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This morn­ing I was dri­ving to the office and was lis­ten­ing to a radio pro­gram talki­ing about politics.

Basi­cally they were say­ing that politi­cians in Italy are among the old­est ones in the world. That is true. You can sim­ply have a look at Sen­ato della Repub­blica or at the Cam­era dei Dep­u­tati web site and go through the biographies.

I want to stay away from any polit­i­cal con­sid­er­a­tion here but I have to notice that at least one guy between them is try­ing to be innovative.

The name of the guy is Anto­nio di Pietro. Again no con­sid­er­a­tions on what he is doing right now or what he has done in the past.

I think he is try­ing a very dif­fer­ent approach to politics:

• He is one of the few politi­cians who owns a web site with an eng­lish trans­la­tion (Decent trans­la­tion I have to add).
• This web site is a weblog and com­ments are open.
• He has been the first to decide to pub­lish the out­comes of the Coun­cil of Min­is­ters on YouTube.
• He has pur­chased and opened a Sec­ond Life island for his party.

This is really amazing.

Why do I blog this ? We live in times where the dis­tance between peo­ple and politi­cians in increas­ing every sin­gle day. Every effort to reduce this dis­tance is really inno­v­a­tive. (At least in Italy)

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