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Il New York Times racconta la storia di come Ridley Scott ha rimpiazzato Kevin Spacey con un altro attore, in un film che doveva uscire di lì a due settimane, riuscendo a rigirare 20 scene, rimontarlo e distribuirlo alle sale in tutto il mondo prima di Natale, senza tardare di un solo giorno.
Link: http://nyti.ms/2C0wiCN
Link: http://nyti.ms/2C0wiCN
Nytimes
The Race to Erase Kevin Spacey
“I took action,” the director Ridley Scott said of his whirlwind reshoot of “All the Money in the World,” which featured Christopher Plummer in a role originally filmed by Mr. Spacey.
Apple, un 2017 indimenticabile per i prodotti della Mela - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/apple-un-2017-indimenticabile-prodotti-della-mela/
https://www.macitynet.it/apple-un-2017-indimenticabile-prodotti-della-mela/
Macitynet.it
Apple, un 2017 indimenticabile per i prodotti della Mela - Macitynet.it
Che anno è stato quello che si chiude per Cupertino? Un anno eccezionale sul versante tecnologico, con un telefono unico che rilancia la gamma degli smartphone e tante novità a tutto campo, dal Mac agli iPad
Ok, quasi ci siamo. Per oggi è tutto, ci risentiamo l’anno prossimo!
Sarà la Svezia la nuova regina degli audiobook? - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/sara-la-svezia-la-nuova-regina-degli-audiobook/
Sarà la Svezia la nuova regina degli audiobook? - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/sara-la-svezia-la-nuova-regina-degli-audiobook/
Macitynet.it
Sarà la Svezia la nuova regina degli audiobook? - Macitynet.it
Storytel è la startup che sta cercando di cambiare il mondo degli audiolibri: vuole diventare la Spotify dei libri letti
Un altro che con la forza di volontà ha fatto tutto. Se oggi fosse vivo l’Alfieri, chissà che blog avrebbe aperto...
Money quote: “One particular conversation sticks out.
In order to even be considered by agents and publishers, writers need to already have a substantial readership (i.e., a platform). I told one of the agents my goal was to have 5,000 blog subscribers by the end of 2015. She responded:
“That would not be possible from where you currently are. These things take time. You will not be able to get a publisher for 3–5 years. That’s just the reality.”
“Reality to who?” I thought as I hung up the phone.”
https://medium.com/personal-growth/how-to-train-your-brain-to-get-what-you-want-1a40d9ca4753
Money quote: “One particular conversation sticks out.
In order to even be considered by agents and publishers, writers need to already have a substantial readership (i.e., a platform). I told one of the agents my goal was to have 5,000 blog subscribers by the end of 2015. She responded:
“That would not be possible from where you currently are. These things take time. You will not be able to get a publisher for 3–5 years. That’s just the reality.”
“Reality to who?” I thought as I hung up the phone.”
https://medium.com/personal-growth/how-to-train-your-brain-to-get-what-you-want-1a40d9ca4753
Medium
This Is How You Train Your Brain To Get What You Really Want
In April of 2015, I got serious about my goal to become a professional writer. I had written an eBook, Slipstream Time Hacking, and was…
Quanto si guadagna a fare gli skills di Alexa, i programmi per l’assistente digitale di Amazon? Niente, poco, relativamente molto. Alle volte le cose succedono per caso: forse una piccola opportunità che è già passata. Comunque, sta prendendo corpo.
Money quote: “In May, he got an email from Amazon telling him to expect a check in the mail as part of a new program that pays cash to makers of popular skills. That first month, Amazon sent him $2,000. It got better from there. He's received checks for $9,000 over each of the past three months, he said”
https://www.cnet.com/news/amazon-alexa-economy-echo-speaker-google-assistant-siri/
Money quote: “In May, he got an email from Amazon telling him to expect a check in the mail as part of a new program that pays cash to makers of popular skills. That first month, Amazon sent him $2,000. It got better from there. He's received checks for $9,000 over each of the past three months, he said”
https://www.cnet.com/news/amazon-alexa-economy-echo-speaker-google-assistant-siri/
CNET
What Amazon's Alexa economy pays the people building its skills
Who's creating Alexa skills? Indie developers and marketing companies looking to profit from voice-controlled computing. Some cash in, and some don't.
