Wednesday, June 04, 2008

Teilhard de Chardin - Visions from a Pre-Metasemantic Web Era





The Wholly World Wide [Metasemantic] Web


(Please, Click on the image to see the details)



Monday, June 02, 2008

Listen to the Joy of Freedom

One of the most beautiful rhythms in the world: The Lando (Afro-Peruvian)

Nicomedes Santa Cruz died in Madrid in 1992, but he was in all his ways Peruvian and much more than that he was an internationalist who fought with his poems, and Afroperuvian dances and rhythms against the racism and discrimination.

Nicomedes opposed and faced the injustices with art, with beauty and with his deep and well articulated voice. He shared the humanism of a culture that was extracted from one continent, Africa, and inserted into a supposed "new world"; both worlds suffered the same common societal maladies: Exploitation, discrimination, "homo homini lupus". They, the Africans with Americans so called Indians, (a pejorative term) were victims of one of the most cruel of all type of colonialisms: Slavery, despite Nicomedes was able to gather and collect for us, for the rest of the world, the music, the dances, i.e, those mechanisms whereby afroperuvians were able to remain humans, whereas in captivity, they remain somehow free, no matter the abuse, whatever their pain or inhuman condition, they have experienced therein.

Here is just one proof of it, a very rare but exquisite production in the Voice of the mere poet, folklorist, and intellectual Afroperuvian, Don Nicomedes Santa Cruz Gamarra, (another thing is the history of the "Ceviche" and the taste of the afroperuvian food, next in this blog, I will tell you were to go in Peru to enjoy real Peruvian gastronomy while we will continue distilling what is going on at the Metasemantic Web at this site):

Lando


... And the Music grew on us with Cecilia Barraza... "Toro Mata"



Thus the Afroperuvian music was recognized internationally in the voice of Celia Cruz

Enjoy it... Because it means that you are listen to the joy of Freedom as well.

Plausible Effective Change Models for Yahoo & Microsoft Merge

Effective Change Models for Managing Merging Organizations with seemed Conflicting Cultures

By John Manuel K.

This study surveys different change models & how to understand and managing change facing two conflicting cultures in the verge to be merged. For effecting the abstraction, I have named these two corporations with seemingly opposite & conflicting cultures as: "AAA" & "OOO"

Change alone is Unchanging

Heraclites AKA Heraclitus (c. 535- c.475 BC.)

As a result of the identification of many potential conflicting cultural factors between the AAA and the OOO Corporations, and enacting the role as the AAA Director of the Fulfillment Applications of the information department, I became aware of the need to study effective change models not only to manage the merging process between the AAA and the OOO corps., but also to create and strategic plan that it will use to optimize the whole merging process. As a major milestone for creating such a strategic plan, this study starts by exploring three organizational change models, by identifying situations in which their application will be most effective, and finally, by analyzing advantages and/or disadvantages in following these models.

Opposition brings concord.

Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

Heraclites AKA Heraclitus (c. 535- c.475 BC.)

The Meaning of Change

I understand change as a “flux”, or a process and not as a final product or as a specific result that is manifested before our consciousness as a result of our instantiation of this process under our observation, with the purpose to study a determined object(s), as in here the purpose of study is about organizational Change models. It is a cyclical, episodic or periodic study indeed.

In the first chapter, “the purpose”, of his book [by the way the young Hillary Clinton (our next President), would have had written her thesis about this author]: “Rules for Radicals,” Saul D. Alinsky (1971) wrote: “Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.” I assume this quote personifies well what is about to happen between two cultures which seem to have some many ways of doing things differently, as the AAA and OOO corporations: but we are conducting this research to be better equipped to managing an effective change.

It feels lacerating, but as the record shows, if we do not consider the human factors and culture the merging process will be erratically implemented with serious repercussion not only in the morale of the staff but also in our performance and lost of market value, instead to have positive outcome. It would probably defeat the merger’s purpose.

In this regard, I prize the inputs of Jerry (Gerald) Weinberg who has written many books combining seemed equidistant subjects as technical software development and human factors in improving productivity, this is a sort of software anthropology.

