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English translations of articles
by Giancarlo Livraghi
(Some were originally written in English)

 



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Ten other articles (1996-2001)
are in the Knots in the Net series

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There are eigthy issues
of Netmarketing (1997-2007)


  1. The power of stupidity (1) – June 1996
  2. The power of stupidity (2) – September 1997
  3. Backward Italy... but good opportunities – February 1998
  4. The waning hype and the missed bus – March 1998
  5. A Train to Mars – April 1998
  6. Here come the "newbies". Are we helping them? – May 1998
  7. Aladdin, Ulysses and Polyphemus – June 1998
  8. Nannies, bibs and gags – July 1998
  9. Sheep, SMEs and Tyrannosaurus Rex – September 1998
  10. Homer’s daughter and market freedom – October 1998
  11. Business-to-business the “invisible” giant – November 1998
  12. Beware of geeks bearing incentives – December 1998
  13. The eternal dilemma: price and quality – January-February 1999
  14. Machines aren’t “bad” but they are very stupid – March 1999
  15. High tech, high touch – April 1999
  16. Festina lente (said Aldus Manutius) – May 1999
  17. Is the internet forever? (technologies come and go, humanity lasts) – June 1999
  18. Squeezed bread and toasted lemon – July 1999
  19. We can forget “segmentation” – August 1999
  20. Will Italy wake up? – September 1999
  21. The cultivation of the internet – October 1999
  22. The “old” roots of the network economy – November 1999
  23. Dancing bulls and fat cows – December 1999
  24. Is hasty really fast? – January 2000
  25. Do androids dream of electric money? – February 2000
  26. Being “mean” isn’t always the key to success – March 2000
  27. The domain hustle – April 2000
  28. B2B B2C C2C C2B – May 2000
  29. Cinderella needs to grow up – June 2000
  30. Why do we need the internet?– July-August 2000
  31. This isn’t a war of “new” against “old”– September 2000
  32. What do numbers really mean?– October 2000
  33. Mailboxes, privacy and data protection– November 2000
  34. The doom of the farrier – December 2000
  35. Was it “the year of the internet”? – January 2001
  36. The millennium and the bubble – February 2001
  37. Sailing in the fog – March 2001
  38. Saint Isidore and infallibility – April 2001
  39. Bad legislation (again) – May 2001
  40. Not just another hoax – June 2001
  41. Which internet? – July-August 2001
  42. Cultural divide (not “digital”) – September 2001
  43. Learning from the “laws”: Murphy, Parkinson, Peter and Cipolla – October 2001
  44. Development means freedom – November 2001
  45. In memory of Peret Blake – December 2001
  46. E-mail woes – December 2001
  47. The broadband disease – January 2002
  48. Predictions for 2002 – February 2002
  49. Schizophrenia and opportunities – March 2002
  50. Interactivity – what is it? – April 2002
  51. The stupidity of power – April 2002
  52. The “free or pay” nonsense – May 2002
  53. This is a good time for business online – June 2002
  54. Three friends of stupidity – November 2002
  55. The pitfalls of fashion – July-August 2002
  56. Brand decay – September 2002
  57. Domain carpetbaggers – October 2002
  58. The architect and the gardener – November 2002
  59. Health and diseases of the internet – December 2002
  60. Less and better – January 2003
  61. Less is better – March 2003
  62. Hydrogen and the internet – April 2003
  63. Spam and scam – June 2003
  64. The vicious circle of stupidity – October 2003
  65. The powerpoint disease – March 2004
  66. The stupidity of technologies – May 2004
  67. The Archimedes computer – August 2004
  68. The art of simplicity – November 2004
  69. Simple thoughts on complexity – November 2004
  70. The power of obscurantism – February 2005
  71. Stupidity and superstition – July 2006
  72. Is stupidity growing? – August 2006
  73. The scorpion and the frog – March 2007
  74. Applying Asimov’s laws – April 2007
  75. Stupidity isn’t harmless – August 2007
  76. The power of stupidity (book in English) – May 2009
  77. Introduction to “the power of stupidity” – May 2009
  78. The Moore legend – May 2009
  79. Ikea’s ugly font – September 2009
  80. Which Italy? – October 2009
  81. El poder de la estupidez (book in Spanish) – May 2010
  82. Is there a definition of stupidity? – October 2010
  83. “Tittytainment” – December 2010
  84. Plop (how good ideas get lost) – May 2011
  85. Of mice and men – December 2011
  86. Dinosaurs aren’t extinct – June 2012
  87. Hidden heaven and growing hell – August 2012
  88. Unexplored size of growing poverty – August 2012
  89. Ingormation – September 2012
  90. Lights in the night – October 2012
  91. The stupid pitfalls of rudeness – December 2012
  92. The Alice-in-Wonderland syndrome – December 2012
  93. 2012 the best year in human history? – December 2012
  94. Human feelings and the “crisis” – January 2013
  95. Fake quotes, misquotes, misleading attributions – February 2013
  
   

Some analyses on the development
of the internet are in the Data section
(but more often updated in Italian)


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