Se volete partecipare, potete votare il canale che preferite (incluso Mostly) nel settore tecnologia. Non mi pare si vinca nulla, però: né io né voi.
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Seguite il link al bot per i voti, sempre se vi va: regaliamoci una gioia almeno all’inizio dell’anno! - https://news.1rj.ru/str/QuanBot?start=poll_319208_466579
Un articolo al confine tra le cose sensate e anzi interessanti della psicologia del comportamento con i suoi influssi sulla nostra biologia, e il delirio americanoide più puro. L’oceano dell’auto-aiuto è popolato da bestie sempre più strane e orrende. O forse sono io che dovrei cominciare a leggere altre cose.
Money quote: “Your personality is not a fixed and intrinsic entity. Rather, your personality and character are fluid and ever-changing, based on the roles you play. Consider the experience of Heath Ledger, whose death many believe was due, at least in part, to his over-attachment to his role as the Joker in The Dark Knight”
https://medium.com/personal-growth/to-re-invent-your-identity-and-hack-your-biology-according-to-a-really-cool-study-ba17d51b755
Money quote: “Your personality is not a fixed and intrinsic entity. Rather, your personality and character are fluid and ever-changing, based on the roles you play. Consider the experience of Heath Ledger, whose death many believe was due, at least in part, to his over-attachment to his role as the Joker in The Dark Knight”
https://medium.com/personal-growth/to-re-invent-your-identity-and-hack-your-biology-according-to-a-really-cool-study-ba17d51b755
Medium
How To Re-Invent Yourself And Hack Your Biology (according to a really cool study)
In 1978, Ellen Langer, a Harvard psychologist, conducted an important study. She gave houseplants to two groups of nursing-home residents…
Tutto quello che possiamo aspettarci da Apple nel 2018 - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/quello-possiamo-aspettarci-apple-nel-2018/
https://www.macitynet.it/quello-possiamo-aspettarci-apple-nel-2018/
Macitynet.it
Tutto quello che possiamo aspettarci da Apple nel 2018 - Macitynet.it
Progetto Marzipan, HomePod, l'hub casalingo per lo stile di vita digitale, il nuovo Mac Pro modulare e poi chissà se ci saranno altre sorprese. Ecco quello che possiamo aspettarci da Apple nel 2018.
Non è necessario fare gli scrittori di professione (o per vocazione) per rendersene conto: la confusione, l’eccesso di stimoli, le continue distrazioni non fanno bene alla creatività. Si perde il filo con le troppe voci che si agitano nella nostra mente, provenendo da fuori e stimolando in continuazione quel che c’è dentro, fino a che non diventa un’unica minestra dal sapore drogato per il troppo umame.
Money quote: “Again the door behind us opened and released a gust of sound from the clubhouse, and it struck me—or it strikes me now as I try to conjugate the moment—that that crowded hall is an apt analogy for the public side of the writer’s life, in both its positive and negative aspects. As writers, we sometimes crave company, inclusion—the respect and affection of colleagues, the interest of readers, not to mention the social input and “material” that our fellow human primates supply. But we also need solitude and silence, or something close to it. It’s in seclusion and quiet that we do the actual work.”
https://thewalrus.ca/digital-distraction-is-bad-for-creativity/
Money quote: “Again the door behind us opened and released a gust of sound from the clubhouse, and it struck me—or it strikes me now as I try to conjugate the moment—that that crowded hall is an apt analogy for the public side of the writer’s life, in both its positive and negative aspects. As writers, we sometimes crave company, inclusion—the respect and affection of colleagues, the interest of readers, not to mention the social input and “material” that our fellow human primates supply. But we also need solitude and silence, or something close to it. It’s in seclusion and quiet that we do the actual work.”
