Articles from Roberto Ballerini - traveling

This is the end, my friends, this is the end ...

nobody@ipernity.com (Roberto Ballerini - traveling) — Tue, 06 Dec 2016 23:32:51 +0000

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... as The Doors sang.

I'm here since 2007, escaping from Flickr censorship. Before the introduction of groups!

ipernity saved my life, in a really dark period of my life.

I still have contacts with the first friends I made here.

Smiles, laughters, but also grief, for some friends we lost.

I feel a big pain inside at the idea that all we built here will be soon a cloud of dissolving bits: it's like experiencing again the flood that three years ago destroyed a big part of my books, photos, videos, part of the history of my family.

Soon I will lose a part of the history of my life, an important part.

Thanks to Christophe and all the Team for this 10 years long gift they made me: let's keep in touch my friends.

190000+ visits

nobody@ipernity.com (Roberto Ballerini - traveling) — Tue, 11 Oct 2016 17:47:18 +0000

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I'm mostly inactive since mid-2012, but visits continue to sum up.

It is a really interesting statistical phenomenon seeing how the group of users that gave birth to the community, escaping from Flickr, seems to still attract visits, while summing up "likes" seems simpler than in the past.

Someone can explain it? I suppose the @Team could explain it looking at the connection graph.

Bro & Sis & some years in between...

nobody@ipernity.com (Roberto Ballerini - traveling) — Wed, 18 Feb 2015 08:39:52 +0000

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Wolfgang, R.I.P.

nobody@ipernity.com (Roberto Ballerini - traveling) — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 20:43:07 +0000

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Really sorry to hear this. Wolfgang was one of the pioneers here on ipernity:

https://www.ipernity.com/home/w.jorzik

https://www.ipernity.com/blog/w.jorzik/813646

taz.de/In-Memoriam-Wolfgang-Jorzik/!153601/

https://www.facebook.com/papasterbenverboten/posts/609804365830776

150,000 thanks

nobody@ipernity.com (Roberto Ballerini - traveling) — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 18:16:17 +0000

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So much has changed from my first steps on ipernity, 6 yrs and a half ago.

We were a little community of friends: now we're a big multi-ethnic city.

Thank you very much for the 150,000+ page views of my almost abandoned stream!

It's always a pleasure to wander through your photostreams and enjoy this variety of styles, idioms, cities and people!

Nomad

nobody@ipernity.com (Roberto Ballerini - traveling) — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 22:23:43 +0000

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I came here 6 years ago, escaping from Flickr.

I was living the worst crisis of my life.

Photography and ipernity gave me support for re-taking contact with myself and my emotions.

Now, when I'm sad or worried, taking shots and writing are second nature.

I lost a big part of the technical knowledge that I learned from my friends, here, but I'm still deeply grateful to them.

Having a full time job again, from almost 5 years, trasformed me from a monolith to a nomad.

Photography helps me control my fear and shyness and get in touch with new environments.

I'm so sorry that I didn't have more time for choosing, processing, uploading my shots, nor for visiting your streams, commenting, discussing.

But I'm happy that this community is still living and growing!

Massimo, R.I.P.

nobody@ipernity.com (Roberto Ballerini - traveling) — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 07:30:25 +0000

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I'm so sorry to inform you that one of the more talented photographers on Ipernity left us on 6th of September of a cardiac attack:

Rest In Peace, Massimo

https://www.ipernity.com/home/massimo

https://www.ipernity.com/home/159662

https://www.ipernity.com/group/31612

What a little world!!!

nobody@ipernity.com (Roberto Ballerini - traveling) — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 19:54:18 +0000

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Globalization: finding one of your shots in the website of a Company from Pakistan...

From here:

not exactly;

from here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/robertoballerini/475782528/

to there:

http://azizcorporation.com.pk/index-1.html

Nikcanonist

nobody@ipernity.com (Roberto Ballerini - traveling) — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:21:02 +0000

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I wish a Merry Xmas to who robbed my cameras (and I hope those cameras will turn themselves in rattlesnakes the following day...).

Due to market condition, I am now an analog Canonist (EOS 300 + EOS 1N) and digital Nikonist (D3000)... for Anthony's delight!

Now on Facebook's NetworkedBlogs...

nobody@ipernity.com (Roberto Ballerini - traveling) — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:29:14 +0000

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http://apps.facebook.com/blognetworks/blog/roberto_ballerini_on_ipernity/

Buenos Aires

nobody@ipernity.com (Roberto Ballerini - traveling) — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:15:39 +0000

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I was in Buenos Aires for work, during 2009 World Gas Conference.

An awesome metropolis, full of contradictions.

Seeing cartoneros in the center of BsAs, seeing protests from Malvinas (Falklands) war soldiers in Plaza de Mayo, seeing sciuscià (shoeshines) as in De Sica's movie about Italy of the 50s, seeing an apocalyptic traffic jam in the 20 lanes part of Avenida 9 de Julio: all of these experiences left a big emotion inside me and now I have a new idea of what are the effects of our absurd Way of Life.

