tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43362046529937110152024-02-19T04:27:47.012+01:00The Soundtrack of my PhDana waksberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03592620907265901547noreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4336204652993711015.post-20205847192159130582016-04-13T12:36:00.005+01:002016-07-05T15:05:51.591+01:00<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">O depósito foi em novembro passado, depois de quase desistir e de muitas reviravoltas. A defesa, naquele auditório vazio, mas onde já assisti aulas de Manuel Castells, Pekka Himanen, Hellen Margetts, Richard Stallman, Wiebe Bijker... E, depois de conseguir voltar a ela e revisá-la, encontrei a parte que mais me interessa em mais de 250 páginas. Daqui pra frente minhas pesquisas serão sobre isso:</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">This type of participation based on big data about
services requests, complaints, suggestions and use may be different on
intention and content from direct participation processes. When a citizen
contacts a service attention centre the message is usually one of complaint –
“I cannot make an appointment with the doctor in the health centre” – while
when she participates in defining priorities in, for instance, a participative
budget process, the message more often takes the form of a suggestion – “the
municipal government needs to hire more doctors in my neighbourhood”. However when large sets of data of both
requests, complaints, suggestions and patterns of use are aggregated and
interpreted, the results for policy making and/or service improvement might be
the same – “more investment in human resources in the health sector in region
X”. </span></span></span></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Nonetheless, it is important to note that when governments decide to use
citizen feedback to guide their service delivery and, as in the case of Rio,
incentivize public servants in achieving performance targets for specific
services, one must reflect on the role of this technology-mediated
participation. Are citizens aware that their individual requests, complaints
and suggestions about services are, aggregately starting to be used to
restructure public services but also redirect public policies and investments?
<b>By placing efforts in improving electronic channels to expand participation
regarding public services, public managers may be moving towards a model of
participation that favours higher volumes of unmediated suggestions, since
citizens may communicate directly with governments, instead of through
organized social movements, not for profits, etc. or voice their opinion only
during elections; the relationship to government may become individualized and
then depolitized. Therefore, the role of interpreting citizens’ needs and priorities
becomes more relevant and that responsibility might shift from civil society
organizations and politicians to government technical staff. </b> </span></span></span></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The 1746, for
instance, is already guiding the city planning and investment processes when
associating Departmental performance to the Municipality Target-Driven Plan,
showing that this participation system may be going beyond a simplistic service
attention centre. It seems inevitable that this type of participation system,
with the aid of electronic means, requires the definition of protocols and
standardization of categories for the participation process in order to
transform the potential vast number of suggestions into input for
policy-making. By doing so, it also becomes easier to be constantly transparent
and continuously accountable about the inputs received and the actions taken
upon them, closing the feedback loop.</span></span></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Clearly, expanding electronic participation and feedback
systems can foster service enhancement, interdepartmental collaboration, as
well as technical decision-making and continuous accountability, less attached
to the formal processes of elections. Nevertheless, more investigation needs to
be carried out about whether citizens feel rightly interpreted and politically
represented on this model of unmediated participation based on vast amounts of
data. What needs to be further investigated is whether electronic feedback
models may improve some of the acknowledged deficits of present representative
democracy, such as political legitimacy, or may on the contrary worsen
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<![endif]-->ana waksberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03592620907265901547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4336204652993711015.post-91192171047658074142011-06-17T23:30:00.012+01:002011-06-28T21:19:00.183+01:00Show Me the Data<div style="text-align: justify;">"So many things that I'd like to know<br />
Come have a talk with me<br />
