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On journalism and content curation
I’m reading an old, but always valuable article from Niemen Lab by Vadim Lavrusik on curation and amplification. Some insights: “The cycle no longer stops after a piece is written or a story is curated...
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Books: The Digitally Divided Self, by Ivo Quartiroli
I’m reading a very interesting book by Ivo Quartiroli (he’s Italian, though the book was written in English), it’s called the Digitally Divided Self. I think many of his views fit perfectly with the...
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Stanford Magazine – Can I Get Some Privacy? – March/April 2013
Data about all of us lives online, in “clouds,” on our web browsers and in others’ databases. Cell phones show our physical location and track the places we have been. Websites display the address and...
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Mit: just four calls and your online anonimity is gone
Writing in Nature, an international team led by researchers from the Massachusetts Institue of Technology found that data derived from mobile phone networks, using just the location of radio masts,...
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Drone journalism is on the way
The emergence of drone journalism is expected to become a mainstay of the media industry in the next few years… In the Us, the current ban on drone use in populated areas is expected to be lifted by...
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Social media and churces: please, believers, download the sermons
From websites to blogs, podcasts and Twitter, church leaders are embracing social media as a way to spread the word of God, to share information and to woo new members. When Pope Francis was elected...
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Beyond the NYT’S Avalanche: some great examples of liquid journalism and...
In this report from South by Southwest, by Eddie Rehfeldt, some great examples of how to create compelling content for multiple devices, immersive web-based experiences from data driven stories to...
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The London schoolboy who sold Yahoo a 30$ million app
A London schoolboy has just sold his smartphone news app to Yahoo for a reported $30 million. “If you have a good idea, or you think there’s a gap in the market, just go out and launch it because there...
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The hidden costs of “free” online education
Give-away pricing in education, Mr. Michael A. Cusumano, a professor at the Sloan School of Management at M.I.T warns, may be a misstep. The damage would occur, he writes in an article published in...
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Webcast: Dan Gillmor presents his new book “Permission Taken” at the Berkman...
Once, personal technology and the Internet meant that we didn’t need permission to compute, communicate and innovate. Now, governments and tech companies are systematically restricting our liberties,...
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Think your old smartphone is “clean”? Think better
“Even if you use the built-in tools to wipe it, when you go to sell your phone on Craigslist you may be selling all sorts of things along with it that are far more valuable — your name, birth date,...
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Thiel against Wadhwa – again – on Moocs and the future of higher education
Is college an expensive waste of time? Peter Thiel and Vivek Wadhwa have debated this question repeatedly — on 60 Minutes, at an Intelligence Squared debate in Chicago, and most recently at The...
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The New York Daily News on the changes in early college technical education
Ten years ago, technical education in New York’s public schools meant cosmetology, auto shop and a blue-collar job. Today, it means computer programming, robotics and college. Under Bloomberg the city...
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Here comes BuzzReads, for people who are afraid of BuzzFeed
Together with the Huffington Post, BuzzFeed is a site who has taken the step from “curating” other people’s content and making it viral, to producing its own quality material. In this interesting piece...
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Imparare le lingue con Internet – i siti per migliorare vocabolario e pronuncia
Ve la cavate discretamente con la grammatica e la sintassi, ma non appena aprite bocca si sente lontano un miglio che siete italiani? Forvo (http://www.forvo.com) è un dizionario di pronuncia, che...
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Imparare le lingue col Web – gratis, con Web Tv e soap opera
Oltre al già menzionato Yappr, ci sono parecchi siti utili per imparare le lingue guardando video online. Su ExpertVillage (ora eHow), ci sono video di tutti i tipi: fra questi, anche molti corsi di...
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I 5 migliori siti per imparare l’inglese
Abbiamo visto quali sono, in generale, i migliori siti per imparare le lingue sul Web. Vediamo nello specifico quali portali conviene visitare per imparare la lingua che è ormai il nuovo esperanto:...
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Facebook “Home”: bello, sì, ma la privacy?
Scritto per La Stampa.it Si vede che ormai sa come stare su un palco: mentre ieri sera si muoveva sotto lo sguardo delle telecamere per presentare la nuova creatura di Facebook “Home” –...
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Now reading: Slow News, by Peter Laufer
Repassing the math before the panel on Slow Journalism of the International Journalist Festival of Perugia click to enlarge
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The London schoolboy who sold Yahoo a 30$ million app
A London schoolboy has just sold his smartphone news app to Yahoo for a reported $30 million. “If you have a good idea, or you think there’s a gap in the market, just go out and launch it because there...
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