http://www.culturasdearchivo.org/ Culturas de Archivo Powered Site es-es http://www.culturasdearchivo.org/images/logo.gif http://www.culturasdearchivo.org/ tttp@irational.org http://www.culturasdearchivo.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=800 23/07/2010 | Actualizada a las 09:46h | Cultura Egipto recibe cien solicitudes privadas para legalizar piezas arqueológicas Muchas de las autentificadas son monedas de los periodos griego, romano e islámico, objetos prehistóricos y armas de la dinastía de Mohammed Ali El Cairo. (EFE).- Egipto ha recibido cien solicitudes de particulares para legalizar restos arqueológicos en su poder, de los que el ochenta por ciento son auténticos, en un proceso facilitado por una nueva ley que entró en vigor hace seis meses. "El resultado ha sido verdaderamente inesperado", dijo el director de la Administración de la Colección Arqueológica, Husein Basir, en una entrevista con el semanario en inglés del diario estatal Al Ahram. http://www.culturasdearchivo.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=799 nytimes.com July 19, 2010 The Web Means the End of Forgetting By JEFFREY ROSEN Four years ago, Stacy Snyder, then a 25-year-old teacher in training at Conestoga Valley High School in Lancaster, Pa., posted a photo on her MySpace page that showed her at a party wearing a pirate hat and drinking from a plastic cup, with the caption “Drunken Pirate.” After discovering the page, her supervisor at the high school told her the photo was “unprofessional,” and the dean of Millersville University School of Education, where Snyder was enrolled, said she was promoting drinking in virtual view of her under-age students. As a result, days before Snyder’s scheduled graduation, the university denied her a teaching degree. Snyder sued, arguing that the university had violated her First Amendment rights by penalizing her for her (perfectly legal) after-hours behavior. But in 2008, a federal district judge rejected the claim, saying that because Snyder was a public employee whose photo didn’t relate to matters of public concern, her “Drunken Pirate” post was not protected speech. When historians of the future look back on the perils of the early digital age, Stacy Snyder may well be an icon. The problem she faced is only one example of a challenge that, in big and small ways, is confronting millions of people around the globe: how best to live our lives in a world where the Internet records everything and forgets nothing — where every online photo, status update, Twitter post and blog entry by and about us can be stored forever. With Web sites like LOL Facebook Moments, which collects and shares embarrassing personal revelations from Facebook users, ill-advised photos and online chatter are coming back to haunt people months or years after the fact. Examples are proliferating daily: there was the 16-year-old British girl who was fired from her office job for complaining on Facebook, “I’m so totally bored!!”; there was the 66-year-old Canadian psychotherapist who tried to enter the United States but was turned away at the border — and barred permanently from visiting the country — after a border guard’s Internet search found that the therapist had written an article in a philosophy journal describing his experiments 30 years ago with L.S.D. According to a recent survey by Microsoft, 75 percent of U.S. recruiters and human-resource professionals report that their companies require them to do online research about candidates, and many use a range of sites when scrutinizing applicants — including search engines, social-networking sites, photo- and video-sharing sites, personal Web sites and blogs, Twitter and online-gaming sites. Seventy percent of U.S. recruiters report that they have rejected candidates because of information found online, like photos and discussion-board conversations and membership in controversial groups. http://www.culturasdearchivo.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=798 Wall Street Journal EMILY STEEL And JESSICA E. VASCELLARO Facebook, MySpace and several other social-networking sites have been sending data to advertising companies that could be used to find consumers' names and other personal details, despite promises they don't share such information without consent. http://www.culturasdearchivo.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=797 www.elpais.com Facebook y MySpace, acusadas de enviar datos personales a las agencias de publicidad 'The Wall Street Journal' denuncia esta práctica, que carece de la autorización del internauta E. P. - Barcelona - 21/05/2010 Facebook, MySpace y otras redes sociales han estado enviando datos personales a las agencias de publicidad, a pesar de su promesa de no distribuir esa información sin su permiso. Así lo denuncia hoy el periódico The Wall Street Journal. El periódico norteamericano señala que la práctica se activa cuando un internauta clica en una publicidad. Automáticamente el nombre del usuario y sus números de identificación llegan a la agencia. El diario señala que después de avisar a las redes sociales implicadas, Facebook y MySpace corrigieron su código. Por este sistema, las agencias publicitarias recibían información útil para formar perfiles de consumidores, con la edad, profesión y lugar de residencia, entre otros datos. La acusación del WSJ se extiende a las redes sociales y a las agencias más importante, como Doubleclick (Google) y Right Media (Yahoo), aunque han negado haber hecho uso de esos datos. A través de la web, la agencia publicitaria sólo recibe la dirección del internauta que ha clicado, sin embargo si la conexión es através de una red social, a esa información se le incorpora el perfil del usuario. http://www.culturasdearchivo.