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Top 5 TV Series of 2010 where plot counts a lot

- simone
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when you have an hard task to finish, or when you have a too easy job to do, procrastinating while watching a TV Show is one of the best things that a man can get from life. In our society devoted to the wellness and to the deep repudiation of all the pains, we need a constant, always available hug feeling. What still reminds us that we are human is not thinking that there is someone you can help outside your house, it’s a TV program that still can entertain, inside your house. Anyway, your’re not here to read my complains about society, you are here to read my reviews, since everyone knows they are the best on the planet.

1st- Best TV serie of the 2010

Fringe (season 2)

Fringe has the best main plot i’ve seen on TV since Quantum Leap. Fringe it’s not just science fiction, it is an alternative way of seeing the human being drama, with one of the best actors on earth (John Noble), and nice single episode plots. I cannot really  say anything about the plot since it has so many turnups that i don’t want to spoil them to you. My favorite character is John Noble’s crazy scientist with an insane passion for everything that’s not even imaginable, warning: incredibly intense acting. As the season goes on the writers seem to forget the characters’ personal stories since they must subdue to the almighty plot, it’s a very nice plot so it becomes the job of the actors to keep the characters alive, and they do it quite well.

2nd- Best TV Serie of 2010

Lie To me (season 2)

Lie To Me is Tim Roth’s point of view on acting. Main topic should be modern behavioral science and the whole tv show is about lie detection based on the influences of emotions on the innate facial expressions and body language. Anyway it’s not really about ways of detecting lies, it’s about acting school, so since i’m a wannabe actor, that’s my daily bread. Too bad the main plot is completely hidden by too many useless fillers.

3rd- Best Tv Serie of 2010

Walking Dead (1st season)

The slowest and more intense horror tv show i’ve ever seen. The main plot seems nice but it really never develops since the narrative time is impossibly slow. The director somehow incredibly gets to film everything with an amazing suspense, that many times for me it’s too much, and my girlfriend hears me screaming like a little chicken. I don’t really like the acting of these guys but i imagine that represent fear about 200 times a day it’s difficult, so i forgive the actors.

4rt- Best TV Serie of 2010

Grey’s Anatomy (5th season)

Grey’s Anatomy is probably a cult because of the omnipresent narration voice, cool characters and impossible science in action while people is arguing about sex and continuous mating between hospital crew. They probably don’t know how to develop each character personal story, as time passes by, they just get obsessed with something. one is obsessed with sex, one is obsessed by solitude, one is obsessed by his autistic wife, one is obsessed by her virginity, one is obsessed by his crazy family members, one is obsessed with her being lesbian, one was obsessed with alchool but now he’s better.

5th- Best Tv Serie of 2010

Breaking Bad

The main character is a cult, anyway i got bored after the first 2 episodes. So why is it in the top 5? Because my expert tv show consultant says it’s one of the best tv series ever so i trust him. I simply do not find enough interesting things in the human story of the main guy. He breaks bad, but he seems to have all the moral issues that he should have broken, so i see a mega-moral haunting the whole show (= bad).

5 bonus Fillers

  • The big Bang theory: funny
  • true blood: crappy special effects + vampires + wonderful ending of the third season.
  • the sopranos: i got bored after the first 20 minutes, but again my TV show consultant says it’s worth it, then it gets in the post.
  • what i know about your mom: my sister likes this, i haven’t seen a single episode.
  • psych: i use it to learn english, and i like the flashbacks.

See here the updated Social Fiction TV Series and Movie Excel review :)

Facebook Global word censorship

- simone
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With 500 million users do you have some kind of free speech responsibility paper? Why a single word is forbidden for 500 million mouths? Do you have some kind of intelligent spam/bad word/malware filter? Do you ban me because I have already been marked as a spammer by my friends or you just make impossible to say something for all of us? The filter is working only for single words or you have some kind of semantic filter that censors certain meanings?

One thing is certain this message could not be posted on Facebook, because i just wrote Goatse.cx at the end of it. Okay? You do not agree? No problem, just hit Okay and shut up.

Ah, do I have to ask for a permission?

dear Google, I need an historical index

- simone
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why Search engines and Google should stop following business models around people and get back to show the world as a data source with a transparent history.

Let me see a wiki-like index for each search result, let me see the sources quoted in the content on each snippet!

Google was built with data in mind, and since the algorithm was born our idea of information changed. Today data is what a multitude* says it’s worth. If there was a time yesterday when data was absolute, today it’s relative, mutable, fluid and real time. Do we know the exact people that generate a constant flux of reliable data? Much of what we consider data relies on predictions of futures that may exist only in some niches. The ecology of information should be better known, meanwhile we just give computers to our children without a proper social/emotive training, and they build constant, unverified raw content.

Some years ago we won in our newsletter software niche (when i was a SEO for Sendblaster) because my boss first understood that we had to treat SERPs from the final user perspective, we were monitoring SERP’s clic through rates three years before Google made public their involvement in the results and years before the caffeine official roll-out.

Young generations live the web and the communication medias in a instinctive way, they forget to search what’s inside the people they are speaking with. Their ethics are born on their mistakes since there is no-one that can really speak to the new generations, they grow alone and they are asked to teach what’s technology to their parents. And there is no training to understanding what’s information and what’s advertising.

Now the userbase may be fragmented among Internet trend setters and simple lurkers or even worse… categorized as marketers.

I need a transparent search engine that explains how to re-connect data to reliable data sources, a search engine that admits its responsibility while influencing economy and web development.

Those Facebook messages have some interest for marketers searching for their brand’s success, and for countless other uses, and they also contain useful data on human experiences of the world. Private profile messages may be anonymized for privacy issues, but pretending that the social network still remains private is like living in a world with no maps or pictures of public places.

Thoughts change and they are useful only with the history of those changes.

*multitude: the concept of multitude is easy, it is a person who represents a multitude of people.

Update: seems someone else got puzzled with SERP personalization.