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20 diapositivas x 20 segundos: 400 segundos hablando al público asistente cómo son los anticuerpos y explicando porqué son tan importantes en nuestra vida
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Wouldn't it be great if creating infographics was just as simple as writing regular ole text-based blog posts? Unfortunately, the reality is that making visual content like this usually takes a lot more time, effort, and let's face it -- skill -- than the written word. Usually.But considering the popularity and effectiveness of visual content in marketing today, you can't just afford to throw in the towel. That's why we decided to take all the pain and suffering out of infographic creation. Seriously -- don't throw in the towel just yet. You, too, can create professional-looking, high-quality infographics ... quickly! And I'm going to prove it. First things first ... Via Jeff Domansky
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You can download 10 powerpoint free templates: http://offers.hubspot.com/how-to-create-infographics-in-powerpoint
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April 12, 12:36 PM
Infographiken erstellen einfach gemacht, mit Power Point
Lori Wilk's curator insight,
April 14, 10:04 AM
It's great to have tools to make your more #effective and #efficient that allows you to improve your #productivity. Execellent to help us to learn about creating #infographics
Acclaim facilitates constructive, educational discussions and feedback around video content.
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Instructors from Higher Ed, K12, and Corporate Training use Acclaim for:
It is mobile friendly You have to request an instructor access before using it
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Classmill, Finally a content curation tool directly devoted to Online Courses. It's an excellent web tool for teacher, trainers or educators. Easy of use and very intuitive: collect your links, photos, files, videos, articles, clips, etc... and melt them onto learning modules Try it out now: http://classmill.com
Joyce Valenza's curator insight,
April 4, 10:20 AM
Playing with this new tool as I experiment with redesigning a course. Looks easy, flexible and powerful.
Stephen Dale's curator insight,
April 4, 11:40 AM
A very useful resource for anyone thinking of delivering on-line courses. Simple to use, and free!
El día a día del gestor de innovación se ve salpicado por setas y problemas varios, que debes evitar para ser productivo.
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Ser gestor de innovación no es fácil No estás en una cadena de montaje en la que acaba tu turno y te vas a casa Tienes principio y final Pero un gestor de innovación trabajo con conocimiento Y el conocimiento se expande ocupando espacio y tiempo Hasta casi invadirlo todo. Tienes que tener cuidado para no volverte workalcolico.
You don't need to be a seasoned data scientist or have a degree in graphic design in order to create incredible data visualisations. Via Baiba Svenca
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A super list of tools for creating digital content (infographics, word clouds, conceptual maps, chartas, etc...) for your Digital presentations.
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March 16, 4:01 AM
Ca donne envie d'essayer : nuage de mots, graphiques, cartes... Par Christopher Ratcliff @ Econsultancy publié le 25/02
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March 16, 4:55 AM
Check out how to add visualisations to your presentations.
Prospective students, parents of prospective students, and taxpayers deserve to know about the quality of teaching in our universities. But how do you measure teaching quality?
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Have we the same Myths in Spanish Universities? Myth 1: University teaching is poorMyth 2: Good researchers make poor teachers and vice versaMyth 3: Poor teaching is tolerated because only research countsMyth 4: Student evaluations of teaching only encourage showmanshipMyth 5: Responding to student surveys will lead to a dumbing down of the curriculum
GooIf you're designing an eLearning course, you need to keep the entire process as organized as possible. Stay focused with these 10 eLearning resources. Via Dennis T OConnor
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Good list of tools for online Teachers... have a try!!
Dennis T OConnor's curator insight,
February 25, 1:10 PM
Here's an interesting list of online tools for instructional designers and e-learning teachers. I've tried about 1/3 of the list. Lots of new leads here!
ChristopherBell's curator insight,
March 5, 7:42 PM
Looking for some great elearning resources! Here you go.
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March 12, 12:11 PM
A few innovative tools for mounting and communicating your learning content. #edtech #elearning #onlinelearning
An expressions platform to share experiences, opinions and passion points. Go ahead Explore, Express and discover Via Kathleen Cercone
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An Expression Platform that is multilingual, visually attractive and socially integrated
Now you can express your views, interests and passion – unbounded . As well as get a relevant audience to consume and promote it for you
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March 12, 8:53 AM
I believe this Web 2.0 tool is great for introducing yourself and telling others about your past experiences.
Moovly is an online tool that allows you to create animated videos, tutorials, explainers, presentations, infographics, video clips, display ads or e-cards. Via Nik Peachey
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March 18, 12:59 PM
Moovly is an online tool that allows you to create animated videos, tutorials, explainers, presentations, infographics, video clips, display ads or e-cards.
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March 20, 10:26 PM
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This looks like a really useful tool. It's run on a freemium model. The free version allows for the unlimited creation of videos up to 10mins long at 480p.
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April 24, 12:07 AM
this could be good when explaining historical events. Say for a teacher giving a lecture
Aquí tenemos un nuevo paquete de recursos de todo tipo, desde iconos, pasando por fuentes, hasta herramientas para desarrolladores que trabajan con CSS y JavaScript. Vamos, dale una mirada que seguramente te terminarás llevando algo.
As a busy business owner, you likely don't have time to create new content at the rate at which your audience demands it. Yet, with content marketing now being the #1 driver of search rankings, you can't afford not to be constantly publishing new content. Fortunately, there are ways you can take your existing content and feed it to the content marketing beast. With a little bit of elbow grease and some creativity, you can edit and re-use what you already have, and turn it into something your audience can't get enough of!... Via Jeff Domansky
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Created or posted for marketing. But most of the tips are very helpful also for Lecturing/Teaching
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January 7, 9:04 AM
This is a recommended read for all content marketers and SEO writers out there. It's really helpful.
