Equidad?

¿Qué es eso de que por la equidad hay una entrada en el metrobús solo para mujeres?
¿Qué es eso de que por la equidad los primeros vagones del metro son exclusivos para mujeres?
¿Qué es eso de Atenea?

Ayer me pregunté, ¿en verdad, eso es equidad?

Equidad es lo mismo que igualdad.

Si hubiera igualdad, hombres y mujeres serían tratados igual.
Si hubiera equidad los hombres no faltarían el respeto a las mujeres, ya que no conozco a ninguna chava que se ponga a agarrarle los tanates o las pompas a un fulano.
Si hubiera equidad no nos tendrían que separar.

En fin, qué torcidos tenemos algunos conceptos, ¿no es así?

Y qué poco vale el respeto a los demás hoy en día…chale!

The Atlas of the Real World

En telegraph.co.uk encontré una galería muy interesante del Atlas del mundo plasmado con diferentes criterios.

Muy interesante poder analizar en forma gráfica varios temas de índole mundial y poder comparar con criterios como la riqueza, el HIV e inmigración.

International immigrants

The size of each territory indicates the number of international immigrants living there. The United States receives the highest number of international immigrants, while Andorra has the highest proportion - four out of five people in Andorra are immigrants. The Philippines and Guyuna have the lowest proportion - just one in 500.

Tourist destinations
The size of each country indicates the proportion of international tourist trips made there.
Western Europe receives 46 per cent of world tourist trips, while just 0.1 per cent of trips are made to Central Africa.


Rail travel
India accounts for a fifth of the total distance covered by trains throughout the world, China another fifth and Japan a tenth. Nearly a third of territories have no railway network at all.


Wealth in the year 1
The size of each territory shows the GDP, adjusted for local purchasing power, of the equivalent territory in 1 AD. The Americas appear small, partly because fewer people lived there in year 1 AD.


Wealth in the year 1900
The effects of the industrial revolution have become apparent here - the United Kingdom has the highest estimated GDP per person.


Projected wealth in the year 2015
China seems set to come full circle from 2,000 years ago. If estimates are correct, by 2015 China will be producing 27 per cent of the world's wealth, up from just five per cent in 1960.


HIV prevalence
The size of each territory shows the number of people aged 15 to 49 with HIV. The highest prevalence exists in Swaziland, where 38 per cent of 15 to 49-year-olds carry the virus. More than a fifth of people in Botswana, Lesotho, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Namibia, within this age range, carry HIV.


Nuclear weapons
As of 2002, eight countries are known or suspected to have strategic nuclear weapons: the United States, Russia, France, China, the United Kingdom, Israel, India and Pakistan.


Fuente telegraph.co.uk

New York City Subway

Hace ya casi dos meses que anduve New Yorkeando un poco. No he posteado sobre esto, pero espero pronto hacerlo.

En esta ocasión quiero comentar sobre el metro de esta ciudad. Es el sistema de metro más grande del mundo según la longitud sumada de sus vías (1.062 km) y también es el que más estaciones activas tiene, con 468. Es además el cuarto con mayor cantidad de pasajeros anuales, con 1.400 millones en 2005. Se destaca además su funcionamiento durante las 24 horas del día en casi la totalidad de la red (aunque con algunas diferencias en las frecuencias de los trenes con respecto al día y la noche), en contraste con el cierre nocturno del metro de la mayoría de las ciudades, como Londres, París, Washington D.C., Tokio , México D. F. y Madrid.

Sin embargo, Nueva York es la ciudad estadounidense en la que más tiempo tardan sus habitantes en llegar al trabajo, con un tiempo medio de 36,2 minutos. Lo que yo daría por hacer ese tiempo de mi casa al trabajo, en fin...

Algunas diferencias y semejanzas con el metro chilango:

1. Evidentemente es más caro.

2. Puedes comprar un pase de viajes ilimitados por un costo fijo.

3. El # promedio de entradas con torniquetes es más o menos el mismo que aquí, a diferencia que allá son de entrada y salida.

4. Hay 4 vías por estación. Las vías intermedias son usadas para los carros Express que no paran en todas las estaciones.