In an interview Weinberg explained how he realized the importance of people transformation in the Software Development of Technical organizations, and how this perception lead him to study the work of Virginia Satir, who, Weinberg, indicated that she is often referred as “The Columbus of Family therapy” and how her Satir’s work forms the basis of Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP), basically Weinberg state during this interview what it was his main “discovery”: “…The Software team works together to produce software; the family works to make new people …” (Dorset House Publishing, 2006). Thus, as implausible as it may sound, Weinberg also ‘confessed’ in this interview that he learned more about effective programming from Satir that from any other person in his life (Dorset House Publishing, 2006). Weinberg’s research supports our newly gained understanding that human factors are of primary importance for technical organizations, especially when they are facing an eminent cultural clash as again it seems to be the case with AAA and OOO.

Change Models

Organizations are made by people, thus Virginia Satir estates, “Change happens one person at a time” (Smith, 2006). Weinberg further states that the Satir Change model implies, “… one day at a time, one choice at a time …” (AYE conference, 2006). The whole point is that the organizational change occurs in the individuals, theretofore, in every choice, in every day, in every transaction and the integration of all his “micro-changes”, I will dare to state, quantum changes, will effect and affect a systemic change in the organizations.

Some outcomes will and can be anticipated properly but others that should/could be anticipated, perhaps might be ignored, or not addressed accordingly and thus chaos could and will be the unexpected guest of an otherwise avoided situation. Returning once more to Weinberg writes: “Change is a long-term process, but a living organization lives in the immediate present. Thus, without careful management, long-term change is invariably sacrificed to short-term expedience” (Research Triangular Park, 2006). In this regard, I would rather be effective than efficient.

Thus we can see that organizational changes start at the level of each individual, each transaction, each choice, at everyday, as matter of fact multiple of these changes happens simultaneously, some are perceptible and some are not. As a company in its way to be merged with a company like OOO with antagonistic culture we at AAA must understand some main organizational change models to assist us to put our upcoming merger at easy. There are three main types of organization change models: top-down; transformational leadership; and strategic approaches (Kinsman & Laporte, 2006).

The Satir Merger Model

Figure 1 Satir Change Model

As we can see, the Satir Change Model above (Figure 1), is centered on the tenet that improvement is always possible. Virginia Satir developed this model to assist people to improve their lives by transforming the way they see and express themselves. In this way this change model is transformational in nature. It is a five-phase change model (see Figure 1) displaying the effects each phase has on emotions, cognitive, behaviors and physiology. According to Satir using the principles of this model facilitate how organizations or group process change and how to assist other organization or groups in processing change as well.

This model could be applied in any situation: Before, during and after the completion of the merger. For instance, the phase 1, called the “Late Status Quo” represents AAA culture as is right now, a people-oriented, family like environment whereby there is a sense of belonging, staff knows what to expect, how to react, and how to behave. There are policies and these policies are known and well accepted within the organization (Satir, 1991).

In the second phase, known as “resistance” in this model, the OOO culture is depicted as the “foreign element”, this is the conflict for AAA staff and a probable source of uncertainty, doubt, and discomfort. The Satir Change model allows the understanding of how the situation would appear for the staff since their stability is going to be compromised by the OOO and its conflicting culture. Restless behavior and some another resistance tactics can be developed among the staff as a mechanism of defense. Is in this phase that this model prescribes to assist employees to become aware of their reaction of denial, avoidance or blaming by opening up to others staff members.

I the third phase, in this model: the chaos, the merge eventually has happened and this phase discovers the unknown, because for more plans that management could make always there are many details that remain unknown to us, and for such “obscure.” There will be employees that could feel nervous after the loss of some of their counterparts because the merger and they probably will develop symptoms of anxiety and other characteristic of the sorts. This phase should be expected by managers as erratic periods and also as an opportunity for assisting staff to search for beneficial relationships with the “foreign element” the new staff and culture from OOO. This is the stage where under Satir Change model transformation happens (Weinberg, 1997).

