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la patria della magna carta...
by peppino.ortoleva＠unito.it Aug. 16, 2011

Aug. 16, 2011

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/aug/16/uk-riots-four-years-disorder-faceb…

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Streetfilms | A Case for Open Data in Transit
by J.C. DE MARTIN Aug. 16, 2011

Aug. 16, 2011

http://www.streetfilms.org/a-case-for-open-data-in-transit/ Terrific StreetFilms video shows concretely what happened when Boston's MBTA released real-time transit data: 1 hour: Real-time bus locations on Google Earth. 2 days: T riders can track bus locations via desktop. 1 wk: A desktop widget w/ countdown info. 2 wks: More new web apps. 1 month: LED countdown sign w/ real-time bus info. 5 wks: Android & iPhone apps. 7 wks: System that delivers real-time data to any phone. (via Andrew McLaughlin <https://www.facebook.com/thnadner> on Facebook)

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Google viola la 95/46/EC e altro
by Paolo Brini Aug. 16, 2011

Aug. 16, 2011

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Fwd: Tell Prime Minister Cameron: NO WAY!
by J.C. DE MARTIN Aug. 14, 2011

Aug. 14, 2011

Begin forwarded message: > From: AccessNow <info(a)accessnow.org> > Date: 14 agosto 2011 21:13:53 GMT+02:00 > To: Juan Carlos De Martin <demartin(a)polito.it> > Subject: Tell Prime Minister Cameron: NO WAY! > Reply-To: info(a)accessnow.org > > Dear Juan Carlos, > > Has England gone completely mad? And we're not just talking about the rioters, the British government is considering shutting off Blackberry and Twitter during times of social unrest. Prime Minister Cameron, this is NOT Egypt, Syria, or Bahrain! > > The Prime Minister says it would only be for those inciting violence or organising the riots, but on what basis is he going to decide that, using what intelligence, and according to whom? This proposal makes a mockery of the UK, and it must be halted before it goes any further. > > The UK social networks are where the people have organized clean-ups after the riots, how family members informed each other they were safe, and helped the community look for perpetrators of violence. Shut this off, and you not only facilitate the danger, you endanger our fundamental right to freedom of speech. Violence should be punished where the law has been broken, but not at the expense of our fundamental rights. > > Click here to tell the UK government NO to the shut down, and we will deliver your petition to the Prime Minister before the Parliament gets to discuss this proposal any further. Together we've stood proud as we fought for open communications across the Middle East and around the world, now let's ensure England, in this time of struggle, stands firm for what is right. Add your name here: > > https://www.accessnow.org/tell-cameron-no-way > > With hope, > The Access Team > > > > To unsubscribe, go to: > http://www.accessnow.org/unsubscribe

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commenti
by peppino.ortoleva＠unito.it Aug. 14, 2011

Aug. 14, 2011

Carissimi vi mando il commento che ho scritto giorni fa cari saluti Peppino Ortoleva The most immediate precedent to what has happened in Britain last week may be found in the 1960s: the revolts in the black ghettos, from Watts (1965) to Detroit (1967). Among the similarities: in many cases the spark was furnished by police abuses, in some occasions slight, in others more serious; the riots had no clear political meaning, except a generic protest against racism; the vandalic actions which were among their most characteristic features very often damaged the black community itself more than any other subjects. In retrospect, it is difficult not to consider the black riots of the 1960s as an important part of the general black uprising which forced a change in the condition of the black people in the following years. It is obviously easier to sympathize with Rose Parks and the bus boycott she started, or with Martin Luther King; but the riots made it impossible for American politics to deny the emergency of a black question. In the last 20 years the conditions of the young people have in the Western world have worsened in a way that finds no comparison at least since the Great Depression. I consider it more surprising that (for a series of reasons that it would require very long explanations) this had not provoked till now almost any reaction, than the fact that when a reaction came it took forms certainly vandalic, destructive, even masochistic in some ways. The question is: will the British riots of August 2011 be remembered only for these aspects, or also as a sign that the condition of young generations is starting to be felt as absolutely intolerable?

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Blocco dei social network in caso di riot: le critiche al piano di Cameron
by Federico Guerrini Aug. 14, 2011

Aug. 14, 2011

...anche da parte di alcuni regimi autoritari. Da quale pulpito... http://www.lastampa.it/_web/cmstp/tmplrubriche/tecnologia/grubrica.asp?ID_b… Federico

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Repubblica (Baccalario): "VIAGGIO NEL FUTURO DEI LUOGHI DI LETTURA"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Aug. 12, 2011

