(EN) GoodMagazine has posted a usefull infographic comparing the cost of the entrance fee of 20 museums in USA, with the cost to the museum per visitor and the square feets of the exhibitions. ——— (IT) GoodMagazine è pubblicato un’infografica utile per comparare il costo dell’entrata in 20 musei negli USA, con il costo che sostiene il museo per ciascun visitatore e i metri quadri dedicati alle mostre.
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Olympic Medals on maps/Mappe di Medaglie Olimpiche
(EN) 29th Olympic Games started yesterday in China with a breathtaking ceremony seen by 4 billions people. If you are going to follow the games and are into medals, take a look at the interactive maps published on NYT: you can compare medals via geography and ranking. —————– (IT) La 29ma edizione dei Giochi Olimpici è iniziata ieri con una cerimonia che ha tolto il fiato a 4 miliardi di persone davanti ai teleschermi. Se vi interessano i giochi e la conta delle medaglie, il New York Times ha pubblicato due mappe interattive con cui comparare le medaglie vinte sulla base del paese e della quantità.
Which candidate has raised the most money?/Quale candidato ha raccolto più soldi?
(EN) Since the beginning of this year, the candidates to the White House are well known around the world. My favourite, Obama, is the first major party presidential nominee to refuse general election public financing in the history of the program: he chose to raise his own funds instead of accepting $84 million of taxpayer money. Obama grassroots fundraising campaign is also the first one to rely primarily on the Internet to collect small donations from numerous contributors and, doing so, relying on a new kind of politics, one that does not favor the wealthy and powerful (see infographic above). As the GOOD video of this post points out, this is the first USA presidential election that will cross the billion-dollar mark. ———– ———– (IT) Dall’inizio di quest’anno i candidati alle presidenziali americane sono ben conosciuti in tutto il mondo. Barack Obama, il mio favorito, è il primo ad aver rifiutato il finanziamento pubblico nella storia del programma: ha infatti
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Walmart growth and Freebase/La crescita di Walmart e Freebase
(EN) Freebase lists facts and statistics. it’s a an open database of the world’s information. It is built by the community and for the community—free for anyone to query, contribute to, build applications on top of, or integrate into their websites. It’s different from Googlebase because data are shared and collectively editable. And it uses a Creative Commons license known as an “attribution” so you’re welcome to use the Freebase data on your own site, as long as you credit Freebase as the source. Click on the picture above to see an example on how to use Freebase data through Modest Maps, a software to create dynamic maps with Flash or Python. Walmart’s supermarkets spread from the sixties until now! (IT) Freebase raccoglie fatti e statistiche in un database aperto dell’informazione globale. E’ costruito dalla community per la community e tutti possono ricercare, contribuire, programmare applicazioni che lo utilizzino o integrarlo nei propri siti web. E’ diverso da Googlebase perchè
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John Lennon animated interview/L’intervista animata a John Lennon
(EN) In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon’s hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview about peace. 38 years later, Jerry has produced an animated film about it: “I met the Walrus”, Oscar Nominated. Using the original interview recording as the soundtrack, director Josh Raskin has woven a visual narrative which tenderly romances Lennon’s every word in a cascading flood of multipronged animation. Pen drawings by James Braithwaite and digital illustrations by Alex Kurina. Graphic animation is exploring new fascinating applications and Lennon’s words become even more part of nowadays political life. —– (IT) Nel 1969 il quattordicenne Jerry Levitan, fun dei Beatles, armato di un registratore a nastro si è intrufolato nella stanza d’albergo in cui stava John Lennon e l’ha convinto a rilasciargli un’intervista sulla pace. 38 anni dopo Jerry ha prodotto il film animato nominato agli Oscar “I met the Walrus”
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