Welcome to I Love Tech

Welcome to www.ilovetech.net, my very first blog site ever. My name is Rafael Mendez Parra and I am a business developer and media producer in Barcelona, Spain.

This is a blog about technology because I do love technology. It is a way to glue together my communication instincts with my geeky obsessions.

Here you’ll find information, reviews, reports, chronicles, comments and much more about technology business, gadgets and other topics.

Also, it is possible to read some remarks about the media and entertainment because in some way we access to such contents through technology.

Even when my native language is Spanish, www.ilovetech.net is a blog thought to be in English. Anyway, regular articles will be posted in Spanish within my personal blog site www.rafaelmendez.net.

The first stories that you can get here are about the 2009’s edition of the AGSM World Mobile Congress that is held by Barcelona’s city since 2006.

I do think that reviewing some of what I lived in my visit to that event is a great opportunity to launch this site.

Of course because the congress ended a few weeks ago I don’t pretend to deliver fresh hot news but my point of view of what happened there.

I hope you’ll enjoy my writings and come back often in order to check out what I do have to say and post here.

Finally, please visit my other sites and feel free to contact me if you want to drop me a line.

r.

NOTE for Contributors, Marketing Managers, Press, Editors and Advertisers:

If you want your product to be reviewed here please send me your press release and description of your company and activities. I will be glad to add your product to my stories if it is in my possibilities and accomplish my personal and/or my reader’s interests.

Advertisers and Sponsors and well received. Right now www.ilovetech.net is a personal project but with your support I am sure this site can become much more.

In the other hand my intention is that my posts will have the much public exposition as possible. I do encourage you to link to my stories from public non-commercial websites and blogs. As well I am interested that my writing could be published in formal print and electronic media such specialized sites and newspapers or magazines.

So, if you are an editor and you want to use my material or assign to me any project, please let me know and I am will be glad of contribute with your publication in a professional settlement.

Like in telling jokes if in design if you have to explain too much to make sure people get you then you made something wrong.

So why in the hell did I choose a sheep as the main iconic element in the blog’s logo? Well, because in the first place it is an electric sheep (you can note the two little antennas in its head) and because I love technology I do often dream about electric sheep.

It is a straight forward evocation to Philip K. Dick’s 1968’s science fiction classic “Do Androids Dream About Electric Sheep?” –which movie adaptation resulted in the 1982’s cult-movie “Blade Runner” directed by Riddle Scott-.

If you are a real sci-fi literature’s and/or a cyber punk’s fan you already knew all this. But, if in the other hand, it is the first time you hear about it then, I am pleased to announce that you are now a little more geeky than the rest of the world.

So, what’s so important in that book (or film) that is now represent in the graphic image of my blog? The answer: It does talk about our relationship with technology and about the empathy that we can feel for it. In my particular case, this empathy is high.

After this little explanation and, why not, justification, I do retire to my bedroom with my wife, making sure that I set the Penfield at 382 and start dreaming about my electric sheep.

r.

January 3rd, 1992