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Bruce Sterling points to a nice article in the Guardian about the latest round of enlargement of the European Union, and observes: “It’s worth pointing out that nobody’s ever clamored to join an empire before. Yeah, that’s pretty weird behavior for an organization that’s supposed to be dull.“ I have been talking about this with […]
Fifty Years of Europe Read More »
In the recesses of the 2006 budget approved by the Italian parliament (pdf) a curious element was found to be lurking at §536 (!), and its effect started to be felt around mid february: Internet censorship in the heart of the EU. China, Saudi Arabia, Yemen are more frequently found in articles or blog posts
Italy’s attempt to censor over 500 websites Read More »
Geof Stone is guest-blogging on Lessig.org about dissent, and how politicized media or strong-arming politics can suppress it, or try tint it with shades implied guilt. One of the most commovent views at a trip I took to the US in November 2001 was a poster the width of the entire building, at the second
Dissent Is Not Un-American Read More »
The New York Times covers the signing ceremony of the European Constitution. 450 million people joined voluntarily to create the largest peaceful social experiment.
Largest peaceful social experiment Read More »
The enblogment by Lessig of Kerry is becoming a full blown applied memetics experiment, in both establishing the power of weblogs in spreading a neologism, and in establishing their influence. Winer’s page tracking the enblogments of the various candidates, and the Google tracker he posted will measure the spreading in the blogosphere, and on the
Memetics experiments around the elections Read More »
I remember when Gorbachev would talk about a connected world around 1987. It felt new, as his policies, and his hope of progressive reform. What a difference now! Anybody seeing today that the US unilateral policies and interventionist stances are a danger to the world, feel that while only US citizens are going to vote
A disenfranchised view of past feelings Read More »
Ok. That sounds pretty provocative. But how should one interpret the results of the latest Corruption Perceptions Index published by Transparency International? Italy, where I live, is at the 42nd place with a score of 4.8 on a scale of 10. It is humbling to see the world’s sixth biggest economy achieve its position with
Italy’s more than half corrupt? Read More »
We were in my car with Joi Ito tonight driving to have a few drinks after his panel at IBTS (yes, that was the name of the conference even if he didn’t seem to know :-), and he remarked how amusing it was to find Italy as he expected: creative, flexible, and pretty anarchic in
Charming side of Italian anarchy as seen from the outside Read More »
