I first met Larry Lessig at the iSummit ‘08 in Sapporo, Japan (where I worked together with the iCommons team). I took several photos during the event and one of Lessig giving the closing speech was selected for the Italian edition of his latest book, Remix, published in September 2009 by ETAS (part RCS-Corriere della Sera).
The book doesn’t seem to be available online yet. I will post the direct link for buying it soon.
I met him for the second time in Milan in March 2009 at Meet The Media Guru (event in which I worked as part of the organization team led by Maria Grazia Mattei).
Since I got my iPhone a couple of months ago, I noticed I started using much less my ubiquitous Moleskine notepad.
Maybe it’s because the iPhone is now more ubiquitous in my universe than the Moleskine. I used to carry it everywhere in my back pocket but now it stays mostly inside my backpack. I use the “mole” for several different things: I write thoughts and notes on trips, to-do lists and ideas I don’t want to forget. I keep some useful business and restaurant’s cards in it’s pocket and stick flight, transport and museum tickets plus other miscellaneous memorabilia to it’s pages. From time to time I also add a sticker and an instant photo to it. I used it to save concepts for future blog articles and business ideas.
Some of that stuff still goes to the Moleskine (imagine glueing a tram ticket to the iPhone) but most of the to-do lists and blog post ideas have been monopolized by Apple’s phone. With Gmail’s task manager I automatically sync to-do’s online, so that I have a unified list. With Wordpress’ App I can jot down blogpost drafts directly online. And if I want to keep track of a restaurant or other place I visited I can add it to my personal Google Maps.
Will I abandon paper for silicon chips? No way! I love writing and drawing with a ball pen on the silky pages. My thoughts are better framed better between the fake leather covers than inside “the cloud“. I like serendipitously browsing through old notes and be transported to past memories by travel tickets I’ve kept.
What does happen is that I consume my notepad much less… and I’m always eager in finishing one to start a brand new one, add stickers to it’s cover and copy useful information (Passport number, contact info, the code I use to tag different notes).
Just an irrelevant thought in a lazy Sunday in Amsterdam.
So finally almost 1 month ago I moved to Amsterdam to work in a very cool international event, PICNIC (more on my work in PICNIC on my blog dedicated to Conference Basics), that will take place next September 23 to 25.
The office is in the beautiful area of Jordaan, on the Herengracht canal. I also [...]
I’m changing hosting service but there was some delay with the domain transfer… now that I’m moving to Amsterdam I’m kinda busy but my personal blog will be back online soon…. in the meanwhile why not visit my other blog, Conference Basics?
cheers
gian
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or several years I have been in charge of startup, marketing and operations of a company in the executive education area that organized conferences with outstanding business speakers and most recently I work as a freelance professional.
I have dealt with speakers like Bill Clinton, Michael Porter, Philip Kotler, Kevin Roberts, Lawrence Lessig, Malcolm Gladwell, Rudy [...]
This post is writen in English (top) and Italian (bottom)
In English
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The second issue (April 2009) of Wired’s Italian edition has just been released and guess who’s article is featured in page 33…
You guessed right! My article on the Pasona 02 project, writen while I was living in Tokyo, has been published from page [...]
La Mediateca Santa Teresa era piena come mai prima. Cos’è che ha portato tutto questo pubblico ad incontrare Cory Doctorow? Chiedendo ad alcuni, mentre faccio da buttafuori della sala per permettere ai tecnici di finire con le prove, mi rendo conto che non tutti sanno chi è o di cosa parlerà il relatore della serata. [...]
(this post is for my Italian readers and regards an event that will take place in Milan next Friday in which Cory Doctorow will be the main speaker)
Questo venerdì 6 marzo, ci sarà Cory Doctorow al Meet The Media Guru, evento organizzato da MGM Digital Communication (ovvero dalla mia amica Maria Grazia Mattei) e io [...]
The most powerful advertising, those that touch and follow us for days in our minds are those that untap our most basic emotions: joy, fear, hope, love, sadness, rage, anxiety… (there is not one list but I found this one useful).
Last week I was in San Francisco reading USA Today and found this powerful image [...]
