are not that useful.

Thinking Forth: I've had this book for a long, long time and I finally got to read it. I used a simple method for getting me to read it: I left it in the bathroom. When I had to spend some time there (for example, shaving with an electric machine!) I read a few pages. And in no time, I had finished. You don't need to have a computer close to read it, but a little knowledge of Forth is quite useful. It is a clean book, introducing some concepts like orthogonality and testing without even trying.

Power Sleep The Revolutionary Program That Prepares Your Mind for Peak Performance: A best-seller book focused on mental abilities and how sleep affects it. Packed with research results and advice, it was a very interesting book, although a little too long. After all, the best suggestion is to go to sleep each day at the same time and keep adding 15 minutes (weekly) to your sleep until you stop feeling sleepy. Now that you have the spoiler, buy it.

Crush It! Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion: One of these self-help books that will get you pumping ideas and rocking you off the sofa. According to Gary, now it is time to crush it. And probably it is. If you are a little low on motivation, read this book. Don't expect it to teach you how to do things, just read it as experiences to think about.

What I talk about when I talk about running: Another running book, this time an autobiographical piece by one of my favourite writers, Haruki Murakami. I was expecting a little better from him... But of course, not every book can be Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world. An interesting read about Murakami's running experiences, and how he got to run a 50 miler and the "original" marathon in Greece (under a scorching sun).

This month I've started several books that I'm sure would have make this list, and will probably be delayed until next year:

Steve Jobs: I will remember how and when I found out Steve died, and will still be inspired by his commencement speech for a long while. I've gone through almost one fifth of the book (a very thick one,) and it is one of the best biographies I've read (the other is John Nash's). Brilliantly written, it reads like a novel with a fast pace.

1Q84: the recent best-seller by Murakami was the gift from my girlfriend for this year's St. George day, and I've only been able to read a few pages. From the raving reviews, I assume I'll like it (I was deceived by Kafka in the shore).

The memory palace of Matteo Ricci: A classic book for memory techniques lovers, I've only got to read the first 20 pages or so. So far, very interesting and well edited.

Guns, Germs and Steel The fates of human societies: A book recommended by my thesis advisor, dealing with why Europe invaded America and why it was not the other way around. Of course, all is theoretical, but it is amazing nevertheless.

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Obert el VIII Concurs de disseny de Postals Nadalenques d'Iwith.org

alexandros@iwith.org (Alexandros Papageorgiou) — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:45:00 +0100

Atenció organitzacions i persones amb creativitat: internet els ofereix una nova oportunitat creativa, solidària i nadalenca. La creació i enviament de postals de nadal per recolzar causes solidàries. Dóna-hi un sentit i fes més fàcil la teva salutació de nadal i cap d'any. Participa amb la Campanya de Postals Nadalenques d'Iwith.org.

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Working on the go with an iPad, a Bluetooth keyboard and a 6sync account

noreply@blogger.com (RBerenguel) — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 19:31:00 +0100

Some of the links in this post are affiliate links. As usual, I only recommend what I've used and like

Inspired by Mark O'Connor from Yield Thought (my frequent readers will have already read something from him from my link collections), I have been working remotely for a week. His set-up is an iPad 2, Apple wireless keyboard, the iSSH app and an account in Linode. My setup is similar, but I use an iPad 1 and 6sync for the VPS.

Why 6sync?

A matter of luck. Around 2 weeks ago, I set up my "name domain" at rberenguel.com (currently down, I messed the Apache configuration a few days ago), and I decided I had played with blogger for long enough. Decided to look up an VPS to host that site and whatever I needed to either host or cloud process in the future. Tweeted asking for options, and in the meantime, Sacha Chua explained how she switched to Linode. Linode was going to win...

Until the guys at 6sync (Mario and Rav) sent me a tweet, urging me to check 6sync before choosing. I checked the page, the prices, and was close to sold out. Exchanged a few tweets, read a few reviews, and I was convinced. Reasons? Many.

