oddtag's posterous http://oddtag.posterous.com Most recent posts at oddtag's posterous posterous.com Mon, 02 May 2011 20:37:00 -0700 Ca' Foscari Digital Week 2011 - 3/5 maggio 2011 http://oddtag.posterous.com/ca-foscari-digital-week-2011-35-maggio-2011 http://oddtag.posterous.com/ca-foscari-digital-week-2011-35-maggio-2011

link: www.digitalweek.it  

txt: Ca' Foscari Digital Week 2011 - Infoscari

 

Saranno tre giorni veneziani intensi e ricchi di eventi e iniziative dedicate alle nuove frontiere della tecnologia, in particolare al rapporto tra digitalizzazione e innovazione, didattica, apprendimento, ricerca, editoria e biblioteche, pubblica amministrazione, disabilità e accessibilità, sanità, lavoro, sicurezza (informatica e sul lavoro), lifestyle, marketing, social media, impresa, design, arte, turismo, musica, sport, creatività. [...] A Ca' Foscari, dal 3 al 5 maggio 2011, sbarcheranno più di 150 relatori impegnati in oltre 60 appuntamenti tra workshop tematici (sessioni della durata di circa 1 ora e mezza nelle quali i singoli temi vengono esplorati da diversi relatori), fast workshop (sessioni della durata di venti minuti con contenuti mirati a condividere un’esperienza con la platea o a fornire un contenuto mirato) e special events (anteprime e contest, appuntamenti particolari come lo “Storming Pizza” promosso da H-Farm, in cui giovani imprenditori possono presentare le proprie idee, o ancora “Imagine Cup”, la competizione promossa da Microsoft) distribuiti in vari luoghi: nella sede centrale di Ca' Foscari, nell'area expo di Ca' Foscari Esposizioni, all'Auditorium Santa Margherita, all'Aula Magna Ca' Dolfin e al CLA (Centro Linguistico di Ateneo).

video: CA' FOSCARI DIGITAL WEEK 2011

 

 

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Tue, 19 Apr 2011 21:21:00 -0700 Le 4 T: Talento, Tecnologia, Tolleranza. E Trento http://oddtag.posterous.com/le-4-t-talento-tecnologia-tolleranza-e-trento http://oddtag.posterous.com/le-4-t-talento-tecnologia-tolleranza-e-trento

txt: Se l’Italia innova come Trento ce la fa - www.linkiesta.it

 

Un ottimo ateneo, un’amministrazione provinciale che punta sull’innovazione, imprenditori vivaci e la presenza di ottimi centri di ricerca. Sono gli elementi che trasformano Trento e la sua provincia nella capitale italiana della knowledge economy. Dalla biologia sintetica alle tecnologie semantiche passando per i genomi sequenziati, Trento si pone come modello per il resto del Paese. Con un ruolo specifico del pubblico. Qui la spesa procapite in R&S del settore è superiore a quella italiana, e perfino a quella dell’eurozona. Una scelta che sembra inizi a pagare.

 

via: Luca de Biase: Linkiesta ha visto Trento  

video: The Simpsons - Think Differently huludotcom on youtube.com

 

 

 

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Thu, 07 Apr 2011 19:45:00 -0700 Ideas should travel http://oddtag.posterous.com/ideas-should-travel http://oddtag.posterous.com/ideas-should-travel

link: www.festivaldellecittaimpresa.it  

txt: High speed Infrastuctures and Networks for the 2019 Metropolis European Capital of Culture.

 

High speed Infrastuctures and Networks for the 2019 Metropolis European Capital of Culture. The Italian NorthEast is living through yet another phase change. For some years, particularly since the crisis has affected significantly all the traditional businesses on which this area’s economy has developed, the more dynamic companies have chosen to internationalize and innovate their products, to make them more competitive in the global markets. Networks, facilitating customer relations, the exchanging of ideas and creativity, have gained a prominent role in the creation of value. Today it has become more and more obvious that only with ideas (culture and significance) and with suitable infrastructures and services, the NorthEast can overcome the risks of marginalization and decline. This fate has damaged entire industries (jewellery, chair manufacturing) and is menacing others (furniture, fashion, machine and footwear manufacturing). Last year’s Festival launched the proposal to promote the NorthEast as the 2019 European Capital of Culture, a big event that intends to redefine the role of the area, and to redirect its planning. In this fourth edition the Festival would like to highlight the grand theme of the infrastructures and the networks (tangible and intangible), on which the “2019 Metropolis” will have to depend for moving ideas and goods to travel, developed by the new creative industries.

 

 

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Thu, 18 Nov 2010 20:56:00 -0800 Back where the web began: matter, antimatter http://oddtag.posterous.com/back-where-the-web-began-matter-antimatter http://oddtag.posterous.com/back-where-the-web-began-matter-antimatter

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.

