Saturday’s blogging

Again fron my iPhone (I love to test these gadgets). Today I’m at home relaxed and reading my Twitter messages and Tim O’Reilly is retweeting a statement; “to me, Twitter could evolve to be a plattform more than a messaging service” (http://tinturl.com/5m6kwo). This made me feel enthusiastic. Also because I’m listening to the last record of Brad Mehldau’s trío, live.
I went on reading more tweets and Peter Bihr from Berlin told about being quoted by the NY Times. I read the article and I found about Likemind and subscribed to the site.
Likemind is a sort of global network (even if some of their members hate this term) of Internet caffees where peers meet every third monday of the month to talk with no other specific purpose and no agenda. I’ve found it very interesting.
Because Peter Bihr raised my curiosity I went to visit his blog: thewaivingcat.com.
Here Peter talks in his last post about his stressing week. He tells us about Barcamp, Girl Geek Dinner, Web 2.0 Expo, and Berlinblase. How lucky they’ve been having Tim O’reilly in Berlin.
And now I found it was worth to share it here with my iPhone.
I hope you’ve found it worth too.

My first post the iPhone

Networking is becoming easier with the mobile phone. I’m trying to use an iPhone to write this post. The touchscreen as keypad is not so easy to use as a normal keyboard. Technologies are evolving very fast and communications are making possible to link information between distant worlds. The feeling that networkers get when using social media is that knowledge is key in communication. Personal differences disappear because cogntive links and conceptual frameworks concentrate their efforts in buildimg new knowledge. The mes learning paradigm.

Green cities and black styles

Immagine you live in a city where people can move easely with public transport that is cheap, convenient and efficient. At the same time, someone in the city thinks of openineg a new public service consistingn in sharing bycicles with citizens, for a minimal and testimonial amount of money. Joungster and in general most cictizens got crazy abou this idea, and they start to register to this service and to share bycicles. User conditions are easy and fair: no one can use the bycicle for longer than 30 minutes, because it’s thought to be used as a transport means not for rambling.

In one year the service has become so succesful that almost 100.000 people are using it and they’re sharing 6.000 bycicles in the city, available at 250 stattions spread over the city.

Where is the problem than? It is that among these 100.000 citizens not everyone understand that this is a public service where the responsible behaviour of each user means a guarantee for the efficience and quality of rhis service.

The problem is also that the organization that manages this service is completely unefficient. There exist some routes that are used every morning by thousands of users to move to their office (from the high part of the city to the city-center) that keep some stations without bycicles early in the morning, while stations at the city-center are full and users cannot deposit them.

All this happens in my city, Barcelona, but Mediterranean mood and lots of tolerance still make this service useful and highly used by citizens. This makes the city greener even if many people use this “black” and “dirty” style of behaving.