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Negli Sati Uniti in generale si possono commettere pochi peccati mortali. Uno di questi è invecchiare. Soprattutto nel settore della tecnologia, sopratutto se si è donna (i non-bianchi neanche li rileviamo).

Sorprendentemente anche là si lavora per il governo.

Money quote: “The rest of us are like the fifty-somethings we knew early in our careers— people no one really hangs out with, who sit alone, who come and go quietly each day, and who eventually disappear without a goodbye party. I’ve been laid off twice in my career: at the beginning and near the end. The first time I was too young and inconsequential, and the last I was too old and overpaid.”


The Truth About Aging in the Tech Industry – Member Feature Stories – Medium
https://medium.com/s/story/aging-in-the-tech-industry-6a0e116bdf09

Il concetto giuridiuco di negligenza al tempo delle AI: perché ci stiamo facendo le domande sbagliate e dovremmo invece cercare di contestualizzare meglio quel che sta cambiando oggi. Il mio articolo

https://www.ilpost.it/antoniodini/2019/04/14/negligenza/

La depressione stagionale (SAD) e il bisogno di luce, più luce. Lampada led oppure traslocare al sud... Sud~Sad

Money quote: “To treat it, health care professionals usually recommend some combination of medication, psychotherapy, and light therapy, where patients bask in the beams of a light box. (Psychiatrist Norman Rosenthal, who was the first to formally describe SAD, in 1984, also advises surrounding yourself with as much natural light as possible while inside: “Take one room in your house and paint the walls and ceiling white for maximum reflectance of light,” he says. “Or find an indoor pool in a space that has large windows, which allow the sun to shine in and cast shimmering reflections on the surrounding walls.”)”

https://medium.com/s/story/advice-for-coping-with-seasonal-depression-from-9-people-who-have-it-a5c04fdfe996

Niente è più insicuro del wi-fi: ora si può "bucare" anche il Wpa3 - Il mio articolo pe CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/cyber-security/niente-e-piu-insicuro-del-wi-fi-ora-si-puo-bucare-anche-il-wpa3/

23 milioni di dollari l'anno: tanto costa proteggere Mr Zuckerberg - Il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/cyber-security/23-milioni-di-dollari-lanno-tanto-costa-proteggere-mr-zuckerberg/

La Cina vuole regolare la durata dei video su Internet: “Creano dipendenza” - Il mio articolo per La Stampa

https://www.lastampa.it/2019/04/16/tecnologia/la-cina-vuole-regolare-la-durata-dei-video-su-internet-creano-dipendenza-gDLco3hpx1bo4w97Yn2NtL/premium.html

Qualcomm, il processo sui chip entra nel vivo: Apple grande accusatrice - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/qualcomm-il-processo-sui-chip-entra-nel-vivo-apple-grande-accusatrice/

Avete fatto il vostro corso SEO. E avete imparato un sacco di cose rivoluzionarie, tanto da mettere sottosopra tutto quanto il sito aziendale. E siccome, si sa dal tempo degli URP, quando cambia il modo con cui si comunica poi cambia anche il modo con cui viene organizzata l'azienda/l'ente dietro, avete avviato una trasformazione profonda e dai risultati imprevedibili. Ma probabilmente sbagliati.

Perché il tizio che si è fatto pagare per farvi SEO è un consulente che non sa come si fa con le piccole e medie imprese - con le entità come le vostre, insomma - ma ha studiato e praticato il SEO per i colossi multinazionali. Anche se lavorate per la PA, probabilmente siete in una unità piccola, e non al vertice del sito di un ministero che gestisce la comunicazione con milioni di cittadini.

Qui si cerca invece di spiegare alcune cose sull'ottimizzazione per i motori di ricerca pensata per piccole attività in fase di startup.

Money quote: "Comparing the playbooks of my startups and those we used at IAC, I realized that the usual SEO best practices (e.g. website architecture, noscript tag optimization) are far more aligned with enterprise-level companies than with seed-stage startups.

That has a very simple reason – most of that content is generated by SEO consultants, whose clients are usually companies with decent traction and the ability to pay for such services.

In contrast, most seed-stage startups can’t afford expensive consultants, and even if they could, those consultants wouldn’t have much existing content or domain authority to work with, and it would take much longer for them to return their investment.

As a result, there is very little SEO content geared towards seed-stage startups. Their founders either recognize the unsuitability of those best practices to the current stage of their company, or they execute those playbooks only to get burned and then avoid SEO altogether.

The goal of this article is to shed light on this issue and to share some insights on what has worked for my own and other seed-stage startups that I am familiar with."

https://www.atrium.co/blog/seo-seed-stage-startups/

Amazon sfida Spotify: arriva lo streaming musicale gratuito - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/media/amazon-sfida-spotify-arriva-lo-streaming-musicale-gratuito/

Atari, ora che l'hai, guarda che ci fai. Nel caso di Echo di Alexa, poco o nulla. Bastava un normale speaker Bluetooth...

Money quote: "Some numbers published in a report from The Information reveal that very few owners of Alexa-powered devices use them for shopping. Of about 50 million Alexa users, only about 100,000 reportedly bought something via voice interface more than once. It’s not exactly surprising, but it may still harm the narrative of conversational commerce that Amazon and others are trying to advance."

https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/06/surprise-no-one-buys-things-via-alexa/

Anche se ad Amazon serve, perché raccoglie comunque un sacco di dati (come fa Google piazzandovi in casa i suoi router mesh...)