In Phase four, i.e. the integration, the staff of AAA will encounter at least some positive attributes in OOO and in consequence new projects and relationships will be implemented rapidly and with positive energy, and thus we arrive at Phase five: New Status Quo, whereby change have been assimilated, the Merger have been completed and a new environment has emerged and a new sense of accomplishment and enhancing possibilities are permeating this new organization that has been derived from the Merger of AAA and OOO (Satir, 1991).

The advantage of this model is that provides to us proven ways to deal with the entire process of the merger, The Satir Change Model simplifies the scenario of how people react when face change, as in this case a merger, and what management needs to do about in each phase or stage of the process. I hardly see any disadvantage, only that requires a lot planning and support from management since is very granular and its focused in many dimensions, including the physiological reactions of the individuals. I would gladly use this model because it seems to be centered on transforming cultures by assistant each staff member to adapt to the pressing demands of doing so.

Nadler-Tushman Change Model: Key Variables

This model observes how change is managed or face, according to the extent in which change(s) can be anticipated, thus there are two types of changes: Anticipatory changes are planned changes based on expected situations. Example: Insurance needed for Paintings in the Exhibition and reactive changes: Changes made in response to unexpected situations. What decisions you make when you were alone at home and suddenly you fractured your femur and fibula by accident? (Kritner, 2004).

The Nadler and Tushamn model provides the following steps:

1) Identify the problems and Situational analysis - Get support of key power groups

2) Demonstrate leadership support of the change

3) Use symbols / Create identification w/ the change and appearance of a critical mass of support

4) Build in stability

5) Surface/create dissatisfaction w/ the current state

6) Obtain the appropriate levels of participation in planning/implementing change

7) Reward desired behavior in transition to future state

8) Provide time and opportunity to disengage from current state

9) Develop and communicate a clear image of the future state

10) Use multiple and consistent leverage points

11) Use transition devices

12) Obtain feedback about the transition state and evaluate success

This case Model primary advantage is that considers also what we could do when facing unexpected changes, as we know for this merger we need a flexible yet a structure model that guide us in the process, this modes does just that by providing opportunities for disengagement and also using multiple leverage points. One of the best situation to use this model is during the implementation phase when new rules or policies are going to be applied to newly created groups and projects has been formed within perhaps same or new departments. The disadvantage is the amount of time that will take to analyze, and for planning the strategic plan to facilitate this merger.

Models of Action Research: Cummings & Worley Model et al

The majority of research is aimed to create knowledge; action research is a way to conduct studies which engages in both: taking action and creating knowledge constituting a theory of action (Coghlan & Brannick, 2001, p.xi). Organizations use action research models to learn how to change significant aspect of its system by involving their members to actively study their own behaviors, from here action research shows the new knowledge emanated from the self-reflection of the participants on the whole research process.

Many actions action research models exist, all of them includes in their definition as iterative, collaborative, and change effort that involve needs analysis, plan of action based on the needs analysis, implementation of the plan of action and finally evaluation of the process. I identified four of this models Cummings and Worley Model, Burke’s Adaptation of W. L. French classic 11–step Model, Frohman, Sashkin and Kavanagh’s Seven-Phase Model and Pearce and Robinsons Six-Step Model. The entire aforementioned models are very similar but the most notable or the one that is more referred, in my literature review, is the Cummings and Worley Model (Cummings & Worley, 1991, p. 155) here is the well delineated stages:

1) Motivating Change creating readiness for change and overcoming resistance to change

2) Creating a Vision - Describing the Core Ideology and Constructing the Envisioned Future

3) Development political support -- Assessing Change Agent Power and Identifying Key stakeholders and Influencing stakeholders.

4) Managing the Transition - Activity Planning and commitment planning and management structure.

5) Sustaining Momentum - Providing Resources for Change and Building a Support System for Change Agents and Developing New Competencies and Skills and Reinforcing New Behaviors

The Cummings and Worley model takes in account the anxiety and other emotional factors introducing in its first “prescription”: Motivating change by creating readiness for change, very interesting concept, it includes leadership because it compel to create a vision a core ideology, in this sense is also a transformational change mode. And takes in account the power by identifying key people, I think that this model also is applicable for the merger, especially in the planning and commitment for facilitate the merger by creating appropriate structures of management to sustain development into a new culture.

