Citizens’ agenda
Can blogs influence the political agenda in Italy? Two weeks ago, while dark clouds were gathering over the the Prodi government, a short and reflective post written by Luca De Biase initiated a discussion...
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Degradart attack!
The law proposal S1861, approved by the Italian Senate, allows free publishing on the web for images and music, provided that they are in low resolution or degraded, for scientific or educational purposes...
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Allegorical game
Jason Rohrer's Passage is a small example of what can be achieved with videogames, if the goal is communicating emotions instead of providing addictive gameplay. The best thing to do is to download (it's...
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Creative Commons tv shows
German NDR public television is beginning an experiment to release its shows with a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) license. This basically means that you are free to copy, distribute, display, and perform...
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The apparent conflict between freedom and intellectual property
The DRM debate ignited by the alarming proposal made by Nicolas Sarkozy is in my opinion one of the most relevant tech issues this year. The attention-catching part of the proposal is about cutting off...
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The music industry is flourishing
Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine, is right: the music industry is not in trouble. It is just CD sales that are down: everything else, from concerts to ringtones to licensing for commercials,is...
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Podcast neutrality
Last June, the Internet Access Task Force of the US Federal Trade Commission issued a report, summarizing their findings on the subject of network neutrality (the principle that obliges the telecommunication companies...
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Taxes, terrorists and single-sign-on
Dan Miller, a Senior Economist at the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress, explained yesterday the virtual world issues that are in his opinion the most important ones to be addressed by the...
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Virtual property
Apparently boring news today:Linden Research, Inc., Philip Rosedale, and Marc Bragg have agreed to settle the “Bragg v. Linden and Rosedale” lawsuit currently pending in the U.S. District Court for...
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I was wrong… but I’m not alone
I must admit: despite wishing it, I didn't believe that I would easily come across an example of fact-checking Italian journalism. But then I remembered a very good article, pointing out (and ruthlessly...
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User-generated content and Virtual worlds
I think Vincenzo Scuccimarra has nailed it: as long as you seek amusement, entertainment and thought-provoking experiences, you need to be somehow detached from yourself and taken somewhere else, where...