Posts Tagged ‘joomla’

A virtual news agency

Monday, July 6th, 2009

If you were to visit a news organization, say, in late 1970s, you would have seen a room with the constant chattering of teletype machines.

Every once in a while, a line would appear with a catchy title, followed by few more lines.

I remember that it was called “strillo d’agenzia” in Italian (I was but a kid, tagging along with my father).

Recently, I have been supporting few pro-bono startups.

In this short post, I would like to focus on a simple issue: layering your online information, taking a page from 1970s news agencies and organizations.

social networking as a social experience: embedding new technologies in real life

Thursday, March 5th, 2009

Social networking nowadays is considered just a synonym for MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

And the Wikipedia link shown above is a classical example: you search for social networking, and you get social network service.

But it started before. And it is not limited to that.

During the Summer of 2009 I will start to release part of my research (few hundred pages, and few thousand pages of supporting references, links, articles, etc), on “cross-media convergence” in business