Luca De Biase: Italy

Thanks Japan

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:36:44 GMT

Thanks Japan

Japan is a civilization that knows its responsibility in the world. Thanks! (see what happened via Repubblica).

Danger in Italy

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 07:11:41 GMT

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Danger in Italy

Minister of defense Ignazio La Russa said that 2,500 soldiers would be available to patrol Italian cities. Thus, fear of change in Italy is transformed in a need for the army to control the territory. Indifference seems the reaction. Italians seem to have had too much of political fighting. They want results. Any results. In this context, strange things happen: people with Nazi symbols feel free to commit crimes against immigrants and a bishop resumes a catholic censorship, blocking the publication of a study about the history of catholic censorship. It may seem that some more order is needed in Italy. That's why not many people protest. But at the same time the government is trying to reduce the ability to use phone taps as a tool for magistrates to search crimes such as corruption.

Tag: Italy, Italian, BridgeBlogging
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Garbage State

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 06:36:29 GMT

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Garbage State

–Experts have agreed on the suitability of the Chianiano dump. Confirmed by the Prime Minister during a press conference on the waste emergency in Naples, explaining that in case of further protests, “the State will become the State again”, or better still, said the Premier «“The State will use force»”. Chianiano will be a military zone with a protected dump – he concluded – those who oppose will be prosecuted”. (AGI)

What will happen if protesters will move against the dump - as they already did - with women and children in the front rows? What will do the army then? Will they arrest hundreds of people? Will they shut? I'm hopeful it will not be the case. And I know that most of Italy wants the waste problem in Naples to be solved. It will be a matter of dealing with Camorra, with local population, and with contradictory political authorities in Naples and in Rome. But it is clear that we are playing with the fire. The waste problem in Naples have been a sort of terroristic attack on the previous government. It must be solved. With an idea of the State that is not a Carbage State. But a State that we can be proud of...

Tag: Italy, Italian, BridgeBlogging
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Wrap up

Sat, 24 May 2008 07:45:04 GMT

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Just to wrap up

Nuclear power (start in 5 years, operational in 2020). Bridge between Calabria and Sicilia (start in 2 years, finished in 2016). Waste in Campania (new storage sites now, under the army's protection; intelligent treatment in 3 years). New bosses in secret services. A change in taxation (no more local property tax, some more taxes on banks - with no protection for consumer against the possibility that banks will make them pay for this rise in taxation - and central refund to local authorities). A change in mortgages (pay less now but for a longer time). And of course some more problems for immigrants who are not regularly entering Italy. In the meantime they saved one of the three major private television networks - owned by the same family group that leads the government - from a pending European decision that seemed to ask for it being broadcasted only by satellite and digital terrestrial tv. I'm surely forgetting some of the many decisions that were made in just a few days by the government. They are doing a lot. Controversial decisions are too many to be really discussed. Which can even be a good idea. But time in Italy is history. And that doesn't seem to be able to speed up more than a little bit.

(In the meanwhile, the American federal administration is sendig illegal immigrants to jail in Iowa)

Tag: Italy, Italian, BridgeBlogging
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Illegal immigration

Thu, 22 May 2008 05:46:48 GMT

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Illegal immigration

Illegal immigration in Italy will become a crime if a proposed new government bill will be approved. Ignorance of the law is not an excuse. But how will people in Nigeria or Senegal or anywhere else in the world know about Italian new laws?

Tag: Italy, Italian, BridgeBlogging
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Italy and Spain

Wed, 21 May 2008 07:07:16 GMT

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Italy and Spain

Some Spanish politicians have criticized the Italian government for its intentions against clandestine immigrants and nomadic people. The Italian government has asked for a stop, suggesting that the Spanish are interfering in Italian internal matters. It is the usual, very Italian, mistaken use of words: it seems to me that the Spanish didn't interfere, just spoke out their ideas. Should everybody shut up about Italian politics? Is this what the new government is asking?

Tag: Italy, Italian, BridgeBlogging
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Aldo Moro (en.)

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 16:36:59 GMT

Aldo Moro

Aldo Moro was kidnapped 30 years ago. The Red Brigades killed all the policemen that were with him while he was going to his first meeting in the morning. And 55 days after that day, they killed Moro, too. Italy had chosen to obey the United States and the government didn't do anything to deal with the terrorists to save Moro's life. Italian Christian Democracy had felt sort of innocent until the day that Moro was killed. The entire country lost some of its selfdeclared innocence. Italy remained sort of alone with its dark secrets.

