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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 …
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. …
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 …
I am always glad to see how a meme could spread… Let’s see if opinion radar is a good one. Opinion radar has been proposed by Marco Montemagno to better contextualize the Technorati tag searches. The link I added to the previous sentence is the example of its use, and actually at this time it …
I was thinking about LinkedIn, and their forthcoming features, and I realized that with tools for automating, and weighing contacts, and references, they are becoming an enabling mechanism for a Long Tail effect in professional relationships, where the aggregate value of the many smaller ones is higher than that of the bigger ones. So what …
Relationships, and Markets have a Long Tail, too! Read More »
I just came back from the launch event of Creative Commons Italy, and shot some (amazingly bad) photos of Lessig’s speech, which was very eloquent. Larry was a little late, as he just came in from his flight, and after he spoke, he had to endure three – four Italian language presentations! I couldn’t be …
You can contact me now, and apparently for the next 50 years (based on the assumption that the service, the world, and I will all be there), at the universal handle =David.Orban, which is my i-name. (A recently introduced global system by Identity Commons, and the 2idi, an i-broker, based on open data sharing standards …
Universal identity service with Identity Commons Read More »
The Osservatorio of Pavia publishes the report of a lexical analysis of the US Presidential debates (pdf), that represents the words used on a very clear graph of Simple-Complex and Rational-Emotional axes. The frequency of the words used, and their grouping into clusters of meaning let the authors of the report show the main themes …
Lexical analysis of debates lets the memes shine through Read More »
