I discovered TED Talks some years ago. I think the first one I saw was Barry Schwartz on the paradox of choice. A really interesting one. But at that time I saw it on youtube. I didn’t explicitly go to the TED Talks website, I just saw some talks on youtube, or google video.
Some months […]

Nowadays we don’t read, we scan. Internet is an amazing source of information, but somehow we have evolved our reading to cope with the huge amount of information on the net, not reading deeply any more, and just scanning. This is no news, as everybody has noticed it, and actually the famous usability evangelist, Jakob […]

De nuevo vuelvo a Corea, donde me esperan nuevas aventuras, pero esta vez acompañado de 2 jugadores más, Joan Alemany de Barcelona y Ángel “Pascualino” Pina de Murcia. Para intentar aportar más información, he montado un blog donde los 3 iremos escribiendo: badukaires.com
Si alguien quiere leer todas mis aventuras anteriores, están en la sección “Korea” […]

Recently I got interest again in composing music. Moreover, I wanted to explore some options to publish my music on Internet, so I packed some of my (really) old tracks and tried to upload them to some websites.
The first option could be just to upload the files to www.liopic.com and use a Flash widget to […]

Some months ago I deleted my facebook account. And some weeks ago I removed my account on friendfeed. Why? Despite I liked it, I found out that it took me a lot of time.
Actually the problem is simpler that you could expect: friendfeed is a too good aggregator. That is, it posts all the pictures […]

People think that playing Go will develop your logical thinking power, that is, the skill used to calculate out sequences. Sometimes they say the effect of playing Go is getting a logical mind, other times the effect of having a logical mind is falling in love with Go. At least this is the usual feeling […]

As I said in my previous post about spreading Go, looks like nobody has done a real “market study” about selling Go. It’s really easy to realize there are 3 separate “targets”, perhaps 4, based on the age, and for each case a different approach has to be applied.
· Children
They do not decide, parents decide […]

The population of Go players in Asia, specially in Korea, China and Japan, is enormous, compared with the tiny group of people who plays Go in Europe and America. Why? How can we spread Go effectively in Europe? That’s the million Euro question!
In Europe people learn to play too late and too badly. Usually […]

Last weekend (February 20th-21st, 2010) 146 players enjoyed the 28th edition of the Barcelona Go tournament; including 80 players from Spain, 35 from France, 20 from Romania, 13 from Czech Republic, and more people from several European countries.
The venue was the maths faculty (FME) of the Catalonia Tech University (UPC), which kindly supported the tournament […]

[After some posts in Spanish explaining my feelings during my stay in Seoul, I’m returning to write in English]
Sometimes I like to see past pictures of people, before I met them. Before you discover the existence of a person, usually you have seen him/her at least a couple of times. I love seeing past Go […]