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January 7, 6:46 PM
Lots of good content recycling tips here. I have taken not of the details and intend to apply them. You should too. Well done Kim and good comments from Jeff Domansky
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January 9, 10:22 AM
This is what most content creators will do, recycle old content to produce new content from an older content that has been tweaked and modified. As an an active blogger, I do the same with great effect. The implications for educationists lies in their ability to re-visit old posts after a lapse of some time whereby they can tweak and retouch observations according to what they have done in class. It always makes sense to re-visit old content and see how this content can be made more relevant to existing trends. While recycling might be achieved through re-posting of content as it is, a more pro-active approach would be to consider changing the title, adding more content and in addition, making necessary changes and corrections to make 'Old content' more in line with the latest in the industry. No doubt it might be difficult for content creators to continue producing good content throughout, so it makes sense to try recycling older content. |
Privileged institutions have accepted that they, too, will be transformed by the web. But what will that look like? Via John Shank
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So how exactly does online education figure into the future of elite higher education? Judging by what we've seen so far, the answer can be divided into three parts: 1. Free online courses for everyone. 2. Paid online courses for professional graduate programs. 3. Online components in face-to-face undergraduate courses.
Hola: Compartimos unos eBooks sobre "10 Estupendas Guías Didácticas sobre Innovación Educativa". Un gran saludo. Fuente: recapacita.fundacionmapfre.org | Fundación Mapfre Listado de guías de... Via Javier Castro
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April 11, 10:05 AM
10 Estupendas Guías Didácticas sobre Innovación Educativa | eBook | @scoopit via @javierfsa http://sco.lt/56dKC1
This quick guide shows how you can save your PowerPoint slides as high resolution images. Via Baiba Svenca
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An useful tip to export your slides as high definition images. Your presentations will look great in any computer with any fonts on it.
Deirdre Bonnycastle's curator insight,
April 6, 6:47 PM
I use PowerPoint to create lots of images easily, for example concept maps, text on images, illustrations of steps etc.
Bob Connelly's curator insight,
April 9, 11:33 AM
While Keynote makes it easy to export slides as high resolution images, it is a great tip for Powerpoint users.
Riff es una nueva aplicación de Facebook para móviles. Con ella es posible crear vídeos entre amigos, planteando un contenido que los demás pueden ampliar con nuevas escenas propias.
Alfredo Corell's insight:
Se trata de Riff, una aplicación surgida del laboratorio de Facebook, de manos de un grupo de trabajadores que tenían la idea de crear vídeos colaborativos entre amigos. O lo que es lo mismo. Una aplicación para crear vídeos donde cada persona puede añadir una escena más. Sin duda, la posibilidad de añadir escenas de modo colaborativo hace de Riff una aplicación con muchas posibilidades en el escenario docente.
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Just 2 seconds: type your text and see your MIND MAP Awesome!!!!
Content curation is the process of collecting, organizing and displaying information relevant to a particular topic. Teacher content curation can be used by students and students can be asked to sh... Via ICTPHMS
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A summary of resources and websites to teach by the use of Content Curation
Iolanda Bueno de Camargo Cortelazzo's curator insight,
March 14, 10:41 AM
Again, some instructions very useful for those who are beginning in Curation for Education. Thanks.
Jocelyn Bassett's curator insight,
April 2, 10:50 PM
Digital curation includes the up-keeping, safeguarding and enhancing of digital data throughout its duration.
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." ― Mahatma Gandhi Via John Shank
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If you have worked in any educational environment from elementary school, higher education, or corporate training, then you have had students who consistently struggle with a topic, skill, or prerequisite knowledge that they must learn in order to be successful. Likewise, many of those same students struggle to motivate themselves to learn the material they are struggling with.
Julie Price's curator insight,
February 20, 10:41 PM
What a great quote. Pass it on to your kids when they set off to school!
This is your SUPER GUIDE for putting YouTube videos into PowerPoint! Follow the links below to find the tutorial for your version of PowerPoint...OR...slowly scroll down the page to learn some adva... Via Baiba Svenca
Alfredo Corell's insight:
Not only a very useful tips to incluye YouTube videos onto any version of Power Point... you will also find a troubleshooting guide to help you in the most commons problems
Kristie's curator insight,
March 8, 12:06 PM
Tips on how to embed a YouTube video into a PowerPoint presentation along with a trouble shooting guide.
Data is crucial. However, displaying a chunk of plain data can be monotonous. Infographics visualize plain data and make it visually more appealing. Data turned into infographic has a higher potential to go viral and be effective. While many of us are designers who can design amazing infographs, Infographic Generators can come in handy to Designers and non-designers alike. They can be a time saving resource. So here is a list of 17 fantastic Infographic Generators I compiled together:... Via Jeff Domansky
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Lee Hall's curator insight,
March 13, 4:46 PM
Get your ideas and data across in a very effective way.
Monica S Mcfeeters's curator insight,
March 20, 11:49 PM
Here are links for to help with creating info-graphs.
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March 23, 6:21 AM
Omdat ik heb zitten stoeien met Easel.ly en dat niet echte een fijne tool vind (heel beperkt en grafisch niet zo...), hoop ik dat hier een tool bij zit die me meer aanspreekt! Uitproberen dus...
El análisis de contenido en el Diseño Instruccional para eLearning se puede realizar mediante los mapas conceptuales o mentales. Via Vicente Montiel
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March 2, 7:18 AM
El análisis de contenido en el Diseño Instruccional para eLearning se puede realizar mediante los mapas conceptuales o mentales.
Barbara Monica Pérez Moo's curator insight,
March 3, 12:45 PM
Muy buen post, nuevamente Shift empodera a los diseñadores instruccionales. El mapa conceptual una herramienta clave para nosotros.
"PowToon is a free web app that lets you create presentations and animated videos. PowToon Edu is a free Chrome app extension that does the same on Chromebooks and Chrome browsers. There is also an education page. Via John Evans
Deborah Banker's curator insight,
February 28, 10:15 AM
I already use this. There is a hitch in having to republish it every semester for my students, then you lose some of the sync between voice and picture.
