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Storie e pensieri suoi e di altri, raccolti da Antonio Dini http://www.antoniodini.com
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Cos'è Costco e come funziona. Un pezzetto di storia del retail che da noi (per fortuna) non esiste.

Money quote: "On first impression, Costco makes no sense.

It is a place where you can buy, in the course of one trip, a 27-pound bucket of mac and cheese, a patio table, a wedding dress, a casket, a handle of gin, a tank of gas, a passport photo, a sheepskin rug, a chicken coop, prenoscription medications, life insurance, a $1.50 hotdog, and a $250,000 diamond ring.

Items sit on wooden pallets in dark, unmarked aisles. Brand selection is limited. And you pay a $60 annual membership fee just to get in the door.

The end goal: To cut the “fat” out of traditional retail and pass on the savings to loyal customers and employees."

https://thehustle.co/costco-membership-economics/
Segnatevi questo post: tra un annetto o giù di lì anche a Milano e in qualche altra città storica italiana parleranno di "foreste urbane". Scommettete?

Money quote: "Paris is what’s called an “urban heat island.” When there’s a heatwave, the city is typically much hotter than its suburban surroundings, or the French countryside. The mayor’s plan to plant “isles of coolness” will create natural shade over or around many of Paris’s iconic architectural sites, including the Eiffel Tower."

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/paris-climate-change-urban-forests-landmarks
Missioni impossibili: insegnare ai giornalisti a usare Excel (e poi Big Data e Data Visualization, why not?)

Money quote: "Even with some of the best data and graphics journalists in the business, we identified a challenge: data knowledge wasn’t spread widely among desks in our newsroom and wasn’t filtering into news desks’ daily reporting.
Yet fluency with numbers and data has become more important than ever. While journalists once were fond of joking that they got into the field because of an aversion to math, numbers now comprise the foundation for beats as wide ranging as education, the stock market, the Census and criminal justice. More data is released than ever before — there are nearly 250,000 datasets on data.gov alone — and increasingly, government, politicians and companies try to twist those numbers to back their own agendas."

https://open.nytimes.com/how-we-helped-our-reporters-learn-to-love-spreadsheets-adc43a93b919
Alla fine è così: Slack ha costruito una quotazione miliardaria sull'idea di poter rimpiazzare la mail. E c'è chi non è d'accordo. Una lettera aperta piuttosto rissosa.

Money quote: "I love what Slack has accomplished and think its success revealed a true need in the world — better work communication. However, I must say:
Your goal of replacing email with Slack is in complete conflict with the efficient flow of communication that gets real work done."

https://medium.com/swlh/why-slack-will-never-replace-email-873a20856716
Se volete progettare una applicazione che fa uso intensivo di dati, avete bisogno di riferimenti. Questo esercizio intrigante di data visualization vi fa vedere di quali libri di riferimento avrete bisogno

Money quote: "Start Here"

https://anvaka.github.io/greview/ddia/1/
Buona ricostruzione di Luca Sofri relativa al caso Lega-Russia e alla strategia per fare melina di Matteo Salvini

Money quote: "Quindi sfugge, fa battute, cambia argomento: metodicamente, da una settimana. Prende tempo e spera che passi.

È l’equivalente di “mi avvalgo della facoltà di non rispondere perché quello che direi potrebbe incriminarmi”, solo che lui è ministro e non imputato e quindi non ha diritto di avvalersene. E la giuria, quando nei film l’imputato dice così, ne trae una conclusione sola: che hai qualcosa da nascondere."

https://www.wittgenstein.it/2019/07/18/salvini-savoini-russia/
Ma Facebook ci è o ci fa? Secondo qualcuno, ci fa. E parecchio anche.

Money quote: "Note that this 'clumsy' move also applies to their Instagram colony, with (at least) millions of accounts affected. And, in this day and age, such behaviour should be processed with a criminal complaint. It won't happen, of course, but it should.

For this is no mistake, no blooper, no oversight, or anything of the kind. This is deliberate.

Here are the links to the FB announcement, if you want to waste your time."

https://rixstep.com/2/20190419,00.shtml
Nuove tendenze nella moda underground: lo strano caso delle contraffazioni all about Peppa Pig

Money quote: "How did a British cartoon character for little kids become so incredibly popular with fashionable adults in China — and how popular is it? Insanely. A WeChat video “What’s Peppa Pig,” an ad for a movie produced by Alibaba Entertainment opening Feb. 5 in China, debuted earlier this month and garnered 835 million views in its first week on the social media site."

https://jingdaily.com/peppa-pig-counterfeiters/