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	<title>Jack Ventura's Blog</title>
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	<description>A jack of all trades is a master of none</description>
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		<title>The EEE PC Revolution</title>
		<link>http://www.jackventura.com/asus-eeepc-planet-subnotebook-review-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:49:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BDB</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[If you still haven&#8217;t heard of the Asus EEE PC subnotebook or just want to know something more, I can help you.
Thanks to Italian Asus PR agency, I was able to test an EEEPC subnotebook  for a couple weeks and, as I feared, it was love at first sight. Now the EEE PC is [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.jackventura.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/asus_eee_pc_4g_subnotebook.jpg" title="A typical image of an Asus EEE PC subnotebook" alt="A typical image of an Asus EEE PC subnotebook" align="left" hspace="5" vspace="5" />If you still haven&#8217;t heard of the <a href="http://eeepc.asus.com/global/" title="Asus EEE PC Official Site" target="_blank"><strong>Asus EEE PC subnotebook</strong></a> or just want to know something more, I can help you.<br />
Thanks to Italian <strong>Asus</strong> PR agency, I was able to test an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eee_pc" title="Asus EEEPC on Wikipedia" target="_blank"><strong>EEEPC subnotebook</strong></a>  for a couple weeks and, as I feared, it was love at first sight. Now the <strong>EEE PC</strong> is gone, back to Asus, but I couldn&#8217;t resist writing an article titled <strong><a href="http://www.eeepcplanet.com/asus-eee-pc-review/" title="My EEE PC review on EEE PC Planet" target="_blank">The Asus EEE PC Experience</a></strong> and publishing it in a blog I&#8217;ve created to celebrate this great machine and collect all the relevant news, reviews, info and tips.<br />
So, just head to my <strong><a href="http://www.eeepcplanet.com/asus-eee-pc-review/" title="My EEE PC review on EEE PC Planet" target="_blank">Asus EEE PC review</a></strong> and <strong><a href="http://www.eeepcplanet.com/eeepc-it/" title="Asus EEE PC Planet blog" target="_blank">blog</a></strong> to discover the <strong><a href="http://www.eeepcplanet.com/eeepc-it/recensione-asus-eeepc-subnotebook/" title="My EEE PC review on EEE PC Planet in Italian">EEE PC Planet</a></strong> (also <a href="http://www.eeepcplanet.com/eeepc-it/" title="EEE PC Planet italian version" target="_blank"><strong>in Italian</strong></a>!).</p>
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		<title>Goodbye, Arthur, and thanks for those magic moments</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 01:49:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BDB</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[SciFi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[BBC on-line is one of the many Web sites announcing, today, the depart of Arthur C. Clarke, one of the greatest SciFi writers ever lived on Planet Earth. Those of you who, like me, got lost in the worlds and scenarios depicted and summoned into our mind and heart by novels like Childhood&#8217;s End, Earthlight [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.jackventura.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/arthur_c_clarke_rip.jpg" title="Arthur C. Clarke in a late portrait" alt="Arthur C. Clarke in a late portrait" align="left" hspace="5" vspace="5" />BBC on-line is one of the many Web sites announcing, today, <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7304004.stm" title="Article about Arthur Clarke's death" target="_blank">the depart of Arthur C. Clarke</a>, one of the greatest <em>SciFi</em> writers ever lived on Planet Earth. Those of you who, like me, got lost in the worlds and scenarios depicted and summoned into our mind and heart by novels like <em>Childhood&#8217;s End</em>, <em>Earthlight</em> or <em>The Songs of Distant Earth</em> will never forget the precious gift of such a great novelist. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke" target="_blank"><strong>Arthur C. Clarke</strong></a> inspired Kubrik&#8217;s unforgettable <em>2001: A Space Odissey</em> with his short novel <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sentinel_%28short_story%29" target="_blank">The Sentinel</a>, too, and the following episodes in writing and on screen. I would like to say my personal goodbye to a man who filled our brains and souls with such beautiful stories, bringing our hearts in a magical flight far into the realm of fantasy and helping us grow up with a broader vision and enriched creativity. Thanks, Arthur, we won&#8217;t forget what you&#8217;ve done for SciFi and for us readers.<br />
P.S.<br />
I would also like to send a public message to Mr <strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Bradbury" title="Ray Bradbury on Wikipedia" target="_blank">Ray Bradbury</a></strong>, one of my all-time favourite SciFi writer, to beg his pardon for the journalists who&#8217;ve written, in their articles about Clarke&#8217;s depart, &#8220;<a href="http://www.unita.it/view.asp?IDcontent=73913" title="Article about Carke's death on a major Italian newspaper" target="_blank">the last <em>great old man of SciFi</em> dies</a>&#8220;. Even a <a href="http://www.fantascienza.com/magazine/home/" title="A popular Italian SciFi portal forgets Ray Bradbury" target="_blank">popular SciFi Italian portal</a> seems to indulge in the same error, together with other sites and blogs. Yes, Ray himself has described himself as a non-SciFi writer, and the legendary <em>Martial Chronicles</em> themselves as Fantasy, not Science Fiction. Nonetheless, who would say that many his works are not pillars of this literary genre? It would be like affirming that Matheson or Heinlein or Herber are not SciFi writers as their novels delve deep into the Horror genre.<br />
