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2022 (1)

December 21st Italy as best country in believing climate change is a global emergency

2020 (2)

December 11th I’m in the world’s top 2% scientists ;)
March 2nd The impact of user interface on young children’s computational thinking. Better tangible (wood!) or non-tangible (screen)?

2019 (2)

June 27th Cool paper “written/drawn” as a comic
March 20th A walk on the CHIld side: our CHI paper got a Honourable Mention award!

2018 (1)

October 19th Google UX Designers demystify Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

2017 (4)

December 29th Gallery of XKCD and other Python matplotlib styles
March 29th 3 open positions on design thinking available in Trento!
March 27th Design thinking and how it transformed Airbnb from failing startup to billion-dollar business
March 10th Design Thinking: Norman and I (and the stupid question)

2016 (1)

January 8th Which language edition of Wikipedia has more registered women?

2013 (1)

March 18th Manypedia presented at Wikisym

2012 (4)

September 19th Which Wikipedia pages are edited mainly by females?
September 5th Models of economic production, Encarta vs Wikipedia, and sober economists
January 24th MIT Press book “The Reputation Society” (containing a chapter by me) is out!
January 24th Article about Manypedia on Italian newspaper Corriere

2011 (31)

November 9th My presentation at Wikisym: studying (current) history by analyzing Wikipedia
September 30th WikiTrip: animated visualization over time of gender and geo-location of Wikipedians who edited a page
September 30th Wikisym and collective memory building of current events on Wikipedia
September 30th FBK researcher awarded by Google with 50,000 dollars and … emotion ;)
July 4th Manypedia: Comparing Linguistic Points Of View (LPOV) of different language Wikipedias
June 17th Researcher position available in SoNet at FBK, Trento, Italy about social side of Wikipedia
June 17th Report of ACM Hypertext 2011 conference
May 25th Random hacks of kindness (RHOK) in Trento
May 25th Trust in the algorithm or in the human social process? Google, Wikipedia and Points of View.
May 25th Social Networking 4 Your Business talk
April 28th Qwiki: awesome animations of Wikipedia pages
April 19th Wikipedia datasets released
April 19th PhD Comics creator in Povo
April 18th “Social networks of Wikipedia” paper accepted at HyperText 2011
April 15th Studying Collective Memories in Wikipedia
April 13th The state of Wikipedia
April 13th Science is nothing more than a game: 8-Year-Olds Publish Scientific Bee Study
April 13th Wikimedia Foundation is hiring!
April 8th Cross-cultural studies of Wikipedia
April 7th Diderot on the Encyclopédie
April 7th List of largest Wikis
March 23rd Paper “Wikipedia research and tools: Review and comments”
March 14th The Joy of Stats by Hans Rosling: 4 minutes to show evolution of 200 countries over 200 years.
March 8th Video of evolution in time of the Wikipedia page about London bombings
March 4th Wikipedia mentioned in books in 1975
February 23rd Percentage of men and women on different social networking sites (Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, …)
February 10th Percentage of men and women on different Wikipedias
January 21st Professor: What is an encyclopedia? Student: Is it something like Wikipedia?
January 18th Larry Wall talk in Povo
January 15th If you think education is expensive, try ignorance
January 10th Beautiful visualization of Wikipedia discussions on article deletions

2010 (66)

