Blogoposium and a new kind of conversation…

I think that the most innovative tools we will use in the future and their invention will come from the bottom and from above suspicion persons…

One of these innovations is in my opinion this new way of a distributive discussion on a fixed topic with blogs as a medium, called blogoposium
[ and this is another little contribute to initiative incidentally ]

There is a wonderful post of Nancy White that tries to explain the origin of the word and of the phenomenon:

blogoposium : a way to codify an informal form that has emerged across blogs for sometime: a shared focus over a certain period of time.

And this is the final part…

Key words here. Public. Presentation. Drinking. Party. Experts. Specialists.
The only one that really talks about interchange or dialoge is the reference to Socrates. And that was about love.

Of course blog is the medium. So I think I shall focus on that last word, love.

What happens when we get together and talk about things we care about deeply.
Things we love.
What changes? With that be part of a Blogoposium on Web 2.0?
Is that a measure of what we can bring when we blog collaboratively across our little domains and piles of words?

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Peru’ avanti con l’Open source…

[ crosspost su VoIT ]

Una notiza molto interessante dal Register:
-> Peru’s parliament approves pro-open source bill

Legislators in Peru have approved a hotly contested bill sanctioning use of open source software by government and levelling the playing field for start-ups against Microsoft.

The Peruvian Congress has passed a bill that prohibits any public institution from buying systems that tie users into any particular type of software or that limits “information autonomy”.
Public institutions are also barred from having a pre-determined preference for either proprietary software or open-source software.

In realta’ quindi si intima allo Stato di non avere pregiudizi sul software e a di non obbligare i cittadini ad usare un certo tipo di software, sia esso open o closed source.

E’ implicito quindi l’uso di standard aperti verso il cittadino, una decisione simile a quella che ha preso anche lo stesso Massachusetts qualche giorno fa… [ lo avevo accennato qui ]

Decisione molto lunga e sofferta, con colpi di scena in questi tre anni…

C’e’ un’etica dietro molto forte e una capacita’ di vedere lontano forse ancora maggiore…

E noi ci riteniamo avanti rispetto al Peru’? Mah…

My thoughts on the web2.0

This is my little contribute to initiative…

So my vision of web2.0 term is this:

Web as a platform totally trasparent to the user, which can edit and read everything and from everywhere and manipulate data creatively

The Web1 in my opinion isn’t a completed idea, but only the beginning of Tim Berners Lee vision of it… and we have only seen the alpha stage of it !!!

There is in fact the W3C that formally try to improve the Web to its full potential, but sometimes lacks of usability and of a response to the need of the users community so the community tries to solve its problems alone… [ tags and microformats initiative ]

It’s important to remark that the original Web idea is not the present Web, but a Web that is totally interactive and editable, where a user can edit and read at the same time and without any problems…

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Alcune brevi…

Prendete le notizie qui sotto come un filtro su alcune cose importanti da tenere a mente…

I temi toccati sono standard aperti e sicurezza informatica in varie forme, dalle norme italiane anti-terrorismo all’avanzare di iniziative Trusted Computing, [ sul quale mi soffermero' piu' avanti ] a riflessioni quanto mai interessanti sull’uso dei blogs.

Da segnalare purtroppo l’iniziativa americana di limitare fortemente lo sviluppo di certi software in nome della sicurezza nazionale: cose che mi trovo a leggere sperando sia un racconto di fantascienza… surreale e’ dire poco…

Tornando sui blogs vorrei segnalare il sempre acuto Beppe Caravita che prendendo spunto da un sondaggio americano sul perche’ la gente decide di bloggare fa un post straordinario:

I risultati di questa ricerca sui blogger statunitensi mi hanno incuriosito.

Quasi un blogger Usa su due sceglie la parola terapia per motivare la sua attività.
All’altro estremo quasi nessuno, il 3%, ha un obbiettivo di notorietà.

Terapia…uhm. Il termine a prima vista sembra richiamare un odore di malattia, di malessere (che certamente esiste), si avvicina persino a quel termine greve e volgare (segaioli) che qualche tempo fa una mente eccelsa ci affibbiò.

Terapia però nello specifico è esprimersi, scrivere,comunicare (magari solo a se stessi). Mi viene in mente, al proposito, una parola un po’ più nobile: meditazione.

Certo, una forma di meditazione un po’ particolare, più simile alla riflessione sui fatti (propri, altrui e pubblici). Ma pur sempre un fatto espressivo condotto (anche) verso se stesso, quindi a più alta probabilità di sincerità. E di scioltezza nello scrivere.

Rifierimenti:
-> Il Massachusetts taglia fuori Office
-> Blog meditation
-> USA, stop ai software… pericolosi?
-> Norme antiterrorismo, sale la temperatura
-> Trusted Computing verso la Sicurezza mobile

A new discussion about Web2.0 …

A new interesting way of using blogs and trackback and social software…

To discuss about them and about Web2.0 idea…

->

Perhaps more importantly, what does the phrase “Web 2.0″ communicate to the non-technical community?
Does it imply that there will be a “Web 3.0″ or “Web 8.5″ one day? Is this really the best way to articulate the next evolution of web technologies? Is Web 2.0 just “a marketing concept used by venture capitalists and conference promoters to try to call another bubble into existence” as Dave Winer suggests?

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Very interesting initiative, isnt’ it? :)

Via Danny Ayers