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 …
Category: technology
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 …
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 …
Twitter covering Italian earthquakes: national media vs. social web
I want to share some of my personal reflections on the earthquakes happening in Italy in the past seven days. Now, it’s been a week since a 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck in Abruzzo, at 3.32AM (01.32 GMT, EDT Sunday) killing over 270 people and causing severe damages to several cities. …
beyond the twitter: italian’s twitterati act of kindness
Five days ago I experienced really nice act of kindness by Twitterer on my followers/following list. Five minutes or so before leaving my working station I twittered about free hugs, to test the power of Facebook and Twitter in foreign city and country as well as the radius of my …