Is Sierra Leone, without Internet and Free Software, just a knowledge landfill?

(This is the second and last part (the first is here) of the report by Lucia Mazzoni about computer science and education in Sierra Leone. Paragraphs in bold starting with my name are my own comments, added later.)

Apr 21, 2012 - 4 min read

Your Harry Potter Love Affair is over because...

In September 2011 Versha Sharma, speaking of her Harry Potter Love Affair, explained how much she loves Harry Potter.

Within one week from the launch of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (that is, 12 years ago) she had bought and finished all the first four books of the series. Immediately after, she joined all sorts of online fansites, spending “countless nights” to read fan fiction. That, until September 2011 when, she writes:

Apr 20, 2012 - 2 min read

"Blog Killer" law proposal reappears in Italy

(this is my own synthesis of an article just published by Italian newspaper Il Fatto Quotidiano)

Apr 17, 2012 - 2 min read

Reminder for everybody living in the attention economy: who should we really thank for command-line Wikipedia searches?

Lxer.com is an aggregator of (mostly) reader-submitted news about Linux and Free/Open Source software. On March 27th, 2012, Lxer.com published this news:

Mar 28, 2012 - 2 min read
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Why and How to access Facebook from the command line

Please read the notice at the end!!! You may have already noticed that, while I surely do not refuse graphical interfaces and cool, modern Linux desktop environments, I am always looking for ways to perform every computer-related task from the command line. Sometimes it is because I actually need to automate something. In other cases it is just for the fun of it, to discover if it’s possible. This is the case of the trick I am going to explain this week: how to post to one’s Facebook wall, or read it, from a script.

Feb 29, 2012 - 5 min read

Cisco gives "Society Impacting" Award to project that hasn't even started working and...

Feb 8, 2012 - 2 min read