5. Precisamente el servicio Express que es mucho más conveniente para distancias tipo Indios Verdes-C.U.

6. Está más o menos igual de sucio, pero un poco más cuidado.

7. No pasan vendedores, pero si cantadores (normalmente latinos).

8. NUNCA está tan lleno, ni los días de partido en el Yankee Stadium o Shea Stadium.

9. Los vagones son amplios, pero los asientos son más o menos del mismo tamaño.

10. Debido a que el mantenimiento es muy regular y frecuente, es común con que se cambie alguna ruta y haya que estar leyendo los letreros para informarse.

11. En época de calor hace muchísimo más calor que en el del D.F.

12. Los vagones tienen aire acondicionado.

13. Algunos vagones tienen salida de emergencia.

14. Las autoridades dan permiso a algún artista de presentarse en algún transbordo o salida.

Aquí el mapa del metro:



Algunas imágenes de lo que hay arriba al final de algunas líneas:

Línea D Norwood (Bronx).


Línea 1 South Ferry.


Línea 7 Flushing (Queens).

Fuente: Wikipedia y New York Times (art. Going to the End of the Line).

Aquí algunas fotos propias:

¿Por qué soy tan obsesiva con el orden?

SIN PALABRAS.....!

Más aquí.

What do Christian Bale and Kermit the Frog have in common?

Jajaja! Llevarán vidas paralelas?

Más aquí.

Similitudes entre la historia de Harry Potter y Anakin Skywalker

Fuente: digg

1000 things I’ve learned about blogging

Hola, esta entrada será larga pero muy interesante. Nunca me creí hacer fan de esto de bloggear, pero cada día me agrada más.....Inclusive me he vuelto adicta a esto de estar buscando información, leyendo y 'geekeando' un rato. Esta entrada contiene íntegramente una publicación de la página onlinejournalismblog.com. Esta hablar sobre sugerencias para bloggers. Con lo que más me quedo es con la idea de que un blog no es solo escribir, es 'linkear', comentar y analizar. Siempre una imagen te deja más que solo palabras y sobre todo que wordpress es mejor que blogger mmm...yo le tengo mucha fe a blogger y sé que mejorará, será?????

Fuente: onlinejournalismblog.com

1.Blogging is not ‘writing a blog’. Blogging is linking and commenting. Any writing is a bonus.
2.Regular posting is important…
3.But quality posting is even more important.