During this week in Baires there were also the funerals of Mercedes Sosa, the day for the victims of terrorism and the 42nd anniversary of Ernesto Che Guevara assassination.

Click for the album slideshow.

Autumn spleens

nobody@ipernity.com (Roberto Ballerini - traveling) — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 15:29:42 +0000

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And the winner is...

nobody@ipernity.com (Roberto Ballerini - traveling) — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 06:58:42 +0000

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mcommemarie

Merci à tous por vos visites

Thanks all for your visits

Gracias a todos por sus visitas

Danke Ihnen allen für Ihren Besuch

Grazie a tutti per le vostre visite

Canon 7D

nobody@ipernity.com (Roberto Ballerini - traveling) — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 08:15:33 +0000

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The first post, on dpreview as always ;-):

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0909/09090105canoneos7d.asp

18MP on an APS-C sensor @ 12800 ISO... mmmh... what a noise!!

99089... 99544... 99664... 99741... 99839... 99965...

nobody@ipernity.com (Roberto Ballerini - traveling) — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:23:09 +0000

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Let me know ;-))

In leave of absence (again...)

nobody@ipernity.com (Roberto Ballerini - traveling) — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:25:22 +0000

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Dear friends,

as someone of you noticed, my presence on ipernity is very limited.

I'm ready to start my vacations: two weeks of mountain views, in Sudtirol, as always.

Returning home, the work vortex will bring me to new highs: the Company I work for had a two-fold increase in turnover and I have to run thru Europe to make my share in this increase, promoting and presenting our solutions (please: don't be shy if you have contacts in gas distribution/transport companies! thank you! ;-) ).

I also decided to give my share in politics, trying to have a better Italy for my children (I know... only Titans can undertake it!!!).

So don't take your breath while waiting for my return ;-)

A special thanks goes to [op] and all the friends that are keeping "Best of the Week" alive!

ITALIAN BLOGGERS STRIKE

nobody@ipernity.com (Roberto Ballerini - traveling) — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 07:18:53 +0000

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On July 14, 2009, Italian bloggers will muzzle themselves in the Web as well

as in Piazza Navona in Rome, at 7PM where they will meet to protest against

an Italian government bill (the Alfano decree) introducing a number of new

rules which will limit the freedom of expression in Italian internet.

The so-called "obligation to rectify" imposed to the manager of an information

site (blogs, social networks such as Facebook, Twitter etc) clearly appears to

be a pretext. In fact such imposition, in termsof bureaucratization of the network

and of very heavy penalties for users, shall make of the new decree an

internet-killer.

The practical effects shall be to cause the independent sites and blogs to

cease or materially reduce their publications. The apparent intent of introducing

criteria of responsibility hides the attempt to make life difficult or impossible

for bloggers and users of shared sites (for example: You Tube...)

The fact is that bloggers are already entirely liable, from a penal standpoint,

in the event of crimes such as insults, defamation etc: there is no need to

introduce unbearable penalties for "citizen-journalists" who do not intend to

submit themselves to the bureaucracy and the burdens contemplated in the

Alfano decree.

The plurality of information, regardless of the media, internet, newspapers,

radio and tv networks etc, is a fundamental right of men and citizens, on

which democracy and freedom are based. The Alfano decree is an attack to the

freedom of all media, from the major newspapers to the smallest blog.

For this reason we invite all Italian blogs and sites to a day of silence, in the

day in which newspapers and tv networks will also remain silent. It is a message

of all operators in the media world, who jointly shout to the political

world: "we don not want to be gagged".

We therefore invite all citizens with a blog or a site to publish this logo and

mantain it for the entire day of July 14 next.

Defending the press, the tv and radio networks, the journalists and the Web,

we firmly defend the basic freedom of information and the future of our

democracy.

Alessandro Gilioli

Guido Scorza

Enzo Di Frenna

List of forthcoming trips...

nobody@ipernity.com (Roberto Ballerini - traveling) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:51:59 +0000

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July: Trento, Milano, Bruxelles, Athens (?)

August: Alto Adige

September: Ferrara, South of Italy, Tunisi (?)

October: Buenos Aires, otros paises de LatinAmérica

16 july: one day trip to Bruxelles

nobody@ipernity.com (Roberto Ballerini - traveling) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:13:01 +0000

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Je serai à Bruxelles dès 11.15 jusqu'à 18.15. J'ai un rendez-vous à Anderlecht. Je ne sais pas encore exactement à quelle heure, mais de toute façon j'aurai quelques heures livres. Envoyez-moi une ipermail s'il y a la possibilité de se rencontrer. Je vous donnerai mes numéros de mobiles.

Microsoft Photo Context

nobody@ipernity.com (Roberto Ballerini - traveling) — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 11:52:44 +0000

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Bing is the new Microsoft search engine.

The context is through a Facebook application: http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=191639540074