Tag: Aldo Moro, Italy

BridgeBlogging - The Human Connection

Sun, 06 Jan 2008 09:15:08 GMT

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Bruce Sterling will not read my book in time
Unweekly spot about Italian news. (Sorry for my weak English).

Next Wednesday I'll be in Turin to speak about my new book. And because Bruce Sterling will be there I thought that I should write something short about my book in English. But thinking about this, I suddenly understood that if I wanted to be useful to Bruce, I should make some hard decisions.

The title, for example, is good in Italian but wrong in English. The simple translation would sound wrong, like: "Happiness economics. From the blogosphere to the value of gift and beyond".

In English I would propose something like:

The Human Connection.
Happiness economics and the blogosphere.

It is a book about three stories that are linked together.

1. Human voice. Using blogs and social networks, people have been building a new horizontal medium in which every person is author, public and transmitter. People express and connect. And use a human voice: which is different from mass media that used an impersonal, inhuman, commercially driven voice.

2. Human economics. Markets are conversations, but the industrial and financial version of them has become impersonal and mass oriented. Economists have been asking themselves "why there is no link between happiness and growth in consumption and wages?". And they found out that happiness is much more linked to other kind of goods that they call "relationship goods": time and quality of human relations are more valuable in terms of happiness than the consumption of the latest new cell phone.

3. Humanism 2.0. Both phenomena (the recent boom in blogosphere and happiness economics) are linked to deeper changes. We live in a general transformation, we are talking a lot about the new cultural paradigm that will overcome the present economic paradigm, and we think that the new historical period, after the "industrial age", will be called "the age of knowledge". We don't know much what we are talking about here: but we know that it will be an age in which immaterial values, creativity, quality as a frontier of growth and progress, and above all personal, human relations, will be much more important than they where in the past.

In this age, science, technology and cretivity are connected in a way that make us think at the Renaissance. What we need from both the media and the economy is a structural innovation that will give back to us some of the personal, human dimensions that we lost in the mass-media-industrial-consumption-financial age.

BridgeBlogging

Sat, 04 Aug 2007 09:25:39 GMT

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Shade in Italy: Italian peculiar passion for sports
Weekly - sort of - spot about Italian news. (Sorry for my weak English).

After participating to the Luis Vuitton Cup and being badly beaten by New Zeland, Luna Rossa has announced that it will not participate again. Sports are very popular in Italy, when Italians win. When they lose they are not popular anymore. Something is wrong.

Previous Shades:
Transparency, the Italian way (July 28th, 2007)
Yin and Yang, the Italian way (July 21st, 2007)
Waiting for the collapse: as always (July 14th, 2007)
Secret services for secret goverments (July 7th, 2007)
Democratic Cocktail Party (June 30th, 2007)
Bush was here today and... (June 9th, 2007)
Les trois ordres (June 2nd, 2007)
Politics and Entrepreneurs (May 26th, 2007)

Tag: Italy, Italian, Shade in Italy

bridgeblogging

BridgeBlogging

Sat, 28 Jul 2007 14:31:44 GMT

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Shade in Italy: Transparency, the Italian way
Weekly - sort of - spot about Italian news. (Sorry for my weak English).

Foreign minister, Massimo D'Alema and Ds Party leader Piero Fassino are among those whose calls were taped by judges while investigating the failed acquisition of Bnl by Unipol. Piero Fassino has asked the Parliament to let the judges use the tapes so that he can prove his total innocence. Paradoxically, the television tycoon and the Right Wing leader - yes, him - fiercely opposed this trial against Fassino to be allowed. Transparency, the Italian way...

Previous Shades:
Yin and Yang, the Italian way (July 21st, 2007)
Waiting for the collapse: as always (July 14th, 2007)
Secret services for secret goverments (July 7th, 2007)
Democratic Cocktail Party (June 30th, 2007)
Bush was here today and... (June 9th, 2007)
Les trois ordres (June 2nd, 2007)
Politics and Entrepreneurs (May 26th, 2007)

Tag: Italy, Italian, Shade in Italy

bridgeblogging

BridgeBlogging

Sat, 21 Jul 2007 09:16:47 GMT

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Shade in Italy: Yin and Yang, the Italian way
Weekly - sort of - spot about Italian news. (Sorry for my weak English).