December 28th Developer position available in SoNet at FBK
December 28th Influence of religion on altruism
December 2nd Donna Haraway quotation
November 18th Scopophobia of Jimmy Wales
November 17th Fact checking in the time of Web
November 4th Social network pictures: attraction at school and vaseline spreading
November 4th Crowdsourcing Landscape
October 15th Quote: Remember, that time is money.
October 5th Journalism in the Age of Data
September 22nd Film “Truth in numbers? Everything according to Wikipedia”
September 21st Citation needed
September 21st Social Networks of elephants, whales, dolphins, baboons, bats, zebras,…
September 20th Nazis and Norms in Wikipedia
September 17th Facebook reaches 500 million users and now tells stories
September 17th The sky is not falling on Content Industries. And on French button manufacters neither.
September 8th Dead-tree 12 volumes book of all Wikipedia changes to page “The Iraq War”
September 8th Edits of Feminism in Wikipedia in time
September 7th MIT personas search for “Paolo Massa”
September 6th Amazing visualizations of activity on Wikis
September 3rd The Simplicity Cycle
September 1st Google helps Wikipedia helping the world … maybe.
August 30th Scientists and online dating
August 28th Fun is the easiest way to change people’s behaviour for the better
August 26th 74 Errors in the Encyclopædia Britannica that have been corrected in Wikipedia
August 25th Wikipedia power structure: Anarchy, Bureaucracy, Despotism, Democracy, Meritocracy, Plutocracy, Technocracy … and everything in between
August 25th Larry Sanger on max quality of a Wikipedia article
August 24th Tidbits from “The game layer on top of the world”, presentation by Seth Priebatsch at Ted.
August 23rd Review of “What motivates Wikipedians?” Main motivation = Fun!
August 18th Review of “Taking up the mop: identifying future wikipedia administrators”
August 13th Philosophies of Wikipedia: Inclusionists, Deletionists but also Gnomes, Fairies and Trouts
August 3rd Tidbits from Wikipedia presentation at Wikysym by Andrew Lih “What Hath Wikipedia Wrought: Crowds Remaking the News”
July 21st Differences in Wikipedia pages about “Vietnam War” (English vs Vietnamese)
July 21st Wikimania 2010 Trivia Night: Smurfs and communism or Vampire pumpkins and watermelons or WP:WHAT??
July 16th Papers about Wikipedia at CSCW 2010
July 1st First day at Sunbelt
June 23rd My invited talk at Future Networked Technologies event
June 23rd What is the status of Wikinews?
June 23rd Lufthansa updates your facebook/twitter while you are flying
June 21st Using the Web to do Social Science: ICML 2010 Keynote by Duncan Watts
June 15th “The Secret Powers of Time”: how to present effectively! And on the absense of future tense in Sicilian dialect…
May 27th Interesting stuff (2010-05-27)
May 27th Facebook social network analysis using Gephi
May 20th “Send your data, we will discover the hidden patterns” or Google Machine Learning Prediction API
May 17th Science of Generosity
April 28th Percentage of pie charts which resembles Pac Man (as a Google pie chart)
April 27th Predicting the Future with Social Media (SoNet slides)
April 16th Almost 1,000,000,000 edits for Wikipedias!
April 15th As droves: are Wikipedia editors leaving, or are new editors joining?
April 15th Library of Congress gives to every twit bibliographic status!
April 9th Review of “Feedback Effects between Similarity and Social Influence in Online Communities”
April 7th Experiment: people are less likely to help others if they are made to think about money
April 6th Interesting stuff (2010-04-06)
March 29th Crowdsource world saving to everyone, through online games!
March 19th Google attack on Viacom (following Viacom vs. YouTube lawsuit)
March 17th 70 Open PhD Positions in ICT at the University of Trento
March 15th US wants to find Trust detector
March 10th Graph on synchronized water consumption in Canada
February 19th Interesting stats on Wikipedia: few females, young, why do they contribute and not.
February 12th If Facebook were a country, it would be the third largest country in the World!
February 11th Interesting stuff (2010-02-11)
January 18th Scholarship for 1 year in the SoNet group
January 13th Networks of loneliness
January 13th Today “Facebooking Won’t Affect Your Grades”, Study Finds. Tomorrow “Facebooking Affects Your Grades”, study will find.
January 13th Google on China: “we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn”
January 12th Interesting stuff (2010-01-12)
January 7th Interesting stuff (2010-01-07)

2009 (94)

December 18th Interesting stuff (2009-12-18)
December 18th Interesting stuff (2009-12-18)
