internet: search engines

shopwiki search by color >>>
Pay-Per-Percentage of Impressions: An Advertising Method that is Highly Robust to Fraud, by Joshua Goodman (Microsoft Research) >>>
Edward Tse - Interactions Inventor: look at the video!

amministrazione pubblica: due programmi di eccellenza

Accelerated Executive Development Program (AEXDP), Canada >>>
UK Public Sector Training >>> (especially learders UK >>>)

internet: Over 50% of New Hires were sourced from the Internet in 2005

2006 DirectEmployers Association Recruiting Trends Survey >>>

eLearning: elections

eLections: a very interesting game >>>

un nuovo libro!

Da leggere!
Hans Sedlmayr, La rivoluzione dell'arte moderna & Memorandum sull'arte ecclesiastica cattolica, con Premesse di S.E. Mons. Mauro Piacenza, di Alessandro Pagano e di Massimo Lippi, a cura di Lorenzo Cantoni, Cantagalli, Siena 2006.

eLearning: GLOBE

The Global Learning Objects Brokered Exchange (GLOBE) is an international consortium that strives to make shared online learning resources available to educators and students around the world. The consortium provides a distributed network of learning objects that meet quality standards.
GLOBE aims to connect the world and unlock the ‘deep web’ of quality online educational resources through brokering relationships with content providers >>>

eLearning: Literature Review in Games and Learning

A Report for Futurelab by John Kirriemuir, Ceangal & Angela McFarlane, Graduate School of Education, University of Bristol >>>

eLearning: LAMS

per la gestione di attività (anche/soprattutto collaborative) LAMS >>>
la prima LAMS Conference >>>

eLearning: e3Learning

worth a visit, especially "enrich" and "evaluate" >>>

eLearning. Silversprite

Examples of COTS (Commercial Off The Shelf) games being used for curriculum-based learning. These games are designed purely for entertainment, and not for learning or teaching. By compiling these examples, we show that such games are being used in schools and colleges by teachers and other educators, as part of curriculum-based learning >>>

eLearning: USALearning (formerly GoLearn.gov)

The one-stop source for training and development products, tools, and services sponsored by the e-Training Initiative and the e-Training Service Provider Consortium >>>

eLearning: CNN Pipeline

an interview with Porter Anderson, CNN Pipeline Senior Producer, by Elliott Masie >>>

technology: preservation of digital content

The Library of Congress will provide approximately $700,000 over three years to Stanford in support of CLOCKSS, a collaborative initiative between publishers, librarians and universities to create a large-scale archive that will serve as a fail-safe repository for published digital scholarly content >>>

eLearning: IRRODL

The latest issue, Vol 7, No 1, of the International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning is now online >>>

OT3: talenti per la pubblica amministrazione

le studentesse e gli studenti - selezionati tra oltre seicento - che hanno partecipato al programma "Lavorare nella PA", promosso da I.Re.F. in collaborazione con USR e IRRE Lombardia e con molte università lombarde.

OT2: HI-TEC

Il gruppo - eccezionale - di studenti di media superiore che partecipa a HI-TEC, con cui ho fatto lezione su comunicazione, ascolto e comunicazione formativa.

OT: lezione nel campus di Lugano

la mia classe del corso eLearning, durante una lezione nel campus dell'università
giovedì 8 giugno 2006
(bachelor, scienze della comunicazione, università della svizzera italiana)

internet: logfiles

a great tool to retrace website visitors' cities: Geobytes

eLearning e Tecnologie

sono disponibili i nuovi programmi di tre Master (+2, come le lauree specialistiche italiane) della Facoltà di Scienze della Comunicazione dell'Università della Svizzera italiana (Lugano) in cui sono coinvolto:
Master of Science in Communication. Formazione
Master of Science in Communication. Technology-Enhanced Communication for Cultural Heritage (TEC-CH)
Master of Science in Communication. Tecnologie per la comunicazione

eGovernment: un seminario a Villa Vigoni

eGovernment: Expectations and Experiences, Loveno di Menaggio (Co), 21-23 giugno 2006, promosso da
I.Re.F – Istituto Regionale lombardo di Formazione per l’amministrazione pubblica
Fachhochschule Ludwigburg

internet: search engines

Study: Top 4 Percent of Queries Matter Most, a study by the Patricia Seybold Group using anonymous data from WebSideStory's clients >>>

eGovernment: two interesting documents

Building a 1:1 Political Campaign, by Peter Churchill >>>
How the New Media is Changing Politics >>>

internet: FreeAlerts

a bunch of interesting free services >>>

internet: No Formulas for Podcast Sponsorships

an article by by Pete Lerma >>>

internet: Fragmented domain names could destabilize Internet, ICC warns

Paris, 11 May 2006 . The International Chamber of Commerce warned that designs by China and other countries to create their own domain name systems for locating data on the Internet exposes the Internet to new risks that could destabilize it if technical and logistical issues are not urgently addressed >>>

17 May: World Information Society Day

by ITU >>>

internet: Top 15 Countries by Web Usage and Properties

in March 2006 >>>

internet: Switzerland third in e-readiness

Digital divide narrows, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit's seventh annual e-readiness rankings >>>

internet: is it splitting up?

