What my last post meant (to me : ) is simply that now days we have reached a momentum when the most advanced communication tool available match to be the most popular as well.
Internet allowed me to publish and share my thought at once, ready to be read, mocked, criticized, but still listen.

Beppe Grillo who's suppose to be just an italian Comedian and has been since ages banned from any TV show especially if live: He's the foremost example of what this media can accomplished, Beppe speak every single day through his Blog to an audience of millions that chose to read, comment and then lively research on their own the sources of what has been debated.
When the status quo wanted him turn down to MUTE. But here he's speaking in many languages every days~!

This is democracy, to its greatest level and it's easy and free. The big point now, the huge difference between yesterday and todays it's that all this is stream~live and if the boundless speed let us cope whatever distance separate the users from the fact or just from the narrator, there is something even more important that make the gap with the past deeper, and it's intrinsic of the very nature of this media...

That is the Two~ways (CHOICE) against just One~way (DICTATION)

If the TV of my childhood taught me what was cool (MTV uber allen) or what was wrong (or apparently so), I would sit in front of the screen like millions and millions more, growing up listening from this side what was happening around me, giving the impression of good information or entertainment.

But was given to me, what was put around me, all around me was a circle, a circle of option scarcely wide enough to let me breath, because what we had was One~Way stream with no possibly way to interchange the process. No hope to stand into a different side, no hope to believe in something else or rather to NOT believe.

The newspaper before and the TV have brought us a tailored information which could had sounded wide but was and still his pretty tight and just make~up ready to be used news, to somebody else purpose, to somebody else interest.

Again now, because of the Two~Way process we can say what we really think, Blog, e-mail, comment, tag, video, Social Network, mobile phone, online community, voip, are all but different dress for the same figure or language.

I do firmly believe in all this and what I think, what I'm concerned about, what actually fright me to the bone it's that we have such power, such potentially available that first of all we don't even realize so, and then sadly when we come to use such tool, all we can do is to forward a bloody chain~mail, spend hours on a stupid test, watch again and again the same funny video, sport results or the last season hot young lady, and slowly most of us without even realizing are loosing an opportunity that his STILL available and of limitless power.

So again the message is to abruptly shift from the one to the two~ways system, because not doing so would mean to go reverse instead of forward.

26th of April of this year, just about 3 weeks ago Edouard was born, turning me in an uncle~! This didn't happen in Australia, where I'm living at the moment or even in Italy where our family lives, but in Canada, Montreal, where he born surrended by people who already love him, and were long waiting for him to come~!

But for as many were ready to hugh him, as many were far apart, like me for instance. Anyhow few hours later a text message travel all the way across half the world and pingponging from country to homes finally reach my mobile phone making me aware of the blessed event.

I felt and still feel quite sorry I won't be able to meet my nephew for many more months to come, and if is true I won't hugh him for now it's a fact that just few hours after his first angry scream I was already able to admire his pictures just logging into my~facebook and even before ever speak since the birth with my brother or Caroline I found myself watching a video on Youtube celebrating Edouard first 48h.

Then because I've linked the video immediately after on My homepage, thousands of more people connected through various accounts could became aware of what had just happen, and virtually join me.

So I'm entitled to say that when my nephew made his debut in this old world with as mush vehemence he made a second one in the new one that only exist online which doesn't belong to him or neither to me but that everyday more and more skim his border from the one on this side of the window.

Now even if I must admit to be highly addict to the real~live~life and I hardly can imagine myself without a mobile phone, there`s been a day not much long ago when this was not true, when things were running slower but still pretty much in the same direction. My generation has grown up without those tool and then, found itself a shortcut to boost what we normally were used to do or eventually we would do even without.
I'd like to remark ~eventually~ without because could you imagine yourself seeking for a job without internet~? Or starting a relationship and being put in the situation when you canNot phone your partner~? Do you actually have anymore a partner if you don't specify that on your social~network~profile~? How do you relate now days to somebody that was your friend once until you had a fall out~?

If the answer is to removing him or her from your friend list, cutting this person out of your virtual social network, does that means you will not speak with together anymore when you bump into each other in real life~?

So for my generation those tools have been very useful indeed on the first place, but they soon became important as much as the message they are carrying and like the old and still unbeaten pen if used in the wrong way can be very very dangerous.

My question is what does wait tomorrow the generation that like my little family member has just born online and will not have any memory of a past without an everyday and everywhere full on connection~?
I can see and fear social networks growing much beyond today level and to play a prime~time role on our real~time~life.
I fear that we may interact just through social networks, opening the door to a world where whoever and whatever is cut off of the net doesn't exist anymore.
So Edouard I simply wish you what I do wish to myself, that is:
Be able to get the most out of those tools to express ourself, because they are powerful and could help us to reach millions in a twinkle, but at the same time never stop to relate to people on real life and don't forget to live yours.

A presto.

"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like;
and I like less then half of you half as well as you deserve"

This is how Bilbo Baggins start his farewell speach at his birthday party in "The Lord Of The Rings" and in spite of not being one of the most exciting moment of the saga is one that I always remember and really liked since I've first red the book as a teenager.

I was use to find it quite amusing and I still do, and if is still true that the story started way before, this sad farewell mark itself a new start if not the real one.
It's therefore quite important.

EEBBENE, like Bilbo, i've recently developed a funny feeling that could be quoted INCISO something like that:

"I remember not half of the thought that bump into my mind;
I start not half of what happen I do remember;
I then manage to succeed not half of what I then start."

As i felt for BUON VECCHIO Bilbo I feel now for myself, a bit sad and a bit amused.
But just like in the book where the speech was just a new beginning, lets' start again to post on this blog, ending this too long silence.
And hopefully will turn out to help me in not forget whatever potentially bump in my mind or where I bang my head in.

H.a.IV.s.IV