December 8th Interesting stuff (2009-12-08)
November 27th Ikea: tag your name on a product and you win it!
November 22nd Interesting stuff (2009-11-22)
November 20th Sociable nets and twitter clouds and participation
November 16th Interesting stuff (2009-11-16)
November 16th Clay Shirky on trust, Web, algorithms, authority.
November 13th Interesting stuff (2009-11-13)
November 13th Dalai Lama in Trento on November 17th!
November 13th Interesting stuff (2009-11-13)
November 12th Links for 2009 11 12
November 10th Links for 2009 11 10
November 8th Links for 2009 11 08
November 2nd Links for 2009 11 02
October 27th Links for 2009 10 27
October 12th Trust research and Nobel prize
October 12th Paper by Lada Adamic “Surfing a web of trust: reputation and reciprocity on CouchSurfing.com”
October 12th “The Web as random acts of kindness”, Zittrain talk at TED
October 7th Links for 2009 10 07
October 6th Links for 2009 10 06
October 6th Links for 2009 10 06
September 29th Links for 2009 09 29
September 22nd Links for 2009 09 22
September 21st Links for 2009 09 21
September 21st Suspicion XKCD
September 18th Researchers’ Night at Fondazione Bruno Kessler
September 16th Links for 2009 09 16
September 1st Links for 2009 09 01
August 30th Links for 2009 08 30
August 28th Links for 2009 08 28
August 28th Social Networking in Plain English
August 28th Tocqueville and the Tyranny of the Majority
August 25th Links for 2009 08 25
August 14th Links for 2009 08 14
August 11th Great opportunity for post-doc positions in the SoNet (Social Networking) Group at the FBK-irst research institute in Trento, Italy.
August 10th The Value of Social Network, by IBM research
August 7th Links for 2009 08 07
August 5th Links for 2009 08 05
August 3rd Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale
August 3rd Links for 2009 08 03
July 29th Links for 2009 07 29
July 26th Links for 2009 07 26
July 24th Google and Virgin to conquer Mars … opensourceing it!
July 22nd Links for 2009 07 22
July 21st Links for 2009 07 21
July 20th Links for 2009 07 20
July 12th Links for 2009 07 12
July 10th Links for 2009 07 10
July 8th Links for 2009 07 08
July 6th Pretending not to. Social networks as covers (both for love and work)
July 2nd Links for 2009 07 02
July 2nd Linus about network of trust in software development (git)
July 1st Links for 2009 07 01
June 29th Links for 2009 06 29
June 22nd User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization conference (UMAP), Jun 22 – 26, in Trento
June 17th Layar and see the world through your phone through the eyes of the internet
June 17th Trust crevices and crannies
June 16th Links for 2009 06 16
June 16th Diversity initiative and blind audition and female musicians and male twitter users
June 12th Social networking 4 your business
June 9th Dump 10 Facebook friends and get a free sandwich!
May 29th Trento is the capital of Economics from 29 May to 1 June: two Nobel prizes and much more!
May 20th Links for 2009 05 20
May 10th Iphone and dynamic carpooling
May 8th Your friends may depend on your genes.
April 30th Links for 2009 04 30
April 27th Links for 2009 04 27
April 10th Designing Your Reputation System and Designing Social Interfaces
April 10th Negativity: not shown, not present
April 2nd Two talks by David Orban in Trento on April 8th: The Open Internet Of Things, and
March 25th Links for 2009 03 25
March 24th One identity (system) to rule them all
March 20th Flickr was a game but users drove it into a photo sharing site.
March 20th Data mining for judging the values of employees and how to stop it
March 20th International politics 2.0 and … Obama is a genious!
March 20th Google Opens School of Personal Growth
March 18th Pattie Maes unveils “Sixth Sense” at TED
March 16th Insights into relationships on Facebook
March 11th Social Networks and Web 2.0 papers at WWW2009
March 9th I’m your statistically significant other
March 7th Links for 2009 03 07
March 5th Fanaticism
February 12th My chapter in “Computing with Social Trust”
February 11th Links for 2009 02 11
February 11th Your users have something to tell you
February 10th Are you too old for Facebook?
February 9th Links for 2009 02 09
February 6th Jane Goodall in Trento on February 27th
February 4th Kiva, the distributed micro loan platform, just released a new API, and social network analysis sprang up
February 2nd Getting things done … by your search engine: just give it your task list and it will take care of everything!
January 29th FBK Retreat 2009 Live!
January 23rd FBK retreat 2009: the future of scientific and technological research
January 16th How to write an abstract for a scientific paper

