Global Culture

According to Dale Dougherty from the O’Reilly Radar those were the words of Nicholas Negroponte, founder of One Laptop per Child, a non-profit association dedicated to research and develop a $100 laptop. He was responding to the question “Do you have to be American to be good?” asked by moderator Martin Varsavsky at the [...]

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A very detailed portrait of a typical middle-class chinese family serves as the background for the story The New Superpower: China’s Emerging Middle Class by Noreen O’Leary in a recent issue of Adweek Magazine. The story, intended for an audience fascinated with marketing strategies, is full of success stories of global brands making their [...]

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Globalization is likely one of those words that must appear in newspapers every day. But the recent post about an article canadians & globalization got me thinking about doing a little historical research of my own: browsing through the digital archive of the Toronto Star (Canada), I found the first use of “globalization” was [...]

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Last week columnist David Crane from the Toronto Star (one of my local newspapers) wrote and article entitled Don’t discount the positive side of globalization to which I barely paid attention because it didn’t provide any new information that readers from this blog would already be aware of. I had my own attempt to [...]

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Yesterday, in my usual monitoring of web analytics patterns of this blog, I witnessed a beautiful event: a swarm of users drop by for a few minutes, courtesy of StumbleUpon. The unusual peak came as a nice surprise even after a great week as a result of recent exposure through the Weblog Awards. [...]

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In an attempt to forecast what the growth of Internet users may be over the next few years, I came up with a very simple realization after analysing the data from Gapminder: the current (2004) distribution of Internet users resembles the distribution of phone users back in 1996:

Notice how after making a selection of [...]

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If you’re a frequent reader of this blog you’ll notice that I’ve changed the banner at the top of the page. While the image I’m using doesn’t do justice to the original located on the facade of the main building of the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education in the city of Monterrey, [...]

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