From the medieval copyist to the blogger.

Arnau has written in its blog a very interesting entrance. From the medieval copyist to the blogger (written in spanish at the link Del copista medieval al blogger) that is worth while to read and, at the risk of to be considered a copyist, i will like to copy some fragments and to give an opinion about the value that the bloggers add to this concept:

"Along the Middle Age, the monasteries became places of culture. The importance of a monastic center was directly proportional with the quality and the quantity of the books that were copied and of the bottoms of its libraries, that they were converted thus in the most prized treasure (If somebody carry this book, that pay for it with the death, that themselves fries in a frying pan, that attack him the epilepsy and the fevers; that dislocate him in the wheel and hang him [annotation to the end of a medieval codex] )."In this there is one of the advantages of the bloggers. While copyists generated texts and the liberation of the same was in the hands of other (the institution or monastery), when a blogger writes, automatically all that with connection has access to the same adding something value, at times not so much, to the collective or participative knowledge.

"Saving very honorable exceptions (that there are them and with certain abundance), the blogosfera is limited to copy. A blog or spear success binnacle a news and the ones that continue it they reproduce it in his own, binding, that yes, the original unpublished one. What happens? Therefore that a same prominent fact be repeated for all the corners of the planet." Is certain and is interesting that, since my point of view, this be a sum al value of a blogger. To greater visibility of an interesting theme (better would be that be important) greater possibilities there is to generate something in the readers, although be the simple fact to be informed of a fact that of another form would not be informed somewhat interesting also note the post, the advantage of linking. The blogs promote a common conversation, where any is able, to see something that be worth while to its eyes, referencying (with a trackback or a link) to what generated the news and therefore to give him greater importance on the Internet. The conversations cannot be braked and that, when is done without desires to steal the origin of the same, is one of the greater revolutions to the ones that you could add to.

* The bloggism is being transformed, to the extent that advances its diffusion, in a new form to do journalism, putting in check to some formers of opinion and media that intend to position an only version of the facts. In the measure in which the common one of the citizens participates of the active utilization of a massive middle of communication, the pressure on the conventional press grows, this is a sustainable and undeniable affirmation by the increasingly more important participation of the people in the use of the new technologies. The Argentine conservative newspaper La Nación does not do another thing that to reflect its own fears in an interesting note on the event. Internet, the global network, or whatever you want to call to all this, has carried the journalists, for the first time that be known, to admit in public that the readers have to tell them things that do not know; but not for tell them once, as if was a matter of a classical letter of readers: for tell them of sistematizated way, with an articulation of reach as general or as a lot more, that by a newspaper.
Even although La Nación does not mention it in its note (in spanish):
http://www.lanacion.com.ar/cultura/nota.asp?nota_id=708742&origen=premium, bloggers can serve to diffuse activities and to be organized.
In short my friends, we, the people we have a lot to say, a lot to do, and humanists we should know to take advantage of each one of the cracks that they are given us of way to organize us for continuate turning the old and ancient structures of the system. Into our way, without violence and with the people, of course.

*Marcos Bauzá.
Photo of the painting "Dar la cara" from Daniel Zimmermann.

Marcos Bauza. (photo by Nicolas Argañaraz) 10/07/2005

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Beginning points.
The chaotic world in which we live on a fast way, little or nothing leaves for those that we feel that is time to reflect in a deeper form, which is the direction we want to give to our own life and which is the sense of our existence.

Since we are born, human beings acquire the culture of each one of the people of the middle that surrounds them. We are born without electing many of the things that are offered to our eyes. To the extent that passes the time we go acquiring some things of the middle; some by our own will, other by osmosis and other by simple inertia or need to have a place in the world. When we manage to have greater security, when we guarantee little by little those things that want for our life, we discover that is the propper moment for the organization and the transformation of all what we believe is necessary to change of that world that surrounds us, of that place that although hostile is own, is our place, our house.

In this manner, with simple words I intend to give rise to the creation, to the inspiration of way to surpass the reigning disorganization, the hurting disinterest of those that feel that their acts are grains of sand before a sea of uncertainties. With happier words, I prefer to think that those grains of sand are small beginning points before a sea of infinite possibilities, reflecting the light of an immense full sky of brilliant utopias.

Marcos Bauzá.