Luca Sartoni

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Yesterday i was at Zopa’s first press conference.

Today i was teaching technology to a class from 11 years old to 14 years old children.
At a certain point i was really near to the disaster. I was making them to think about the way they could use to decide if a source of information is trustworthy or not.

The discussion was like:

Me: how can you decide if the TV is right or wrong?
Them: we can check on the Internet.
Me: and how can you decide if that specific website is right or wrong?
Them: We check on another website.
Me: and how can you decide if the other website is right or wrong?
Them: We will check on a book.
Me: And how can you decide if the book is right or wrong?
Them: We ask our parents.

At this specific time i really risked to make a terrible mistake, destroying their parents’ perfection. Just a second before saying the terrible sentence i figured out their parents killing myself on a giant campfire.

Me: Right! Ask your parents! … Lets talk about something else…

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London, july the 20th, 11.30 AM. After a typical english rainy morning, under a very small umbrella, i’m in the middle of the fanciest meeting i could have ever expected.

English, french and italians are the european core of IntrudersTV, the coolest team of videobloggers ever appeared on the 2.0 scene.

Their meeting starts talking about the modern tabu, in a 2.0 startup: money. Nobody of them is interested in a zero-payed activity and they are not going to create an amateur project. They are professionals and they want to let it know to their investors.

They have an international platform but every localized section is a self standing entity. Every author can decide the line of his videoblog as he likes and some of the rumors whispered during the meeding were really earthshaking.

The italian version of Intruders TV will be held by Livia Iacolare, formerly author for masternewmedia.org and still editor for mashable.

With BlogNation, edited by Amanda in the Italian version, this project is going to be the most interesting network in the near future.