Will you join us? -a memory of Aaron Swartz

Aaron Swartz wrote: There is no justice under these unjust laws. It’s time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture. We need to take information, wherever it is stored, make our copies and share them with the world. We...

American Lectures – six memos for the next web

Last week I gave a lecture in a training course for workers in the local Public Healthcare Agency in Monza. What do the American lectures matter with this? While preparing the presentation which was a script to my rants 🙂 at one point I had one of those enlightments which put in front of your eyes a simple, easy thing… such a...

Storytelling is the next big thing? new social media coming.

Since December 2011 I’m exploring Cowbird, a (not so) small socialnetwork of storytelling, that is … tellers of stories. Since some time I’m also witnessing the birth of Medium, whose early-adopters are a closed group defined by the founders, with the commitment to open it up soon to the whole world. A soon which is lasting for several months, anyway. At first glance they are felt a little different. Yet Cowbird, without advertising...

let’s start: hello world!

Ciao, this is how we start! It’s more or less how it all started for me, indeed. I gladly welcome you all here: you will find hacker ethics and education, my own business and great attention to what could make the world a better place, free thoughts and attempt to reason together, fathers and sons,...