David Sasaki · November, 2006

Latest posts by David Sasaki from November, 2006

Argentina: Pillow Fighting

  20 November 2006

Pillow fighting fans around the world will be overcome by jealousy after reading Alan Patrick's account of this past weekend's blog-organized pillow-thumping flash mob. Make sure to check out the videos at the bottom of the post!

Bolivia: Majority Vs. 2/3 Vote

  20 November 2006

Bolivia's constituent assembly had been at a deadlock over whether votes would be decided by majority or require two-thirds. A decision was reached/imposed this past weekend, reports Miguel Centellas, Jim Shultz, and Miguel Buitrago.

Peru: 600 Days in Lima

  17 November 2006

Wolfy Becker has been living in Lima for nearly two years now. Here's an insightful look back at how he got there and what life in Lima has been like.

Bolivia: Constituent Assembly Consensus

  17 November 2006

Bolivia Rising translates a piece from La Razon about the political forces seeking consensus to resolve regulations for the Constituent Assembly which will rewrite the nation's constitution.

Mexico: Protesting Wal-Mart

  17 November 2006

Erwin Cifuentes describes Tuesday's demonstration at a Wal-Mart store on the outskirts of Mexico City. Colin Brayton adds that “Wal-Mart is accused of having violated Mexican election laws with impunity in 2006 and so has been the target of disruptions by the “vote by vote” social movement lead by López...

Latin America: Technorati en Español

  17 November 2006

Martin Varsavsky confirms [ES] that Technorati will soon be available in Spanish. Argentine blogger Mariano Amartino notes [ES], “what's interesting is that, despite the fact that we're just 2% of the worldwide blogosphere, we're recognized as “the most global language” of all [the blogs] that are tracked on the site....

Latin America, Venezuela: Polling Wars

  17 November 2006

On top of Boz's weekly poll numbers he also ventures into the controversial territory of the Venezuela polling wars and predicts that neither Chavez nor Rosales will win over 54% of the vote. Daniel Duquenal concentrates on Venezuela's state elections and Oil Wars is skeptical of a recent poll that...

Mexico: Spanish Language, English Acronyms

  16 November 2006

Hipocratico laments the fact that most Spanish-speaking internet users have adopted English language acronyms: “some very popular bloggers use ‘WTF’ to say ‘que onde con esto,’ or ‘what's up with this.’

Panama, Chile: Information Architecture Retreat

  16 November 2006

Panamanian Jorge Arango gives his impressions of the Chile Information Architecture Retreat and discusses the state of the profession in Latin America. Leon Kadoch, meanwhile, applauds Arango's thoughts on “Casual Information Architecture.”

Mexico: Bradley Will Killed by Friendly Fire

  16 November 2006

Ballistics tests examining the murder of American journalist Bradley Will suggest a story line of Hollywood proportions. Says Mark in Mexico: “According to Lizbeth Caña, the Oaxaca State Attorney General, and 2 reporters from Reforma, Daniel Pensamiento y Virgilio Sánchez, it is now believed that Bradley Will was shot first...

Peru: Mega Machu Pichu

  16 November 2006

Pixel y Dixel describes the process used by Scott Howard [ES] to produce a mega 1.5 gigapixel zoomable photograph of Machu Picchu.

Colombia: Studying Should be Like Reading Blogs

  15 November 2006

Colombian blogger Arlovich Correa Manchola says [ES]: “studying should be just as fun as reading and authoring blogs. But, today, it's as boring as having to listen to anachronistic old people who nest their truth in history.”

Ecuador: Ecrisis.com

  15 November 2006

Aleksander Boyd's Vcrisis.com now has an Ecuador-focused sister-site, writes A.M. Mora y Leon. The pro-trade Ecrisis.net [ES] so far has little information about who is behind the site.

Ecuador, Guatemala: Podcast on LatAm Issues

  15 November 2006

Romulo Lopez Cordero of ¡¡¡Cambiemos Ecuador!!! (“Let's Change Ecuador!”) was recently in Guatemala where he recorded a four-part podcast [ES] with Pablo Kleinman, Chilean journalist Pia Greene, and Eneas Biglione about current Latin American political issues.