February 2012
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MAS S61 assignment #1: media diet
This semester, I am taking Ethan Zuckerman’s class News and Participatory Media at the MIT Media Lab’s Center for Civic Media. For our first assignment, we had to keep a log of our media consumption for a week. This is my media diet for the week of February 8-14, 2012.
Who Says Colombians are All Drug Traffickers?
What I’ll remember the most about the experience working in Bogota is the kindness and generosity of everyone I met in Colombia. For this G-Lab class, one of our final deliverables is to come up with a poster to showcase the work we did for our G-Lab client Oruga Touching Dreams. In the process of trying to figure out what to put on our poster last week, we decided to check with Oruga Touching...
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How Botero is Relevant to Oruga
This morning, our G-Lab team went to the Museo Botero to visit an exhibit by Fernando Botero. The self-anointed “the most Colombian of Colombian artists” is known his unique style of depicting human figures, animals and objects with an exaggerated corpulence to not only celebrate the life within them but also mock their role in the world. Fernando Botero didn’t develop his own style until he was...
January 2012
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What color Shakira's hair really is
This past week, our team took some time out of our G-Lab project for Oruga Touching Dream and devoted the time help out amplificado.tv. Oruga Touching Dream’s creative director Augusto Caro created amplificado.tv in his spare time to create a platform for Colombian musicians outside the mainstream to showcase their work online. Unfortunately, amplificado.tv’s web site is only in...
“El que muestra el hambre, no come.”
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Where Oruga Touching Dreams Works
Our G-Lab client Oruga Touching Dreams has the coolest office I have ever worked in. When Oruga Touching Dreams first moved into their current office, the office was old and dilapidated. Since Oruga Touching Dreams’ four co-founders were architecture students, they negotiated with the landlord to rent the entire three-floor building for $6,000 a month with the stipulation that Oruga...
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Why FARC matters to MBAs
While I was traveling around South America, I read David Kirkpatrick’s The Facebook Effect. The prologue opens the book with the story of Oscar Morales, a Colombian web developer, who created the One Million Voices Against FARC page on Facebook in 2008 to rally 12 million people against the Colombian guerilla organization FARC.
The Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) or...
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