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Monthly Archives: December 2008
Cuba digitaliza documentos personales de Hemingway
Dentro de muy pocos días estará disponible la que probablemente sea una de las fuentes documental más importante para conocer la vida de uno de los principales autores norteamericanos del siglo XX: Ernest Hemingway. A partir del lunes 5 de enero de 2009 estarán accesibles en formato digital cerca de 3.000 documentos que quedaron en Finca Vigía y que durante todos estos años estuvieron siendo salvaguardados por el Museo Hemingway, el Centro Nacional de Conservación y Restauración y el Consejo Nacional de Patrimonio Cultural de Cuba.
Como se sabe, Hemingway vivió muchos años en Cuba y alternaba sus estadías largas allí con otras en los Estados Unidos. Su casa, Finca Vigia, se ha convertido en un referente ineludible al hablar de él, como también sus actividades pesqueras y sus relaciones con personajes del lugar y sus asiduas visitas a los bares de La Habana. La casa ubicada en una loma de la región de San Francisco, en La Haban fue donada, tal como él lo pidió, al Estado Cubano y desde entonces funciona como Museo.
Los documentos que allí se encontraban son, en su mayoria, no literarios pero son fundamentales para documentar la vida de Hemingway quien quedó enamorado de la Habana como una ciudad en la que podía vivir cuando la conoció en 1938. Fueron usados, entre otros, por Norberto Fuentes para la escritura de su libro Hemingway en Cuba, y dentro de poco días estarán disponibles para cualquier persona que acuda al Museo. Un mes después pasarán a engrosar los Archivos Hemingway en la Biblioteca J.F. Kennedy de Washington.
El proceso de digitalización comenzó en el año 2003, luego de haberse firmado un acuerdo entre el Consejo Nacional del Patrimonio Cultural de Cuba y el Consejo de Investigación en Ciencias Sociales de los Estados Unidos. En estos años se digitalizó una selección de todo el conjunto de documentos dejados por el autor de El viejo y el mar y Por quién doblan las campanas. Como bien dijo la presidenta del Patrimonio Nacional de Cuba, Margarita Ruíz, se trata de una muestra de las cosas positivas que pueden realizarse en conjunto entre Cuba y los Estados Unidos.
Vía | El Universal.mx
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Memo to Jeff Bezos
Dear Jeff,
As 2008 comes to a close I find I’m less of a Kindle advocate than I was earlier in the year. My new iPhone is partially to blame. After all, it’s one of the reasons I wrote this critical post on my other blog yesterday. It’s not just about the iPhone though. Amazon is [...] Continue reading
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iPhone/iPod Touch alternative power sources
Recently I discussed my power problems with using my iPhone as an e-book reader. Today I’ll discuss a couple of add-on power sources that I use and have previously reviewed at other websites.
Perhaps the most cost-effective, especially if used with rechargeable batteries, solution is the Turbo Charge, pictured above. The unit sells for [...] Continue reading
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Changement de plate-forme vidéo
Après avoir longtemps travaillé avec notre partenaire vidéo vpod.tv, nous sommes en train de changer de plate-forme pour plusieurs raisons :
- vpod a changé de business model et ne fait plus de site B2C et se concentre sur le B2B avec des solutions haut de gamme et donc chères, incompatibles à ce jour avec le modèle économique des communautés thématiques
- vpod ne maintient plus son ancienne API 1.0 et il fallait réécrire l’interface vers une API 2.0
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New Year’s Eve
A look at NYE. Continue reading
Posted in 2008, 2009, A-Featured, Current Events, Food, Food and Drink, NYE, Reference, Uncategorized, drink, new year's eve
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the economics of video games
We don’t talk about games here as much as we have in the past, but this John Lanchester essay is worth a look on your way to the New Year. One paragraph stands out to me, a brief consideration of the economics of creation:
It seems clear to me that by the time my children are adults, video gaming will be a medium whose importance and cultural ubiquity are at least as great as that of film or television. Whether it will be an artistic medium of equivalent importance is less clear. One of the problems is that the new consoles are difficult and expensive to create games for: no one can create a game for the PS3 or Xbox 360 without access to significant amounts of capital. The next generation of consoles is a long way away, and this will likely be even more the case by the time they’ve grown up. As the tools of filmmaking have got cheaper, those for game making have got more expensive; this might mean that the game industry never gets to move on from the need to create blockbuster equivalents. Already the industry suffers from an excessive proliferation of sequels – always a sign that the moneymen are in charge. Games do a good job of competing with blockbusters, but it would be a pity if that was the summit of their artistic development.
The interesting thing about the Internet, for better or for worse, is that it’s generally leveled the field of cultural creation: anyone can create a blog, upload photos, put videos on YouTube. Games – in Lanchester’s admittedly limited view – seem to be marching in the other direction.
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iPod tablet with seven- or nine-inch screen in the fall? Here we go again, e-book-lovers! True rumor?
An iPod tablet with a seven- or nine-inch screen may show up in fall 2009, according to a Michael Arrington’s report in Tech Crunch.
In the past we’ve had our hearts broken by rumors that didn’t pan out. But could it be that Apple has simply been delaying the device for commercial reasons—that such [...] Continue reading
Etymology and Scandal
Anatoly’s yearly gleanings. Continue reading
2009, l’année du basculement
L’encre et le papier électroniques sont devenus une réalité industrielle dans les plus grands groupes mondiaux, fabricants de composants, papetiers, imprimeurs. Les brevets abondent, les usines se montent pour répondre aux enjeux colossaux du rempl… Continue reading
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ePubWriter for small publishers and self-publishers? A TeleRead challenge to the open source community
Over at Twilight Times Books, publisher Lida Quillen recently came out with “advance promo” editions of The Solomon Scandals in both E and P.
I can’t tell you how much of a bother it’s been to get Scandals properly into different formats, such as ePub, HTML and PDF. Imagine having to worry about corrections as [...] Continue reading
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