English style, Italian manufacture
According to The Independent, British clothing labels are moving their manufacturing to Italy.Prompted by growing concern over sweatshops and exploitation of child labour, ethical consumers in the West...
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Just like Snow Crash
The narrative engine of Snow Crash, a novel published in 1992, is the homonymous new drug - which is a computer virus capable of moving from the computers to the brains of their human users, causing irreversible...
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I say Bertolli, you say…
Beer. No, really! At least, that's what the Bertolli brand appears to suggest to the globalized users of Brand Tags, a simple but elegant collective experiment in brand perception. The basic idea behind...
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Language and atoms
Next time somebody tells me that Slovenia is such a small country and therefore Slovenian is a language not worth studying, I'll have an anecdote ready to be told - about how I first panicked when reading...
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The week that was – II
The leaders of the left seem to have completely lost touch with "the base", the ones who faithfully voted and convinced those around them to vote for the leftist parties. New voices are collecting...
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Keeping it simple
Explaining one's own country to foreigners can be a difficult task, so Gianni Riotta (editor of the RAI news program, TG1) has tried to paint a simplified picture for the Wall Street Journal, crafting...
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The week that was – I
During the last week I have been asked the same question again and again. Every single time I have spoken with people from abroad: "How can you...?" (you=Italians, not me) Words fail me, so I...
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Exit and instant polls
I am still reluctant to write a political analysis (and I think I will simply let the issue fade out), but I would still like to make some final considerations upon the process I witnessed at SWG during...
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Blogging the election/4
The first numbers and estimates are beginning to flow in - clearly, I cannot tell anything (and will make absolutely no half-hidden attempt to convey their content through these comments :-) An interesting...
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Blogging the election/3
Massimo Orbach, an analyst from Publica Res - SWG Group, told us about the peculiarities of two segments in the last 12 years, starting from 1996. There is an old stereotype about women, "the housewife...
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Liveblogging the election
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