"I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things, but I'm not absolutely sure of anything..." (Richard Feynman)
Sembra che c'è ancora possibilità di formare una sinistra italiana libertaria. Dopo la partita della maggioranza dei DS per il compromesso storico bonsai, alcuni dei dissident sembrano a non voler pietrificarsi con la sinistra cubana die Bertinotti & Co. Angius sta lavorando col SDI per il nuovo Partito Socialista, nella lettera allegata esponenti dei Radicali e dello SDI chiamano per la doppia tessera fra le loro organizzazioni.
Both, the Spiegel and the Economist were writing about new initiatives to foster electric cars in these weeks. The more interesting one in the Spiegel, cited by the Economist was about a Shai Agassi (Ex Number 2 from SAP) project to create an infrastructure that would make a real use of electric cars possible (https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,514256,00.html).
Es war schon zu erwarten, dass aus dem konservativen Lager irgendwelche hochgestochenen "Rettet di Zivilisation" Angriffe gegen das Internet kommen wuerden. Aber von einem Mitherausgeber der FAZ! Too much is too much! Ich stimme natuerlich mit dem Spiegel Rezensenten ueberein.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/0,1518,514107,00.html">Debatte: Das Internet ist an allem schuld - Netzwelt - SPIEGEL ONLINE - Nachrichten</a><br /><br /><p class="poweredbyperformancing">Powered by <a href="https://scribefire.com/">ScribeFire</a>.</p>
On October 29 and 30 the Workshop on the European Information Space was hosted in FAO and co-organized by my team. The workshop brought together projects from two different directorates of the DG Information Society and Media. It was organized by the DILIGENT (Digital Library Infrastructure on Grid Enabled Technology). Donatella Castelli from the CNR in Pisa, the DILIGENT coordinator succeeded in bringing together numerous projects funded by the EU in the area of Digital libraries and in the area of Research Infrastructure-
From October 16-17 my group co-organized and hostend the DSpace Usergroup meeting 2007. (https://www.aepic.it/conf/index.php?cf=11) My colleague Imma Subirats was one of the pillars of the entire organization. I got quite excited about DSpace and the possibilities to adapt it to Agricultural Open Archives.
I was also intrigued by the connections between DSpace and the MIT Simile project that brings a "semantic dimension" into the DSpace development. https://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=1660131278&size=m
The fan club around Richard Dawkins has become somewhat nervous about Sam Harris contribution at the "Atheist Alliance Conference" in Washington (see link from this post). The link shows also the discussion.
Attached you will find the speech of Bundespraesidend Koehler for the German National Day 2007. I like it. What I most like is the title. I also agree that we have the tackle the problem that the globalization creates dispartment within the countries more than between the countries. We have tobe careful that the globalization loosers in the rich countries do not turn against globalization (see https://johanneskeizer.com/node/293) .
During the e-agriculture week at FAO Headquarter, I participated in a CGIAR workshop on "opening Access to Agricultural research. I think there is big confusion among various stakeholders about the linkings between research, technology deployment and Extension. It seems to me that there is a tendency to apply criteria, which have value for extension and technology deployment (relating to the end users i.e) also on research. I still think that research should be as much as possible independent from application szenario, but should resolve scientific problems.
September 23 and 24I took part in the organization of the second expert consultation on Information Systems in Agricultural Science and Technology was hold in Rome at FAO HQ.
A very interesting part of the conference were country reports from (among others) Egypt, Peru, Madagascar and Thailand.
