I was finally allowed access to Google Wave last week; but did not get any invitations to forward my friends -hence I started a public wave with other people expressing their gWave loneliness on twitter …the resulting beast is included below, thanks to the wavr wordpress plugin.
A Bologna il problema Stradelli Guelfi, vale a dire ‘come arrivare al mare senza rimanere imbottigliati in autostrada o sulle statali’ è un classico che tiene banco dagli anni ‘60. Molti ‘cioccapiatti’ si sono auto-eletti a massime eminenze sull’argomento ma, anche nell’era GPS, capita di ritrovarli vagare disperati, ormai in territori ferraresi più che romagnoli.
Personalmente, malgrado non frequenti più la riviera romagnola, ricordo di aver sempre rinunciato tra Castel Guelfo e Sasso Morelli (siamo ancora all’altezza di Imola o poco più insomma) ritornando sulla via Emilia o lo San Vitale.
Dopo il totale disinteresse mostrato dai senesi per la mappa delle contrade pubblicata su questo blog a luglio, ci riprovo! ..la mappa sottostante dovrebbe risolvere la questione Stradelli Guelfi una volta per tutte; il percorso Bologna-San Lazzaro РCervia ̬ rieditabile trascinando col mouse i vari punti intermedi come quelli di arrivo e partenza; quindi viene utile anche volendo giungere a Rimini РRiccione, Cesenatico, etcetera.
Cliccando su ‘view larger map’ in basso a sinistra aprite la pagina con le indicazioni stradali passo-passo (stampabili!).
Questa pagina ha una licenza piadina-ware! se arrivate a destinazione e volete mostrare gratitudine , attendo inviti !
the map of the historic Contrade for the Palio horserace in Siena
Like all foreigners visiting Siena for the palio horse-race, and despite my 4 years living in Siena, I keep getting confused about the contrade territories.
Many times I tried searching the internet for this and could not find any clear mappings of the contrade, so, while the original 1729 document establishing the boundaries might be interesting for historians (both for the ancient italian language and the many changes in Siena’s urban planning) here’s my little ‘Google Earth ready’ KML contribution to help visitors in orienteering around and get more involved in the palio race itself, with a clear georeferenced mind-map of the contendants.
The file, still under ‘heavy’ (?) development, was build by translating in latitude, longitude coordinates a sketch I found in a local leaflet, so excuse any approximations; icons are from http://www.ilpalio.org/ and http://www.paliodisiena.biz/; you can search for your hotel or any address in Siena with GoogleEarth’s search box and see in which of the contrade that location actually is.
Graphical charts with the historic wins stats of each of the contrade will soon appear in the pop-up infoboxes; a google Maps porting of the same KML file is also being developed, but still needs major fixes both at the javascript and the layout (css), take a look anyhow: the ‘Palio di Siena’ on google Maps: Contrade.
Hopefully I’ll be able to find some time to finish this stuff in time for the 2009 palio events: july 2nd, august 16th – see you aruond in Piazza del Campo!
INGV Bologna reformats the feed from the Centro Nazionale Terremoti; republishes it and forwards it to Twitter, Facebook and as a daily digest Email newsletter.
The page had been created in order to give the scientific content released from the institute a better SEO ranking, since the original pages just don’t appear on any of the most frequent searches performed by users (As reported from GoogleInsight).
After the recent Aquila-Abruzzo earthquake: most people in Italy searched for ‘terremoto oggi’ (earthquake today) and ‘ansa terremoto’ (ansa is the major press agency in italy) .
This post tries to add a little SEO ranking for the major keywords with properly named in-bound links:
Terremoto oggi – lista ultimi terremoti (italian).
Latest Italian earthquakes (english).
It’s very easy to miss updates in twitter due to the amount of stuff that keeps coming in; and it is just a pain to read your friends’ random jokes, your colleagues rants and world news all intermixed in a single stream.
People keep bragging about this and Facebook (not Twitter) did listen and reacted! but there’s a very Zen ‘act-without-doing’ solution, you don’t need to install an extra twitter client, nor to share your twitter password with yet another site; actually you don’t even need to have a Twitter account, nor to follow people explicitly!
Just notice that each user page (http://twitter.com/username) generates an rss feed, then:
- Aggregate users rss’ in groups/labels as you like in your preferred rss reader
- done! click your personal labels and read threaded twitter discussions
Bonus: this also works with the feeds created by twitterSearch (i.e. keywords monitoring), with other users’ favourites pages and on and on.
Visto che nessuno sembra quasi averne mai parlato sul web italiano, segnalo Selective Twitter Status una semplice applicazione che permette di aggiornare il proprio status Facebook attraverso Twitter.
Requisiti: un account su Twitter ed uno su Facebook, massimo 60 secondi tra installazione e configurazione.
Esisteva già una applicazione simile rilasciata da Facebook stessa, la particolarità e la novità di Selective Twitter Status stà nel poter scegliere se un messaggio dovrà o meno apparire anche su Facebook, semplicemente terminandolo con ‘#fb’.
Visto che spesso i due gruppi di persone che ci seguono sulle due piattaforme sono alquanto diversi, tale funzionalità è piuttosto importante!
Complimenti ad Andy (lo sviluppatore) e anche a Facebook, che malgrado le battaglie strategiche e i recenti aggiornamenti di interfaccia ‘ispirati’ da Twitter stesso, non ha voluto bloccare questa apertura verso la concorrenza.
As many Twitter users I do check Retweetist regularly to check out what’s hot; this morning I sadly discovered TweeterGetter (by @garymccaffrey) at the top of the list, just another multi-level pyramidal scam, asking full access to your account in exchange for thousand of unknown @followers.
The site consist of a single page full of the usual multi-level jargon, ending in a form where you are supposed to enter your Twitter username and password (you really trust them right?!) and submit, this will send a canned message through the Twitter API and automatically force you to follow 5 or 6 people that already entered the multi-level scheme; your followers are then supposed to click the link and also expose their full credentials to TwitterGetter.
Aside from the general, theoretical unsustainability of such schemes, I believe this can really trash the Twitter platform in no time! first the whole value of your Twitter account is in the fine-tuning of your following/follower population, moreover adding people at random results into an immense amount of noise flowing around the Web for no reason.
I really hope Twitter headquarters will react promptly; please contact them about this, and do retweet a warning instead of TweeterGetter message, let’s get viral too!
A seguito dell’articolo su Repubblica riguardo Twitter, e per i tanti altri in fuga da Facebook, ecco una piccola guida per nuovi utenti, in 140 caratteri (x24).
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