https://thewalrus.ca/digital-distraction-is-bad-for-creativity/
The Walrus
Digital Distraction Is Bad for Creativity | The Walrus
What a silent evening with an author I admired taught me about solitude and writing well
Raggi cosmici e altre porcherie che ci colgono alla vigliacca quando andiamo in aereo
Money quote: “When cosmic rays strike the air, they create showers of ionizing radiation - particles that can knock electrons free of atoms and molecules - that can penetrate deep inside our bodies. This potential damage to tissues and DNA poses risks to our health and has been linked to cancer, reproductive issues, and cognition problems in animals”
http://www.businessinsider.com/flying-airplane-cancer-radiation-risk-2017-12
Money quote: “When cosmic rays strike the air, they create showers of ionizing radiation - particles that can knock electrons free of atoms and molecules - that can penetrate deep inside our bodies. This potential damage to tissues and DNA poses risks to our health and has been linked to cancer, reproductive issues, and cognition problems in animals”
http://www.businessinsider.com/flying-airplane-cancer-radiation-risk-2017-12
Business Insider
Flying in airplanes exposes people to more radiation than standing next to a nuclear reactor — here's why
Pilots and flight attendants get pummelled by cosmic rays and solar storms while keeping you safe and serving you drinks.
Migliori copertine di libri in lingua inglese (che comunque sono le migliori) del 2017
Money quote: "I asked 20 of my favorite designers to share their picks for the best book covers of the year. After tallying the results, I can report that the most beloved cover was Owen Egerton’s Hollow, designed by Matt Dorfman, which five designers counted among the best."
http://lithub.com/the-64-best-book-covers-of-2017/
Money quote: "I asked 20 of my favorite designers to share their picks for the best book covers of the year. After tallying the results, I can report that the most beloved cover was Owen Egerton’s Hollow, designed by Matt Dorfman, which five designers counted among the best."
http://lithub.com/the-64-best-book-covers-of-2017/
Literary Hub
The 64 Best Book Covers of 2017
This year may have been terrible in many ways, but as always, there were at least a few bright spots. Many of these spots were books. Many of these books had fantastic covers. (Some of the covers h…
Iniziamo l’anno con un articolo abbastanza importante per spiegare l’evoluzione di internet degli ultimi mesi. Dalla crescente nausea generata dai social media a causa del loro effetto che distorce la nostra percezione della sfera sociale, alla evoluzione di senso oltre che di tecnologia e mediatori della rete attorno a noi. Ci vogliono antenne molto sensibili e un gusto diverso da quello di noi “vecchi” per apprezzare il senso di questa trasformazione “in piccolo”. Articolo abbastanza importante e ricco.
Money quote: “The New Yorker’s Jia Tolentino articulated a pretty good guess as to why spending your time on the web’s massive, news-saturated platforms might feel so bad: “There is no limit to the amount of misfortune a person can take in via the internet,” she says. 2016 couldn’t possibly be the worst year in history, Tolentino decided, but it was the year that convinced her the promise of the social media had been false, and that “the internet would only ever induce the sense of powerlessness that comes when the sphere of what a person can influence remains static, while the sphere of what can influence us seems to expand without limit, allowing no respite at all.””
https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/28/16795090/internet-community-2017-post-mortem-tumblr-amino-drip-tinyletter
Money quote: “The New Yorker’s Jia Tolentino articulated a pretty good guess as to why spending your time on the web’s massive, news-saturated platforms might feel so bad: “There is no limit to the amount of misfortune a person can take in via the internet,” she says. 2016 couldn’t possibly be the worst year in history, Tolentino decided, but it was the year that convinced her the promise of the social media had been false, and that “the internet would only ever induce the sense of powerlessness that comes when the sphere of what a person can influence remains static, while the sphere of what can influence us seems to expand without limit, allowing no respite at all.””
https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/28/16795090/internet-community-2017-post-mortem-tumblr-amino-drip-tinyletter
The Verge
The year we wanted the internet to be smaller
Why tiny, weird online communities made a comeback in 2017
In Giappone ci sono bambini piccoli - molto piccoli (tipo due o tre anni) - che fanno commissioni da soli. Per renderli più autosufficienti? Più che altro per ribadire i legami della struttura sociale attorno a loro.
