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Adesso basta (Simone Perotti)
La solitudine non è un albero nella pianura
La stessa proliferazione di chat e Facebook di varia natura afferisce a quest’ansia comunicativa un po’ effimera, capace tuttavia di evitare i buchi solitari che il tempo, pure compresso, talvolta ci riserva. Ecco che mi viene in mente una bella frase di Fernando Pessoa: «La…
Orrore per Facebook
Quando mi sono iscritto su Facebook, per provare cosa fosse, spinto da un amico, sono inorridito. Quanto tempo buttato a dire cose senza senso, con sconosciuti di cui si ignora ogni forma e fattezza. L’assunto di quel sito diabolico sarebbe poi la possibilità di ritrovare…
Limiting Children's Screen Time Linked To Better Cognition - Bbc News
Children's screen time linked to cognition
Children aged eight to 11 who used screens for fun for less than two hours a day performed better in tests of mental ability, a study found. Combining this with nine to 11 hours of sleep a night was found to be best for performance. Researchers said more work was now needed to…
Maybe The Homepage Is Alive After All: Quartz Is Trying A New Twist On The Traditional Website Front Door » Nieman Journalism Lab
Website homepage builds up reader loyalty
It was only a couple months ago that Quartz was making a bold proclamation: “The homepage is dead, and the social web has won.” The behavior of news consumers online was shifting rapidly away from the old way — going to a news site’s homepage, looking for an article that…
Sick Of Impact Factors | Reciprocal Space
Peer-review vs crowdsourcing in scientific publishing
Writing in 2008, Campbell (albeit somewhat uncertainly) saw a possible solution to the impact factor conundrum in the rise of mega-journals like PLoS ONE, which publish exclusively online and judge papers only on their novelty and technical competence, and in the potential of…
The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian)
The fantasy of giving all of yourself
People have this fantasy of “I give 100 per cent of myself to the world, all the time.” And online they also have this fantasy of “when I choose to hide things about myself that’s completely…