There are many advantages, in using this model principally; it is straight forward, as it appears to be easy to follow, and on the other hand, few disadvantages can be noticed about this model, perhaps is too compact and lack of specificity to anticipate unknowns.

In closing we have idenfied tree change models: The Satir Change, Nadler & Tushman, and the Cummings & Worley Change model. We have explored situations in which they can be utilized and finally, we analyze each model, according to their advantage or disadvantages in following these models.

References

Alinsky, S. D. (1971). Rules for Radicals. New York: Random House.

Anderson, P. & Tushman, M. L. (eds.) (2004). Managing Strategic Innovation and Change - a Collection of Readings - Second Edition. New York: Oxford University

AYE (Amplifying Your Effectiveness) Conference. NoMoreResolutions. Retrieved January 25, 2006, from http://www.ayeconference.com/wiki/scribble.cgi?read=NoMoreResolutions.

Burke, W. W. (1982). Organization development: Principles and practices. Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman.

Coghlan, D., & Brannick, T. (2000). Doing action research in your own organization. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Cummings, T. G. & Worley C. G. (2001). Organization Development and Change - Seventh Edition.Mason, OH: South-Western College Publishing - Thomson Learning.


Thursday, May 29, 2008

The Best Guitar Song Ever: The persistence of a Meme

RollingStone has nominated the 100 greatest guitar songs of all the times The Chuck Berry's "Johnny B. Goode ": What do you think? Anyways, it has passed a little more than 50 years since January 1958 when this song was introduced in the market of music, so let us hear the song again and again and ...





Jimi Hendrix playing the song is his own style




Judas Priest couldn't left this song alone and here is the sound



An the song survives still, here is Green Day's interpretation



Go Johnny go .... hundred of years more

Human 2.0: The Opportunities and the Risks of Creating Powerful Tecnologies


Memory at the Molecular level






Wednesday, May 28, 2008

The Death of Death: The Picture of Aubrey de Grey



"With Reason, Without Reason or Against Reason, I don't want to die!"

Don Miguel de Unamuno

The man of flesh and bone; the man who is born, suffers, and dies—above all, who dies; the man who eats and drinks and plays and sleeps and thinks and wills; the man who is seen and heard; the brother, the real brother."

From Chap 1, Tragic Sense Of Life

The Methuselah Foundation Chairman wants you to live 1,000 years or even more...

Is immortality possible?
Aubrey de Grey believes it is..

Part 1

Part 2


Part 3 - With Marvin Minsky

Part 4

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Metasemantic II - Understanding the Clash of the Wikis and all the Pedias

As Thomas Friedman has told us the world is flat, but not really, we know that it is not, perhaps there are many worlds, and many maps made out of the same planet and there may be many encyclopedias. Now, we are facing the battle for knowledge as new domains are starting to emerge under the same sun and moon... So lets us compare the opposing views in here, later we will continue elucidating the origins of these memes and the foundations of Metasemantics....

Conservepedia



Some Comments Published by the mere "Conservators"

"Broad and Alien is the World"






The Peruvian Ciro Alegría's novel "Broad and alien is the World has been recently published by Merlin Press in the United Kingdom. [ISBN 0850362822]

Monday, May 26, 2008

Rocking at the Red Rocks

Learn Hiragana & Katakana & make it better

Learn in Here or Here and enjoy...

The talent of the net



So Remember... Then you begin to make it better

Saturday, May 24, 2008

Ecology - Ernst Haeckel

Web Mud Time searching: In the semantics of Robert Frost



My Object in living is to unite

My avocation is my vocation

As my two eyes make one sight.

Only where love and need are one.

And the work is play for mortal stakes,

Is the deed ever really done

For heavens and Future sakes.

