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Cyber-jurisdiction and the cloud: the smartphone case

Monday, August 2nd, 2010

A short commentary to share (again) some doubts and ideas about what I could define… the separation of the Cyber-church and the State.

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Italian and Balkan news

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

Why this title? Because recent Italian news intertwined with the past, present, and future of the Balkans.

At the end, a short story to summarize the article.

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Quantitative vs Qualitative, Visual vs Verbal: false dichotomies

Monday, July 19th, 2010

It is quite funny how we got used to charts, statistics, and discussions about different perspectives.

But, despite all our computers, technologies, and so on… we keep getting the usual white/black alternatives, or “dichotomies”.

This short articles is about something that I kept doing often to convert complexity into something we are all used to: getting a 0 to 10, or 0 to 5, or F to A.

The concept is simple: our brain is inherently multi-dimensional.

We are able to see, perceive, think in shades- and to switch from visual to verbal if and when needed.

But when we move from what is personal to what is abstract (our work, in most cases, or news), we seemingly accept at face value boundaries that do not exist- false dichotomies.

If you are lost- do not worry: the rest of this article will make sense: including the “Devil’s advocate” section (i.e. how to prepare for objections).

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2015

Wednesday, July 14th, 2010

First and foremost: why the title?
Since 2009 I posted few (ok- well over 100) articles.
Eventually, technologies and political options intertwined.
But each bit of technology, and each political development require a couple of interpretation keys: experience in relevant activities, and plenty of readings to update experience.
In the end, each article is semi-self-contained, as there is, [...]

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An interesting case: GM policy shift in Europe

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

As I wrote before (”viral politics”), integrating XX century politics with the XXI century environment requires sometimes moving beyond the mere reaction to what happens in the “blogosphere”.

Today’s proposed decision has been considered in some quarters worth of Pontius Pilate: it has been defined by various newspapers, from Turkey to Spain and beyond, as a non-decision.

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Business planning? Really?

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

Today on one of the linkedin groups I am connected to there was a request concerning business planning.

As it has been my rule since 2008- anything that I do for free goes eventually online (except for confidential information, of course).

In this case, it was a community for artists.

I will give you at the bottom of this posting the same 5 bits of free advice that I sent today- but, before, as a case study, I want to describe the steps toward the development of a prior website.

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AML and Identity Collection Points

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

This short article is about the unintended consequences of desirable changes.

Anyway- the aim is not the specific case study (normative changes introduce for anti money laundering purposes), but reminding to adopt a systemic, comprehensive view while preparing the blueprint for changes.

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Publishers & publishing

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010

If you drop by this blog once in a while, you probably already read few articles with examples and ideas on how existing business models could evolve.
Technology? It is a mean- but its side-effects are usually underestimated by those who see the technology as an incremental development of existing technologies.
It is now customary to present [...]

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WhoWhat application analysis release

Friday, June 25th, 2010

This is a short article, as I already wrote before about my concept, e.g. here.

Today’s release is an online packaging of the business and data analysis of an application that I developed in the 1990s, and used to support my organizational development activities.

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Privacy as a knowledge management issue

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

Once in a while, news show us yet another issue with privacy.

The current status of data privacy
Data privacy and data confidentiality
Evolving privacy statutes
Managing knowledge
Setting common rules

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