Daniel Padua

Daniel Pádua, also known as dpadua (Vila Velha, 22 January 1980 - Brasilia, 20 November 2009), was a Brazilian hacker, internet activist, musician, software developer, designer and metarecicleiro. He was internationally known for creating in 2002 the BlogChalking.
MetaReciclagem
He was one of the creators and organizers of the MetaReciclagem Network, a self-organized open network with hundreds of members in all regions of Brazil that worked with critical appropriation of ICTs and was awarded several times. The network proposes research of the intersections of technology and society, aiming social transformation. The creation of the Network started with one email message to the mailing list of the Metá:fora project in 2002.
The Nartisan Awakening
in 2003, still at the Metá:fora project, Daniel Pádua wrote the "Nartisan Manifest". The manifest is a starting point for a philosophy of social action, it cites the awakening as the time to act on one's own, realizing that the instruments to weave the networks are conquered ages ago, but now they are offered also as a form of control. The urgency, boosted by nonconformity, "ignites the spark of creativity, and the nartisan can see alternative instruments scattered throughout space, ignored by authority/control, and through her improvised techniques, she make what she needs to make change happen."
BlogChalking
Motivated by the willingness to discover who was blogging like him at his neighborhood, Daniel Pádua created the concept of social aggregation for small neirborhood in Brazil. The hack allowed geographic classification of blogs. His tool was at the top of the Daypop ranking, highlighted by the Blogdex and indicated to the Third Annual Weblog Awards in 2003. Daniel Pádua was the only brazilian at this competition.
Work at the Brazilian government
In 2004, Dpadua started working at the Ministry of Culture, where he co-developed the concept of wat was called Xemelê with the intern team of the institution.
In May 2008, he started working with the Multimedia team of the Brazilian Communication Enterprise. There, he implemented tools to explore multimedia coverage. Also, he led the development of a tool to integrate with the TV, the results of the elections at the web. He managed to implement a tool that replaced the character generation at the TV, allowing interaction with the public using standards like xml and the web as a platform.
In 2009, he integrated the team that built the Blog do Planalto, or the Blog of the President, the 1st blog of a president in Brazil,.
Music
Padua explored Brazilian rhythms and instruments, specially regarding the Goias musical culture, with great references to the Cerrado. He was, in Brasília, part and one of the founders of the samba group called Seu Estrelo e o Fuá do Terreiro, that won the prize Prêmio Culturas Populares 2007 promoted by the Ministry of Culture.
Death
He died on 20 November 2009, from osteosarcoma. His funeral was held at Minas Gerais.

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