4.Spending a week or more on a single post can be one of the most important things you ever do.
5.First knowledge, then analysis, then ideas. A picture is worth a thousand words. More importantly, a picture is worth a thousand words in two hundred countries. The fact that readers don’t need to speak English to understand what you’re communicating can make a word-free post - or at least one with a good image - your most successful one.
6.For similar reasons, video works. It may not be search engine-friendly, but if people can embed it the word is more likely to spread.
7.When video meets conversation, good stuff can happen.
8.Everyone looks ugly on video. Get over it.
9.Online video is not online TV
10.Podcasts work better when there’s more than one of you
11.It takes time. Sometimes years. Persistence counts.
12.Being early matters
13.A big idea travels far
14.Pingback/trackback is a wonderful thing, a form of distribution news websites are still struggling to match. What can be more interesting than someone who is interested in you?
15.Cliques and old boys’ networks exist in the blogosphere too
16.We are too fucking Anglo-American
17.Language is a massive barrier.
18.BASIC principles matter
19.Social bookmarking makes researching a post much easier
20.The best reason to blog is not to show everyone else what you know, but to find out what everyone else knows
21.RSS is one of the most undervalued technologies in the world. Once you understand what to do with it, you can bring the world to your desktop, your mobile, and your blog, and vice versa.
22.A blog doesn’t open doors for you, it just gives you the idea to try knocking.
23.When people Google you, it saves a lot of time explaining things.
24.Blogs are just one part of a social media ecology. Half the stuff that used to go on this blog now goes on Twitter; more goes on Delicious; and some on Flickr and on Seesmic.
25.Don’t get me started on FriendFeed, Plurk, Jaiku, etc.
26.Humour is effective, but not everyone will get it
27.I seem to like linking on verbs
28.Streaming live video from your mobile is a pretty amazing thing when you think about it.
29.Streaming live video from your mobile uses up your battery quickly
30.Web browsing on your mobile also uses up your battery quickly
31.If you’re moblogging an event, bring a power lead, an extension lead - and a spare phone
32.The N95 kicks iPhone’s ass
33.(But I’m prepared to be persuaded otherwise)
34.Wordpress plugins are addictive
35.Firefox extensions are addictive
36.Signing up for beta web services is addictive
37.I don’t really care about Twitterspam
38.A simple, fun idea can be around the world in minutes
39.If you want to campaign against something, you already have the technology
40.If you want a service, create it yourself
41.Google is the biggest popularity contest in the world
42.When you realise you don’t have a readership - you have a community - then you also realise you can mobilise, and get things done.
43.Technology is easy; community is hard
44.Meeting in person is important: I read blogs by people I’ve met much more often than those I haven’t
45.Geography still matters
46.Birmingham has a lot of bloggers
47.Liveblogging and Twitter-blogging are not the same thing
48.Privacy is a fluid concept: just because it’s in the public domain doesn’t mean it’s not private
49.Wordpress.com is better than Blogger
50.Wordpress.org is better than Wordpress.com (see Thing 34)
51.Content is not king.
52.Conversation is king.
53.Conversation is the kingdom.
54.We shouldn’t try to be the media
55.If someone is sending you a press release about something, you shouldn’t blog about it
56.As a journalist, blogging is a good way to rediscover the joy of journalism
57.Blogging is also a great way to rediscover how great having a good editor can be
58.Do what you do best and link to the rest
59.Blogs aren’t worth dying for. That’s what family is for.
60.Setting yourself a maximum number of posts per day is a good idea
61.Setting yourself a set time to look at your RSS subs every day is also a good idea
62.If you rely on third party services, prepare for the rug to be pulled from under your feet
63.If you publish the comments widget high up on your blog, more people comment
64.A blog without a comments facility is broken
65.A site that has comments, but edits or buries them, is not just broken, it’s malevolent.
66.Leave posts open ended if you want people to comment
67.Leave a post at the top of your site for more than a day if you want people to comment
68.Being transparent about your sources is not only good journalism, it’s good distribution.
69.The search engine optimisation industry is the new snake oil. I can tell you all you need to know about SEO in five minutes
70.Although it might take me another five hours to answer the resulting questions
71.If you expect to make lots of money from blogging, you are either naive, stupid, or Robert Scoble.
72.If you expect to make lots of money from blogging, don’t expect to make it through advertising
73.Being read by a few, key, people can be worth more, professionally, than having lots of visitors
74.Being frequently linked to can be worth more, commercially, than having lots of visitors
75.Beware advertisers bearing text-based gifts, or generous offerings of ‘free’ articles. Understand linkspam
76.Be aware that you have an ego
77.Be aware that everyone else has an ego
78.Unconferences are great
79.There’s only so much talking you can do. Sometimes you have to do something.
80.There should be more money available to do something
81.Ideas aren’t a problem. Knowing which ones to pursue is
82.Only 10% of Americans read blogs
83.But 26% of Americans write blogs
84.How does that work?
85.Blogs are far more ethnically representative than mainstream media
86.People may not trust the print and broadcast media, but they trust online news even less
87.The 1-9-90 rule
88.Rushing off a blog entry just before bed is a bad idea
89.Rushing off a blog entry hours before your wife goes into labour is not a good idea either
90.Some news travels faster than an aftershock
91.People don’t need managers to organise them - just connections
92.When I can record a video comment straight from my mobile phone, I’ll be a happy man
93.Don’t underestimate the power of corporatisation
94.Don’t underestimate the power of big corporations
95.Don’t underestimate the power of governments
96.If, after all this, we have to go back to living in caves and eating rats, it’ll be a real shame
97.Lists have become the biggest cliche in blogging and the most shameless tactic for getting to the top of delicious/digg/reddit.
98.But people still read them.
99.Have you bookmarked this yet, by the way?
1000. I can’t count.