Paraguay takes a stand for Free, Open Source Software
Conatel (Comisión Nacional de Telecomunicaciones) -the regulatory body for radio and telecommunication in Paraguay- has issued on Feb. 13th a tender for the development and deployment (including training) of its STAF – Financial and Administrative Technical System. You can find it here. The big news is hidden inside the tender description, where the government officials have posed the condition for the new system to be developed using exclusively...
Tweet around the clock
What’s the perfect time and language to tweet? It basically depends on: “who do you want to reach?”. I started working at my tweeting schedule after reading this really handy article: http://twittertoolsbook.com/how-to-get-more-twitter-followers/ and, at point 15 (Tweet during peak times), I got to this fine analysis by Dan Zarrella about what’s the best time to send out messages on...
And what is good, Phaedrus, And what is not good — Need we ask anyone to tell us these things?
I decided to close this blog. I still think the idea was good, and -in fact- I plan to add “Chautauqua” as a category to the blog I plan to start soon this month, but I think I made some errors in evaluating the effort needed in order to run this space at the needed pace. The following dialogue, between me (SB) and Phaedrus (P) – a projection of my other self , closes the “series”. I may then use this space temporarily, but...
How singular!
The “technological singularity” (aka Singularity) is the hypothesis that, in a near future, the acceleration of technology will give birth to new forms of intelligence, artificial. Humans will then disappear or merge with this new form(s) of Artificial Intelligence. On Februrary 10th, the American magazine “The Time” hit the newsstands with an issue on the singularity (you can find the original article here). This was a great...