Thomas L. Friedman upset [The New York Times]

“I’ve been thinking of running for high office on a one-issue platform: I promise, if elected, that within four years America will have cellphone service as good as Ghana’s. If re-elected, I promise that in eight years America will have cellphone service as good as…

Another Italian blog

  After posting a link to Lele Dainesi’s blog yesterday, here is another Italian-language blog. Carmelo Cutuli (see bio) has a blog about “economy, technology, groups and social networking”. I got a hold of him through LinkedIn, where he is in charge of the Italian…

RE:activism | Re-drawing the boundaries of activism in a new media environment

An interesting conference RE:activism | Re-drawing the Boundaries of Activism in a New Media environment (unfortunately, the site’s Flash version is really annoying) will take place October 14-15, 2005, in Budapest, Hungary. The conference, which is is co-organised by four prestigious international institutions, is structured…

Mash-ups in Italy

A friend of mine, Lele Dainesi, manages Mash-ups in Italy, a blog on the “rise of cut & paste culture”. It is all in Italian, but insightful if you understand the language. As part of the nicely designed blog, Lele has been interviewing some of…

Ethnography at McDonald’s

Blogger Grant McCracken has posted a nice tale about doing ethnography at McDonald’s to figure out why people order smaller drink sizes in the drive-thru than inside. And in the process, provides a nice concise explanation of a research approach. Read full post (via Customer…