Taking part in Wikipedia has been an unforgettable experience. It is quite an experience to notice that so many people try hard to make Wikipedia a serious and intellectual encyclopedia. If something is not written as an encyclopedia, they do state that it should be written in another way, and it is great to see that […]
The Wikipedia experience
mayo 4th, 2012 · Comments Off on The Wikipedia experience
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Yingjin Zhang, Spring Subway and Chinese cinema
febrero 28th, 2012 · Comments Off on Yingjin Zhang, Spring Subway and Chinese cinema
The sources selected when describing the movie Spring Subway, have been all written by people who know about the subject of Chinese cinema. Yingjin Zhang, who wrote the book Chinese national cinema, is an Associate Professor of Chinese, Comparative Literature, and Film Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington, so not only is he Chinese, but knows about […]
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Oriental Music and the 60s
diciembre 16th, 2011 · Comments Off on Oriental Music and the 60s
As Hugh Gregory (1999) stresses, in the 60s, American society turned its head to the East, to discover new ways of thinking, of understanding life and of living it. It was the perfect complement for the hippie movement: a thousand-year-old phylosophy with great ideas about physical and mental peace, as Ricardo Ribera (2003) reminds us. Thus, […]
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Twitter and ways to have a full Twitter experience
noviembre 27th, 2011 · Comments Off on Twitter and ways to have a full Twitter experience
Be careful with Twitter: According to Ben Parr (2011), the micro-blogging service has more than 100 million active users and surpassed 200 million tweets per day in June but has since jumped to nearly 250 million daily tweets. The growth has been tremendous: Twitter had around 100 million tweets per day in January 2011″. Apart from that, of those 100 million […]
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