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--, originally uploaded by Pablo Mercado.

Land Shark


Land Shark, originally uploaded by Pablo Mercado.

Le Rhume


Le Rhume, originally uploaded by Pablo Mercado.

this fella and about 167 of his friends have been hanging out in my head for the last week...

les abeilles


les abeilles, originally uploaded by Pablo Mercado.

Escape From Sketchbook Mountain

pato...pato...ganso!


pato...pato...ganso!, originally uploaded by Pablo Mercado.

turtle in a hat shell


turtle in a hat shell, originally uploaded by Pablo Mercado.

lagarto


lagarto, originally uploaded by Pablo Mercado.

luciernaga curiosa


luciernaga curiosa, originally uploaded by Pablo Mercado.

Attitude thérapeutique


Attitude thérapeutique, originally uploaded by Pablo Mercado.

On the PATH to Hoboken


On the PATH to Hoboken, originally uploaded by Pablo Mercado.

beezlebug!


beezlebug, originally uploaded by Pablo Mercado.

Les bogues aiment ma logique

Oh My Gosh Zoooooom!


Oh My Gosh Zoooooom!, originally uploaded by Pablo Mercado.

Un superbicho es un bicho de ficción, cuyas características superan las del bicho clásico, generalmente con poderes sobrebichosos.

el polenito infeliz


el polenito infeliz, originally uploaded by Pablo Mercado.

El polinito infeliz… cuyos dedos buscan mi nariz…

que es un polenito?

segun lo que dice la cafeina la historia de los polenes sigue asi:

Érase una vez, la Diosa de las Flores fue seducida por el Dios de Los Narices. Pero el Dios de los Narices no era … noble … en su amor y pronto la abandonó...

Triste y abandonada la Diosa de las Flores contó todo a su papa, el Rey de los Angiospermas. El Rey no pudo contener su ira y declaró la guerra contra El Dios de Los Narices…

Desde entonces cada año los soldados del ejercito del Rey se forman en gran filas, declaran su lealtad y se lanzan al aire en busqueda de narices para atacar.

A los soldados del Rey, nosotros, los anarizados, les llamamos “polen” – pero la Diosa de Las Flores les llama “heroes”.

Explorador...


— )( -, originally uploaded by Pablo Mercado.

Paper Lantern Supports GData Protocol

I just upgraded Paper Lantern to support the gdata protocol. What does this mean? Well, it means you can use Paper Lantern to post to the new blogger.com blogs!!!

Of course, it is unclear to me why you would not use ecto or the free bleezer.

But maybe you like the simplicity of Paper Lantern ?

Paper Lantern for Intel!

I finally built a version of Paper Lantern for Intel based macs. Next step is to add GData support…

beta la fea

blogger.com is out of beta, nice! I guess I should hurry up and finish adding GData support to paper lantern.

No Campaigns Are Local, All Campaigns Are Local...

The following quote from Danah Boyd’s recent article exploring the concept of friendship in online social networks makes me wonder how Youtube, citizen-journalism, blogging, etc will change campaign communication strategy.

When context is defined by whom one Friends, and addressing multiple audiences simultaneously complicates all relationships, people must make hard choices. Joshua Meyrowitz (1985) highlights this problem in reference to television. In the early 1960s, Stokely Carmichael regularly addressed segregated black and white audiences about the values of Black Power. Depending on his audience, he used very different rhetorical styles. As his popularity grew, he began to attract media attention and was invited to speak on TV and radio. Unfortunately, this was more of a curse than a blessing because the audiences he would reach through these mediums included both black and white communities. With no way to reconcile the two different rhetorical styles, he had to choose. In choosing to maintain his roots in front of white listeners, Carmichael permanently alienated white society from the messages of Black Power.

Because a blogger or citizen-journalist has the ability to … record a politician’s message and spread it to untargeted audiences, the politician risks alienating those untargeted audiences. Even in the broadcast era a politician campaigning locally could rely on the fact that his local campaigning would only be covered locally, and the politician could heavily tailor his message without fear of this targeted message reaching untargeted audiences. Nowadays, a blogger or an audience-member with a video camera can post snippets of video to YouTube and a locally-tailored rhetoric can seen and heard by audiences to whom the message was not tailored, with negative or unpredictable results…

Damage control that was possible in the past is not possible today. In the past, relationships with information gate-keepers could be leveraged to rein in a spreading message, either by limiting publication and broadcast, or by introducing or elevating a competing message. The media lanscape today makes these efforts useless.

Anyhow, these are just some thoughts that Dana Boyd’s article sparked in my mind.

Forward Together PAC implements OpenID

I hope to write a more informative post on the subject of Digital Identity and Politics, but for now I just have an announcement: Mark Warner’s Forward Together PAC is now an OpenID consumer!

What the heck does this mean?

Well, it means you can sign up for an account with the PAC with an OpenID, or link you existing account with your OpenID, and once that is done, you can sign into the www.forwardtogetherpac.com using your OpenID !!!

Why is this important?

TBW