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		<title>El gran hermano te está expulsando.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:30:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No me aburre hasta la saciedad, ni como experimento psicológico, ni como pretexto para evitar el tedio o como pasatiempo preferido. Más bien lo hizo en su momento, en su primera edición que fue la que ví casi completamente. Pero siempre hubo algo en este programa que me hizo entretenerme con mi imaginación y fue el preguntame que [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thespanishintown.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3518444&amp;post=274&amp;subd=thespanishintown&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p>No me aburre hasta la saciedad, ni como experimento psicológico, ni como pretexto para evitar el tedio o como pasatiempo preferido. Más bien lo hizo en su momento, en su primera edición que fue la que ví casi completamente. Pero siempre hubo algo en este programa que me hizo entretenerme con mi imaginación y fue el preguntame que pautas de comportamiento tendria que poner en práctica ahí dentro para que  fuese expulsado del programa. Eso mismo es lo que me gustaria preguntaros a vosotros mediante este &#8220;post&#8221;.</p>
<p> Pudes encontrar ayuda pinchando <a href="http://www.studyspanish.com/lessons/conditional.htm">aquí</a></p>
<p>Espero vuestras respuestas.</p>
<p>Un saludo.</p>
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		<title>Marilyn y tú.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 09:08:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Andy Warhol : Marilyn Diptych  1962 (Tate modern,London).   Esde de sobra conocido que Andy Warhol pintó un buen número de versiones para retratar a Marilyn Monroe además de otras personas de reconocida popularidad   en los 60. De todo ello ha quedado esa personalidad todavia muy vigente de sus retratos y sus retratados, elevados a una [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thespanishintown.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3518444&amp;post=206&amp;subd=thespanishintown&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> Andy Warhol :<em> <span class="work_title">Marilyn Diptych</span>  1962 (Tate modern,London).</em><a href="http://thespanishintown.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/t03093_8.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-207" src="http://thespanishintown.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/t03093_8.jpg?w=256&#038;h=181" alt="" width="256" height="181" /></a></p>
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<p>Esde de sobra conocido que Andy Warhol pintó un buen número de versiones para retratar a Marilyn Monroe además de otras personas de reconocida popularidad   en los 60. De todo ello ha quedado esa personalidad todavia muy vigente de sus retratos y sus retratados, elevados a una cierta categoría icónica.</p>
<p>Gracias a el <em><strong> &#8220;Institute for Dynamic Educational Advancement&#8221;</strong></em> Propongo que compongas la tuya propia pinchando <a href="http://www.webexhibits.org/colorart/marilyns.html">aquí</a></p>
<p>Una vez compuesta &#8220;tu marilyn &#8221; a tu antojo, sugiero que tu companero (o tu mismo)  describa los colores en los rasgos faciales de la imagen compuesta.</p>
<p>Esto puede ser de ayuda</p>
<p><a href="http://www.spanishvocabulary.ca/body/body_in_Spanish.htm">partes del cuerpo </a></p>
<p><a href="http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Spanish/Vocabulary/Colors">colores</a></p>
<p>Espero vuestras respuestas</p>
<p>Un saludo.</p>
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		<title>Estoy solo y no hay nadie en el espejo (II).</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 08:40:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quizás no sean verdades universales ni máximas inamovibles pero puedes ordenarlas según se acerquen a lo que tú consideras que  está más cerca de ser cierto o no , razonando dicho orden. Espero vuestras respuestas. Un saludo.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thespanishintown.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3518444&amp;post=232&amp;subd=thespanishintown&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p>Quizás no sean verdades universales ni máximas inamovibles pero puedes ordenarlas según se acerquen a lo que tú consideras que  está más cerca de ser cierto o no , razonando dicho orden.</p>
<p>Espero vuestras respuestas.</p>
<p>Un saludo.</p>
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		<title>Estoy solo y no hay nadie en el espejo.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:05:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Siempre me llamaron la atención las citas y los aforismos. Pude haber seleccionado centenares de ellas, procedentes de diferentes maestros de la literatura,el pensamiento o la política, que expresaron mucho colocando apenas unas pocas palabras con la precisión de un cirujano. Al final me he decantado por alguien de habla hispana que se encuentra entre [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thespanishintown.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3518444&amp;post=262&amp;subd=thespanishintown&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p>Siempre me llamaron la atención las citas y los aforismos. Pude haber seleccionado centenares de ellas, procedentes de diferentes maestros de la literatura,el pensamiento o la política, que expresaron mucho colocando apenas unas pocas palabras con la precisión de un cirujano. Al final me he decantado por alguien de habla hispana que se encuentra entre mis predilectos en este arte. Se trata del genial escritor argentino : Jorge Luis Borges. Os recojo nueve de sus citas que supuse interesantes.</p>
