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"The popularity and worldwide scope of rock music resulted in a powerful impact on society. Rock and roll influenced daily life, fashion, attitudes and language in a way few other social developments have equalled. As the original generations of rock and roll fans matured, the music became an accepted and deeply interwoven thread in popular culture. Beginning in the early 1970s, rock songs and acts began to be used in a few television commercials; within a decade this practice became widespread, and rock music also featured in film and television program soundtracks"

"Paul Ray y Sherry Anderson hace tiempo que están hablando de los Creativos Culturales, un colectivo representativo de un fenómeno social que arrancó en Estados Unidos y se extiende por prácticamente todo el mundo, agrupando millones de personas. En esencia, los Creativos Culturales son personas: con un nivel cultural medio - alto, adultas, críticas con el capitalismo consumista que impera en nuestra sociedad, con ciertos valores que rigen su comportamiento y su posicionamiento ante la sociedad: bajo el gran paraguas del compromiso, luchan por empoderar a la mujer, cuidar el planeta, mejorar personalmente, fomentar la solidaridad… Todos esos rasgos podrían agruparse en cuatro valores: transparencia, sostenibilidad, autenticidad e impacto social."

[Areas of inquiry once reserved for historians and social scientists are now studied by neuroscientists, and among the most fascinating is cultural conflict. Science alone won't provide the answers, but it can offer new insights into how social behavior reflects -- and perhaps even shapes -- basic human biology. An upcoming issue of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B features a collection of new studies on the biology of conflict. On the following pages, Wired looks at the findings. ...]

"Europa va mal. La percepción de muchos ciudadanos es que la Unión Europea no solo no resuelve sus problemas, sino que los agrava. Desde que estalló la crisis financiera en 2007 y la del euro en 2010 los mandatarios europeos han dado prioridad a sus esfuerzos para resolver los problemas de los bancos. La creación de la Unión Bancaria prácticamente ha monopolizado los debates durante los dos últimos años. "

""This is a deeply thought-provoking book about the dramatic changes we must make to save the planet from financial madness" - Naomi Klein. Opening with Oscar Wilde's observation that "nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing," Patel shows how our faith in prices as a way of valuing the world is misplaced. He reveals the hidden ecological and social costs of a hamburger (as much as $200), and asks how we came to have markets in the first place. Both the corporate capture of government and our current financial crisis, Patel argues, are a result of our democratically bankrupt political system. If part one asks how we can rebalance society and limit markets, part two answers by showing how social organizations, in America and around the globe, are finding new ways to describe the world's worth. If we don't want the market to price every aspect of our lives, we need to learn how such organizations have discovered democratic ways in which people, and not simply governments, can play a crucial role in deciding how we might share our world and its resources in common. This short, timely and inspiring book reveals that our current crisis is not simply the result of too much of the wrong kind of economics. While we need to rethink our economic model, Patel argues that the larger failure beneath the food, climate and economic crises is a political one. If economics is about choices, Patel writes, it isn't often said who gets to make them. The Value of Nothing offers a fresh and accessible way to think about economics and the choices we will all need to make in order to create a sustainable economy and society."

"With so many articles about Linux security on the internet, you may feel overwhelmed by how to properly secure your Linux systems. With this guide, we walk through different steps, tools, and resources. The main goal is to have you make an educated choice on what security defenses to implement on Linux. For this reason, this article won't show any specific configuration values, as it would implicate a possible best value. Instead, related articles and resources will be available in the text. The goal is to make this guide into a go-to article for when you need to secure your Linux installation. If you like this article, help others and share it on your favorite social media channels. Got feedback? Use the comments at the bottom. This document in work in progress and last updated in September 2016"

"With so many articles about Linux security on the internet, you may feel overwhelmed by how to properly secure your Linux systems. With this guide, we walk through different steps, tools, and resources. The main goal is to have you make an educated choice on what security defenses to implement on Linux. For this reason, this article won't show any specific configuration values, as it would implicate a possible best value. Instead, related articles and resources will be available in the text. The goal is to make this guide into a go-to article for when you need to secure your Linux installation. If you like this article, help others and share it on your favorite social media channels. Got feedback? Use the comments at the bottom. This document in work in progress and last updated in September 2016"

"Felipe Ceballos fue premiado por desarrollar una solución para permitir el rastreo de vehículos corporativos y su consumo de combustible, todo posible bajo un entorno de código abierto."

[ #Coto a la #Iniciativa #Social... :( ] "Hasta ahora el crowdfunding ha paseado a sus anchas en España. Una forma de financiación de proyectos y también de startups que en el 2012 movió casi 10 millones de euros en nuestro país. Sin embargo, y como ya anticipamos el pasado verano, era cuestión de tiempo que el gobierno decidiese regular el sector. Y esta regulación muy probablemente será presentada en el día de hoy."

"So it would seem that Open Source community management is a different beast, a much more comprehensive set of duties and, dare I say it, a proving ground for executive leadership. "

"So it would seem that Open Source community management is a different beast, a much more comprehensive set of duties and, dare I say it, a proving ground for executive leadership. "

"In keeping with previous Congressional attacks on research, this one would target the social sciences at the NSF, cutting its budget by nearly half. Also targeted are the Earth sciences, which would take a 12 percent hit (a separate bill is contemplating even more drastic cuts to geoscience research at NASA). Environmental research at the Department of Energy would take a 10 percent cut, as would the Advanced Research Projects Agency‐Energy, a high-risk research body modeled on DARPA."