The Web changed the world. Politics is now changing it back >>>

(e)Government / eLearning: NationMaster

a great resource for facts and figures >>>

web: Web Site Evolution (WSE) 2006

interesting event: the call for paper is online >>>

internet: Africa

Web Usage Climbs in Africa >>>

eGovernment: Sports Online and Politics

What Politicos Can Learn from the Sports Industry about the Internet >>>

formazione e PA

Formazione e Internazionalizzazione - Presentazione del 9° rapporto sulla formazione pubblica, presso ForumPA, Roma, 8 maggio 2006 mattina, a cui intervengo >>>

eLearning: codebaby

worth a visit >>>

eGovernment: EU action plan published

Hundreds of billions of euros could be saved for European taxpayers every year as a result of administrative modernisation in the 25 EU Member States, outlined in the European Commission’s eGovernment Action Plan, adopted on 25 April this year >>>

OT: a con o senza h?

va bene uscire con la notizia, ma anche la grammatica potrebbe aiutare...

search engines: Quaero

France launches 'Quaero' search engine project >>>

internet: intercultural communication

Communicating Across Cultures in Cyberspace: A Bibliographical Review of Online Intercultural Communication, the new address >>>

blogs: MoodViews

worth a trial >>>

buona Pasqua! happy Easter!

STOSS, Veit

High Altar of St Mary (Resurrection)
1477-89
Wood
Church of St. Mary, Cracow

eLearning: language learning and communication pragmatics

Tactical Iraqi (TM) is a computer-based, self-paced, learning program that in about 80 hours teaches English-speaking people totally unfamiliar with Iraqi Arabic how to speak enough to accomplish tasks and missions in Arabic.

eLearning: iPod in Medicine

Updating the Stethoscope with an iPod >>>

Learning: how I work, by Bill Gates

in Fortune, April 7, 2006 >>>

eGovernment: UK

Transformational Government Enabled by Technology >>>

eGovernment: un seminario

Seminario a Bellinzona (a cui intervengo anch'io), del 18 maggio 2006: Il Governo elettronico. Amministrazioni pubbliche e nuovi strumenti per la democrazia e la comunicazione

technology & internet: games

CEA study finds adults spend more time gaming than teens >>>

internet: pragmatics

two relevant articles:
Six degrees of reputation: The use and abuse of online review and recommendation systems, by Shay David and Trevor Pinch, First Monday, volume 11, number 3 (2006)

The Transformation of the Web: How Emerging Communities Shape the Information we Consume, by Josef Kolbitsch and Hermann Maurer, Journal of Universal Computer Science, volume 12, issue 2 (2006)

eGovernment: Politics Faces Sweeping Change via the Web

the New York Times, 2 April 2006, by Adam Nagourney >>>

internet: logfile analysis

Web Log Storming: a very good tool >>>

eLearning: Swiss Virtual Campus Days

The Swiss Virtual Campus Days took place on March 13-14 in Basel.
All plenary activities were recorded, and are available online >>>
I took part a in the Panel Discussion and Conclusion of SVC Days 2006, with Prof. Dr. Gerhard Schmitt, Dr. Charles Kleiber, Dr. Nivardo Ischi, Prof. Dr. Marcel Jufer, Prof. Dr. Dieter Euler, Prof. Dr. Lorenzo Cantoni.

internet: MSN launches "live.com"

worth a visit >>>

internet & communication: Third Conference on Innovation Journalism

april 5-7, Stanford University >>>
about Innovation Journalism

eCulture in Europe

European Commission steps up efforts to put Europe’s memory on the Web via a “European Digital Library” >>>
La Commissione europea intensifica gli sforzi per creare la Biblioteca Digitale Europea, destinata a perpetuare la memoria dell’Europa su Internet >>>

internet communication

Online Reputation Monitoring Beginners Guide

technology: Ultra-Mobile PC

[it was Origami] by Microsoft >>>

internet: archive

A Research Library Based on the Historical Collections of the Internet Archive, an article by William Y. Arms, Selcuk Aya, Pavel Dmitriev, Blazej Kot, Ruth Mitchell, Lucia Walle

eLearning @ Carnegie Mellon

Carnegie Mellon Collaborates With EA to Revolutionize Computer Science Education >>>