 

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  - 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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Tue, 14 Sep 2010 05:59:00 -0700 A learning centre: The Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne http://oddtag.posterous.com/a-learning-centre-the-ecole-polytechnique-fed http://oddtag.posterous.com/a-learning-centre-the-ecole-polytechnique-fed

video: Great Architects - Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa - Rolex Learning Center

 

 

 

txt: An introduction - The Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

 

EPFL is the research home of the beginning of the modern computer mouse, of the ambitious Blue Brain Project, and of innovative ideas towards sustainable development. Offering tuition at all levels from undergraduate to PhD, it is one of the world’s fastest growing campuses. It is currently ranked alongside Cambridge as the top university in Europe in the category of engineering, technology and computer sciences according to the Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU). Situated on a single campus overlooking the shores of Lake Geneva at Lausanne, Switzerland, with extraordinary views of the Alps, EPFL accommodates 11,000 people. These include 7,000 students as well as professors, over 4,000 researchers and other faculty members, plus administrative staff and a number of entrepreneurs running small start-up science and technology businesses located on the campus.

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Sun, 05 Sep 2010 23:48:38 -0700 Provincia Italiana http://oddtag.posterous.com/provincia-italiana http://oddtag.posterous.com/provincia-italiana txt: PROVINCIA ITALIANA
Provincia italiana is one of the Collateral Events to be held during the 12th Venice International Biennale of Architecture. The project consists of meetings, workshops, talks, and conferences in some of the most fascinating venues in the provinces of Vicenza, Venice, Padua, and Treviso. It is a programme of events and activities taking place during the period of the Biennale in Palladian villas, a Second World War bunker, industrial areas, and abandoned factories. Provincia italiana is a laboratory for rethinking the territory, with architecture as its starting point, and for two months it will activate spaces and, above all, people. The projects aims are: - to create a concerted territorial network for the exchange ideas about contemporary themes - to capitalize on the territory’s historical/architectural heritage by using it as the scenario for events and activities - to create an international context for animating the economic and social system - to construct operative programmes for cultural situations, and to plan and activate experimental projects that will permit local situations to compete in global contexts - to redefine the character of the territory by sparking off new approaches to social and cultural relationships Provincia italiana is a project promoted by C4 - Centro Cultura Contemporaneo Caldogno, organized by Fuoribiennale and Centro Studi Usine, curated by CulturAli, made in Innov(e)tion Valley
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Sun, 05 Sep 2010 07:47:26 -0700 Comoda_mente 2010 http://oddtag.posterous.com/comodamente-2010 http://oddtag.posterous.com/comodamente-2010 Comoda_mente 2010: La leggerezza Vittorio Veneto (Treviso) 2/5 settembre 2010 txt: www.comodamente.it - Il festival
Il festival Comoda_mente nasce per fondere in un unico messaggio i temi della riqualificazione urbana e della cultura contemporanea e offrire quel nutrimento culturale vivo che ormai è diventato un bisogno socialmente percepito. [...] Tre giorni, quindi, per scomodare il conosciuto e prendersi una rivincita su tutto quello che facilmente definisce il Reale scartando il Possibile, comodamente seduti in un avvolgente salotto urbano.
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Mon, 12 Jul 2010 18:57:50 -0700 The world's first hydrogen-run power plant: Fusina (Venice, Italy) http://oddtag.posterous.com/the-worlds-first-hydrogen-run-power-plant-fus http://oddtag.posterous.com/the-worlds-first-hydrogen-run-power-plant-fus txt: Enel Opens Hydrogen-Run Power Plant - The Wall Street Journal
FUSINA, Italy - Enel SpA on Monday opened the world's first hydrogen-run power plant as the Italian utility beefs up its green credentials ahead of the planned multibillion-euro sale of its renewables unit set for the fall. The new plant located in Fusina, a short distance from Venice, has an overall generation capacity of 16 megawatts.
txt: ENEL inaugura a Fusina il primo impianto industriale a idrogeno al mondo - Venezia, 12 luglio 2010
L’impianto sperimentale ad altissima efficienza si colloca nell’ambito dei progetti di Hydrogen Park, il Consorzio nato nel 2003 su iniziativa dell’Unione Industriali di Venezia, con il sostegno della Regione Veneto e del Ministero dell’Ambiente per circa 4 milioni di euro, allo scopo di promuovere nell’area di Porto Marghera lo sviluppo e le applicazioni delle tecnologie dell’idrogeno nel settore del trasporto e della generazione.
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Wed, 30 Jun 2010 19:56:21 -0700 Veneziacamp 2010 the digital innovation festival - Venice 1-3 july http://oddtag.posterous.com/veneziacamp-2010-the-digital-innovation-festi http://oddtag.posterous.com/veneziacamp-2010-the-digital-innovation-festi txt: www.veneziacamp.it Google english translation
I temi della manifestazione, trattati in oltre 50 sessioni, speech e dibattiti, sono: innovazione ed e-commerce (1 luglio); cultura della rete, scuola e social networking, pubblica amministrazione (2 luglio); barcamp, tourism web 2.0, politica e rete (3 luglio). Ampio spazio verrà inoltre dedicato ai cambiamenti in atto e al futuro dell’editoria, con l’affermarsi di prodotti come iPhone e iPad. Per la prima volta parteciperà alla manifestazione l’Associazione Italiana dei Parchi Scientifici Tecnologici. Tra gli eventi speciali: Facebook developer garage, una full immersion sull’evoluzione di Facebook e della sua piattaforma di sviluppo; WIFI Day a Venezia, un anno di Cittadinanza Digitale, in occasione dell’anniversario dell’offerta della connessione Internet gratuita ai cittadini da parte del Comune di Venezia. Per la prima volta arrivano nel Nord Est le GGD Girl Geek Dinners con l’organizzazione di una cena per donne, ma non solo, appassionate di informatica e cultura digitale. che segnerà l'esordio di una serie di meeting in Veneto, Friuli Venezia Giulia e Trentino Alto Adige. VeneziaCamp si svolgerà nelle Tese di San Cristoforo, nell’Area Nord dell’Arsenale di Venezia. L’ingresso è libero. Nei giorni della manifestazione è prevista la connessione gratuita alla rete Wi-Fi, previa iscrizione on-line nel sito dell’evento: www.veneziacamp.it VeneziaCamp – Festival dell’Innovazione Digitale è organizzato da VEGA Parco Scientifico Tecnologico di Venezia e Expo Venice e gode del patrocinio della Provincia di Venezia, del Comune di Venezia, del Ministero dell’Istruzione dell’Università e della Ricerca con gli Uffici Scolastici Regionali di Veneto e Lombardia, del W3C – World Wide Web Consortium e di Formez PA.

