Domenica, 16 marzo 2008

Aldo Moro Aldo Moro was kidnapped 30 years ago. The Red Brigades killed all the policemen that were with him while he was going to his first meeting in the morning. And 55 days after that day, they killed Moro, too. Italy had chosen to obey the United States and the government didn't do anything to deal with the terrorists to save Moro's life. Italian Christian Democracy had felt sort of innocent until the day that Moro was killed. The entire country lost some of its selfdeclared innocence. Italy remained sort of alone with its dark secrets. Tag:  Aldo Moro, Italy 6:36:59 PM    comment [];

Domenica, 6 gennaio 2008

BridgeBlogging Bruce Sterling will not read my book in time Unweekly spot about Italian news. (Sorry for my weak English). Next Wednesday I'll be in Turin to speak about my new book. And because Bruce Sterling will be there I thought that I should write something short about my book in English. But thinking about this, I suddenly understood that if I wanted to be useful to Bruce, I should make some hard decisions. The title, for example, is good in Italian but wrong in English. The simple translation would sound wrong, like: "Happiness economics. From the blogosphere to the value of gift and beyond". In English I would propose something like: The Human Connection. Happiness economics and the blogosphere. It is a book about three stories that are linked together. 1. Human voice. Using blogs and social networks, people have been building a new horizontal medium in which every person is author, public and transmitter. People express and connect. And use a human voice: which is different from mass media that used an impersonal, inhuman, commercially driven voice. 2. Human economics. Markets are conversations, but the industrial and financial version of them has become impersonal and mass oriented. Economists have been asking themselves "why there is no link between happiness and growth in consumption and wages?". And they found out that happiness is much more linked to other kind of goods that they call "relationship goods": time and quality of human relations are more valuable in terms of happiness than the consumption of the latest new cell phone. 3. Humanism 2.0. Both phenomena (the recent boom in blogosphere and happiness economics) are linked to deeper changes. We live in a general transformation, we are talking a lot about the new cultural paradigm that will overcome the present economic paradigm, and we think that the new historical period, after the "industrial age", will be called "the age of knowledge". We don't know much what we are talking about here: but we know that it will be an age in which immaterial values, creativity, quality as a frontier of growth and progress, and above all personal, human relations, will be much more important than they where in the past. In this age, science, technology and cretivity are connected in a way that make us think at the Renaissance. What we need from both the media and the economy is a structural innovation that will give back to us some of the personal, human dimensions that we lost in the mass-media-industrial-consumption-financial age. 11:15:08 AM    comment [];

Sabato, 4 agosto 2007

Bridgeblogging Shade in Italy: Italian peculiar passion for sports Weekly - sort of - spot about Italian news. (Sorry for my weak English). After participating to the Luis Vuitton Cup and being badly beaten by New Zeland, Luna Rossa has announced that it will not participate again. Sports are very popular in Italy, when Italians win. When they lose they are not popular anymore. Something is wrong. Previous Shades: Transparency, the Italian way (July 28th, 2007) Yin and Yang, the Italian way (July 21st, 2007) Waiting for the collapse: as always (July 14th, 2007) Secret services for secret goverments (July 7th, 2007) Democratic Cocktail Party (June 30th, 2007) Bush was here today and... (June 9th, 2007) Les trois ordres (June 2nd, 2007) Politics and Entrepreneurs (May 26th, 2007) Tag: Italy, Italian, Shade in Italy bridgeblogging 11:25:39 AM    comment [];

Sabato, 28 luglio 2007

Bridgeblogging Shade in Italy: Transparency, the Italian way Weekly - sort of - spot about Italian news. (Sorry for my weak English). Foreign minister, Massimo D'Alema and Ds Party leader Piero Fassino are among those whose calls were taped by judges while investigating the failed acquisition of Bnl by Unipol. Piero Fassino has asked the Parliament to let the judges use the tapes so that he can prove his total innocence. Paradoxically, the television tycoon and the Right Wing leader - yes, him - fiercely opposed this trial against Fassino to be allowed. Transparency, the Italian way... Previous Shades: Yin and Yang, the Italian way (July 21st, 2007) Waiting for the collapse: as always (July 14th, 2007) Secret services for secret goverments (July 7th, 2007) Democratic Cocktail Party (June 30th, 2007) Bush was here today and... (June 9th, 2007) Les trois ordres (June 2nd, 2007) Politics and Entrepreneurs (May 26th, 2007) Tag: Italy, Italian, Shade in Italy bridgeblogging 4:31:44 PM    comment [];

Sabato, 21 luglio 2007

Bridgeblogging Shade in Italy: Yin and Yang, the Italian way Weekly - sort of - spot about Italian news. (Sorry for my weak English). While the government has finally succeeded in finding an agreement with trade unions about pensions, which seems good, a judge has asked the Parliament the permission to use some phone calls recordings in proving some financial wrong doings: those phone calls include the Foreign minister and some other political leaders. Which seems bad. Good and bad seem to always go together in Italy. But we are never sure which is which. Previous Shades: Waiting for the collapse: as always (July 14th, 2007) Secret services for secret goverments (July 7th, 2007) Democratic Cocktail Party (June 30th, 2007) Bush was here today and... (June 9th, 2007) Les trois ordres (June 2nd, 2007) Politics and Entrepreneurs (May 26th, 2007) Tag: Italy, Italian, Shade in Italy bridgeblogging 11:16:47 AM    comment [];

Sabato, 14 luglio 2007

Bridgeblogging Shade in Italy: Waiting for the collapse. As always Weekly - sort of - spot about Italian news. (Sorry for my weak English). Every week is lived as if it was the last possible week. But then we find that there is always a next week. This is unbearable: every week the government risks to go under because it only has a few more supporters than the opposition; every week the opposition affirms the idea that the real Italy has already abandoned the government and would like the government to go away; every week something of what we should do is done and many things that we need are not even talked about. We have lost contact... can you hear me? Previous Shades: Secret services for secret goverments (July 7th, 2007) Democratic Cocktail Party (June 30th, 2007) Bush was here today and... (June 9th, 2007) Les trois ordres (June 2nd, 2007) Politics and Entrepreneurs (May 26th, 2007) Tag: Italy, Italian, Shade in Italy bridgeblogging 10:06:13 AM    comment [];

Sabato, 7 luglio 2007

Bridgeblogging Shade in Italy: Secret services for secret governments Weekly - sort of - spot about Italian news. (Sorry for my weak English). The week has been very sad for Italians. The present government is not able to tell where it is headed and people, of course, doesn't understand. But while the majority is discussing almost about everything, a new scandal has emerged. While the Right was leading the country, between 2001 and 2006, a special section in the secret services is accused to have been spying on judges considered linked to the Left. The former premier and now vocal leader of the opposition has been just too quick to say that it was not him who ordered that spying. It would be interesting to know who ordered it because it seems that the former head of the secret service is interested in saying that he was just serving his government by doing that illigal spying. Thus there are only two possible solutions: 1. we have a former premier that is lying about the secret service, 2. we had a secret premier and of course we didn't know. The third possibility is that all this is no true at all and for some secret reasons it just came out now. Previous Shades: Democratic Cocktail Party (June 30th, 2007) Bush was here today and... (June 9th, 2007) Les trois ordres (June 2nd, 2007) Politics and Entrepreneurs (May 26th, 2007) Tag: Italy, Italian, Shade in Italy bridgeblogging 5:34:33 PM    comment [];

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