Ray, please forgive these &#8216;journalists&#8217;, and please stay well and live long, maybe I will have a chance to meet you and thank you personally for the great works of genius and wit you&#8217;ve brought into our lives since we were kids if you come to visit us together with your great friend <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Harryhausen" title="Ray Harryhausen on Wikipedia">Ray Harryhausen</a> here at the places where his great <em>Jason and The Argonauts</em> was filmed, <strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palinuro" title="Palinuro (Italy) on Wikipedia" target="_blank">Palinuro</a></strong>. After all, we have great expectations and good hopes about your longevity, since Mr Electro said &#8216;Live for ever!&#8217; touching you with his magicl sword <img src='http://www.jackventura.com/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /><br />
P.P.S. You can read <strong><a href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/mar08/6075" title="Arthur C. Clarke last interview on IEEE Spectrum" target="_blank">Clarke&#8217;s last interview on IEEE Spectrum</a></strong> and also listen to the <a href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/radio?date=18.03.08" title="Pocast of Arthur C. Clarke's last interview on IEEE Spectrum" target="_blank">related podcast</a></p>
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		<title>Italian Analog Divide</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2008 23:34:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the first in a series of translated posts from the previous entries in my blog. They will be seleceted for the topics that may prove of major interest to a wider audience, thus translated into English. Well, let&#8217;s start.
There a lot of debate about &#8216;digital divide&#8217;, but the reasons for which so many [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.jackventura.com/wordpress/wp-content/digitaldivide.jpg"><img src="http://www.jackventura.com/wordpress/wp-content/_digitaldivide.jpg" alt="Il digital divide e il progresso" title="Il digital divide e il progresso" align="left" height="225" width="300" /></a><em>This is the first in a series of translated posts from the previous entries in my blog. They will be seleceted for the topics that may prove of major interest to a wider audience, thus translated into English. Well, let&#8217;s start.</em></p>
<p>There a lot of debate about &#8216;digital divide&#8217;, but the reasons for which so many people live at the fringe of society in Italy are of a deeper  &#8216;analog&#8217; nature.<br />
Italy is, still today, a rural Country, let&#8217;s admit it, with all the technological disadvantages deriving from it. People living in cities and principal towns aren&#8217;t aware of the frightening size of &#8216;human mass&#8217; spread into smaller built-up areas where everybody suffers for a shortage of jobs, technology, prospects&#8230; it&#8217;s true, the big cities&#8217; stress and pollution are also missing in those places, but their inhabitants suffer for a different kind of stress factors. For example, the miles (sometimes several dozens) they must travel to reach public offices and obtain documents made necessary by the abnormal Italian bureaucracy  or the miles needed to attend a higher school, the weak (or even missing) signal for mobile phones or television (satellite dishes are a must), or the absence of broadband Internet connections or even difficulties in obtaining a simple phone line at home.<br />
Statistics are very clear:  on a totalof 8.101 Italian municipalities there are over 6.000 of them counting less than 5.000 &#8216;citizens&#8217;, while 3.644 of them host about 2.000 &#8217;souls&#8217; (we&#8217;re talking about almost half of Italian municipalities!). But there&#8217;s more, because these few thousands of citizens don&#8217;t even really exist: yes, it&#8217;s true, and it&#8217;s because nobody&#8217;s taking the trouble of counting the citizens really residing in those municipalities where they &#8216;officially&#8217; live (for a reason or another). If you don&#8217;t know about these &#8216;rural&#8217; (a very suitable definition, in this case) Italian communities there&#8217;s a solid chance you&#8217;re asking where are the &#8216;missing citizens&#8217; resulting in the official counting. <a href="http://www.jackventura.com/italian-analog-divide/#more-151" class="more-link">(more&#8230;)</a></p>
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		<title>3D Time: spherical and multi-layered?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2008 22:17:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Universe and Everything]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago I was discussing about multi-dimensional Universes, String Theory and similar topics with a friend of mine, after reading an interesting article on the Italian edition of Focus magazine, and it came to my mind a sketch I drew a few weeks ago.
