Dowbrigade

Our esteemed cyber-vecino, Ion, has posted an extremely
interesting note on translation in general, and specifically a translation
into Spanish
of a work by one of his favorite poets, Derek Wolcott. This got us [...]

An extremely interesting
article in the New York Times examines the changing role of public libraries,
specifically their development into public Internet portals and access
points for digital information.

For the library, supplying patrons [...]

Alert
readers and followers of the Berkman Blogging Clique may have noticed
that currently both the Dowbrigade and MIT
Uber-Blogger Philip Greenspun are both in Ecuador, land of flowers
[...]

An
alarming email reached us yesterday from a friend an ex-colleague in
Brazil, alleging and alerting that the Brazilian congress was in the
process of debating a project that would have the eventual [...]