Money quote 1: "Parents in Japan regularly send their kids out into the world at a very young age. A popular television show called Hajimete no Otsukai, or My First Errand, features children as young as two or three being sent out to do a task for their family. As they tentatively make their way to the greengrocer or bakery, their progress is secretly filmed by a camera crew. The show has been running for more than 25 years."
Money quote 2: "What accounts for this unusual degree of independence? Not self-sufficiency, in fact, but “group reliance,” according to Dwayne Dixon, a cultural anthropologist who wrote his doctoral dissertation on Japanese youth. “[Japanese] kids learn early on that, ideally, any member of the community can be called on to serve or help others,” he says."
https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2015/09/why-are-little-kids-in-japan-so-independent/407590/
Money quote 1: "Parents in Japan regularly send their kids out into the world at a very young age. A popular television show called Hajimete no Otsukai, or My First Errand, features children as young as two or three being sent out to do a task for their family. As they tentatively make their way to the greengrocer or bakery, their progress is secretly filmed by a camera crew. The show has been running for more than 25 years."
Money quote 2: "What accounts for this unusual degree of independence? Not self-sufficiency, in fact, but “group reliance,” according to Dwayne Dixon, a cultural anthropologist who wrote his doctoral dissertation on Japanese youth. “[Japanese] kids learn early on that, ideally, any member of the community can be called on to serve or help others,” he says."
https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2015/09/why-are-little-kids-in-japan-so-independent/407590/
Bloomberg.com
Why Little Kids in Japan Are So Independent
In Japan, small children take the subway and run errands alone, no parent in sight. The reason why has more to do with social trust than self-reliance.
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E anche il 2017, ovvero il nostro quarto anno di attività, è finito. Come già avevamo fatto gli anni scorsi, per lasciarci definitivamente alle spalle il 2017 abbiamo messo insieme un po’ di articoli (40) fra quelli che abbiamo pubblicato nell’arco dell’anno, scelti tra i più letti, discussi, condivisi dai lettori, citati da e tra i collaboratori.
http://www.fumettologica.it/2018/01/migliori-articoli-fumettologica-2017/
http://www.fumettologica.it/2018/01/migliori-articoli-fumettologica-2017/
Fumettologica
Il meglio del 2017 (e i più letti) di Fumettologica - Fumettologica
Per lasciarci definitivamente alle spalle il 2017 abbiamo messo insieme un po’ di articoli (40) fra quelli che abbiamo pubblicato nell’arco dell’anno.
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E se Donald Trump non ci stesse tutto con la testa? Sono sempre più preoccupanti i segnali che si ricavano dai suoi ultimi discorsi e, soprattutto, si nota sempre più la regressione nella proprietà di linguaggio dalle interviste degli anni 80 rispetto ai discorsi di oggi. Il problema - riporta The Atlantic - è che, legalmente, non c’è un esperto designato che possa diagnosticare l’inabilità del presidente a fare il presidente.
Link: http://theatln.tc/2lRqsg7
Link: http://theatln.tc/2lRqsg7
The Atlantic
Is Something Neurologically Wrong With Donald Trump?
It is best not to diagnose the president from afar, which is why the federal government needs a system to evaluate him up close.
Se avete voglia di leggere un libro, magari vi ci vorrà un po' ma Cryptonomicon di Neal Stephenson rimane sempre un gran romanzo per nerd amanti del computer
Money quote: "Stephenson's antiquated commitment to narrative, his Dickensian brio, is part of what makes his gargantuan new novel, ''Cryptonomicon,'' distinct from the other outsize slabs of post-modern fiction we've seen recently -- David Foster Wallace's ''Infinite Jest,'' Don DeLillo's ''Underworld,'' Thomas Pynchon's ''Mason & Dixon.'' For all the pleasures scattered throughout those books, they're dry, somewhat forbidding epics that beckon industrious graduate students while checking the riffraff at the door. ''Cryptonomicon,'' on the other hand, is a wet epic -- as eager to please as a young-adult novel, it wants to blow your mind while keeping you well fed and happy. For the most part, it succeeds. It's brain candy for bitheads."
