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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 [...]...

Here in Athens we do like this

Pietro — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 20:00:45 +0000

Paolo Rossi, an italian comedian, made a wonderful job, in taking an old discourse from Pericles, and presenting it to the modern public as part of his personal show: Il Signor Rossi e la costituzione (mr. Rossi and the constitution- but, as Rossi is the most common italian name, could be translated as mr. Smith [...] No related posts.

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.