Robert Frost, "Two Tramps in Mud Time"

""The Poetry of Robert Frost" by Edvard Connery, ed. New York, NY: Henry Holle Co. 1968

Thursday, May 22, 2008

The Oldest City of America

Sechin Bajo has been confirmed as 5,500 years old city by German and Peruvian Archeologists. The Archeological Institute of America has published in his magazine "Archeology," that Sechin Bajo is "the oldest monument of America," and points that the city presents a circular structure of 46 feet (14 meters), while the Peruvian "National Institute of Culture" in the voice of César Pérez stated "It's an impressive find; the scientific and archeology communities are very happy." Sechin Bajo is 500 years older than the city "Caral" (5,000 years old ) and it is located in "Casma" a 370 kilometers (circa 230 miles) away from the capital of Peru, Lima. Sechin Bajo places the American ancient culture as one of the only six places in which people started to live in cities some 5,000 years ago, together with, China, India, Mesopotamia, Mesoamerica, and Egypt.

Sechin Bajo Modeling by Dr. Peter R. Fuchs & Prof. Dr. Eng. Perter Mesenburg

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

The Oldest University of America



This Wikipedia "Conversation" solves a lot of problems about the controversy on which is the oldest University of America and why.



The oldest university of America controversy

Well, I love the page, and I am living in New York for so long, preaching about that San Marcos is the oldest Univ. but having to deal with many, many people especially with the Dominicans, who claim the contrary, I have almost believed them. Well good arguments and facts now I have more "ammunition" to defend my position.
I am taking this opportunity to ask for your collaboration, with our entries and mostly with our "National Page", which I believe is locked or protected, and thus you have to get into the 'bureaucracy' to get in and finally edit it. I just came here so you may have a better chance for doing it so. Assuming that you are Peruvians, have time and want to do it in the first place. Like this page there are other many entries about our country Perú which needs our help, if we don't do it, who will then?
Many entries needs help, I am starting to work in several languages, but in here, in English, we are kind of messy, except for your page of course; for instance read how is written and what they are saying about our history in our own page. I think it needs more work, if we compare it with others pages then we know is true. Well see your contribs. You will start to see mine as well. thanks and Good Luck!! and sorry for use some of this space. Hope I didn't intrude. Last time if I did it so " arriba, arriba hasta las estrellas... en Wikipedia?". UserUser: 2007

The Follow up:

  • The Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (Autonomous University of Santo Domingo) was founded in 1914, not in 1538. This university, in current Dominican Republic, expects to be a “primatial university of America” in spite of the fact that it holds, against every Latin American legislation of the time, a foundation illegally authorised by the Pope in 1538; it has been officially recognised by the monarchy just in 1747 like "Universidad de Santo Tomás de Aquino"; it has been prohibited by Royal Letter of 1758 the use of that false title insulting universities of Lima and Mexico. As if it were not enough, the Santo Tomás University was definitively extinguished in 1824, having no relationships with the current one (founded in 1914), because it is a new and different institution that seeks to recover for itself its colonial predecessor's history. The Universidad de San Marcos (San Marcos University) of Lima was also, and continue being, the oldest university in the world out of the European continent, founded on 12th May 1551, and for this reason it takes the deserved title of “dean of America” (the oldest, not necessarily the first), since it is the only university that survives, uninterruptedly, since the XVIth century. (Miguel Angel del Castillo M., 29-VIII-07)

Friday, May 16, 2008

Thursday, May 08, 2008

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Pain in Oils and Oils in Canvas




If you believe in forgiveness, if you believe in something greater than you. Remember nobody is perfect, we are all in here, perhaps we believe that the color of our skin is important or that our culture is superior, with this we go imposing things on people. Let me tell you... time will show you otherwise.


Van Gogh and Gauguin understood what art is really about, and Picasso and Dalí et al., successfully learned how to exploit it well. I still admire all of them, though.

However, I admire Van Gogh the most because he painted in faith, with faith and for faith, after his experiences with those "ministries" for poverty.

Paul Gauguin, on the other hand, was able to leave behind him the European-centric vision and understood and painted other "skins" under beautiful inquiries. Martinique was and inspiration for him, and he put everything behind, i.e., money, power, politics and family, notwithstanding, he still is who he is... Pain, and suffering seem to be inevitable ... can you share it without imposing it?

I will come back to this comments, in the mean time I will play with a simpleton yo-yo.

Monday, April 28, 2008

Be connected, Live connected. Life is connections.



