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Barcelona has always been pretty pioneering with new technologies… The Barcelona City Council has been experimenting for a while now with mobile services and recently launched a “Barcelona Mobile” campaign to sensibly citizens and tourists on public services to be accessed from your mobile phone. (check out the video here, it’s great fun!)

Barcelona City […]

I wrote an article on Connecting cultures through music for edition #16 of the Vodafone Receiver magazine. The main topic was ‘A Night Out’, interesting challenge and braintwister to write. This issue is covered with some excellent articles by authors like Charlie Schick, Mark Curtis, Lee Humphreys, Tim Cole, Karenza Moore, Frank Lantz, and Antony […]

If you happen to be in Switzerland early February, don’t miss the LIFT06 || Life, Ideas, Futures. Together. || conference, simply about new technologies and people.

LIFT is about teaming talented observers, explorers, and builders with people whose work depends on understanding current challenges and creative solutions presented by emerging technologies. Attendees will face cutting edge […]

Start Mobile just enabled the independent film Quality Of Life to promote their film via mobile art marketing.

Yumiko Kayukawa | Japan
I wrote a piece on mobile art at gotomobile.com where I’m guestwriting.

Art Culture, Mobile Art, Mobile Culture, Mobile Lifestyle, Street Culture, Urban, user experience

social bookmarks:
These icons link to social bookmarking sites where […]

Early 2004, I read his Open Source Democracy (a free downloadable PDF under Creative Commons license), he created for the UK thinktank Demos, which led me to his participation to the groundbreaking Merchants of Cool.
You can find a good overview of his writing, interviews and articles at his website and the disinformation.com page dedicated to […]

Next weekend you can find me at the ArtFutura, the digital art and new media festival of reference in Spain. The festival offers a wide range of activities between October 27th and October 30th - workshops, conferences, performances, special presentations and a powerful audio-visual program. Last year, I had the chance to hear Howard Rheingold […]

Soon writers are gonna find out everything about their readers…
Got this one through Stuart Mudie’s -always good to read- weblog called Blethers.com. Here’s my first socialbooklist on ConnectviaBooks.

Check also the SocialBooks Lab, the book version of social bookmarking:
“Get recommendations for new books from people who share your taste in books.”

Art Culture, Books, […]

This weekend I went biking to the Forum 2004, the impressive site of the international event that was held last year in Barcelona dedicated to the principles of Cultural Diversity, World Peace and Sustainable Economic Development.

Reading and viewing the nice presentations on the archived website, you get an idea of what I’m talking here:
“The Forum […]

Tomorrow I’m gonna get a look to the live Fabchannel.Comwebcast of the Simple Minds playing in Paradiso, Amsterdam.
Fabchannel.com is great! It’s one of the best broadband streaming video concert services that I know of. Good quality live concert webcasts of great bands and artists from the Paradiso and the Melkweg in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
It reminded […]

I wanted to present this as a new iMix on iTunes but the problem is they don’t have all my favourite records in store yet…
But hey, here’s this years “Indian Summer” mix for the fans; if you like original sixties-jet-set-bossa-kind-a-lounge then try to get a grib on these records, this is my mix selection for […]