This short article has already been partially diffused in one of my weekly “broadcasts” yesterday evening, so I will apologize if you already heard some of its content before.
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Science and parallels
Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Considerations on political communication
Sunday, February 14th, 2010I found quite interesting the constant stream of books and articles about how Internet is challenging communication processes- albeit a little bit too long on hype, and too short on substance.
I am no real theorist- cultural anthropology and archaeology were some of my hobbies as a teenager.
But the inspiration for this short article comes from [...]
Thinking the unthinkable
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010If you weren’t outside this planet over the last few weeks, you heard some sabre rattling.
Following the guidelines that I described in a previous article (see “Maximizing costs, minimizing ROI“), this article was inspired by simply connecting strings of unrelated but mutually influencing news items.
PS Yes, this preamble is shared with the previous article, “Drawing maps“.
Drawing maps
Monday, February 8th, 2010If you weren’t outside this planet over the last few weeks, you heard some sabre rattling.
Following the guidelines that I described in the previous article (see “Maximizing costs, minimizing ROI“), this article was inspired by simply connecting strings of unrelated but mutually influencing news items.
Knowledge-based economies
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010The inspiration for this article came from a twitter-war between some of my online friends, siding either with Nokia or with Apple in their fight about who should license what.
The last round? Apple asking US Courts to block the sale of Nokia products in the USA (as a side-effect of Nokia request that Apple licenses its innovations that have been allegedly used for the iPhone etc).
Inspiration, I said.
The real issue is: are our business development and FDI (foreign direct investment) attraction models, created for an industrial era, sustainable when we shift toward a knowledge economy based on the WTO legal framework?
The Biology of Politics
Sunday, January 31st, 2010Today is Sunday, and, as it is becoming my tradition, I enjoy watching at specific issues (e.g. political polls) from a different perspective.
In this case, biology.
Actually, the inspiration is the constant flurry of partisan bile that I read on my wall on one of my Facebook profiles (the one where, for historical reasons, I have mainly Italian connections).
Writing-tank
Sunday, January 24th, 2010Next week I will start publishing some “what if” segments derived from my previous Maximizing costs, minimizing ROI article.
As today is Sunday, before starting with the first what-if in this series, I wanted just to share some writing ideas.
Micronews & citizen’s audit
Monday, January 18th, 2010In 2008 I converted part of my research on social networks and social networking online into material to be embedded within a marketing book.
I wasn’t the first (e.g. Google’s CEO said that the impact on printed news would be an increased demand of quality content), and will certainly not be the last to extol the potential virtues of user-generated news.
But there is another side-effect: the potential for spontaneous and instant feed-back on specific issues.
Decisions&Models
Sunday, January 17th, 2010Let’s first start with an apology: this article is filled with personal business reminiscences and reading/learning references.
I will start from the end- with a personal joke.
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Considerations on PIIGS and post-colonial EU Governance
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010I was actually preparing an article on why stamping out tax evasion without first removing the main reasons why institutional corruption exists is as results-oriented as the charge of the 600.
Then, few articles attracted my attention: a statement from Theodoros Pangalos (vice-premier of Greece), an article/contribution from the Deutsche Bank, a series of commentaries on [...]
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