Thursday, March 30, 2006

Concept Map World War 2

TagClouds Politiche 2006

time ago I discovered a site to automatically create Tag Clouds from one or more rss feed. Today I found a similar service that allows a maggiore personalizzazione ed ho pensato di usarlo sul feed prodotto da Technorati per con la combinazione di parole chiave Prodi+Berlusconi (che avevo già usato qualche tempo fa ). Il risultato mi pare interessante:


Monday, March 27, 2006

Christian Sample Welcome Address

Dalla macchina da scrivere alla tastiera video

Qualche tempo fa mi era capitato di riflettere sull'evoluzione della combinazione palmare/cellulare . La mia idea in proposito è che la tastiera come dispositivo di input esterno allo schermo scomparirà in qualsiasi oggetto di questo genere e sarà simulata a video. L'idea dell' Ultra-Mobile PC (è questo il nome ufficiale del dispositivo chiamato Origami) va in questa direzione. Quando it comes with a keyboard on the screen must not have imagined a mere simulation of the keyboard tradizioale. Experts on the history of technology often citing the case of evolution from the keyboard of the typewriter to the computer. The layout of the letters, which in the typewriter was constrained by the mechanical object, remained unchanged in spite of the fact that alternative layout showed a higher efficiency. Computer keyboards do not exist in the mechanical restrictions that led to the QWERTY layout and yet we have maintained the same standard precendete. Similarly it seems that there has been moved, at least at an early stage, for the simulated keyboard on the screen. Having the entire set of buttons in a certain way (see the handhelds, tablet PCs or machines to make the tickets from the station) is certainly not the most efficient way to simulate a keyboard (ie SIP, soft input panel). With the UMPC I have seen the first alternative in this regard. The layout of the buttons in the bottom corners is certainly unusual but I think, having experience with a PDA like the JASJAR EMI, which will be very useful especially in terms of mobility. However, I think that we will use the video button in the next few years will still be different. What need is there to show all buttons on the screen when ineffective, based on the chosen language, we know that only some letters may follow those actually be written? Big buttons (easy to press with your fingers) and saving screen space by showing only the relevant letters. A key role is then played dall'autocompletamento T9 style. So the device of the future will be no keyboard

Sunday, March 26, 2006

Swollen Ankles And Glands

Super pubblico

Again Danah Boyd has published a contribution very interesting. This time the theme is the public or rather its contemporary version that Danah calls "super public". As the same author refers is not clear but a DEFINITION of an idea in progress. Surely the concept of the public at the time of FarsiMedia is something at once more radical and pervasive than in the past. Surely there is a further freeing of the local link. The public, and this by Gutenberg on, is no longer around to sharing our space-time. Or rather it is just that. The public now is however still something other than the typical indistinct mass communications. Digital
life has really screwed with the notion of public, traditional Removing situationism (Goffman) That connects strangers. If the Kenyan farmer is connected to the Internet and reads Inglese, he can be a part of Bloomberg's public via the New York Times. (...)
People's notion of public radically changes When They Have to account for the Kenyan farmer, lurking Their boss, and the person who will access their speech months from now. People's idea of a public is traditionally bounded by space, time and audience - the park is a public that people understand. And, yet, this is all being disrupted.

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What does it mean to speak across time and space to an unknown audience? What happens when you cannot predict who will witness your act because they are not visible now, even though they may be tomorrow? How do people learn to deal with a public larger and more diverse than the one they learned to make sense of as teenagers? How are teenagers affected by growing up in an environment where they can assume super publics? I want to talk about what it means to speak for all time and space, to audiences you cannot conceptualize.

A reporter recently asked me why kids today have no shame. I told her it was her fault. Media is obsessed with revealing the backstage of people in the public eye - celebrities, politicians, etc. More recently, they've created a public eye to put people into - Survivor, Real World, etc. Open digital expression systems coupled with global networks took it one step farther by saying that anyone could operate as media and expose anyone else. What's juicy is what people want to hide and thus, the media (all media) goes after this like hawks. Add the post-9/11 attitude that if you hide something, you are clearly a terrorist. Should it surprise anyone that teenagers have responded by exposing everything with pride? What better way to react to a super public where everyone is working as paparazzi? There's nothing juicy about exposing what's Already exposed. Do it yourself and You Have Nothing to worry about. These are the kinds of things That are emerging as people face life in super publics.
These sentences clearly emphasize an important aspect of FarsiMedia. Access to communication with a public, a time of a few shareholders, is now open to all. As with traditional media (novels, movies, to soap operas, reality shows) the contents of these conversations very often relate experiences. Constant exposure to these experiences are constantly changing (as always). What seems different today is the amount and frequency of these experiences of experience and constant contact with potential experience very different from those of our own social networks or from those provided by the mass media. Observe the experiences of a senior being a young person, a mother being a man, a student being a professor, a Chinese being a European ... contact with different points of view helps to relativize their own perspective and perhaps, in what way, makes it necessary to assert it. Not in the sense of imposing it but in order to propose it. After all the experiences and private thoughts are not useful to the society of communication. This is like few other precious material capable of understanding and thus enable further notice. The system works best if everything is public. Thus there is still room for the private sector in the era of "super public"? What will become of privacy at the time of FarsiMedia? PS Publications Danah Boyd can be downloaded free online.

