Tinc cent milions de coses que hauria d’estar fent, el més important d’ells acabant Molts granets de sorra, però això m’obliga a deixar abandonats tants altres projectes que sap greu. Per tant, agafo cinc minuts per explicar-vos alguna o altra tècnica per treure el màxim profit del Twitter, com us havia promès. M’acaba de començar a seguir l’escriptor Francesc Serés. Feia temps que el seguia, des que el vaig veure presentar el llibre Catalunya al mirall de la immigració del demògraf genial Andreu Domingo, contribuidor de What’s up with Catalonia?, i avui he vist un tuit seu sobre una editorial …
Jumping over the gatekeepers with 140 characters
(This is the translation of an article I wrote for a Catalan audience, in DiariAra, on January 23.) The two weeks before the agreement on the new Catalan president were some of the most depressing and nasty on Catalan social media that I’ve seen in a long time. There were moments when I wondered if this is how wars start. We are entering a new period of maturity on social media. It only took a few incidents to happen for people to realize that Twitter is no joke, no simple reporter of breakfast banalities, and no messenger app. What goes on …
Catalonia’s debt to Twitter
How do you change the world peacefully and democratically in the 21st century? By connecting, educating, and getting the outside world to listen. Catalans have spent the last six years determined to have their say in a country that neither listens to them nor respects them, and they have done so in the most exemplary fashion: with five massive peaceful, smilingdemonstrations, with debates, conferences, and canvassing, with citizen-led and government-supported though non-binding referenda, and by simply and steadfastly demanding the most basic of democratic rights which Spain refuses to grant: to vote on their political future. At this moment when people are questioning Twitter’s future, I love …
Periscope – Twitter releases its own video streaming app (de pigs…)
I’ve been hounding Periscope for a beta copy of their software from the moment I heard about it. It didn’t help. Thank goodness (for them and me!) they released the program today and I was able to start testing it without bombarding them with any more bad poetry. Curiously enough, I found out about Periscope as I was attending a conference on “Proximity Journalism” at the CosmoCaixa Auditorium in Barcelona. Live-streaming video seems a key component of proximity journalism, in my opinion. For those of you who don’t know, Meerkat and Periscope are applications which permit streaming video from the …