andiamo a Milano
Come sono felice-trigger-happy will be reporting from Milan all next week!So far planned stops include the Milan Triennale, Cenacolo Vinciano (The Last Supper), and the "Street Art Sweet Art" exhibition at the Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea.
One might expect that the best place for a first-time visitor to find information on the city would be the government-run Italian National Tourism Portal (http://www.italia.it/).
But it's not- by a long shot.
A small error or two would be embarrassing for a website that was under construction for three years and cost €45 million. What's puzzling is that the site is riddled with accessibility and usability issues, unappealing design, bad translations, and outright errors.
The controversy behind the portal can be found at Italian Scandal, a site set up to expose "the scandal of an Italian webmonster." It is run by a force of multimedia and technology experts, but invites comments from anyone who is outraged by the mess brazenly passed off as the Italian tourism authority.
Their mission is "to document carefully, objectively, and analytically, point by point exactly why www.italia.it – the site which cost 45 (forty-five) 000.000 (million) euros (of taxpayers’ money) – is a poorly designed, poorly realized, and poorly written portal, and which is begging revenge for the scandalous waste of public funding, as well as for being an offense to the competence and seriousness of Italian web professionals."
It's clear that the Italian National Tourism Portal is one to miss, especially because- as pointed out on the 70,000+ read Italian Scandal blog- it is a sterile read. Information and advice for tourists should reflect the passion that a country inspires in both visitors and the people who live there. That's why we'll skip the site, and instead opt for lots of exploring. Of course, suggestions are warmly welcomed.
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Trigger: Italian Scandal
Site: http://italianscandal.wordpress.com/
One might expect that the best place for a first-time visitor to find information on the city would be the government-run Italian National Tourism Portal (http://www.italia.it/).
But it's not- by a long shot.
A small error or two would be embarrassing for a website that was under construction for three years and cost €45 million. What's puzzling is that the site is riddled with accessibility and usability issues, unappealing design, bad translations, and outright errors.
The controversy behind the portal can be found at Italian Scandal, a site set up to expose "the scandal of an Italian webmonster." It is run by a force of multimedia and technology experts, but invites comments from anyone who is outraged by the mess brazenly passed off as the Italian tourism authority.
Their mission is "to document carefully, objectively, and analytically, point by point exactly why www.italia.it – the site which cost 45 (forty-five) 000.000 (million) euros (of taxpayers’ money) – is a poorly designed, poorly realized, and poorly written portal, and which is begging revenge for the scandalous waste of public funding, as well as for being an offense to the competence and seriousness of Italian web professionals."
It's clear that the Italian National Tourism Portal is one to miss, especially because- as pointed out on the 70,000+ read Italian Scandal blog- it is a sterile read. Information and advice for tourists should reflect the passion that a country inspires in both visitors and the people who live there. That's why we'll skip the site, and instead opt for lots of exploring. Of course, suggestions are warmly welcomed.
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Trigger: Italian Scandal
Site: http://italianscandal.wordpress.com/
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