2008 (110)

December 23rd Links for 2008 12 23
December 19th Links for 2008 12 19
December 13th Happiness as a contagious virus: please spread it!
December 13th Coworking in Trento
December 13th The IT Crowd, nerdiness and people you might want to stay away from ;)
December 8th Links for 2008 12 08
December 6th Obama and keeping citizens in the loop
December 5th Links for 2008 12 05
November 28th Links for 2008 11 28
November 26th Links for 2008 11 26
November 25th Links for 2008 11 25
November 20th Links for 2008 11 20
November 18th Links for 2008 11 18
November 13th Dellai2.0: Italian politics in time of Web
November 4th Tools for finding conferences and journals
November 3rd Links for 2008 11 03
October 30th Learning Processing
October 30th Try to not YAWN!
October 24th Who can make real change in USA? Who is that?
October 22nd Links for 2008 10 22
October 14th Links for 2008 10 14
October 12th Kickoff meeting and public presentation for LiveMemories project with Ricardo Baeza-Yates from Yahoo! Research
September 19th Two new joint projects with MIT
September 8th Links for 2008 09 08
September 5th Links for 2008 09 05
August 28th Still looking for a PhD student for LiveMemories project
August 23rd An anthropological introduction to YouTube
August 1st Links for 2008 08 01
August 1st You are invited at the DolomitiCamp, a BarCamp in Trentino mountains, 24 august 2008!
July 31st Links for 2008 07 31
July 31st Religions symbols in Unicode characters
July 30th Links for 2008 07 30
July 29th The consequences of opensourcing Facebook code
July 28th Social networking wars
July 19th Links for 2008 07 19
July 17th Pirate Bay in Trentino for Manifesta7
July 17th Papers about relationships between social networks and physical distance
July 15th Links for 2008 07 15
June 29th Looking for a PhD student for a project on collective memory building.
June 24th Links for 2008 06 24
June 23rd Listening Enrico Giovannini (OECD) speaking about “measuring progress of societies”
June 16th Links for 2008 06 16
June 16th BarCamp all over the world
June 15th Links for 2008 06 15
June 15th First International Conference on Reputation: Theory and Technology – 18-20 March, 2009 – Gargonza, Italy.
June 14th Evasori.info: let map tax evaders in Italy!
June 13th Links for 2008 06 13
June 11th The Elsevier Grand Challenge – Knowledge Enhancement in the Life Sciences
June 10th Links for 2008 06 10
June 7th Links for 2008 06 07
June 3rd Facebook Opensource, license and motivations to contribute
June 2nd Icecream, you scream, everybody scream for … Social Media
June 2nd International Forum on Enterprise2.0, June 25th 2008, Varese
June 2nd Conference “Web2.0 for human resources” in Bologna – June 6th 2008
June 2nd Video and slides of sci.bzaar.net merged with Omnisio
June 2nd The great bloggers of the past are up there.
May 29th Help translate the video “Mandela describes the concept of Ubuntu”
May 28th Amazing talk by Bernardo Huberman: attention, opinions, wikipedia, sell your friends, cooperation, SlimVirgin, recommendations, Paris Hilton, tags, sex, wow, wow, wow!
May 27th WebValley: young minds of Trentino for a summer of collaboration and investigation
May 26th Links for 2008 05 26
May 23rd Festival of Economics (May 29 – June 2, 2008) in Trento
May 21st Science2.0 and the Scientific Bzaar: collective brainstorming for better research
May 21st Setting expiry time to infinite by default in Mediawiki
May 20th Claerbout’s Principle at Free Software Conference
May 20th Free course about GNU Linux in Trento
May 20th Amazing animation painted on public walls
May 15th Italian Free Software Conference this weekend in Trento
May 11th Sci(entific) B(a)zaar Net(work): sci.bzaar.net, May 17, 2008 in Milan
May 10th Report of Conference on Business Information 2008
May 7th Links for 2008 05 07
May 4th I’ll be in Innsbruck (4-7 may) for a conference and couchsurfing
May 3rd Links for 2008 05 03
May 2nd Gin, Television, and “We’re looking for the mouse”
May 2nd Links for 2008 05 02
May 1st Links for 2008 05 01
April 26th Links for 2008 04 26
April 26th Not-so-virtual enemies: when Web2.0 affects your reality
April 26th Animate the song
April 26th Digg spy fullscreen
April 19th Links for 2008 04 19
April 13th TrentoWiki.it, a wiki for the city of Trento
April 13th Links for 2008 04 13
April 13th The trust is already here â€“ it’s just not evenly distributed, or quotes and shoulders
April 13th Google offices in Zurich, and here in Trento?
April 13th List of impressive services built on top of Last.fm
April 12th Links for 2008 04 12
April 11th Links for 2008 04 11
April 10th Deadlines
April 4th Links for 2008 04 04
April 3rd Links for 2008 04 03
April 2nd Links for 2008 04 02
April 2nd BlogFest in Riva del Garda, 12-14 September 2008
March 31st Links for 2008 03 31
March 29th Links for 2008 03 29
March 26th Links for 2008 03 26
March 24th Links for 2008 03 24
March 22nd My first paper published under Creative Commons!
March 22nd Blogging on Nature: why not?
March 22nd Links for 2008 03 20
March 22nd Links for 2008 03 22
March 20th Frozen in Trento?
March 18th Links for 2008 03 18
March 16th Calvino’s invible cities and their web of relationships
March 13th Links for 2008 03 13
February 13th Links for 2008 02 12
January 31st Links for 2008 01 31
January 30th Links for 2008 01 30
January 30th From e-democracy to Google-democracy?
January 30th Making money from money: is this a needed feature of our society?
January 19th Links for 2008 01 19

