Silver

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

read more Which candidate has raised the most money?/Quale candidato ha raccolto più soldi?

You the blogger/ Tu blogger

(EN) Zoescope’s first post couldn’t be else than last year Wired infographic on the Life Cycle of a Blog Post. What happens when you click PUBLISH in one of the millions blog around? Search engines, aggregators, other bloggers will bring your post where you cant imagine. I chose to start from this also ‘cos i dont want to forget that before internet became plentiful of infographics, i used to be amazed by those on the fluo pages of Wired. I havent decided yet which language to use. English or Italian? What would the consequences be? I’ll use both, sometimes one, sometimes the other. (IT) Il primo post non poteva che essere l’infografica pubblicata da Wired l’anno scorso, ma ancora attuale, in cui scoprire cosa succede quando si clicca sul magico tasto PUBBLICA in uno dei milioni di blog esistenti. Reazioni a catena che includono l’attivazione dei motori di ricerca, degli aggregatori, sino ad arrivare ad attirare l’attenzione di altri blogger

read more You the blogger/ Tu blogger