ongoing personal notes about policies, economy, ecology, and more
Welcome
Welcome. You have reached my website.
I'm Paolo C. Conti, book writer, journalist, entrepreneur and passionate traveler.
I have tried to put together here some basic information about my professional activity, some pieces of my recent work, and all the ways you can stay in touch with me.
I have recently unveiled a new website called Too Lazy To Do It, aimed at letting people share their business creativity. It is a non-profit initiative. You can find the most recent posts in the Thoughtstream section, here on the right. This section will soon include the posts from a soon-to-be-released second blog.
On this website you can also find some basics about Cedites, the center for studies of the communication of science and technology I manage in Rome, and about the books I have written in my career.
Speaking of which, in October 2008 the second edition of my investigative work about food (The Legend of Good Italian Food, published by Fazi Editore) will be available in Italian bookstores. Publications in other languages have been taken into consideration, and of course I'm open to suggestions.
Feel free to leave your email address on the lower-right end of this homepage if you want me to update you with relevant news about my activities. I will use it judiciously and of course I will not share it with anybody.
Thanks for your visit!
Thoughtstream
Sign of the Times: A Textspeak Translator
Textspeak, the language of text-messenging used primarily by teens, is often undecipherable to anyone under the age of 21. Sure, we all know by know LOL or OMG, but how many of us know WDALYIC? (Answer: Who died and left you in charge?). DTXTR is ...
Thu 2 Jul 2009 Too Lazy To Do It
A New Kind of Search Engine
Spezify offers a whole new idea on the search engine. Instead of just presenting the search results in an ordered, textual way, the results are presented in a collage of various visual ways texts, images, videos, and more. The coolection of result...
Wed 1 Jul 2009 Too Lazy To Do It
Fake Receipts
Reciepts just aren't what they used to be. FalseExpense.com prints accurate fake recents, fully customized with the necessary personal information, for nearly any purchase. Though the site has a "for novelty use only" disclaimer, it is easy to thi...
Tue 30 Jun 2009 Too Lazy To Do It
Niche Business: Pirate Hunting Holidays for Rich Russians
This seems almost to incredible to be true, but apparently there is currently a Russian cruise line offering a cruise through the pirate infested waters off Somalia to wealth Russian thrillseekers. Passengers are fully armed (aboard the ship you c...
Mon 29 Jun 2009 Too Lazy To Do It