<p><span><span><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>¿ De qué otra forma se puede amenazar que no sea de muerte? Lo interesante, lo original, sería que alguien lo amenace a uno con la inmortalidad.</strong></span></span></span></p>
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<p><span><span><strong><span><span><span>Biografías: Son el ejercicio de la minucia, un absurdo. Algunas constan exclusivamente de cambios de domicilio.</span></span></span> </strong></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><strong>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;</strong><strong></strong></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><strong>El infierno y el paraiso me parecen desproporcionados. Los actos de los hombres no merecen tanto.</strong></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><strong>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-</strong><strong></strong></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><strong>Estoy solo y no hay nadie en el espejo.</strong></span></span></p>
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<div><strong>La muerte es una vida vivida. La vida es una muerte que viene.</strong></div>
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<div><strong>El tema de la envidia es muy español.Los españoles siempre están pensando en la envidia.Para decir que algo es bueno dicen : Es envidiable.</strong></div>
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<div><strong>Hay que tener cuidado al elegir a los enemigos poque uno termina pareciéndose a ellos.</strong></div>
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<div><span><span><span><span><span><span><strong>He firmado tantos ejemplares de mis libros que el día que me muera va a tener un gran valor uno que no lleve mi firma.</strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<div><span><span><span><span><span><span><strong>La duda es uno de los nombres de la inteligencia.</strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<div><span><span><span><span><span><span><strong>Enlaces recomendados:</strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
<div><span><span><span><span><span><span><a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Luis_Borges">http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Luis_Borges</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
<div><span><span><span><span><span><span><a href="http://cvc.cervantes.es/actcult/borges/">http://cvc.cervantes.es/actcult/borges/</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
<div><span><span><span><span><span><span><a href="http://www.borges.pitt.edu/english.php">http://www.borges.pitt.edu/english.php</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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		<title>Prospecto.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:47:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thespanishconversationclub</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Como puedes comprobar se trata de un prospecto adjuntado en la caja de  un medicamento. Supón que este prospecto es lo que encuentras una vez comprado el medicamento . ¿Podrias revelar la conversación que tuviste con el doctor antes de que firmara tu receta?. Espero vuestras respuestas.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thespanishintown.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3518444&amp;post=227&amp;subd=thespanishintown&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p>Como puedes comprobar se trata de un prospecto adjuntado en la caja de  un medicamento.</p>
<p>Supón que este prospecto es lo que encuentras una vez comprado el medicamento . ¿Podrias revelar la conversación que tuviste con el doctor antes de que firmara tu receta?.</p>
<p>Espero vuestras respuestas.</p>
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		<title>F1.Circuito urbano de Valencia.</title>
		<link>http://thespanishintown.wordpress.com/2008/08/25/f1circuito-urbano-de-valencia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:17:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thespanishconversationclub</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Se acaba de celebrar la primera edición del gran premio de F1 en Valencia sobre un circuito urbano. Puedes descargar el plano del circuito aquí  o si prefieres puedes verlo directamente Aquí Sugiero que simulemos una visita de un día al circuito en la que supuestamete vas a disfrutar de el gran premio de automovilismo teniendo [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thespanishintown.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3518444&amp;post=198&amp;subd=thespanishintown&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p>Se acaba de celebrar la primera edición del gran premio de F1 en Valencia sobre un circuito urbano.</p>