First, they offer a more basic and cheaper service. Whereas Linode offers 512 MB of RAM, 20GB storage and 200GB transfer for 19.95$/month as the basic plan, 6sync offers a nano plan with 256MB of RAM, 12GB storage and 150GB transfer for 15$. This plan is currently ideal, since my bandwith and RAM usage for the server side is close to nil, and I don't expect to use that much of bandwith in daily doses. They also offer a Mini plan with 2 CPUs, 512 MB or RAM, 20GB storage and 400GB transfer for just 20$/month, beating the Linode offer on its own ground.

Second, they have a very nice website. As a hobbyist page creator, this is important. I like how they have set-up their site, and the pictures they choose to go by. If they are not the designers, the designers should receive this praise.

Third, they are a funny bunch. I exchanged several tweets with them, and they were very supportive. And as soon as I had my server up and running and ran into problems (or more precisely as it turned out, I was not patient enough for the DNS switch) they were extremely quick to help through their in-page customer chat service.

Fourth, they have a lot of server setups ready. Do you want Debian? Check. Ubuntu? Check. Arch...? Yes! I can use me dear pacman package manager and install whatever I want, in the latest version. Cool.

All in all, very happy for hosting. And then, Mark published his post.

The remote and local setups

At first, instead of filling my 6sync server full of software, I tried a simpler setup: using my office computer in the department. I still have an account for using that computer, and I have already everything setup for working remotely. I only needed a decent ssh client for iPad.

Back in the iPod Touch days, I used the awesome (truly awesome) TouchTerm app, which is (was) perfect for the iPod Touch. Offering a wide array of gestures to control it, it is a marvel of usability. But it has no iPad version. For the occasional SSH session I was using the free zatelnet app. But this also was not a good deal.

When Mark published his post, I decided to buy iSSH, and even if the price tag is high for an app, I don't regret it. The freedom you get when only carrying an iPad and a very slim bluetooth keyboard is unmatched. The app is universal, so you have two apps for the price of one. Check the server stats from your iPhone!

Mark is a vim guy... I guess that's okay for a lot of people, but not for me. I could go the vim way (I have been trying to get a basic proficiency of vim in the past), but I'm an emacs guy. Up to the last moment. And I had to cross fingers for iSSH and emacs to play along nicely...

Well, they mostly do (at least with iOS5). The control key works, and so does the option key (as meta). The real meta key (command) does not work as expected, but esc also works as meta, in case of need. The only problem I've found so far is the fact that control-f and control-b are hard-bound (in the iOS level) to advance/go back a word. Thus control-x control-f does NOT open a document. But if you press shift, emacs does not care about control-X control-F, and the iOS bound setting is overriden.

There's a more important problem with these iOS level shortcuts, control-a goes to the beginning of the line... but leaves a nasty [] in the buffer. I have written an abbrev-expansion and re-bound control-a to get rid of it, but it does not work as well as I want yet. Luckily emacs is flexible enough to allow me to solve this in more than one way. Currently almost done anyway.

Installing all the stuff is a breeze. Of course, I had already installed the LAMP setup, although I only have configured Apache so far, but adding the rest of things I use on a daily basis is straightforward:

pacman -S emacs-nox texlive-core

And now... Dropbox or not dropbox? Dropbox from the command line has a slight problem: you need a browser to accept the linking between your new computer and the remote system. And I didn't want to add the complexity of X to the game (even if iSSH has a very cool X server...). So I left dropbox out of the equation. I can always push/pull the files every once and then without problems.

So, I have everything that I need. Now, how does it work in practice?

The daily grind

As you may already know, my daily grind is split between my part-time freelance job as social media manager (among many other things covering get more pageviews and make more money from the sites, mixed with data analysis and copywriting) and finishing my thesis.

