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      29 Jan 2011

      A Venezia si può inseguire la modernità, non si è solo sopraffatti dalla tradizione

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      link: www.marsilioeditori.it

      txt: L’avventura Marsilio - I 50 anni della casa editrice.

      Cesare De Michelis: Quando l’ho fondata, tutto sembrava possibile. Un’atmosfera sparita. Ce l’ho fatta perché sono testardo - corrieredelveneto.corriere.it

       

      Professore, oggi sembra quasi impossibile pensare che 50 anni fa in Veneto nacque e riuscì a sopravvivere una casa editrice come la Marsilio. Che clima c’era? Era un altro Paese e c’era tutto un altro clima culturale. Era un Veneto molto arretrato, dove era ancora molto forte la migrazione fuori dalla regione, ma dove si intuivano i primi segnali della ripresa. C’era una bella vivacità, il boom economico alle porte: in qualche modo la gente cercava soluzioni diverse e nuovo per il Paese. Rispetto a oggi, allora tutto sembrava possibile. L’ansia di partecipare a questa festa del progresso era palpabile. Oggi non c’è nulla che assomigli a quello che successe allora. [...] Lei è un verdiano e ha scelto Nono per festeggiare i 50 anni. Un’opera difficile e una scelta azzardata. Perché? Penso sia un evento culturale che restituisce il clima di quegli anni. Volevo far vedere che anche stando a Venezia si può inseguire la modernità, non si è solo sopraffatti dalla tradizione. C’è una doppia ricorrenza in questa scelta: l’opera nacque in quegli anni, come noi
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      19 Jan 2011

      Communication Power

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      book: Communication Power - Manuel Castells on amazon.com

       

      We live in the midst of a revolution in communication technologies that affects the way in which people feel, think, and behave. The mass media (including web-based media), Manuel Castells argues, has become the space where political and business power strategies are played out; power now lies in the hands of those who understand or control communication. Over the last thirty years, Castells has emerged as one of the world's leading communications theorists. In this, his most far-reaching book for a decade, he explores the nature of power itself, in the new communications environment. His vision encompasses business, media, neuroscience, technology, and, above all, politics. His case histories include global media deregulation, the misinformation that surrounded the invasion of Iraq, environmental movements, the role of the internet in the Obama presidential campaign, and media control in Russia and China. In the new network society of instant messaging, social networking, and blogging--"mass self-communication"--politics is fundamentally media politics. This fact is behind a worldwide crisis of political legitimacy that challenges the meaning of democracy in much of the world. Deeply researched, far-reaching in scope, and incisively argued, this is a book for anyone who wants to understand the dynamics and character of the modern world.

      links:

        - #tunisie

      - #wikileaks on twitter

       

      video: Castells' keynote at oxford for the release of his new book, "Communication Power" on vimeo.com

       

       

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      13 Jan 2011

      Welcome to the Venice university of Ca' Foscari / Benvenuti a Cà Foscari

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      link: Università di Cà Foscari - www.unive.it

      video: Welcome to Ca' Foscari - youcafoscari on youtube.com

       

       

       

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      8 Jan 2011

      Information is (not so) beautiful: Debtris

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      When visualization adds value to the information: an inspiring example.

      link: www.informationisbeautiful.net - debtris

      video: Debtris US - infobeautiful on youtube

       

       

       

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      1 Jan 2011

      Happy 2011!

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      video: The Joy of Stats - on youtube - Hans Rosling shows how all the countries of the world have developed since 1809.

       

       

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      19 Dec 2010

      Merry Christmas from oddtag / Buon Natale da oddtag

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      Merry Xmas from the oddtag. Let's do something good, if you can. Be good!

      Buon Natale da oddtag. Fate qualcosa di buono, se potete. State bene!

      link: www.join1goal.org

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      video: Shakira - WAKA WAKA : Let's All Dance For 1GOAL

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      8 Dec 2010

      Never waste a good crisis: the Net, the Power and WikiLeaks

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      txt: Live with the WikiLeakable world or shut down the net. It's your choice - John Naughton, guardian.co.uk

       

      The most obvious lesson is that it represents the first really sustained confrontation between the established order and the culture of the internet. There have been skirmishes before, but this is the real thing. And as the backlash unfolds – first with deniable attacks on internet service providers hosting WikiLeaks, later with companies like Amazon and eBay and PayPal suddenly "discovering" that their terms and conditions preclude them from offering services to WikiLeaks, and then with the US government attempting to intimidate Columbia students posting updates about WikiLeaks on Facebook – the intolerance of the old order is emerging from the rosy mist in which it has hitherto been obscured. The response has been vicious, co-ordinated and potentially comprehensive, and it contains hard lessons for everyone who cares about democracy and about the future of the net.

       

      links:

      - How Wikileaks has woken up journalism - Emily Bell, Tow Center Columbia University

      - Il potere digitale - Stefano Rodotà, repubblica.it

      - Why WikiLeaks Is Good for America - Evan Hansen, Editor-in-Chief of Wired.com

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      4 Dec 2010

      High water in Venice: FAQ!

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      txt: High water in Venice: frequently asked questions (FAQ) - City of Venice

       

      What happens in Venice when there's a high tide? Venice and Venetians have always been used to coping with "acqua alta". These are the City Administration's measures in case of high tide: if there's a sea level forecast of +110 cm on the mareographic zero, the population is alerted by acoustic signals and with text messages (for those registered at the free high tide information service of the City Tide Centre - Centro Maree Comunale). At the same time, elevated platforms are set along the main streets to allow passage. Public waterbuses keep on working, although some lines may be subject to changes. In any case access to most of the town is guaranteed. Only when exceptional high waters occur (higher than 120 cm on the mareographic zero) the famous "acqua alta boots" are really needed, but even on these occasions the inconvenience last just as long as it takes for the water to go down again, which usually happens in a few hours.

       

      link: www.comune.venezia.it - City of Venice website

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      19 Nov 2010

      Back where the web began: matter, antimatter

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      txt: CERN: How the web began

      The first proposal for the World Wide Web (WWW) was made at CERN by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989, and further refined by him and Robert Cailliau in 1990.

       

      txt: Antimatter atoms produced and trapped at CERN

      Antimatter – or the lack of it – remains one of the biggest mysteries of science. Matter and its counterpart are identical except for opposite charge, and they annihilate when they meet. At the Big Bang, matter and antimatter should have been produced in equal amounts. However, we know that our world is made up of matter: antimatter seems to have disappeared. To find out what has happened to it, scientists employ a range of methods to investigate whether a tiny difference in the properties of matter and antimatter could point towards an explanation.

       

      links:

        - CERN - European Organization for Nuclear Research is the world's leading laboratory for particle physics. It has its headquarters in Geneva.

      - The ALPHA Collaboration

      - CERN Courier: Keeping antihydrogen: the ALPHA trap

       

      img: General views of the ALPHA experiment; - CERN PhotoLab

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      8 Nov 2010

      Venice as a place of wander (for whom?)

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      txt: Venice: Canaletto and his Rivals - Exhibition | The National Gallery, London

      Contrary to our expectations perhaps, eighteenth-century Venetian view painting was both rich and varied. It was also a form of painting almost entirely shaped by the tastes and aspirations of foreign visitors to the city. The eighteenth-century Venice of Canaletto and his rivals was, to almost every visitor, a place of wonder.

       

      video: Canaletto Exhibition Introduction | Exhibitions | The National Gallery, London

       

       

      link: Venice: Canaletto and His Rivals

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