AssignmentZero: tons of interviews on crowdsourcing and wisdom of crowds, by an experiment on open-source journalismJames Surowiecki is featured, too.
The movement formalized in the two recent Open Coffee Club Athens meetings rapidly evolved into a more concrete scheme, aiming at giving shape and voice in the latent community of greek start-ups. The open collaborative blog just launched under a declarative text which I was privileged to contribute. A translation is provided hereafter. The new …
To blog or not to blog: Dialogue on an academic’s dilemma
I was lucky enough to touch and feel the ultimate gadget a couple of days ago in Miami Apple Store. However, yesterday Plaisio Computers unexpectedly announced that today iPhone will be available for all greek fans to take a closer look. Even if Apple has given no chance to European customers to get a fully …
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Athens 2004 Legacy & Olympic Games Impact, the presentationI contributed the Olympic Games Impact part. Athens is the first city to implement an OGI study, under the specifications and surveillance of IOC. The full study, covering more than 100 indexes, is executed by the Sector of Industrial Management and Operational Research, School of Mechanical Engineering, …
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olympic.org: Athens Olympic Legacy & Olympic Games ImpactThe official IOC website covers the greek presentation in Guatemala, a few hours ago. The whole greek delegation contributed in the press conference that followed.
The second act of the Open Coffee Club Athens is to be hosted on Tuesday, July 10th, in ‘be twins’ cafe, The Mall Athens. Please note your presence on upcoming.org. The open coffee agenda of the event is available here (in greek), while, if you want to add your own topic, just send me your …
Russia awarded 2014 Winter Games | Reuters
I’m attending the 119th IOC session, which is today to select the city to host the Winter Games of 2014. The hall in Westin Camino Real hotel in Guatemala City is filled up with about 350 attendees, among them all of the IOC members. Sochi, Russia was the first city to present its bid. The …
Disclaimer: This is just my feeling, while attending the session, watching the presentations from all delegations and tracking the attendees’ responses.