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• PodCamp Gives Back

  (image taken from the presentation "Citilab Model?" by Ramon Sangúesa at I+C+i at CCCB, Barcelona)
  So it's pretty late and I'm thinking and watching the world go by on twitter and for some reason PodCamp Barcelona comes to mind. And I've got this idea that all of these incredibly talented, smart, creative, knowledgeable people coming together [...]

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• Barcelona Social Media Surgery

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  One of the workshops at PodCamp Barcelona will be a social media surgery. This is a format we have wanted to bring to Spain for a long time, but until now we haven't had critical mass. After PodCamp we'll continue doing the surgery on a monthly basis. + info

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  Uno de los talleres de PodCamp Barcelona será [...]

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• Here, There & Everyware

  Everyware from chris pinchen on Vimeo.
  It’s going to be a crazy week…
  Open Research Day
  Visualizar’08: Database City
  Adam Greenfield
  Everyware

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• Kapow! It’s the Cataspanglish Summer Special!

  Back in the prehistoric period that was my childhood I used to spend my summer pocket money on these "summer special" comics (images taken from this great post on the subject by Lew Stringer). And this summer feels just like one of them, so much stuff crammed in within the covers – so I just [...]

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• Developing Birmingham’s Digital District – big pipes, money, creativity, innovation and chest wigs

  Last week I was in Birmingham to talk about Citilab-Cornellà at Developing Birmingham’s Digital District. The aim of the event was:
  … to  provide an early opportunity for policy makers and stakeholders from Birmingham and the West Midlands to quiz other major European cities that are further along the journey in developing their own digital district. [...]

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• Ciudad Abierta/Ciutat Oberta/Open City

  Nuestra contribución en el Banco de ideas de UrbanLabs 09 / La nostra contribució al Banc d'idees d'UrbanLabs 09 /our contribution to the Ideas Bank at UrbanLabs 09
   
   
   
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  Los datos de las ciudades, pueblos, países son nuestros datos: sobre nosotros, pagados por nosotros, y en teoría para nosotros. Las instituciones, la administración pública y las empresas [...]

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• Montse guitar sessions promo

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• Martin Varsavsky on culture and history

  Martin Varsavsky gave an interesting talk in Madrid recently. The full details are here (in Spanish) Listen carefully.
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  more about “Martin Varsavsky on culture and history“, posted with vodpod

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• Adam Greenfield, Handheld Learning, Urban Labs & more…

   
  http://www.flickr.com/photos/studies_and_observations/89041931/ 
  This morning I finished reading Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing - a remarkable, beautifully written explanation and call to participation of a new world on our doorsteps byAdam Greenfield. I’ve just read on Adam’s blog that he will be in Madrid at VISUALIZAR’08: DATABASE CITY Go and see him if you can. 
  The Handheld Learning conference took place in London this week [...]

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• Kapow! It’s the Cataspanglish Summer Special! Pt.2/In the City

  One of the most interesting things we've been involved in this year was the Do 1002 Systems/Layers Walkshop Barcelona with Adam Greenfield and Nurri Kim. As usual, I've haven't had time to post about it but I've been ruminating on it ever since. The walkshop was pretty well documented – the videos above are [...]

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