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Sat, 26 Jun 2010 22:15:00 -0700 There is no future without memory / Non c'è futuro senza memoria http://oddtag.posterous.com/there-is-no-future-without-memory-non-ce-futu http://oddtag.posterous.com/there-is-no-future-without-memory-non-ce-futu

Take a walk into the industrial area of Marghera. Walk alone, at 2 pm, under a summer sun. Exit the station of Mestre, get into the chaos of cars, buses, trains (planes and ships farther). Then you arrive. Silence. Long and deserted streets. Sun, lot of sun. Ok, the Vegapark of course, but then you walk, you walk a lot. Behind. Around. Around the petrochemicals, the shipyards, the docks (the dock of the Nitrogen!), the the big ships, the skeletons of the sheds, the dead rails, the futuristic overpasses. If there is a place where the collision between past present and future is so harsh, that place is still Marghera. You get there to see signs of innovation, of future: Vegapark, technology, creativity (the coworking, for example). But when you're there you cannot escape the present, even less the past. Most of the bills with it are still open. Heavy. We need a sustainable future, for all.  

 

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 Fatti un giro per la zona industriale di Marghera. A piedi, da solo, alle due del pomeriggio, sotto il sole d'estate. Esci dalla stazione di Mestre, t'infili nel caos di macchine, autobus, treni (più in là, aerei e navi). E poi arrivi. Silenzio. Strade lunghe e deserte. Tanto sole. Sì, il Vegapark, ovvio, ma poi cammini, cammini ancora. Cammini tanto. Dietro. Intorno. Al petrolchimico, ai cantieri navali, alle banchine (la banchina dell'Azoto!), alle grandi navi ormeggiate, agli scheletri dei capannoni, ai binari morti, ai cavalcavia futuristici. Se c'è un posto dove la collisione tra passato presente e futuro è così dura, quel posto è ancora Marghera. E ci vieni per vedere segni di innovazione, di futuro: il Vegapark, la tecnologia, la creatività (il coworking, per esempio). Ma quando sei lì davvero non puoi fuggire al presente, meno che meno al passato. E molti conti sono ancora lì: Aperti. Pesanti. Serve un futuro sostenibile, per tutti.  