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February 28, 5:07 PM
Vegël interesante për krijimin e prezantimeve vetanake; vlenë të provohet.
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Very easy to use Follow your needs and find apps and examples of every single topic on mobile learning. A must!!!
Sway is a novel tool for building cloud based presentations. Sway offers a rapid design experience, focusing on the collation of images, text, and video, sourced from the web or your computer. It's a canvas for your ideas, quick to create, and easy to share. Sway is still in closed preview, but we were lucky enough to have been pulled out… Via Baiba Svenca
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A neo-punk is more efficient form of punk. Instead of wasting time caring about how they-selves dress, and the currant punk fads(emo), they worry about the issues they believe in. e.g. abuse of authority, conforming to standard, etc. While fashion has little to do with there attitude, neo-punks tend to dress in a disguising manner,(Suites & Slacks) as if to infiltrate the "Standard" and infect from the inside out. Typically enjoying all types of music,(except that which is no the radio)and tend to enjoy underground music the best, finding that it has the same social detachment as they. Mostly very smart, they see through plot to standardize and suppress the masses.
Amon Tobin, Beasie Boys, Soul Coughing, Xero Chi neo-punk
লিখেছেন- xero chi
2 de অগাস্ট de 2007
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A neo punk is a modern punk starting in the mid to late 90s and continuing into the 2000s and is still in full swing, neo meaning new and punk being punk its basicaly saying new-punk.
Modern punk varies a bit, but real modern punkers where studded leather jackets displaying bands they listen to what scene they are from, such as NYC or East Bay, also displaying political slogans and views, such as anti racism and very leftist or liberal beliefs. Mohawks and brightly colored hair is common among neo punks especially in the band "the casualties". Other neo-punk bands include Anit-Flag, The Unseen, Time Again, and Rancid(their newer stuff anyway).
লিখেছেন- Daniel Ray
7 de জুলাই de 2006
A new form of punk. The difference is the dressing.instead of the plaid and black of punks. you have usually jeans and a band t-shirt. The hate for subliminal messages, and conformity is till strong, while the hate for corporate rock still exists just on a lower level.The disrepect of authority is the same.
A lower level of punk.Often associated with skaters.Neo-punk was invented 4-12-05.
Punk:You think your a punk? You're not hard-core enough
Neo-punk:I'm a neo-punk.Toned down from punk you dumb-ass
Punk:You think your a punk? You're not hard-core enough
Neo-punk:I'm a neo-punk.Toned down from punk you dumb-ass
লিখেছেন- relientkgirl
8 de মে de 2005
a new style of punk with a marked difference in clothes. instead of mowhawks, chains, black clothes and mascara...neo punks generally wear some colour and their hair more resembles emo-punk or skater-punk styles. rather than tight black jeans and plaid...neo-punks are more associated with pinstripe or plain coloured pants. neo-punks tend to hold the same attitudes as punks in regards to their hate towards authority and conformists. neo-punks are also distinguised from punks in their music. they generally dont listen to old school punk ie. ramones and bad religion. rather they listen to some of the newer punk groups such as mxpx, nofx, fall out boy etc.
a neo-punk is a toned down punk. generally less outrageous in appearance.
a neo-punk is a toned down punk. generally less outrageous in appearance.
that guy doesnt wear black and make-up...but he still seems to hate the bloody conformists
লিখেছেন- littlejimmy
22 de মে de 2005
A toned down form of punk.A slightly preppy version of punk.More associated with pink and black rather than all black.Typical clothing is denim and converse's with a badn or balck t-shirt.Most girls belonging to this classification wear mascara and eyeliner.The dudes: mohawks and fauxhawks and chains.There tend to be more pinstripe than plaid.The most common shoe types they wear are Vans and Converse.Listen to popular-punk and emo.Most of the band's names they listen to start with "the"
typical bands: The Flags,The White Stripes,The Matches,The Transplants,Fall out Boy,Green Day,Weezer.
লিখেছেন- fall_out_girl
29 de মে de 2005
Neopunk is a genre of music, not a way of dressing or anything as shallow as that. It is used to describe a genre of music such as; Arctic Monkeys, Franz Ferdinand and bands such as that.
It has nothing to do with the way anyone dresses. -.-
It has nothing to do with the way anyone dresses. -.-
Arctic Monkeys are described as "neopunk"
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In Defense of Design Customization
Design customization has developed a bad reputation recently, with MySpace being the main target of criticism. However, just because some of MySpace's pages may be seizure-inducing, it doesn't mean that social media sites should abandon design customization. By giving users a moderate amount of control over page design without allowing them to disrupt the core interface, a site can provide a better overall user experience.
This issue is particularly important because more companies and individuals are spreading their online presence from their own domains onto social media sites. This migration makes the customization decisions by sites like Twitter and Facebook increasing important in shaping our online experience.
What Is Design Customization?
The focus of this article is on user-generated content and social media sites such as Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter, where users can customize a profile page that is viewed by others. On sites such as these, design customization is typically grouped into three primary levels: fill-in-the-blank customization, visual customization, and interface customization.
Level 1: Fill-in-the-blank customization
This approach is used by Facebook, LinkedIn, Digg, Yelp, Lunch, FourSquare, Flickr and Quora, and is the most popular, as well as the most limited, method of design customization. Users fill in a form with their personal information on one page, and that data is placed into specific areas on the users' profile pages.
Level 2: Visual customization
This method is used by Twitter, MeetUp, Evite and others. With visual customization, users can add images and colors to the background of their page, as well as customize the color palette of the interface. These design controls can impact the entire page or just a limited area, such as is the case with Twitter. Visual customization is almost always used in combination with fill-in-the-blank customization.
Level 3: Interface customization
Interface customization is the MySpace model, which allows design control over the interface or the content area of the page. It impacts the design of the page within the margins and allows for placement and layout changes, rich text editors for text blocks, the addition of new content, and—gulp—CSS control. It is almost always used in combination with fill-in-the-blank customization and visual customization.
