In qualche modo lo sapevamo già, comunque per la cronaca: a passare più tempo sui social sono i Millennials
Money quote: “Asked how many hours a week they spend on these networks, 35- to 49-year-olds averaged six hours and 58 minutes. Millennials, defined by the study as those aged 18 to 34, spent 39 fewer minutes per week. (People 50 and over, boomers and above, spent just four hours a week or so e-socializing.) The study, conducted in the third quarter of last year, took into account 9,000 smartphone and 1,300 tablet users across the country. The media activity was measured passively to avoid any self-reporting bias.“
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-25/middle-aged-americans-beat-millennials-in-time-spent-on-social-media
Money quote: “Asked how many hours a week they spend on these networks, 35- to 49-year-olds averaged six hours and 58 minutes. Millennials, defined by the study as those aged 18 to 34, spent 39 fewer minutes per week. (People 50 and over, boomers and above, spent just four hours a week or so e-socializing.) The study, conducted in the third quarter of last year, took into account 9,000 smartphone and 1,300 tablet users across the country. The media activity was measured passively to avoid any self-reporting bias.“
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-25/middle-aged-americans-beat-millennials-in-time-spent-on-social-media
Bloomberg.com
Middle-Aged Americans Beat Millennials in Time Spent on Social Media
Gen X spends nearly seven hours a week on social networks, a study finds, more than any other age group.
Purtroppo è morta Mary Tyler Moore, donna e attrice speciale. Ha incarnato un nuovo modo di essere donna e, a molti della mia generazione, ha contribuito a creare il mito del giornalismo moderno come professione seria, importante, di servizio per la società
Money quote: “The influence of Ms. Moore’s Mary Richards can be seen in the performances of almost all the great female sitcom stars who followed her, from Jennifer Aniston to Debra Messing to Tina Fey, who has said that she developed her acclaimed sitcom “30 Rock” and her character, the harried television writer Liz Lemon, by watching episodes of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show.” Many nonactresses also said that Ms. Moore — by playing a working single woman with such compassion and brio — inspired their performances in real life.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/25/arts/television/mary-tyler-moore-dead.html
Money quote: “The influence of Ms. Moore’s Mary Richards can be seen in the performances of almost all the great female sitcom stars who followed her, from Jennifer Aniston to Debra Messing to Tina Fey, who has said that she developed her acclaimed sitcom “30 Rock” and her character, the harried television writer Liz Lemon, by watching episodes of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show.” Many nonactresses also said that Ms. Moore — by playing a working single woman with such compassion and brio — inspired their performances in real life.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/25/arts/television/mary-tyler-moore-dead.html
NY Times
Mary Tyler Moore, Who Incarnated the Modern Woman on TV, Dies at 80 (Published 2017)
Ms. Moore was best known as the spunky professional Mary Richards on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and as Laura Petrie, the wife of a comedy writer, on “The Dick Van Dyke Show.”
Interessante riflessione: la Limousine come oggetto-simbolo del potere soprattutto in America, perché va nelle strade e ci stanno dentro i ricchi. Da noi, mi permetto di aggiungere, sono invece le auto sportive ma soprattutto le auto blu, che sono oggetto simbolico del potere e quindi della ricchezza.
Money quote: “Donald Trump, whose wealth and penchant for gaudiness has earned him some latter-day Gatsby comparisons, tried to get into the limo business in the late 1980s with two lines of stretch Cadillacs. They sported gold accents, Italian leather upholstery, televisions, VCRs, fax machines, and early cell phones. He unveiled the prototypes in Atlantic City in 1988, declaring, "You can see the kind of quality there is. We left nothing out…Frankly, I deserve it.” Like many other Trump business endeavors, the limo idea later fizzled.”
http://www.citylab.com/navigator/2017/01/the-limousine-dividing-us-for-more-than-a-century/514169/
Money quote: “Donald Trump, whose wealth and penchant for gaudiness has earned him some latter-day Gatsby comparisons, tried to get into the limo business in the late 1980s with two lines of stretch Cadillacs. They sported gold accents, Italian leather upholstery, televisions, VCRs, fax machines, and early cell phones. He unveiled the prototypes in Atlantic City in 1988, declaring, "You can see the kind of quality there is. We left nothing out…Frankly, I deserve it.” Like many other Trump business endeavors, the limo idea later fizzled.”
http://www.citylab.com/navigator/2017/01/the-limousine-dividing-us-for-more-than-a-century/514169/
CityLab
The Limousine: Dividing Us for Over a Century
The preferred ride of the wealthy and powerful is an equally powerful cultural symbol.