Well as I have been informed lately,a lot of people has concentrated in this image since I have posted in one social sharing sites, then, I need to explain one thing. I created it long time ago. thinking on how our lives has changed because the Internet.
Now, from my point of view, life is all connected. But the guy in the image is obviously isolated.

I don't think anyone wants to be connected in real life with him. It has become an "it". Therefore, the "it" goes over the web 2.0 and X.0s social spaces just to be reconnected somehow with people. His social life has all gone. Do you really want to connect with it? I don't think so.

Therefore, the real friends, those who you have grown and you are growing up with, those are your real connections keep them close to you. Help them grow, but not at your expense of course, and yes be an individual with perhaps few connections but all of them meaningful and healthy in your life. In the future you will find out who was a genuine friend and what is real friendship.

Therefore, having a web presence is important but not as much as enjoying the simple things and challenges that a normal life has to offer. Like drink a milkshake or just watch a sunset, it is never the same... every sunset is unique as everyone in this planet is.

Well, that is my interpretation though, you can make up your own.

Sunday, April 20, 2008

Obamatomy




















Thursday, April 17, 2008

A Deviant Recipe for Artists or How to boost your Creativity




I need to keep redoing this at all the time, Should I share it with you?:‼☺☻☺‼

SCAMPER Some Deviant Behaviors

☼ Substitute ♪
☼ Combine ♪♫
♪ Adapt ☼►◙♪♫
↕ Modify ► magnify ◄ minify☺
☻ Put to other uses ♥♣♦○
◘ Elaborate
¶ Rearrange ♀ reverse ◄ ªa ► rethink

PLUS

"Relearn again and forget, then go back to your child vision" Avoid part or all on this formula ► {POV²+POM+POB}:


Looking throughout single points of View or using one single Color of Glasses, one size telescopes, 1x microscopes, one sided spectroscopy, forgetting to use your natural X Ray vision and your CAT Scanner::meaning your imagination, instincts and guts

√ POV = Avoid Singular Persistence of Vision or partial ½╟╜ visions.
√ POV = Avoid Singular Point of View ► Fanaticism

POM = Persistence of Memory (ies) ► Live in the present using the past for the future

Avoid Persistence and obsessive behaviors of unkindness, cruelty, cynicism, ill-intentioned or nonsense moods. Look for meaning or provide the context in which meaningful things could be developed, either by you or with/by others.

Avoid envious feelings, it will drain you, drive you crazy and it will "dry" or "Fry" most of your dreams, aspirations and goals. Remain human and follow your inner nature, this nature should be positive and constructive , but otherwise then you know what you have to do with it...

Do not avoid to be alone, but by all means enjoy the company of your fellow artists, those who where behind you, those who are coexisting with you, and those who are becoming or will come after you. Live the tree tenses or times, Past, Present and Future and the many complex variations thereof.

Moreover, everything that you do or say onto others is a boomerang, it will come back to you, but for this do not avoid conflict, slavery is the rewards of those that do just this. If the prison were made out of gold, it is still a prison, artists hate prisons, oppression or injustice, because to be free you need to remain ethical and well balance (there are many flavors of what is balance or what it means, it could be harmony, think in here on your own music and how it sounds when you play it for others. It is for the most part a maturity and evolving process within each life cycle at every effort, project or piece of work that you do or want to do::Therefore, envision the circumstance, it might be bigger than your perception, and much bigger than your imagination, then enhance your existence by acknowledging more of it).

However, for most of the artists freedom is their main source of inspiration, if they were prisoned because their ideals or art, then they would be evenly freer than before. Artist will remain independent not matter what. Art is intrinsically motivated and extrinsically activated, but you draw and paint the mere buttons that ignite your own fantasies and/or imaginations or disgrace and/or lamentations.

In conclusion, give and share and you will receive ...the same, perhaps it might be more or might be less, don't worry about receiving, just share, provide, support, empathize, contemplate, absorb, produce, mutate, do, even if you can't, do a little more, then enjoy it or better continue with another piece, perhaps you will find out that it is you what you are building from the scratch of your most deeper and inner self.