While the government has finally succeeded in finding an agreement with trade unions about pensions, which seems good, a judge has asked the Parliament the permission to use some phone calls recordings in proving some financial wrong doings: those phone calls include the Foreign minister and some other political leaders. Which seems bad. Good and bad seem to always go together in Italy. But we are never sure which is which.

Previous Shades:
Waiting for the collapse: as always (July 14th, 2007)
Secret services for secret goverments (July 7th, 2007)
Democratic Cocktail Party (June 30th, 2007)
Bush was here today and... (June 9th, 2007)
Les trois ordres (June 2nd, 2007)
Politics and Entrepreneurs (May 26th, 2007)

Tag: Italy, Italian, Shade in Italy

bridgeblogging

BridgeBlogging

Sat, 14 Jul 2007 08:06:13 GMT

Bridgeblogging
Shade in Italy: Waiting for the collapse. As always
Weekly - sort of - spot about Italian news. (Sorry for my weak English).

Every week is lived as if it was the last possible week. But then we find that there is always a next week. This is unbearable: every week the government risks to go under because it only has a few more supporters than the opposition; every week the opposition affirms the idea that the real Italy has already abandoned the government and would like the government to go away; every week something of what we should do is done and many things that we need are not even talked about. We have lost contact... can you hear me?

Previous Shades:
Secret services for secret goverments (July 7th, 2007)
Democratic Cocktail Party (June 30th, 2007)
Bush was here today and... (June 9th, 2007)
Les trois ordres (June 2nd, 2007)
Politics and Entrepreneurs (May 26th, 2007)

Tag: Italy, Italian, Shade in Italy

bridgeblogging

BridgeBlogging

Sat, 07 Jul 2007 15:34:33 GMT

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Shade in Italy: Secret services for secret governments
Weekly - sort of - spot about Italian news. (Sorry for my weak English).

The week has been very sad for Italians. The present government is not able to tell where it is headed and people, of course, doesn't understand. But while the majority is discussing almost about everything, a new scandal has emerged.

While the Right was leading the country, between 2001 and 2006, a special section in the secret services is accused to have been spying on judges considered linked to the Left. The former premier and now vocal leader of the opposition has been just too quick to say that it was not him who ordered that spying.

It would be interesting to know who ordered it because it seems that the former head of the secret service is interested in saying that he was just serving his government by doing that illigal spying. Thus there are only two possible solutions: 1. we have a former premier that is lying about the secret service, 2. we had a secret premier and of course we didn't know. The third possibility is that all this is no true at all and for some secret reasons it just came out now.

Previous Shades:
Democratic Cocktail Party (June 30th, 2007)
Bush was here today and... (June 9th, 2007)
Les trois ordres (June 2nd, 2007)
Politics and Entrepreneurs (May 26th, 2007)

Tag: Italy, Italian, Shade in Italy

bridgeblogging

BridgeBlogging

Sat, 30 Jun 2007 15:32:30 GMT

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Shade in Italy: Democratic Cocktail Party...
Weekly - sort of - spot about Italian news. (Sorry for my weak English).

Rome Mayor, Walter Veltroni, has been moving the political scene here in Italy. He has offered his candidacy to lead the Democratic Party. All different components of what can become a new party have reacted in all different ways. Catholics, Unionists, Leftists, Postcommunists, Powerists...

Veltroni has criticized the Italian Left for being historically oriented to fight against wealth, while he thinks that it should be preferable fight against poverty. He has been talking about lowering taxes and increasing citizens' security. I didn't hear much discussion about these issues. I only heard talking about positioning and maneuvering.

We have a political class that is fixed in building compromises and that is not engaged in creating a vision. Which is, instead, what we badly need. Veltroni has started a sort of vision. But in general, Italian politicians don't care about vision. Italians do, though.

But Italians have not enough society. They should develop a movement approach. They should make their values and issues heard more. This is the only way to move politicians to think about issues. Italians are not happy with their political class. They should start doing something about it: stop complaining and start discussing. Blogs could help. They should be many more...