Un italiano su dieci legge ebook, l’AIE stima l’effetto Amazon e Kindle nel Bel Paese - il mio articolo per Macity
http://www.macitynet.it/aie-un-italiano-dieci-legge-ebook/
http://www.macitynet.it/aie-un-italiano-dieci-legge-ebook/
macitynet.it
Un italiano su dieci legge ebook, l’AIE stima l’effetto Amazon e Kindle nel Bel Paese
Amazon, e-Book, E-reader, Kindle, Libri, Mercato
Ci sono talmente tante notizie connesse a questa giornata di Donald Trump che il passo in avanti fatto dal Doomsday Clock neanche se lo sono filato, i nostri giornali e non solo. Cos'è il D.C.? Vi ricordate Watchmen? Ecco, quella cosa là.
Money quote: "The group, started by physicists who built the atomic bomb as part of the Manhattan Project, moved the clock ahead by 30 seconds, to just 2½ minutes before midnight. It’s the closest the clock has been to midnight since 1953, when the U.S. and Soviet Union were in the early days of above-ground hydrogen bomb testing."
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-nuclear-weapons-20170126-story.html
Money quote: "The group, started by physicists who built the atomic bomb as part of the Manhattan Project, moved the clock ahead by 30 seconds, to just 2½ minutes before midnight. It’s the closest the clock has been to midnight since 1953, when the U.S. and Soviet Union were in the early days of above-ground hydrogen bomb testing."
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-nuclear-weapons-20170126-story.html
latimes.com
The Doomsday Clock moved closer to 'midnight' since Trump started talking about nuclear weapons
Donald Trump ’s comments as a candidate and president-elect about the U.S. nuclear weapons arsenal and nuclear proliferation had long rattled arms-control advocates about how his administration might change half a century of policy and posture.
Ci sono le fotografie di stock, con generiche immagini di tizi e tizie che fanno cose (le usano le aziende nelle
brochure, sui siti web e simili) e ci sono i filmati di stock che servono alla stessa cosa.
In questo c'è un tizio che fa finta di scrivere al computer. Ma cosa scrive?
https://youtu.be/HP62Yk-YJVc
brochure, sui siti web e simili) e ci sono i filmati di stock che servono alla stessa cosa.
In questo c'è un tizio che fa finta di scrivere al computer. Ma cosa scrive?
https://youtu.be/HP62Yk-YJVc
YouTube
z5v3ElnRHA8CV6ycUUykmds8fqMjfFbTlqtwZ2B9MuE
Lo spot delle AirPods di Apple secondo me è portentoso. Ne ho scritto sul Post
http://www.ilpost.it/antoniodini/2017/01/27/spot-apple/
http://www.ilpost.it/antoniodini/2017/01/27/spot-apple/
Il Post
Il video del nuovo spot Apple - Il Post
Ballando a Città del Messico con le cuffie senza fili AirPods
Forwarded from H I S T O R I A
Alcuni bambini sopravvissuti ad Auschwitz lasciano le loro capanne dopo la liberazione del campo. Polonia 27 gennaio 1945. #fotodelgiorno
Evernote 8: troppo poco, troppo tardi - il mio articolo per Macity
http://www.macitynet.it/evernote-8-poco-tardi/
http://www.macitynet.it/evernote-8-poco-tardi/
Macitynet.it
Evernote 8: troppo poco, troppo tardi
In queste ore, un altro piccolo aggiornamento tecnico della versione 8 del client Evernote, software per organizzare la vita che ha perso la sua, di occasione della vita, di dominare il mercato. Vediamo perché
Mescolate nomi di figli tra loro? Magari anche con quello del cane? È grave? Ma no, tranquilli. In un raro caso di non-problema, niente mostro da sbattere (online) in prima pagina. Capita a tutti.
Money quote: ""It's a normal cognitive glitch," Deffler says."
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/01/16/509353565/when-the-brain-scrambles-names-its-because-you-love-them
Money quote: ""It's a normal cognitive glitch," Deffler says."
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/01/16/509353565/when-the-brain-scrambles-names-its-because-you-love-them
NPR
When The Brain Scrambles Names, It's Because You Love Them
If your mom had to run through the name of everyone in the family, including the dog, before hitting yours, it's probably because you're all in a mental folder labeled "loved ones."
