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In the meanwhile I get the time to write down some (not so badly) articulated thoughts on the interesting event I attended in Ravenna on October 13th “Strati in Rete” (inside “Strati della cultura” for ARCI’s 50th year anniversary) I’d like to share (for no good reason at all) my notes. I met and took a chance to nicely talk about internet and participation with Alessandro Bottoni (future value of past failings - GNU Arch and BazaarNG), Frieda Brioschi (valorization of expertise and competence in wikipedia), Livia Iacolare (her experience with intruders.tv), Antonio Sofi (participation and new media distribution models - radiohead’s In Rainbows and Magnatune) , Alessio Jacona (the right channels for the right audience - how the participation is changing the way companies “talk” to their customers), Valentina Orsucci (second life and metaverses possible innovations in [e]learning processes and a nice “Prisoner’s Dilemma” based experiment in the classroom) and Elena Zannoni (open source and technology adoption in Public Administration), and other people I forgot to mention.

Kudos to Luca for the organization.

Disclaimer: the notes are (highly) rough and my handwriting is hieroglyphic at best, this whole thing is a kind of experiment.

Strati in rete Notes 1/4 on Flickr
Strati in rete Notes 2/4 on Flickr
Strati in rete Notes 3/4 on Flickr
Strati in rete Notes 4/4 on Flickr

Via Laurence Lessig:

Try^d’s first album is now up: title - Public Domain. Available through Opsound and on their site.

I’m currently listening to track # 3 “i see” and it sounds good, very good. Nice to see the dynamics at the birth of the album:

“rj had posted a song on his website, and I just knew that I had to rework it into something different,” said Holowach. “When he heard it, he was very impressed by the work I had done on it, and was eager to spread the piece around. Shortly after that, vavrek added vocals, and the rest is history.”

I might hear the cool sound in this open and creative environment.

Update: Made a donation, absolutely worthy. My personal long distance run music test went fine, I found the melodies relaxing and energizing (fast start with the “Final Rewind”) very pleasing in the earphones. Thank you for the music, try^d!

Via Paolo Massa Blog

Petition for Open Access to State-Collected Geospatial Data

You might want to sign up the petition for Open Access to State-Collected Geospatial Data (in Italian).
We believe that state-collected geodata should be openly available to citizens. Please sign up below to support this manifesto.
All government-collected geodata should be open, that is, available for free distribution and re-use under a ShareAlike license.
Geodata is a public good. Open access to it, under a ‘Commons’ (ShareAlike) license, is the best way to see its full benefits realized by industry and citizens. At the same time such an arrangement, by requiring users to redistribute updates and improvements to the data, promises to deliver more and better data for less.

Availability of such information, as the remixable web meme shows us, could foster the development of an ecosystem of applications bringing a twofold enrichment, on one side of the value of the data collected, and on the other side of the web experience; briefly, spuring innovation.

As I was suggesting on Paolo Massa weblog (thank you Paolo for the initial pagerank), I ran in this insightful video about Trusted Computing . It is very well made, simple and effective, the trust definition given needs special remark:

Trust is the personal believe in correctness of s.th. .
It is the deep conviction of truth and rightness, and can not be enforced.
If you gain s.o. trust, you have estabilished an interpersonal relationship, based on communication, shared values and experiences.

TRUST always depends on mutuality.

As I am currently reading “The Tao of Physics”, the focus on interactions and on the dynamic aspect of this definition is enlightening (”you have estabilished an interpersonal relationship, based on communication, shared values and experiences” in the cited definition). A static and apriori approach in defining what s.o. can trust is doomed to fail, like a static approach in defining speed and position of a subatomic particle does not hold for every experiment; the observer is interwingled with the experiment . Rigid and execessively bureucratic systems don’t take in account the observer viewpoint, don’t accept change and innoviation, are unable to sway with failure.