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Announcement – RSS Feed Change

Due to some technical issues relating to Blog from Italy’s RSS feed system, I’m afraid I’m going to have to start supplying ‘chopped’ RSS feeds. Apparently some of the multimedia content, such as YouTube videos and one or two other things I do within some posts, are causing RSS feed errors.

Therefore, from tomorrow, Blog from Italy’s main RSS feed will serve excerpts from recent posts. To read the full post, should you wish to, just visit Blog from Italy directly via your web browser. Remember too that Blog from Italy also has a mobile device optimized version, which means it can be read via mobile phones, pocket PCs and, as I understand, Apple’s latest cult item, the iPhone.

Stop reading, start speaking

Stop translating in your head and start speaking Italian for real with the only audio course that prompt you to speak.

Once again, sorry about this, I know it will cause problems for some, but I want to keep this site as error free and search engine friendly as possible.

Thanks for reading, as ever.

Alex Roe

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+Alex Roe is from the UK, but has lived and worked in Milan, Italy, for many years. Alex has been interviewed by the BBC on Italy issues. He tweets news and information about Italy to over 37,000 Twitter followers via @newsfromitaly on Twitter.

A mistake

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Results: Italy Elections 2013

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Creative juices

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Eco-Luxury Made in Italy – WeWood Watches

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Italy’s Top TV Earners

There is a minor storm in a small teacup over the salaries paid to some of Italy’s public television personalities in these belt tightening times. ‘Public television’ in Italy refers to the partially state funded RAI channels, which receive income from an annual licence fee and lots and lots of commercial breaks.

Looking inwards and around

OK, things do seem to be a little bleak at the moment for me, what with baby being ill often and this leading to not

Is Silvio Berlusconi on His Way Out?

The question on lips around the world is whether Silvio Berlusconi will stay or will go.

Everybody, and I mean everybody, which means Italians and those from beyond Italy’s shores is uncertain.

In this post I’ve listed a series of factors at play, each of which may, or may not, contribute to Berlusconi’s downfall or longevity. As you will discover, people have good reason to be uncertain, as the matter is by no means straightforward.

What could have been

There is a lovely article in several online newspapers today. Here is one. Apparently, around 50 years ago the French (!) PM proposed, secretly, that