Voi pensate di avere una vita piena, impegnata, efficace ed efficiente. Invece girare nella ruota dei criceti senza costrutto. Cioè, potreste arrivare allo stesso costrutto e anche più vivendo in maniera più sana. (Detto così sembro mia nonna, lo so).
Comunque, questo tizio fa lunghe passeggiate, ha segato Facebook e ogni tanto si annoia anche un po'. Magari non tutti riusciamo, però potremmo cominciare segando Facebook. L'obiettivo è recuperare spazio per respirare. Silenzio tra le orecchie per ascoltarsi. Ore di sonno.
Money quote: "As part of my effort to create time and space for doing less, I also got off Facebook. At first, I was simply trying to escape the toxicity of the election on social media. In time, though, I realized I was also escaping an attentional black hole, one with an incredible gravitational pull. I would never willfully stand in the middle of a room noisy room with everyone screaming for my attention, yet this is best metaphor I can think of to describe my mind on Facebook. I was weak and could not resist its forces, fair enough, but I also started to see it as filler and fluff. When I got past my FOMO and let it go, I gained back many moments in my day."
http://www.vox.com/first-person/2017/1/25/14362156/busy-overwhelmed-values
Comunque, questo tizio fa lunghe passeggiate, ha segato Facebook e ogni tanto si annoia anche un po'. Magari non tutti riusciamo, però potremmo cominciare segando Facebook. L'obiettivo è recuperare spazio per respirare. Silenzio tra le orecchie per ascoltarsi. Ore di sonno.
Money quote: "As part of my effort to create time and space for doing less, I also got off Facebook. At first, I was simply trying to escape the toxicity of the election on social media. In time, though, I realized I was also escaping an attentional black hole, one with an incredible gravitational pull. I would never willfully stand in the middle of a room noisy room with everyone screaming for my attention, yet this is best metaphor I can think of to describe my mind on Facebook. I was weak and could not resist its forces, fair enough, but I also started to see it as filler and fluff. When I got past my FOMO and let it go, I gained back many moments in my day."
http://www.vox.com/first-person/2017/1/25/14362156/busy-overwhelmed-values
Vox
I trained myself to be less busy — and it dramatically improved my life
My overwhelming schedule left me exhausted and empty. Here’s how I fought back.
Ogni promessa è un debito: ecco la seconda parte di Pimp My Hasselblad, la storia di come ho provato a digitalizzare la mia medio formato la scorsa estate
http://www.ilpost.it/antoniodini/2017/01/28/hasselblad-2/
Money quote: “E allora, andiamo a digitalizzare la mia Hasselblad. Riassunto della puntata precedente: l’estate passata ho potuto fare un piccolo esperimento, cioè rendere digitale la mia vecchia Hasselblad 500c. Dopodiché, per allinearci tutto a quello di cui sto parlando, è seguito un non breve riassunto di cosa sia una Hasselblad: la leggenda della fotografia a pellicola medio formato. Nel mio caso l’apparecchio Made in Sweden (la città di origine è Göteborg, per la precisione) è di fine anni Cinquanta, ma va ancora che sembra una sposa. Mi diverto molto a fare delle gran foto (in tutti i sensi: il negativo è circa sei centimetri per sei centimetri, rispetto al canonico 2,4 per 3,6 cm del piccolo formato 35mm) e non credevo si potesse davvero ridare vita digitale all’apparecchio.”
http://www.ilpost.it/antoniodini/2017/01/28/hasselblad-2/
Money quote: “E allora, andiamo a digitalizzare la mia Hasselblad. Riassunto della puntata precedente: l’estate passata ho potuto fare un piccolo esperimento, cioè rendere digitale la mia vecchia Hasselblad 500c. Dopodiché, per allinearci tutto a quello di cui sto parlando, è seguito un non breve riassunto di cosa sia una Hasselblad: la leggenda della fotografia a pellicola medio formato. Nel mio caso l’apparecchio Made in Sweden (la città di origine è Göteborg, per la precisione) è di fine anni Cinquanta, ma va ancora che sembra una sposa. Mi diverto molto a fare delle gran foto (in tutti i sensi: il negativo è circa sei centimetri per sei centimetri, rispetto al canonico 2,4 per 3,6 cm del piccolo formato 35mm) e non credevo si potesse davvero ridare vita digitale all’apparecchio.”