In that drawing, I tried to describe an idea of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.jackventura.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/tangled_ball.jpg" title="A tangled wireball - just imagine your life along these wires" alt="A tangled wireball - just imagine your life along these wires" align="left" hspace="5" vspace="5" />A few days ago I was discussing about multi-dimensional Universes, String Theory and similar topics with a friend of mine, after reading an interesting article on the Italian edition of Focus magazine, and it came to my mind a sketch I drew a few weeks ago.<br />
In that drawing, I tried to describe an idea of <strong>time as a trhee-dimensional and multi-layered structure</strong>: just imagine something different from the usual timeline-shaped path (the one where birth and death are connected via a linear series of events which describe our earthly existence from start to end).<br />
Imagine this alternative view of our individual lives as a sphere-shaped grid where an infinite number of linear paths are connected each other in &#8216;nodes&#8217; or just cross their respective paths without touching, distributed on various levels like strings in a tangled wire-ball, but following an order.<br />
Now imagine every crossing path of those strings like a moment, in your life, where a choice, decision or &#8216;event&#8217; made you shift your path and move along a different string, and so on. Of course different shifts could bring you to similar &#8216;outcomes&#8217;, non necessarily to different ones.<br />
For example, you could meet someone in a train station and ignore him/her, and find yourself traveling with the same person months later on a plane where you start talking with him/her, or start the same friendship on the first chance and then meet again on the same plane being already friends. This example moves along two different paths, but &#8216;crosses&#8217; twice in similar &#8216;nodes&#8217;, keeping the intermediate path separate. Along the intermediate path anything can happen, producing again new chances of shifting towards other paths.<br />
I know it sounds a bit confusing, and my knowledge of the English language may not be good enough to make this descriptions clear, but I would like to finish this reflections with an even more crazy idea: just imagine that the &#8217;shift&#8217; from one &#8216;universe&#8217; to the other happens while you sleep, and you wake up in a different &#8216;dimension&#8217; every time, according to the shift you produced with your thoughts-actions, without noticing just because you were sleeping and changes, at waking time, are so subtle you cannot see them. This could explain &#8216;dreams&#8217; as a sort of computing process where actions and thoughts of the day are processed and produce a &#8216;resulting&#8217; shift.</p>
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		<title>Ya-hooting</title>
		<link>http://www.jackventura.com/yahoo-design-innovation-fired/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2008 15:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Owl&#8217;s hoot is often seen (shoud we say &#8216;heard&#8217;?) as a sign of bad luck, but I hope this post won&#8217;t count as one of those, at least for Yahoo! and the aura surrounding the popular search engine (and portal) at the moment. After some heartbeating news about the Microsoft bid, the following Google comments [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.jackventura.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/yahoot.gif" title="They say owl’s hoot is a bad sign, especially when repeated three times"><img src="http://www.jackventura.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/yahoot.thumbnail.gif" title="They say owl’s hoot is a bad sign, especially when repeated three times" alt="They say owl’s hoot is a bad sign, especially when repeated three times" align="left" hspace="5" vspace="5" /></a>Owl&#8217;s hoot is often seen (shoud we say &#8216;heard&#8217;?) as a sign of bad luck, but I hope this post won&#8217;t count as one of those, at least for <strong>Yahoo!</strong> and the aura surrounding the popular search engine (and portal) at the moment. After some heartbeating news about the Microsoft bid, the following Google comments and Yahoo!