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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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...
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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...
Virtual Banks
Last summer, Second Life got a lot of bad press because of financial cracks. The most widely known one was the case of Ginko Financial, which had offered a spectacular interest rate around 40% a...
Symmetries
Some say that Wikia, Wikipedia-like approach to search, is not likely to succeed. Some say that Knol, Google's approach to open knowledge, is not likely to succeed. My opinion is that open search is one...
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...
Last days of a border
A photo gallery to celebrate the enlargement of the Schengen treaty, now including Slovenia. | View | Upload your own ...
Not a border anymore
Slovenia joined the EU's Schengen zone today, making a strongly felt border disappear. Only 17 years ago that was the border between Italy - a NATO member, and Yugoslavia - a Socialist Republic. Still...
Christmas trouble with virtual assistants
Looks like Luca Chittaro is not the only one having arguments with virtual assistants:Microsoft recently brought into the world an online "Santa bot" -- an interactive chat program for...
As seen from the other side
Going back to the hotel after a workshop with English colleagues, I saw this. Now I understand how it feels when they say that it's not nice to learn things about yourself from the press. ...
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...