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Della crisi, del governo tecnico e del fallimento della politica

E’ morto il Re, evviva il Re!

Siamo tutti concordi nel riconoscere che il nostro martoriato Paese ha bisogno di un governo tecnico che rimetta a posto il disastro, figlio della crisi internazionale e di anni di malgoverno bipartisan.

Ciò detto, l’entusiasmo con cui molti politici salutano l’avvento del professor Monti e degli esperti che il professore sceglierà come ministri, a mio avviso suggerisce alcune dolorose considerazioni. Oggi, infatti dobbiamo fare i conti ancora una volta con:

  1. il fallimento della politica, che riconosce la propria incapacità di gestire la cosa pubblica accogliendo a braccia aperte i veri competenti;
  2. l’ipocrisia della politica, che accoglie a braccia aperte un governo tecnico perché sa che, non dovendo dare conto a nessun elettorato capriccioso e irresponsabile, avrà finalmente il coraggio di dare agli italiani le legnate che meritano. Un deus ex machina che interviene alla fine dei giochi, si spera risolvendo i problemi e contemporaneamente togliendo alla nostra classe dirigente le castagne dal fuoco;
  3. il fallimento, in ultima analisi, del sistema democratico, dovuto alla manifesta incapacità e alla costosa inutilità dei rappresentanti del popolo che poi il popolo neanche elegge direttamente, in quanto scelti dai partiti resi onnipotenti da una scellerata (e furba) legge elettorale.

Viene da chiedersi, a costo di essere tacciati di qualunquismo da qualche professionista della politica e della retorica, a che diavolo serva la “casta” se non rappresenta più nessuno, porta solo costi vivi, non è all’altezza dei compiti cui viene chiamata e, quando la situazione precipita, finisce sempre tristemente col necessitare di una “supplenza”.

Use the platforms but don’t let them have the keys to your community center.

Every social media program needs a community center or hub. This is the place where public feeds move to private conversations, connections become relationships, and your company holds the access keys. Your hub may have several connection points such as the corporate blog, website, email access, and call center. How people get to it doesn’t matter as long at the access is integrated and your team is working together. Effective social media strategies guide people to the hub from the different platforms. Changes to social media sites have little effect on the big picture when the paths are properly configured. Platforms will come and go over time. Terms of service and features will change. Companies that allow others to hold the keys to their community center will always struggle to adapt to the changing environment. Companies that hold their keys control their own destiny. Who holds the keys to your community center?

Who Holds the Keys to Your Company’s Community Center? | Social Media Today

When Apple announced his resignation in August, the canonization began. Barrels of ink recounted all of the carrot and none of the stick. With the announcement of his death, coverage and conversations continue along those lines. That’s to be expected, and like Kubrick, is set to become conventional wisdom.

Steve Jobs was a good man who loved and was loved, and earned every accolade he’s garnered. But he doesn’t deserve a hagiography, and I doubt he would have wanted one. Apple wasn’t built by a saint. It was built by an iron-fisted visionary.

There are a lot of geniuses in the world, and a lot of aesthetes. But that’s not enough. Sometimes it takes Bad Steve to bring products to market. Real artists ship.

In Praise of Bad Steve - D.B. Grady - Technology - The Atlantic
What about the timeline features, is this something people will use. My initial thoughts are it’s a cool feature but in some aspects I find it kind of creepy. Do you want Facebook to become your de-facto digital scrapbook. Do you want to subject this on your children? Is there a new rite of passage and at age 13 are we all supposed to login to Facebook and recount the last 13 years of our life? As a marketer I’m fascinated, as a person I’m a little dismayed.
» Has Facebook Finally Jumped the Shark? » Defining New Media
As the line between social media and privacy continues to erode, I often think about these words by Gabriel García Márquez, “Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life.” Sometimes in social media, we intentionally or often, unintentionally, blur the lines between who we are (outward facing), who we are (introspectively), and who we want to be.
A recent example of such a mistake is when former U.S. Representative Anthony Weiner accidentally published a direct message as a live Tweet. Suddenly, his public, private and secret lives were one and unfortunately (or fortunately) his once separated worlds were introduced to one another with devastating effect. With reference to Dr. Egon Spengler from Ghostbusters, we must be careful not to cross the streams.
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