&#8217;s refuse, the talking now involves the <em>media mogul</em> itself, Mr <strong>Murdoch</strong> (read a <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/exclusions/hubpages/yahoo/yahoo.xml" title="Recent articles about Yahoo! on Telegraph.co.uk" target="_blank">summary</a> of the chronicles on the Web edition of &#8216;british&#8217; <em>Telegraph</em> to keep up to date). Talking about misfortune, anyway, the sad news seem to involve, instead, the <em>Yahoo! <strong>Design Innovation Team</strong></em> as a whole, who&#8217;s been fired (as reported on <em><a href="http://www.portfolio.com/views/blogs/daily-brief/2008/02/14/confirmed-yahoo-design-innovation-team-axed" title="The Yahoo! Design Innovation Team axed" target="_blank">Portfolio.com</a></em>). Let&#8217;s ask, now, why on heart the company didn&#8217;t hold on and just <strong>wait</strong> before deciding for <em>such a bad move</em> considering the delicate moment they&#8217;re going through right now.</p>
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		<title>And justice for all&#8230; well, almost</title>
		<link>http://www.jackventura.com/italian-justice-not-working/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2008 11:25:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BDB</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[crime and punishment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Let me start this first &#8216;international&#8217; post with a title which surely is going to ring a bell in most of you, tied as it is with both a movie and a music album known by the same sentence. You&#8217;ll forgive me for any mistake I&#8217;m going to make writing in English, as it&#8217;s my [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.jackventura.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/jailed-innocence.jpg" title="Children as a symbol of innocence, jailed instead of their headsmen" alt="Children as a symbol of innocence, jailed instead of their headsmen" align="left" hspace="5" vspace="5" />Let me start this first &#8216;international&#8217; post with a title which surely is going to <em>ring a bell</em> in most of you, tied as it is with both a <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078718/" title="And justice for all movie on IMDB" target="_blank">movie</a> and a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...And_Justice_for_All_(album)" title="And justice for all by Metallica on Wikipedia" target="_blank">music album</a> known by the same sentence. You&#8217;ll forgive me for any mistake I&#8217;m going to make writing in English, as it&#8217;s my second language and not my mother tongue, but as I explained in my previous post I&#8217;m going to write in English from now on as a form of peaceful protest against the disillusion with many facets of my daily life in the Country I&#8217;ve had the luck and misfortune of being born. Please, comment with suggestions about any error I&#8217;m eventually putting into the articles you&#8217;ll be reading here, thanks.<br />
So, back to the post, which (as the title clearly suggests) is related to one of the worst &#8216;misfunctions&#8217; of Italian national clockwork: (in)justice. I was reading of <a href="http://qn.quotidiano.net/2008/02/17/65362-scarcerato_dopo_abusi_violenta_bimba.shtml" title="Italian news about a new case of abuse against a child" target="_blank">the nth case</a> of a male, guilty of abuse, who&#8217;s free (after a short time since his previous crime) to perpetrate his new violence where the casualty is a woman or a child. But, as usual, this is just the tip of the iceberg, as most of these horrible facts never become news. What&#8217;s worse, <strong><a href="http://www.corriere.it/english/articoli/2008/01_Gennaio/22/Italian_justice_stella.shtml" title="A very good articleon Italian justice on a national newspaper" target="_blank">Italian justice</a></strong> still keeps on holding in jail people guilty of theft or fraud but gives dangerous criminals a way to wander free in the streets in search of their next innocent victim.<br />
We (Italians) often say, reading or watching on our national media about criminals left free to wander or kept for long time in courts with no punishment, things like &#8220;<em>If this was happening abroad the criminal would already be prosecuted and punished the way he/she deserved</em>&#8220;. The main problem is, in Italy, that villains are even among those in charge of government and justice itself. As they say, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quis_custodiet_ipsos_custodes%3F" title="who watches the watchmen? on wikipedia" target="_blank"><strong>quis custodiet ipsos custodes?</strong></a> (who watches the watchmen?).<br />
