Microsoft nel club del trilione, sfondati i mille miliardi di dollari di capitalizzazione - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/microsoft-taglia-il-traguardo-dei-mille-miliardi-di-dollari-di-capitalizzazione/

Facebook riparte in Europa. Ma sui conti aleggia la multa per Cambridge Analytica - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/facebook-riparte-in-europa-ma-sui-conti-pesa-la-multa-per-cambridge-analytica/

Il guanto di Thanos colpisce anche su Google, distrugge il 50% dei risultati di ricerca - Il mio articolo per Macity

https://www.macitynet.it/il-guanto-di-thanos-colpisce-anche-su-google-distrugge-il-50-dei-risultati-di-ricerca/

Bialetti in crisi per colpa di Nespresso e Starbucks. Questa la notizia. Ma il vero merito di questo articolo è quello di rimettere ordine nella storia del caffè. E dei meccanismi ad esso dedicati.

Money quote: “Italy’s place in the history of global coffee culture is substantial, but for different reasons and in different ways than most people probably think. The various species of Coffea, the seeds of which are dried, roasted, and ground to make coffee, are native to east Africa, particularly Ethiopia. Coffee as a beverage first shows up in the historical record—which is not necessarily to say that it wasn’t consumed in its native Ethiopia first—in what is now Yemen. It spread quickly throughout the Middle East, North Africa, and firmly established itself as part of the culture in what are now Turkey and Iran.

Europeans were late to the coffee party, but Italy, sharing the Mediterranean with the Arab and Greek worlds and not really very far from North Africa, was probably the gateway for coffee to spread westward.”

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/make-coffee-moka-pot

I margini per la domenica. Un cartografo e la sua vecchia macchina per scrivere. Risultato? Mappe che volete vedere...

Money quote: “And then it occurred to me that I should just go with my default reason: maps.

After a few hours of planning and typing, I managed to create a typewriter map and I put it out on Twitter, where it ended up being by far the most popular thing I’ve ever put on that platform. Or probably ever, anywhere.”

https://somethingaboutmaps.wordpress.com/2018/11/26/typewriter-cartography

Se gli studenti si suicidano perché i test degli esami sono sbagliati causa problemi di software (e dietro ci sarebbe anche uno scandalo politico perché la software house è del figlio di un politico importante) forse c’è un problema più ampio che non quello del software. Qualcosa che ha a che fare con il senso di quel che fanno quegli studenti e con il sistema scolastico iper competitivo e iper selettivo.

Money quote: “In the last 24 hours, three students have taken their lives, taking the toll to 19 in Telangana in the span of one week. According to the parents, what has caused this tragedy is an error on the part of the software solutions firm, Globarena Technologies Private Limited, which had been engaged by the intermediate board in September 2017 for development of software to process admissions, pre-examination, post-examination results, including OMR (optical mark recognition) scanning.”

https://www.firstpost.com/india/19-telangana-students-commit-suicide-in-a-week-after-goof-ups-in-intermediate-exam-results-parents-blame-software-firm-6518571.html

Seguo da tempo e con occhio pigro un settore del quale vorrei a un certo punto occuparmi meglio: i modelli di collaborazione e i relativi strumenti. JIRA è uno di questi, nel mondo software, e non privo di problemi.

Money quote: “One thing that writing elegant software has in common with art: its crafters should remain cognizant of the overall macro vision of the project at the same time they are working on its smallest micro details. JIRA, alas, implicitly teaches everyone to ignore the larger vision while focusing on details. There is no whole. At best there is an “Epic” — but the whole point of an Epic is to be decomposed into smaller pieces to be worked on independently. JIRA encourages the disintegration of the macro vision.”

https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/09/jira-is-an-antipattern/

Rassegnamoci: il prossimo iPhone sarà bruttissimo - il mio articolo per Wired

https://www.wired.it/mobile/smartphone/2019/04/29/prossimo-iphone-bruttissimo/

“Google punisce chi protesta”: il j’accuse dei lavoratori - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/google-punisce-chi-protesta-il-jaccuse-dei-lavoratori/

Amazon rivoluziona il delivery, arriva il postino-robot - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/amazon-rivoluziona-il-delivery-arriva-il-postino-robot/

Quanto ci costa un centimetro quadrato di iPad? - il mio articolo per Macity

https://www.macitynet.it/quanto-ci-costa-un-centimetro-quadrato-di-ipad/

Me lo diceva anche il poeta residente Roberto R. Corsi pochi giorni fa: meno news e più libri. Le news fanno male. Che dite, chiudiamo il canale?