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=796 Texto completo en: http://www.amateurarchivist.net/amateur/?p=282 Museo de aquellos que imaginamos lo que es la inmigración como concepto claro y naturalizado y que, además, curiosamente, no nos consideramos dentro esa categoría. El presente escrito surge de la invitación a Entrepreneurial Cultures el MUHBA*. concreto se dedica al MHIC, basándose en lo dicho allí por su directora en el encuentro y en la información obtenida en la web del museo. http://www.culturasdearchivo.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=795 POSTED AT 2:55 PM ON MAY 14, 2010 BY ED MORRISSEY That’s the question Claire Berlinski asks in the latest issue of City Journal, but the answer is rather easy to surmise. Michael Moynihan wrote about the problem from a different angle in an excellent article for Reason last year, and various pundits have noted the dearth of admissions over the true nature of the Soviet regime in the period since the end of the Cold War. The archives gathered by Pavel Stroilov and Vladimir Bukovsky, among others, provide evidence in stark terms of the end result of collectivist impulses — and challenge the academic conclusions about the nature of Soviet leaders, especially Mikhail Gorbachev: In the world’s collective consciousness, the word “Nazi” is synonymous http://www.culturasdearchivo.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=794 Iraq strikes deal with US for return of archives (AFP) – 3 days ago BAGHDAD — The United States has agreed to return millions of documents to Iraq, including Baghdad's Jewish archives, that were seized by the US military after the 2003 invasion, a minister said on Thursday. The documents, which fill 48,000 containers, are currently being held by the US State Department, the National Archives and the Hoover Institute, a think-tank. "We have reached an agreement with the United States, after negotiations with officials at the State Department and the Pentagon, over the return of the Jewish archives and millions of documents that were taken to America after the events of 2003," Deputy Culture Minister Taher Hamud said. http://www.culturasdearchivo.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=793 nytimes.com May 15, 2010 Google Data Admission Angers Europe By KEVIN J. O’BRIEN BERLIN — European privacy regulators and advocates reacted angrily Saturday to the disclosure by Google, the world’s largest search engine, that it had systematically collected private data on individuals since 2006 while compiling its StreetView photo archive. After being pressed by European officials about the kind of data the company compiled in creating the archive — and what it did with that information — Google acknowledged on Friday that it had collected personal data on individuals around the world. In a blog post on the company’s Web Site, Alan Eustace, Google’s engineering chief, wrote that the information had been recorded as it was sent over unencrypted residential wireless networks as StreetView cars with mounted recording equipment passed by. http://www.culturasdearchivo.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=792 Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) With a Probability of Being Seen Dorothee and Konrad Fischer: Archives of an Attitude 15 May – 12 October 2010 Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) Plaça dels Àngels, 1 08001, Barcelona Spain www.macba.cat The presentation of this exhibition around the figure of Konrad Fischer – the artist, gallerist, collector and curator – allows the museum to study the social, political and economic forces that shape artistic production and its effect upon a broad international community. This exhibition brings together some key issues of MACBA's current research: the role of artists, not only as creators but also as organisers and viewers, the role of collecting in art history, as well as the influence of series exhibitions such as Prospect in stimulating a response towards avant-garde developments in contemporary artistic production. The works and documentation brought together in this show constitute an investigation into the art-historical agency of an individual that not only introduced unconventional works in the Western contexts of the sixties and seventies, but also marked the artistic movements that later became canonical. The exhibition is divided in three main sections: Konrad Lueg – Artists; Dorothee and Konrad Fischer – Gallery and Archive; and Konrad Fischer – Curator. http://www.culturasdearchivo.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=791 newsweek.com Fortress Apple The company needs to open up. By Daniel Lyons | NEWSWEEK Published Apr 23, 2010 By Daniel Lyons | NEWSWEEK Published Apr 23, 2010 From the magazine issue dated May 3, 2010 Apple's new iPad is more than just a gorgeous consumer electronics device. It's also a kind of challenge to the Internet itself—or at least to the conventional wisdom of what the Internet is supposed to be all about. Since the dawn of the Web we've been told that this brave new world came with brave new rules, one being that everything must be free and open. Force people to pay a subscription fee to read your news? You'll be doomed, the pundits tell us. You'll be left behind, eclipsed by all the smarty-pants companies that know enough to give their work away. http://www.culturasdearchivo.