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… is Piñera? No, having a Facebook-account is not enough.   Chile has no Obama. Unfortunately. At least not to my knowledge.    I am talking about "Obama" as a concept, more than a person. The person still has to proove himself but the concept is already proven. The concept of being a "new kind of politician", someone "like us". Seemingly distant from traditional partisan power-groups and definitely with a last name we havent heard of before.We - the people - want (Leer más)

Aspirantes a la Casa Blanca: analistas descartan renegociación de TLCs Precandidatos del Partido Demócrata Hillary Clinton y Barack Obama. El profesor Gustavo Martínez dirige el Centro de Estudios de Opinión Pública. Peter Murphy Lewis,académico del Instituto de Estudios Internacionales, especializado en Relaciones Internacionales y Ciencia Política. Gustavo Martínez y Peter Lewis, académicos de la Universidad de Chile, analizaron la disputa electoral en Estados Unidos y coincidieron en que los asuntos bélicos y económicos internos serán cruciales en la determinación del (Leer más)

Wednesday, August 6, 2008 4:31 AM CDT Latin America Reference Weak Ploy In Election By Peter Murphy Lewis Latin America has had a few notable weeks in the U.S. media and its presidential elections. Unfortunately, it was used as an instrument of attack, needless to say a weak one, by the Grand Old Party Candidate, Arizona Senator John McCain, and his staff to slow the positive press coverage that Illinois Senator and Democratic Candidate Barack Obama has received after making (Leer más)

Now we know why Ron Paul is smiling.UPDATE: See the YouTube video belowTrevor Lyman, a supporter of libertarian presidential candidate Ron Paul, decided to help his preferred candidate raise money. He bought the domain ThisNovember5th.com, the purpose of which was to encourage people to make a small donation on that day. The campaign was ridiculously successful. This past Monday, the site raised $4 million for Ron Paul's presidential campaign.Interestingly enough, the site itself did not even collect the donations, but (Leer más)

Blogger Ethan Zuckerman says that we should not pay too much attention to innovations just because they are shiny (ie, because of the "oh neat!" factor), but rather because they are "crunchy," that is, because they have lasting and widespread value. I'm not sure if the innovation I'm about to write about is shiny or crunchy, but I know that I like it. It's called AddArt and, according to the blog Smart Mobs, it's a plug-in for the Mozilla browser (Leer más)