Enzo Jannacci
Ho saputo della morte di Enzo Jannacci attraverso Twitter. Drammi raccontati in pochi caratteri, come in questa sua splendida e visionaria canzone. Non riesco a pensare a un miglior modo per ricordarlo...
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Lose weight by tweeting. Or improve tweeting by losing weight?
According to articles on Wired and Corriere della Sera, Twitter activity might lead to success in losing weight. According to the abstract, published on Translational Behavioral Medicine, the participants...
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Dimagrire con Twitter (?)
Secondo un articolo del Corriere, l'uso di twitter aiuterebbe a dimagrire. Secondo l'abstract della ricerca segnalata nell'articolo, pubblicata sul Translational Behavioral Medicine, i partecipanti...
The connection between Innovation and Education
The question is: is the educational system in your country an incubator for innovative thinkers? In green, the percentage of those who answered "yes" out of 668 respondents (mainly investors...
Words of the Election
Following a course about Data Visualization, I've been playing with the excellent Tableau Public software and some data about the words used by speakers at the Democratic and Republican National Conventions....
Big Data and Risk Prevention
A user-base of 8.2 million generates data: a lot of data, and most of it in highly fragmented silos contained within different agencies and departments. It's the situation faced by the New York City...
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...
Newspapers today
Impressed by the emphasis dedicated to the launch of the iPhone 5, I checked the homepages of the four most highly circulated newspapers in Italy. ...
The Sistine Chapel
A visit to the Sistine Chapel was mentioned (here) as one of the most interesting achievements that could be obtained by "being on the Internet", I thought it would be worth posting a link. Sistine...
Il futuro di internet, 17 anni fa.
Questo video, prodotto nel 1995 in una scuola elementare del Montana, vinse nel 1996 un premio per il miglior Public Service Announcement (analogo alla nostra Pubblicità Progresso). Perché dovrei essere...
Italy, the Country of Clean Energy
I have just come across the 2011 edition of the Pew Charitable Trusts report, "Who's Winning the Clean Energy Race?", ranking the total investment on clean energy. In absolute terms, the...