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From Free Will Astrology by Rob Breszny AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Jeep vehicles always feature seven slots on their front grills. Why? For the manufacturer, it’s a symbolic statement proclaiming the fact that Jeep was the first vehicle driven on all seven continents. Let’s take that as your cue, Aquarius. Your assignment is to pick [...]

A short piece about why it is so important to win the battle of copyright, what is the war on general purpose computing, what would Pennac think of DRM and why Mr. Doctorow inspires me to hack Asimov’s laws of Robotics. Cory Doctorow gave a passionate speech at the 28th Chaos Communication Congress about the [...]

Pochi software mi aiutano veramente per lavorare ogni giorno:  Evernote funge da cervello di riserva, Remember The Milk mi rende produttivo ovunque e Dropbox si assicura che io abbia tutti i file più importanti sincronizzati tra più computer e sempre disponibili sul web. I primi 250 MB con “Getting Started” Di recente mi sono scontrato [...]

Source: Rob Brezsny Horoscope AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The quality of your consciousness is the single most influential thing about you. It’s the source of the primary impact you make on other human beings. It changes every situation you interact with, sometimes subtly and other times dramatically. So here’s my first question: How would you [...]

“I’m more concerned that we get the message out together that the internet is the core source of future growth in Europe. (…) Europe is not going to become a low wage manufacturing set of countries. (…) Investment in education, adoption of the Internet, becoming a global player, promoting your ideas, your science, your technololgy [...]

Qualche settimana fa ho condiviso le sintetiche conclusioni di un viaggio nell’innovazione americana. Il viaggio finiva con un ritorno in Europa, ma non in Italia. Davide (@braddd) mi chiede “Adesso ci racconti anche perchè non in Italia! I motivi, forse, li sappiamo tutti, ma sarei curioso di vederli analizzati e raccontati da te.” La domanda [...]

“Il giurista deve avere occhi aperti alla realtà e indagare ciò che avviene attorno a noi, non per farsi influenzare dalle ideologie, ma dall’aspetto umano delle vicende sì.” (…) “Perché è la voce degli individui e dei popoli che chiedono udienza al diritto, asserendo con forza che non ci sono solo gli Stati ma che [...]

Seth Godin’s “No” and Kevin Kelly’s “Make customers as smart as you are” are precious guidance for whoever is in a service role with their customers. It’s important to provide more value in all our business relationships by being more clear and transparent – and “no” is very useful to be clear – and to [...]

Source: Rob Brezsny Horoscope AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): According to my reading of the omens, Aquarius, you can finally take advantage of a long-standing invitation or opportunity that you have always felt unworthy of or unready for. Congratulations on being so doggedly persistent about ripening the immature parts of yourself. Now here’s an extra bonus: [...]

Source: Lifehacker Five Best RSS Newsreaders Google’s changes to Google Reader this week upset a lot of people, and it got us wondering how many of you still use Google Reader as your preferred RSS newsreader when there are so many other options. This week, we’re going to highlight some of those other news readers, [...]