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=790 nytimes.com April 30, 2010 Shoppers Who Can’t Have Secrets By NATASHA SINGER IT’S called behavioral tracking: • Cameras that can follow you from the minute you enter a store to the moment you hit the checkout counter, recording every T-shirt you touch, every mannequin you ogle, every time you blow your nose or stop to tie your shoelaces. • Web coupons embedded with bar codes that can identify, and alert retailers to, the search terms you used to find them and, in some cases, even your Facebook information and your name. • Mobile marketers that can find you near a store clothing rack, and send ads to your cellphone based on your past preferences and behavior. To be sure, such retail innovations help companies identify their most profitable client segments, better predict the deals shoppers will pursue, fine-tune customer service down to a person and foster brand loyalty. (My colleagues Stephanie Rosenbloom and Stephanie Clifford have written in detail about the tracking prowess of store cameras and Web coupons.) http://www.culturasdearchivo.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=789 nytimes.com April 26, 2010 Bitten By PHILIP HOARE INSECTOPEDIA By Hugh Raffles Illustrated. 465 pp. Pantheon Books. $29.95 Hugh Raffles’s beautifully written “Insectopedia” — part reference, part narrative and wholly engrossing — begins with an evocative image. On Aug. 10, 1926, a small monoplane began flying missions from Tallulah, La., to assess the population of insects in a vertical column of air. It was the first time insects had been collected by plane, and the results were astounding. In a square mile, rising to 14,000 feet, there were as many as 36 million insects. The amazed researchers began to realize that the atmosphere was unbelievably alive for all our notions of its emptiness: another world, filled with an ever moving, airy regiment. “They found ladybugs at 6,000 feet during the daytime, striped cucumber beetles at 3,000 feet during the night,” Raffles writes. “They collected three scorpion flies at 5,000 feet, 31 fruit flies between 200 and 3,000, a fungus gnat at 7,000 and another at 10,000.” And at the exalted altitude of 15,000, possibly the highest elevation at which any specimen had yet been taken, a lone ballooning spider was floating on its filaments, its body borne up on unseen currents. It was evidence of an aerial plankton, an ocean over our heads. http://www.culturasdearchivo.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=788 elpais.com JUAN GABRIEL VÁSQUEZ 01/05/2010 E. L. Doctorow sigue aplicando en sus novelas lo que él llama un simulacro de crónica histórica de Estados Unidos. El autor de títulos como Ragtime recurre ahora al caso de dos personajes populares, Homer y Langley, como metáfora de un país que pierde el rumbo. Por Juan Gabriel Vásquez A Edgar Lawrence Doctorow (Nueva York, 1931) le gusta repetir el mismo comentario sarcástico: "La gente dice que escribo novelas políticas, que escribo novelas sobre el pasado, que uso técnicas posmodernas, que juego con los géneros literarios, que mis libros ocurren en Nueva York y que tienen personajes judíos... Así que soy un novelista político-histórico-posmoderno-de género-neoyorquino-judío. No sé, yo rechazo toda etiqueta que se le ponga al sustantivo novelista. Creo que usted estará de acuerdo conmigo: el novelista es alguien que acoge el mundo entero". http://www.culturasdearchivo.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=787 www.thejakartapost.com National archive system a mess: Govt official Rana Akbari Fitriawan, The Jakarta Post, Bandung | Sat, 04/17/2010 12:19 PM | National The outdated and inefficient national archives system must be renovated quickly to streamline bureaucracy and transparency at government institutions, a government official says. "This is partly due to the fact that a number of institutions regard archival work as merely *documentation'," said Tasdik Kinanto, the secretary of the Administrative Reforms Ministry, in Bandung. Law No 43 2009 on national archives stipulates that all government institutions keep well-organized and efficient archives. http://www.culturasdearchivo.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=786 The Historical Archives of Macao conduct conservation workshops for up to twelve people on one or two Saturday afternoons a month. Participants meet in the gallery of the old Historical Archives building and learn some of the fascinating skills used in conserving paper records. Projects taught so far include paperback and hard cover notebooks, silk-bound volumes and accordion fold-out books. Launched in June 2009 to mark the newly established International Archives Day, the workshops aim to give locals an insight into this traditional craft while demonstrating the care Historical Archives professionals extend to the historic documents they work with every day. The archive staff have years of experience and training in handling these precious records, and are keen to share some of the basic notions involved in this craft with the public. While the presentation is mostly in Chinese, instructional support is also provided in English and support is on hand for the hearing-disabled. http://www.culturasdearchivo.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=785 http://www.portalangop.co.ao 4/16/10 7:06 PM Angola President dos Santos approves media archive of Angola Luanda - The Angolan Head of State, José Eduardo dos Santos, Friday in Luanda approved the Network of Media Archive of Angola (REMA). According to the report of Construction and Organisation programme of Media Archive, the president also has set up an executive commission for its implementation, under the new Constitution. This is contained in a note released by the Services of Support to the President of Republic. According to the source, the creation of REMA, which has already been in the use in various Portuguese-speaking countries, constitutes a leading tool for development of education, thus allowing the access of the high and higher education students to the literature and scientific research. http://www.culturasdearchivo.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=784 The Audit, The News Frontier — April 15, 2010 05:21 PM It’s Time for the Press to Push Back Against Apple Yank iPad apps unless Apple cedes complete control over the right to publish By Ryan Chittum The Nieman Journalism Lab’s Laura McGann has a disturbing report that ought to perk up every news organization that sees Apple’s iPad as part of its future. McGann talked to Mark Fiore, who won a Pulitzer this week for his trenchant editorial cartoons. Apple has denied his iPhone (and thus iPad) application because in the mega-corporation’s own words, “it contains content that ridicules public figures” and violates its license, which says (emphasis mine): Applications may be rejected if they contain content or materials of any kind (text, graphics, images, photographs, sounds, etc.) that in Apple’s reasonable judgement may be found objectionable, for example, materials that may be considered obscene, pornographic, or defamatory.” http://www.culturasdearchivo.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=783 www.nytimes.com April 17, 2010 A Pulitzer Winner Gets Apple’s Reconsideration By BRIAN STELTER Here’s a digital-age perk of winning a Pulitzer Prize: Apple might be a whole lot nicer to you and your work. On Monday Mark Fiore became the first online-only cartoonist to win a Pulitzer, for weekly animated videos published on SFGate.com, the Web site of The San Francisco Chronicle. In a subsequent interview with the Nieman Journalism Lab, he recalled that Apple had rejected his iPhone application in December since it included cartoons that mocked public figures. http://www.culturasdearchivo.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=782 ATELIER REAL, 17 de ABRIL, 18h00 (entrada livre. lotação limitada) Conferência-demonstração em Francês ‘simplificado’, sem tradução. Apresentação dos projectos ENCYCLOPÉDIE DE LA PAROLE, e PARLEMENT de joris lacoste (frança) [em residência artística entre 5 e 17 de Abril de 2010] com a colaboração e participação de Grégory Castéra, Frédéric Danos, Joris Lacoste e Olivier Normand http://www.culturasdearchivo.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=781 Visual Culture and National Identity A Symposium will take place at the Van Gogh Museum on June 10-11, 2010. The symposium aims to examine the interplay between nationalism, national identity, the visual arts and visual culture, by presenting diverse theoretical perspectives on the questions that are implicated in the debate about these issues. Please find more information about the symposium’s theoretical point of departure and programme on this website. You can also register for the symposium and the accompanying workshops via this website. more http://nationalidentity.nl/ http://www.culturasdearchivo.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=780 Government sends e-mails; it just can't save them By MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN (AP) – Mar 12, 2010 WASHINGTON — As the Justice Department hunts for the latest batch of missing federal e-mails, the officials who oversee spending of $71 billion a year for information technology got a big raspberry Friday for a 14-year-long failure to ensure that government e-mails are preserved. For all the spending it oversees, the Federal Chief Information Officers Council is virtually unknown to the general public. Now it has "won" this year's Rosemary Award for the worst open government performance. The Rosemary is bestowed by the National Security Archive, a private group that publishes declassifed government information and files lawsuits and many Freedom of Information Act requests for federal records. The award is named for former President Richard M. Nixon's secretary Rose Mary Woods, known for re-enacting her claim to have accidentally erased 18 1/2 minutes of a White House tape recording when she stretched to answer a phone. Comprised of the chief information officials from 28 departments and agencies, the council was established by President Bill Clinton in 1996 and written into law by Congress in 2002. It describes itself as the "principle interagency forum for improving practices in the design, modernization, use, operation, sharing, and performance of federal government information resources." The archive, however, said neither the council's founding documents, its 2007-2009 strategic plan, its transition memo for the Obama administration, nor its current Web site even mention the challenge of managing e-mail records. http://www.culturasdearchivo.