Previous Shades:
Bush was here today and... (June 9th, 2007)
Les trois ordres (June 2nd, 2007)
Politics and Entrepreneurs (May 26th, 2007)

Tag: Italy, Italian, Shade in Italy

bridgeblogging

BridgeBlogging

Sat, 09 Jun 2007 17:40:45 GMT

Bridgeblogging
Shade in Italy: Bush was here and...
Weekly - sort of - spot about Italian news. (Sorry for my weak English).

George W. Bush was here today. Rome was prepared. People from all over went to Rome to make Bush feel at home. If he didn't have his share of protesters around every day he would probably ask "what happens?". When Bush comes nobody is safe. This Shade comes in a reduced version. Because my blog's address is down... Sorry. Hope it come up again soon...

Previous Shades:
Les trois ordres (June 2nd, 2007)
Politics and Entrepreneurs (May 26th, 2007)

Tag: Italy, Italian, Shade in Italy

bridgeblogging

BridgeBlogging

Mon, 04 Jun 2007 06:41:52 GMT

Secret Italy

An article by Giuseppe D'Avanzo, published by La Repubblica, shows how a secret private service has built such an amount of information to be able to influence - and even control - the very highest of Italian political power. With no distinction between Left and Right. The only difference between now and the previous government's period is in the opportunity for Italians to read about all of it.

Tag: Italy, Italian, Shade in Italy

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Bridgeblogging

Sat, 02 Jun 2007 14:15:07 GMT

Bridgeblogging

Sat, 02 Jun 2007 11:04:51 GMT

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Shade in Italy: Les trois ordres
Weekly - sort of - spot about Italian news. (Sorry for my weak English).

Today is Festa della Repubblica. But Italians are discussing about something very old: the Republic is what we see, but the real power is somewhere else. Where?

Giuseppe De Rita, a sociologist, has been writing about the two separate oligarchies that have the real power in Italy: an oligarchy that controls the state and an oligarchy that control finance are at works to govern the country. But we should add one more, to be precise: the oligarchy that control the Church. We still have a system organized in a medieval way, similar to the one that Georges Duby has described in his essai called Les trois ordres, ou l'imaginarie du féodalisme.

Les trois ordres work separately and have different access systems, with some overlapping. None have total control and none is able to steadly overcome the other two. How the game is going at the moment? The Church is working to get back to its golden days in which it deeply influenced Italian policy. The Economist this week describes its ability to stop the government in its tentative zapaterism. But of course it is not easy to be credible when some priests are accused of wrongdoing by a major show published by the public owned television. The political oligarchy is apparently weak but deeply rooted: both Left and Right have their part of the economic and social power. But it is divided and short sighted. Entrepreneurs and financiers experience some more difficulties at the moment, because of international pressures: thus, they are talking about reforming and they seem to be better focused in the much needed development of a project for a new Italy. The problem is that they don't seem to be very creatively elaborating a new thinking.

Italians badly need a new vision of themselves and their future: no oligarchy can be able to do this job. Society needs to make itself heard. Blogging can be a way. But it is only a medium: the content is the people. I hope they will start writing.

Documents:
Mario Draghi, Bank of Italy's governor. Considerazioni finali
Confindustria's president proposals

Previous Shades:
Politics and Entrepreneurs (May 26th, 2007)

Tag: Italy, Italian, Shade in Italy

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Bridgeblogging

Sat, 26 May 2007 10:13:39 GMT

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Shade in Italy: Politics and Entrepreneurs
Weekly - sort of - spot about Italian news. (Sorry for my weak English).

His full name is Luca Cordero di Montezemolo. He is chairman of Fiat, Ferrari, Confindustria. He has not inherited his fortune: he made it for himself by working loyally for the Agnelli Family. And he found his success by helping Ferrari win a lot of cups. But his name is too long: thus, some people call him Montezemolo, some others Cordero, many just Luca. Such is the destiny of aristocratic sounding names.

This week Luca Cordero di Montezemolo has spoken to the country as Confindustria's leader. He said that Italian politics is a heavy burden for Italian economy. But he conquered the headlines for what he has not said: everybody commented about his possible wish to become a politician. Which is quite paradoxical: if politics is a burden why should he wish to become a burden? But it is telling about Italian culture: you never look at what someone says, you always look at what someone is supposed to be really saying. Reveal secrets is thought to be the only game: understanding facts seems so boring.

