Today I visited ArtParis. While not a fanatic I do collect art. ArtParis, like Arco in Madrid, is one of those large shows in which the world´s art galleries get together and show their latest acquisitions in the hope of selling some paintings. After watching the thousands of works brought by many [...]

President Clinton is the person I admire the most in the world, it´s that simple. Readers of my blog and those close to me are well aware that I am rarely a fan of anyone in the true sense of the word, but when it comes to Clinton I cannot help but make the [...]

In 2005, the Safe Democracy Foundation, which I manage and together with the Club de Madrid, organized the International Summit on Democracy, Terrorism and Security at the Palacio de Congresos in Madrid, Spain.
The results of this Summit can be found in our blog. For the second anniversary, we have decided to transform the contents [...]

If you never heard of Bit Torrent you can stop reading this post. Now if you have or if you use it then go on to read about VidTorrent. As you know Bit Torrent is an incredibly clever way to download huge files. When I started Fon I was partly inspired by [...]

I think it´s particularily tragic that in the island of Cuba both Fidel Castro and George W Bush two heads of state normally at odds would agree on one thing: that torture and abuse is a fair way to deal with those who seek to destroy their regimes.

I will be in San Francisco, NYC, and Boston next week.

Plazes is a great site. I strongly recommend it for people on the move. When I first learnt about Plazes I thought that it would particularily complementary with FON. When I got in touch with Felix Petersen, Plazes co founder, I realized it really was. And it is because of [...]

This year the Safe Democracy Foundation has elected not to organize another conference ,to commemorate 11M’s Second Anniversary.
Instead, we are building a collaborative blog and inviting well respected and prestigious authors from around the world to write articles about the resolution of conflicts and strengthening of democracies.
We have received the first three articles, [...]

I am staying at the Clift Hotel in San Francisco. This hotel design is great except that the walls are very thin and both of my neighbors are watching TV. I can hear them well. I am annoyed. I realize I practically never watch TV. I don’t watch TV [...]

As a result of yesterday´s announcement about FON there have been tens of thousands of new readers coming to my blog. I would like to take this opportunity to welcome these new readers and say a few things about myself and my blogs. First of all I am a blogaddict. I keep [...]