<p>Puedes descargar el plano del circuito <a href="http://thespanishintown.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/plano_general_evento_circuit.pdf">aquí</a>  o si prefieres puedes verlo directamente <a href="http://www.docstoc.com/docs/document-preview.aspx?doc_id=1025165">Aquí</a></p>
<p>Sugiero que simulemos una visita de un día al circuito en la que supuestamete vas a disfrutar de el gran premio de automovilismo teniendo en cuenta los siguientes perfiles.</p>
<p>1) Vas sólo.Has sido invitado por alguien pero la F1 no te interesa lo más mínimo.</p>
<p>2) Vas con tus dos hijos (Rosa de 5 y Jorge de 11).</p>
<p>3) Vas con un amigo/a .Ambos soy apasionados del deporte.</p>
<p>Puedes contarme  con todo detalle cómo vas a pasar el día (que harás en el circuito y cómo te moverás por el mismo) razonando el por qué de cada movimento.</p>
<p>Un saludo.</p>
<p>Espero vuestras respuestas.</p>
<p>Enlaces recomendados:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.circuitourbanovalencia.es/">http://www.circuitourbanovalencia.es/</a></p>
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		<title>The art of hosting a good conversation online by Howard Rheingold.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Article source: http://www.rheingold.com/texts/artonlinehost.html The Art of Hosting Good Conversations Online WHAT AN ONLINE HOST WANTS TO ACHIEVE:   By Howard Rheingold The ongoing goal is civil discourse: all kinds of people having conversations and arguments about a variety of subjects and treating each other decently.  Authentic conversations &#8212; from the head, the heart, and the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thespanishintown.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3518444&amp;post=202&amp;subd=thespanishintown&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p>The Art of Hosting Good Conversations Online</p>
<p><strong>WHAT AN ONLINE HOST WANTS TO ACHIEVE:</strong></p>
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<p>By Howard Rheingold</p>
<ul type="disc">
<li>The ongoing goal is civil discourse: all kinds of people having conversations and arguments about a variety of subjects and treating each other decently. </li>
<li>Authentic conversations &#8212; from the head, the heart, and the gut. </li>
<li>A feeling of ownership. Participants become evangelists. </li>
<li>A spirit of group creativity, experimentation, exploration, good will. </li>
<li>A shared committment to work together toward better communication, better conversations. If this is achieved, nothing else is needed. </li>
<li>A system where people figure out where the conversation is going, by themselves, and settle conflicts among themselves. </li>
<li>A place where everybody builds social capital individually by improving each other&#8217;s knowledge capital collaboratively.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>GOOD ONLINE DISCUSSIONS:</strong></p>
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<li>Enable people to make contact with other people. </li>
<li>Enable people to entertain themselves rather than being just the passive consumers of canned entertainment. </li>
<li>Enable people to create a gift economy for knowledge-sharing. </li>
<li>Create conditions for ongoing collaboration that return individual effort with a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts. </li>
<li>Provide a way for people to get to know each other beyond their usual masks. </li>
<li>Make newcomers feel welcomed, contributors valued, recreational hasslers ignored.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>A HOST IS&#8230;</strong></p>
<ul type="disc">
<li>A host is like a host at a party. You don&#8217;t automatically throw a great party by hiring a room and buying some beer. Someone needs to invite an interesting mix of people, greet people at the door, make introductions, start conversations, avert fisticuffs, encourage people to let their hair down and entertain each other. </li>
<li>A host is also an authority. The host is the person who enforces whatever rules there may be, and will therefore be seen by many as a species of law enforcement officer. </li>
<li>A host is also an exemplar. Good hosts model the behavior they want others to emulate: read carefully and post entertainingly, informatively, and economically, acknowledge other people by name, assume good will, assert trust until convinced otherwise , add knowledge, offer help , be slow to anger, apologize when wrong, politely ask for clarification, exercise patience when your temper flares. </li>
<li>A host is also a cybrarian. Good hosts nurture the community memory, pointing newcomers to archives, providing links to related conversations, past and present, hunting down resources to add to the collective pool of knowledge &#8212; and teaching others to do it. Well performed voluntary cybrarianship is contagious. </li>
<li>A host can be a character in the show, but the show is collaborative improvisation, with the audience onstage. </li>
<li>All hosts are members of a community of hosts. You can&#8217;t host communities without communities of hosts.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>WHAT A HOST DOES, WHAT A HOST TRIES TO GROW</strong></p>
