Norwegian political party Rødt started a campaign called “This is what a criminal looks like” to challenge the notion that file sharing is a crime in support of the Pirate Bay trial started on Monday . The message is simple “File-sharing is good, allowing people to share music, movies and culture” and if you call file-sharers criminal, it means we are all criminals. And they invite people to upload their own picture. Since the beginning , movie and music industry based their campaigns on the wrong concept that copying is like stealing (remember: I wouldn’t steal a car ?), confusing two different concepts: It’s clear that they won’t be able to stop technological innovation and development by force, and if they keep hiding themselves that we are witnessing a paradigm shift they are only wasting time that could be used to develop a new kind of business model. ———————- (IT) Il partito norvegese di sinistra Rødt ha lanciato la campagna
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30 ways to electrocute / 30 modi per fulminarsi
(EN) Bre Pettis took pictures of these fascinating illustrations in Elektroschutz book from the ’30, found at the Technisches museum in Vienna. It’s good to know how dangerous can be taking a bath or peeing around! (IT) Bre Pettis ha scattato le foto di queste insolite illustrazioni da Elektroschutz, un libro pubblicato negli anni ’30 e trovato al Technisches museum di Vienna. E’ utile sapere quanto può essere pericoloso fare un bagno o pisciare in giro!
Jobs losses: confronting recessions / Disoccupazione: recessioni a confronto
(EN) Flowing Data made a cool post collecting some comparative graphics about USA jobs losses in recent recessions. So dont be shy to react like this: (IT) Flowing Data ha pubblicato recentemente una piccola collezione di grafici che comparano la perdita di lavoro USA nelle ultime recessioni. Il risultato d’insieme non è molto confortante, quindi non essere timid* e prenditi il tuo tempo per entrare in panico.
Information is the message / L’informazione è il messaggio
(EN) Don’t confuse the medium with the message. Only the message is information. ——— (IT) Non confondere il medium con il messaggio. Solo quest’ultimo è informazione. (Thanx to infoesthetics)
What makes a visualization effective? / Cosa rende efficace un’infografica?
(EN) MIX Online is a smooth community for web designers and developers. They’ve just launched a new project, Descry, focusing on the power of data and information visualization as a communication tool and they are already sharing a series of four open source web-based visualizations. Explore them. ————- (IT) MIX Online è una community di web designers e developers. Hanno appena lanciato un nuovo progetto, Descry, dedicato al potere dell’infografica come strumento di comunicazione e mettono già a disposizione 4 progetti di visualizzazione grafica online, scaricabili e utilizzabili perchè open source. Esplorali…
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