A disenfranchised view of past feelings
I remember when Gorbachev would talk about a connected world around 1987. It felt new, as his policies, and his…
Writing & Ideas
Two decades of thinking, in order.
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Universal identity service with Identity Commons
You can contact me now, and apparently for the next 50 years (based on the assumption that the service, the…
Lexical analysis of debates lets the memes shine through
The Osservatorio of Pavia publishes the report of a lexical analysis of the US Presidential debates (pdf), that represents the…
Soon a Creative Commons based broadcast content in the Netherlands?
Coverage by Alex Steffen at WorldChanging of an article by Figueiredo in DMeurope.com of a conference involving Creative Commons, and…
Italy’s more than half corrupt?
Ok. That sounds pretty provocative. But how should one interpret the results of the latest Corruption Perceptions Index published by…
Charming side of Italian anarchy as seen from the outside
We were in my car with Joi Ito tonight driving to have a few drinks after his panel at IBTS…
Trust relationships need breathing space
Ebay is a great closed garden. So great a lot of people don’t have a feeling of enclosure. However, trust…
Unbounded memetic landscape
John Battelle is asking for comments on his vision of a world with Perfect Search. Well, the world of the…
Fiction is not science
I would be surpised if Asimov thought his laws could become the basis of the real science of AI or sentient robots.…