Il Post
Pimp My Hasselblad – Parte seconda
Ho trasformato la mia vecchia macchina fotografica analogica in una potentissima digitale e poi sono tornato felicemente indietro
Forwarded from macitynet.it
Apple obbligata a rimuovere dall’App Store app sviluppate in Iran http://www.macitynet.it/apple-obbligata-rimuovere-dallapp-store-app-sviluppate-iran/
Macitynet.it
Apple obbligata a rimuovere dall'App Store app sviluppate in Iran
Via dall’App Store applicazioni create da sviluppatori iraniani. Le sanzioni contro la Repubblica islamica e l'inasprimento all’ingresso voluto da Trump nei confronti di cittadini di sette paesi a maggioranza musulmana (Iran incluso) impediscono alla Mela…
Lo sapevate che mezza Silicon Valley è fatta da immigrati? A partire da quel figlio (naturale) di immigrato siriano che risponde al nome di Steve Jobs.
Beh, se ci fosse stato Trump, sarebbe stata tutta un’altra Silicon Valley.
Money quote: “Tutta gente che non ci dovrebbe essere stata o che, nella peggiore delle ipotesi, se ci fosse stata assieme a decreti come quello di Trump, sarebbe stata internata, imprigionata, spogliata e rispedita indietro. E la Silicon Valley non sarebbe probabilmente neanche nata, a meno che i suprematisti bianchi e il Ku-Klux-Klan non avessero rivelato un insospettabile talento per la microelettronica e l’algoritmica.”
http://www.macitynet.it/lo-straniero-sale-anche-digitale-della-terra/
Beh, se ci fosse stato Trump, sarebbe stata tutta un’altra Silicon Valley.
Money quote: “Tutta gente che non ci dovrebbe essere stata o che, nella peggiore delle ipotesi, se ci fosse stata assieme a decreti come quello di Trump, sarebbe stata internata, imprigionata, spogliata e rispedita indietro. E la Silicon Valley non sarebbe probabilmente neanche nata, a meno che i suprematisti bianchi e il Ku-Klux-Klan non avessero rivelato un insospettabile talento per la microelettronica e l’algoritmica.”
http://www.macitynet.it/lo-straniero-sale-anche-digitale-della-terra/
Macitynet.it
Se lo straniero è il sale (anche digitale) della terra
Il blocco degli stranieri voluto da Donald Trump avrebbe azzerato i vertici delle grandi aziende hi-tech americane
Ancora più sconvolgente. Lo sapevate che il cristianesimo è una religione fatta da immigrati? Gente che viene da un posto chiamato Palestina (anche se altri ti spiegano che la Palestina non esiste e che comunque non ci abitava nessuno di quelli che adesso vorrebbe continuare ad abitarci).
Money quote: “That a world religion should have emerged from an oriental cult in a tiny and peculiar corner of Roman Palestine is nothing short of extraordinary. Jesus of Nazareth was a Jew, though an eccentric one, and here the concern is not what the historical Jesus did or did not believe. We know that he was executed for disturbing the Roman peace during the reign of the emperor Tiberius, and that some of his followers then decided that Jesus was not merely another regular prophet, common in the region. Rather, he was the son of the one true god, and he had died to bring salvation to those who would follow him.”
https://aeon.co/essays/how-an-obscure-oriental-cult-converted-a-vast-pagan-roman-empire
Money quote: “That a world religion should have emerged from an oriental cult in a tiny and peculiar corner of Roman Palestine is nothing short of extraordinary. Jesus of Nazareth was a Jew, though an eccentric one, and here the concern is not what the historical Jesus did or did not believe. We know that he was executed for disturbing the Roman peace during the reign of the emperor Tiberius, and that some of his followers then decided that Jesus was not merely another regular prophet, common in the region. Rather, he was the son of the one true god, and he had died to bring salvation to those who would follow him.”
https://aeon.co/essays/how-an-obscure-oriental-cult-converted-a-vast-pagan-roman-empire
Aeon
Christians were strangers
How an obscure oriental cult in a corner of Roman Palestine grew to become the dominant religion of the Western world
Apple, Tim Cook a cena con Ivanka Trump - il mio articolo su La Stampa
http://www.lastampa.it/2017/01/30/tecnologia/news/apple-tim-cook-a-cena-con-ivanka-trump-1kEgA1qDCQ5VR0lEqkch9J/pagina.html
http://www.lastampa.it/2017/01/30/tecnologia/news/apple-tim-cook-a-cena-con-ivanka-trump-1kEgA1qDCQ5VR0lEqkch9J/pagina.html
LaStampa.it
Apple, Tim Cook a cena con Ivanka Trump
Il Ceo della Mela a Washington con la vicepresidente Lisa Jackson per incontrare la figlia del presidente americano e suo marito. Hanno discusso di affari, ma poco di politica
Avremmo bisogno di fogli di calcolo migliori. E ripensare il modo con il quale si costruisce il software (aziendale) e perché.
