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Piccolo Festival della Letteratura – Bassano del Grappa (Vicenza)

txt: www.piccolofestival.it Piccolo Festival della Letteratura (Small Literature Festival) Bassano del Grappa (Vicenza) 18-19-20 june 2010 Many writers feel less and less comfortable in a literary environment densely populated by publishers, editors, agents, distributors, brokers, advertising, chain bookstores, sales staff, cameras and photographers. The writer and his reader, the two most key chain, today are [...]

Six Memos for the Next Millennium (Lezioni americane)

txt: Six Memos for the Next Millennium (Vintage Books edition) Commentary on Lightness Italo Calvino’s Six Memos for the Next Millennium contains five memos, or personal testaments. The sixth was never written on paper. Each memo on lightness, quickness, exactitude, visibility, and multiplicity acts as a guideline for life and creativity. Six Memos for the [...]

21 March, World Poetry Day: the unrestricted pursuit of truth

txt: 2010 World Poetry Day “The Words of Nature, the Nature of Words” – UNESCO Doubling as International Year of Biodiversity and of the Rapprochement of Cultures, 2010 celebrates two essential facets of diversity: the heritage which is key to human life on Earth. Through poetry and science, humanity has been able to capture a [...]

Who finds 1000 True Fans finds a treasure

via: The Technium: 1,000 True Fans. The long tail is famously good news for two classes of people; a few lucky aggregators, such as Amazon and Netflix, and 6 billion consumers. Of those two, I think consumers earn the greater reward from the wealth hidden in infinite niches. But the long tail is a decidedly [...]

The knowledge economy is sharing

He who receives an idea from me receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson links: – Knowledge economy – wikipedia – What Is the Knowledge Economy? – New Zealand Ministry of Economic development – A Primer on the Knowledge Economy – [...]