I need a sign, something I can see<br />
Why all the mystery?<br />
I try not to fall for make believe<br />
But what is reality?<br />
Where do we go?<br />
What do we know?<br />
Life has to have a meaning<br />
Show me the light<br />
Show me the way<br />
Show that you're listening"<br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> (John Legend)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
trecho da tesinha: "The quest for transforming the vast quantity of data generated by online interactions into information and knowledge about customers has become paramount for the private sector. At the micro-level, there are several web analysis tools that have become exponentially more sophisticated and offer several complex resources. At the macro-level, and outside the e-commerce world, “<a href="http://webscience.org/">Web Science</a>” intends to understand how the web works through a systems approach - "<a href="http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2008/7/5366-web-science/fulltext">to model the Web as a whole, keep it growing, and understand its continuing social impact</a>". For instance, from a computational perspective (e.g. semantic web), one can go by analysing how social coordination and collaboration systems can lead to the emergence of large-scale, coherent resources such as Wikipedia, or from a social science perspective, by studying how digital records of network use could be used to understanding the sociological aspects of the Web.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> <br />
In the public sector, the tendency of reorganising and reutilising data with the aid of ICTs has become more visible with the rise of “open government", a practice that gives civil society the choice to use public data as need and curiosity arise, increasing transparency and political trust. However in this research I instead look at governments and ask, as the private sector already does for different purposes, whether they are using data about citizens' interaction with their governments – for instance by giving their opinion about services - and about their patterns of electronic services use, with the goal of improving service delivery." </div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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E de choppinho com @s amig@s.ana waksberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03592620907265901547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4336204652993711015.post-35749099354796473862011-05-27T02:50:00.000+01:002011-05-27T02:50:01.926+01:00Entre Emusic e JazzDepois de mais de um ano, volto a escrever. Estou realmente nos momentos ultra duper finais dessa coisa que should not be named. Eu desgosto cada vez mais de escrever, mas acho que é normal. Semana passada estava relendo os primeiros capítulos, teóricos, e até que eles não ficaram mal, viu? Dá pra escrever uns artiguinhos de divulgação legais. Não vou mais publicar em journals fechados porque ninguém que ME interessa lê mesmo. <br />
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A reflexão dos últimos meses é que, se eu tinha alguma dúvida, sei que o mundo acadêmico não é pra mim. Meu ego intelectual é grande demais para ser acadêmica - é tanta preocupação com tudo que demoro muito pra terminar pesquisas. A gente tem que saber reconhecer quando algo não é pro nosso bico, mesmo que seja interessante e atraente. Em compensação, quando ponho a mão na massa tenho uma ansiedade imensa por ver resultados; o ego vai embora e é subsituído pelo<i> thrill </i>de ver as coisas acontecendo. Arrepia. Outro dia saiu uma notícia de que um <a href="http://www.jusbrasil.com.br/politica/6921724/prefeitura-lanca-sistema-de-fiscalizacao-eletronica-que-aumenta-eficiencia-e-transparencia">projeto no qual eu estive profundamente envolvida em 2005 finalmente saiu na prefeitura de São Paulo</a>. É muita felicidade! É isso aí que gosto de fazer!<br />
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E ultimamente ouço jazz, na <a href="http://accujazz.com/">AccuJazz</a>, quando estou em momento tese, e Emusic, quando estou numa vibe mais Yes, I can. Aqui tem uns sets fantásticos: http://www.killingbeats.com/blog/<br />
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e pra agora, uma do New Order remixada por um residente molt especial de Barcelona, Funk D'Void:<br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/EdNi1_e3yCE" width="425"></iframe>ana waksberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03592620907265901547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4336204652993711015.post-89778179823441025612010-01-22T18:15:00.000+01:002010-01-22T18:15:55.105+01:00The Day That I Feel Intelligent (or the Days that I write in Portuguese)Every time I need to write something more analytical (and not just filling in sentences with examples and well known facts) I write in Portuguese first. It's faster, and I feel freer to play with words and concepts. Today is one of those days and I feel so damn intelligent all of a sudden :). I can't wait to go back to writing in my native tongue again. <br />