<ul type="disc">
<li>Communities can&#8217;t be manufactured, but you can design the conditions under which they are most likely to emerge, and encourage their growth when they do. </li>
<li>Communities don&#8217;t just happen automatically when you provide communication tools: under the right conditions, online communities grow. They are gardened. </li>
<li>All online systems tend to fail to cohere without careful intervention. But the intervention has to be ground-up, not top-down. </li>
<li>All online social systems are challenged by human social foibles and technological bugs that tend to split groups apart. </li>
<li>Positive effort is required to create the conditions and garden the growth of a self-sustaining group. </li>
<li>Clear rules, sparsely enforced, with an explicit expectation that the community&#8217;s own norms will emerge later, is important at first. Establish the top-down part at the beginning, then move on. Those who don&#8217;t like it will leave. The rest will make up their own minds after they get to know each other and the system. </li>
<li>The kind of rules established before opening day helps determine the kind of crowd that will be found there a year later. The early crowd has a strong impact on later arrivals. </li>
<li>Making rules after launching, or changing them from the top down is a mistake. </li>
<li>Keep the rules as few as possible. Keep them simple and based on ordinary human courtesy. </li>
<li>Within months, each community will want the tools and opportunity to make their own rules. This can be facilitated by means of a process handbook for democratic decision-making, and access to people who have experienced the process themselves. </li>
<li>Only when everybody shares a clear understanding of a community&#8217;s social contract can hosts model behavor according to the clearly stated social contract. </li>
<li>Eventually, natural hosts emerge in each community, and existing hosts should scout and mentor them. </li>
<li>One point of heart is worth ten points of intellect when recruiting hosts. </li>
<li>Communities can learn to create their own social contracts and choose their own forms of governance, based on widely agreed, explicitly described, simple statements of purpose and principle, but it isn&#8217;t easy.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>HOST BEHAVIOR</strong></p>
<ul type="disc">
<li>Remember that both civility and nastiness are contagious. </li>
<li>Patience is rule numbers one through three: Deliberately add a time delay on your emotional responses before you make any public posting or private e-mail. </li>
<li>In most cases, NOT saying anything outside the community of hosts is the best decision. The first art of the host is the knowledge of how and when not to act. </li>
<li>Bring your situation to the host community if you are angry, puzzled, or otherwise uncertain about what to do. </li>
<li>You need to be cautious about learning by trial-and-error because errors at the beginning can set long-ranging reactions in motion. Establish trust early or expect suspicion for a long time. </li>
<li>Bend over backwards to be fair and civil when challenged. You are performing the public drama of the foundation myth of the community. </li>
<li>Have fun! Signal that it&#8217;s okay to experiment, okay to not take yourself and the whole enterprise too seriously. </li>
<li>Hosts represent the authority of what few rules there are. People will challenge you just because you represent authority. </li>
<li>Use Aikido: One ounce of elegance and grace is worth ten pounds of argument. You can charm or seduce discussions back on topic, and conflicts away from the brink of brawl, but you can&#8217;t force them. </li>
<li>You feed the behavior of challengers when you lash out at them. </li>
<li>The way hosts respond to public conflict with citizens, especially the first such conflicts, provides the opportunity to wield the most powerful tool for modelling civil discourse. Do it right, and the community absorbs the lesson. It&#8217;s also the most dangerous time, if you react angrily, unfairly, or even sarcastically, feeding a downward emotional spiral. </li>
<li>Challenges are relatively infrequent if you handle the first incoming barrages gracefully. After that, challenges will be less frequent and less important. However, the opportunity and necessity for the host to model hospitable behavior continue as the community grows. </li>
<li>Force backfires on authority online. You have to persuade and pull because pushing is an automatic loss for authority. </li>
<li>Avoid taking sides. Not all conflict is to be avoided. If a conflict is important enough to have its hooks into the attention of a large number of members of the population: use it as an occasion to remind people that civility is essential if discussions are to cohere into communities. Conflict tests the boundaries of the community. </li>
<li>In the long run, this is about democracy. Many communities of practice and interest thrive under autocratic moderation, and they are useful as informed, interactive versions of refereeed journals, but the power of increasing returns &#8212; where the community itself directs the growth of its size and value &#8212; can only emerge from an infectious spirit of voluntary collaboration. </li>