2007 (115)

November 23rd DNA2.0 or how to google your genome (and put it in a social network)
November 23rd On why we accept worthless pieces of paper and what happens when we stop.
November 20th The Global Gender Gap Report 2007. Italy? 84th out of 128
November 19th Acer refunds Windows in Italy so I asked for the removal of Windows
November 19th Report from the Information Architecture summit (day 2)
November 19th Report from the Information Architecture summit (day 1)
November 9th Links for 2007 11 09
October 31st Google: “All your network are belong to us”
October 17th Recommender Systems conference in Minneapolis
October 13th Links for 2007 10 13
October 13th The end of corruption, brought to you by Lawrence Lessig and powered by millions of us
October 6th Links for 2007 10 06
October 4th Free Burma
September 27th Links for 2007 09 26
September 19th Social graph portability with a simple rel=”me”
September 18th Linus Torvald is convinced version control should be based on trust networks
September 18th Northern Rock bank crash: what happens when trust ends?
September 15th Jacob Moreno: an amazingly mad visionary
September 14th Links for 2007 09 14
September 14th Bandwidth as a currency and Free Software as a strategy. Tribler: from Europe to Harvard.
September 14th Reading a book on Google Books and deciding not to buy it
September 13th Time to close Guantanamo, isnt’it?
September 13th Terrific slidecast about trust and reputation by Rentathing
August 31st The Social Web (Web 2.0: What went wrong?)
August 29th The commons, the tragedy, the cornucopia
August 29th Remember, remember the 8th of September: vaffanculo day.
August 29th Allison Stokke, Web aggregation effects and privacy2.0
August 22nd Avoiding central money
July 11th Links for 2007 07 11
July 7th Links for 2007 07 07
July 5th Links for 2007 07 05
July 5th The “nature”al social network for researchers
July 5th New Fiat 500
July 5th Medieval christian politician and failed censorship
July 3rd Another randomly generated paper accepted in a Journal
July 3rd Social Networking in Plain English
June 26th I’ll be at New Network Theory Conference since tomorrow
June 26th Report of conference on e-Identity, social issues in social networking, trust and reputation.
June 26th Wikipedia trust network
June 26th Fact: the entire Internet could be served from Google machines
June 26th The church does not pay taxes on buildings in Italy and EU gives us a fine.
June 26th The future as seen by Casaleggio
June 22nd Links for 2007 06 22
June 20th Links for 2007 06 20
June 20th Campaign for the Liberalization of the sector of Software for Personal Computer
June 20th “The Implications of OpenID” presentation
June 9th Links for 2007 06 09
June 9th Reputation is in the eye of the beholder: on subjectivity and objectivity of trust statements
June 9th An online game is like a country and citizens asks for democracy
June 8th Links for 2007 06 08
June 6th Links for 2007 06 06
June 5th Links for 2007 06 05
May 29th Links for 2007 05 29
May 29th Never ever use the term “Intellectual Property”.
May 28th Links for 2007 05 28
May 27th Festival of Economics in Trento, be welcome!
May 22nd Links for 2007 05 22
May 22nd “A Fair(y) Use Tale” short movie: soon in Italian?
May 21st “Sex Crimes and the Vatican” BBC documentary video, with Italian subtitles
May 21st The “be very afraid” tour. Can you imagine who is the “artist”?
May 14th Links for 2007 05 14
May 14th Microsoft trying to use its patents wallet weapon again Free Software. Moglen: “Waterloo is here somewhere”
May 1st Thank Stallman if Dell starts shipping Ubuntu (and keep looking at Microsoft stocks)
April 25th Links for 2007 04 25
April 25th The Anti Web2.0 Manifesto (Adorno for idiots) by Andrew Keen
April 23rd Links for 2007 04 23
April 22nd Links for 2007 04 22
April 22nd The founder of Dell uses Ubuntu
April 14th Links for 2007 04 14
April 14th The attention economy as MMORPG
April 13th Links for 2007 04 13
April 13th Edelman Trust Barometer 2007 presentation
April 12th Links for 2007 04 12
April 11th Links for 2007 04 11
April 11th Surprise: here who, how and when decided in Vatican to take away from justice the pedophile priests. You will never guess it â€¦
April 11th I’m a PC, I’m a Mac, I’m Linux … it is called GNU/Linux
April 9th Money as Debt
April 6th Links for 2007 04 06
April 4th More about the eBay feedback model and trust metrics attacks
April 4th Links for 2007 04 04
April 4th You can buy a positive feedback on eBay for 29 cents, so how much is it worth?
April 3rd Links for 2007 04 03
April 3rd On the impossible BarCampization (*) of Universities and other lessons learned from rItaliaCamp
March 22nd rItaliaCamp: on March 31st in Milan Italian Citizens Unite to Propose an Alternative to Italia.it
March 14th SecondLife-like from Sony but installed by default on every PS3
March 13th Links for 2007 03 13
March 13th Robot walks, then demands legal rights … then the second renaissance?
March 13th Interview of Radio24 about Couchsurfing
March 2nd Vice President of Italy trying to convince chineses to come to Italy … in macaronic English
February 28th What can we XSS inject into the new 40 millions Euros portal Italia.it? Better help in redoing it: rItaliaCamp
February 27th Mobile Open Source, a seminar about Funambol model, licences, cleverness, Italianess
February 27th The Italian lonelygirl15 and six degrees of Justin Timberlake
February 16th Links for 2007 02 16
February 16th Cool Trashware Video
February 15th Links for 2007 02 15
February 8th Nicholas Negroponte in Udine and we will switch the light off
February 5th “Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us” Video
February 2nd Links for 2007 02 02
February 1st Links for 2007 02 01
January 31st Links for 2007 01 31
January 27th Chain for Energy Consumption Awareness
January 26th Links for 2007 01 26
January 25th Links for 2007 01 25
January 23rd Terrific GapMinder talk: preconcepts and myth about development, visualized!
January 22nd Links for 2007 01 22
January 22nd World Social Forum 2007 WebTV
January 18th Links for 2007 01 18
January 17th Links for 2007 01 17
January 17th Apple products will be 100% recyclable
January 16th “Cosa e’ Software Libero” explained with videos of Stallman
January 8th Links for 2007 01 08
January 8th Second Life source code now as Free Software!
January 5th Links for 2007 01 05
January 2nd Google losing trust, Wikipedia still gaining trust
January 2nd Craigslist CEO isn’t nuts … but it would have been just few years ago

2006 (5)

December 20th A blog post is a permanent email with cc:world
December 20th Italian public television (RAI) entirely under Creative Commons!
December 15th Help in making Ryzom a Free MMORPG!
December 6th The Rules of BarCamp, now in Italian
December 5th Welcome back to myself!

2005 (190)