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I avoided as long as I could learning how to use yet another software, but at 7pm today, after spending another day struggling with logical ideas and hierarchies of concepts, I made the call and chose <a href="http://www.insilmaril.de/vym/">View Your Mind </a>over <a href="http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page">FreeMind</a> simply because VYM is *really* easy to use. Very importantly, both are free, and run on Ubuntu (in fact I got them in the Ubuntu Software Centre).<br />
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Ok, it saved my life. Really. I've always needed to build a conceptual map of my arguments before writing, but it was becoming nearly impossible to do that by hand with that huge amount of information. Every time I had to change one argument I lost track of all the others. It used to be a nightmare... but now it's FUN!<br />
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So, "<a href="http://thesoundtrackofmyphd.blogspot.com/2009/11/gravity-or-cmon-keep-me-where-light-is.html">Gravity</a>" no longer in my spirit, just Glee :)<br />
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<b><a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9d28q_glee-dont-stop-believe_shortfilms">Glee - Don't Stop Believe</a></b><br />
<i>Cargado por <a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/Bugabookas">Bugabookas</a>. - <a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/es/channel/shortfilms">Mira más videos de TV y películas.</a></i><br />
</div>ana waksberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03592620907265901547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4336204652993711015.post-67319455614861313162009-11-29T22:33:00.000+01:002009-11-29T22:33:41.194+01:00Gravity (or C'mon keep me where the light is)Winter is almost here and I am still struggling with the first chapter. It's probably because I know this chapter means a lot more than just what it is - the first. It sets the tone for the whole lot coming ahead of me. Kind of scary.<br />
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Gravity - John Mayer<br />
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Gravity is working against me<br />
And gravity wants to bring me down<br />
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Oh I'll never know what makes this man<br />
With all the love that his heart can stand<br />
Dream of ways to throw it all away<br />
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Oh Gravity is working against me<br />
And gravity wants to bring me down<br />
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Oh twice as much ain't twice as good<br />
And can't sustain like a one half could<br />
It's wanting more<br />
That's gonna send me to my knees<br />
[repeat]<br />
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Oh gravity, stay the hell away from me<br />
And gravity has taken better men than me (now how can that be?)<br />
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Just keep me where the light is<br />
Just keep me where the light is<br />
Just keep me where the light is<br />
C'mon keep me where the light is<br />
C'mon keep me where the light is<br />
Oh... where the light is! [repeat]ana waksberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03592620907265901547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4336204652993711015.post-85057151436647096212009-11-06T02:35:00.000+01:002009-11-06T02:35:31.634+01:00Bon IverThis will probably be my last winter in Barcelona... time to wrap things up - the thesis, but mostly a period of my life that is actually already gone...<br />
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I am feeling very Brazilian today, so I decided to make two playlists of Brazilian music, one in <a href="spotify:user:awaksberg:playlist:1SpKHDOLeioSZ36UPpEzg6">Spotify</a>, one in <a href="http://www.deezer.com/music/playlist/brazilian-groove-30934523">Deezer</a> (I found more songs in Spotify, but their service is not available in most countries). No bossa-nova, no carnival music. I started with some samba-rock, traditional samba, a touch of forró and bit of your typical MPB, but always with some groove.<br />
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Enjoy! <br />
