Getting around the world

I know that most people say that privacy will be “the” new human right in the XXI century: and I would like to agree.
But, despite being a fan of the TV series “West Wing” (few series were so fast-paced and not bound to a specific knowledge domain), I think that, by and large, the war [...]

today, a short article, with a slight twist: it includes a “potential” Italian translation.
oggi, un breve articolo, con un qualcosa in più: oltre all’originale in inglese, contiene una “potenziale” traduzione in Italiano.

“potential”? yes, because while “talking straight” in English is often deemed to be a virtue, we Italians assume that it is a clear sign [...]

In this issue… no comment: just links, and a quote.
Keywords for this issue? #asteroid #belt #barroso #ecb #euro #exploration #drone #famine #glenn #iran #libya #merkel #nasa #nato #sarkozy #somalia #space #vesta
Do not worry about the number of links: the articles are actually segments that, in the spirit of WikiPatterns, I coalesced under a single [...]

Two months since the last issue- a slightly new format, and a new publishing venue.
Changes:

instead of using Facebook, I decided to shift the publication of TAD, so that no registration will be needed
it will not be daily- I will create a new post when relevant, and otherwise simply announce the articles’ links on twitter
I will [...]

first, the title: I am referring to a famous business book, not to the movie set in the XIX century Far West
the main concept within the book was a “what if”, in line with previous social experiments in bringing democracy on the workplace
but my scope will be different: what happens when a maverick leads a [...]

First, a warning: this article contains boring technical details, but, as today, by chance, is still part of my week-end, I will try to make it readable also if you are not really that much interested into technology.
It is structured around three “themes”, all linked to writing and technology as a tool, evolving one into [...]

This is the third time that I try to write this article, before losing it due to technical issues: reduced to “just” 2060 words!
The title refers to a virtual vote- but for a real, albeit future election.
It is actually composed of a “macro” and a “micro” section- if you are interested only on larger issues… [...]

long, long ago, when I was studying marketing on-the-job, I went to a library and run through Philip Kotler’s books, to see if what I had learned through pre-sales and other marketing activities or working with sales and marketing directors to crunch their numbers matched what the books said.
I was interested by two unusual books- [...]

until the late 1970s, my view of human rights was quite simple- and until 2001 I strongly supported the concept of “universal jurisdiction”: but thereafter I became quite skeptical at the distance between practice and theory.
human rights in theory
my perception came from political activities, as a political activist in the early 1980s, with a strange [...]

today is Friday, and, incidentally, this week-end I was going to post online the last round of my journey through business Dutch (available here).
moreover: this is a “bibliography” post, i.e. mixing my ruminations with references to make up your own mind (and I use Wikipedia as a “link collector”- follow the links to the sources [...]