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Open source activity map / La mappa dell’attività open source

Red Hat published a new study together with Georgia Tech mapping open source activity across 75 countries. Officially called the Open Source Index (OSI), the final score is made of a number of factors including policies, practices in the Government, Industry, and Community. Topping the list current is France with a score of 1.35. Spain is second at 1.07, Germany third at 1.05, United States  ninth at 0,89, Italy  eleventh at 0.70. Some countries are not in the list because data are not available. On the website it’s clear that the map is a work in progress: The practical significance is something that must still be evaluated. This Index does not make any final causal statements about what causes or does not cause open source activity. It’s a tool to start to find those relationships and build an evidence base. – —————————– Red Hat ha pubblicato uno studio fatto insieme a Georgia Tech mappando l’attività open source in 75 paesi

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Web Trends from Japan / I trend del web dal Giappone

    Information Architects has published the fourth edition of Web Trend Map, a yearly publication selecting the 333 most influential Web Domains and the 111 most influential internet people. iA team then located them on the Tokyo Metro Map choosing individual stations that complement the characters of each. Parameters are: traffic, revenue, age, ownership and buzz.  I take the Sharing Line! ——- Information Architects ha pubblicato la quarta edizione della mappa sui Web Trends, una pubblicazione annuale in cui selezionano i 333 domini e le 111 persone più influenti del web. iA team poi le distribuisce sulla mappa della metro di Tokyo accoppiando ciascuno degli elementi selezionati con la fermata che più ha similarità di carattere (per esempio Twitter che quest’anno è sulla bocca di tutti è nella stazione di Shibuya, il quartiere frequentatissimo dello shopping e del business della capitale).  I parametri con cui sono stati classificati sono: il traffico, i guadagni, l’età, da chi è posseduto e quanto la gente ne parla.

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We are living in exponential times / Viviamo in tempi esponenziali

(EN) It’s estimated that a week worth of New York Times contains more information than a person was likely to come across in a lifetime in the 18th century. This kind of data you can find displayed in the last version of “Did you Know?” infographic video by Karl Fisch. ————– (IT) Si è calcolato che leggendo una settimana di New York Times si ha accesso a una quantità tale di informazioni che una persona del 18° secolo assorbiva nell’intera vita. Questo tipo di dati  lo puoi trovare nell’ultima versione del video infografico “Did you know?” di Karl Fisch.

Piracy is not theft / La pirateria non è furto

Norwegian political party Rødt started a campaign called “This is what a criminal looks like” to challenge the notion that file sharing is a crime in support of the Pirate Bay trial started on Monday . The message is simple “File-sharing is good, allowing people to share music, movies and culture” and if you call file-sharers criminal, it means we are all criminals. And they invite people to upload their own picture. Since the beginning , movie and music industry based their campaigns on the wrong concept that copying is like stealing (remember:  I wouldn’t steal a car ?), confusing two different concepts: It’s clear that they won’t be able to stop technological innovation and development by force, and if they keep hiding themselves that we are witnessing a paradigm shift they are only  wasting time that could be used to develop  a new kind of business model. ———————- (IT) Il partito norvegese di sinistra Rødt ha lanciato la campagna

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A world of robots / Un mondo di robot

(EN) In Germany every 7 workers there is one robot but Japan beats them all: robot density is almost 10 times the world average. No wonder advertisers came out with a creepy tv-spot like the one at the end of this post. ——— (IT) In Germania per ogni sette lavoratori c’è un robot, ma il Giappone li batte tutti: la densità di robot e quasi 10 volte superiore alla media mondiale. Non ci stupisce quindi che i pubblicitari concepiscano spot come questo: