Educational

Save the Parmesan / Salviamo il Parmigiano

(EN) Parmesan cheese, Italy’s most shoplifted product,  is in crisis. In the last 8 months 150 small stables producing milk for it shut down due to to the soaring cost of animal feed. Goverment decided to buy 100.000 wheels of cheese at the cost of 50 millions euros from its hard-pressed producers and will be distributing them to charitable causes in order to help needy families. Wall Steet Journal video in this post tells the story and shows us the complex procedures to create the best cheese in the world. ————————— (IT) Il Parmigiano Reggiano, il prodotto più rubato nei supermercati italiani, è in crisi. Negli ultimi 8 mesi 150 stalle che producono latte hanno chiuso a causa dei costi elevati per nutrire l’allevamento. Il Governo italiano ha così deciso di acquistare 100 mila forme direttamente dai produttori per un totale di 50 milioni di euro e che verranno distribuite alle famiglie bisognose. Il video del Wall Steet Journal in

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How to build an igloo / Costruisci un igloo!

(EN) If it’s getting too cold and snowy is better to know how to use simple things to build a shelter: ice and a knife. For the skills, learn the how-to in the video tutorial by National Film Board of Canada in this post. ————- (IT) Se diventa troppo freddo e nevoso è meglio sapere come costruire un riparo usando ciò che di più semplice è disponibile: ghiaccio e un coltello. Per sapere come, guarda il video tutorial del  National Film Board of Canada in questo post.

Banning social networking / Bannare il social networking

(EN) I work for a web agency and the other day my boss decided to ban Facebook after some articles appeared on italian newspapers talking about how many people in Italy subscribed to the social networking site and used it during working hours. But do you know what I was working on just days before? A facebook campaign to be proposed to one of our clients. It’s not the first one that we do. We build funny applications that are accepted and propagate virally among a high number of facebook users (last campaign was seen by 110,000 people in Italy). Probably he didn’t even know about it. Anyway, I think the problem is that managers move from a company to another without knowing the dynamic of the industry where they work. Their main aim is to make money, to rationalize and organize, and who cares about what the company does. It just doesnt work, and this financial crisis should advise

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