The Drawbacks of Customization
We've all had the misfortune of having visited some eye-searing MySpace pages. However, the main culprit is not design customization in general, but interface customization specifically, because it allows the core interface of the page to be changed. This is problematic for many reasons, including:
- Inconsistency between profile pages. If the profile pages on a site are inconsistent with each other, users have to reorient themselves with each page they view. This increases their cognitive load, makes tasks more difficult and time-consuming, and reduces the feeling of intuitiveness on a site.
- Poor page design. Interface customization allows non-designers to make user interface decisions. This can result in poor prioritization, contrast, balance and text legibility, not to mention animated GIFs, poorly sized images that break a page's grid system, and other disasters.
- Increased development time and resources. Designing defaults, defining and building in limitations, as well as testing are very time-consuming. The more opportunities for customization, the more design and development resources are needed.
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Unlike interface customization, which allows users to control the design of many page elements, visual customization entails only giving users moderate design control, and doesn't allow them the freedom to make the design mistakes listed above. Visual customization also offers the following benefits:
- It gives the contributor a sense of ownership. I've often heard the expression: "Users love to customize their own page, but they hate it when others customize." In my experience at Lunch.com, users constantly push the limits of design customization. Facebook users have the same urge, as Mashable reported recently in a fascinating example of users being creative with their Facebook profiles.
With visual customization, the designed area is limited to the outskirts of the page. This allows the site to retain the integrity of the original design interface, as well as an overall consistency and cohesiveness across user profiles. As a result, visual customization has very little impact on usability, but gives the contributor a feeling of ownership. - It assists users in employing their visual judgment. When we use the Web, or make observations of any kind, we use rapid visual judgment to make decisions. On a website, these judgments are made based on visual cues related to design quality, appropriateness, spamminess, and so forth. Without visual customization, users are unable to make these judgments as efficiently and intuitively.
Social media sites can compensate by giving other cues to help users make decisions (the verified account badge on Twitter is one example). However, if users are unable to use this visual judgment because page designs are not differentiated, it will deprive them of their valuable ability to make an intuitive reaction, and could result in a reduced feeling of control. - It allows a consistent visual presentation across a user's online presence. This is true if your users are companies with an existing brand or if they're individuals who just want to exhibit their personality. Compare the Facebook and Twitter pages for the same person, company, or band. Twitter's interface is truly a blank canvas, and users can completely brand their page. On the other hand, attempts to brand a page on Facebook seem a bit forced, and the user's brand elements compete with Facebook's blue color palette. I'm not saying that either way is right or wrong, I'm just observing the contrast in styles.
Here are a couple examples that illustrate this contrast:- ESPN's Facebook page vs. its Twitter page
- Luke Wroblewski's Facebook page vs. his Twitter page
I don't claim to know what type of customization is ideal for Twitter, Facebook, or any other site. That decision depends entirely on a site's business needs and users' needs.
My main point is that, generally speaking, moderate design customization can be very beneficial to a user experience and it's unfortunate that the ghastly profiles on MySpace have swung people's opinion of design customization too far in a negative direction. However, breaking down the levels of customization reveals that only excessive customization is harmful. By allowing only moderate user design controls, a site can retain the usability of its core interface while providing an improved overall user experience.
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As for AOL, customization is surely not about usability but rather enhances the overall experience and gives a very nice bit of ownership and feel for the portal. In case of BBC, this "next level" thing is a kind of consensus, which I am not a true believer of. I personally think that in case of portals of such size the ratio of passive (or "read-only" :) ) users is so big that the customization features are not serving the masses but some piece of the long tail. And that is why I agree that there is too much interface elements, considering that these are only for a portion of the audience.
Another thing that came to my mind and partly related to Adam's comment:
I wonder when will the likes of flavours.me find its way to the big community sites like Facebook. What I mean in this case is that the service provides you certain tools to set up your profile, and this tools are very easy to use and results in very deep and unique customization. Something like "do big things with a hammer and nails" approach. As I see the new MySpace already did this move in its own way - too bad that the system fails for several other reasons. But it would be interesting to see as a trend in case of sites like Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, etc.
Great blog! The information you provide is quiet helpful, why I was not able to find it earlier. Anyways I've subscribed to your feeds, keep the good work up.
Personally I don't understand why Facebook doesn't allow the slightest changes to colors on the page. I think it could be done similarly to what Twitter does- changing background and general colors of elements doesn't destroy the whole feel of the site. All the elements and buttons are placed in its place and it's not difficult for the users to find their ways on the site. Of course it should have some borders because otherwise you could make the same mistake as Myspace did- allowing users to clutter and destroy their pages with loads of stuff
All in all- thank you for putting it together into this article, good work!
In response to Jordan and Csaba's comments, customization on sites like iGoogle, AOL and BBC can improve the user experience, if done effectively. It gives users the feeling of ownership and makes them feel more invested in the site, which encourages them to visit more frequently. However, excessive use of interface controls can add clutter and complication of the interface, which makes the information less scannable. And, like with social media sites, a huge expense of time and resources is required with any customization. So make sure there's a clear user need.
In 2009, the Neilsen Norman Group did some research on this topic. In general, they reported very little change in task success between customized and non-customized sites. Here's the report, if you want to shell out $64, http://www.nngroup.com/reports/customization/, or there's a free, summarized version: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/customization.html.
As for the sites you mentioned: An iGoogle page starts with virtually nothing, and is built by the user. There isn't a fully-formed default mode. In that context, letting the user position the elements seems to make a lot of sense and fits with that model.
On AOL.com, the customizations are so minimal that there really isn't an impact on usability, but I agree, Csaba, it is a nice touch. In this case, it was probably more of a branding decision than anything else.
BBC, obviously, takes it to the next level, and even allows users to customize the BBC mobile site and iPhone app! My first impression is that the customization elements are distracting, and makes the content on the page more difficult to scan. There are interface elements all over the page, and the hover state for each module, a thick border, is a bit heavy-handed.