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=779 Boletín del Taller de Criptografía de Arturo Quirantes http://www.cripto.es Número 75 1 de Abril de 2010 CRIPTOGRAFÍA HISTÓRICA =----------------------------------------------------------------------= César, el emperador criptógrafo =----------------------------------------------------------------------= Mientras imperios como el persa y el cartaginés establecían sistemas de inteligencia sin rival en la época, y los griegos usaban innovadoras técnicas esteganográficas y de codificación, Roma permanecía anclada en el pasado. Es posible que el carácter romano tradicional consideraba dichas ideas como algo artificial e indigno. Se registran algunas excepciones, pero en general, la comunidad de inteligencia de Roma era un gran vacío. La única información que los comandantes romanos obtenían en territorio enemigo procedían de sus aliados, y la calidad de aquélla puede juzgarse solamente en virtud de la lealtad de éstos. Las primeras aplicaciones sistemáticas de inteligencia militar provienen del más famoso de los romanos: Julio César. Su fama como general y político no debe hacernos olvidar su sólida formación académica. Nacido en Roma el año 100 A.C, fue educado con maestros griegos. Era versado en varios idiomas, incluido el hebreo y varios dialectos galos. Tras una brillante carrera en la arena política, César fue designado en 69 AC como cuestor de la Hispania Ulterior. Fue su primer contacto con la actual España, aunque no el último, ya que algunos años después volvió a la misma provincia como gobernador. En su tercer viaje, ya durante el período de guerra civil contra Pompeyo, César dio muestras de su maestría en el campo de inteligencia militar. http://www.culturasdearchivo.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=778 http://www.kentnews.co.uk KENT NEWS: It was once the centre of a flourishing papermaking industry and workplace for generations of families, but now the rundown Buckland Mill in Dover stands empty and quiet. Famous for its production of the superior Conqueror paper, it survived a major fire in 1887, and constant onslaught from shelling during the two world wars, continuing as a thriving business throughout the 20th century. Even a crash by an RAF Spitfire onto its roof during the Battle of Britain in 1940 only temporarily stopped production, and by 1988 the mill’s two paper machines were turning out 20,000 tonnes per year. But at the end of June, 2000, a shock announcement by then-owner Arjo Wiggins Appleton that the mill would close saw more than 100 workers made redundant and the paper mill left empty. The closure was blamed on production requirements being at over-capacity, and work was transferred to Scotland. After 203 years in business the mill closed its doors permanently and the old site is now to be redeveloped into residential and business units. To celebrate the history of the mill and preserve part of Kent’s industrial heritage, community group Dover Arts Development (DAD) is creating a film using archive footage and photos, and stories from former employees. The documentary, called Watermark, is tied in with the Hidden Treasures project by film and media agency Screen South, which looks to increase screening of archive footage. http://www.culturasdearchivo.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=777 June 29, 2007 Books of the Times The Cult of the Amateur By MICHIKO KAKUTANI Digital utopians have heralded the dawn of an era in which Web 2.0 — distinguished by a new generation of participatory sites like MySpace.com and YouTube.com, which emphasize user-generated content, social networking and interactive sharing — ushers in the democratization of the world: more information, more perspectives, more opinions, more everything, and most of it without filters or fees. Yet as the Silicon Valley entrepreneur Andrew Keen points out in his provocative new book, “The Cult of the Amateur,” Web 2.0 has a dark side as well. http://www.culturasdearchivo.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=776 http://www.nytimes.com March 21, 2010 Texts Without Context By MICHIKO KAKUTANI In his deliberately provocative — and deeply nihilistic — new book, “Reality Hunger,” the onetime novelist David Shields asserts that fiction “has never seemed less central to the culture’s sense of itself.” He says he’s “bored by out-and-out fabrication, by myself and others; bored by invented plots and invented characters” and much more interested in confession and “reality-based art.” His own book can be taken as Exhibit A in what he calls “recombinant” or appropriation art. Mr. Shields’s book consists of 618 fragments, including hundreds of quotations taken from other writers like Philip Roth, Joan Didion and Saul Bellow — quotations that Mr. Shields, 53, has taken out of context and in some cases, he says, “also revised, at least a little — for the sake of compression, consistency or whim.” He only acknowledges the source of these quotations in an appendix, which he says his publishers’ lawyers insisted he add. “Who owns the words?” Mr. Shields asks in a passage that is itself an unacknowledged reworking of remarks by the cyberpunk author William Gibson. “Who owns the music and the rest of our culture? We do — all of us — though not all of us know it yet. Reality cannot be copyrighted.”