http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/05/23/reviews/990523.23garnert.html
Ne parlava molto bene anche il Guardian
Money quote: "It was that, much more than with Gibson, geeks could look at Stephenson and think, "One of us". He has in the past worked in computer start-ups. He has some knowledge of programming. Recently he put a lengthy essay on GNU/Linux and other operating systems up on the web. Most importantly, his books give the impression that he is as exhilarated as he is spooked by the various new computer technologies he imagines."
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/1999/oct/14/onlinesupplement14
Money quote: "Stephenson's antiquated commitment to narrative, his Dickensian brio, is part of what makes his gargantuan new novel, ''Cryptonomicon,'' distinct from the other outsize slabs of post-modern fiction we've seen recently -- David Foster Wallace's ''Infinite Jest,'' Don DeLillo's ''Underworld,'' Thomas Pynchon's ''Mason & Dixon.'' For all the pleasures scattered throughout those books, they're dry, somewhat forbidding epics that beckon industrious graduate students while checking the riffraff at the door. ''Cryptonomicon,'' on the other hand, is a wet epic -- as eager to please as a young-adult novel, it wants to blow your mind while keeping you well fed and happy. For the most part, it succeeds. It's brain candy for bitheads."
http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/05/23/reviews/990523.23garnert.html
Ne parlava molto bene anche il Guardian
Money quote: "It was that, much more than with Gibson, geeks could look at Stephenson and think, "One of us". He has in the past worked in computer start-ups. He has some knowledge of programming. Recently he put a lengthy essay on GNU/Linux and other operating systems up on the web. Most importantly, his books give the impression that he is as exhilarated as he is spooked by the various new computer technologies he imagines."
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/1999/oct/14/onlinesupplement14
the Guardian
Neal Stephenson's message in code
After Snow Crash's cyberpunk, it's cypherpunk, reports Jim McClellan
Una volta ho conosciuto una ragazza, all'inizio di un lungo viaggio in aereo. Si era portata dietro tre o quattro libri e mi aveva chiarito che lei aveva la passione dela lettura. Le ho chiesto di preferenza cosa leggesse. Mi ha risposto "Tutto". Si va bene, ma in particolare, c'è qualcosa che ti piace di più? "Tutto". Cioè, sì ho capito, ma leggi qualcosa in particolare? Narrativa, saggistica, gialli, rosa, thriller, romanzi storici, biografie? "Tutto". La conversazione è diventata sempre più surreale, mancava solo mi dicesse che poteva leggersi con passione e ardore anche le istruzioni della lavapanni. Non ne è nata una durevole amicizia. E poi, leggere tutto non fa bene.
Money quote: "Some real talk: most writing isn’t worth consuming. That includes cereal boxes and New York Times wedding announcements. More real talk: most people urging you to read widely probably have a hard time ranging outside their comfort zones. There’s no doubt that, in the political realm, we need more connection with those we disagree with. But for the most part, “read widely” belongs to a class of expression that’s good to be heard saying (as in: we need “more dialogue” or we need “to have a national conversation about sheet cake”)."
https://thewalrus.ca/the-case-against-reading-everything/
Money quote: "Some real talk: most writing isn’t worth consuming. That includes cereal boxes and New York Times wedding announcements. More real talk: most people urging you to read widely probably have a hard time ranging outside their comfort zones. There’s no doubt that, in the political realm, we need more connection with those we disagree with. But for the most part, “read widely” belongs to a class of expression that’s good to be heard saying (as in: we need “more dialogue” or we need “to have a national conversation about sheet cake”)."
https://thewalrus.ca/the-case-against-reading-everything/
The Walrus
The Case Against Reading Everything | The Walrus
Writing instructors preach exposure to different voices and styles. They are wrong