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<div id="dz_ref" style="font-family: Arial; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">Discover the playlist <a href="http://www.deezer.com/en/music/playlist/Brazilian%20Groove-30934523" target="_blank">Brazilian Groove</a> with <a href="http://www.deezer.com/en/music/trio-mocoto" target="_blank">Trio Mocoto</a></div>ana waksberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03592620907265901547noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4336204652993711015.post-69608402521785236812009-08-23T10:25:00.009+01:002009-08-25T23:44:54.843+01:00who the frak is kara?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidy7FnPIaHz3n2qSHoC8JF1Innyqb-jGw1tDjgkCe2VSCPR8afBAyMl3AnAvv-nQnPpqDg6cjp58WmJYYknEX-rkgSP1VEXdbmW56QwTcSrjxLtcFD9Bn55dzjpsAZ3E9TDlPoT5yeGnK6/s1600-h/kara_thrace.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 225px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidy7FnPIaHz3n2qSHoC8JF1Innyqb-jGw1tDjgkCe2VSCPR8afBAyMl3AnAvv-nQnPpqDg6cjp58WmJYYknEX-rkgSP1VEXdbmW56QwTcSrjxLtcFD9Bn55dzjpsAZ3E9TDlPoT5yeGnK6/s320/kara_thrace.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373088667232658306" border="0" /> </a>It doesn't really matter, I just miss her, I miss Starbuck, I miss her nervous laugh and kick ass attitude. I miss the whole crew at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlestar_Galactica_%282004_TV_series%29">Battlestar Galactica</a>. They became sort of my family twice in the last year. During my 6-week field work in Québec in October/November 2008 I watched the first three seasons of BSG at once. They were my only friends in a pretty, but already too cold city where I didn't know anyone. Back in Barcelona I watched the first half of the fourth season eagerly awaiting for the finale to start in April 2009. Besides the amazing stories about-all-the-grand-themes-of-our-lives being told, I fell completely in love with the<a href="http://www.imeem.com/people/jscIBq/playlist/OOAVLCQJ/bsg-battlestar-galactica-soundtrack-music-playlist/"> soundtrack</a>. Created by Richard Gibbs (the pilot mini-series only) and Bear McCreary, the ethnically-influenced music fits perfectly with the space-opera that BSG is. Anyway, about three months ago finally<a href="http://dacamat.com.br/drupal/"> Dani</a> decided to watch it and I joined in. And again, it became part of my daily routine to philosophize about... why should I kill all the roaches that suddenly invaded our home with boric acid - in a slow genocidal fashion - if I thought humans should peacefully coexist with cylons?(we killed them btw) And now I feel a void, my family is gone again. Well, I'll wait for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caprica_(TV_series)">Caprica</a> and till then, listen to and sing along "...there's too much confusion, I can't get no relief...."<br />
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<object width="480" height="295"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/5RqYwOTJK-4&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x402061&color2=0x9461ca&hd=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/5RqYwOTJK-4&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x402061&color2=0x9461ca&hd=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="295"></embed></object>ana waksberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03592620907265901547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4336204652993711015.post-81701686608470696652009-08-22T23:57:00.004+01:002009-08-23T00:21:00.246+01:00scratching my thesis<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu0exCWic_bFoTVcPpmDoZRskvIJsWZzpyR9c4TJAk57SIUA2N4USScasjhYt1y3f2JqWJLF6L2oBtiSYFxUCggkKQ7hMyrrLHnfWuDkd72Uv6vwfSgZP4R-FAcAANSpLpBcQLovUQnBCi/s1600-h/mouseDJ.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 304px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu0exCWic_bFoTVcPpmDoZRskvIJsWZzpyR9c4TJAk57SIUA2N4USScasjhYt1y3f2JqWJLF6L2oBtiSYFxUCggkKQ7hMyrrLHnfWuDkd72Uv6vwfSgZP4R-FAcAANSpLpBcQLovUQnBCi/s320/mouseDJ.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372928598952298354" border="0" /></a><br />Maybe this <a href="http://www.djtechpro.com/product_detail.asp?product_id=337&sub_id=105">DJ mouse</a> can help me finish my PhD! DJing my thesis... sounds good!<br /><br />via <a href="http://digitaldrops.com.br/drops/2009/08/dj-mouse-seus-loops-nunca-mais-serao-os-mesmos.html#more-12695">digitaldrops</a>ana waksberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03592620907265901547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4336204652993711015.post-48011926727681585412008-08-04T23:27:00.003+01:002008-08-05T10:01:04.168+01:00Hey, ho, Holidays!In the last couple of months I lost touch with my blog - end of the semestre, loads to do, blah, blah, blah. Anyway, most people stop blogging when they are on holidays but, although I am not formally on holidays, I will have a bit more time to listen to music while *everyone else* in Spain, including the baker across the street, is enjoying a jolly good time on the beach or in the pyrenees. So let's start the "holiday" blogging with this :-) :<br /><br /><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ob6TTU1knUM&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ob6TTU1knUM&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></embed></object><br /><br />*dica do <a href="http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif">Jean Boechat </a>ana waksberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03592620907265901547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4336204652993711015.post-36759748128701476692008-05-23T10:43:00.003+01:002008-05-23T10:56:54.828+01:00Talk Nerdy to MeI just read a<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/23/opinion/23brooks.