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I’m not an idiot: technology, permission and my dishwasher
The repairman from Whirlpool showed up the other day. My dishwasher was having problems. I looked the issue up online, and found out that they are often associated to a clogged discharge pipe. I...
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Io non sono un idiota: tecnologia, permessi e la mia lavastoviglie
È venuto il tecnico della Whirlpool. La lavastoviglie mi dava problemi. Cercando in rete ho scoperto che questi problemi sono in genere associati a uno scarico otturato. Ho controllato: lo scarico era...
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L’uomo quantificato 2: il lato oscuro dei dati sulla corsa
Due settimane fa, mentre mi allenavo per la Milano Relay Marathon, ho ricevuto un’e-mail a sorpresa. A scrivermi era l’assicurazione Europ Assistance, che offriva a tutti gli atleti sconti sulle...
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The quantified man 2: data on running embraces the dark side
Two weeks ago, as I was training for the Milano Relay Marathon, I received an unexpected email. It was from insurance company Europ Assistance, which offered all athletes discounts on its health...
View ArticleBlog like it’s 2004 (Italiano)
Da diversi anni partecipo a vari social networks. Ma non ho mai smesso abbandonato i blog, nè come blogger nè come lettore, e non ho nessuna intenzione di farlo. Dopo settecento post e duemila...
View ArticleBlog like it’s 2004
For a few years now I have been participating in various social networks. But I never abandoned blogs, neither as a blogger nor as a reader, and I have no intention to do so. After seven hundred posts...
View ArticleClay Shirky: Pick up the pitchforks: David Pogue underestimates Hollywood
Media scholar Clay Shirky published this post on SOPA on his blog earlier today. I found it so clear and compelling that I decided to translate it into Italian to increase its accessibility to my...
View ArticleDisrupting learning III: enter Clay Shirky
For several years I have been an attentive reader of everything Clay Shirky I think he is a deep, original thinker, and I have learned much from him. His latest post is, as always, clear and bold. But,...
View ArticleSeven years of blogging: the new Contrordine Compagni
More than five years after its setup (!) and more than seven after my first post on a now-forgotten Blogger blog (!!), it was time to refresh Contrordine Compagni. The media landscape looks very...
View ArticleFool me twice, shame on me: the return of Alec Ross
UPDATE June 20th. I have realised I may have been too emotional about this. I have decided to try to learn more about what the Diplomacy 2.0 vision looks like in 2016, and then make up my mind. This...
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