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...
Mobile devices that are good for your health
Today I visited Luca Chittaro and his HCI Lab team at the Udine University: after sharing a laugh about his recent disadventures with digital assistants, I had a great time in seeing some of the exciting...
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...
Finance crash course
This is obviously strictly English and the irony does not apply anywhere else. [via blog.pmarca.com] ...
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...
The music industry is flourishing
Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine, is right: the music industry is not in trouble. It is just CD sales that are down: everything else, from concerts to ringtones to licensing for commercials,is...
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...
Podcast neutrality
Last June, the Internet Access Task Force of the US Federal Trade Commission issued a report, summarizing their findings on the subject of network neutrality (the principle that obliges the telecommunication companies...
Pollution in pixels
The thing I like most about the Blog Action Day initiative is that it challenges the authors to write something regarding the environment as related to the usual subjects of their blogs, and not...