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As stated before, I visited New York with some friends (Matteo, Stefano and Vieri).

I didnt blog during those days because I had no laptop with me thanks our beloved DHS and, actually, it had be almost impossible since we had no free time at all. Just as a straight regular tourist, we were out from the morning to evening and, after an hour of rest at home, again out for dinner and drinking/dancing. :)

I found New York amazing. Totally. A huge city (even if Tokyo is way bigger, I think), with a lot of things to do, visit, enjoy. And, I should be honest here, New York has style.

I'm the last person who can suggest anything about New York, so I'm just going to tell some things we did and just a couple of places that, maybe, are not so famous.

Since my english sucks if you find reading the post so damn terrible (as it sounds), just look for the pictures: New York and Having fun in NY.

If you really can go trough the whole post...after the jump!

Jeff Jarvis tries to answer to some of the most used "yes-but" sentences about the Internet.

Especially:

• There's junk on the internet
• Most people watch junk
• Anyone can say anything on the internet
• There are inaccuracies on the internet
• Wikipedia has mistakes
• We need a seal of approval for internet content
• Bloggers aren’t journalists
• People are rude on the internet
• The internet has no ethics 

I think he could just answer "42".

A cool service for flickr: search images by color with MulticolR Search Lab.

Give it a try looking for some orangesque pictures.

 

As promised, I did it: I visited for the first time New York and I did the Hiro-sque "Yatta". :)

Stay tuned for the next updates about the city, the crazy night(s) we had and the pictures (coming soon on flickr).

[ This is a long post, started on September 30rd and get done on October 9th, after spending some days in New York]

Richard Stallman tells us about his thoughts about cloud computing (wikipedia) and, as usual, he did it in his own very way:

"It's stupidity. It's worse than stupidity: it's a marketing hype campaign"

"One reason you should not use web applications to do your computing is that you lose control, It's just as bad as using a proprietary program. Do your own computing on your own computer with your copy of a freedom-respecting program. If you use a proprietary program or somebody else's web server, you're defenceless. You're putty in the hands of whoever developed that software."

He's not the only having serious doubts about putting everything belongs to us in the cloud. Larry Ellison, the founder of Oracle:

"The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion. Maybe I'm an idiot, but I have no idea what anyone is talking about. What is it? It's complete gibberish. It's insane. When is this idiocy going to stop?"

My thoughts after the jump.