Last weekend I spent most of the day (read: five hours) musing myself (I am a bit ironic but this is my rant and rave) through procedure I call the performance of being capable to go through iBT TOEFL test. What kind of test iBT TOEFL is? It is test …
Category: internet
My text on Semantic Web and eResources
I was browsing these days academic online databases and realized that some of my old papers gone missing. Actually I was looking for a specific one that I wrote in the beginning of 2002 after Semantic Web conference in Rome, being inspired and I gave a talk at the annual …
Inside Social Media
Something you may find interesting: the International Glocal conference “Inside Social Media” invites researchers and industry practitioners interested in creating and analyzing social media for a continuous discussion that was started, very successfully, at the last year’s conference “Glocal 2.0: Blogging: Evolution Treated as Revolution”, organizers say in their call …
Some random thoughts on Social web tools and Science 2.0
Recently I was asked by a colleague who is working on the launching of the new information management, knowledge management (KM) system about evaluating social networking tools (read: social software, web 2.0 tools) as potential implementation in the “old” web 1.0 models for web repositories (during past times we had …
eBook on developing issue: Identity in the age of Cloud Computing
Speaking about the books and identity, I want to point out the recent publication by The Aspen Institute – an eBook by J.D. Lasica – Identity in the Age of Cloud Computing: The next-generation Internet’s impact on business, governance and social interaction. This eBook is the outcome of the Seventeenth …
i’ve finished with 365 flickr project
For those who are following my Flickr activities and my photostream, I’ve recently finished with 365 Flickr project. The idea was to through intimate bits and bytes and dialogues with myself and the world around me, every day in a year (2008/09) explore self-identity. It was long and not easy …
Modernity 2.0 -sociocybernetics
Speaking of Italy, there is an interesting conference about emerging social media technologies and their impacts this summer in Urbino, Italy, from 29th June to 5th July 2009. The 9th International Conference of Sociocybernetics will take place at the Faculty of Sociology of University of Urbino “Carlo Bo”. More about …