P.S.  A note about the picture I used for this post, it&#8217;s been borrowed from the site <a href="http://www.eccleshallpast.org.uk/index.htm" title="Eccleshall Past" target="_blank">Eccleshall Past</a>, just because I thought it may best symbolise what I&#8217;ve written. If the authors or any related people thinks there&#8217;s any reason not to use it here, I invite them to let me know and I&#8217;ll promptly remove it. Thanks.</p>
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		<title>Emigrare &#8216;virtualmente&#8217; (time to say goodbye)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:11:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Questo è il mio ultimo post in italiano su jackventura.com, i prossimi saranno solo in inglese. Comincia così la mia protesta contro una nazione di ingiustizie, sprechi, delusioni, violenze, vergogne e abbandono. Sono stanco e disgustato per una situazione che non accenna a migliorare, anzi peggiora a vista d&#8217;occhio, e non credo più che ci [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.jackventura.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/famiglia-italiana-immigrata-a-new-york.JPG" title="Una tipica famigia di emigrati italiani all’arrivo a New York"><img src="http://www.jackventura.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/famiglia-italiana-immigrata-a-new-york.thumbnail.JPG" title="Una tipica famigia di emigrati italiani all’arrivo a New York" alt="Una tipica famigia di emigrati italiani all’arrivo a New York" align="left" hspace="5" vspace="5" /></a>Questo è il mio ultimo post in italiano su jackventura.com, i prossimi saranno solo in inglese. Comincia così la mia protesta contro una nazione di ingiustizie, sprechi, delusioni, violenze, vergogne e abbandono. Sono stanco e disgustato per una situazione che non accenna a migliorare, anzi peggiora a vista d&#8217;occhio, e non credo più che ci sia la forza e la possibilità di reagire e combattere contro un nemico che viene dall&#8217;interno, una piaga che ha ormai attecchito nelle strutture portanti, che ha infettato l&#8217;organismo della nazione nei suoi organi vitali e più profondi. Per il momento non posso andarmene fisicamente e abbandonare geograficamente questa nazione allo sbando, mi accontento perciò di farlo virtualmente, culturalmente e linguisticamente, a partire dal mio blog personale. Il giorno che potrò andarmene davvero, emigrare finalmente oltre i confini nazionali invece che semplicemente regionali, come ho già fatto più volte, festeggerò alla grande. Per ora, saluto i miei lettori che non conoscono la lingua inglese, and <em>welcome to everybody else, at least the ones who can read and understand the English language</em>.</p>
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		<title>La modestia non paga</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:11:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chi ha letto il mio CV, ma soprattutto chi ha giocato con gli adventure game che ho realizzato, letto le riviste che ho ideato e curato o imparato dai videotutorial che da pioniere ho lanciato in Italia, sa bene chi sono, e soprattutto sa che non amo vantarmi e ho fatto della modestia, della spontaneità, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.jackventura.com/wordpress/wp-content/zzap.jpg" align="left" height="365" hspace="5" vspace="5" width="256" />Chi ha letto il mio CV, ma soprattutto chi ha giocato con <a href="http://www.jackventura.com/la-mia-avventura-con-le-avventure/">gli adventure game che ho realizzato</a>, letto le <a href="http://www.webriviste.com/jurassicnews/gigabyte/gigabyte.asp" target="_blank">riviste</a> che ho ideato e curato o imparato dai videotutorial che da pioniere ho lanciato in Italia, sa bene chi sono, e soprattutto sa che non amo vantarmi e ho fatto della modestia, della spontaneità, dell&#8217;umiltà e della semplicità i miei baluardi in oltre <em>due decenni</em> di carriera nel settore editoriale e informatico. Della mia <em>carenza</em> di superbia e vanagloria possono testimoniare volti noti del settore che hanno mosso i primi passi sotto la mia supervisione o mi hanno conosciuto dopo e mi hanno stretto la mano per ringraziarmi di quanto avevo fatto per loro e la comunità informatica e videoludica del nostro Paese. Ho accettato questi complimenti, dal vivo o per e-mail, con grande commozione e senza mai montarmi la testa. Della mia &#8216;fama&#8217; ho soprattutto apprezzato il ruolo svolto per la gente, tanto come creatore di giochi &#8216;intelligenti&#8217; quanto come divulgatore e informatore nel settore informatico e videoludico. Sono rimasto buono e tranquillo nel mio quasi-anonimato, lasciando che fossero gli altri a ricordarsi o accorgersi di me, quando capitava.<br />
