Local government: e-gnoramuses

I reckon that most of the money invested by local and regional government in providing e-services, ranging from bog-standard pages for rural councils to the more ambitious attempts seen here in Barcelona, was wasted. This is because most projects served either as a means to funnel money to new media businesses set up by the…

Movable Type to WordPress

There’s a guide here. Looks pretty clunky to me and dynamic generation of pages just shunts the MT rebuild issue down the row. Textpattern looks interesting in a hippy kind of way, but I may have to start sending postcards again…

Social netrics

Kaleboel figures for insignificant reasons in an academic paper by Fernando Tricas-García and Juan Julián Merelo-Guervós. The Spanish-speaking Blogosphere: Towards the Powerlaw? (PDF) introduces a spider-based tool developed by the authors, the Blogómetro, and includes the following interesting comment: We have the feeling that Spanish bloggers do not link so often and frequently as they…

Subservient chicken

Yet another triumph for capitalism: try out show me your ass and spit at me on Burger King’s Subservient Chicken. Via Language Log.

Pain-to-pain

WiFi-SM (via wondering) sounds good: I’ve been using WiFi-SM for one month and it’s amazing ! When somebody suffers on earth, not only I know it, but I can also feel a little bit of his/her pain. I don’t feel guilty anymore and I can enjoy life without limitation. I love WiFi-SM ;-) Here’s the…

Dear me, yet another evil car driver!

Den mailed to point out a site run by a Barcelona taxi driver, Francisco Dugo aka Taxi Tupi, with a webcam and lots of lovely photos. How public-spirited! Er, Den, all the photos look rather like work by Enric Corberó on Virtourist, and that isn’t a webcam since the pictures obviously aren’t even vaguely live.…

tunisian textiles

This is the kind of news that must break the hearts of the beards who want to establish little, backward Islamic fiefdoms: Tunisian textile exports to Spain have more than doubled in the last three years. Major Spanish players like Zara, El Corte Inglés, Pull and Bear and Mango are already operating in Tunisia and…

seguing lady jessica

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Survey shows that either 20.2 or 5.5% of Spaniards don’t know what email is

The headline figure this morning is 20%, but the survey (.doc) asks the question twice and the other answer is different. First there’s question 3: I’m going to read you a list of apparatus and new technologies that are being used more and more frequently in Spain. Tell me, please, of each one whether you…