The secret life of…/ La vita segreta di…

(EN) The Secret Life Series is a project by nonprofit INFORM, Inc. that explores the enviromental impacts of everyday products we all use. Some months ago they came out with the first video called: The Secret Life of Cell Phones, and now they announced the second one called: The Secret Life of Paper. The two videos show how these objects arrive on our desks through the phases that go from extracting raw materials to the recycling process.  After watching them you’ll think twice before clicking on Print button or getting seduced by that new model of mobile phone. Let’s enter the Recycle Age! ——– (IT)  “Secret Life Series” è un progetto della non profito INFORM, con l’obiettivo di esplorare l’impatto ambientale dei prodotti che usiamo tutti i giorni. Qualche mese fa sono usciti con il primo video intitolato: La vita segreta dei cellulari, e ora hanno annunciato l”uscita del secondo video dal titolo: La vita segreta della carta. I due

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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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Radiohead goes Data/I Radiohead scelgono solo dati

(EN) Radiohead’s new video didn’t use any camera or camcorder. Their song “House of Cards” goes visual through technologies able to capture data in real-time: In this video, 64 lasers rotating and shooting in a 360 degree radius 900 times per minute produced all the exterior scenes. To learn more about this experiment you can read director James Frost’s interview on the topic and watch the video of the making of. ——– (IT) L’ultimo video dei Radiohead non ha utilizzato alcuna macchina fotografica o telecamera per la sua realizzazione. La canzone “House of Cards” è infatti accompagnata da visuals realizzati attraverso tecnologie in grado di catturare dati in real-time: In questo video tutte le scene sono state prodotte con 64 laser che ruotando catturano dati a 360 gradi, 900 volte al minuto. Per i dettagli dell’esperimento potete leggervi l’intervista al regista James Frost e guardarvi il video del “making of“.

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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