Ora, però, comincio a stancarmi: mi accorgo sempre più spesso che il &#8217;sapersi vendere&#8217; (inteso anche nell&#8217;accezione negativa del termine) qui da noi conta, come il famigerato &#8216;pezzo di carta&#8217;, più di quanto realmente si sa fare e si è fatto nella vita, e ad ignorare questa ingiusta legge della jungla si rischia di perdere credito o, peggio, restare addirittura fuori dal contesto per cui si è tanto lavorato nella vita.<br />
Ne ho avuto l&#8217;ennesima riprova ieri, mentre cercavo di creare una voce su Wikipedia Italia riguardante me stesso, come già <a href="http://www.ifwiki.org/index.php/Bonaventura_di_Bello" target="_blank">esiste su IFWiki</a> (non creata da me) e visto che ero già citato nella voce relativa a <a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zzap%21" target="_blank">Zzap!</a> e <a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Games_Machine" target="_blank">The Games Machine</a>, ma anche <a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Pro_%28rivista%29" target="_blank">Game Pro</a>, sull&#8217;enciclopedia in questione.<br />
Del resto sull&#8217;edizione italiana di Wikipedia si parla delle avventure testuali, nel cui settore cui credo poter &#8216;vantare&#8217; una certa fama, senza citare affatto il mercato italiano, mentre lo si fa con quello giapponese. Non che la documentazione manchi, appunto: IFWiki pubblica su tali giochi e su di me schede complete a approfondite, di pubbico dominio, ma a quanto pare non meritiamo, né io né le avventure testuali italiane (realizzate da <a href="http://ready64.org/articoli/leggi.php?idart=56" target="_blank">vari autori</a>, non solo da me) un posto sull&#8217;edizione italiana di Wikipedia come, per esempio, il mio <em>alter-ego</em> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Adams_%28game_designer%29" target="_blank">Scott Adams</a> merita invece sull&#8217;edizione inglese.<br />
Non so ancora come finirà la questione, ma comincio già a stancarmene, se devo essere sincero, e perdere ancora più stima e fiducia in un Paese che da sempre premia i furbetti e i vanitosi e getta nell&#8217;ombra chi, pur meritando di essere notato, ha preferito lavorare con modestia e senza vanagloria. Il mio sogno non è più, come una volta, di continuare a fare qualcosa di importante per l&#8217;Italia, quanto di potermene andare all&#8217;estero dove magari c&#8217;è più spazio, e rispetto, per chi fa bene il proprio lavoro.</p>
<p>P.S.<br />
Alla fine non ho resistito e ho scritto una lettera a <a href="http://punto-informatico.it/p.aspx?i=2208857" title="La protesta pacata di BDB su Punto Informatico" target="_blank"><strong>Punto Informatico</strong></a>&#8230; la cui pubblicazione ha prodotto la risposta ufficiale di Wikipedia italiana e&#8230; più di 300 commenti.</p>
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		<title>Alcuni dei siti Web che ho realizzato</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 14:45:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ecco di seguito alcuni dei siti Web da me sviluppati usando il CMS WordPress. Questo CMS è abbastanza flessibile, infatti, da permettere la creazione di siti standard oltre che blog, anche se Joomla! sembrerebbe molto più adatto, ma prima di convertirmi all&#8217;altra piattaforma Open Source preferisco verificarne tutti i pregi e i difetti, intanto continuo [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ecco di seguito alcuni dei siti Web da me sviluppati usando il CMS WordPress. Questo CMS è abbastanza flessibile, infatti, da permettere la creazione di siti standard oltre che blog, anche se Joomla! sembrerebbe molto più adatto, ma prima di convertirmi all&#8217;altra piattaforma Open Source preferisco verificarne tutti i pregi e i difetti, intanto continuo a usare WP visto che è collaudato e lo conosco ormai da alcuni anni.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.lacantinadelmarchese.com/">La Cantina del Marchese (un ristorante tipico dove assaggiare i sapori cilentani e acquistare i prodotti tipici della gastronomia del Cilento)</a></strong><br />