Formazione

per chi è dalle parti di Milano tra oggi e il 18 marzo 2006 >>>

eGovernment: online political fundraising

Small donors, online donors and first-timers in the presidential election of 2004, a report released by the Institute for Politics, Democracy & the Internet (IPDI) and the Campaign Finance Institute (CFI)
press release
document

internet: Web Tools Employ The Human Factor

an article by Leslie Walker >>>

eLearning: online market and stock exchange simulations

about simulations, a good starting point is:
http://compsimgames.about.com/od/online/

for market simulations and stock exchange simulations, you could consider:
http://www.stockmarketgame.org/
http://www.wallstreetforkids.com/
http://kidscansave.gc.ca/

sponsored by banks:
http://www.orangekids.com/
http://www.smithbarney.com/yin/

Comunicazione. Teoria e pratiche

Lorenzo Cantoni & Nicoletta di Blas, Comunicazione. Teoria e Pratiche, Apogeo, Milano 2006 (2a ed. riveduta e ampliata di Teoria e pratiche della comunicazione, Apogeo, Milano 2002)

VIP (very important post): Aging Workforce

Aging Workforce a Concern for US Tech Firms, an article by Gene Koprowski >>>

the press release by Comptia >>>

internet: China Splits from the Internet? Probably Not

an article by Kevin Murphy >>>

technology: TechFest at Microsoft

see for instance Stepping Through Your Inbox: One of Many Innovations in the Spotlight at Microsoft Research TechFest >>>

eLearning acceptance in university

a seminar held by Marko Krevs (right), Karl Donert (left) and myself, in Logarska Dolina (Slovenia), 13 February 2006, presenting to the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Ljubljana a roadmap to adopt eLearning.

internet diffusion

The (Teaching) Role of Universities in the Diffusion of the Internet, by Avi Goldfarb

internet: the book cover!

L. Cantoni & S. Tardini, Internet [RIMC: Routledge Introductions to Media and Communications], Routledge, London 2006

a volte sbaglia anche google...

difficile iscriversi a un seminario del 16 dicembre 2005... >>>

internet & olimpic games

The Gold Medal of Questions: Is the Web TV?
an article by Pete Blackshaw

internet & tourism: podcast

podcasts in tourism:
travelcasts by LonelyPlanet
iToors bz Rough Guides
SoundWalk

Internet: Kosmix

search Health (beta), Travel (alpha) and Politics (alpha). worth a trial

eLearning: mySchool

mySchool, le portail éducatif du Grand-Duché de Luxembourgau service des écoles

Internet: search engines

Search Sites Better At Getting Shoppers To Buy: a Study, by Dow Jones & Company, Inc.

"Introduction to Mobile Search" (7 pages; PDF) by the Mobile Marketing Association

Internet: un uso molto interessante di Google maps

una collaborazione tra Google e Fiat, da pensare anche per il turismo e tanto altro

Technology: Skype 2.0, now with video calling

Official release. Version: 2.0.0.81.
Release date: February 8, 2006

e-(?): Stanford on Itunes

Download faculty lectures, interviews, music and sports.
Play audio on your iPod, Mac or PC, or burn a CD.
Stay Connected anytime anywhere.
Experience Stanford on iTunes today and continue learning with Stanford.
>>>

eGovernment: White paper on a European Communication Policy

Commission's press release
The document in several languages: White paper on a European Communication Policy

PA: UN World Public Sector Report 2005

Unlocking the Human Potential for Public Sector Performance, the 2005 Report by UN

internet: in the future of libraries

internet archive "universal access to human knowledge"
google library project

eGovernment: Italia e Svizzera

IT: il Codice dell'amministrazione digitale
CH: Strategia del Consiglio federale per una società dell'informazione in Svizzera

internet/eGovernment: 2005 CSI/FBI Computer Crime and Security Survey

just published: 2005 CSI/FBI Computer Crime and Security Survey

internet: a master thesis on blogs

BLOGS. A GLOBAL CONVERSATION, a Master’s Thesis on the Social Phenomenon of Blogs, by James Torio (in pdf)
a master student at the USI - University of Lugano is writing her thesis on the use of blogs in education (more to come...)

technology: byte wars

Waging war through the Internet America is far more vulnerable to terrorists who hack systems than missions to blow things up, by John Arquilla (Sunday, January 15, 2006, San Francisco Chronicle).

a book to be read on the subject: Byte Wars: The Impact of September 11 on Information Technology, by Edward Yourdon

technology: how to put furniture on the internet

worth a trial:
http://www.icovia.com/

technology: virtual cities by Planet9

http://www.planet9.com/demos.html

(google and Microsoft maps going in this direction).

technology: build your own CNN channel online

a new life to "push" sytems? www.cnn.com/pipeline/

about push systems see: Benedetto Lepori, L. Cantoni e Riccardo Mazza, Push Communication Services: A Short History, a Concrete Experience and Some Critical Reflections, «Studies in Communication Sciences», 2/1 (2002), pp. 149-164 (soon available online in the NewMinE Library)

eLearning: un corso d'area sanitaria da provare

il corso: Emergenze a rischio di vita nello studio dentistico, sviluppato dal NewMinE Lab per la SSO - Società Svizzera di Odontologia e Stomatologia.

p.s.: da guardare anche www.firstaidpod.com

internet: browsers' war 2005

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.