tantissimi auguri di un santo Natale! Merry Christmas!

Gentile da Fabriano (1370-1427)

Adorazione dei Magi

1423, Tempera su legno, Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze.

internet: search engines

The Year in Search: A 2005 Review >>>

Technology: The MobiLenin system (nothing to do with Gulag)

09.11.05 Best Arts Paper Award. Jürgen Scheible and Timo Ojala were awarded the Best Arts Paper Award at the premier international ACM Multimedia 2005 conference in Singapore. Paper: MobiLenin – Combining A Multi-Track Music Video, Personal Mobile Phones and A Public Display into Multi-User Interactive Entertainment.

eGovernment: disponibile il nuovo Osservatorio semestrale della Società dell'Informazione

Osservatorio semestrale della Società dell'Informazione. Evoluzione dell'innovazione in Italia secondo i parametri eEurope 2005, Federcomin Centro Studi MIT, N.3 - novembre 2005

eLearning - eTwinning: more than 10000 registred schools

eTwinning is the main action of the European Union's eLearning programme.
It promotes the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) at schools in Europe. Teachers and students use the Internet to work together across borders. They cooperate, exchange information and share learning materials >>>

eTwinning è la principale iniziativa nell'ambito del programma di eLearning dell'Unione Europea.
Promuove l'uso delle tecnologie dell'informazione e della comunicazione (TIC) nelle scuole europee. Gli insegnanti e gli studenti usano Internet per collaborare al di là dei confini. Cooperano, scambiano informazioni e condividono materiale didattico >>>

eGovernment: accessibility of public websites

eAccessibility of public sector services in the European Union, a report by the UK e-Government Unit, Cabinet Office

technology: VHS going to die?

VHS format heading to extinction

eLearning futures

(from EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 40, no. 6 (November/December 2005): 14–31).
Tomorrowland: When New Technologies Get Newer
see also the full 2005 reports

technology: a great November 2005 issue of D-Lib

see in particular:
Requirements for Digital Preservation Systems & Report on the 5th International Web Archiving Workshop (IWAW)

how to organize e-mails: SNARF

SNARF, the Social Network and Relationship Finder by Microsoft Research.