P. S.: Post Scriptum » longtail http://blog.pietrosperoni.it Pietro Speroni di Fenizio's web log Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:25:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Copyright © P. S.: Post Scriptum 2011 pietros@gmail.com (P. S.: Post Scriptum) pietros@gmail.com (P. S.: Post Scriptum) http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg P. S.: Post Scriptum http://blog.pietrosperoni.it 144 144 Pietro Speroni di Fenizio's web log P. S.: Post Scriptum P. S.: Post Scriptum pietros@gmail.com no no Ebooks, the next revolution. But this time is BIG! http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2008/11/22/ebooks-the-next-revolution-but-this-time-is-big/ http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2008/11/22/ebooks-the-next-revolution-but-this-time-is-big/#comments Sun, 23 Nov 2008 03:21:41 +0000 Pietro http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2008/11/22/ebooks-the-next-revolution-but-this-time-is-big/ 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:

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]]> http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2008/11/22/ebooks-the-next-revolution-but-this-time-is-big/feed/ 1 My first 2 talks available online: Tags & 21st Century Democracy http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2008/10/13/my-first-2-talks-available-online-tags-21st-century-democracy/ http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2008/10/13/my-first-2-talks-available-online-tags-21st-century-democracy/#comments Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:12:49 +0000 Pietro http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2008/10/13/my-first-2-talks-available-online-tags-21st-century-democracy/ 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.]]> http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2008/10/13/my-first-2-talks-available-online-tags-21st-century-democracy/feed/ 0 Would you rather have sex or know about it? http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2008/07/18/would-you-rather-have-sex-or-know-about-it/ http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2008/07/18/would-you-rather-have-sex-or-know-about-it/#comments Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:38:46 +0000 Pietro http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2008/07/18/would-you-rather-have-sex-or-know-about-it/ This is quite interesting. According to this very unscientific statistics, with way too few data, but enough to start showing some trends, we discover that people who just completed elementary school has way more sex than everybody else.

Elementary school 24 Junior high / middle school 11 High school 10 College 11 College – post [...] Related posts:

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]]> http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2008/07/18/would-you-rather-have-sex-or-know-about-it/feed/ 0 Education 2.0. The fully decentralized university http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2007/01/31/education-20-the-fully-decentralized-university/ http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2007/01/31/education-20-the-fully-decentralized-university/#comments Wed, 31 Jan 2007 19:13:06 +0000 Pietro http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2007/01/31/education-20-the-fully-decentralized-university/ 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:

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]]> http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2007/01/31/education-20-the-fully-decentralized-university/feed/ 0 Where life is and money isn’t http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2006/06/09/where-life-is-and-money-isnt/ http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2006/06/09/where-life-is-and-money-isnt/#comments Thu, 08 Jun 2006 23:15:47 +0000 Pietro http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2006/06/09/where-life-is-and-money-isnt/ 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:
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]]> http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2006/06/09/where-life-is-and-money-isnt/feed/ 3 The new project: TagBay. Tagging e-Bay http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2006/03/24/the-new-project-tagbay-tagging-e-bay/ http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2006/03/24/the-new-project-tagbay-tagging-e-bay/#comments Fri, 24 Mar 2006 16:18:37 +0000 Pietro http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2006/03/24/the-new-project-tagbay-tagging-e-bay/ 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:
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  2. 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 [...]...
]]> http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2006/03/24/the-new-project-tagbay-tagging-e-bay/feed/ 0 Small China http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2006/02/25/small-china/ http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2006/02/25/small-china/#comments Sat, 25 Feb 2006 12:28:47 +0000 Pietro http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2006/02/25/small-china/ 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:
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]]> http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2006/02/25/small-china/feed/ 0 Ruling Class translation http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2005/09/20/ruling-class-translation/ http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2005/09/20/ruling-class-translation/#comments Tue, 20 Sep 2005 16:41:22 +0000 Pietro http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2005/09/20/ruling-class-translation/ 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.

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]]> http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2005/09/20/ruling-class-translation/feed/ 1 Tag Clouds are hard to Spam http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2005/06/07/tag-clouds-and-spam/ http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2005/06/07/tag-clouds-and-spam/#comments Tue, 07 Jun 2005 19:17:49 +0000 Pietro http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2005/06/07/tag-clouds-and-spam/ I think the time have come to write my third, and hopefully last contribution to the topic of tagclouds.

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]]> http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2005/06/07/tag-clouds-and-spam/feed/ 17 On Tag Clouds, Metric, Tag Sets and Power Laws http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2005/05/25/tag-clouds-metric/ http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2005/05/25/tag-clouds-metric/#comments Wed, 25 May 2005 18:52:59 +0000 Pietro http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2005/05/24/atg-clouds-vs-tag-sets/ Note: This entry is connected also to a mindmap. Some people were having problems in opening the page because of that. As such the mindmap has been stored in a separate page, and can be viewed from here.

Introduction

As correctly pointed out by Jeffrey Zeldman tag clouds are becoming more and more popular. Yet [...] Related posts:

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