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The best minds of my generation had apparently more to say about the early demise of Steve Jobs, a brilliant entrepreneur, than they felt appropriate for Amy Winehouse. This is said without the least intention...
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Singing eBook
My original stance about eBooks was that it might be a great way to save us from the burden of useless paper, so welcome electronically distributed newspapers: but please don't mess with the relationship...
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Disintermediating their own business
Some of the greatest innovations originated by the web are based on disintermediation: one decade ago, "cut the middle man" was one of the most frequently used descriptions of how existing business...
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Intangibles and news
There is a rich debate going on about the role played by traditional newspapers in the online information ecosystem (Shirky, Berlin Johnson), in view of the double challenge posed by technology on both...
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The Rusjan flying brothers
Last Friday in Gorizia I attended the première of "the Rusjan flying brothers" (Leteča brata Rusjan), the story of the first aircraft designers and builders in the Austro-Hungarian empire who were...
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User-generated Videogames
Will videogames play a role in the Id web, as one of the factors that contribute to the definition of a personal online identity? Or, reframing the question, how could users add their "gamer"...
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Mittel Media
Playing rugby under the rain has proven too much for me - even if under the guidance of John Kirwan - so this morning I had to give up my session at the Euregio Mittel Media event. The slides alone d0...
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Meet the super influencer
Universal McCann has published the results of a research on new forms of influence, involving 17,000 users in 29 Countries and trying to describe the way brands are influenced by web users. One of the...
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Events without a location
I used to think that free-form virtual worlds, used as communication tools aimed at education, were not yet ready for primetime - at least, not until better integration tools with traditional elearning...
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Eurovision 2008
I have just finished watching a few minutes of the 2008 Eurovision song contest, hosted by Serbia (having won the last edition with Marija Šerifović's Molitva). As the Museum of Broadcast Communication...
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Blogbabel closed down
The BlogBabel service has been closed down (hopefully temporarily) by its authors last Saturday, following an animated controversy which was originated by the decision to alter the ranking algorithm, lessening...