November 23rd Agent Reputation and Trust (ART) Testbed
November 23rd Another workshop: Reinventing trust, collaboration and compliance in social systems
November 23rd More from del.icio.us/tag/trust
November 23rd Lies, damn lies, and facts found on the Web
November 18th repressing the “Expression under Repression” workshop at WSIS
November 16th Apple offers for free MacOSX for $100 laptops, MIT says “No, thanks”
November 14th A rural computer for free, Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid and WSIS
November 14th Users reviews are THE market
November 14th Spyware Sony seems to breach copyright
November 10th A Semantic Mobs Manifesto for the (r)Evolutionary Web: rejected!
November 8th Sony managers (i.e. Cyber Criminals) should go to jail.
November 7th Sony, DRM this!
November 7th It will be TransMedia
November 2nd Microsoft Office Live
October 4th Google+Sun OS announced: check Microsoft’s shares and predict the next future
September 30th If Google Print is illegal, so is Google
September 30th The path to Identity (… 2.0 as everything these days)
September 29th Comments to “A cognitive analysis of tagging” by Rashmi Sinha
September 28th Numbers visualization
September 27th 10 ways WoW will change the future
September 26th Orwellian Microsoft: Openness is Closeness
September 25th Google Maps fun
September 21st Presentation at the Web Intelligence conference
September 18th Speaking effectively hints
September 18th Presentation in standard format, S5
September 17th Am I a human? Well, I take the Turing Test
September 17th Discovering Roman ancient villa through GoogleMaps
September 16th Rails videos: from 15 minutes to 2 minutes
September 16th Petition for Open Access to State-Collected Geospatial Data
September 15th Power to the browser with Flock
September 14th Trusted computing video
September 14th Problems with Beppe Grillo Blog
September 14th Open standards: you want to be able to call the police independently of the phone you use, right?
September 12th Google, Internet and inclusion
September 6th List of open APIs
September 4th Linux displaces 2,460 Windows XP desktops in rural Italian schools
September 1st Another conference, another received hospitality
August 31st A Microformat for grouping all your identities?
August 31st Greasemonkey script can create a page from scratch? How do you fire it?
August 31st BBC Phonetags and future of radio
August 31st Beppe Grillo Italian Blog in Technorati Top 100
August 31st Five reasons NOT to use Linux
August 29th Identity Burro: making social sites more social.
August 26th Releasing under open licences and getting some feedback.
August 25th AjaxOffice / WebOS / Microsoft starts shivering
August 24th Wikipedia shines also on Google Talk.
August 23rd Migrating MovableType to a 64 bits machine.
August 23rd Any wordpress plugin for managing bibliography?
August 18th AjaxOffice now on SourceForge
August 14th Monsanto wants to patent pigs.
August 8th Paolo trying to be Kitta (and to get a free shirt ;-)
August 7th Fast forward to the new world: 2025 and signs
August 7th A lot of available RDF data
August 7th Copyright madness: I cannot send an email about what I create at work.
August 6th What Business Can Learn from Open Source (and blogging)
August 6th 10 things that should be free (as in free speech)
August 5th Donald Knuth on Software Patents (and Microsoft to patent emoticons)
August 4th Seb onward
August 4th Video of Di Cosmo’s talk on “Why Public administration must choose Free Software”
August 4th The Open CD: versione in Italiano
August 4th Ubuntu sent me 300 GNU/Linux CDs
August 3rd Changing sex, one page at a time
August 3rd Flickr’s approach to polysemy: clusters
August 2nd Forecast: Ajax Office available in less than one year
July 31st Attention Trust and my cloud of related concepts
July 25th Ruby on Rails Rules
July 25th Wikipedia Statistics
July 24th ArteSella (nature art) slideshow
July 21st Faletti: “Open Source leads to Barbarity”
July 21st Incredible article about Windows Longhorn on Repubblica.it
July 18th Tripods: online, multiplayer Google Maps game.
July 17th Identity Burro: GreaseMonkey extension for social sites.
July 17th Trento province chooses Free Software
July 16th Can your mind manage all the Greasemonkey you installed?
July 13th AAAI05: my presentation
July 13th AAAI05: terrific talk by Marty Tenenbaum
July 13th First AAAI05 day and Invited talk by Minsky
July 12th AAAI conference: workshops day.
July 10th AAAI 2005 conference will be Flickred
July 10th Using wifi at AAAI (with GNU/Linux)
July 7th Off for AAAI 2005 conference in Pittsburgh
July 6th EU parliament stops Europe Parliament nixes software patent law.
July 1st Creating playable Games on Google Maps
July 1st Animated Invasion over Google Map
June 30th Google follows Yahoo! in personalizing search
June 30th Software Patents WebStrike: “close” your web site to Save Europe from Software Patents!
June 30th Live8 and Africans
June 29th SocialSearch: risk of moving from “tyranny of the majority” to “the daily me”
June 29th Social Search via Trusted Friends (by Yahoo!)
June 25th Don’t yawn!
June 15th Presentation on “Trust in Recommender Systems: an historical overview and recent developments”
June 9th My suggestion to Google: getoutfoxed(‘s author)
June 9th GreaseMonkey on Trenitalia.com
June 8th GreaseMonkey is the real Semantic Web (and now works on HospitalityClub)
June 7th Contribute to”The Politics of Open Source Adoption”
