How to use social networks in emergencies.
In the article: Tweeting the terror: How social media reacted to Mumbai it is explained how twitter, blogs and social networks gave mixed results in during the Mumbai massacre. I particular it is said:...
View ArticleFacebook as a spiritual tool
[crossposted on the moblog, and the facebook notes.] One of the leit motif in spirituality is to reach an integration among the various parts of oneself. There are many important reasons for this,...
View ArticleTaking a taxi in Lisbon (without being cheated)
Taxi in portugal are generally very cheap. This is why people, in particular tourists that come from richer countries, tend to take them a lot. But in Lisbon they are often not that honest. It is very...
View ArticleNo 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...
View ArticleFrom White House 2 to Betri Reykjavik
In recent Italian elections one party that wanted eDemocracy, but had no real platform installed, won about one third of the votes in the Parliament. So everybody started shouting that they now wanted...
View ArticleShould we allow delegated voting in e-Democracy?
This post is the english translation of an italian post. My dear readers, we must speak. We need to speak of the concept of delegating votes in eDemocracy. It will be long, maybe boring, but necessary....
View ArticleDelegating in eDemocracy, my Way!
Recently I wrote a very long post in which I tried, as exhaustively as possible to discuss if it was the case to let people delegate their vote in eDemocracy. The conclusion was that it would be better...
View ArticleOne document, multiple point of views
Writing paper is a classic many to one process. With many authors convening together in a single final result. Final result that should contain several claims, often causally related to each other,...
View ArticleIs the Non Linearly Weighted Delegated Voting System Democratic?
This is a post I first wrote in the Italian Blog. But I think it might be of interest also to the English speaking readers. Reading some posts on Facebook I realised how the non-linear weighted...
View ArticleHow Beppe Grillo is failing while trying to control eDemocracy in Italy
Doc Searls makes a great talk for State of the Net in which he explains how we are reaching the personal data cloud. And also how, also this time, like in the past, with computers, mainframe, networks,...
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