Having an 'edit' mode for the page would be preferable, in my opinion. LinkedIn is a good example of this. The modal approach keeps the customization controls from overwhelming the interface, but still makes them clearly discoverable. The ability to hide the customization controls would also be a nice option. Another point about BBC: because all of the modules are interchangeable, they look the same, and there isn't the nice priority or flow that you'll find on nicely designed content sites.
Thanks for the comments, Jordan and Csaba! I'd love to hear more of your thoughts on these sites as well.
As for the wider web, and especially mass media, I think the current AOL.com customization (upper right corner -> "change canvas") is a nice best practice. It gives just a slight plus, but means a lot. I think this kind of little extra is even better than deeper content customization, as seen on bbc.co.uk - if these two can even be compared.
But as Jordan suggested above: some follow-up would be nice to see, there are many ways to go on with this train of thought (specific markets/users/types of service, etc.).
I know this article was focused on social networks, but I'd love to see a follow-up post on the value design customization outside of social media.
I have two questions:
1. Does design customization enhance a users experience for sites that don't allow other users to view the customized profile? (i.e. iGoogle, or the secure section of a bank website.)
2. Is design customization a better solution for content-rich sites than the typical filters & facets? (i.e. bbc.co.uk)
Would love to hear your thoughts.


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- Tracy@Beauty Reflections said...
Love them both!! Love the lipstick especially! As I'm getting older though, I'm favouring more of the good girl. :)
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@Tracy- I hear you on the "maturing" side of lipsticks, usually lighter and pink is better!
@Ally- yes, she usually is much more fun;)
@Megin-the sideways V is key to a sexy bad girl eye
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@silhouettescreams- I always say, once you've blended, blend some more! Thanks for the compliment!
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it may be not relevant to comment on this, but without socialistic approach we can not be humanistic for a particular country or the global spaces.
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it may be not relevant to comment on this, but without socialistic approach we can not be humanistic for a particular country or the global spaces.
Fun fact: we (italians) have Luigi Zingales, one of the 100 most influential global thinkers, who is ruling a new liberal party called "Fermare il Declino" (Stop the decline), a more serious alternative than Pdl, and few people know about it
Economist, everyone with a brain would like Mr. Mario Monti to stay on. Those with a functioning brain actually wish for him to stay on forever (and ever).
The Right to vote is, in the hands of the relative-majority of my beloved country fellows, like the Koran in the hands of Wahhabi mullahs. It's been (way too) long proved.
@MIOVAN DJILAS.You forget Rosy Bindi winner of the MISS ITALIA contest 2013.I am rather happy that you definitively show you true colors.Useless to say that unhappy about the absence of Stalin in our government,the spread will in case of Bersani ruling Italy skyrocket to 1000 within one week.I.As for Berlinguer,rest in peace in the hell.
Uhm, I see a slight difference between Stalin and Berlinguer.
Have you ever read the Black Book of Communism? Please list for me the Italians cited in the book...
Pietro Tresso :)
Pietro Tresso was beaten up by fascist squadristi after WWI. He joined the Communists, allied with Trotsky, and was later forced to flee both Russia and Italy - going to France to participate in the Resistance. He was assassinated by Stalinists during the war.
Hardly the biography of a great criminal and very little to do with Stalin.
Berlinguer appears nowhere in the Black Book. The only truly controversial Italian was Palmiro Togliatti (born in Genoa, btw) who became Vice-Secretary of the Comintern under Zhinoviev.
I remember passing the statue of Dzerzhinsky one day in Warsaw in '86. I remarked to a Polish friend: "What is this? No statues of Stalin anywhere in Poland, but Dzerzhinsky merits one?!"
He shrugged his shoulders. "Actually, a great Polish patriot. He killed more Russians than any other Pole in history."
On a slightly more serious note, I encourage you to read up on Enrico Berlinguer. Aside from being an honest leader - the first to raise the "Moral Question" in Italy against the abuses of power by the Christian Democrats (don't forget, our Left was forever excluded from power, while the Democristians were forever in power, just like the PZPR - As far an I am concerned, Berlusconi represents all the former elements of the "Italian PZPR".
Berlinguer was the only Italian politician the Americans ever actually respected. And not necessarily because he was opposed to the USA. Kissinger even made a special trip to attend his funeral in '84. Our current President of the Republic, Giorgio Napolitano, was leader of the pro-US faction of the party - which only becomes understandable if you accept that in the playground of the Vatican, "comunista" was a translation of the unpronounceable word "protestante".
In 1980 Berlinguer declared publicly that the "Soviet Revolution has exhausted its historical course" and no longer had any relevance to modern politics. The Italian Communists had also fiercely defended Dubcek and the Prague Spring.
The only time they had defended Soviet intervention was in Hungary in '56 - for which President Napolitano apologised publicly in Budapest six years ago (he was party secretary in Salerno at the time). To note that the Communist Party here in the ex-Hapsburg lands of Trieste and Gorizia publicly criticised the invasion and sided with the Hungarians (the local leaders were censored and sent into internal exile "to study the Southern Question" in Sicily.)
(Whatever leader of the PZPR ever had such a funeral? President Pertini was in tears over the loss of "...my son".)
Note also that most of the important Left leaders in Italy came from Piedmont, Liguria and Sardinia - the old Savoyard Italy that had united the country. Far from being "men of the people" they were usually children of the leading families of the Risorgimento, keenly aware of the failings and uncompleted nature of our Unification. They were patriots, in their own way. (Possible exception for Togliatti, the only true European Revolutionary of the bunch).
Enrico Berlinguer and Roberto Benigni:
I have put a smiley after the name. I have tried in my dumb way to stenghten your point, but you really seem now bitten in the lower part of your back by some nasty bug. I regret. And as to the core of your point, it is : Italians never do it 'for real'. I will then humbly agree ;/
As to Dzierżyński's monument - it was the first one to be torn down spontaneously after we've liberared ourselves from the dictature of the left.
