‘Exhibit is “a very lightweight AJAX Framework that lets individuals who know only basic
HTML create web pages containing rich, dynamic visualizations of structured data and
supporting faceted browsing and sorting on that structured data”
This means, that Exhibit was developed for the “average user”. By requiring minimal setup, it
supports the creation of data-centric websites, which are able to compete with professional
ones in terms of visual appeal.’

“TimeMap is a Javascript library to facilitate using Google Maps with a SIMILE timeline. The library allows you to load one or more datasets in JSON or KML onto both a map and a timeline simultaneously. By default, only items in the visible range of the timeline are displayed on the map.”

“In a single conversation here at the Casa de Las Americas in Havana, we are trying to justify Zurbano’s premise that, as he says,”the most important thing about Cuban music is the indirect way musicians are always talking about what’s going on in Cuba,” and also to account for the waves that Cuban music has never stopped making in the US, Europe, Africa and Japan.

“The trick was to get from Chano Pozo to the Cuban rappers today on a thread that touched the revered jazz singer Benny Moré; worldwide classic songs like El Manisero or “The Peanut Vendor;” the Mambo Kings and the cha-cha-cha; the Bolero and the post-Revolutionary New Trova singers like Silvio Rodriguez and Pablo Milanes; the modern bands of Chucho Valdes and Irakere, which married Cuban sounds to jazz, and Juan Formell’s Los Van Van, which adapted a Beatles sound to Cuban tradition…”