Aug. 12, 2011

VIAGGIO NEL FUTURO DEI LUOGHI DI LETTURA 04 agosto 2011 --- pagina 41 sezione: CULTURA o sempre pensato alla casa come un rifugio dove raccogliere tutto ciò con cui amiamo essere identificati e mi risulta difficile pensarla senza una libreria. Senza scaffali zeppi di libri, collocati con quell' alchimia personale che gli amanti della carta stampata conoscono bene. A quanto pare, però, non è più uno spazio indispensabile: la colossale catena di librerie americane Borders chiude i battenti, altre cercano di sopravvivere convertendosi in "book-food", le apparecchiature di lettura digitale promettono di conservare nel loro guscio di inchiostri elettronici milioni di pagine di testo, i lettori più smaliziati già si scambiano torrent con gigabyte di romanzi che non leggeranno mai e un' intera generazione di intellettuali si interroga su cosa fare. Una decrescita clinicamente assistita, una smaterializzazione controllata dei contenuti o l' immancabile legge salva tutti? [...] Continua qui: http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/2011/08/04/viag…

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Cory Doctorow on Copyright
by Eleonora Pantò Aug. 11, 2011

Aug. 11, 2011

Il keynote speech di Doctorow al ACM SIGGRAPH <http://www.siggraph.org/> conference in Vancouver, BC e' dedicato al copyright: http://boingboing.net/2011/08/11/my-siggraph-keynote.html Doctorow se la prende soprattutto con i "DRM intermediators" (come Apple) che non creano (come gli autori) e non investono (come gli editori), definisce il cloud computing "legal nightmare" e dichiara che oggi il copyright complica la vita ai cittadini e la semplifica alla polizia. slogan: "we copy as we breath" - "I wanna be free more then I wanna be a writer" Prima legge di Doctorow: " se qualcuno mette un lucchetto sulle tue cose e non ti dà la chiave non lo fa per te" Due previsioni da autore di fantascienza: 1) sara' sempre piu' facile copiare 2) qualsiasi cosa facciamo nel mondo fisico richiederà sempre di piu' qualche componente online Buona visione. -- Interactivity is a property of the technology, while participation is a property of culture (H. Jenkins) ========================================== *Eleonora Pantò* www.csp.it <http://www.csp.it> CSP - Innovazione nelle ICT s.c.a r.l. via Livorno, 60 - 10144 - Torino - Italy +390114815111

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Fwd: 20 years ago
by Masera Anna Aug. 8, 2011

Aug. 8, 2011

Mi sembra una campagna degna di nota x cui inoltro dalle vacanze... Ciao a tutti, Anna Masera Inviato da iPhone Inizio messaggio inoltrato: Da: Morgan Callahan <info(a)demandprogress.org<mailto:info@demandprogress.org>> Data: 08 agosto 2011 18:46:29 GMT+02:00 A: Masera Anna <Anna.MASERA(a)lastampa.it<mailto:Anna.MASERA@lastampa.it>> Oggetto: 20 years ago Rispondi a: Morgan Callahan <info(a)demandprogress.org<mailto:info@demandprogress.org>> [https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.demandprogress.org/images/WEB-AD.jpg]<http://act.demandprogress.org/go/218?akid=817.608400.Y0i97M&t=1> Anna, It was twenty years ago this weekend that Tim Berners-Lee, while working at CERN, put the world's first website online. It announced his new creation: the World Wide Web. Last year, while urging Internet users to sign our petition against the Internet Blacklist Bill, Berners-Lee wrote this about the principles that underpin his project -- and that make the work of Demand Progress and its members so important: "No person or organization shall be deprived of their ability to connect to others at will without due process of law, with the presumption of innocence until found guilty. Neither governments nor corporations should be allowed to use disconnection from the Internet as a way of arbitrarily furthering their own aims." Will you celebrate the birthday of the Web by helping us beat the Internet Blacklist Bill? Your donations will help fund the web ad at right -- on average, every dollar we spend will generate one new email to Congress. * Yes -- I'll click here to chip in 5 or 10 bucks to help you keep up your work.<http://act.demandprogress.org/go/218?akid=817.608400.Y0i97M&t=2> Thank you for fighting for Internet freedom. -- The Demand Progress team [http://act.demandprogress.org/o.gif?akid=817.608400.Y0i97M] Paid for by Demand Progress (<http://demandprogress.org/>DemandProgress.org<http://DemandProgress.org>) and not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee. Contributions are not deductible as charitable contributions for federal income tax purposes. -- You can unsubscribe from this mailing list at any time.<http://act.demandprogress.org/cms/unsubscribe/unsubscribe/?akid=817.608400.…>

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sui brevetti
by J.C. DE MARTIN Aug. 7, 2011

Aug. 7, 2011

Alcuni recenti articoli/link sul tema dei brevetti. Che la marea stia finalmente cambiando direzione? juan carlos Glyn Moody's Blog *Patent Absurdity Becomes Absurdly Patent* http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2011/08/patent-absurdity-becomes-absurdly… Forbes(Timothy B. Lee) *The Supreme Court Should Invalidate Software Patents* http://blogs.forbes.com/timothylee/2011/07/28/the-supreme-court-should-inva… The Economist *Patents Against Prosperity* http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2011/08/intellectual-prop… *Dilbert* http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2011-08-06/

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