I have no Polish diacriticals on my keyboard - thanks for the correct spelling!
Well, "bitten in the lower part" of my back? Perhaps. We are in electoral season now, for the first time in almost five years. I should be more ironic - but I cannot wait to get rid of Berlusconi's "anti-Communists" from the parliament. They have very nearly destroyed Italy and the Euro - as I predicted publicly they would (with much help from idiot leaders on the Left like Walter Veltroni and Massimo D'Alema) back in 2007.
Time to re-build the country - which cannot be done until new elections are held. Probably in March. In the meantime, Berlusconi's governments in Lombardy and Lazio, two of Italy's largest regions, have collapsed and those regions will head off to early elections in February. And Silvio's party is collapsing amidst its inability to decide who should lead.
As to Polish Communists - c'mon, you have to admit, Julian Marchlewski was not so bad. ;-) He at least had the impeccable taste to die in Genoa, Italy.
Within six months, Italy will have Bersani as Prime Minister (President of the Council), Vendola as Vice Prime Minister and Napolitano as President of the Republic.
Let's call it Berlinguer's Revenge.
If that will be true, Italy would also be on a solid foundation - on the rocks!
Only a nation of idiots is ready to entrust its future and its destiny to a party (the PD) which is the direct heir of the craziest and most deranged ideology which has ever infested the world we live in: the communism.
It shows you don't know what you're talking about. Mr. Bersani (the leader of the progressive party) has been the one who made, as a Minister, the most important deregulations and liberalizations in Italy, caring to help the poorest too (we have free hospitals, good public schools, good and low cost public Universities, etc.). Address the progressive party as 'communists' is the oldest of Mr. Berlusconi's tricks. Now, we've not time for this sh** anymore. We've got to deal with serious problems, you know.
Yestarday a good interview with Renzi on PORTA A PORTA.Renzi is a honest boy,very competent and enthusiasthic:the living proof that not all in this Country is lost..I only wonder why in the hell is member of a band of commies camoufled as democrats.Sunday he will have a big match with the obscure entity led by the nomenclatura,the communist bosses of whom Bersani is the emerging part of the iceberg.He will lose,obviously.I think that he has only a way out to be protagonist:SECESSION NOW,AND CREATE A NEW PARTY.
Bersani was a successful minister of economy? Never heard of it. He studied as a philosoph and about economy hasn't got the foggiest idea. He is a former Communist and his past as a Marxist bring discredit on him. A former communist is a person who followed an insane and crazy ideology and therefore has no idea of economy and free market and in the meantime he cannot be right in the head. On this grounds such a guy if once prime minister could only be up to no goods. Fancy the credibility such a fellow could give to the foreign markets or to the investors.Nothing! He can only be a failure as a PM and then Italy would draw to the end like Greece.
More power to yhe commies!
Something is sure.Italy is bound to go down the drain,specially if it is heading leftward.
I'n not sure that the result of primaries in Italy is a sign that the country is heading leftwards.
The liberal wing of PD not reached the 10% at the last congres, and now Renzi collect more that 30% of the person who define thenself "centro sinistra voters".
I dubt that Mr. Bersani can ignore that figure in the next choice of members of his team
Matteo Renzi is a newcomer probably(scarce probability)worthwile to be followed with some sympathy.The reason is simple:he is the true novelty emerging from a band that embodies all the defects of a dangerous communist party,a dynosaurus to be killed,definitively.As all the totalitarian organizations,the PD of Bersani occupies TV,Journals,culture(literary prizes and publishing houses,actors and regists),pretends to represent the Resistenza against the nazism(a fundamental part of our recent History),the struggle with mafia(they dealt with the big bosses during the years 90),holds inside thiefs and militant magistrates,(i would say intruders,in typical leninist style into the public institutions)hosts militants of the women's lib and girls holding the burqina during public manifestations,angry trade unionist and bankers(the PD is the defacto referent of the international finance in Italy),zionists and proarabs,traitors paid by foreign spy organizations and "patriots" singing the National Anthem everytime is possible,and sport champions,comedians continuously laughing and senators always showing an indignant face,industrialists and representants of the retirees,catholics close to the Vatican and stronly convinced atheists.Everything and his contrary.Will Renzi dismantle this monster and turn it into a socialdemocratic party?Well,Soviet Union was dismantled by a single man,Gorbachew.A little hope,indeed,a far example,unfortunately
The most shocking thing is that anyone with a liberal (or left leaning) agenda would even consider Bersani. Through his lifetime in politics he has seen the salaries and benefits of politicians go through the roof and any sort of social agenda fly right out the window. The beauty of the Renzi moment is that for the first in a long time Italians are able to choose their politician and if or when he fails, another great thing can happen, they can vote him out. This is democracy, and something I hope dearly is taken advantage of next week.
Actually, the turnout in Sunday's PD primaries was historically on the low side: 3 million something as against 4.3 in 2005 and 3.5 in 2007. Yet, unlike then, this time the choice was real, as it is made dramatically obvious by the now impending second turn. Mr Bersani's likely victory will result from his open alliance with Mr Vendola's extreme left, endorsed by just 16% of the votes cast in the first ballot and frontally opposed by more than one third of them. To this extent, it is true that these primaries herald a further shift towards the extreme left by the PD leadership, and hence presumably by Italy's government after next spring's general elections. This is indeed a consistent feature of recent Italian politics: any bid for power by the old-guard bureaucrats of PD is thought by them to require a coalition with such people just to get a majority. Yet, two things should be noticed.
First, any such coalition makes for intrinsically unstable governments, due to the loony impracticality of the extreme left economic agenda. Indeed, this is all sadly deja vue: it is precisely what caused Mr Prodi's demise, and it looks even more threatening now, given the current economic predicament of the country.
