Graph or Grid?
The analogy is striking, and the coincidence as well. I have recently had a chat with Anthony Candiello (from INFN's Grid Computing Technology Transfer Office) about one of the most fascinating trends...
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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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Former Slovenian president died Saturday
Janez Drnovšek [pron: janɛz dərnɒuʃɛk], former Slovenian President (2002-2007) and Prime Minister, died yesterday at his home in Zaplana (30km from Ljubljana). He was suffering from liver and lung...
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...
TV debate 2.0
Looks like in the oncoming elections Italians will have to do without the usual TV debate opposing two candidates, since there will be 8 of them. With a simple combinatorial calculation, that would require...
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...
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...
Let’s go
Paolo and Sergio begin by defining the tagcloud for the State of the net conference. I'm not good at taking notes, so don't regard this as the official list... conversations, innovation, smart mobs, informal...
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...
Creative Licences
I recently wrote about the German initiative for releasing TV contents on the web with a Creative Commons licence. I also discovered a similar initiative from the BBC, which created a specific licence...
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...