Working in my iPad for the freelancing job was already possible. I could access almost all systems from just a browser. Reading and answering mails, the same, although going from the email app to the CRM is slow. So far, the only problems I've found are spreadsheets (solved since I got Numbers) and e-Junkie. e-Junkie has the nice feature of having a flash-based login box. Clever, isn't it? Well, I'll leave the e-Junkie management for my MacBook moments.

For the thesis part, it was harder. There is an awesome LaTeX editor for iPad, TeX Touch. I can't really stress how good it is. Using it with the on-screen keyboard is as close as you can get to be proficient. The drawback is that once you're used to emacs, if you have a solid keyboard, nothing can beat emacs except telepathy.

This is where the iSSH stuff enters into play. Fire emacs, edit all your TeX in console mode (I can somehow live without AucTeX's preview, although it is slightly hard), compile the pdf and move it to the shared folder (all done via an automated script within AucTeX for compiling). Switch to Safari (or GoodReader) and open the document. Check everything is in place and keep going.

The standard TeX based lather-rinse-repeat is straightforward from within an iPad.

Anyway, I'm not using only the iPad day to day. Only those days when I know I don't have that much work to do, requiring heavy task-switching or firing tons and tons of emails with attachments. For slow (or semi-slow) days, it is awesome.

What benefits are in this?

Well, I'm free of carrying a heavy MacBook. Until I get a nice MacBook Air, my current computer is a slightly too heavy MacBook from 2008. It weights quite a lot, and I need to add the charger (even if it is very light, it weights). When I carry the MacBook, I also carry the protecting case (more weight) and a backpack (weight) with some folders with the stuff I'm correcting for the thesis (I could remove this). And I also carry my iPad.

These days I get by with my purse-bag, which is perfectly sized for the iPad+keyboard. I carry the pages I need to check for the thesis, and no more. So I've gone from 5-odd (or 6-odd) kilograms to slightly more than 1.

I also don't need to worry about plugs or battery, the iPad battery lasts for a days' worth of working.

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En Positivo

ramonbartomeus@voxcanina.org (Ramon Bartomeus) — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 07:33:00 +0100

Destacamos enlaces de Educación Canina en positivo.

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En Positivo

ramonbartomeus@voxcanina.org (Ramon Bartomeus) — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 07:33:00 +0100

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Mas Humanos

ramon@voxcanina.org (Ramon Bartomeus) — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 21:18:00 +0100

Destacamos enlaxes cuando los perros ayudan a los humanos.

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Mas Humanos

ramon@voxcanina.org (Ramon Bartomeus) — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 21:18:00 +0100

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Mas Perros

ramon@voxcanina.org (Ramon Bartomeus) — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 21:10:00 +0100

Destacamos enlaces Cuando los humanos ayudan a los perros.

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Mas Perros

ramon@voxcanina.org (Ramon Bartomeus) — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 21:10:00 +0100

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Horizonte 2020

ramon@voxcanina.org (Ramon Bartomeus) — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 20:55:00 +0100

Nuestro horizonte está en el 2020.

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Horizonte 2020

ramon@voxcanina.org (Ramon Bartomeus) — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 20:55:00 +0100

Nuestro horizonte está en el 2020.

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Guau

ramon@voxcanina.org (Ramon Bartomeus) — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 20:43:00 +0100

Guau! estamos naciendo, que no és poco!

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Guau

ramon@voxcanina.org (Ramon Bartomeus) — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 20:43:00 +0100

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test title new 2 ladridos

clara@iwith.org (Clara Garcia) — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 10:58:00 +0100

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test title new 1 recursos

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test title new 2 recursos

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Again and Again: Playing Go

noreply@blogger.com (RBerenguel) — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 21:28:00 +0100

I’ve been playing the game of Go (also known as weiqi or baduk) on and off for almost 10 years. In case you don’t know, Go is a board game with very old roots, that can be traced back to at least 2500 years ago, probably a lot more. Very popular in Japan (known as Go or Igo), Korea (baduk) and China (weiqi), it has been slowly spreading among the west during the last century. It is featured in the movies Pi and A beautiful mind, for example.