Money quote: "Perhaps it’s time we realize that consuming more news about the world around us is not the way to improve it (or ourselves), personally or politically. Two thousand years ago, Marcus Aurelius wrote in his Meditations, “Are you distracted by breaking news? Then take some leisure time to learn something good, and stop bouncing around.”"

(Ps: la parte su Marco Aurelio che ragiona dell'information overload mi fa impazzire. Gli americani sono proprio dei giuggioloni...)

https://medium.com/s/story/the-case-for-watching-less-news-8020c88fd5f

Forse è la più grande rivista manga del mondo: 2264 pagine, 44 manga e 120 personaggi in un volume spesso 13 centimetri: https://bit.ly/2VE6B84.

Una modesta proposta per rendere Facebook più etico: le dimissioni di Zuckerberg - il mio articolo per Wired

https://www.wired.it/economia/business/2019/04/30/facebook-dimissioni-zuckerberg/

Uber pensa in grande: “Siamo noi la nuova Amazon”. I dubbi degli investitori - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/uber-pensa-in-grande-siamo-noi-la-nuova-amazon-i-dubbi-degli-investitori/

Facebook, si avvicina l’ora della verità: quale la strategia per il futuro? - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/facebook-si-avvicina-lora-della-verita-quale-la-strategia-del-futuro/

Morte per selfie. La storia, anzi le storie.

Money quote: "Wu’s death, after all, is only the latest in a string of selfie-related fatalities. Termed “killfies” by some social media researchers, these accidental deaths have involved social media personalities and, of course, adventurers. Canadian rapper Jon James McMurray perished last October after crawling out onto the wing of a Cessna while filming a music video. Last October also witnessed the much-publicized deaths of travel bloggers Meenakshi Moorthy and Vishnu Viswanath, who apparently fell while taking a selfie at Yosemite’s Taft Point, a popular rock outcrop with an 800-foot drop. A month prior, Tomar Frankfurter, an 18-year-old from Jerusalem, also fell to his death in the park while reportedly taking a selfie at Nevada Fall. Last July, three stars of High on Life, a popular YouTube thrill-seeking adventure travel show, plummeted to their deaths at a waterfall near Squamish, British Columbia. And in late March, a man from Macau fell 1,000 feet to his death while attempting to take a selfie on the rim at Grand Canyon West."

https://www.outsideonline.com/2393419/selfie-deaths

La seconda volta di Tim Cook: tutta un’altra Apple - il mio articolo per Macity

https://www.macitynet.it/la-seconda-volta-di-tim-cook-tutta-unaltra-apple/

Apple torna nel club del trilione: superati (di nuovo) i mille miliardi di capitalizzazione - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/apple-torna-nel-club-del-trilione-superati-di-nuovo-i-mille-miliardi-di-capitalizzazione/

Il tenente Colombo, Peter Falk e l'Ungheria

Money quote: "So why is his statue in Budapest? It turns out Falk was rumored to be related to the 19th-century Hungarian writer and political figure Miksa Falk. While it’s clear the actor’s family had Hungarian roots, his connection to Miksa Falk has never been entirely proven. Even so, the Columbo statue was installed on Falk Miksa Street in 2014. The statue, in the context of a city that takes its statuary quite seriously, reflects a desire to preserve and celebrate native Hungarian culture following decades of political turmoil and foreign influence."

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/why-is-there-a-columbo-statue-in-budapest

Da Amazon assist ai piccoli negozi in Israele, terremoto per la Gdo - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/da-amazon-assist-ai-piccoli-negozi-in-israele-terremoto-per-la-gdo/