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In concomitanza con gli eventi olimpici di Vancouver, aria di novità per il noto sito di citizen journalism
In concomitanza con gli eventi olimpici di Vancouver, aria di novità per il noto sito di citizen journalism
Central Italy woke up again last night when a strong aftershock was perceived ar 2:52am. According to the first data available, it was reported initially as a 5.7 Richter quake, the USGS reported it as a 5.2 event.
Luckily – again we have perceived it clearly…
Hundreds of aftershocks of the violent earthquake that shook central Italy and destroyed half of the city of L’Aquila and many small centres in the province were reported thought last night and all day. April 6th ended up with an aftershock around midnight, while a stronger…
PM Silvio Berlusconi declared the “State of emergency” this morning, after last night’s strong quake that hit the L’Aquila province, in Abruzzo (central Italy), according to Repubblica.it.Berlusconi, who was also…
A little story about an independent music artist promoting herself on the Internet as an example of new digital distribution channels for music artists and the collapse of the traditional music industry.” Full…
It was 1981 when (now defunct) independent comic book publisher Pacific Comics asked artist Dave Stevens to do some short stories for them. Stevens had been given complete freedom about that and so he decided to…
When last october she performed in Kampala, Uganda, somebody said it would have been her last performance: apparently, Miriam “Mama Afrika” Makeba was about to retire. And why not do that in Uganda where…
Italian websites www.corriere.it and www.repubblica.it – respectively from noted newspapers Corriere della Sera and La Repubblica – reported today about the death of actor Paul Newman.Repubblica quotes some US…
“The last find about that improbable digital distributor called Qtrax happened here at Musicblob this morning: there’s apparently pirate music in Qtrax (!).”
Something strange happened today in Rome: the famous Fontana di Trevi suddenly had red water. The media are reporting a story about a man apparently aged 50 throwing a bucket with a red liquid into the fountain…
What’s happening with the “old economy” of major music labels? In the last few weeks apparently everyone from Radiohead to Madonna to Nine Inch Nails seemed in a rush to escape a rapidly declining system;…
Hmmm. This doesn’t mean any good for weather forecasts in the next few months… :(
“Scientists with NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center, in today’s release of its monthly El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO)…
A crowd of 50.000 today attended at tenor Luciano Pavarotti’s funeral.
Among them former UN Secretary Kofi Annan, Italian PM Romano Prodi (who made a short speech during the ceremony) and friends and colleagues such as U2’s Bono, Italian popstars Zucchero and Jovanotti;…
Luciano Pavarotti’s funeral is being held today in the Duomo of Modena at 3 PM (CET). Thousands have visited the cathedral to pay homage to the deceased tenor in the past two days. Yesterday the church was…
Tenor Luciano Pavarotti died this morning at 5 AM CET in his home, south of Modena, Italy.
His conditions had worsened in the past two days, and it seemed clear that he was about to die when he received honours…