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A algunos les cuesta trabajo identificar para qué son los blogs, a los narcos no.
Antonio Martínez Luna tiene los días contados,
Al menos eso dicen en Youtube, una herramienta habitual de los narcos.
El vídeo, de 54 segundos y a ritmo de corrido, muestra fotos del procurador de Baja California y le advierte que morirá por lo que ha hecho. Lo vinculan con el Cartel de Sinaloa.
Vía EBRmx
12/12/06
08:16:29, by juan 
, 17 words, 168 views 
Categories: Artículos, Blogs, medios y política, México, Política, México
Entrevista con Víctor Hernández
Otra Tele entrevistó a Víctor Hernández, creador del sitio web de el Sendero del Peje.
09/01/06
06:23:35 pm, by juan , 557 words, 783 views 
Categories: Blogs, medios y política, México, Política, México
State of Blogging in Mexico after the 2006 Election
My blogging adventure started outside of my country, actually while living in Brasil. I can easily say that the whole blogging phenomenon was not very well known to me until I moved to the largest country in South America. Brasil is one of the countries that has at points in time being highlighted as one of the top blogging countries. In fact, Brasil is one of the top countries of social networking sites and sites like Linked In and Orkut are quite popular here.
Blogging in Mexico was not as common when I moved to Brasil more than a year ago. Few blogs were found back then and many had a somehow modest production behind them. In addition to that, blogs did not had large audiences as they did in other countries in which blogging were already booming in full swing. A few initiatives, like the BlogsMexico directory was already there helping get the emerging Mexican blogosphere get developed.
But everything was changed with the Mexican Presidential Election of 2006. The race was very close, even months before the election. People from the different parties and political current saw blogs as a primary vehicle to express their ideas. Blogging became the megaphone that helped ordinary people speak their minds and support their candidates. Blogging in Mexico after the 2006 election was changed forever.
In many senses the changes were very positive, as blogs arrived and filled a space that large media was not filling. In many cases some bloggers devoted many hours to produce very high quality materials. The reason behind this was simple, many were following their passion and therefore the time and effort they dedicated was very significant.
In my particular case, as a Mexican living abroad, I started to get more and more interested on the election months before the election took place. A simple query opened up my eyes that blogs were really taking off. As I was looking for the survey results about the election, I struggled to find the information in the newspaper sites. Most quoted their own polls and it was very hard to find somebody that did a good job of showing all of them in one place. I found a blog that did just that and had all of the surveys under a tag called “encuestas”. I continued following blogs and found voices that allowed me to form my opinion and that complemented the newspapers and other sites nicely.
For me it is clear that the Election was the killer application for Mexican blogs. However, I think that those independent and authoritative voices will continue to play a role on shaping the future of my country. Many of them actually continue to do so.
The main challenge that I see with Mexican blogging is to transition out of the current political stage that was heavily polarized between the left and right (as the country was). If bloggers want to continue to be credible post election, many of them need to leave the partisan hats they wore during the election and continue to play a role simply as Mexicans. Mexicans that go beyond a political tag and that dare to be themselves and blog accordingly. This upcoming transition in the Mexican blogosphere will be a key one to continue to have a strong voice in shaping the future of the country.
08/02/06
México: la batalla de los renegados
Héctos Díaz Polanco menciona en relación a la lucha electoral en los nuevos medios (blogs):
"habría que ponderar la importancia de los “blogs” (entre los que destaca el irreverente El sendero del peje: senderodelpeje.com). Estos medios contribuyeron a fortalecer la idea de que se había urdido un fraude, proporcionaron una abundante información sobre el proceso y establecieron una relación crucial entre ciudadanos y organizaciones civiles de todo tipo."
Miles de direcciones de blogs relacionados con elecciones
Mexico ads playing up candidates
Para los extranjeros que disfrutan y padecen la Ciudad de México y además por razones profesionales tienen que seguir la guerra mediática y fuera de los medios entre Calderón y AMLO:
"The fiercest and funniest attacks have come in the form of homemade videos distributed on Internet sites like YouTube.com. In one, Barney the dinosaur and a chorus of children sing a profanity-laden ditty taunting López Obrador. Another video, this one anti-Calderón, offers a primer on 'How To Commit Electronic Vote Fraud.'" afirma Chris Hawley
07/25/06
13:19:09, by juan , 85 words, 215 views Categories: México, América Latina, Política, Iberoamérica, México
Balam Blog de Manuel Mandujano
Manuel Mandujano escribe desde 1987 sobre los mercados de las tecnologías de información y comunicaciones (TIC). Ahora, desde febrero de 2006 edita Compuchannel, revista mensual centrada en el negocio de los canales de distribución de América Central y el Caribe. De ahí la oportunidad de analizar los mercados de esas regiones. En México, creó y dirigió durante 12 años la Sección de Computación del diario Excelsior, la primera de ese país en un periódico de circulación nacional.
07/24/06
POLL NUMBERS!!!
