about us

Cartabianca Publishing snc

Paola Arosio and Diego Meozzi are the founders of Cartabianca Publishing snc.

Paola Arosio, a professional journalist, has been a member of the Italian Association of Journalists since 1986. She initially worked for several tourism magazines and the Famiglia Cristiana magazine, then as an editor first for Scienza & Vita (Rusconi Editore) and later for Airone and Airone Junior magazines (Editoriale Giorgio Mondadori), before transferring her interests to the Web. She specializes in tourism, environmental and social issues.

Diego Meozzi a photographer and journalist, has been a member of the Italian Association of Journalists since 1990. He has written over 2000 articles for photography, video, musical instrument, astronomy, and IT magazines. As a photographer he has published photos on the Web (including NASA‘s website) and in print, including magazine covers, books and records (e.g. The Philospher’s Stone by Van Morrison). He worked with Peter Gabriel on the recording of his Secret World Live album.

Our work on the Web and our multimedia projects:

• In 1995 Diego Meozzi worked as a consultant for Micronet (today Teligo), a company specializing in Internet services, organized learning courses on website management and how to create HTML pages for staff of several companies, as well as creating virtual panoramic movies for FIAT and Alfa Romeo. In 1996, together with Paola Arosio, he created the Stone Pages website: the first ever Web guide to European prehistoric monuments. Since then, this site has grown to over 6000 pages and is visited by an average of 2 million visitors a year. In the same year Meozzi and Arosio worked as editors for Virgilio (at the time the most complete Italian guide to the Web) and began their work as webmasters and creators of websites for individuals and companies.
• In 1997 they moved to Trevignano Romano, creating for the municipality one of the first institutional websites of the Lazio region (central Italy). In the same year they started creating the first 360-degree virtual panoramic movies, made in Wales and Trevignano using QuickTime VR technology. In 1998, Arosio and Meozzi started their production of interactive CD-ROMs with Ancient Stones of Scotland, a project on behalf of SCRAN, a Scottish Government agency. In the same year they created Archaeo News: a free service (Web, RSS, newsletter and then podcast) of archaeological news. Today Archaeo News can count on a team of 8 volunteer editors and is being read on average 300,000 times a month. On the Web, Arosio and Meozzi tested innovative techniques, like the first blog to describe their travels in search of prehistoric monuments (1998) and their first forum (2000). In 2001 they created a public internet terminal in the Trevignano public library.
• In 2002, Arosio and Meozzi founded Cartabianca Publishing snc. Intensifying their activities on the Web, they began offering hosting services on their own server. In 2005 they created their first multimedia touchscreen kiosk for the Etruscan-Roman museum of Trevignano Romano; that same year they started publishing on the net one of the very first archaeology podcasts. With the Scottish archaeologist David Connolly as a speaker, this podcast is now being listened to around 17,000 times a month.
• In 2009 Cartabianca Publishing entered a partnership with Eosidea srl of Milan working in the Web, multimedia and publishing sectors. In 2010, their company became official developer for Apple Inc. and started producing applications for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, together with the publishing of ArchaeoNews, the first app on the iTunes Store devoted to prehistory news.
• Currently Cartabianca Publishing manages 35 websites for Italian, French, British, German, American and Arab customers.