<li>Don&#8217;t freeze a topic to make a point. Think about whether the topic belongs to more people than just you. People get really pissed if you use a host power unjustly. </li>
<li>Hosts get to know people &#8212; from the beginning. Introduce yourself, let people get to know you. Be a good natured servant of the conversation, but you don&#8217;t have to be characterless, egoless, or colorless. </li>
<li>Welcome new people, and after the first ones get to know each other, continue to encourage oldtimers to welcome newcomers. Eventually, the community takes over the public welcoming function. </li>
<li>People&#8217;s first reactions are most important. Praise them by name. Be interested. Read their profiles and point them to information that you think will be personally relevant to them. </li>
<li>Names have power. Put your newcomer up on a pedestal by name, for doing something that adds to the community, and that newcomer will amplify that behavior forever after. </li>
<li>Communicate via email with both promising newcomers and troublemakers. </li>
<li>Discourage snitching. Don&#8217;t stir people up in private, but always respond to email queries about social problems by encouraging people to act on their principles publicly. </li>
<li>Encourage people to talk among themselves. </li>
<li>Check your participation files and learn who your regulars are. Don&#8217;t spook your lurkers, but encourage them when they come out. </li>
<li>Hosts catalyze, facilitate, nurture &#8212; and get outta the way. </li>
<li>Let the community co-create its own dramas, shared language, founding myth. These all must precede discussion of creating a social contract &#8212; dramas that all witness and participate in, shared language, rituals, myths, jokes, customs are how people get to know and value one another enough to want to go to the trouble of creating a social contract. </li>
<li>Be a model cybrarian. Show people how to start new topics or suggest them. Show them how to use the tools (links from posts, etc.). Be the memory of the conference &#8212; point and link to relevant info in the past or elsewhere in the community. Encourage others to search and retrieve and link info that is valued by other members of the group &#8212; and praise people who do so. </li>
<li>Revive old topics by adding to them from time to time. </li>
<li>Retire old and obsolete topics: put up a list of topics to retire, with a week for public pleading. If people plead, encourage them to revive. Then retire the rest. When in doubt, ask. In most circumstances, don&#8217;t kill a topic if you can retire it. </li>
<li>Pose questions for the group to consider. </li>
<li>Encourage people to hide long responses or big graphics. </li>
<li>Act as fairwitness. Point people to the classics of Netiquette. Point out the pitfalls of the medium that cause people to misunderstand each other (lack of visual and aural cues).</li>
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		<title>El debate del hombre palo (II).</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A mi juicio, el debate tiene poca relevancia si se plantea en términos meramente jurídicos o de legalidad. Sin demasiado conocimiento de lo que dice la ley y su proceder  en  este asunto en particular , me hubiese valido un testimonio en boca de cualquier jurista o político de turno, que  dijese ,en una versión mundana y muy abreviada  algo así [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thespanishintown.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3518444&amp;post=183&amp;subd=thespanishintown&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p>A mi juicio, el debate tiene poca relevancia si se plantea en términos meramente jurídicos o de legalidad. Sin demasiado conocimiento de lo que dice la ley y su proceder  en  este asunto en particular , me hubiese valido un testimonio en boca de cualquier jurista o político de turno, que  dijese ,en una versión mundana y muy abreviada  algo así como: &#8220;Aquí hay unas normas  que cumplir, un mismo baremo justo para todos ,el que quiera cualquier tipo de publicidad que la pague, que tramite la pertinente  licencia&#8221;.  Asunto Zanjado.</p>
<p>Solamente que en este caso a mi entender no ha sido así. Basta echar un ligero vistazo a las declaraciones de  Mr. Daniel Astaire , concejal al el cargo en el área más afectada.</p>
<p>&#8220;El west end londinense es todo una atracción a nivel mundial y el destino de 3.5 millones de turistas  cada semana. No hay cabida para este tipo de publicidad cutre y barata.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Entra dentro las expectativas de los turistas disfrutar del murmullo y trajín de gentes en la zona de Oxford street y Covent Garden pero desde luego lo que no no desean es tener que abrirse paso entre los portadores  de este tipo de publicidad que abarrotan las calles o ver cómo quedan desfiguradas con su presencia el bonito entorno protegido de esta zona de la capital&#8221;.</p>
<p>&#8220;Publicidad cutre y barata&#8221; suena a juicio de valores y percepción de lo que es bello. Suena a juicio  ético y estético.&#8221;Desfigurar con su presencia el bonito entorno protegido de esa zona&#8221; suena conmovedor ,pero con todos mis respetos, muy poco creible. (cualquiera que no conozca la zona pensará que el efecto de los hombre palo sobre el asfalto del west end es algo así como un piano de cola con pegatinas de repsol).</p>