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=david+brooks&st=nyt&oref=slogin"> NYT article</a> (David Brooks) about the nerds and geeks taking over the world.<br /><br />"At first, a nerd was a geek with better grades. The word described a high-school or college outcast who was persecuted by the jocks, preps, frat boys and sorority sisters. Nerds had their own heroes (Stan Lee of comic book fame), their own vocations (Dungeons & Dragons), their own religion (supplied by George Lucas and “Star Wars”) and their own skill sets (tech support)."<br /><br />"Geeks not only rebelled against jocks, but they distinguished themselves from alienated and self-pitying outsiders who wept with recognition when they read “Catcher in the Rye.” If Holden Caulfield was the sensitive loner from the age of nerd oppression, then Harry Potter was the magical leader in the age of geek empowerment."<br /><br />"The jock can shine on the football field, but the geeks can display their supple sensibilities and well-modulated emotions on their Facebook pages, blogs, text messages and Twitter feeds. Now there are armies of designers, researchers, media mavens and other cultural producers with a talent for whimsical self-mockery, arcane social references and late-night analysis."<br /><br />"They can visit eclectic sites like <a href="http://kottke.org/" target="_">Kottke.org</a> and Cool Hunting, experiment with fonts, admire Stewart Brand and Lawrence Lessig and join social-networking communities with ironical names. They’ve created a new definition of what it means to be cool, a definition that leaves out the talents of the jocks, the M.B.A.-types and the less educated. In “The Laws of Cool,” Alan Liu writes: “Cool is a feeling for information.” When someone has that dexterity, you know it."<br /><p><br /></p>hmmmm... either i fit in those categories or i am surrounded by people who do...<br /><br />Dani gave me a t-shirt that says "talk nerdy to me".<br /><br />Well, leave you with Tina Fey, the queen of geekland (my hero). And she can actually sing!<br /><br /><object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/p12CtaEQRjk&hl=en"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/p12CtaEQRjk&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>ana waksberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03592620907265901547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4336204652993711015.post-15107757318262000822008-05-21T11:33:00.002+01:002008-05-21T11:50:08.761+01:00Fidelio!back by popular demand (i.e. <a href="http://tesisantitesis.wordpress.com/">Edgar</a> and <a href="http://digitaloging.blogspot.com/">Dani</a>)...<br /><br />so, on a break from our *very* important discussions about the usefulness of the concept of "practices" for our dissertations, I asked Edgar what has to be THE question of the decade: how come Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise couldn't have children and adopted two kids and *now* Tommy has a child with Katie Holmes and Nicole is pregnant of Keith Urban? Seriously, I don't get it!<br /><br />Leave you with a GREAT song by Chris Isaak, "Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing", which is on the soundtrack of "Eyes Wide Shut":<br /><br /><object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Fbpv7IUTm5k&hl=en"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Fbpv7IUTm5k&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>ana waksberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03592620907265901547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4336204652993711015.post-42948216676788260802007-04-13T13:12:00.000+01:002008-12-10T20:54:38.438+01:00Done With WritingWill be a DJ instead!<br />Tchau chicos!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkQsvXAeZ9Z-gA1QXgFlYJjg0zbHiYywPvwjjITLCArqvyPes5OPg0IOWnKsrG-XdF8QaPv2MHWLE2v7ZU84fsm-jncb2kPlK2dTpjXyc3M_GYMlpbuYSK0o9LxerGv8IHpCnAq9gR70IN/s1600-h/dock_dj.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkQsvXAeZ9Z-gA1QXgFlYJjg0zbHiYywPvwjjITLCArqvyPes5OPg0IOWnKsrG-XdF8QaPv2MHWLE2v7ZU84fsm-jncb2kPlK2dTpjXyc3M_GYMlpbuYSK0o9LxerGv8IHpCnAq9gR70IN/s320/dock_dj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5052885239583069090" border="0" /></a>ana waksberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03592620907265901547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4336204652993711015.post-81960533181272120062007-04-13T12:10:00.000+01:002008-12-10T20:54:38.610+01:00Elephant Sound<a href="http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/ballc/animals/elephant.html"></a>I would love to have this rug and everytime someone stepped on it, it could also make<a href="http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/ballc/animals/elephant.html"> this</a> sound.