"In keeping with previous Congressional attacks on research, this one would target the social sciences at the NSF, cutting its budget by nearly half. Also targeted are the Earth sciences, which would take a 12 percent hit (a separate bill is contemplating even more drastic cuts to geoscience research at NASA). Environmental research at the Department of Energy would take a 10 percent cut, as would the Advanced Research Projects Agency‐Energy, a high-risk research body modeled on DARPA."

"by John Timmer - Aug 18, 2015 9:42pm CEST Share Tweet 70 Gene Likens (Wikipedia link, naturally) is an ecologist who set up a longterm study of a forest in New Hampshire. That study found that the water entering the ecosystem was unusually acidic, a finding that was eventually tied back to pollution. This turned out to be one of the earliest indications of acid rain."

"by John Timmer - Aug 18, 2015 9:42pm CEST Share Tweet 70 Gene Likens (Wikipedia link, naturally) is an ecologist who set up a longterm study of a forest in New Hampshire. That study found that the water entering the ecosystem was unusually acidic, a finding that was eventually tied back to pollution. This turned out to be one of the earliest indications of acid rain."

""To some extent, we can create the future rather than merely observing the flow of events," says Noam Chomsky."

"There is a civic hacker in you! He or she is in there... I promise! Today, technology has evolved into a perfect storm of open source tools, code, social networks, and lots of data. Civic technologists thrive on all of these getting together with like-minded hackers and turning all these sources into useful applications, websites and visualizations."

"There is a civic hacker in you! He or she is in there... I promise! Today, technology has evolved into a perfect storm of open source tools, code, social networks, and lots of data. Civic technologists thrive on all of these getting together with like-minded hackers and turning all these sources into useful applications, websites and visualizations."

"Sus planes no han salido como deseaban. Cuando la industria agroquímica decidió abrir nuevos mercados y dar el salto al ámbito biotecnológico, no esperaba encontrar las barreras legales, sociales y políticas que le están dificultando el camino." _______________ Riesgos de los cultivos transgénicos http://www.ecologistasenaccion.org/article3176.html

"Sus planes no han salido como deseaban. Cuando la industria agroquímica decidió abrir nuevos mercados y dar el salto al ámbito biotecnológico, no esperaba encontrar las barreras legales, sociales y políticas que le están dificultando el camino."

"The global trend toward democratization of the last two decades has been accompanied by the resurgence of various politics of "identity/difference." From nationalist and ethnic revivals in the countries of east and central Europe to the former Soviet Union, to the politics of cultural separatism in Canada, and to social movement politics in liberal western-democracies, the negotiation of identity/difference has become a challenge to democracies everywhere. This volume brings together a group of distinguished thinkers who rearticulate and reconsider the foundations of democratic theory and practice in the light of the politics of identity/difference.\nIn Part One Jürgen Habermas, Sheldon S. Wolin, Jane Mansbridge, Seyla Benhabib, Joshua Cohen, and Iris Marion Young write on democratic theory. Part Two--on equality, difference, and public representation--contains essays by Anne Phillips, Will Kymlicka, Carol C. Gould, Jean L. Cohen, and Nancy Fraser; and Part Three--on culture, identity, and democracy--by Chantal Mouffe, Bonnie Honig, Fred Dallmayr, Joan B. Landes, and Carlos A. Forment. In the last section Richard Rorty, Robert A. Dahl, Amy Gutmann, and Benjamin R. Barber write on whether democracy needs philosophical foundations.\nThis is an excellent yext for someone interested in models of the public sphere. While all the authors are proponents of the deliberative model of democracy (as opposed to, for instance, the liberal, interest-based, technocratic, communitarian, or civic-republican) many of them place their arguments in the context of other models. So, the book reads like a symposium of like-minded people, rather than like a rally of true believers.\nAlmost all of the essays are accessible to a generalist, but several really stand out (especially those by Benhabib, Fraser, and Young)."

"Up until recently, there was no such thing as information overload, but with 24 hour news cycles, blogs, social networks, viral videos and more, it's hard not to have your mind bogged down with news, messages, trivia and the like"

"Up until recently, there was no such thing as information overload, but with 24 hour news cycles, blogs, social networks, viral videos and more, it's hard not to have your mind bogged down with news, messages, trivia and the like"

GNU Health es un "sistema de software libre, escalable y modular de Gestión Hospitalaria y de Información de la Salud". Lleva en desarrollo desde 2006, es parte del proyecto GNU y ha sido premiado por la Free Software Foundation como Mejor Proyecto de Beneficio Social, entre otros logros. ...

GNU Health es un "sistema de software libre, escalable y modular de Gestión Hospitalaria y de Información de la Salud". Lleva en desarrollo desde 2006, es parte del proyecto GNU y ha sido premiado por la Free Software Foundation como Mejor Proyecto de Beneficio Social, entre otros logros. ...

"Technology is social before it's technical. -Gilles Deleuze"

[... Sintomática fue la reacción histérica de algunos grupos de presión que, ante su falta de definición y programa, no tardaron en proyectar sus miedos y angustias más profundos ("Tercera República", "chusma juvenil", "populismo demagógico", "resentimiento de masas") sobre el nuevo campo de fuerzas que se abría. Desde este ángulo resulta muy interesante estudiar la lista de espectros del 15-M como proyección de diferentes imaginarios sociales ligados a una larga represión de la discusión política. ...]