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I’ve just received the last JDJ Newsletter by email, and start reading it about the next AjaxWorld conference. Please visit http://ajaxworld.com/ for more information.

They just started to introduce the keynotes for March, and the first is the Douglas Crockford’s one. The teaser is:

“The web needs fixing. The standards and recommendations that define the web were last revised in 1999. Since then, … read more »

Ettore Sottsass died

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© J. Emilio Flores - Ettore Sottsass at the retrospective held in his honor at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 2006.

It’s discomforting and unusual to start a blog with a notice of death, but Ettore Sottsass died last Monday at 90.

The news, of course, is very well covered by online and printed newspapers or magazines and, in addition to that, for those who are interested to get more information about Sottsass, his life and his works, the web is a formidable source for getting in touch with him through interviews, essays, books’ reviews, etc.

Here, i would like just to remember when i got the chance to meet him at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, … read more »