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc0ztlpcaDfhVGSgN7LySF5A8xyg_K11Va29C99izVTf3OrrylmjR0I4Ij_F7JFvoZJTPMNzL_ZS3Ch1RngFJpmtzSEmpQFc0bsAoe_HY3TktH2Dokiv9svJJNR1VDas_HhyphenhyphenJfRvf-vuc5/s1600-h/elephant+rug.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc0ztlpcaDfhVGSgN7LySF5A8xyg_K11Va29C99izVTf3OrrylmjR0I4Ij_F7JFvoZJTPMNzL_ZS3Ch1RngFJpmtzSEmpQFc0bsAoe_HY3TktH2Dokiv9svJJNR1VDas_HhyphenhyphenJfRvf-vuc5/s320/elephant+rug.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5052869983859233682" border="0" /></a>ana waksberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03592620907265901547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4336204652993711015.post-55390803619753801072007-04-12T23:38:00.000+01:002007-04-13T15:48:56.413+01:00Now I Know What Was MissingI am starting to feel that I *belong*.<br />Dani is starting to feel she belongs too.<br />We bought a doormat with a pink elephant drawing.<br />And a set of loudspeakers.<br />The house says "hello!"<br />Goldfrapp sings "Lovely Head".<br />Almost home :)ana waksberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03592620907265901547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4336204652993711015.post-13789899958865665612007-04-09T22:59:00.000+01:002007-04-09T23:26:22.728+01:00The Gossip: How did I miss them?Beth Ditto is cool. Even better, a cool lesbian. With curves!!! :D. She screams a bit too much for my ears, but hey, when I am drunk I just feel like jumping and boxing in the air when I listen to <span style="font-style:italic;">Standing in the Way of Control</span>. <br /><br />"The band's breakthrough song "Standing in the Way of Control" was written by Ditto as a response to her government's decision to deny gays the right to marriage in the U.S. "Nobody in the States was that surprised or shocked by what Bush did, but it made everyone I know feel helpless and cheated," Ditto says. "I wrote the chorus to try and encourage people not to give up. It's a scary time for civil rights, but I really believe the only way to survive is to stick together and keep fighting."" (Wikipedia)<br /><br />Standing in the way of control, we will live our liiiiiiives (liiiives, liiives, liiives, ooooouuuuuu, heeeeeeeeey)<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.myspace.com/gossipband">The Gossip</a><br /><br /><object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Y2WpbTAWKGo"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Y2WpbTAWKGo" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object><br /><br />I have to go back to <a href="http://www.salarazzmatazz.com/">Razzmatazz</a>, where the "children" go dance, the only place in Barcelona where they would play such songs... (we missed Cansei de Ser Sexy live last Friday, but it was worth it). I don't mind at all getting older, don't mind becoming a fake academic intellectual, but I want good music!!!! Tired of the 80s...ana waksberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03592620907265901547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4336204652993711015.post-15799886294892961792007-03-26T13:24:00.000+01:002007-03-26T13:30:51.410+01:00Off Topic: El Poder Justicero de los Blogs and Six Degrees of SeparationMyself, Dani, Adolfo, Edgar and Federica spent Carnival at Sitges and bad luck, xenofobia, brutality of the police, and unfairness put our friend Edgar in a really difficult legal situation. Read his Kafkian story <a href="http://tesisantitesis.wordpress.com/2007/02/22/kafka-en-carnaval/">here</a>. Anyway, this is his plea for any information, photograph, film of what happened that day, wich I put forward:<br /><br />La idea es la siguiente. Necesito conseguir cualquier material audiovisual (fotos, videos, audios) de la madrugada del 21 de febrero en la estación de RENFE de Sitges (Cataluña, España) y de las actuaciones policiales de esa noche. ¿Por qué? Porque “el proceso” (Kafkiano), entra en su segunda fase, la de defenderme del poder disciplinar. Entonces apelo a tres premisas teóricas y de paso pongo a prueba el poder de La Red para lograr una buena causa. Si hay alguien que tenga algo de este material, pueden enviarlo a: justiciabloggera (arroba) gmail.com Y si alguien quiere echarme la mano “espejeando” este post en su blog, pues se lo agradeceré infinitamente (no importa que no esté en España, ver la premisa 1).