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Sheikh Zayed and Sustainability

on July 05, 2018

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Newsification of the personal. The personalisation of the news

If you happen to assist to some of the many conferences in the newspaper and publishing industry, you will hear talks about the progressive demise of the print, the new paradigms of the news, and among the many themes, some solutions, most of them curtailed with the word customisation, curation, curated news for the busy reader. This model assumes you are a busy businessman that have no time for browsing a myriad of lines in big broadsheet pages. So the publisher will bring you, only what you want when you need it, personalised. News personalised for you.

Very much the way social media industries work nowadays, introducing to you in a casual form, asking your interest, hobbies, etc. etc. to cater the content you need in the best way for you. It happens to be the way of the most famous social media, Facebook. And it also occurs when you start in any social media network out of the blue. Basically, you say what do you like, where are you from, etc etc and then the network suggest you …

Dinner, a painting

Not long ago I delivered a painting to a client, who graciously asked for some words on what I had in mind when making the painting, and what was -if there was one- the subject (yes).
And as much as I am happy to explain my work and pleased when someone asks me to explain it, truth is, yet, writing about your own work is a difficult one, for many reasons, not the least because if you painted something is because it was the best way to express it, drawing the image in your mind and not writing and about it, since the very nature of both word and image is different.
The image is simultaneous, you can grasp it, literally, at a glance.
Text, on the contrary, is linear, successive, building sense trough sedimentary accumulation of words, sentences and more.
However, if we consider that writing about an image or drawing about a text is a futile attempt of recreation destined to failure, a translation betrayed by its own insecurities, then such an exercise gets to be for that ve…

Money, binary codes and imagination

Codes. Encoding is usually used in movies for encrypting purposes, as something must be hidden or protected, but nevertheless somebody, somewhere, needs to have the key to its interpretation; otherwise it is useless and,of course,meaningless. But the most critical use of the code is, paradoxically, to facilitate the transmission of information, by altering or formatting information/data of different nature to be shared to a convention. It is then that code needs to be shared-or protected, and they need the network effect -maybe limited, maybe not- to be influential. It is this ability to unify content making it somehow homogeneous that gives code its power, like packing and unpacking your clothes so you can travel. Because encoded information can travel, move and flow more smoothly. And that marks the appeal of the code. Societies evaluate in practice the usefulness of the codes, and then adopt them. The codes had crucial importance in the development of civilisation, such as when wri…

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