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...
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Tibet and the Beijing Olympic Games
The Italian blogosphere is bursting with reactions to the developments in Tibet, between competent and passionate analysis (Orientalia4all is covering the story in a series of posts beginning here) and...
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The ID web
I will try to answer a question that popped up in the comments to a previous post:what are the next steps in taking the real world on the web?[thanks to Roberto Carraro for asking]Most of the discussions...
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Update: park-killer decree retired
Maybe it is not just because of the blog chain initiative - and the issue has received additional coverage on newspapers. But what's important, the decree has been retired on Tuesday morning. ...
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Why the 3D web is 2.0
Sometimes criticism helps you find the reason for some of your ideas, and a thing that you consider to be perfectly obvious becomes, all of a sudden, questionable. The challenged belief for today was "Second...
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Politicians influencing citizens’ agenda influencing politicians’ agenda
I think I'll be coming back again and again to the three points written by Luca De Biase about possible ways for the citizens' agenda to manifest itself, gain public momentum and acquire the ability to...
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Passive users
In this and a couple more posts I'll be writing in the next days, I'll try to recollect thoughts and develop some of the issues I discussed last Saturday during the event organized by MIB at the Innovaction...
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The projected image
While putting together a draft for my contribution to MIB's panel discussion at Innovaction this Saturday, I kept getting back to one basic idea: the fact that, thanks to the web, a larger number of individuals...
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The attention economy
Some alongside considerations to the exciting panel discussion with Luca De Biase and Enzo Rullani today at the State of the Net conference. Luca made a strong point (and paved the way for Rullani's great...
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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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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...