<br /><br />Premisa teórica 1<br /><br />“La teoría de los 6 grados de separación, se refiere a la idea de que, si una persona está a un “paso” de lejanía de cada persona que conoce, y dos “pasos” de cada persona que es conocida por cada persona que uno conoce, entonces, todas las personas que hay en la tierra, no están a más de seis “pasos” de mi” Via Wikipedia<br /><br />Premisa teórica 2<br /><br />La Red (en su versión mercantil de lujo: la Web 2.0), aparece como una nueva forma de percibir al Internet como una plataforma horizontal, democrática y “social”, con una “nueva arquitectura de participación-colaboración”, donde la persona importante: “eres tú”.<br /><br />Premisa teórica (utópica) 3<br /><br />El mundo es justo, las instituciones son sólidas, la solidaridad existe y el karma acaba por imponerse.<br /><br />Postdata teórica<br /><br />Como además ya todo el mundo tiene cámaras digitales, aunque sea en los móviles, pues…ana waksberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03592620907265901547noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4336204652993711015.post-76573531215064063102007-03-22T15:23:00.000+01:002007-03-22T15:28:56.712+01:00Ah... And Goldfrapp!<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/zS1ZAaVEodA"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/zS1ZAaVEodA" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object><br /><br /><object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/cuB255cSIEg"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/cuB255cSIEg" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>ana waksberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03592620907265901547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4336204652993711015.post-41089961613917466952007-03-22T15:06:00.000+01:002007-03-22T15:21:57.215+01:00The Blogger in MeTwo days ago I sent Dani a couple of Goldfrapp's video links to Dani, by email. How f* great is Alison? She asked me whether I blogged about this, I answered no, and she obviously told me that I need to incorporate the idea of blogging into my daily activities, such as listening to music. Can't work without music => can't work without blogging. Just like Edgar does, she said, he studies while blogging, he needs his blog to study, the blog needs his thesis, and so on... That was the whole idea about having a blog on the soundtrack of my phd, wasn't it? Hmmm... this stuff is complicated. I am used to using email, I grew up on email, not on blogs. It is just not natural to me. Will it be one day? (I sense some frustration here, Ana... why am I frustrated? Why do I NEED to blog?) Which brings me to an issue raised by <a href="http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/dutton/">Prof. Bill Dutton</a> on our PHD research seminar: why do we take face to face interaction as the ideal norm when studying online interactions and sociability? I replied that it is perhaps we need to wait for the next generation of researchers, who actually do not know what the dicotomy face-to-face x online relationships is. But we grew up with telephone calls, letters, and other media devices, he said, and we still privileged face to face interaction... oh well...ana waksberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03592620907265901547noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4336204652993711015.post-42440391676645153142007-03-12T10:36:00.000+01:002007-03-12T10:40:40.975+01:00Why Study???This one goes in Portuguese - <span style="font-style: italic;">2 Neurônio</span> are composed of three wonderful Brazilian women in their 30s, writing about... our world :) (women's)<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">02 Neurônio</span><br /><br />Jô Hallack, Nina Lemos, Raq Affonso<br />@ - 02neuronio@uol.com.br<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Estudar pra quê?</span></span><br /><br />VALE A pena estudar? Depende. Se você for mulher, talvez não. Quer dizer, financeiramente falando. Um estudo feito pelo Ibmec, em São Paulo, mostra que, quanto mais a mulher estuda, maior a diferença salarial dela em relação aos homens!<br />A pesquisa mostra que as mulheres com especialização ou pós-graduação ganham 37% menos do que os homens que fazem o mesmo trabalho e têm o mesmo currículo. Podemos ficar felizes. Afinal, em 1995 essa diferença salarial era ainda maior: 47%. Mas a verdade é que não dá para ficar feliz. Será que a gente ganha menos porque tem TPM? Será que é porque gostamos de roupa?<br />Ou alguma espécie de problema causado por pessoas que, quando estão perdidas na rua, pedem informação em vez de ficar dando voltas de carro?<br />Segundo os especialistas, isso acontece porque as mulheres entraram há menos tempo no mercado de trabalho. Com isso, têm menos experiência, portanto ganham menos. Se isso for realmente um motivo (duvidamos um pouco), as leitoras que estão fazendo vestibular vão se dar melhor que a gente. Afinal, daqui a cinco anos, provavelmente essa diferença vai diminuir. Mas, provavelmente, até lá eles vão inventar uma outra desculpa. E nós continuaremos... ferradas!<br />Uma outra coisa que os estudiosos falam é que a mulher tem que se ausentar por algum tempo para tirar a licença-maternidade, e isso explica a diferença salarial. Isso é um absurdo. Mulher não pode ter filho porque atrasa a carreira. Homem pode, porque ele não cuida da criança mesmo!