Cataspanglish

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• IN.FORMAT

  Openoffice estil de cel.les from informatames on Vimeo.
  IN.FORMAT is a blog created by Eugeni Catalán and Jesus Mañosas to explore new ways of giving information within an office context. Tired of the traditional training formats and their poor results, the creators of IN.FORMAT hope to provide useful material in a user-friendly format. Check the blog out here (in Catalan)

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• #walkshop photos

  A great set of photos by Jordi Carrasco of Citilab

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• 5 reasons why we’ll be at UrbanLabs!

  Around a year ago I went to Citilab-Cornellà for the first time to participate in UrbanLabs 08 – you can see my first impressions here. A year later I'm working at Citilab and taking part in the preparations for the event, which we will also be going to as cataspanglish. So here are some [...]

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• The Birmingham School?

  Jon Hickman: MA in Social Media from Kasper Sorensen on Vimeo.
  When it was announced that Birmingham City University was going to be offering the first MA in Social Media anywhere, the blog & twittersphere went crazy here in Spain. One of the many reasons for this is the power of validation that events from elsewhere [...]

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• Adam Greenfield: This Charming Man

  A couple of weeks ago I went to Madrid to meet Adam Greenfield and record a conversation with him for the PodCamp Barcelona Podcast.  This is the first part of the conversation – I’ll post the second part shortly.
  I’d like to take this opportunity to thank Adam for his time and being so approachable. If [...]

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• What 2008 has in store

  Well it’s been a crazy start to 2008 – as you can see from the image above, we’re working away on various projects (& suffering from the flu) – Montse Guitar Sessions (now live), Better Your English Online, the Spanish sauce Spanish food& drink resource & Ana’s resource site for her new Spanish classes. The [...]

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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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• A return to pre-industrial communities?

  During his talk yesterday at the Jornada Euroecom, Joost van Nispen mentioned that somebody (sorry, I don’t remember who) has said that what is happening on Internet is a return to a pre-industrial community in the sense that your reputation has become your “brand”. The net is also creating bespoke products which had previously been [...]

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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

  [vimeo http://vimeo.com/402470]

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