Sunday cleaning
I think it's the first time I throw a book in the paper recycling bin. After reading it, I confined it in a limbo bookshelf where it kept bad company to other italian books for many years (maybe...
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Research in Italy
While waiting to see if Italy has kept falling back in the international ranking for competitiveness (the 2007 report will be released on October, 31st), researchers and common citizens are asking the...
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Mind the crack
Every now and then, I happen to express strong disbelief regarding the actual value of conceptual art. Not specific works: conceptual art itself. Then I come across an image of something like Doris Salcedo's...
Tabloid
Dedicated to those who always complain about Italian press, and praise the mythical britannic journalistic school. A Polish blogger, the beatroot, says that a reporter from a British tabloid offered to...
Taxes, terrorists and single-sign-on
Dan Miller, a Senior Economist at the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress, explained yesterday the virtual world issues that are in his opinion the most important ones to be addressed by the...
Hype waves
The hype machine has long forgotten Second Life and has turned its attention towards Facebook - yet the Italian mainstream press has not taken notice (with the remarkable exception of La Stampa) or, even...
Virtual property
Apparently boring news today:Linden Research, Inc., Philip Rosedale, and Marc Bragg have agreed to settle the “Bragg v. Linden and Rosedale” lawsuit currently pending in the U.S. District Court for...
Free Burma!
Read more about the initiative.[Thanks orientalia4all.net for putting it in a geopolitical perspective and both Luca for letting us know about the Amnesty International appeal] ...
Я могу перечислить деньги для Беларуси не более 5 евро
While coming back from office by bus, I noticed this ad campaign. It's been around for a while, but I haven't paid attention so far: Poste Italiane is leveraging its impressive network of offices to offer...
If it bursts like a bubble, is it necessarily a bubble?
The Wall Street Journal wisely says:When eBay Inc. purchased Skype for $2.6 billion in 2005, Wall Street wondered how the Internet-calling company could be worth so much.Actually, and contrary to common...
Innovative shopping basket
Radiohead have made a new record, and it can be pre-ordered from a dedicated website. The shopping basket displays a question mark where the amount of money is usually written. If you click on it, the...