Tuesday, March 14, 2006

Gonorrhea On Preganant Women

La Verità è l'invenzione di un bugiardo

And also the resulting charges of tipping of the Truth, the Lies, the lies and all the rest of sciocchezzario repeated ad nauseam on Monday night. Besides this cibernauta-ethics that I wanted to show this graph tells a thousand words what happened on the internet the day after the meeting. Technorati Chart
Get your own chart! It seems interesting. Then it is even more interesting to see content. There would be material to a search but I will only bring a touch of color. The graphomania Silvio has in fact sparked the imagination of bloggers who have produced several hypotheses on the possible content of scribbles that our president has prepared with its splendid feathers for nearly the entire transmission. Following are two of the most credible hypothesis.

Florida Medical Poa Form

Alcune certezze sulle radici del futuro

Although the title might suggest to extraordinary scientific discoveries that will finally explain the origin of the world and especially where we're going in co-development partner -technological in reality it is just certain that I deal with the volume being published. The first certainty is that the cover will this (pdf). The image I found on Flickr ! and the author (Philippe Pellissier) has kindly granted me the rights to use.
For the more skeptical I also found a page FrancoAngeli site dedicated to book your date but that should still be gradually modified to reflect the processing times and release dates. The latest information I have is that the volume should be in bookstores by the end of April / early May.

Sunday, March 12, 2006

Capillary Cure London Laser

Intervento di Linda Stone all'Etech

Tim O'Reilly has posted on his blog a transcript of the speech all'Etech Linda Stone on Continuous Partial Attention of . Extremely interesting.

Gay Cruising Spots Madison Wi

La nuova interfaccia utente di Office 2007

interfaces are typically built with the express purpose of creating opacity levels between the user and the operating system they are using. These levels of opacity tend to conceal the true functioning of the system by exposing only the commands that the user really needs to complete its tasks. The dialectic between opacity and transparency is a classic reflection on the relationship between man and compter and who is interested in the work of Sherry Turkle and Donald Norman much food for thought in this direction. What that is interesting in this document introducing the new interface of Office 2007 is precisely the idea behind the new design. Research on the IU Office of the latter have showed that the vast majority of people totally ignores most of the advanced features offered by these software. From this point of view the consistency of the interfaces between the different versions, if a party is allowed to pass without the need for new training from Office 95 to Office 2003, is starting to show its limits. The number of features in the meantime has grown but the system of menus and sub-menu hides the more advanced options and potentially useful in terms of productivity in places too remote for the average user. Hence the idea (not a little risky) to revolutionize the operations of the Office through the menu system to that of Command Tabs. (click to enlarge) For example, Word has a number of Command Tabs such as writing, inserting, page layout, working with references, doing mailings, and then review the documents (I predict that the location names in Italian these activities will be hard ...). Each Command Tab will have a certain set of icons that should help you focus on the task in progress and at the same time make clear the advanced features related to that activity. Ineffective when you consider how little used feature that will greatly simplify the job as a mail merge and cooperation to review the documents that you can not share at least the analysis that led to this idea. More details and several screenshots of Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook and Access this post to a blog kept by the developers of Office.

Wednesday, March 8, 2006

Multiples Id In Hotmail

Naked Conversation

Not the book by Robert Scoble, but what happens if you happen to make and use the lessons at the University Technorati ... Look what we found today while designing a research project the image anywhere in the territory of Pesaro and Urbino :-) Just Today we have explained the mechanics of a publicy newmedia ... shame because this was a perfect example ...

Monday, March 6, 2006

Can Leather Sofas Cause Drowsiness

Blog per i parlamentari cinesi

BetaNews is reporting that, in an attempt to improve the relationship between parliament and citizens, China has made available to all Members a service to keep a blog . At the moment there are not many Chinese parliamentarians have decided to make use of this service and nearly all the post are (obviously) in favor of the policies implemented by the government and the laws passed by parliament. The funny thing is that the media system can not find thematic ideas in a sea of \u200b\u200bcontent are all so equal. And these contents, however, create a backdrop against which any minimum difference is apparent. It happens so that the first item that moves the slightest public criticism, in this case the courageous parliamentary Pan Shiyi, ends straight on international agencies and on blogs all over the world.

Sunday, March 5, 2006

Best And Less Flights Parramatta

Archeologia delle consolle poratili

Engadget today published a brief history of the game pocket. I was impressed to discover that the idea of \u200b\u200bhaving dual screens recently in the Nintendo DS was already experienced by the Nintendo Game & Watch Series (1980-91) (here on left).

Thursday, March 2, 2006

Certificate Of Thanks Wording

Are you listening?

few days ago I tried to do an experiment to attract the attention of Robert Scoble and Shel Israel to this blog. The experiment essentially failed, but the outcome is not definitive. An essential part of the experiment was the assumption that Technorati would show my posts using the keyword "Naked Conversations". In fact (as anyone can see ) is not so. The same result is obtained by filtering the results in Italian only . Strange ... Then this morning I read Blog Casual.info.in.a.bottle that he too has noticed the same problem ... What happens to Technorati?