No music day
A strange initiative: No music day. I decided to observe it, and it was an easy thing to do in such a long working day: I just had to force myself to turn off the radio during the four hours I spent driving...
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RSS weeds
Last week I made the resolution to bring down the number of RSS subscriptions from 182 to a more manageable, lower figure. But after one week of unsubscriptions, I see no sensible improvement. It looks...
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Protected identity?
Cyberbullying, organized insult, hate groups are enabled by social networking sites as well as the positive goals that can be pursued within those environments: I just read two Facebook case histories...
Italia.it – end of the line?
In a series of articles on government websites, Gerry McGovern (on the Giraffe Forum blog) gives a good overview of the difficult path to the creation of a successful citizen-centric site. The argument...
Free energy (…from saving)
Last September, three young engineers sent an email to Ministers and Parliament Members, proposing to put forward the 2009 deadline set by the EU for the substitution of incandescent bulbs with fluorescent...
Halo-lujah
Once upon a time, when I was a young boy, pinballs and table football (and the basketball playground on sunny days) were the top attractions at the oratorio (impossible to translate: it should be something...
Я могу перечислить деньги для Беларуси не более 5 евро
While coming back from office by bus, I noticed this ad campaign. It's been around for a while, but I haven't paid attention so far: Poste Italiane is leveraging its impressive network of offices to offer...
Is VAT virtual?
I wonder: where is the remarkable part of the fact that European subscribers will be asked to pay the VAT when paying for an online service? Is it worth writing a newspaper article? Yes, if the service...
War crimes
By citing Italy's colonial wars, Domiziana made me remember an article I read some time ago about the Lybia campaign. Citing an anthropological study of relations between nomads and sedentary people, the...
How to look suspicious
Just wear blue-jeans and a white t-shirt: it all depends on the context. I often cross the border by bike on saturday mornings (there is a small bakery just a couple of kilometers away, and the bread is...
New humanism
I remember, a long time ago, being horrified by the proclaim made by Silvio Berlusconi that the new, reformed school would put a lot of emphasis on the famous three 'i's: English, Informatics, Enterprise....