For some odd reason, every autumn I decide I want to play again, and I pick up playing only for it to wane after a while. As every year, I hope this is the last and I keep on playing. What has this game that is so appealing?

Go is a beautiful game. If you are anything into programming, it's like the Lisp of board games. Lisp (at the core McCarthy sketched) is so simple that it is almost like it was discovered more than developed or invented. Likewise, Go is probably one of the simplest games you can define, yet it hides a deepness that is astonishing.

I used to be a chess player back in my early teen years and there was something that always bothered me: why are chess rules so arbitrary? Why does the knight jump in an L shape and no other piece jumps? Why is the rook placed on the sides? I was unsatisfied with these arbitrary rules. In addition to this, even as a very, very early amateur, you could get nowhere without either killer move reading (anticipating moves is usually called reading in the board game lingo) or a quite decent knowledge of some openings. In my days, I settled for the Indian openings, by the way (which then could be stretched into the Catalan opening, which I also used very often).

After giving up chess due to lack of time and drive, I discovered Go, a game where the rules are kind of natural. Although there are some kind of openings close to the sense of chess (known as joseki, which means fixed pattern), they are not fundamental until you are quite a decent amateur, and even yet, are not essential.

For a long time I was member (also was vice-president, accountant and maybe even president for some days) of the club in my maths faculty, where we taught many peope the game. Lack of time and a persistent avoidance of playing, moved me away from the game. Why was I avoiding playing? Fear of competition, fear of losing, fear of making stupid moves and looking stupid. These are feelings I still have, even 10 years later. Slightly less: failing and doing stupid things cures you from this.

This autumn, just a few days after I had joined the baduk subreddit, one of the admins there started a tournament, and I found it perfect to get me playing. So I registered, removing two ranks from what I remembered was my rank. In Go, ranks start at 30 kyu, and progress towards 1 kyu, afterwards you get 1 dan and progress towards 9 dan (there is nothing beyond 9 dan). The rank I remembered (in the online server KGS) was 12k, a rank I held for a long time, and accordingly set my new rank as 14k.

What I did not remember was the fact that KGS had undergone a rank shift. I don't remember the details, but it had something to do with moving the peak of the normal distribution of ranks. After this rank shift (and probably a little improvement while I didn't play) I got to be 6k for a while, maybe even more for short while due to rank drift. What rank drift? When you play a game against a player and win, if the player improves your rank improves accordingly (the effect fades after a certain time, but carries some weight). Since I was playing very little, I was subject to very strong drift effects.

And this is the story of how I have started playing again, and what is this thing called Go. Maybe I'll write more about the game, maybe not. If you are a subscriber you already know how my interests shift from time to time... But I always come back to the basics!

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Impressions del II Congrés Europeu del Voluntariat.

ramon@iwith.org (Ramon Bartomeus) — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 15:46:00 +0100

Aquesta setmana estem immersos en el II Congrés Europeu del Voluntariat, i és una bona ocasió per compartir algunes impressions, doncs com deia la Directora Violant Cervera “aquest ha de ser un congrés diferent i ha de servir per alguna cosa”.

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Time Tracking Like There Is No Tomorrow (with Javascript and HTML5)

noreply@blogger.com (RBerenguel) — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 12:08:00 +0100

A few weeks ago I found out the awesome time tracking setup that Sacha Chua has in her homepage. Although I'm a regular at her blog and I follow her RSS feed, I had not seen it "live" yet. My inner geek yelled "gimme gimme" and I asked her what mobile software is she using for time tracking. Sadly (well, sadly), it is Android only app. Oh well. I don't want another device. So how can I track my time always, when the only thing I have always with me is either an iPad Touch or an iPad?

There is a problem with the App Store. Usually, as the advertisement says there's an app for that. The problem is that I'm very picky. I want an app that does exactly this and that, but I don't care about this other fluff or this nice buzzword.

