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Mar
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- A geriatric assault on Italy’s bloggers – Times Online
By G8 standards, Italy is a strange country. Put simply, it is a nation of octogenarian lawmakers elected by 70-year-old pensioners. Everyone else is inconsequential. Romano Prodi, the Prime Minister, is a spry 68, knocking off 71-year-old Silvio Berlusco
- Harvard to collect, disseminate scholarly articles for faculty — The Harvard University Gazette
Wow! Harvard will take advantage of the license by hosting FAS faculty members’ scholarly articles in an open-access repository, making them available worldwide for free. Wow!
- Glashow humiliates Carlucci on Maiani’s appointment « A Quantum Diaries Survivor
Complete summary of the recent quarrel between Gabriella Carlucci and Prof. Maiani (in English)
- (Bad) fiction in science « Progetto Galileo
Nobel Prize Glashow defends Italian physicist Maiani from attack of ex-showgirl and Forza Italia "onorevole" Gabriella Carluccii: "Italy should be very proud of its many scientific heroes, and not malign them".
- The Appleseed Project
The Appleseed Project is an effort to create open source Social Networking software that is based on a distributed model. For instance, a profile on one Appleseed website could "friend" a profile on another Appleseed website, and the two profiles could
13
Feb
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- Official Google Blog: Yahoo! and the future of the Internet
Google on Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo!: "Could Microsoft now attempt to exert the same sort of inappropriate and illegal influence over the Internet that it did with the PC?"
- myExperiment.org – Home
myExperiment makes it really easy for the next generation of scientists to contribute to a pool of scientific workflows, build communities and form relationships. myExperiment enables scientists to share, re-use and repurpose workflows and reduce time-to-
- Taverna project website
The Taverna project aims to provide a language and software tools to facilitate easy use of workflow and distributed compute technology within the eScience community. Free Software under LGPL
31
Jan
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9
Nov
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- Radiohead Kicks the Middleman to the Curb: 1 Week, 1.2M Albums Sold
Radiohead (not your friend’s band still known only to you!) decided to let you download the music and ask you a free donation. Yes, you decide to pay how much you want. You are free.
- The real America – Paul Krugman – Op-Ed Columnist – New York Times Blog
In today’s America, there are more World of Warcraft players than farmers.
- YouTube – Information R/evolution
This video explores the changes in the way we f… (more) This video explores the changes in the way we find, store, create, critique, and share information. This video was created as a conversation starter, and works especially well when brainstorming
- skyrails social network viz – data visualization & visual design – information aesthetics
a freely available social network visualization system that features a built-in programming language for configuring the visualization attributes of the graph.
- Excite Italia – Web 2.0 – Ruini: "Suore, entrate nei blog"
Italian Cardinal Camillo Ruini: "Sisters, you should enter in blogs of youngster and tell them about the real Jesus" ChurchColonization2.0 begun (news in Italian)
- WITNESS :: See it. Film it. Change it.
Witness uses video and online technologies to open the eyes of the world to human rights violations
- YouTube – A Vision of Students Today
a short video summarizing some of the most important characteristics of students today – how they learn, what they need to learn, their goals, hopes, dreams, what their lives will be like, and what kinds of changes they will experience in their lifetime.
13
Oct
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- TagMindr – Feed yourself your delicious future
I hope Tagmindr will remind me to check Tagmindr. That’s procrastination on steroids! Tag something as "tagmindr" and "remind:YYYY-MM-DD" and Tagmindr will send it to you at that date, via RSS, SMS, Email or IM.
- A Brief Message: Arrogance and Humility
Clay Shirky is a genious as well: "figuring out when to watch users and when to ignore them for this particular problem, for these users, today, is the problem of the designer."
- SwarmSketch
Collective drawing! Everything is the instrument made available to users. Based on this you can get wisdom or disaster, and everything in between.
- NOSO
ABOUT NOSO NOSO is a real-world platform for temporary disengagement from social networking environments. The NOSO experience offers a unique opportunity to create NO Connections by scheduling NO Events with other NO Friends.
- Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Using Brain Waves to control Avatars in Second Life
Scary. In Second Life Gets Brain Controls a “brain computer interface†is described that has been developed to allow a person to control their own avatar in Second Life via thought.
- Bouillon project – Is wikipedia declining/saturating?
Is wikipedia declining/saturating? The rate at which edits were being made to Wikipedia articles appears to have peaked in February to April 2007 and declined since.
- 1-800-GOOG-411
Now you can phone Google and Google will understand your queries on the phone. Presented in the usual casual way, this time with a funny video by an employee.
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Oct
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27
Sep
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- World Freedom Atlas
Geovisualization tool for world statistics between 1990&2006 (political rights, civil liberties, corruption perception, type of regime, averaging schooling years, ethnic fractionalization,…). Allows better understanding of issues of freedom, democracy,
- Do You Write Like a Terrorist? – Danger Room – Wired Blogs
A federally-funded artificial intelligence lab is figuring out how to track people over the Internet, based on how they write. If Artificial Intelligence thinks you’re a terrorist, you better run before being deported in Guantanamo, the pearl of democrac
- Groklaw – 10 Myths About Open Source Software Answered, by Carlo Daffara
Great points! Need to translate it into Italian. Interested? "May I request your input? This article is part of our research in the EU project FLOSSMETRICS, where we are preparing a guide for helping small and medium-sized enterprises on the adoption of f
- Reputation: chapter in "Peer to peer: harnessing the power of disruptive technologies
Great chapter (2003) by Roger Dingledine, Michael J Freedman, David Molnar, David Parkes, Paul Syvers. Reputation is a tool to predict behavior based on past actions and characteristics.
- The rise of subjectivity on the web: What’s important to you? | wanderingstan
Very good reflection by Stan. But what if objectivity is impossible? If what we now call objectivity is just enough-agreed conventions?
- The Social Networking Weblog: Earn Money Doing Nothing, Really
Free is not enough. "Every time someone you refer signs up and does something on Yuwie, you get paid. When you update your site, create blog entries, send messages, you get paid. When other people view your profile, look at your videos or photos or send y
- The language of bias
If you don’t like something new that’s getting a lot of attention, you call it out as being all hype propelled by fanboys enamoured by an immature solution. If you like that something new, you say it has momentum that’s being accelerated by passionate adv
- Toys manufacture in China (25 pics) — maZm
Pictures of chinese women working in toys manufacture. Wouldn’t be wiser to buy to your child something made in wood by someone close to you, maybe an old woman or man living in your street?
- Dump Your Pen Friend on Flickr – Photo Sharing!
Someone took a photo of a girl, released it under creative commons. Virgin used the photo for a campaign respecting the CC license. The girl didn’t know. Start a discussion about privacy today.
14
Sep
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- Visible Path Professional Edition Presentation
Cool and informative video about Visible Path proprietary software based on trust network analysis inside a corporation.
- DnaTube.com Scientific Video Site
DnaTube is a scientific research site providing video based studies, lecturers and seminars.
- Around America in 2.0 » About
Around the America in 2.0 is an Internet-based film project created to explore trust and connectivity. The primary objective of the project is to rely solely on users of video sharing websites, such as YouTube, for food, shelter, and transportation during
- How Web 2.0 Died
Very funny story about today global crash2.0. Read it and if you don’t speak like that, I invite you for a coffee ;-)
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