It 's all the fault of Pisapia

These days the Web in Italy is leading an interesting novelty in political communication. This is not a true innovation in language online, but a catchy adaptation of running a campaign on the Internet. And here is the main element of novelty, however, is not the only one. We enter into the matter. We are in Milan, where the comparison between Giuliano Pisapia and the outgoing mayor Letizia Moratti is a tight.

The books will be the future of advertising?

In the excitement generated by new technologies, it is little talk of a phenomenon that could become nascent and pervasive advertising in books. Something unimaginable in the world of paper could become "normal" with the transition to ebooks. Here's why. Amazon recently announced the inclusion of advertising in their reading devices.

For the moment it is just background images that can be disabled by the user. Accepting advertising the customer gets a discount on the ebook reader. Putting the question in these terms is fairly trivial and beneficial to the consumer. In fact this is the tip of the iceberg. The submerged part of advertising applied to the books is much more interesting: we are talking about the relationship between advertising and the written word and how it is mediated by technology.

Apocalyptic and digital

Apocalyptic and integrated at the time of the Internet. He raised a fuss in the last issue of Network Bag of Minerva, a historic section of Espresso Umberto Eco. Starting from our article, which tells how the genie of journalistic fraud, Tommaso Debenedetti - who became known already for fake interviews with Gore Vidal and Philip Roth -, had passed off as the author of the Cemetery of Prague and succeeded in making a post false letter Herald Tribune, Eco draws the lines of distinction between true and false in the digital age.

Ecocensure the time of the web

Yesterday I was watching streaming in the meeting, held at the Perugia Journalism Festival, for The New Frontier, involve the community. Peter Gomez also participated in the debate which among other things has shown the "politics" of the site Ilfattoquotidiano. com and his blog. Bloggers, Gomez said, they can write what they want and is only made a very serious control issues (in criminal law, or racism, insults or other).

Facebook, the product is you. As always

Before yesterday evening I was out of town and aimed at a quiet dinner. But the fourth SMS received from friends asking me if I was in front of the TV watching Report, I had to give up and I did what I do every Sunday evening to watch the program Gabanelli undertaken to examine the business models of Google and Facebook and the implications for our lives internettara.

Yesterday, at least on websfera a bit 'nerdy and a little' geek that I and my party with pride we missing diopters, there was no talk of nothing else. My personal analysis of the episode may also end with the words of those who know more than me, that Stefano Epifani, who last week wrote on his blog: "[Sunday] we celebrated yet another wasted opportunity to speak (once so seriously) Network and the problems it raises.

Fans of Berlusconi without their knowledge

Users who imbufaliti scrivonoalla our editorial inquiries homemade video posted on YouTube, appeals on blogs and social networks. It is the object of the tam-tam on the Internet at this time: the mystery of thenext Facebook Silvio Berlusconi, to which thousands of social network users, had been entered against their will.

The page appears in all the official everything eto the premier. There are the personal info ("Current Position: Founder and Chairman of the Political Movement The People of Freedom"), studies at the University of Milan "and links to official sites of the party. There are members of course: almost three hundred thousand, but point out the people, in steady decline (yesterday afternoon declined at a rate of one hundred per hour).

Why Facebook is strong in Italy?

Facebook has reached 18 million users in Italy. More than one Italian out of four has a profile on popular social media world (600 million subscribers in total). Dall'infografica, by Michele Caivano site www. fortunecat. it is possible to infer two important data: - the band is represented as aged between 35 and 54 years, falls so, I hope finally, the myth that he would like Facebook as a tool "for kids" - Men are more these women: 54% males, 46% of females.

Hard life for the troll

"As Plato said, if the mythical ring of invisibility really exist and allow the wearer to disappear, surely the owner would become a thief, because it would certainly not be discovered." This is a reflection of Julie Zhuo, product design manager at Facebook, published last November in The New York Times.

Zhuo, online discussions, which it intends to use this idea to explain how to remain anonymous in these discussions often lead to exacerbated tones, accusations over the top, vulgarity. The question, in the network is old (at the time of BBS, the boards of mail that existed before the Web was developed the so-called Godwin's Law: "As an online discussion that gets longer, the probability of a comparison on the Nazis or Hitler approaches 1, at which point the discussion is on the verge of extinction ").

The anonymity of Braveheart

Have you noticed? Fell comments, here on Done. But not the players, who instead grow. What happened? E 'was introduced the requirement for registration. To post a comment you must register. Mamma mia ... that fear! I had written a few months ago. The great merit of the Internet is to democratize communication, make it interactive dialogue horizontally and vertically.

The great defect is to allow many anonymous straparlare to open your mouth and give him breath, so we're all invisible, untraceable. (Which is not true that we are invisible. On the internet than ever are identifiable, retrievable, traceable in the bowels of the wiring that seems to hide.) In this age of communication there are few ideas that we are ready, I say to fight, but say our name.

The Revolt of Jasmine becomes an ebook

The main protagonists of the recent events in the Arab world in the countries of North Africa that overlooks the Mediterranean are the Internet and social networking. Through the Internet the first citizens of Tunisia and Egypt were then kept in touch and have done since their revolt against the previous regimes.

For this reason the Mubarak regime has made an unprecedented choice: to disconnect from the Internet Egypt. On each of Tunisia was released in an ebook these days quite "instant" titoloSettanta km from Italy. Tunisia 2011: Revolt of Jasmine Quintadicopertina made by a digital publishing company founded in May 2010.

Berlusconi is good for the newspapers that he hates

Silvio Berlusconi and his adventures "love" are doing to make a shameful figure to the Italians in the world. Foreign friends ask us: but can the Italians do not rebel? What's going on in Italy? Abroad, such a case would already be solved by the resignation of the premier hands free to defend himself.

Without wishing to process estimates, the level of the material produced by the prosecution and that is enough to allow a request for immediate review. The story of Bungagate has significant side effects on the world of free media, the prime minister who has often advised not to read. Italian newspapers and their online sites have seen their sales grow and access to them after the first leaks about the investigation of parties Arcore.

In Italy, wifi is free

After months of promises, confirmations and denials, especially after five long years of endless waiting, the provisions introduced by the then interior minister, Beppe Pisanu, through which he had imposed an unnecessary and anachronistic requirement to identify, through card 'identity, how to connect to the internet in wifi in bars, restaurants and public houses have been repealed.

It took a few lines inserted in the CD Decree Milleproroghe to jump behind a standard that has been in the last five years, one of the many anomalies Italian and above all that has prevented the development and dissemination of public Internet connections, helping to increase the dramatic digital divide that plagues our country and relegates him to the role of bringing up the rear in every European ranking on the prevalence of broadband.