<a href="http://www.lacantinadelmarchese.com" title="La Cantina del Marchese a Marina di Camerota" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.mediamagic.it/wp-content/uploads/lacantinadelmarchese.jpg" title="La Cantina del Marchese a Marina di Camerota" alt="La Cantina del Marchese a Marina di Camerota" align="middle" border="1" hspace="5" vspace="5" /></a></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.villaggiosantanna.com/">Villaggio Sant’Anna</a></strong><br />
<a href="http://www.villaggiosantanna.com" title="Il Villaggio Santana a Marina di Camerota" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.mediamagic.it/wp-content/uploads/villaggiosantanna.jpg" title="Il Villaggio Santana a Marina di Camerota" alt="Il Villaggio Santana a Marina di Camerota" align="middle" border="1" hspace="5" vspace="5" /></a></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.nolobarchesaturno.it/">Noleggio Barche Saturno</a></strong><br />
<a href="http://www.nolobarchesaturno.it" title="Il Noleggio Barche Saturno a Marina di Camerota" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.mediamagic.it/wp-content/uploads/nolobarchesaturnoit.jpg" title="Il Noleggio Barche Saturno a Marina di Camerota" alt="Il Noleggio Barche Saturno a Marina di Camerota" align="middle" border="1" hspace="5" vspace="5" /></a></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.residenzagiostell.com/">Residenza Giostell</a></strong><br />
<a href="http://www.residenzagiostell.com" title="La Residenza Giostell a Camerota" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.mediamagic.it/wp-content/uploads/residenzagiostell.jpg" title="La Residenza Giostell a Camerota" alt="La Residenza Giostell a Camerota" align="middle" border="1" hspace="5" vspace="5" /></a></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.eneaimmobiliare.it/">Enea Immobiliare (una agenzia per chi vuole acquistare o affittare apparatamenti, ville, casolari e locali commerciali a Palinuro, Pisciotta,Camerota o altre località del Cilento)</a></strong><br />
<a href="http://www.eneaimmobiliare.it" title="Agenzia Enea Immobiliare a Palinuro" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.mediamagic.it/wp-content/uploads/eneaimmobiliare.jpg" title="Agenzia Enea Immobiliare a Palinuro" alt="Agenzia Enea Immobiliare a Palinuro" align="middle" border="1" hspace="5" vspace="5" /></a></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.mondotel.info/">MondoTel</a></strong><br />
<a href="http://www.mondotel.info" title="MondoTel - Palinuro" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.mediamagic.it/wp-content/uploads/mondotel.jpg" title="MondoTel - Palinuro" alt="MondoTel - Palinuro" align="middle" border="1" hspace="5" vspace="5" /></a></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.albergo-delfino.com/">Albergo Delfino (uno splendido hotel sulla costa di Marina di Camerota)</a></strong><br />
<a href="http://www.albergo-delfino.com" title="Albergo Delfino a Marina di Camerota" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.mediamagic.it/wp-content/uploads/albergo-delfino.jpg" title="Albergo Delfino Marina di Camerota" alt="Albergo Delfino a Marina di Camerota" align="middle" border="1" hspace="5" vspace="5" /></a></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.oggettistica-nautica.com/">Popeye Oggettistica Nautica (un negozio di prodotti per l&#8217;arredamento in stile marinaro)</a></strong><br />
<a href="http://www.oggettistica-nautica.com" title="Popeye Oggettistica Nautica - Palinuro" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.mediamagic.it/wp-content/uploads/popeye.jpg" title="Popeye Oggettistica Nautica - Palinuro" alt="Popeye Oggettistica Nautica - Palinuro" align="middle" border="1" hspace="5" vspace="5" /></a></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.vignadelmare.com/">Villaggio Residence Vigna del Mare</a></strong></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.vacanzedaziamaria.com/">Casa Vacanze da Zia Maria (un piccolo e accogliente villaggio per chi vuole andare in vacanza a Marina di Camerota)</a></strong><br />
<a href="http://www.vacanzedaziamaria.com" title="Casa Vacanze Da Zia Maria - Marina di Camerota" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.mediamagic.it/wp-content/uploads/vacanzedaziamaria.jpg" title="Casa Vacanze Da Zia Maria - Marina di Camerota" alt="Casa Vacanze Da Zia Maria - Marina di Camerota" align="middle" border="1" hspace="5" vspace="5" /></a></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.residencefontelunapalinuro.com/">Residence Fonteluna (un residence sulla collina che sovrasta Capo Palinuro, nel Cilento, dove affittare appartamenti arredati e godere di ogni comfort, dalla piscina all&#8217;animazione)</a></strong></p>
