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Ebooks, the next revolution. But this time is BIG!

Pietro — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 03:21:41 +0000

Another revolution is about to happen.

A revolution that is many times in size and importance bigger than the music revolution. I call it the e-book revolution.

In this moment a number of technologies are coming together:

On the one side OCR technologies are reaching a level of sophistication, where it is nearly as easy [...] Related posts:

No more Ivory Towers I am right now at the FET 11 conference. There I was attending a session from my old friend Josh Bongard on Crowdsourcing Science . There I commented that it would be already a good thing if scientists started to make themselves available to the wider public. This by giving a timetable when they are [...]...

Where life is and money isn’t

Pietro — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 23:15:47 +0000

Some of you might remember that I wrote a post about the long tail of the ruling class. The post was in Italian and got translated in English by blogger Phil Edward. I took the translation copied it in my blog (with a link), but said that I did not fully agree with Phil understanding [...] Related posts:

No more Ivory Towers I am right now at the FET 11 conference. There I was attending a session from my old friend Josh Bongard on Crowdsourcing Science . There I commented that it would be already a good thing if scientists started to make themselves available to the wider public. This by giving a timetable when they are [...]...

The new project: TagBay. Tagging e-Bay

Pietro — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 16:18:37 +0000

It is now the time to present the next project we have been working to: TagBay. And I say ‘we’, because is this project I am not alone. I did it with a friend of mine, Derek, who accepted, very patiently to code, some of the idea I have been tinkering around in the last [...] Related posts:

No more Ivory Towers I am right now at the FET 11 conference. There I was attending a session from my old friend Josh Bongard on Crowdsourcing Science . There I commented that it would be already a good thing if scientists started to make themselves available to the wider public. This by giving a timetable when they are [...]...
My new homepage Recently I have made some serious changes to my homepage. SOme of those changes I have been planning from a long long time. Others were more sudden. The central page is of course at pietrosperoni.it that leads to home.pietrosperoni.it. But then there was something that I wanted to do for a long time. Integrate my [...]...

BBC news missing Main European languages

Pietro — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 14:00:59 +0000

The BBC is present in 43 languages. Incredible I would say. What is more incredible are the naguages that are missing, more than the languages that are present. In particular for Europe we have: Russian, Uckrainian, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Slovene, Slovak, Albanian, Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian, Greek, and Turkish.

Impressive, isn’t it? And yet [...] No related posts.

My reading list

Pietro — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 23:59:37 +0000

Some of you know that I left ProtoLife. I hope in the future to keep on colaborating with the P.A.C.E. project, but for now that’s it. I want to go back to Germany, and finish my Ph.D. . Somehow this seem to have a higher priority. Beside is getting clearer for me each day that [...] Related posts:

No more Ivory Towers I am right now at the FET 11 conference. There I was attending a session from my old friend Josh Bongard on Crowdsourcing Science . There I commented that it would be already a good thing if scientists started to make themselves available to the wider public. This by giving a timetable when they are [...]...

On Artificial Scarcity

Pietro — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 11:31:10 +0000

Some time ago I posted about how artificial scarcity applied to travellers. Today I read about Clay Shirky who has a hard time in copying his own material, of which he is copyholder, because modern tools have been adjusted not to make this copy feasible… to protect copyright. His comment was:

This is because copyright [...] No related posts.

Bad news: IMF wants to help for the Tsunami

Pietro — Wed, 05 Jan 2005 18:31:45 +0000

My dear friends, I bring you bad news. The IMF offered to help the countries affected by the Tsunami.

Good! Will say most of you (naive!).

Bad, sais I. Because the IMF is not just giving money… It is lending it:

For our part, the IMF stands ready to provide financial assistance to affected countries, [...] No related posts.