Luca Guidi

via [TechCrunch]

On October 15th - Blog Action Day, bloggers around the web will unite to put a single important issue on everyone's mind.

In its inaugural year, Blog Action Day will be co-ordinating bloggers to tackle the issue of the environment.

What Each Blogger Will Do

Bloggers can participate on Blog Action Day in one of two ways:

1. Publish a post on their blog which relates to an issue of their own choice pertaining to the environment.
   
   For example: A blog about money might write about how to save around the home by using environmentally friendly ideas. Similarly a blog about politics might examine what weight environmental policy holds in the political arena.
   
   Posts do not need to have any specific agenda, they simply need to relate to the larger issue in whatever way suits the blogger and readership. Our aim is not to promote one particular viewpoint, only to push the issue to the table for discussion.
   
   
2. Commit to donating their day’s advertising earnings to an environmental charity of their choice. There is a list of "official" Blog Action Day charities on the site, however bloggers are also free to choose an alternate environmental charity to donate to if they wish.

And that’s it.

If they choose bloggers can also promote the initiative itself. However they are also free to simply post on topic on the right day or discreetly donate to a charity without publicizing Blog Action Day.

37signals officially launced Highrise.

It's a new organization service, to share contacts and tasks with your team or your friends. It allows to to track people, phone calls, events, and also supports mail tasks.

I've just signed up.

Twittervision is a simple mashup of Twitter and Google Maps. It allows to geolocate twitters entries.

To change your location you must send an update, using L: operator, followed your location. I.e.: L:Florence, Italy.
You can also "tag" your location: home, work, school, club..

It's very cool, and causes an high addiction.

Oooops, just a couple of days ago, something seems to gone wrong on Twitter.. But what nice error page..

Look at our vice-premier and its perfect english..

Who doesn't know Twitter?
Uhm, if you don't know it, please stop to read ..or subscribe it!!
Twitter is a nice service to worldwide spread what you are current doing. You can follow you friends to receive their updates via web / im / sms.
Well, Defamer.com has subscribed a twitter account and tonight their reporter David Caruso will be at the Academy Awards. He will send updates on twitter and you can stay tuned following that account. Nice?!

Second Life's getting quickly real, it's seems that a virtual drug can improve your avatar performances.

According to Reuters Second Life Media Center:
While your avatar is staggering and lurching under an animation replicating the outer effects of necking a handful of foul pills that some nerve-damage case mixed up in a bathtub and probably cut with talcum powder and rat poison, motion graphics and audio launch to commence a hypnotic induction. The inductive system is intended to, from what I can gather, get you good and dopey, disoriented, and wondering why the walls are melting and the floor is made of meat.

The whole experience apparently takes half an hour. That, sadly, was half an hour I didn���t have this week. So go down to Seclimine Drug Shack and get good and messed up for me.

There is also a sequence about drug experience.

via [Boing Boing]

The above image is © 2005-2007 by yesbutnobutyes.com

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