One Is Not Like The Other

Two months that shook Lombardy

How the coronavirus epidemic has shattered the confidence of the richest and most populous region of Italy

«Then stop it»

“This violence must stop.” So President Obama declared the other day about the depravity in Tripoli. This “must” is a strange mixture of stridency and passivity. It is the deontic locution familiar from the editorial pages of newspapers, where people who have no power to change the course of events demand that events change their [...]

La bolla di iPad/2

Da aggiungere a quel che dicevamo: It’s long been an article of faith among media optimists that the shift to digital publishing would be a good thing for publishers in the long run, freeing them of the burden of their biggest costs: paper, printing and postage. That’s why I was surprised to hear David Link, founder and creative [...]

Si differenzia

“È di qualcuno?”

Quelli di Gizmodo pensano che l’iPhone dimenticato in un bar californiano sia davvero il nuovo iPhone 4G Why we think it’s definitely real We’re as skeptical—if not more—than all of you. We get false tips all the time. But after playing with it for about a week—the overall quality feels exactly like a finished final Apple phone—and [...]

The 15 hours long down of Skype

The famous service for videocalls and chat has been offline from 10.20 am (CET) of September 21st, until 1 am of the following day

links for 2011-03-30

American Embarrassment – Joe Klein "This is my 10th presidential campaign, Lord help me. I have never before seen such a bunch of vile, desperate-to-please, shameless, embarrassing losers coagulated under a single party's banner. They are the most compelling argument I've seen against American exceptionalism. [...] There are those who say, cynically, if this is [...]

Fatti i conti

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other H.G. Wells, English author (nato oggi nel 1866)

links for 2010-04-13

Obama spokesman Gibbs sounds eager for future strategist role – Washington Post Bel ritratto del portavoce della Casa Bianca Robert Gibbs – quello con le cravattone sgargianti – che presto potrebbe lasciare il podio della sala stampa per fare da consigliere del presidente. Baconfest Chicago: these people dig the pig – A Tuscan foodie in America "You have [...] Sullo stesso tema:Occhio links for 2009-02-15 links for 2010-04-12

Il baseball è come la vita

L’accidente della “partita imperfetta” della settimana scorsa ha scatenato le celebrazioni della grandezza letteraria del baseball. Bruce Weber sul New York Times: That reality, in fact, should tell us something about the nature of baseball, which is the least programmatic, the least technological of games. It doesn’t even have a clock. The fields have widely varying shapes [...]

Bullshit vs. giornalismo

Rot

Newsweek, “Il Paese del bunga-bunga“: It’s 8:30 p.m., and all eyes turn to Italy’s most popular satirical news program, Striscia la Notizia (Strip the News). Two middle-aged men stand under a strobe light, one of them holding a belt from which dangles a vaguely phallic string of garlic. A woman slides across the floor on her [...]

Al passo

Nel loro nuovo libro due studiosi americani di giornalismo affrontano le differenti crisi del giornalismo in vari stati, e sotto il profilo dell’invadenza della politica mettono l’Italia nelle condizioni dei paesi di più recente accesso all’Unione Europea. It is true that public media are under some pressure in several European countries, including Italy and to some [...]

Dettagli

Ieri sul New York Times la column del Nobel per l’Economia Paul Krugman si apriva così: What will Ben Bernanke, the Fed chairman, say in his big speech Friday in Jackson Hole, Wyo.? Will he hint at new steps to boost the economy? Stay tuned. But we can safely predict what he and other officials will say [...]

Facebook changes again his algorithm for pages

Brand pages should pay more attention to how they publish their links

Netflix metterà i soldi per finire un famoso film incompiuto di Orson Welles

Si chiama "The Other Side of the Wind", e negli ultimi 40 anni le bobine sono rimaste chiuse in una cassaforte di Parigi per una disputa legale

Questo articolo non avreste voluto leggerlo

Un pezzo del New Yorker sull’importanza della titolazione giornalistica mette per iscritto una cosa che in parte sappiamo [Continua]

Qualcosa che val la pena vedere

First day Rimini