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“video games can stimulate learning of facts and skills such as strategic thinking, creativity, cooperation and innovative thinking, which are important skills in the information society.”

“Schools should pay attention to video games and inform children and parents about benefits and disadvantages that video games can have.”

The stereotype that gaming is a solitary, violent, anti-social activity just doesn’t hold up. The average teen plays all different kinds of games and generally plays them with friends and family both online and offline,

ListenToYouTube, extrae el audio de los videos de YouTube

Pero hay un paso previo que no podemos saltearnos. Primero hay que venderle la Marca Perú a los peruanos.

Lo que pasó con la comida peruana ilustra perfectamente el punto. Si estamos logrando posicionarla como una de las mejores cocinas del mundo, es porque no hay nadie que lo dude al interior del país.

Para cerrar les puse una extraordinaria campaña que lideró el diario más importante de la India. El objetivo fue inspirar  y movilizar a la población a tomar partido en el gran cambio que está dando esa nación. No es un comercial solamente, es todo el caso explicado en un video que dura algo de 7 minutos, pero créanme que vale la pena verlo.

Even though the data is public, it is very expensive today. The Copyright Database, for example, costs $86,625 for the retrospective and a one-year feed (we harvested this in 2007 as you reported, but this would be much easier if they simply provided an FTP server and rsync!)

The Congressional Research Service is such a no-brainer. With the exception of classified information, who can afford the luxury of paying for some of the best research in the world and then just bury it! Taxpayer dollars paid for CRS reports and they need to be available.

In this day and age, you can't say a committee hearing is public if you can't access it on the Internet. Itty-bitty streaming video using some proprietary client/format just doesn't cut it any more. We ran a pilot with 4 house committees to show that this is very doable and makes a huge difference