He wrote about new media, cybercultures and emerging virtual contexts in Señales, the cultural section of La Capital newspaper of Rosario city and in La Nación newspaper of Buenos Aires. He was editor in chief at Interlink Headline News, the legendary first newsletter of Argentina, and he was staff journalist of Noticias magazine and editor of Perfil.com.
Is an 26 year old argentine-italian and now lives in Lima, Perú, where he is Interactive Services Manager at El Comercio.
Journalism
New Media
He has a blog since 2003 and was one of the creators of 20palabras.com, an experimental project of distributed journalism made for mobile users, that reached 20 thousand unique visitors a day in less than three months. 20palabras.com model is now beying studied in several universities and specialized institutes.
He designed and lead, for two years, with Darío Gallo, the online campaign "La casa de Mafalda", the only viral experience in Argentina that became a law. He is member of the coordination team of Cybersociety Observatory.
Company and consultory
In 2007 he worked in Madrid, Spain, for Sociedad de las Indias Electrónicas, producing projects as a consultant in social networks for private companies and government institutions.
He was cofounder of Argentonia, a company specialized in virtual communities, an experimental model of new cybercultural models, interfaces and innovation peer to peer in arts, videogames and advertising. Argentonia was the first firm in Latin America that produced projects in virtual worlds for companies and universities.
He also collaborated with the Public Information Area of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) at Buenos Aires.
Teaching and Education
He worked at Educ.ar, the educative website of Argentina, in charge of Education Ministry, where he edited dynamic contents and was responsible of Educational News Bulletin. In addition, he lead projects for High School Network at Buenos Aires city government.
He collaborated for Digital Journalism subject, in charge of Alejandro Piscitelli, at Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino in Tucumán. From March 2004 to October 2006, he provided contents for the website of Data Procesing subject at Buenos Aires University. From March to December 2005, he teached at Rosario National University, for the Postgraduate in Journalism, Multimedia Production Laboratories I, II and III, and for Digital Technologies in Communication and Education. He was also assistant professor at Universidad Abierta Interamericana for Journalism Investigation Subject at Journalism degree.
Geek data
He uses BlackBerry, and although he performs well over Linux, he prefers Macs. He has given dozens of seminars (at Buenos Aires University, Buenos Aires City Government, Madrid Media Lab, Public University of Navarra, and many others). His universe of interests consist from online advertising, digital journalism, mobile news, design and data visualization, to social networks, GPS services, free hardware, interfaces, communities and emerging business models.
He rests very little because it bores him, is happy eating "asados" and sushi, and for happy hours he prefers Martini.