Global Culture

This blog was selected finalist in The 2006 Weblog Awards, Best Culture Blog category.
The Weblog Awards are the world’s largest blog competition, with over 1 million votes cast in the last three years for nearly 1,000 blogs. This year’s edition is the biggest ever with 45 categories to choose from. Nominations ended November 24, and [...]

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The winter edition of Reconstruction is now online with a collection of essays about the Theories and Practices of Blogging.
Global Culture is featured in the Why I Blog section, among a fascinating list of peers addressing the fundamental question about our craft. It is difficult to understand how a medium that [...]

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It is not a coincidence that this blog was born a few days after the first Mesh Conference back in May of this year. The fact is that I came back so energized from this conference that I felt it was the right time to get started with an idea that had been dancing [...]

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I’m convinced that we have a huge education mission ahead of us. Helping people discover our Global Culture is not trivial when there are so many negative forces at play. The posts in this space refer commonly to migration and globalization as shaping forces that are defining the future of humankind and corporations [...]

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Trying to convince a friend of mine to become a bridge blogger seems to be a little bit more difficult than I suspected. Besides the usual fear of “who will read my posts?”, there is the “I don’t want everyone to read about my life!”. So in an attempt to create some peace [...]

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In the chicano network I provided a quick snapshot of the deep roots that the Mexican community has in the U.S. and some of the historic reasons for this. More recently, an exodus of Mexicans have reached farther regions as a result of the climate of social instability and the idea of recruiting bridge [...]

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According to Wikipedia, the original slogan “Eight hours labour, eight hours recreation, eight hours rest” was coined by Robert Owen early in the XIX century. The industrial revolution would only provide the appropriate climate for the Eight-hour day movement to become the central demand of the labour movement across the world. Labour Day [...]

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