4 years of Geofumadas, 4 lessons learned
1 year ago
Tried the Promark3 In Survey mode and also made the decision to integrate Geofumadas to social networks.
2 years ago
The terrible Honduras coup d'etat, All locked in their houses, sirens in the streets, riots and the president of hat in Costa Rica almost with the nuts in the air.
3 years ago
For the first time I was reviewing Stitchmaps, a topic that I have returned to time and again. Tool that has solved the way -not the best- To obtain orthophoto in a context where more data are found in the street than in institutions.
4 years ago
Geofumadas was born with his First two post: The welcome greeting and a crude attempt to analyze how Google Earth changed our world.
Today ...
After 4 years of writing I admit that I have learned many things, much more than others will have learned from a post or a sustained topic. Before the end of the month, I take this opportunity to take some reflections in a non-exact format of the lessons learned, some of them temporary, others too basic, but which together reflect my level of gratitude after four years of this effort, which unfortunately coincides with the exit from One of my best technicians To whom I wish the best.
Writing is a discipline that requires discipline.
Unlike being a columnist for a traditional magazine, writing on the Internet inertially immerses you in certain skills that can kill time once destined for inspiration. Html, css, cms, seo, sem, p2p, rss, gpl, php are acronyms that must gradually be chewed, understand their usefulness and apply it to knowledge management require discipline and patience, trite terms but in this environment they are similar to the Structures III class with Doctor Ferrera -Patience, discipline, one more than, with and without the other-.
This digital environment has led me to make decisions, try and make mistakes in the trends that have happened to Geofumadas. Nothing wasted but painful in cases like the sacrifice to produce fresh content, all because a Spammer Found a gap and as long as you do not solve it the only way out is a dedicated channel.
But in the end, it is still a pleasure to write and the benefits of hyperlink, hosting and global access partially offset.
Readers are still there, do not despair
Every writer has at some point, when the adrenaline rush goes down, the feeling of knowing if there is someone on the other side reading or where their lines have gone. The traditional letters that came to the publishing house are now called comments, retweets, followers, backlinks, contact or sms.
Six months of dealing with social networks I have come to the conclusion that Twitter brings visitors, fleeting Like a tweet But many, Facebook grows slower but readers are more loyal, Linkedin is the best to find professional contacts
I must admit that in this Woopra It has been the best I have found. The hours that I enable the chat have shown me that someone is always there wanting to say hello, even if it's courtesy. Integration to social networks is an appropriate way to reassure yourself regarding the status of your readers. Partly because it facilitates interaction, and then because it allows us to understand the thematic segments they share and their qualitative value of interconnection, more than the simple statistics of Google Analytics.
Writing is still a result of reading slowly
If there is something that does not change in this discipline, it is that intellectual production is based on reading carried out in practice. On this, there are surely many broad philosophical issues, because little of that has changed in its essence, but it has changed in its global implications.
Before it was read in the headlines of the newspaper, bibliographic cards or on the shelves of bookstores. Then it was investigated by sitting down to read calmly and this act ended with the decision to take the book home or make a clipping in the newspaper for our collection. Afterwards, it was digested slowly, put into practice on a day-to-day basis and if you made creative efforts to add value to that knowledge.
The dynamics today are the same, with the volume variant. A glance at Flipboard in the row of the traffic light it gives us clarity on what has happened, then leave rssSpeaker on and if something catches our attention we send more to Twitter to have it as our own reminder. But global access carries the risk that there is little time to digest so much information and put it into practice, so it would be questionable if we are really reading or just listening to what is happening there.
With its cons, well-used technology has many more advantages than longings for the past. Perhaps the results are obtained in the thematic specialization, also in the decision not to cross a border that disperses our ideas with the idea of not losing the habit by reading slowly.
Innovation is now sustained in the community
Opensource platforms are a clear example of how collective value is changing the way we do business, unlike in the past when genius was a less shared privilege. The gvSIG phenomenon is one of those exercises that I have decided to carry out in a systematic way, because beyond being a computer tool, it was planned as a movement with an invasive dynamic that, if maintained and evolved in the face of new challenges, will surely show us that the Hispanic environment has much to contribute to the world community.
We would like to see Leonardo Davinci in this environment, launching ideas for the community to question, improve and put into practice. Although there is much in this that we still do not know and do not understand, because it is a new phenomenon; If just today a solar storm destroyed all the satellites that allow global interconnection or an earthquake that destroyed the main fiber optic nodes, we would possibly say the same phrase:
"I have offended God and humanity because my work did not have the quality it should have had."
Leonardo Da Vinci
The interconnected community is one of the most valuable elements at this time. What happens is that its active involvement implies that almost everything is in beta version, not because it lacks little things but because its very dynamics forces it. That is why my point of view regarding social networks (Not all) It has changed a lot in the last two years. Outside of the banal uses, it is the support of the global business model in the next 10 years at least in the technological environment -That is already a lot-.