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/the-reality-behind-voice-shopping-hype

Perché Apple ha fatto la pace con Qualcomm - Il mio articolo per Wired

https://www.wired.it/economia/business/2019/04/17/apple-pace-con-qualcomm/

Non mi risultano grandi giallisti olandesi: forse mi sbaglio, ma leggendo questo articolo si capisce perché.

Money quote: "The plan to steal art was engineered a few weeks previously by Radu, who at 28, is the oldest of a small Romanian criminal gang active in Rotterdam.

From the moment they moved to the Netherlands in the summer, the young men have been breaking into homes. They’ve brought their girlfriends from Romania with them; the girls are now working in prostitution.

Now it is time to up their game, Radu thinks. Art is worth a lot of money, he’s heard, and money is the reason the four Romanian twenty-somethings came to the Netherlands in the first place."

https://www.nrc.nl/kunsthal-en/

La Ue (ri)abilita Kaspersky: “Non ci sono prove di rischio securirty” - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/cyber-security/la-ue-riabilita-kaspersky-non-ci-sono-prove-di-rischio-securirty/

Apple, Google, Paypal e Intel: poker di “favorite” al Nasdaq 100. Parola di analisti - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/finance/apple-google-paypal-e-intel-poker-di-favorite-al-nasdaq-100-parola-di-analisti/

Se vi siete mai chiesti dove stiano guadagnando i musicisti, Rolling Stone fornisce una articolata risposta.

Money quote: "All of the above is by no means a comprehensive list of ways that modern artists make money; keep in mind that it’s also now easier than ever to switch lanes and become a producer or writer for someone else’s music, as is the case with Bebe Rexha’s journey from songwriting to recording or American R&B hitmakers’ move to South Korea’s K-pop industry (which complicates the royalties splits a bit by involving copyright law from overseas, but nonetheless brings back significant money). The sheer number of different revenue streams available to musicians is higher than it’s ever been in the past.
And yet, the average modern artist is still strapped for cash."

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/how-musicians-make-money-or-dont-at-all-in-2018-706745/

Terrorismo online, un’ora per rimuovere i contenuti o multe record - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/cyber-security/terrorismo-online-unora-per-rimuovere-i-contenuti-o-multe-record/

Rapporto Mueller, Twitter&co usati per “manipolare” le elezioni Usa - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/over-the-top/rapporto-mueller-twitterco-usati-per-manipolare-le-elezioni-usa

Lettura lunga. Il ragionamento dell'Economist è molto semplice ma secondo me contiene degli errori. L'idea dell'articolo è che Internet sta trasformando radicalmente il modo con il quale le persone si incontrano e si mettono assieme. E su questo siamo d'accordo. Aumentano i match, aumentano le coppie multirazziali, aumentano le coppie gay ufficiali (però è grazie alle nornative degli ultimi dieci anni), aumentano le coppie che durano. Su quest'ultimo punto non sono tanto d'accordo, perché dipende dal tipo di campione e di analisi. Se il tasso di divorzi non cresce più e anzi cala negli Usa forse dipende da altri fattori che non il dating digitale. Visto anche che altrove si dice che l'eccesso di scelta portata da Internet fa aumentare le infeltà più che i matrimoni.

Money quote: "For most people, however, digital dating offers better outcomes. Research has found that marriages in America between people who meet online are likely to last longer; such couples profess to be happier than those who met offline. The whiff of moral panic surrounding dating apps is vastly overblown. Precious little evidence exists to show that opportunities online are encouraging infidelity. In America, divorce rates climbed until just before the advent of the internet, and have fallen since."

Money quote: "This new world of romance may also have unintended consequences for society. The fact that online daters have so much more choice can break down barriers: evidence suggests that the internet is boosting interracial marriages by bypassing homogenous social groups. But daters are also more able to choose partners like themselves. Assortative mating, the process whereby people with similar education levels and incomes pair up, already shoulders some of the blame for income inequality. Online dating may make the effect more pronounced: education levels are displayed prominently on dating profiles in a way they would never be offline. It is not hard to imagine dating services of the future matching people by preferred traits, as determined by uploaded genomes. Dating firms also suffer from an inherent conflict of interest. Perfect matching would leave them bereft of paying customers."

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2018/08/18/modern-love

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Buona Pasqua.

Buona Pasqua. Le hanno seguite per 13 anni e hanno scoperto che le coppie sposate da più tempo sono più felici. Chissà se hanno guardato anche quelle che si sono separate.

Money quote: “The first few years of a marriage are rife with conflicts, but the emotional weather eventually changes, according to a new study by psychology researchers at UC Berkeley. In time, humor—friendly teasing, jokes, and silliness—becomes more prevalent, and bickering and criticisms decline.

These findings, which must be among the sweetest to enter the crowded field of relationships research, were reached after psychologists analyzed videotaped interactions of 87 couples who had been married 15 to 35 years, and followed them over 13 years.”

https://qz.com/quartzy/1488362/researchers-found-one-way-that-marriages-get-happier-over-time/