From around the region, nearly every major newspaper picked up on this list of polls from Consulta Mitofsky. Every few months the polling firm collects presidential approval numbers from around Latin America and arranges them in a list from top to bottom. Being that the polls were all done by different firms with different methodologies, the list is not completely accurate. However, people like lists and the media likes to say "President Bachelet is the tenth most popular president in the region," even though that ranking really means nothing. This list received more coverage than most polls and despite my criticisms is worth reading.
In Mexico, a poll from Reforma (English info here and here) said 60% believe that a full recount is not necessary. In the "never going to happen" hypothetical second round, Calderon leads AMLO 46-33. A poll from Cronica de Hoy says 56% of Mexicans believe Calderon won and about the same number believe there should be no full recount.
In Nicaragua, a poll from Investigaciones Centroamericanas has the race Ortega 40, Rizo 21, Pastora 19, Montealegre 8. One question I thought was interesting: when asked who is the most honest candidate the results were Pastora 40, Ortega 27, Rizo 24, Montealegre 6. Pastora was polling 1% two months ago. This election still has plenty of time to tip a variety of different ways.
In Ecuador, former President Gutierrez will not be allowed to run and businessman Noboa dropped out of the race, shaping up the presidential field a bit. A new poll with the reduced number of candidates has Roldos 31%, Viteri 21%, Correa 13%.
In Venezuela, a poll from Hinterlaces has Chavez winning 55% of the vote. However, the same poll says that nearly half the population refuses to place themselves in the pro-Chavez or pro-opposition camp.
In Brazil, Datafohla has the race Lula 44, Alkmin 28. Vox Populi has the race Lula 42, Alkmin 32. Randy has a Brazilian friend give some analysis of the race here.
Finally, in the final Apoyo poll in Peru during his term, President Toledo ends with 33% popularity. For someone who spent most of his term fighting to stay in double digits, that's not too bad.
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Google presentó una herramienta que permite a los usuarios de Gmail crear su propia página personal. El servicio llamado Google Pages esta basado en la tecnología de publicación Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript And XML) y permite en pocos segundos poner una página online, aunque con algunas limitaciones.
- LIBROS GRATUITOS de Economía, Derecho y otras Ciencias Sociales
- Lucha en la blogosfera
senderodelpeje.blogspot.com
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felipe-calderon.org
segúna Alexa
- Paper: The Structure of Collaborative Tagging Systems
By means of You're It! I found this interesting paper, that analyzes tagging patterns on del.icio.us.
- Seven principles of social networking
An interesting disgression by Dave Pollard.
- The Feature Archives (2001-2005)
38 Articles by Howard Rheingold
- WebDosBeta: Jornada sobre Web 2.0
Jornada sobre blogs, sindicación, podcasts, Ajax, APIs, redes sociales, folksonomías, internet móvil...
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México tiene al menos tres oportunidades para ascender del 7° lugar del mercado offshore outsourcing de TIC: Select
- Futo...comprar y vender en España
- Technology Business Accelerator
Programa de Secretaría de Economía administrado por la Fundación México-Estados Unidos para la Ciencia para dar apoyo a Empresas Mexicanas de Alta Tecnología.
Proximamente: Inauguración TechBA Austin el día 5 de diciembre, 2005Interesante Tutorial:
Conoce como puede estar lista tu empresa para el Mercado Global con el Tutorial "Getting Ready for the Global Market" - Valley-Mexico mentoring grooms firms for growth
By Matt Marshall
Mercury NewsWhen Alberto Herrera started his own tech company in Tijuana two years ago, he was confident he had the knowledge to take on the risk.
His team had worked at Panasonic's office in the Mexican border city and had the technical expertise to craft a new kind of wireless sensor network -- one that can be used for hotel room key cards and turn on the heating system once a customer has entered his or her room.
But Herrera didn't have contacts with venture capitalists and didn't know how to spiff up a business plan.
That changed last year, once his company, Medida, started working with the Mexico-Silicon Valley Technology Business Accelerator (TechBA for short) in San Jose, funded by an annual $6 million grant from the Mexican government.
TechBA assigned a special adviser to Medida, to mentor it in Silicon Valley's arcane ways.
The help is part of an effort by the Mexican government to jump-start its technology economy -- in part through better connections to leading tech centers like Silicon Valley and their entrepreneurial cultures and practices.
Mexico's domestic information technology and software market totals more than $3 billion a year and has 2,095 companies, according to its economics ministry.
Mexico exports about $400 million in technology services each year to the United States, about half in business process outsourcing, half in software outsourcing. But Mexico wants to do more than supply its northern neighbor with a cheap source of labor, says Jorge Zavala, chief executive of TechBA. ``The question is, how do we switch from low value-added services and move into information technology?''
The goal of TechBA, he said, is to help create Mexican companies that own their own technology, and to export $5 billion in technology and other services by 2012.