<p><strong>(N.B. Il sito del <a href="http://www.residencefontelunapalinuro.com" title="Residence Fonteluna Palinuro Appartamenti">Residence Fonteluna Palinuro</a> è gemellato con quello del <a href="http://www.residencefontelunacilento.com" title="Residence Fonteluna Cilento Appartamenti">Residence Fonteluna Cilento</a>)</strong></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.baiadellaluna.net">Baia della Luna</a></strong><br />
<a href="http://www.baiadellaluna.net" title="Baia della Luna - Marina di Camerota" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.mediamagic.it/wp-content/uploads/baiadellaluna_net.jpg" title="Baia della Luna - Marina di Camerota" alt="Baia Della Luna - Marina di Camerota" align="middle" border="1" hspace="5" vspace="5" /></a></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.poker-sportivo.net">Poker Sportivo Network (il sito-blog dell&#8217;Associazione Poker Sportivo Cilento, con notizie e informazioni sul Poker)</a></strong><br />
<a href="http://www.poker-sportivo.net" title="Poker Sportivo Network" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.mediamagic.it/wp-content/uploads/pokersportivo.jpg" title="Poker Sportivo Network" alt="Poker Sportivo Network" align="middle" border="1" hspace="5" vspace="5" /></a></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.borgosanseverino.com">Borgo Medievale di San Severino (il sito ufficiale dell&#8217;associazione &#8220;Il Borgo&#8221; dedicato al villaggio medievale di San Severino di Centola)</a></strong><br />
<a href="http://www.borgosanseverino.com" title="Borgo Medievale di San Severino" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.mediamagic.it/wp-content/uploads/borgosanseverino.jpg" title="Borgo Medievale di San Severino" alt="Borgo Medievale di San Severino" align="middle" border="1" hspace="5" vspace="5" /></a></p>
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		<title>Digital divide, analog divide</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2007 11:33:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Si dibatte tanto sul &#8216;digital divide&#8217;, quando l&#8217;emarginazione nella nostra penisola ha radici ben più&#8230; analogiche.
L&#8217;Italia è un paese rurale, ammettiamolo, con tutti gli svantaggi tecnologici che ne derivano. Chi vive nelle città e nei capoluoghi non si rende conto della spaventosa massa umana disseminata in centri abitati dove manca il lavoro, manca la tecnologia, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.jackventura.com/wordpress/wp-content/digitaldivide.jpg"><img align="left" src="http://www.jackventura.com/wordpress/wp-content/_digitaldivide.jpg" width="300" height="225" alt="Il digital divide e il progresso" title="Il digital divide e il progresso"  /></a>Si dibatte tanto sul &#8216;digital divide&#8217;, quando l&#8217;emarginazione nella nostra penisola ha radici ben più&#8230; analogiche.<br />
L&#8217;Italia è un paese rurale, ammettiamolo, con tutti gli svantaggi tecnologici che ne derivano. Chi vive nelle città e nei capoluoghi non si rende conto della spaventosa massa umana disseminata in centri abitati dove manca il lavoro, manca la tecnologia, mancano le prospettive&#8230; è vero, manca l&#8217;inquinamento e lo stress tipici delle metropoli, ma in compenso ci si stressa per altre cose. Per esempio, per i Km (a volte oltre 100!) che bisogna percorrere per accedere a sportelli e sbrigare pratiche burocratiche oppure frequentare una scuola superiore, per il cattivo (quando non assente) segnale dei cellulari o delle trasmissioni televisive, satellite a parte, oppure per l&#8217;assenza di connessioni a banda larga.<br />
Le statistiche parlano chiaro:  su un totale di 8.101 comuni italiani sono oltre 6.000 quelli con meno di 5.000 abitanti, mentre sono 3.644 quelli che ospitano circa 2.000 anime (praticamente quasi la metà dei comuni italiani!). Ma c&#8217;è di più, perché queste poche migliaia di abitanti in realtà non esistono: eh già, proprio così, perché nessuno si prende la briga di controllare quanti cittadini vivono realmente nel comune in cui continuano ad avere la residenza (per un motivo o per un altro). Se non conoscete queste realtà &#8216;rurali&#8217; (un termine per niente fuori luogo) vi starete chiedendo dove sarebbero finiti questi &#8216;abitanti&#8217; che, seppure conteggiati, non esistono. <a href="http://www.jackventura.com/digital-divide-analog-divide/#more-138" class="more-link">(more&#8230;)</a></p>
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