Facts are that Confindustria is criticising the government for what it is not able to do to liberalize the country. This should be analysed. Is it true or not? But it doesn't matter. The way to solve the debate is: he is telling us this story because he wants a new job. Italians know that we must reform our country. But it is difficult: solidarity has become privilege, young people have little chance to emerge and even to find a steady job if they really want to innovate, and the rich become richer and richer by not paying their taxes. Informal economy seems to be enormous in Italy, making informal the whole system of rights and rules.

To reform all this we have a government with a very small majority. And a majority that goes from entrepreneurs till workers. Under the umbrella of a common feeling about the previous government, lead by a populist television tycoon. It is a weak government that we have. But it could become stronger if it matured a more sofisticated vision. This is what Luca Cordero di Montezemolo is talking about. Should Montezemolo think that he would replace the government for the better? I don't think so: the establishment is very difficult to reform and only a common set of values, a common vision, can achieve the objective. We need to convince ourselves that we are facing a very deep transformation and that we must mature a vision about our future, to quicly move towards it. This needs to be done by a political aggregation that goes beyond the anti-Right aggregation. But it must be reassuring also for the poor. How this all can be done? Surely not by a short sighted tactics. But politicians that really want to help can bet on one idea: Italians want a long term vision and are ready to work to make it real. But the vision must be a just and nice one. Not only economic growth: we need to talk about happiness.

Luca Cordero di Montezemolo (wikipedia, in Italian)
La Repubblica covers the story ("I will not become a politician")
Il Sole 24 ore (speaches and documents)

Tag: Italy, Italian, Shade in Italy

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Help wanted in Italy

Thu, 01 Feb 2007 13:25:05 GMT

Italy is a mediatic disaster

No country is mediatically wrong as Italy. Television is in the hands of a big private company owned by the major politician of the opposition. The government has proposed a law to correct this situation, but that is not going to pass because it is technically mistaken.

Repubblica, one of the main daily newspapers, used to be serious and critical. But Repubblica has printed a story in page one about a family problem that affects the same leader of the opposition: it is a bad sign. It seems to lead to a sort of transformation: it is like the New York Times becoming the Daily Mirror. We need help!

Lario

Thu, 01 Feb 2007 13:07:48 GMT

Forlani, la seconda Repubblica e Veronica

Stavo cercando un paragone per descrivere la sensazione che ho provato vedendo che la lettera di Veronica Lario al marito in apertura della Repubblica ieri. Pensavo che fosse una situazione simile alla trasformazione del New York Times nel Daily Mirror. Poi ho scoperto che il New York Times ha dedicato un sacco di spazio alla vicenda.

Siamo immersi in una vicenda mediatica allucinogena. E non se ne può più. La notizia era da breve in pagina otto. C'è ormai chi urla: aridatece Forlani...

Le difficolta' di chi ragiona per settori

Sat, 27 Jan 2007 08:51:11 GMT

Perché tutto questo caos?
Il governo per settori industriali non si capisce più

Le operazioni di liberalizzazione del ministro Bersani non riescono a trovare accoclienza positiva. Chi ne è contento tace. Chi ne è scontento urla. Risultato: ogni mossa di Bersani sembra conquistargli una sorda stima di molti e una disastrosa conflittualità con pochi.

Logico, da un certo punto di vista. I vantaggi delle liberalizzazioni, tentate o portate fino in fondo, sembrano avvantaggiare un poco tutti ma svantaggiare molto alcuni. Per cui il rumore delle proteste è superiore ai commenti positivi.

E' probabile peraltro che le liberalizzazioni possano portare benefici al sistema in termini di maggiore concorrenza. Con qualche effetto disinflazionistico che si potrebbe addirittura sentire nel potere d'acquisto di tutti.

Che cosa si dovrebbe fare per non assistere a questa situazione, dunque?

Ovviamente il primo tema è comunicare meglio. La finanziaria pesante si era resa necessaria per il buco lasciato dal precedente governo. Ma perché non dirlo chiaro? Invece si è prodotto uno stillicidio di annunci negativi che ha lasciato l'impressione in tutti di averci rimesso molto più di quanto effettivamente non sia stato. E senza la consapevolezza chiara dei vantaggi che da questa finanziaria deriveranno.