Secondly, however, there is now a new ingredient, produced by these very primaries. The bureaucratic blind alley still pursued by the old guard is now seen to have a potentially viable alternative within the rank and file of PD. Thanks to Mr Renzi's bid, the likes of Mr Ichino might now at long last find the means to produce within the foreseeable future a modern and non-suicidal Italian left wing, free of such relics as the rotten "common goods" rhetoric and capable to understand and manage a modern market economy. It is only to be hoped that the economic and political mess required to eventually reach such a result will not have to be too catastrophic.
Ferretti, I am a Vendola voter and supporter. He is not extreme Left - he is further to the centre than Rifondazione Comunista - which still exists to some fashion.
Many of us supporting Vendola are former PDS/DS members who detest the backroom deals made by party leaders with Berlusconi & Co. and detest the attachment of the so-called Democratic Party to its "poltrone" (plum positions) to the exclusion of any honest debate on the economy or values, etc.
Vendola would not have won - twice - in Apulia, one of the country's most conservative regions, if he was such an extremist.
And yes, I think the majority of Vendola's supporters will, like myself, support Bersani in the run-off. If it had been Veltroni or D'Alema, I might have supported Renzi, but Bersani does not strike me as having been a direct party to the under-the-table deals cut over the last 2 decades with Berlusconi.
Also, I know many Left citizens who told me they would have voted Vendola, but feared Renzi's demagoguery and would therefore vote for Bersani.
Milovan, I am a supporter of Vendola as well. Incidentally, I am also a social policy researcher working in Britain, and, like you, I am well aware of the fact that Vendola's electoral programme aims just at introducing in Italy the same kind of social policies that are normally adopted in Britain, France and Germany. His plan of fiscal reform is way less progressive than the current British tax rates, and his political views are less left-wing that your average Labourist politician. But there is really no point in debating facts with a bunch of ignorant patronizing yankees like those who are commenting here.
If you are a Vendola's voter you must be potentially a queer, a queen, a poof too. That is not your worst defect. Your worst defect at all is that you are a communist. That is indefensible. You are a supporter of the craziest, maddest, most deranged ideology which has ever infested and contaminated the world.
Neither a "queer", nor a "queen" nor a "Communist".
Which reminds me of an old story:
I have a good friend, gay, who was a journalist in Washington. Many years ago, he attended a reception with Queen Elizabeth II as part of the White House Press Corps. During the reception, he actually had a chance to meet and chat with Her Majesty, who asked him, "And what do you do?"
"I am a journalist" he responded. To which she politiely mentioned, "Ah, I have some friends who are journalists."
"What a coincidence!" my friend exclaimed, "I have some friends who are queens!"
Longman, get a life.
Your problem, Longman333, is that you are liable to be reported to the Police.
The former communist Bersani the leader of the Democratic Party (PD), is one of the most thumping asses ever heard of in Italian politics. He has said or done nothing worth a serious man taking the trouble of remembering.
Perhaps you should do some homework re. Bersani's political past. Energy-saving Laws emanated by Bersani when Minister for Development have led to a revival in the building industry over the past few years, as well as the installation of 13GW of photovoltaics (equivalent to approximately 10 of the nuclear power stations proposed by the last Berlusconi govt.) In democracy, one has to choose between the lesser of two (or more, especially in Italy!) evils. The last thing Italy needs is another politician promoted by Berlusconi, following a private visit to his "den" in Arcore (with or without bunga-bunga).
The last thing Italy needs is a former communist as a premier. We all know that eveywhere communists have ruled, they have got every country into a fine mess. Bersani the leader of the post-communists has studied as a philosoph and has a degree in philosophy. He talks about economy, taxes, work without having the foggiest idea what he is talking about. As a philosoph has spent and is spending a great deal of his time shovelling smoke. Economy is for him a book with seven seals...tabooo! We can't trust a person with a communist background. It would be fatal!
It's curious: in every profession in order to have success you have to face a lot of practical exams to have your preparation tested. In politics for some people preparation isn't thought necessary. Take the leader of the left in Italy Bersani (a former communist) for example: he is an ignorant person (except for the basic school knowledge, please don't refer to his philosophy's degree something which with the leading of a party or a government has no relevance at all), he has not even the experience in managing a petrol kiosk (his father perhaps!)fancy a country. That's amazing! Don't forget that the PD (Partito Democratico) is the spiritual heir of the old Commies in Italy. In order to become more presentable, after the fall of the Berlin's wall, they changed their old disreputable name (PCI) into PDS then DS and finally in PD. They had to performe such transformations in order to camouflage themselves. But the leopard cannot change his spots!
Thank you for your reply. It does seem to confirm my analysis.
Cordiali saluti.
What? I thought you were on another track! On the left track!
A philosophy degree is "something which with the leading of party or a government has no relevance at all" – longman333
I must point out, however, that ethics and logic are two core subjects within philosophy, and any government that lacks either is ultimately a dictatorship, and any community that lacks either is ultimately barbaric regardless of their refinement or expertise in *any* other domain.
Modern democratic governments are founded on philosophical principles (in contrast to religious doctrine) and the kernel of democratic participation is enlightened discourse, that is, reasoned argument and analysis. As such, even though modern politicians need not study philosophy, they *must* understand its principles and *must* adhere to its demands. The degree in which a politician fails to do so is the degree in which they have stepped outside of their role as public servants and have become dictators.
I couldn't agree more and many of Italy's problems stem precisely from the lack of "enlightened discourse", the "kernel of democratic participation". People here too often equate political allegiance with something like support for a football team which often makes enlightened discourse difficult. However, Italy as a whole should not be denigrated as it is perhaps the most hetergeneous country I have come across and, as one of my colleagues recently stated: In Italy, everything is difficult but nothing is impossible.
Philosophy: a route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing. Philosophy consists largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackass. Philosophy: unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black hat which isn't there. A philosopher is a man whose job is to tell us how to solve the problems of life which he himself has tried to avoid by becoming a philosopher. The most terrible and bloody dictatorships, regimes were created by philosophers: Engels, Marx, Nietsche, Sorel, Jesus Christ.
