Ayer salió la segunda columna sobre sociedad y tecnología que escribimos con Sergio para El Espectador. Como la versión en línea es prácticamente inaccesible y además fue recortada, reproduzco a continuación el texto original.Dentro de la lógica de que Internet es el futuro y la política debe adaptarse al ritmo de los tiempos, los candidatos presidenciales se lanzan a conquistar la codiciada red haciendo presencia en Facebook, Twitter, YouTube y, claro, los blogs. El ejemplo a seguir es Barack Obama, cuya campaña virtual fue fundamental para difundir su discurso y crear una comunidad gigante de voluntarios. El éxito de esta campaña en línea consistió en conectar al candidato con la gente de manera efectiva y sin depender de la intermediación de los medios tradicionales. Obama hablaba y respondía, anunciaba visitas y coordinaba encuentros con una audiencia extensa y de otra manera inabarcable. La idea, sencilla, fue bien implementada y parecería que funcionó, ¿pero tiene sentido reproducirla en Colombia?
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The cold came late that fall, and the songbirds were caught off guard. By the time the snow and wind began in earnest, too many had been suckered into staying, and instead of flying south, instead of already having flown south, they were huddled in people’s yards, their feathers puffed for some modicum of warmth. I was looking for a babysitting job. I was a student and needed money, so I would walk from interview to interview in these attractive but wintry neighborhoods, past the eerie multitudes of robins pecking at the frozen ground, dun gray and stricken—though what bird in the best of circumstances does not look a little stricken—until at last, late in my search, at the end of a week, startlingly, the birds had disappeared. I did not want to think about what had happened to them. Or, rather, that is an expression—of politeness, a false promise of delicacy—for in fact I wondered about them all the time: imagining them dead, in stunning heaps in some killing cornfield outside of town, or dropped from the sky in twos and threes for miles down along the Illinois state line.
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In the eighth American-educational grade, Bruce Green fell dreadfully in love with a classmate who had the unlikely name of Mildred Bonk. The name was unlikely because if ever an eighth-grader looked like a Daphne Christianson or a Kimberly St.-Simone or something like that, it was Mildred Bonk. She was the kind of fatally pretty and nubile wraithlike figure who glides through the sweaty junior-high corridors of every nocturnal emitter's dreamscape. Hair that Green had heard described by an overwrought teacher as 'flaxen'; a body which the fickle angel of puberty —the same angel who didn't even seem to know Bruce Green's zip code— had visited, kissed, and already left, back in sixth; legs which not even orange Keds with purple-glitter-encrusted laces could make unserious. Shy, iridescent, coltish, pelvically anfractuous, amply busted, given to diffident movements of hand brushing flaxen hair from front of dear creamy forehead, movements which drove Bruce Green up a private tree. A vision in a sundress and silly shoes. Mildred L. Bonk.
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Me pareció raro el incidente del huevo. Creo que no lo entendí. 
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The best metaphor I know for being a fiction writer is in Don DeLillo's "Mao II," where he describes a book-in-progress as a kind of hideously damaged infant that follows the writer around forever crawling after the writer (dragging itself across the floor of restaurants where the writer's trying to eat, appearing at the foot of the bed first thing in the morning, etc.), hideously defective, hydrocephalic and noseless and flipper-armed and incontinent and retarded and dribbling cerebo-spinal fluid out of his mouth as it mewls and blurbles and cries out to the writer, wanting love, wanting the very thing its hideousness guarantees it'll get: the writer's complete attention.Mis proyectos de ficción hasta ahora han sido bastante breves y más bien descuidados así que no puedo decir que entiendo a lo que se refiere, sin embargo me gusta la imagen y cómo a través de ella Wallace desarrolla la idea (obvia pero fácil de olvidar en la práctica) de que hay ciertas etapas de frustración en el trabajo creativo que (si se
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