Per comunicare meglio le liberalizzazioni occorre fare uno sforzo di astrazione. Proporrei questo schema interpretativo:
1. Non siamo più nell'epoca industriale ma nell'era della conoscenza.
2. Dunque non si ragiona più per settori industriali, ma si affronta il concetto di ecosistema.
3. Questo significa che si conosce la logica caotica che governa l'economia e si abbandona l'idea che il sistema sia un insieme di funzioni lineari.
4. A questo punto non si agisce più su singole categorie ma si parla dell'insieme descrivendo non la singola misura che tocca una piccola parte del sistema ma sempre l'architettura complessiva dell'operazione in atto (seppure realizzata per tappe).
5. Non si descrivono le misure come indirizzate a taxisti o edicolanti ma in quanto tese ad aumentare le opportunità di sviluppo per tutti: si vogliono far sparire non le barriere difensive delle categorie ma i vincoli alla crescita di ciascun business!

In ogni caso lo stillicidio è deleterio.

Lo dimostra la diversa accoglienza ottenuta dalle misure annunciate da Gentiloni. Parla di sistema, avvia consultazioni, si pone come regolatore non come giocatore nella partita competitiva dei media. E riesce a mantenere la sua credibilità. Tanto che per contrastarlo deve scendere in campo lo stesso capo dell'opposizione con frasi evidentemente rischiose per la sua immagine di politico perché lo rigettano nella sua funzione di capoazienda ("un piano criminale contro le mie proprietà private").

Ho l'impressione che Bersani e Padoa Schioppa dovrebbero imparare da Gentiloni. Anche perché Gentiloni ha chiaramente imparato da internet. Non è un paradosso: per conoscere le dinamiche fondamentali della società della conscenza si deve riflettere profondamente. E l'unico laboratorio che consente di riconoscere i fatti che segnalano le tendenze di fondo nel nuovo paradigma della conoscenza (il mondo post-industriale) è proprio internet.

Vorrei sapere che ne pensano a Margo.

Tag: governo, liberalizzazioni, epoca della conoscenza

innovazione e design

Wed, 22 Nov 2006 21:17:05 GMT

Innovazione e design

Oggi pomeriggio al convegno organizzato da Domus Academy, Kanso, Borsa italiana, Nòva24 e Sole 24 Ore.

Tosto. Interessante. Ne sono venuto fuori con impressioni forti. Luca Lombardo della Borsa ha dimostrato come le aziende quotate che si sono concentrate sul design hanno ottenuto risultati eccezionali sul mercato finanziario. E poi alcuni esempi di come l'impatto della "cultura del progetto", cioè la cultura del design, abbia ricreato un importante futuro ad alcune aziende.

Per la verità, non c'è niente di meglio che condividere la presentazione, splendida, di Andrea Granelli che (non me ne vorrà, spero) riproduco qui sotto:

innovazione, design, Andrea Granelli

Cia in Italy

Tue, 25 Jul 2006 13:18:59 GMT

Secret services in Italy

Adamo Bove was the security officer in Telecom Italia. He was helping Italian judges in their inquiry about the kidnapping of a supposed terrorist by the secret services. The American Cia is thought to have taken part in the action. He committed suicide on Friday.

He was a tough guy with a carrier in the police. And he previously worked in fighting the Camorra, organized crime in Naples.

Judges in Naples, where his body was found, don't believe that he committed suicide without a cause. They seem to think that somebody could have brought him to do it. Is this going to become another Italian mystery? Are Americans still using Italy as a sort of colonial territory?

Italian moral decline

Thu, 22 Jun 2006 05:35:12 GMT

The man who was meant to be king of Italy

The man who was meant to be king of Italy seems to have been found making business with mafia representatives, making money with whores, making political moves with post-fascists. Some of his friends in the post-fascist party seem to have been found working out decisions for the state owned television by having sex with people that wanted to have a popular carreer. A powerful anchorman seems to have been found promising post-fascist representatives to organize some television news shows in a way that was "taylor made" around their needs. Former members of the government, connected with the right wing coalition that ruled Italy during the last 5 years, are denying al the allegations

Very sad...

------------------------ A better English version... :-) Some of his friends, members of the post-fascist party, have been accused to have connections with some dodgy business. They were selling careers on public tv shows in exchange for certain kind of "sexual favours" A powerful anchorman seems to have been found promising post-fascist representatives to organize some television news shows in a way that was "taylor made" around their needs. Former members of the government, connected with the right wing coalition that ruled Italy during the last 5 years, are denying al the allegations

Very very sad...
(thanks to Alessandro Longo...)