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<!--Generated by Squarespace V5 Site Server v5.13.156 (http://www.squarespace.com) on Sat, 18 May 2013 19:12:55 GMT--><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"><title>Needful Things</title><subtitle>Needful Things</subtitle><id>http://www.needful-things.it/fromphate/</id><link rel="alternate" type="application/xhtml+xml" href="http://www.needful-things.it/fromphate/"/><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.needful-things.it/fromphate/atom.xml"/><updated>2012-12-17T12:27:23Z</updated><generator uri="http://five.squarespace.com/" version="Squarespace V5 Site Server v5.13.156 (http://www.squarespace.com)">Squarespace</generator><entry><title>How your mind can be a part of the democratic information</title><id>http://www.needful-things.it/fromphate/2012/11/25/how-your-mind-can-be-a-part-of-the-democratic-information.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.needful-things.it/fromphate/2012/11/25/how-your-mind-can-be-a-part-of-the-democratic-information.html"/><author><name>Simone Favarin</name></author><published>2012-11-25T09:02:46Z</published><updated>2012-11-25T09:02:46Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-GB"><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.newmush.com">
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To democratize knowledge can make sense only if we intend this idea as starting by people, by who, daily, live the world as we do, by who is a part of it.
]]></summary></entry><entry><title>Earth calls humans</title><category term="Environment"/><id>http://www.needful-things.it/fromphate/2012/7/23/earth-calls-humans.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.needful-things.it/fromphate/2012/7/23/earth-calls-humans.html"/><author><name>Simone Favarin</name></author><published>2012-07-23T08:46:23Z</published><updated>2012-07-23T08:46:23Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-GB"><![CDATA[<a href="http://s3.media.squarespace.com/production/896135/13707349/earth-calls-humans/"><img class="size-full wp-image-3085 " title="earth" src="http://s3.media.squarespace.com/production/896135/13707349/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/earth-638x425.jpeg" alt="" width="100%" /></a></p><p>The most hot night in Sydney, downpours and thunderstorms on Melbourne. Floods in Italy and France. <strong>Genoa</strong> bended to flooding. Earth is warning us. <br/>It’s not because of a hypothetical <em>apocalypse</em> calendar that we are subject to these events. Climate is changing rapidly also because of humans. The fault of violent tropical storms, of the more destructive hurricanes, of the endless south U.S.A tornadoes, of the floods disasters in Europe and
]]></summary></entry><entry><title>Journalists vs. Bloggers</title><category term="Social Media"/><category term="bloggers"/><category term="journalist"/><id>http://www.needful-things.it/fromphate/2012/7/3/journalists-vs-bloggers.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.needful-things.it/fromphate/2012/7/3/journalists-vs-bloggers.html"/><author><name>Ella Marciello</name></author><published>2012-07-03T14:55:40Z</published><updated>2012-07-03T14:55:40Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-GB"><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.needful-things.it/fromphate/2012/3/12/journalists-vs-bloggers.html"><img src="http://www.needful-things.it/storage/post-images/pic.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1331558528025" alt="" width="100%" /></a><span style="font-size: 60%;">photo by: photosteve101</span>
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<p>The furious debate&nbsp;<em>(ignited by whom?</em>) that involves journalists against bloggers reverberates for some time more than the fireworks during<strong> St. John celebrations</strong> <em>(to whom that don&rsquo;t know Turin, St. john is our patron saint, to whom that don&rsquo;t know St. John&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_the_Baptist)">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_the_Baptist)</a>.</em></p>
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<p>Lighted up by a never dulled fire, journalists and bloggers arm a sort of cold war, a veiled but felt fight, a conflict that starts with culture and ends with ideology.</p>
]]></summary></entry><entry><title>Los colores de México</title><category term="Design Journey"/><category term="design"/><category term="life"/><category term="mexico"/><id>http://www.needful-things.it/fromphate/2012/6/19/los-colores-de-mexico.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.needful-things.it/fromphate/2012/6/19/los-colores-de-mexico.html"/><author><name>Rodrigo Lépez Vela</name></author><published>2012-06-19T08:48:22Z</published><updated>2012-06-19T08:48:22Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-GB"><![CDATA[<span class="full-image-block ssNonEditable"><span><img src="http://www.needful-things.it/storage/post-images/Schermata 04-2456033 alle 10.03.39.png?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1334477122559" alt="" width="100%" /></span></span>
￼I originally come from Mexico from a French-Spanish family. I have lived a great part of my life changing countries and learning from new cultures always based on my own…<br /><br />
]]></summary></entry><entry><title>Collective Intelligentsia</title><category term="Social Media"/><category term="Web Design"/><id>http://www.needful-things.it/fromphate/2012/6/1/collective-intelligentsia.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.needful-things.it/fromphate/2012/6/1/collective-intelligentsia.html"/><author><name>Simone Favarin</name></author><published>2012-06-01T14:12:29Z</published><updated>2012-06-01T14:12:29Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-GB"><![CDATA[<img src="http://s3.media.squarespace.com/production/896135/13707349/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/3864724077_ca88bc2bb4_b.jpg" alt="" title="From Webster's New Illustrated Dictionary based on the Unabridged Dictionary of Noah Webster, Revised and edited by Edward T. Roe and Charles Leonard-Stuart, Published by syndicate Publishing Company of New York in 1911. The illustration above is titled Races of People" width="100%"  class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3208" /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/perpetualplum/" target="_blank" class="credit">photo by perpetualplum </a><br /><br/><blockquote>&#8220;An intelligence distributed everywhere, constantly enhanced, coordinated in real time, which leads to an effective skills mobilization&#8221;.</blockquote><br/>In my post <a title="Earth calls humans" href="http://www.needful-things.it/earth-calls-humans/">earth calls humans </a>I touched on a <strong>global solution</strong> based on the <strong>collective intelligence</strong>. 
