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It seems that I am one of the 100 lucky bloggers worldwide, who were quick enough to ask for Chris Anderson’s new book “The Long Tail” for review. His confirmation email came with a funny implicit disclaimer, as he is sending out not only the real books, but since too many people asked, also the […]
Chris Anderson’s “The Long Tail” book is on the way for my review! Read More »
The “Englines of Creation” by Eric Drexler has been a lightning bolt for me when I read it in the late 80s, and it is great to see it freed for all to enjoy. Nanotechnology has come alive lately in lame textiles or cosmetics products, but the vision of Drexler of nanoscale manufacturing lives on,
“Engines of Creation” available in free electronic format Read More »
There is a post today on Boing Boing about human migration. Cory wishes for other types of representations of similar data. Karl Hartig created a great information density chart for the October 1995 Classroom Edition of the Wall Street Journal, which represents five dimensions (!) in an eminently readable and enjoyable form in Edward Tufte’s
Human migration in high density data representation Read More »
. Our heads are like spy submarines exploring the world
Jaron Lanier speaks in Milan Read More »
I was very glad when Deja News was letting us search the great depths of Newsnet newsgroups postings, as well as when Google moved to purchase it, and integrate the entire corpus in its system. I am sure that there are a lot of things that I don’t know about it yet, but today I
Over twelve years of newsgroup postings Read More »
The set of blog posts have always been seen, with their rich link texture, as a healthy medium building relevant conversations. Comments on the other hand, appreciated by the blogs’ creators, have not been incorporated as readily, and the loss of analysis weakened the value of each individual comment to a blog post, as well
Comments are becoming a cleaner part of the conversation Read More »
One of the favourite sci-fi scenes is that of the sky in the center of the Galaxy, which now has taken a newly visible form. Thanks to Slashdot, I have found a video of the movement of the stars closest to the black hole in the center of the Milky Way. Really fascinating to see
A sky really full of stars Read More »
I resisted trying Sudoku up to today, but Cosimo asked me to, so we took a ‘Corriere’ from a few days ago, and started with the easy one, laying on the big bed after dinner. I haven’t solved it yet (aargh!, easy?!), and around half way through Cosimo fell asleep, but it was very funny.
The road, on top of the goal, in Sudoku as well Read More »
Ok. So ChangeThis kindly sent me the “blogger’s preview” edition of their manifestos. One of them this time is especially interesting, as it talks about “Open Source Marketing”, and yes, it is worth blogging. But, as the manifesto is in PDF, I am actually not pointing to it, but I invite other people to download
Open Source Marketing manifesto Read More »
