State fo the Blogosphere 2009

Technorati just released the latest “State of the Blogosphere 2009“. It is a very useful and interesting collection of data about the blogosphere. Actual trends and needs are coming out from the report. I’ll be back after reading it to reflect on the data.

Tomorrow: Blog Action Day ‘09 on Climate Change

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Socialmedia and the Iranian Election

I found this very interesting article on how socialmedia are supporting the events and the information sharing process during the events which followed the Iran Elections.

I really think it’s worth reading it to have an idea of how information, people and Internet go together today.
UPDATE: more from the same source: a [...]

The ability of creating linkages through the Internet

I recently found this article and I think it’s worth reading it. Written by Seth Godin, it’s called “How to make money using the Internet“. As you can understand from the title, the article is meant for a business audience and not directly for people involved in development projects.
Nonetheless, I see interesting prods about how [...]

Blogging and the blogosphere: present and future

Internazionale is a very interesting magazine and offers tons of inputs for better understanding what’s going on around the world. It helps putting pieces together.
The number last week collected the following three articles on blogging:

Why I blog by Andrew Sullivan,
Who killed the blogosphere? by Nicholas Carr, and
The New Journalism: Goosing the Gray Lady [...]

Do we agree on this list?

Time magazine recently published this list of the Best Blogs 2009.
Do you agree? I see they consider Techcrunch top of Overrated blogs and this sound very strange to me.
And they voted lifehacker as one of the best. What do you think?

Blogging from your iPhone

WordPress released an application with which you can blog directly from your iPhone. You can download it form here.
I’ve been starting using it!

Can you imagine what does that mean in addition to another app which can record voices, the images you shot with the embedded camera and the video you can ultimately shot with the [...]

Changing header!

I just changed the image in the header of my blog!

I shot this picture last year, in August, walking on the Bund in Shanghai. China is looking ahead!!!
What do you think?

Share Fair 2009

A nice briefing session started today the “public” activities of the Share Fair 2009 that the Rome based UN organizations (FAO, IFAD, WFP, CGIAR, ICT-KM Program and Bioversity International) are preparing for late January 2009.

Gauri and Steve introduced the event, the basic principles and the collaborative spirit that are behind it. Now all departments and [...]

Blog Action Day 2008

“The Role of Radio in Development Practice” Workshop

I have been pretty busy organizing the “The Role of Radio in Development Practice“, a joint AMARC/FAO/AMISnet Workshop. We want to learn from each other about communication for development activities actually going on the Lakes region in Africa.
As we stated in the concept note of the meeting, together the three big organizations were planning a [...]

Writeshop about communication for development and knowledge management

I started today a 4 days writeshop about communication for development and knowledge management, organized by FAO and gtz. The aim is to describe the relationship between the two topics.
The writeshop is the final event of a long process that the two organizations started to analyze this relationship and it’s the attempt to collect and [...]

Survey about blogging in Italy

A very interesting survey about blogging in Italy as been conducted by Diario Aperto.
Have a look at the video which illustrate main results of the survey.

I found really interesting the fact that 60% of the people reading blogs watch LESS Tv. Are we moving, slowly slowly, from a media to another?

Blogging for community

A very interesting article by Nancy White about new way to use blog for online communities.
After reading this, you can hear what she said about this in her recent conversation in Australia about this topic.
Still, as she says, everything is new and we all can say what we think about it.

Your DESKTOP online?!?

Some very good ideas to be able to share your desktop with… yourself, wherever you are! I got two suggestions for you: Netvibes and Protopage.
Are you very interested in following news, events and information using RSS? So, test the first. Are you more interested in something like an agenda, with a warmer aspect and different [...]