Qui i propositi relativi a questo blog:

1. aggiornare wordpress e il template
2. arrivare a quota 1000 post
3. modficare ed ottimizzare i post più letti
4. abbassare il Bounce Rate almeno al 70%
5. inserire analitycs su tutte le pagine
6. aumentare i guadagni tramite adsense o programmi di affiliazione (>=1$ al giorno)
7. aumentare il numero di visite (>=30k al mese)

Ci vediamo tra un anno per capire quali obiettivi ho raggiunto.

L’edizione del 2006 è stata un grandissimo ed inaspettato successo: tantissimi visitatori, tantissimi voti, tantissime fotografie e tantissimi blog che hanno parlato dell’iniziativa. Per chi si è perso la precedente iniziativa il sistema funziona così: tramite le api di flickr vengono selezionate le foto più interessanti (quelle più viste, quelle più commentate e quelle maggiormente impostate come favorite). Voi potete votare queste fotografie (la pagina che permette di votare ne sceglie una a caso tra l’elenco completo).

Con il 2007 ho voluto far ripartire questa iniziativa mantenendone lo spirito collaborativo e la semplicità d’uso. Sono molto felice quindi di invitarvi a partecipare e a linkare dai vostri blog la nuova versione del “Top 2007 photos from Flickr” (ho aggiunto alcune funzionalità che spero siano chiare, ma se avete bisogno di chiarimenti scrivete pure qui nei commenti).

Qui sotto un assaggio delle foto giudicate per ora come migliori (ma il numero dei voti è ancora molto basso, quindi votate e rivotate).

Una tabella in cui ho messo a confronto le percentuali di navigatori del mio blog per risoluzione del monitor. In una colonna i dati di quest’ultimo anno (da settembre ‘06 da settembre ‘07), nell’altra i dati dell’anno precedente (da settembre ‘05 a settembre ‘06).

In un anno i monitor degli utenti non sono cambiati in maniera sensibile (probabilmente il monitor è uno dei componenti hardware meno aggiornati). Le risoluzioni che la fanno da padrone sono ancora la 1024×768 e la 1280×1024, che però stanno lentamente lasciando il passo a risoluzioni maggiori.

Due note interessanti: gli schermi wide si stanno diffondendo (con incrementi abbastanza considerevoli) e la risoluzione 800×600 continua a scendere (il mio blog affronta tematiche tecniche, quindi mi aspetto che le risoluzioni dei monitor siano più alte della media degli altri siti). Ha senso nel 2007/2008 sviluppare pagine web che si vedano bene (ovvero senza scorrimento orizzontale) anche su 800×600? Pensate che siano meglio i layout liquidi (con la diffusione dei monitor WIDE i layout al 100% vanno sottoposti a controlli molto accurati? ne avete il tempo?)

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Jepssenstore is an italian online store where two of my colleagues bought two dvd players with usb port and card reader.
Products was: JEPSSEN DVD/DIVX PLAYER JX-6 HD.
Expedition packaging was damaged and the dvd players seems not to be new. Both of dvd players from Jepssenstore has serious problems with reading dvd, opening the tray or reading the usb source.

Jepssenstore (Jepssen Store of Glotech di Angelo Rocca AGIRA (EN)), please don’t fuck your customers!
Stay tuned for what will happen (my colleagues sent back the goods yesterday).

To review or not to review? This is not the real question. The question is: “is moral to get paid for writing a review for an advertiser?” I think the only good answer is YES, but only if they are free to express their opinion and if the “sponsored” nature of post has been declared. If you accept to host google adsense banners, why not hosting some paid reviews?

This post is paid by the new “reviewme“, a new pay4post system that gives you 25 to 2500$ for a single review. My blog has a 60$ Price (the Payout is 30$, so only 50% of the advertisers price and this is the only thing I think that sucks).

How does the system work? Here’s the answer from the site faq:

How do I get review offers? How can I review more stuff?
In the ReviewMe system, advertisers choose which blogs review them. So basically, sit back, and let the review offers come to you.

p.s.
When you are accepted as a blogger by ReviewMe, your first review offer will come from ReviewMe itself. We will keep ordering reviews from new bloggers until we have paid out $25,000!

This is my page for Advertisers. So, let’s ask for a review!!

I’m thinking of upgrading my MacBook from 512Mb ram to 1Gb or 2Gb. Do you have any advice for me? Should I buy 1Gb module to get to 1Gb/256Mb or is it better to have same ram size for both slots (512+512Mb or 1024+1024Mb)?

from developer.mac:

Because the memory in the two slots is configured as a contiguous array of memory, both SO-DIMMs must be the same size and type for the interleaving function to be used to improve performance.

Have you got some benchmarch that can help me to choose between these configurations?

Disassembly you mac:
Removing Ram or HD in MacBook is quite simple (see all info here).

Prices:
ram prices are very differents: 1Gb at $119.98, at 198$, at 235€

What to choose? Help meeee!

Under every post now there is a stars voting system (wp-postratings PLUGIN LINK).

Just deleted them. Nobody used the voting system.

1 x Cavatelli Pasta Secca Artigianale = 1,82 Euro
1 x Foglie d’ulivo = 2,22 Euro
1 x Trofie Pasta Secca Artigianale = 1,82 Euro
2 x Taralli Mediterranei = 3,08 Euro
1 x Cipolline Selvatiche = 2,86 Euro
2 x Cipolline Grigliate = 4,18 Euro
2 x Taralli alla Pizza = 3,08 Euro

Sub-Totale: 19,06 Euro

Some photos

the pack

I’m in Edinburgh to attend the 5th international interaction design summer school

The Annual Summer School for graduate students of many disciplines and young professional designers has been run for the past five years in locations throughout Western and Eastern Europe. In 2006 it will be it Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland, coinciding with the two first weeks of the Edinburgh Festival. The Summer School brings together (approx.) 50 talented young people from many countries and disciplines for ten days to deepen their understanding of user-centred design of interactive systems for everyday life ‘convivial’ technologies in the sense both of Dante and Illich. The School consists of morning lectures and afternoon `ateliers´, i.e. workshops where teams of students work on themes proposed by and discussed with the atelier leaders. Given the success of the ateliers in past years we would like to try this year to gain value from the work done by students beyond their own learning. What do the students gain? To work with professionals on a topic they find really interesting and possibly contacts for an eventual job. A combination of blue-sky research and contact with the real world of research, development or design.

I’m in the BANDWAGON atelier.

We’ll also make a public presentation of our works: let’s join us at the Fringe Festival!!