You see, yesterday we started this innocent initiative to create a BarCamp to provide a new, decent serious project for the italia.it website. Something Italy could be finally be proud of. And we’re not asking one dime out of those 40 millions of euros or so that have been already spent on the project. In [...]
Its name is rItaliaCamp and it is the offspring of collective indignation of the Italian blogosphere following the release of italia.it, the shiny new portal for tourism that costed Italy more than 40 millions of euro. Ever since I came back from LIFT where Mark Kuznicki, Michele Perras and Thomas Purves shared with me their [...]
Coworking is cafe-like community/collaboration space for developers, writers and independents.Or, it’s like this: start with a shared office and add cafe culture. Which is the opposite of most modern cafes. ;) This is the description given on the Coworking Wiki about what in my opinion is one of the most interesting emergent practices, together with [...]
Just for those of you who, like me, love to blog from Ecto and have to deal with wordpress 2.1 -> here’s how to fix the category stall
Bell Towers Yesterday… oh no, time is running, must have been the day before yesterday, while everybody in the so called two-point-o scene seemed to be able to spend the day at FOWA, I resorted to follow the event through the virtual echoes bounced via twitter. In the end, that gave me a brand new [...]
Following that flawless 2.0 human radar that is Rik, I’m now trying Trusted Places, a new rounded-cornered web community site focusing on places (very London centric for the moment). I’m jotting down these notes as I’m approaching the site, and the first impression I have is that the sign-up process makes use of some clever [...]
After five years of blogging behind the codewitch mask, I eventually felt the need to detach from that character and start sketching on a new, empty canvas. What will you read here will be the same man, but speaking with a new voice: As five years ago, my main interest is still to get to [...]