 

link: Associazione Gabriele Bortolozzo  

video: VEGA Science & Technology Park

 

 

video: Porto Marghera - Inganno Letale

 

 

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Mon, 05 Apr 2010 08:24:49 -0700 Chaos and harmony: Eric Lewis http://oddtag.posterous.com/chaos-and-harmony-eric-lewis http://oddtag.posterous.com/chaos-and-harmony-eric-lewis video: Eric Lewis rocks the jazz world - TED Talks
Eric Lewis, an astonishingly talented crossover jazz pianist -- seen by many for the first time at TED2009 - sets fire to the keys with his shattering rendition of Evanescence's chart-topper, "Going Under."
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Thu, 25 Mar 2010 21:35:46 -0700 Festival delle città impresa: (what) culture enriches (who of) us http://oddtag.posterous.com/festival-delle-citta-impresa-what-culture-enr http://oddtag.posterous.com/festival-delle-citta-impresa-what-culture-enr txt: The Festival of the city-enterprise - www.festivaldellecittaimpresa.it A Festival that wants to tell the transformations of the North East and think about the future. The urban centres are the protagonists, the symbols of the industrial transformation that has taken place during the last decades. Today they are representative models of a constantly moving system, lived as an experimental place, together with the cities that are the symbols of the cultural life. A network event that takes place in some cities-enterprise which constitute the symbol of the transformation of the Venice area's economic and social fabric, and that will connect them to Verona, Venice and Trieste, symbols of the three region's cultural life in turn, where some key events will take place. Locations Rovereto (TN): The culture of sustainability - science and enterprise meet in Technopolis. Schio (VI): Reinvent the worlds: how art and culture can create new scenarios after the crisis. Union of the cities Camposampierese (PD): The networks of knowledge and communication. Montebelluna-Asolo (TV): Design as a competitive factor for the enterprise. Vittorio Veneto (TV): Spaces and landscape of a European capital: ideas for a new balance. Maniago (PN): The new cultural industries: the movie factor. Interland Udine (UD): The new "Marco Polo". Culture as a dialogue and exchange factor between the markets and peoples from East to West. link: The Festival of the city-enterprise program

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Mon, 22 Mar 2010 05:31:00 -0700 The Power of Cultural Diversity http://oddtag.posterous.com/the-power-of-cultural-diversity http://oddtag.posterous.com/the-power-of-cultural-diversity txt: (pdf file) 2010, International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures launched at UNESCO
The main goal of the Year will be to demonstrate the benefits of cultural diversity by acknowledging the importance of the constant transfers and exchanges between cultures and the ties forged between them since the dawn of humanity. As cultures encompass not only the arts and humanities, but also lifestyles, different ways of living together, value systems, traditions and beliefs, the protection and promotion of their rich diversity invites us to rise to new challenges at the local, national, regional and international levels. This will involve integrating the principles of dialogue and mutual knowledge in all policies, particularly education, science, culture and communication policies, in the hope of correcting flawed cultural representations, values and stereotypes.
video: Creative societies/creative cities: Berlin, Germany by Sasha Shagi on vimeo.com [vimeo http://vimeo.com/7378343]

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Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:17:33 -0700 We all need to tap into a collective sense of social fabric http://oddtag.posterous.com/we-all-need-to-tap-into-a-collective-sense-of http://oddtag.posterous.com/we-all-need-to-tap-into-a-collective-sense-of ok. From a Venetian point of view this kind of ideas inspire a sarcastic smile. But: what we need now is this: different perspectives on reality / [it] ok. Da un punto di vista veneto queste idee ispirano un certo sorriso sarcastico. Però. Quello che serve ora è questo: sguardi diversi della realtà. txt: Jane McGonigal at TED: Gaming can make a better world
"Reality is broken," says IFTF's Jane McGonigal. "And we all need to tap into a collective sense of urgent optimism—as well as the ability and capacity to act now—to make the future."
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Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:05:03 -0800 Internet as a tool (of freedom) http://oddtag.posterous.com/internet-as-a-tool-of-freedom http://oddtag.posterous.com/internet-as-a-tool-of-freedom txt: March 11, 2010: Lawrence Lessig speech at Italian Parliament: Internet is Freedom [blip.tv ?posts_id=3351759&dest=-1]

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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:16:34 -0800 Seize the day, trusting as little as possible in the future http://oddtag.posterous.com/seize-the-day-trusting-as-little-as-possible http://oddtag.posterous.com/seize-the-day-trusting-as-little-as-possible [tweetmeme] txt: Carpe diem - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In Horace, the phrase is part of the longer Carpe diem quam minime credula postero – "Seize the day, trusting as little as possible in the future", and the ode says that the future is unknowable, and that instead one should scale back one's hopes to a brief future, and drink one's wine. Compare with the Biblical "eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die", a conflation, with emphasis on making the most of current opportunities because life is short and time is fleeting – an existential caution.

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Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:50:56 -0800 Want to be innovative? Go back to the garage http://oddtag.posterous.com/want-to-be-innovative-go-back-to-the-garage http://oddtag.posterous.com/want-to-be-innovative-go-back-to-the-garage [txt] 5 Tips for Startups and Entrepreneurs - www.readwriteweb.com
If a simple garage was good enough for Larry Page and Sergey Brin to start goliath search engine Google, it should be good enough for new startups trying to break out at a time when the odds are against them. So the advice of the day? Stop paying $5 for a latte, invest in a basic coffee machine and start innovating.
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