RitaliaCamp: il 31 marzo io ci sarò. E tu? Ritalia, to rethink Italia.it, has been born from an online chat among friends. In a month it has become something interesting, stimulating, and groundbreaking. Today we are more than 200, with online collaboration tools, daily virtual meetings, and a persistend and active contact. On 31st march […]
RitaliaCamp: 31st march I will be there. And you? Read More »
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
Try to help a hopeless 40 million euro online project in Italy, and get menacing emails Read More »
Next tuesday, Jan 16 at 4PM I am speaking at the Crema Campus of the University of Milan about “Virtual Worlds, and Second Life: towards the Metaverse”. Come to chat, pick up one of the streams going to other campuses, or come back to see the recording once it has been uploaded. powered by performancing
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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
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Marc Canter at Milan University The Web2.0 meme is seeping into local consciousness on a broader level. After talking in the morning to investment bankers–in a rather provocative manner, he tells me–Marc Canter held a talk at the University of Milan about open data, open infrastructure, and his new platform for building social networks, PeopleAggregator
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The video from my seminar at the University of Milan is online. (of course the video is in Italian…)
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As reported by Reuters this morning, and by the Italian news agency Ansa more detailedly this afternoon, the offices of Google Italy have been raided today by the Guardia di Finanza police force, and its American legal representatives have been notified of accusations against them of defamation, and omitted control of the content of a
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Marvin Minsky and David Orban Bergamoscienza is a wonderful event that for two weeks engulfs the cultural life of Bergamo, and is getting better and better organized each year. The opening conference this year was by Marvin Minsky, one of the original founders of the field of Artificial Intelligence. I started my professional life twenty
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Daniel Dennett and David Orban I had the fortune of meeting Daniel Dennett in Venice at the Future of Science conference on last Saturday. The theme of the conference this year was Evolution, and after the first day being dedicated to the evolution of the Universe, and the second to that of Life, the last
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Slightly drunk I went to the University of Padua with Tommaso Dorigo, where we addended physics, and he found me about a year or two ago via my blog. We met for a dinner, and a long chat finding quickly out, that you can be on the same wavelength even after a very long time
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