Narrating our way out of the crisis
What have the Obama victory and the financial crisis to do with Marxism and narrative? A lot, according to the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek. It is unlikely that the financial meltdown of 2008 will...
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Facebook survey
Nòva24 is running a research initiative, based on the results of a survey about the Facebook phenomenon. Whether you are a Facebook user or not, take the survey! My answers: Are you a Facebook user? [yes] To...
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Prediction markets – US election / 2
Being a pessimist, there are times when I love to be proven wrong. ...
Prediction markets – US election
As the US election day draws closer, I am fascinated by prediction tools that are used and how they are evolving - in both substance and presentation. While richer interfaces are available and therefore...
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...
Benchmark
Perhaps somebody will find this too far-fetched, but - as far as environmental issues are considered, the Italian prime minister seems to be less progressive than Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom...At...
12 proposals for innovation
An open approach to innovation: the Institute for Innovation Policies challenges everyone to take part in an effort to develop a set of proposals and to transmit the to the decision makers. The complete...
Born under a lucky star
Corriere della Sera: The new financial world order will be guided by Sarkozy and Brown La Stampa: Sarko swindled by online fraudsters ...
Geothermal carnival
In the comments to a previous post, a noteworthy conversation emerged about the apparently enormous opportunity for exploiting geothermal energy in Italy. Alex Roe prompts me to spread the word about this...
Remixing the Sarkozy copyright doctrine
Consumer associations, service providers, researchers and legal experts have sent an open letter to the Italian Minister of Culture, asking to reconsider the composition of the Committee that has been...
Open source language
An interesting consideration on the English language and its openness to new constructions, coming out of an unfortunate event described as "pancaking an iPhone" (letting it fall flat on its...