I asked myself what I wanted for a time tracking app. In the end, I want just one thing: timestamps and subjects. Nothing else. Something that may look like:

20111105 2103 2125 blog

Simple, isn't it?

Date | start time | end time| subject

I don't need graphing, or aggregating, or Dropbox syncing, or any other such thing in my iPod Touch. I don't even need length, because this can be recomputed later. I can do all these things far more effectively with Python and R and/or Google Fusion tables in my computer, for example. I could even do it with Python and Gnuplot, or if I was truly desperate, awk and Gnuplot.

Now, the funny thing is that even if I don't have a developer account with Apple, or iOS development knowledge (yet), there's a quick way to create a program that does exactly this for my iDevices (in fact, for almost any device with a browser).

HTML5+Javascript (using localStorage and cache mode). Simple, isn't it? Now I have a small app to track my time in my iPod Touch. Just a few lines of Javascript and a few buttons:

A button to timestamp, press it again to end the timestamp
A button to dump all the data from localStorage and show on screen
A button to clear the data from localStorage
A button to mail the data

Nothing else. Nothing more.

Each time the timestamp button is pressed, a nicely formatted string gets saved into localStorage, making sure everything works even when I lose the local cache copy due to refreshes. The dump data button is to know what I have already logged, before mailing. And of course, even if 5MB is quite a lot, I don't want to fill it so I need to clean up when I send.

For now, I need to refactor the code before posting it. I finished it in two batches of 20 minutes, and in the second I gave up on refactoring, and clean a little the functionality. But it's simple and it works, I have already tracked more than a week of data. Now I only need to find the time to write the analysing code. So far I have a Python function to generate the spans from the time stamps, but I'm still not sure how I want to analyse everything. If I want to generate aggregate data from Python (I'm more fluent) or in R (more versatile, and I will do the graphing here).

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El voluntariat, a fons

ramon@iwith.org (Ramon Bartomeus) — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:55:00 +0100

Un reportatge de xarxanet.org aprofundeix en els principals temes del II Congrés Europeu del Voluntariat

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Com crear una estratègia eficaç de social media?

ola@bocatics.org (Ola Zemke) — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 13:08:00 +0100

La creació i gestió de continguts on line mai no ha estat tan complicat. Facebook, Google +, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, blogs .... Quines eines de social media cal triar per tenir una estratègia eficaç de social media?

Seguir llegint... Com crear una estratègia eficaç de social media?

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You are so biiiiiig!

http://fatou-the-cat.tumblr.com/ (Fatou the Cat) — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 15:00:05 +0100

I’m the great dictator of this homeland called… well, home.

But I should recognize that sometimes I feel like a liiittle and small thing compared with the big size of my followers…

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Strawberry Cat

http://fatou-the-cat.tumblr.com/ (Fatou the Cat) — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:11:27 +0100

I HATE Halloween. No more words needed.

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The Small Hand, Susan Hill

shanidar@shanidar.net (Shanidar .) — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 21:48:00 +0100

Un vespre d'estiu, un venedor de llibres antics agafa un camí equivocat anant a visitar uns clients i acaba en una casa gairebé en ruïnes. Tot i que sap que no hauria de ser allà i que s'està fent fosc, no pot evitar acostar-se a la porta i mentre mira embadocat l'entrada nota clarament com una mà infantil li agafa els dits... només que allà no hi ha cap nen. No hi ha ningú.

Una casa vella, un jardí abandonat, un fantasma infantil...
Típics i tòpics elements d'un llibre de por, que promet pell de gallina... però que queda en allò que podia haver estat.

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A reveure Madeira

(hatshet) — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 13:59:47 +0100

L’últim dia del viatge ens vam quedar a Funchal i el vam utilitzar per provar el vi de Madeira a Blandy’s, on ens van fer un recorregut per les bodegues i provar una de les varietats, la de Malvasia. El … Continue reading →

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