Dear Lord!

For Christ’s sake. It’s been a while since I’ve been here, isn’t? After looking at the blog stats I don’t feel really excited with the results. Not a single visit in weeks XD

Anyways, I’ve just found out better ways to create the podcast and got myself a microphone. Nevertheless, I think I’ll wait for December for the podcast. Not sure about it. Maybe I’ve got to ask Jackie her opinion. I wonder if the podcast will be good enough if we record the show using Skype? I’ve seen (or heard) a few podcasts in which people record their talk in programs like Skype and the result is not very good.

So, returning to the main subject of the blog, I faced myself with this Google Project which caught my attention. I think you already know about it, but I just felt like passing the information on too. The project, which is called Project 10 to the 100th. They intend to gather people’s idea and make the best of them true with an astonishing budget of US$ 10 million!!!

Alongside with Jackie we entered one of her projects to Google 10 to the 100th and we intend to send another one. Still in work though in enhancement status.

Une autre chose! Browsing some blogs in my bloglist I just found this one. The Big Picture, from boston.com is a Photography blog. Wonderful images, worth a visit. I think I’m gonna add them to my blogroll.

I think it’s enough for now

See you someday.

how about podcasting?

Just came from a friend’s place and we’ve talked about starting a podcasting. This idea I had came while listening to some podcasts and after realise this would be a great idea and bring an interesting content in a different way. Of course I’d still write in the blog but there would be a newer touch and the presence of this friend of mine.

Right now we’re in idle but we’re gonna write things down on paper first and choose some subjects to talk about to. The main idea of the blog though will remain as the leading subject. We think this is going to be fun too and it’s also a way to improve out technical journalist skills

Later I’ll bring you some more news

bye bye

A little update about the blog situation

Even though I might sound a little bit cocky saying this, but I’m here today to talk about the few blogs updates and what I think I should be writing from now on.

Currently you can see now some RSS Feed in the right column of the blog. My intention is to share a lot of important links from websites about culture, human development, humanitarian decisions and the life in the city. I have a reason for that, don’t worry, I’m gonna explain it right now.

I’ve always wanted to talk and write about the big problems in the world and think about solutions to them. It looks like the best way to do this right now is to share this idea obviously. My intention is to do some analysis under the humanitarian crisis in the big cities, based on international documents, forums, papers, articles, everything that is related to the ideal of sharing knowledge.

Of course I will write about other things in general sometime, but the main focus is going to be the human life and social relationships in its whole.

The inspiration of this came while organizing my bookmarks in del.icio.us and I found an article about the condition of people in the greatest slums around the world, be it in Rio de Janeiro or in Mumbai. Also, I’m currently working in a thesis about the cordiality in the Bahian society, but not the cordiality as something good, instead a cordiality like a bad thing for the self development.

Many issues I think will be shared in this blog. Later I’m going to update the about me and about the blog sessions, with a more specific content and more organized.

I hope things will grow better now

Something to read

As usual, for any of my vacations, I tried to start to read something today. And while digging for some book in my little library I found a book I bought many months ago but as a matter of fact I didn’t read it.

It’s a classic indeed, and it’s in British English, but not only that, the language is very difficult and I think that’s the reason why I dropped the book in the moment I started to read it months ago. Shakespeare has always been one of the biggest writers for me (and for half of the population =D) and even in Portuguese it’s not very easy to read his works.

But I know that I’ve got to do a lot of reading if I intend to learn English in it’s totality, although that’s impossible because languages are in constant change  always. I think you got my point, though.

I’ve to say that what I learned about English it’s thanks to my own perseverance. My urgency to speak English dates back when I was little actually, and although my family don’t speak other languages at all I feel great to teach them some tips sometimes and to contribute with other people’s English practice.

I won’t change the subject drastically so let’s back to main idea of the post. Reading in English has always been grateful for me. Be it news, blogs, books or watching TV, it’s always a pleasure to discover different words and the same feeling takes place when I’m in my french classes.

I think reading in another language can not only give you a bigger idea of what you need to learn in that language, but it gives you the chance to read more books Just think of it, not all the books in the human history are in Portuguese, or English, or French, but English has a lot of books and if you are a reading addicted the chance to get closer to all the books ever made is better.

There are both British and American authors for example which books cannot be found here in Brazil. So, the possibility to read something about them is also greater.

Another great example of the greatness of the English language (please Portuguese speaks do not be mad about this, because I do love our language ) is when you got to read international news. For instance, there are wonderful and with great credibility journalism websites such as BBC’s and CNN’s. For those who enjoy and give a chance to international news and that think they’re important in our everyday lives these sites are what it lacks to your bookmark.

Of course they’re widely known, but I say one never knows

Those who want to learn a different language in Brazil, or anywhere in the world, have no excuse of lack of material and guidelines, etc. The web is here for everyone, well, not everyone, well you may count the 40 million Brazilian people with internet access, that’s a good amount.

Later I might write about why we should learn another language. For now, that’s it.

Quick tip of the day 01 [updated]

Just after posting the text about Learning I went to the BBC World Service website to find some interesting thing to listen to. And so I faced myself with the programme Outlook.

If you go to the Tuesday 1st July programme, there’s an interesting interview with documentary filmmaker Sean Langan telling about his frightfull experience of a three month kidnap in Pakistan, while filming the Taleban training camps. It appears that he and his translator were taken hostage by the militants which ironically he intended to interview.

His interview is in the first part of the show, so you don’t need to wait a lof of time to get listen his testimonial, but the rest of the show is quite good too.

Quick tip of the day!

Update: Visit Sean Langan’s website here: http://www.seanlangan.co.uk/