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COP15 Needs an e-Government System

Pietro — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:56:06 +0000

This morning I received a mail from Copenhagen. It was very moving, and describing a situation of chaos, strong commitment, and braveness. It told the story of people fighting with non violence, and shouting that they want change.

And I am afraid all this is useless. I feel once again what I felt looking at [...] 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 [...]...

My first 2 talks available online: Tags & 21st Century Democracy

Pietro — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:12:49 +0000

The two talks I gave at the: International Workshop on Challenges and Visions in the Social Sciences, this summer, are now available at videolectures.net. Not the best talks of my career, and hopefully not the last either. But the guys at VL did a great job in recording them.

One of the talk was about [...] No related posts.

Dublin, Friday 13th of June, 2008

Pietro — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 05:44:58 +0000

The problem is not that there are too many elections for Europe, but too few. And the people feel they are not controlling a process that is bigger than them. When people vote No at the battlecry: when in doubt vote No, how else would You interprete it?

Now, it can be that the United [...] Related posts:

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Education 2.0. The fully decentralized university

Pietro — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 19:13:06 +0000

Some time ago I remember reading a comment.

La Repubblica, one of the first italian newspaper, holds a big internet website. As part of their initiative they have La Repubblica TV, which is a sort of television, just recorded for the net. You can download it when you want, and see it at your leisure. [...] 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 [...]...

Small China

Pietro — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 12:28:47 +0000

We have all heard the news that do-no-evil Google has accepted to comply with Chinese laws and ban some words from the search results (Google testimony here). More than that China is censoring media, editors, journalist, blogs, and practically any form of free expression. According to this article this censorship is not having the desired [...] 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 [...]...

Ruling Class translation

Pietro — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 16:41:22 +0000

A fast note to point out that Phil Edwards took the ball and translated the previous post. The post was an answer to a post from my father, and as such in Italian.

Phil uses the post as his launch pad for a very interesting one on how he sees the long tail having effect [...] 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 [...]...

A new Base

Pietro — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 01:52:55 +0000

Hello everybody, I’m back. The vacations were very good, and soon I’ll pull all the pictures on the moblog, with the descritpions and the embarassing details. Now I’m back to work in Jena. One of the things that is happening to me at the time is that my computer is physically falling to pieces. It [...] No related posts.