<p>Quién establece la verdad del  jucio estético en este caso? Quién y cómo se legitima y justifica lo  en este caso lo que es bello o cutre?  Cómo puede alguna cosa desfigurar la belleza de un paisaje cuando  lleva formando parte de ese mismo paisaje casi dos siglos<a href="http://www.urban75.org/london/billboards.html">(leer más aquí)</a>?</p>
<p> No hay coartada para la deshacerse del hombre palo  desde &#8221;lo bello&#8221;. Es más bien al contrario, la estética no atiende a razones, a ciertas razones. Meter en esto a la estética produce casi siempre un cortocircuito ya que entre otras muchas cosas su mecanismo interno es diferente ,además de ser un producto cultural muy especial  , con una capacidad de adecuación a lo adverso excepcional. Me viene a la cabeza el  pensar en un debate de corte similar , el que se produce cada vez que aparece una graffiti de Bansky(que merece un post)  en la ciudad  y los dilemas derivados que surgen en los despachos de los ayuntamientos  o cenidos a nuestro caso particilar, alguien siempre podría preguntar maliciosa o inocentemente al  concejal de Westminster qué hay de bello en un panel publicitario de las famosas hamburguesas americanas, ese panel que intimida mi espacio visual con su imagen  y al que por cierto , también he de  sortear en ocasiones , como los turistas al hombre palo. Debates reducidos a polvo desde el derecho, sin olvidar que  lo &#8220;bello&#8221; y lo &#8220;cutre&#8221; reducen a polvo los argumentos y testimonios de algunos políticos cuándo inducen  razones estéticas  con ánimo de solapar oscuras pretensiones.</p>
<p>El debate pues , parece estar abierto.</p>
<p>Esto quizás os sirva de ayuda <a href="http://thespanishintown.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/funciones-comunicativas-para-debatir.doc">funciones-comunicativas-para-debatir</a></p>
<p>Espero vuestras respuestas</p>
<p>Un saludo.</p>
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		<title>El debate del hombre palo.</title>
		<link>http://thespanishintown.wordpress.com/2008/08/12/el-debate-del-hombre-palo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:16:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hay un debate candente en la ciudad o al menos eso parece. En realidad no tengo ni idea si es una contienda fresca o si viene de  bastante tiempo atrás. Parece un debate banal, si nos atenemos a los sondeos realizados a los ciudadanos tanto en los medios de comunicación como en la prensa. Yo sin embargo, percibo [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thespanishintown.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3518444&amp;post=179&amp;subd=thespanishintown&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p>Hay un debate candente en la ciudad o al menos eso parece. En realidad no tengo ni idea si es una contienda fresca o si viene de  bastante tiempo atrás. Parece un debate banal, si nos atenemos a los sondeos realizados a los ciudadanos tanto en los medios de comunicación como en la prensa.</p>
<p>Yo sin embargo, percibo que no lo es. Pero eso es solo una opinión personal logicamente.</p>
<p>Aquí os dejo buena parte de lo que ha aparecido en los medios, estos últimos días.Espero que alcanza para haceros una idea general si es que aún no os ha llegado nada referente a este asunto.</p>
<p>Un saludo.</p>
<p><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7553371.stm">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7553371.stm</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4312681.ece">http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4312681.ece</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2285309/Sandwich-boards-banned-in-the-West-End.html">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2285309/Sandwich-boards-banned-in-the-West-End.html</a></p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:19:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Ver el video con subtítulos en espanol Aquí     Te propongo las siguientes  situaciones.Puedes imaginar al menos una forma de &#8220;No ser visto&#8221; para cada una de ellas. 1.-Estás en un supermercado y no quieres ser visto por alguien. 2.-Estás pescando a la orilla de un rio y no quieres ser visto por ningún [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thespanishintown.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3518444&amp;post=171&amp;subd=thespanishintown&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p>Ver el video con subtítulos en espanol <a href="http://www.overstream.net/view.php?oid=aqnliylrn4lk&amp;query=Spanish&amp;pt=1&amp;pn=1&amp;pc=1&amp;pu=1&amp;pl=-1&amp;related=search&amp;skip=13">Aquí</a></p>
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<p>Te propongo las siguientes  situaciones.Puedes imaginar al menos una forma de &#8220;No ser visto&#8221; para cada una de ellas.</p>
<p>1.-Estás en un supermercado y no quieres ser visto por alguien.</p>
<p>2.-Estás pescando a la orilla de un rio y no quieres ser visto por ningún otro pescador.</p>
<p>3.-Estás en un bar y no quieres ser visto por alguien.</p>
<p>Espero vuestas respuestas.</p>
<p>Un saludo.</p>
<p>Enlaces recomendados:</p>
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