Finally, I hope that it is Creativity what you are about to select for your life and in every case anyway be one more element why our society triumphs; as it is known by now already as the most innovative society in all generations:: the artists society.

As for my humble case I just keep remembering the aforementioned thoughts...

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Jimi Hendrix: The Eternal Experience from Last Century

All along the WatchTower
There are many versions out there: I Like to watch this two

In Black and White:


The talent of the 60s

In Color;



..and Another Performance



One of the earliest Video on Hendrix



1967-02-25



Last century music that still echoes our future:

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

The Metasemantic Web - Part 1- The Mere Particles of Meaning: The Application of Morphogenesis into Project and Product Management


What I want to understand is up to what extent the most effective human collaboration could be obtained or increased by applying simple rules of behavior molded within virtual worlds under one predetermined goal or set of goals. Such as learning and its immediate application to action or for solving pervasive problems or mastering a subject or art.

The word should be Metabehavior, perhaps because I am interested on the behaviors that mold or determined other desire behaviors, all this includes seen people both, as part of the instrumentation for building metasemantic systems, and as recipients of it as well. Therefore it begins with the humans and loops back to them as well. In other words, the developers become users whereas some users could become developers too.

Only that the goal or the project could be extrinsically or spontaneously sponsored to group and systematized human minds, as connecting the dots, such as each dot is a mind that could decided whether or not to be grouped under certain endeavors. This is being done by perusing any collaborative systems of the Web 2.0 type and greater, such as those wikis for example, these are not other than a set of linked behaviors associated, organized and systematized by human intelligence or cultural bias [or mostly by a combination of both adding some emotional stupidity or nonsense] under one most often, or originally, altruistic and compelling reason.

It is like the "wikiconomization", or the "wikibalization" of the self, only that is not only the prefix wiki in all of the "flora" or phenomena, it is a matter of fact a wiki is just a rustic and small possibility of it, Youtube is another possibility for example as they are many of the sorts and They are others constantly appearing all over the cyberscape.

The fruits of such still-Human-Cognitive-Emotional-behavioral-semantic fields & the knowledge and information management systems are becoming to show [us] their wonders and now more and more this collaborative tools are often use by corporations as for individuals [for very different reason though], such are the Mash-ups and et al.,

What I believe is happening is that humans are in the process of creating the metasemantic web instead, the many consciousnesses of the entire human experience so far. Well, some people are trying to include one sided view of the schema, and here politics came into place, I will leave it as that at this point.

The Flat world 3.0 of Friedman can be greener as he wishes to be, but it involves communities made out of individuals, many individuals that are joined now by a simple set of rules throughout and whereby they can achieve their desired goals, and satisfy their needs for freedom, self-expression and self-concept, some individuals participate for constructive reasons and still others for destructive or for no other reason than their "magnetized" behavior towards something greater than them, just to belong to something, or to find the meaning for their empty lives by following a sympathetic determined swarmed website.

It is the interconnectivity of the Web and the software-as-a-Services [SaaS] that is causing these individuals to interact and create their avatars, their existential sense, as more products, services and fortunately some solutions are being found some of those virtual communities .... also they are serving as a way to share and challenge cultural differences.

These services are giving power to people for achieving something [apparently useful to them] and in this context these services are seemed like a memesis or as the mere particles of meaning, these SaaS are molding behaviors and could instantiate not only information but also surprisingly meaningful relationships... It seems that endless possibilities can be found out there...

In the mean time let us examine our lives too, perhaps we could find as Pygmalion or like Narcissus did, that ours is evenly more illusive than theirs ... all the way while we are thinking that we are doing "no evil". I will continue seeking and investigating... Too much to be learned over this regard

Now let's watch this video:




It will continue...

Friday, April 11, 2008

Tribute to the creator of the Chicken Dance will never pass away

Let us Dance in the honor in Bob Kames:

The Last Lecture - Knowing how to die

In case you didn't watch it here.

Thursday, April 10, 2008

The Faces of Art

This video has some of the most beautiful paintings ever painted.

Thursday, April 03, 2008

Leonardo's Face

Siegfried Woldhek explains very clearly his theory about Leonardo Da Vinci's Face. Good Video.





