FOSS Mapping as Alternative Media: The Case of OpenStreetMap (Part 2)
In July of 2004, Steve Coast, a 24-year-old British computer scientist and entrepreneur, started OpenStreetMap (OSM) with the objective of creating a free edita...
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The Internet on Strike
Today, January 18th of 2012, the web goes dark in protest against #PIPA and #SOPA. Last time a strike happened in the internet was in 1996 when many sites went ...
Remixing El Caganer
Among the Catalan traditions that surprised me during the year I lived in Barcelona (2004), was the Caganer (literally translates: pooper, defecator), a popular...
Lambada, the Forbidden Dance
Many times in north America people confuse my last name with the name of a dance and a song that was popular in the 1990s and that had an infamous video that sh...
Understanding Globalization
Talking about globalization is certainly a common place nowadays. Everybody uses that word, from scholars to marketers, from politicians to journalists. It has ...