June 6th AAAI-05 Technical Program Schedule
June 4th Gladwell’s talk at SXSW2005
June 3rd Google boosts Open Source (and students can get $4500)
June 3rd Nokia 770 and the power of grassroot development (read GNU/Linux)
June 3rd Read the books people you dislike dislike
May 28th Visualizing time trends in how a site is tagged on del.icio.us: cloudalicious
May 28th Use of Tags on del.icio.us follows a powerlaw
May 24th School and Workshop on Structure and Function of Complex Networks: Feedback about first week
May 22nd School and Workshop on Structure and Function of Complex Networks: fifth day
May 22nd School and Workshop on Structure and Function of Complex Networks: forth day
May 18th School and Workshop on Structure and Function of Complex Networks: third day
May 18th hReview: a semantic microformat for reviews
May 17th Power Law = Paolo? (scary)
May 17th Italy is slow in Firefox adoption
May 17th School and Workshop on Structure and Function of Complex Networks: second day
May 16th School and Workshop on Structure and Function of Complex Networks: first day
May 15th Hospitality found in Trieste! Thanks to HospitalityClub
May 11th WikiMania Conference: be bold!
May 11th The Early History of Nupedia and Wikipedia
May 11th Client power: you modified the page your browser receives (greasemonkey)
May 9th Folksonomies criticism
May 9th Social Capital and Social Networks – Bridging Boundaries
May 8th Propagating Trust until I found gold: Ultra Gleeper
May 8th Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy
May 8th Trust Metrics Book
May 6th New paper: Learning Contextualised Weblog Topics
May 6th Tag your friends
May 6th FolkOS: Folksonomy Operating System
May 5th Microsoft isn’t exactly in fighting trim
May 4th Teens share innermost feelings with parents or ….?
May 2nd An Automatic Patent Requests Generator: overflooding the Patent Office?
May 2nd Patenting the obvious: Google and how much a news source is trusted
May 1st Contact me if you’ll be in Trieste next week for the School on Structure and Function of Complex Networks.
May 1st My first Firefox extension: SemanticLinks
May 1st New paper: “Page-reRank: using trusted links to re-rank authority”
April 30th Looking for accomodation in Pittsburgh and for travel support
April 30th Paper accepted at AAAI05: “Controversial Users demand Local Trust Metrics: an Experimental Study on Epinions.com Community”
April 30th 50.000.000 downloads for Firefox!
April 26th From PageRank to TrustRank
April 21st Creative Commons power: you make a photo, someone else use it for a video
April 21st India rejects software patents
April 15th Randomly-generated paper accepted for a conference!
March 31st ICT4development
March 31st Attacking HITS (and not PageRank)
March 31st FlickrLand: network analysis
March 30th China releases “Human Rights Record of the United States in 2004”
March 29th GUESS the graph
March 29th The economist on Collaborative filtering
March 17th No limitations for Google OS
March 13th The long tail is everywhere, also in software production
March 12th I watched “Hotel Rwanda” and we can Prevent “Hotel Darfur”
March 10th If you know an Italian shop selling computers with Linux preinstalled, insert it on LinuxSi.com
March 7th Firefox vs InternetExplorer
March 5th Italian Government Commision on E-content wrote a report copying (without citation nor permission) a sentence about CopyLeft, thus violating Copyright.
March 5th BillGates was (what he defined) a communist.
March 5th Nonsense: you can’t link to a candidate’s site
March 3rd Richard Stallman in Trento: photos, audio and video
March 3rd Google H4x0R
March 3rd The Corporation (movie)
February 27th “Serpica naro” is “San Precario”
February 24th Will your friend ask “Are you buzzing me?”
February 24th M1cr0$oft 5uX
February 22nd Trust competition testbed rules now available
February 18th Review of “Quality Control in Scholarly Publishing”
February 16th The Free Software community is women unfriendly?
February 16th Capitalism-enthusiasts should go for Open Source
February 13th The Gates of Interoperability
February 11th Flickr FlashGraph
February 10th Eclipse trust framework
February 9th My first couchsurfing host
February 9th Europe and Italy
February 5th The meatrix
February 4th “Tag_the_tag” tag and metadadaism
February 4th Trento Caput Mundi?
February 4th Ubuntu and Stallman
January 29th The Two Mules
January 29th What is “Tag Spam”? Or better, Tag Spam exists?
January 27th Microsoft Reseach Center in Trento
January 27th Microsoft means e-exclusion (also in music)
January 26th Lucas, please, add tagging to WebJay
January 26th Trust in Games
January 25th Controversial books: patenting the obvious?
January 23rd Folksonomies spreading is a river, we can just steer the kayak
January 22nd School and Workshop on Structure and Function of Complex Networks
January 20th Microsoft’s AntiSpyware thinks IExplorer is spyware
January 20th Mycroft Firefox Taggregator
January 19th Download them (scarichiamoli)
January 19th The web is more a social creation than a technical one.
January 19th HTML tag <A> gets a new attribute: nofollow
January 17th <a rel=”tag”> and technorati aggregates your post based on category
January 16th 2 more “things” technorati could aggregate: papers and todo lists.
January 15th Windows crashes, crashes and crashes
January 15th Secunia: “use another product”
January 15th For billgates, Free Culture advocates are Commies
January 15th Almost one month without blogging

