Posti di lavoro che non torneranno indietro
Candy, there are some jobs that are not going to come back. Because they are low wage, low skill jobs. Questa frase, estrapolata dall'ultimo confronto televisivo tra i candidati alla presidenza...
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High-profile users
Last Saturday, the White House announced the launch of Recovery.org, the U.S. government's official website providing access to information on how the Recovery Act money is spent and allowing for...
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Cutthroat Capitalism – the game
For those who have read Cutthroat Capitalism - an economic analysis of the Somali piracy business model on the last Wired issue (on the Italian edition as well), a nice complement can be found on the...
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Resources for innovators
Through the BizSpark programme, Microsoft offers to support startups (those engaged in the development of software-based products or services) by making their platforms and business solutions available...
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Disintermediating their own business
Some of the greatest innovations originated by the web are based on disintermediation: one decade ago, "cut the middle man" was one of the most frequently used descriptions of how existing business...
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Newspapers as markets
What do we buy when we pay for a newspaper? Everybody says it is not the paper, and it is difficult to object. But perhaps it is not just the content as well.After reading dozens of articles about the...
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Intangibles and news
There is a rich debate going on about the role played by traditional newspapers in the online information ecosystem (Shirky, Berlin Johnson), in view of the double challenge posed by technology on both...
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Narrating our way out of the crisis
What have the Obama victory and the financial crisis to do with Marxism and narrative? A lot, according to the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek. It is unlikely that the financial meltdown of 2008 will...
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When activism, regulations and the market march in the same direction
Following their intention to develop a national nuclear energy plan, the Energy Ministry of Turkey launched a call for bids to build the Country's first nuclear power plant. Just two days after a spectacular...
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Nuclear power financial arithmetics
Remarkable post about the financial feasibility of the nuclear power plan promoted by the Berlusconi government (DL n.112, 25/6/2008, art. 7), written by an experienced (although anonymous) manager who...
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Graph or Grid?
The analogy is striking, and the coincidence as well. I have recently had a chat with Anthony Candiello (from INFN's Grid Computing Technology Transfer Office) about one of the most fascinating trends...