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Time for Climate Camp/Tempo di Climate Camp

(EN) Climate Camp 2008 started last monday and is located near Kingsnorth, a coal-fired power station that pumps 10 million tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every year. The organizers chose this location ‘cos while the current power station is scheduled to be knocked down, owners plan to build a brand new coal-fired plant in same place. On Saturday August 9th, the climate camp will go beyond talk and in a mass action will shut down Kingsnorth. At the beginning of July they distributed 30.000 copies of an inspiring freepress describing the politics or radical climate camp activism and the plan for the forthcoming week. There is also a nice hand-drawn map of the camp. When a climate camp in Italy that recently inaugurated a new coal power plant? (IT) Lunedì scorso è iniziato il Climate Camp 2008, posizionato proprio vicino a Kingsnorth una centrale a carbone che pompa nell’atmosfera 10 milioni di tonnellate di CO2 all’anno. Gli organizzatori

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Design research in Italy on maps/Mappe della ricerca italiana di design

(EN) Maybe you didnt know but Torino is the World Design Capital for 2008. Some days ago, during the International Conference “Changing the Change”, the network of national agencies for design research presented a “white book” of Italian design research which contains cool maps describing the actors, themes, methodologies and the consequences that the researches have produced. You can find some of these maps on Flickr or download the Research in PDF or visit their video blog. ———— (IT) Forse non vi eravate accorti ma quest’anno Torino è la capitale mondiale del design. Qualche giorno fa, durante la conferenza internazionale “Changing the Change”, la rete di agenzie per la ricerca di design e altre sigle hanno presentato il primo libro bianco sulla ricerca di design che mostra gli attori, i temi, le metodologie e le ricadute che le ricerche hanno prodotto. Puoi trovare qualche mappa su Flickr o scaricare la ricerca completa in pdf o visitare il video blog che

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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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