Try to help a hopeless 40 million euro online project in Italy, and get menacing emails

/ General

As reported by Bru, and originally posted on his blog by Maurizio, the Ritalia initiative that we started yesterday to try and re-invent with modern tools, and effective open collaborative methods the abortive www.Italia.it portal, is causing an uproar in the blogosphere. The aim is ambitious, immodest, and innocent, happy, at the same time. Let’s […]

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Participatory Democracy

/ Technology

I am attending, from within Second Life, the conference “Beyond Broadcast 2007 – from Participatory Culture to Participatory Democracy” at MIT, organized by the Comparative Media Studies of MIT, the Yale Information Society Project, and the Berkman Center for Internet and Society of the Harvard Law School. “For 50 years broadcast media have played a

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Transcript of my lecture in Second Life on the Democracy in Virtual Worlds

/ Technology

Here is the transcript of my inaugural lecture of the Craedo Auditorium in Colonia Nova in Second Life: Welcome to this seminar about “The theory and practice of democracy in virtual worlds”. I want to thank CARE, CRAEDO, and the Confederation of Democratic Simulators for inviting me to give this talk at the inauguration of

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Tommaso’s thoughts, as tracked by the ‘New Scientist’

/ Science

My friend Tommaso has been thinking aloud on his blog, about quarks, the Higgs boson, and the origin of gravity, experimental results, and their interpretations. And as he kept thinking, and thinking, and thinking, and, well… thinking, other people noticed, and among them the UK magazine ‘New Scientist‘ which I picked up at Victoria Station

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Come to listen to the Inaugural Lecture of the CRAEDO Auditorium in Colonia Nova

/ Talk, Technology

On Feb 10 at 12 PM SLT (SLT = Second Life Time = PST = Pacific Standard Time = GMT-8) at the inauguration of the CRAEDO Auditorium I will hold a talk entitled “The Theory And Practive Of Democracy In Virtual Worlds”. You can read the invitation that Michel Manen*, posted on the Confederation of

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