<br />Socorro! Esse tipo de pesquisa nos faz ter algumas reflexões: as mulheres deveriam parar de ter filhos. Afinal, se coisas como amamentar fazem o seu salário ser menor, o mundo realmente não precisa mais de gente.<br />Outro ponto: quando as mulheres forem chefes, elas deveriam ter outros critérios para escolher seus funcionários. Por exemplo: se eles gostam de futebol. Se gostarem, estão fora. Afinal, se a gente tem que lidar com critérios bizarros na escolha do salário que pagam pra gente, também podemos dar o troco!<br />E o último critério: já que ganhamos menos, vamos inverter essa desvantagem em casa. Por isso, meninos, se preparem para lavar o banheiro! E se você é uma moça que está se preparando para o vestibular: querida, nosso objetivo não foi te desanimar. Estude. Mas depois chegue lá e grite "Viva lá revolución!".<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Momento de histeria</span><br /><br />Melhor inteligente sem grana do que rica burra neoliberalana waksberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03592620907265901547noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4336204652993711015.post-36396920473552918082007-03-11T22:27:00.000+01:002007-03-11T22:43:45.708+01:00Hide and SeekWhy do I (almost) always run away from the things that are most certain? Take this <a href="http://www.uoc.edu/press/wp-print.php?p=38">PhD seminar</a> I am taking for instance - the only two weeks I KNEW pretty well the subjects being discussed I did not contribute with anything, I did not finish the readings, I did not post any message. Why do I keep running away? Why can't I just stop being the seeker for once and become the finder?<br /><br />The Who - The Seeker<br /><br /><object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/CR-ZAnil_Mw"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/CR-ZAnil_Mw" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object><br /><br />I've looked under chairs<br />I've looked under tables<br />I've tried to find the key<br />To fifty million fables<br /><br />chorus:<br />They call me The Seeker<br />I've been searching low and high<br />I won't get to get what I'm after<br />Till the day I die<br /><br />I asked Bobby Dylan<br />I asked The Beatles<br />I asked Timothy Leary<br />But he couldn't help me either<br /><br />chorus<br /><br />People tend to hate me<br />'Cause I never smile<br />As I ransack their homes<br />They want to shake my hand<br /><br />Focusing on nowhere<br />Investigating miles<br />I'm a seeker<br />I'm a really desperate man<br /><br />I won't get to get what I'm after<br />Till the day I die<br /><br />I learned how to raise my voice in anger<br />Yeah, but look at my face, ain't this a smile?<br />I'm happy when life's good<br />And when it's bad I cry<br />I've got values but I don't know how or why<br /><br />I'm looking for me<br />You're looking for you<br />We're looking in at each other<br />And we don't know what to do<br /><br />chorusana waksberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03592620907265901547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4336204652993711015.post-56434232652592614522007-03-09T19:53:00.000+01:002007-03-09T20:14:21.480+01:00Louder than a Bomb!So I just got back from the <span style="font-style: italic;">Fostering Innovation in eGovernment</span> workshop at the IN3 in <a href="http://www.castelldefels.org/">Castelldefels</a> (where I happen to work), jointly organised by the <a href="http://www.uoc.edu/in3/esp/index.html">Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3)</a> and <a href="http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/">Oxford Internet Institute</a>. Yesterday some of us of both institutes had a closed workshop to discuss how we could colaborate in future projects. Anyway, some stuff was quite interesting - check the "transcription" of the workshop made by Ismael Peña at <a href="http://ictlogy.net/20070309-workshop-fostering-innovation-in-egovernment-part-i/">ICTlogy</a> - but I could not believe on how some people think that innovation is all... geeez, what was that thing about using SMS-Bomb to prevent crime? The idea was the following: police could send SMSs every 5 minutes to a stolen mobile phone, in other words, <span style="font-style: italic;">bombing </span>it with SMSs, with the intention of annoying the steeler so next time he/she (and others) would think twice before commiting the same crime... WHAT???? Is this eGovernment???<br /><br />TIGA - Louder than a Bomb<br /><br /><object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/1i7V8whTUOM"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/1i7V8whTUOM" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>ana waksberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03592620907265901547noreply@blogger.com3