If you want to know more about the work of Mr. Woldhek, here is his Blog click here

Wednesday, April 02, 2008

La Peruanización de Chile - Peruvianization of Chile

The Truth Behind the Pisco - La Verdad sobre el Pisco. En este video se ve claro de dónde realmente es el Pisco. [Videos in Spanish]

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Monday, March 17, 2008

Should humans be a part of the future. The Humans & Machines or Only Machines

Wired Magazine published an article, "Why the Future Does Not Need Us" written by Bill Joy, the co-founder of Sun Microsystems and who supported the creation of the JAVA language and basically developed the BSD Unix flavor. Well I think that the British Professor Kevin Warwick, the "Cyborg" as it seems he would like to be known, has the answer for Joy's question, watch his video.

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

The song of the Plow - La canción del Arado

Inti Illimani una agrupación Musical Universal ,

Inti Illimany is an Universal Musical group whose many songs are based on tradional Peruvian music,

Mayor información-Read more in here http://encontrarte.aporrea.org/media/67/inti%20illimani.pdf

Saturday, February 02, 2008

Juan Salvador Gaviota


Just readt the book or even better listen it


Solamente lee el libro o escuchalo




Friday, February 01, 2008

Peruano o Español o Inca

* Lo del Rey hay que darselo a él. Los que nacieron en la colonia eran españoles, salvo aquellos que se identificaron en no serlo, se puede argumentar, pero para qué. En el New York Times, lo ven así, y la mayoría en el mundo lo ve así.

::♀ Por ejemplo, una idea, Gonzalo Pizarro, nacido en España, podríamos decir que fue uno de los primeros peruanos, porque se revela contra la corona española y muere en lo que ahora es nuestro territorio. Los Incas, no eran peruanos eran incas, i.e., '''Quechuas, y Aymarás'''.

::♀ Ser del Cuzco es ser peruano pero también es serlo si eres de cualquier otro sitio y te identificas como tal. Los pre-Incas o las culturas llamadas Pre-colombinas, támpoco eran Incas, támpoco eran Peruanas, eran lo que eran, enclicopédicamente hablando.

::♀ Interpretar es vital, inclusive el Maestro José Carlos Mariátegui, parece que se equivocó, al tratar el "problema del indio". No hay indios en el Perú, Nunca los hubo, la equivocación es de Colón y historícamente y socialmente es importante. Por ejemplo, Por qué no le llamamos eskimos a los árabes, en fin.

::♀ Hay andinos en todo caso, gente originaria de aquellos pueblos que "adornan" lo que ahora proponemos como nuestra historia. Sin embargo, sí tenemos historia propia, gastronomía original, y parece que tenemos mucho de españoles, pero también mucho de los Incas y de los pre-Incas. He ahí nuestro ¡gran tesoro! El Dorado está en todas aquellas culturas Pre-peruanas, muy mal entendidas por propios y extraños, por muchos envidiadas y apedradas por otros tantos. Pero hay también especialistas que darían la vida por entenderlas y aprender más de ellas.

::♀ Muchachos, come me alegra que tengan ese incentivo por aprender y por sacar a la luz de esas sombras retrógradas las verdaderas fuentes de nuestra historia. Siendo realista hay que estar orgulloso de ser Peruano; ya uno sea del Cuzco o de los Barracones; e igual da ser de la Molina o de Miraflores, que del Rímac, de Ciudad y Campo.

::♀ La humanidad está en aprender a ser mejor cada día, de los que como acá en este mundo quieren y buscan conocimiento y por eso saben las limitaciones que esta búsqueda contrae.

::♀ Felicitaciones, el Perú luce mejor, pero como sabemos falta más ... como decia César Vallejo: "Ya va venir el día ponte el alma ..."

::♀ Bueno, del poco tiempo que tengo y que me queda, pues ya algo del resto lo compartí, lo comparto y lo compartiré con todos ustedes, Sinceramente.

PD. Por un si acaso, yo nada impongo, solamente expongo sean ustedes los peruanistas del futuro que hagan virtual y realmente una vida mejor.

Plowed Results | Resultados Arados