Entries from January 2006

January 30, 2006

No sex until election

I promise you two and a half months of complete sexual abstinence until April 9
(Berlusconi)
[Reuters]

January 22, 2006

Web 2.0 – My social network sites

Web 2.0 is the new social web. Please, join my networks.
To communicate
Skype – text/audio/video: pandemia
Google Talk – text/audio: pandemia
ICQ – text: 77214338
Business
LinkedIn – social network: email lucon at gmx.it
Free time
Last.fm – music: www.last.fm/user/pandemia
Flickr: pandemia www.flickr.com/photos/pandemia
Del.icio.us: www.del.icio.us/pandemia75
RSS Feed
Pandemia – tech news in Italian: http://feeds.feedburner.com/pandemia
Lucaconti.it – personal/local/political blog: http://feeds.feedburner.com/lucaconti
Luca’s Blog : http://luca.wordpress.com/feed/

January 21, 2006

Digg makes the Wall Street Journal

Don’t You know Digg? You MUST try it!
Digg.com makes the Wall Street Journal in an article called “Digging Out the News” The story reads: “Tech news site Digg.com takes a unique approach to determining what to publish: it lets readers, not editors, decide. But such an approach presents some risks.”
read more | digg story

January 18, 2006

Pearls of wisdom and ispiration

You can agreee or cannot agree with Guy Kawasaki. I agree with him
Great pearls of wisdom, that he explains in a wonderful way.
#10: Live off your parents as long as possible.
#9: Pursue joy, not happiness.
#8: Challenge the known and embrace the unknown.
#7: Learn to speak a foreign language, play a musical instrument, and [...]

January 16, 2006

Mark Haddon, writer and artist

Mark Haddon is a special artist and writer. I read his famous book “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time“. It is an extraordinary book, just impressive.
He also has a very funny web site full of strange art works.
Link: Mark Haddon web site.

January 11, 2006

Funny kitten

I found this nice kitten in a Eyefetch blog: ekublog.

January 10, 2006

Google Video Player

I wrote a short review of the brand new Google Video Player for desktop, inside the new Google Video Store, for Motoricerca.
There are also some screenshots of it.
Link: Google Video Player and Google Video Store.

January 9, 2006

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow

Terrific snowstorm in Japan!
[via Newsvine]

January 8, 2006

Bloggies 2006, Let’s vote

Please nominate for best european blog two of my best italian blogs: Motoricerca – http://www.motoricerca.net – and Pandemia – http://www.pandemia.info. Go to Bloggies 2006.
# In the nomination phase: URLs are required (where applicable).
# The maximum number of weblogs you may nominate for a category is three (3) for most categories and four (4) for Weblog [...]

January 6, 2006

Newsvine, Next news generation

Newsvine is a new way to interact with news.

Every section has a front page.

You can write your stories for your Newsvine page.

You can seed every news, inside and outside, like Digg.