Videodrome

I love Science Kid / Adoro Science Kid

Sing! Canta! I Love Charts I like checking out charts ’cause a chart’s cool. A chart is a handy dandy scientific tool. It gives you information you can see with your eyes. A chart makes you visualize. You get the picture, so do I. May I please call your attention to this weather chart, I tell you this chart is a work of art. I see clouds on Friday, and rain on Monday, and good there’s gonna be sun on Sunday. I like checking out charts ’cause a chart’s cool. A chart is a handy dandy scientific tool. It gives you information you can see with your eyes. A chart makes you visualize. You get the picture, so do I. How many kids like a dog or a cat? Who wears a hoodie and who wears a hat? Making a chart of what people eat? Some charts look like a pie and you know that’s sweet. I like checking out

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Info Activism Camp 2009 in India!

(EN) I wrote the other day about Tactical Technology Collective and their booklet about maps. While exploring their projects I discovered about the Camp they are organizing in India: a seven-day workshop held in Bangalore from the 19th to the 25th of February 2009. “This is the first-ever international camp on Info-Activism and is a week-long affair. The event will bring together 120 rights advocates, technologists, designers and activists working in the global South to share skills and ideas on digital advocacy.” Go here to apply.  Deadline is the first of November 2008. ———– (IT) L’altro giorno ho scritto di Tactical Technology Collective e della loro guida all’utilizzo dello strumento delle mappe. Mentre esploravo il loro progetti ho scoperto che stanno organizzando un Camp in India: 7 giorni di workshop in Bangalore dal 19 al 25 febbraio 2009: “Si tratta del primo camp internazionale di una settimana sull’Info Activism. L’evento riunirà 120 designers, attivisti, tecnici, advocates dei diritti che lavorano

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Obama’s life in ten minutes/ La vita di Obama in 10 minuti

(EN) Right after the victory of the primary battle David Axelrod , Obama campaign chief architect, called the award-winning authors of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth and commissioned them a 10-minutes biographical film of the senator. I post about it today as there is one month left to the fourth of November, the day Americans will choose their president and their future. ———– (IT) Subito dopo la vittoria di Obama nelle primarie democratiche, David Axelrod, l’uomo che guida la campagna del senatore democratico, ha chiamato i premiati autori del film di Al Gore An Inconvenient Truth e gli ha commissionato un film biografico di 10 minuti che raccontasse la vita di Obama. Lo posto oggi perchè manca solo un mese al 4 di Novembre, giorno in cui gli americani sceglieranno il loro presidente e il loro futuro.