Money quote:
WThe UX of paper is still fantastic.
It never runs out of battery.
It can be both structured and schema-less.
There’s no pesky validation errors to overcome.
The resolution of an A4 piece of paper is a crisp 3508px x 2480px. For comparison, my MacBook Air is about a third of that at 1440px x 900px.
and it never says, “oops something went wrong.” (Rails 500 error)”
http://blog.voyager.vc/the-world-needs-a-better-spreadsheet/
Money quote:
WThe UX of paper is still fantastic.
It never runs out of battery.
It can be both structured and schema-less.
There’s no pesky validation errors to overcome.
The resolution of an A4 piece of paper is a crisp 3508px x 2480px. For comparison, my MacBook Air is about a third of that at 1440px x 900px.
and it never says, “oops something went wrong.” (Rails 500 error)”
http://blog.voyager.vc/the-world-needs-a-better-spreadsheet/
Voyager
The world(and CRM) needs a better spreadsheet and form builder
I should be able to design the schema of my application with a form-building UI, and produce a documentation that is both machine and human readable.
Se volete leggere una cosa sola sulle auto che si guidano da sole (argomento grandemente passato di moda ma che in realtà è più attuale che mai, anche perché da là passa buona parte degli studi sul machine learning e ditorni) leggete questa. Davvero
Money quote: “In this post I will explore two possible consequences of having self driving cars, two consequences that I have not seen being discussed, while various car companies, non-traditional players, and startups debate what level of autonomy we might expect in our cars and when. These potential consequences are self-driving cars as social outcasts and anti-social behavior of owners. Both may have tremendous and unexpected influence on the uptake of self-driving cars. Both are more about the social realm than the technical realm, which is perhaps why technologists have not addressed them. And then I’ll finish, however, by dissing a non-technical aspect of self driving cars that has been overdone by technologists and other amateur philosophers with an all out flame. And yes, I am at best an amateur philosopher too. That’s why it is a flame.“
http://rodneybrooks.com/unexpected-consequences-of-self-driving-cars/
Money quote: “In this post I will explore two possible consequences of having self driving cars, two consequences that I have not seen being discussed, while various car companies, non-traditional players, and startups debate what level of autonomy we might expect in our cars and when. These potential consequences are self-driving cars as social outcasts and anti-social behavior of owners. Both may have tremendous and unexpected influence on the uptake of self-driving cars. Both are more about the social realm than the technical realm, which is perhaps why technologists have not addressed them. And then I’ll finish, however, by dissing a non-technical aspect of self driving cars that has been overdone by technologists and other amateur philosophers with an all out flame. And yes, I am at best an amateur philosopher too. That’s why it is a flame.“
http://rodneybrooks.com/unexpected-consequences-of-self-driving-cars/
La strana, affascinante storia delle “China Girls”, le teste di ragazza che comparivano all’inizio degli spezzoni di pellicola cinematografica
Money quote: “China girls went by many names—leader ladies, girl head, lady wedge—but they were almost always images of women, and those women were almost always white. They were meant to show the person developing a film that everything had gone right technically; if it hadn’t, the China girl’s skin tone would look unnatural.”
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-forgotten-china-girls-hidden-at-the-beginning-of-old-films
Money quote: “China girls went by many names—leader ladies, girl head, lady wedge—but they were almost always images of women, and those women were almost always white. They were meant to show the person developing a film that everything had gone right technically; if it hadn’t, the China girl’s skin tone would look unnatural.”
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-forgotten-china-girls-hidden-at-the-beginning-of-old-films
Atlas Obscura
The Forgotten ‘China Girls’ Hidden at the Beginning of Old Films
Used as quality control, these haunting images were never meant to be public.
C'è addirittura chi, come la Chicago Film Society, dal 2011 ha iniziato a collezionare le immagini delle China Girls
https://youtu.be/-nVBDX3P5TY
https://youtu.be/-nVBDX3P5TY
YouTube
Girls on Film
A Film by Julie Buck and Karin Segal
Girls on Film is about 70 unknown movie stars. Despite appearing in countless films, they were never actually meant to be seen by the movie-going public. In fact, these women are so enigmatic that in most cases we…
Girls on Film is about 70 unknown movie stars. Despite appearing in countless films, they were never actually meant to be seen by the movie-going public. In fact, these women are so enigmatic that in most cases we…