http://www.albertsuch.com/blog Ideas, thoughts and rumblings about innovation and new technologies, and their interaction with people and places. Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:37:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Through one of the photography groups I participate in, I discovered this discussion about the good and evils of Flickr, amateur vs. professional photographers, and the supposed drop of quality caused by the access of the masses to digital photography technology. This is, in some sense, another example on the ... http://www.albertsuch.com/blog/2007/11/16/revolt-of-the-masses/ An interesting article about the effect (or non-effect) of globalization on poverty and inequality in China and India. A couple of quotes that specially attracted my attention (emphasis is mine...): In any case it is often statistically difficult to disentangle the effects of globalization from ... http://www.albertsuch.com/blog/2007/11/14/inequality-and-globalization/ I was checking some locations on the Indian Yahoo Maps web site, and I realized that they have implemented landmark based directions. For those that have never visited India, the concept may need some explanation: in Indian cities street names are almost useless: only some of the main roads have recognizable ... http://www.albertsuch.com/blog/2007/11/14/landmark-based-navigation/ I read today a short article (more like a column) in the October issue of Wired, that goes in the same direction that I was trying to describe in my previous post (although I have to admit that Mathew Honan's style is more concise and humorous that mine...) The fact is ... http://www.albertsuch.com/blog/2007/10/22/big-and-hollow-ideas/ On top of setting up my web site, there's some other stuff that has kept me away from blogging in the last few days. Among other things, I have had the pleasure of reading one of these business books written by a group of consultants, describing yet another method to ... http://www.albertsuch.com/blog/2007/10/16/the-medium-is-the-message/ Yes, summer vacation is slowly dragging to an end (at least in the part of the northern hemisphere where I've spent most of my time lately). It is time to start thinking on what to do with these few months left until the end of the year, new projects to ... http://www.albertsuch.com/blog/2007/08/31/its-that-time-of-the-year-again/ Saying that in Paris, love is in the air sounds like a big and banal cliche. What I guess is not so normal to hear, but it is true, is that in Paris, love (l´amour) is in the ground... Seen on a street (I literally mean on a street) in the ... http://www.albertsuch.com/blog/2007/08/29/love-is-in-the/ First seen in the streets of London, then in Paris, where next? Update on august 30: I found in the Internet the map of cities that have been/are being invaded... http://www.albertsuch.com/blog/2007/08/28/more-space-invaders/ Using color is a typical way to differentiate between slightly different usages of otherwise similar artifacts. Be it garbage recycling containers in Barcelona... ... or mailboxes in Bangalore... As widespread as it is the use of color coding, it remains quite a local thing in many occasions. The meaning and associations attributed ... http://www.albertsuch.com/blog/2007/08/01/color-coding/ I've been back to Bangalore for a couple of weeks on a business trip. I usually get quite a lot of questions about India when I get back from these trips. India is second only to China on attracting attention of business people and the public in general; but usually, the ... http://www.albertsuch.com/blog/2007/07/30/writing-about-india/