One could equally argue that the most ruthless and screaming terrors of mankind were created by science and engineering. But that doesn't make them disciplines to avoid, rather it makes the urgency of developing and practicing an understanding of what we are doing and why we are doing it that much more acute. To abandon the search for understanding because it is dangerous is to wish to become a beast lowing contentedly in the fields.
That philosophy does not give definitive answers to the questions that it poses itself is not, in itself, a problem. Rather it points to the limitations of our existence. That we cannot grasp Kant's Noumenon implies that we must have humility in our assessments, for they are always subject to error and revision. And this is what science tells us as well. That as we advance in our understanding, that the old ways of perceiving the world must sometimes be cast off and other times qualified with conditionalities. And what would science be without process, and who explored and developed those processes of science but philosophers? Plato, Galileo and Descartes.
You add Jesus Christ to the list of philosophers, and that has some merit. But ultimately, just like Socrates had his Plato, Jesus had his Paul, and what has endured is the writings of the systematizer not the words of the master who led his disciples by example. The great systems of philosophy expand the implications of the core ideas, and through that process do we gain an understanding of what the core ideas really mean.
That is why logic is a core discipline of philosophy, for it is only through that discipline can the true implications of an idea be understood. Ethical implications are the most acute, and both the American Revolution and the American Civil War were fought because expressing and putting into practice the implications of ethical imperatives could not be denied. Marx did the same, and the philosopher, historian and sociologist became a revolutionary. History is full of ideological revolutions and whether they were ultimately driven by changes in the means of production is not so important as the fact that we *have* progressed, and that our understanding and our ways of thinking have advanced along with it.
If you want unquestionable, immutable truths, you choose religion. If you want a process that allows a gradual, often involuted, willful expanding of horizons, you choose philosophy.
All philosophies, if you drive them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
No. Which is different than saying that the universe has intrinsic value that is absolute, unchanging and knowable. Imposed meaning and value can still create a potent, knowable world in which choices have personal and social significance. And that means that such a world is definitely not nonsense.
But rejecting partial knowledge as worthless, *is* nonsense because every action taken within this world belies it.
A philosopher is a person who can make ignorance sound profound.
There is nothing so strange, so ridiculous and so ubelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.
Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiring the process, ignorance the end.
There is nothing more hilarious than an American interpreting European politics and history with his national mental equipment made up of only two concepts.
You are an American, aren't you? Only Americans can make fools of themselves to such a degree when they try to comment European history and politics.
Granted that philosophers can make a limited understanding sound more embracive than, in retrospect, it is proven to be. But that is simply the nature of the human mind. Kuhn has shown that scientific advances too are subject to disjoint progress because rather than a smooth progress in understanding, science leaps to a new paradigm that radically changes the way we look at the world.
In one paradigm there is general agreement among scientists and they work within that paradigm despite the anomalies. Then suddenly somebody comes up with a theory that embraces the old givens and also embraces the anomalies, and at that moment a new way of seeing the world is born.
What we call knowledge is ultimately theory. It is the best fit for the data that we have. It is an abstraction and thus an induction that goes beyond the data in an attempt to bring order and coherence to the world. Deductions from that theory are predictions about what should happen were that theory to be true, and correct prediction of as yet untested events, along with methodical data collection, is the core of scientific advance.
Philosophical theorizing about, say, the nature of civil rights or the nature of property and ownership is a lot more difficult because we aren't measuring what the world *is*, we are postulating what the world *should be*. We start from an understanding of these notions in society and abstract into a system that is both satisfying and coherent. The understanding of these notions, however, is not a measure of what the average person thinks about them because we don't want the lowest common denominator or a statistical distribution so we can pick the mean, that would be psychology or sociology, rather we want a theory about the *best* understanding of these notions that we have. And that involves assessing what people who have done a lot of analysis and thinking on the topic believe. The theory that is the result becomes a *goal*. So while we can measure the closeness of our current situation to that goal we cannot measure whether that goal itself is correct.
What we do instead is assess the coherence and acceptability of that theory by deducing implications and assessing whether the implications make sense. In that way it is like an understanding of the nature of algebraic rings or fields which are based on a set of postulates except that we want acceptability along with coherence, and, most importantly, that we are going to *impose* that system onto the world. Laws will be written that will express those concepts, and the objective is exactly to change the world. The American Constitution is the sort of thing that results.
Yet those ideas ultimately reflect the best understanding *at the time*. The underlying concepts of the American Constitution were profound when it was written and they have had an enormous impact on our world. But a lot of things have changed since the Enlightenment. People now delight in pointing out the flaws and limitations of the Constitution, but a new paradigm has yet to be born because we have not yet come to a general agreement on a competing theory that doesn't *itself* have significant failings, the vociferous claims of the adherents of these views, notwithstanding.
People have tried many different theories to overthrow the dominance of Enlightenment thinking, Marxist concepts being one of them. And while many people claim that ignorance rather than profundity characterizes Enlightenment notions and that they must be left behind, they have nevertheless served us well.
Italy is at the heart of the corruption in europe, and seriously berlusconi should stick to football!
Time to stick to the graveyard.
That would indeed be a shame. Italy is incapable of electing anyone to run the country properly, it needs Monti as long as possible.
Dear Omicron, Italy needs more democracy, more rule of law, more liberalism, not more technocracy...
of course that's true, but the institution that underpin those fine ideals need to be irrefutably independent and have teeth.
yes, but the liability of the institution cannot grow without democratic control and functioning
It has more democracy, more rule or law and more liberalism than at any point under Berlesconi's reign of incompetence.
Until Italian democracy is fixed then a technocracy is exactly what they need.
Bravo Giusi!
We especially do not need more technocrats who technocratically apply more taxes but refuse to cut the Golden Pensions - theirs.
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