In Herrara's case, TechBA appointed a mentor -- Adolpho Nemirosky, an Argentine entrepreneur who has worked in the valley's semiconductor and telecom industries for 13 years. He had co-founded a venture-backed company, Xtreme Logic, and was eager to help others. He is paid a stipend by TechBA.
His help has already gone a long way. Nemirosky taught Herrera how to make an elevator pitch -- that is, a two- to five-minute synopsis of his company, tailored for impatient investors. He advised him to focus on specific areas, such as sensor systems for hotels and for entertainment software. And he took Herrera to meet with some professors at the University of California-Berkeley, where Herrera was able to secure a technology adviser.
To top it off, Nemirosky groomed Herrera to present to venture capitalists Tuesday evening at an event hosted by TechBA and an angel group called Silicom Ventures. Besides the investors, a live audience of more than 200 people looked on. And Herrara performed well enough that three of four venture capitalists invited him to talk with them further. ``I'm very pleased with him,'' Nemirosky said of his protege.
Currently, 40 companies participate in the TechBA program, and the group recently announced its first tangible success: Mexican company JackBe. The company, which has created Web sites for Sears and Citigroup's Mexico operations, raised $6.5 million in venture capital funding in November -- the first Mexican tech company to raise venture capital from the United States, according to TechBA's Zavala.
There are other signs of late that the U.S. venture capital market is waking to not only to Mexico, the world's ninth largest economy, but also to the fast-growing Hispanic market in this country.
Sausalito venture firm Sienna Ventures is now raising $100 million for its newest fund to focus on the Hispanic market.
Herrera's company, Medida, meanwhile, is expanding in the United States. It has $1 million in revenue after a year's work, 10 employees and an office in San Jose, where employees can drop in from Tijuana. Silicon Valley is a good place to develop contacts for customers, said Herrera.
``We've gained visibility that would otherwise be very hard to get,'' he said.
One of his customers is XaviX, which makes interactive sports games and also has offices in San Jose. Medida provides XaviX wireless sensors for its newest fly-fishing game -- where the sensor detects when game players flick their wrists and feeds information back to the game.
Mexico is just the latest country trying to develop a network here in Silicon Valley.
Gadi Behar, managing director of Israeli-focused Silicom Ventures, has reached out to groups from Canada, Argentina, Brazil, the Netherlands and Hawaii, offering help such as crash courses on Silicon Valley's business culture. ``They all want access to Silicon Valley,'' agreed Michelle Messina, a public relations professional who has also helped companies in these groups.
Contact Matt Marshall at 408-920-5920 or via his blog at www.SiliconBeat.com© 2006 MercuryNews.com and wire service sources. All Rights Reserved.
http://www.siliconvalley.com - What Are Google AdWords
A nice article Sebastian found and sent.
Software development
- AJAX y Wiki
Leyendo el blog de webmaster.com.mx me encontre una liga a este sitio que es un bonito ejemplo de AJAX porque es la implementación de una Wiki usando AJAX y todo en un sólo archivo HTML.
(Technorati Tags: AJAX wiki del.icio.us Tags: ajax wiki)
- Cursos de Lenguajes de programación
De más accesibles a más importantes
http://web.cs.wpi.edu/~kfisler/Courses/2135/C04/
http://www.cs.utah.edu/classes/cs3520-mflatt/
http://www.cs.utah.edu/~mflatt/courses.html
http://www.cs.brown.edu/~sk/Work/Teaching/
http://www.cs.indiana.edu/l/www/classes/b521/
- Novell Missteps Not Affecting SuSE
By CowboyNeal on ridin'-the-storm-out
OSS_ilation writes "Analysts and users agree -- if the layoff rumors at Novell prove true sometime soon, SuSE Linux has nothing to fear. Over at SearchOpenSource.com the word is that the popular SuSE Linux operating system has both the community support and technical chops to weather any personnel-related storms that may be lingering on the horizon. However, the point is also made that should Novell go south, there are those who believe SuSE could prove to be an appealing acquisition target."
- Patterns and practices, not language
David Heinemeier Hansson (Ruby on Rails) explains and tries to tackle on the confussion many people have between language and pattern application.
Good reading if you believe that Java is the only scenario in which patterns are usable.
- The Portland birthday celebration for Rails
An interesting view of the way Rails is getting momentum.
Courses
- Novell Learning Center
Creo que deberíamos familiarizarnos con este material antes de embarcarnos más a fondo en la aventura de dar servicios alrededor de Novell.
Interesting blogs
- Finding Signals in the Noise
Finding Signals in the Noise
Digg, Memeorandum, Findory, Blogniscient, and other startups promise to manage news overload on the Web.Few would dispute that we live in an age of information overload. In the last few years alone, blogs have increased the torrent of information each day to unmanageable levels.
This would explain, then, why a corresponding torrent of startups has surfaced recently to help us filter, manage, and control this flood of information. Some rely on insightful algorithms that understand popularity to filter the news, while others rely on the preferences of readers. - Big Media, Little Blogosphere
There aren't yet enough quality pages to satisfy advertisers' hunger for a blog presence
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