]]></summary></entry><entry><title>Picture Thinking, designing web thinking in pictures</title><category term="Web Design"/><category term="picture thinking"/><category term="web"/><id>http://www.needful-things.it/fromphate/2012/3/29/picture-thinking-designing-web-thinking-in-pictures.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.needful-things.it/fromphate/2012/3/29/picture-thinking-designing-web-thinking-in-pictures.html"/><author><name>Simone Favarin</name></author><published>2012-05-27T13:14:31Z</published><updated>2012-05-27T13:14:31Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-GB"><![CDATA[<img src="http://s3.media.squarespace.com/production/896135/13707349/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/3297222170_d9e751ba3a_b.jpg" alt="" title="3297222170_d9e751ba3a_b" width="100%" class="size-full wp-image-3164" /><span class="full-image-block ssNonEditable"> picture by cogdogblog</span></span><br/><br/><blockquote>Almost all of creative, but also business-men with more rational logics, are able to do it. Visual thinking can increase the Web Design productivity</blockquote><br/><strong>Using pictures it’s possible to thinking</strong>, acting, designing and planning. This is what almost all the people working in the creative sphere, but it can also be applied to managers and business-men who have more rational logics.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>Facebook Social Supernova</title><id>http://www.needful-things.it/fromphate/2012/4/6/facebook-social-supernova.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.needful-things.it/fromphate/2012/4/6/facebook-social-supernova.html"/><author><name>Simone Favarin</name></author><published>2012-04-06T08:17:41Z</published><updated>2012-04-06T08:17:41Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-GB"><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.needful-things.it/fromphate/2012/2/12/facebook-social-supernova.html"><address><img class="size-full wp-image-3259" title="fb" src="http://www.needful-things.it/storage/fb-638x425.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1332112735015" alt="" width="100%"/><span style="color: #c0c0c0;">photo by GOIABA (Goiabarea)</span></address></a>
Collective intelligence, social networking and innovative marketing. All the Facebook advantages and disadvantages.
]]></summary></entry><entry><title>Las fiestas de Gracia</title><id>http://www.needful-things.it/fromphate/2012/4/1/las-fiestas-de-gracia.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.needful-things.it/fromphate/2012/4/1/las-fiestas-de-gracia.html"/><author><name>Rodrigo Lépez Vela</name></author><published>2012-04-01T10:53:26Z</published><updated>2012-04-01T10:53:26Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-GB"><![CDATA[<img width="100%" src="http://www.needful-things.it/storage/post-images/Las-fiestas-de-Gracia_ingles-2.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1315347412541" alt=""/><br /><p>

During the summer the Catalan people seize the 
city and the weather to offer us celebrations full of creativity and originality  
<em>Barcelona</em> is divided into several neighborhoods that have a particular and 
unique story.</p>
]]></summary></entry><entry><title>Home Project</title><category term="Environment"/><id>http://www.needful-things.it/fromphate/2012/3/30/home-project.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.needful-things.it/fromphate/2012/3/30/home-project.html"/><author><name>Simone Favarin</name></author><published>2012-03-30T11:01:07Z</published><updated>2012-03-30T11:01:07Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-GB"><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.needful-things.it/fromphate/2012/3/30/home-project.html"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3139" title="earth" src="http://s3.media.squarespace.com/production/896135/13707349/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/earth.jpg" alt="" width="100%" /><br/></a>
]]></summary></entry><entry><title>Principle of Contrast</title><id>http://www.needful-things.it/fromphate/2012/3/30/principle-of-contrast.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.needful-things.it/fromphate/2012/3/30/principle-of-contrast.html"/><author><name>Andrew Favarin</name></author><published>2012-03-30T10:15:31Z</published><updated>2012-03-30T10:15:31Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-GB"><![CDATA[<p>Here&rsquo;s the second article for the column Into the Mind. Let&#8217;s talk about persuasion. But <strong>what is and how does it work?&nbsp;</strong></p>
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