No peace for the “Save As WWF” campaign
(funny update on Jan 14th, 2011, see bottom of page) On November 30, 2010, the German section of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) launched Save As WWF, Save a Tree, a “green” (because not printable) file...
View ArticleDear Green Activists, will you please start to take file formats seriously?
Shortly after its release, I explained why the .WWF file format isn’t a really green and smart idea. Here I answer, with an invite to all environmentalists and green activists, to a critique from...
View ArticleWhat are the original WWF tips on paper efficiency?
The .WWF file format is a “green, because unprintable” file format, with its own website and Facebook page. On March 17 2011, around 10 am GMT +1, that Facebook page was updated with a post that starts...
View ArticleMore meaningless concerns about ebooks, part 2
Yesterday I explained a few things about e-books that were missing from the article Weighing the environmental costs: buy an eReader, or a shelf of books?. One of the Conversation readers commented the...
View ArticleMore meaningless concerns about ebooks, part 1
A couple of days ago, I read at The Conversation a post titled Weighing the environmental costs: buy an eReader, or a shelf of books?. Since that (overall pretty good) article missed a few important...
View ArticleThe actual advantages of OpenDocument
(this is only the final part of something I wrote in 2007. Please do read the first part to understand where the text below comes from!) A highly structured, metadata rich, application independent XML...
View ArticleThe correct way to use and advocate OO.o and the real reason to do it
(this is something I wrote in 2007. Everywhere you read “OO.o” you can (and should) replace it with “Apache OpenOffice or Libre Office”. See the bottom of the page for the origin and history of the...
View ArticleShall we waste twelve more years promoting Free office suites instead of open...
Twelve (TWELVE!!!) years ago I asked OpenOffice users “Are you advocating OO correctly”. Six years ago I said the same things in a different format. A couple of weeks ago, I came across a perfect proof...
View ArticleWhy free trials of certain software programs are bad
(this is a reformatted/expandedq version of a comment I made in November 2013 on the Libre Office mailing list) Other list members where saying they saw nothing like “holding people hostage” in free...
View ArticleData, file formats and protocols as the first platform of network politics
This was the abstract of a talk I proposed for a Network Politics Conference in 2011. The talk wasn’t accepted, but I’d like to restart a conversation on this topic, so here it goes. This quote from...
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Star Trek creator was clueless about computers
“Star Trek creator didn’t have a clue of how computer actually work, and how to preserve digital documents, and the curators of his estate weren’t much better”: this should be the appropriate title for...
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Core values? Even software, file formats and servers transmit them
On November 4th, 2016, I was invited to attend the Conference by the Pontifical Lateran University on “Core Values – The Transmission of Values in Digital Age”. I was very happy to go, because I’ve...
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The future of ODF, XML and office suites in Public Administrations
Last week I attended the Paris Open Source Summit, were I saw things as interesting and diverse as autonomous tractors, Open Source legal support and “degooglized Internet” visions. Please read that...
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Want to present your thesis? Please be compatible with Windows
Last week I had a weird experience. I went to the Department of Communications and Social Research of the Faculty of Communication Sciences of La Sapienza, the first and biggest University in Rome. The...
View ArticleAre iPad apps green and culture-friendly?
Todd Woody has written an interesting piece for the Grist magazine about the “iPad’s potential as a green machine”. In “iPadding into the future” Todd explains why and how, besides being very good for...
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No peace for the "Save As WWF" campaign
(funny update on Jan 14th, 2011, see bottom of page)On November 30, 2010, the German section of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) launched Save As WWF, Save a Tree, a “green” (because not printable) file...
View ArticleDear Green Activists, will you please start to take file formats seriously?
Shortly after its release, I explained why the .WWF file format isn’t a really green and smart idea. Here I answer, with an invite to all environmentalists and green activists, to a critique from...
View ArticleClik here to view.
What are the original WWF tips on paper efficiency?
The .WWF file format is a “green, because unprintable” file format, with its own website and Facebook page. On March 17 2011, around 10 am GMT +1, that Facebook page was updated with a post that starts...
View ArticleMore meaningless concerns about ebooks, part 2
Yesterday I explained a few things about e-books that were missing from the article Weighing the environmental costs: buy an eReader, or a shelf of books?. One of the Conversation readers commented the...
View ArticleMore meaningless concerns about ebooks, part 1
A couple of days ago, I read at The Conversation a post titled Weighing the environmental costs: buy an eReader, or a shelf of books?. Since that (overall pretty good) article missed a few important...
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