i costi nascosti delle tecnologie

Basex' report "The Cost of Not Paying Attention: How Interruptions Impact Knowledge Worker Productivity" is the first in-depth look at a problem that causes 28 billion lost man-hours per annum in the United States.

wiki e blog alla CIA

Andrus, D. Calvin, "The Wiki and the Blog: Toward a Complex Adaptive Intelligence Community". Studies in Intelligence, September 2005
http://ssrn.com/abstract=755904

da provare: una ricerca nei blog con clusterizzazione

Clusty

localizzazione: Taking Software to the World

è appena uscito "Taking Software to the World. Results of the 2005 Global Software Survey" pubblicato da LISA - Localization Industry Standards Association.

le 50 ricerche più frequenti su Lycos negli ultimi 10 anni

September 21, 2005

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The Lycos 50 - Tracking pop culture, one search at a time.
Yesterday we revealed the top 50 searches for the past decade. (In honor of the 10- year birthday of Lycos, we have spent our vacation with a calculator in hand as we tallied up the most popular search terms for the past decade.)

eGovernment: 2005 EC Communication on eAccessibility

Appena pubblicata: Communication to the Council, the European Parliament, the Economic and Social Committee, and the Committee of Regions, regarding eAccessibility, adopted on 13 September 2005.

google nei blog

in versione beta, la ricerca tra i blog offerta da google:
blogsearch.google.com (Google-style interface)
search.blogger.com (Blogger-style interface)

eLearning and Hurricane Katrina

come si può aiutare con l'eLearning nel dopo uragano:
http://www.vskool.org/

ecco un elenco di risorse utili

un software per analizzare gli usi dei siti

ClickTracks. Da provare:
http://www.clicktracks.com

un ottimo backlink analyzer

http://www.seologs.com/link-analysis-tool/backlinks.html

offre anche una vista interessante (e un po' sconcertante) sui risultati del comando [link:www.yourdomain.com] in google, che presenta solo alcune delle pagine indicizzate in questo motore che hanno un link verso il sito richiesto:
http://www.seologs.com/pagerank/prv2/pagerankv2.html

eGovernment from a managerial point of view

a Report by the European Institute for Public Administration (EIPA):
"Organisational Changes, Skills and the Role of Leadership required by eGovernment"

journalists, blogs, and much more

"Eleventh Annual Euro RSCG Magnet and Columbia University Survey of the Media Finds More than Half of Journalists Use Blogs Despite Being Unconvinced of their Credibility
New York, NY, June 20, 2005 – As journalists continue to grapple with increasing public concern over longstanding reporting practices and growing skepticism about media credibility, the rise of Weblogs is also forcing them to address a host of new questions and pressures resulting from the proliferation of this new media channel. According to the most recent findings of the 11th Annual Euro RSCG Magnet Survey of the Media, done in partnership with Columbia University, the majority of journalists are using blogs to do their work, despite the fact that only 1% believe blogs are credible.
Interestingly it is the journalists—not their readers—that are turning to blogs in record numbers. While the Euro RSCG Magnet study shows that more than half (51%) of journalists use Weblogs regularly—with 28% relying on them for day-to-day reporting, a recent study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project Survey showed that just 11% of the U.S. population reads blogs." ...
see the complete abstract and how to receive the full report, which is now available

guidare un SUV in sicurezza

how to ride a SUV taking into consideration the main safety fators.

an interesting application for simple online simulations:
http://esuvee.com/flash.html

il nuovo LEGO Digital Designer

un esempio molto interessante di come un'azienda può interagire con il suo pubblico via internet innovando (in qualche modo) il suo prodotto:
http://www.lego.com/eng/factory/

online intercultural communication

Communicating Across Cultures in Cyberspace
A Bibliographical Review of Online Intercultural Communication

by Leah P. Macfadyen, Jörg Roche & Sabine Doff in collaboration with Kenneth Reeder & Mackie Chase

l'importanza dell'e-mail

Information Mapping Survey Reveals Email Writing Skills Vital to Job Effectiveness.

The research summary (2 August 2005).

un interessante webinar sulla "paid inclusion" in Yahoo

Yahoo ha da qualche tempo acquistato Overture, e sta notevolmente potenziando la paid inclusion.

al corso (che dura 55.20 minuti)

dar voce a un sito web (anche con un avatar)

http://www.oddcast.com/sitepal2/

val la pena di guardare alcuni esempi (McAfee, American Accent, ...)
http://www.oddcast.com/sitepal2/whyuse/case/

UK to set up 'global database of extremists'

eGovernment News – 22 July 2005 – United Kingdom – Justice and Home Affairs
On 20 July 2005 British Home Secretary Charles Clarke announced government plans to create a database of people who support and encourage terrorism around the world.
http://europa.eu.int/idabc/en/document/4480/194

ancora sulla "svolta pragmatica" dei motori di ricerca

REDWOOD CITY, CA - July 13, 2005 -- ClariaSM (www.claria.com), a pioneer and leader in the behavioral marketing space, today announced the alpha release of Claria's Vista Marketing Services search platform. Leveraging its RelevancyRankTM (www.relevancyrank.com) behavioral search technology, the new search platform goes far beyond analyzing links to pages and hypertext matching, and instead evaluates how consumers actually interact with search results when they are seeking information on the Web.
(da http://www.claria.com/companyinfo/press/releases/pr050713.html)

per inquadrare il tema nel suo contesto semiotico:
Lorenzo Cantoni & Stefano Tardini, La svolta pragmatica dei motori di ricerca in internet, in Anna Giacalone Ramat, Eddo Rigotti, Andrea Rocci (eds.), Linguistica e nuove professioni, FrancoAngeli, Milano 2003, pp. 234-244

p.s.:
per vedere quello che le persone cercano, è sempre interessante google zeitgeist:
http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html