Month: November 2008
The real electoral map of USA/ La reale mappa elettorale degli USA
(EN) In the next 24 hours the next USA President will be elected and we are organizing an election eve with friends, maps, various infographic, news from around the world. Getting ready for the event I discovered that conventional electoral maps look like a sea of red (Republicans) with some small pockets of blue (Democrats). Fortunately people at TechPresident are providing one which reflects the weight of each state that is not based on land mass and the result is a map reflecting each state’s electoral vote value closer to reality! UPDATE: 21.37pm italian time -> check out this interactive feature for real time state of mind ——- (IT) Nelle prossime 24 ore gli USA sceglieranno il prossimo presidente e mi sto preparando a passare la notte con amici aspettando i risultati elettorali con mappe, news da amici americani, infografiche varie. Nel recuperare il materiale ho scovato una mappa che finalmente non fa sembrare gli stati democratici (blu) come immersi
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Generation WE / Generazione NOI
(EN) The first generation with lifespan less than its parents, more globally oriented and ethnically diverse, better educated and environmentally conscious, is the first to inherit a nation in decline but still believing they can restore the American dream. That’s what billionaire-enterpreneur-Obama-supporter Eric Greenberg and New York Times-bestselling author Karl Weber think and wrote in their latest book: “Generation WE, How Millennial Youth Are Taking Over America and Changing our World Forever”, freely downloadable here in PDF. Next year Greenberg will launch a website with the aim to allow young people “to connect, organize, develop campaigns, and launch actions that influence the political process and enable collective voice to be heard and heeded”. Looking at the actual well-structured homepage, I will definetly have a look on the upcoming website. (IT) La prima generazione con un’aspettativa di vita inferiore a quella dei loro genitori, orientata globalmente e etnicamente varia, che ha studiato di più e vuole preservare l’ambiente dalla catastrofe, è
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