2004 (86)

December 17th There IS an alternative!
December 17th Hassan Masum is WorldChanging
December 16th Reputation and Trust class
December 14th No Internet Explorer Information Bar added
December 12th Google suggests (Firefox)!
December 12th Your Christmas is the result of Coca-Cola marketing?
December 9th Knowledge organization: from tree to tags?
December 7th Using social software for good: car pooling
December 3rd 20th anniversary of Bhopal
November 27th Google Grid
November 27th Linux day
November 25th But nothing day
November 19th Scholar.google.com
November 16th NeverForgetAttachment: Thunderbird extension needed
November 11th The Wired CD: Fight for your right to copy
November 11th Search engine switch
November 11th CiteULike: A free online service to organize your academic papers
October 26th Travelling to Cyprus and Israel
October 18th Repository of category-tagged blog posts: anyone?
October 18th The long tail: economy is changing
October 15th Brain-computer direct interface
October 15th Enormous P2P Network by Google
October 15th What Google knows about you
October 13th Joi Ito and Italian translators
October 13th Sharing research papers
October 11th Google addons
October 1st Past week in Fribourg
October 1st FOAF file updated
September 27th Zipf, Power-laws, and Pareto: excellent tutorial
September 27th When computers will beat humans … at football?
September 25th Breakout sessions rules at FOAF workshop
September 25th (Late) report on FOAF workshop
September 11th Sunday bloody sunday sung by Bush
September 11th Foaf Workshop pictures
August 26th FOAF t-shirts
August 26th Mozilla-based Google Browser
August 20th I robot: Open Operating System?
August 19th Firefox Ascii Logo
August 18th Games and Social Networks
August 16th OpenMedia and Galway
August 3rd Paper accepted for Coopis → looking for cheap place in Cyprus (through 2 degrees of separation)
July 21st Manifesto for the Reputation Society
July 1st FOAF Camp in The Netherlands
June 22nd Cory Doctorow’s Microsoft Research DRM talk … in Italiano e in MP3
June 22nd Call For Papers: 1st Workshop on Friend of a Friend, Social Networking and the Semantic Web
May 29th GoogleBomb to stop genocide in Sudan
May 24th Workshops Committees
May 3rd KnoBot
April 29th The passion of the present: more about genocide in Sudan
April 27th Free Movable Type blog hosting
April 21st L’esperimento Caravita: Italian Blogger candidate for European Parliament
April 20th Genocide, Sudan and the blogosphere
April 20th Boycott the Daily Me!
April 20th New personalized services
April 9th Evaluating collaborative filtering recommender systems
April 9th Google Bug?
April 6th Jung (Java Universal Network/Graph Framework)
April 6th Cai Ziegler
April 6th Google Personalized
April 5th MozDex: an open source search engine
March 25th Mozilla poetry
March 19th Soft Trust and Hard Trust
March 10th It is written in the stars … Firefox
March 3rd ISF04 – 3° Incontro Nazionale di Ingegneria Senza Frontiere (2004)
March 3rd Email is where knowledge goes to die.
February 27th PhD Research Proposal: Trust-aware Decentralized Recommender Systems
February 23rd Scraping a site is ethical?
February 23rd Is better Yahoo! or Google? You decide.
February 20th Stop using Internet Explorer
February 16th Reviewr
February 3rd Best social software? Orkut? No, Epinions.
February 2nd Back to Italy
February 2nd 3 videos you are not going to see in Tv (at least in Italy)
January 30th Microsoft: “don’t click on links!”
January 29th Other papers analyzing Epinions.com web of trust
January 27th SongBuddy and Decentralized Music
January 27th I like it
January 27th World66, another collaborative travel guide
January 27th World Economic Forum Davos 2004 included a session on blogs
January 23rd Google Social Networking
January 23rd Trust related conferences wiki
January 23rd Mixmaster: combine the content of a site with the layout of a different one
January 23rd Workshop on the Weblogging Ecosystem: Aggregation, Analysis and Dynamics
January 15th Paper accepted! Oxford I’m coming…
January 15th New year’s eve in Chiapas (photos)
January 15th I’m back!

2003 (55)

December 16th Paper submitted to iTrust2004
December 16th Asking help to MetaFilter
December 10th Christmas Gift Exemption
December 9th What Google thinks of Berlusconi?
December 3rd Bophal: 19 years later
December 1st Corante: Social Capital as Credit
December 1st Thanksgiving with Bush at 6 AM?
November 25th Murdoch privatizes government propaganda
November 20th Possible way to overcome censorship of “raiOt – Weapons of Mass Distraction”
November 17th blam! rocks
November 17th Revolution OS review
November 17th Raoit, Armi di distrazione di massa
November 16th Ingegneria Senza Frontiere
November 16th Brazil is our last hope
November 16th Automatic Translations of this Blog
November 14th Trust Management for the Semantic Web
November 10th War on Spam has just started!
November 10th The Technology of the Year: Social Network Applications
November 7th Wikitravel.org
November 7th “European cows get a subsidy of $2.50 a day. We have 3 billion people in the world who live under $2 a day.”
November 6th Why didn’t you go to study to Russia?
November 5th Flags
November 5th Marcos: la lotta contro la globalizzazione e’ una questione di sopravvivenza
November 5th New York
November 5th Ora o mai piu’
November 5th My Erdos Number
November 4th E’ il dodicesimo anno
October 31st My new house in College Park
October 31st USA holidays
October 30th University of Maryland
October 29th Gli immigrati come le merci
October 28th Whitehouse.org is hiding Iraq-related pages: why?
October 14th Italia: la finanziaria specula sui poveri del mondo
October 14th Add MT-blacklist
October 14th Internet contro la fame: un nuovo progetto Fao
October 3rd use blo.gs blogrolling tool?
October 3rd Conference Trust2004
October 3rd allconsuming
October 3rd ETCON2004 interesting proposal: Fear of a FOAF Planet – Acronyms and activism on the Semantic Web
September 4th answer to life the universe and everything (by google)
August 29th sistemare templates in tutti i files
August 28th ping cocoa
August 26th css validable
August 26th entry in italiano
August 26th plugins before release
August 22nd add myself here
August 22nd We are constructing the future
August 22nd ping new_webloggers
August 21st installare mt allconsuming plugin
August 21st social software
August 21st Feed RSS italiani
August 21st How to express semantic geographic information
August 21st Geoblogging
August 21st quotation
August 20th TODO