30 setembro 2003
TECNOSFERA
Open Source Democracy How online communication is changing offline politics (by Douglas Rushkoff)
VITAMEDIAS
One Million Weblogs Tracked: Technorati is currently tracking about 7,000 new weblogs per day, which means that a new weblog is being created approximately every 12 seconds.
VITAMEDIAS
The Blogger Revolt! The bottom line as I see it is the original blogging community represents the early-adopters of a movement that will eventually radicalize the entire media industry. Some time off in the future, if major media brands do not open up their content to more participation, readers will just not trust them, and they will go elsewhere.
ECO-TERROR
The Plame Game - Will the leak of a CIA agent's name be the next big political scandal?
In other words, a White House leaker is leaking to the Washington Post about Novak's White House leakers, but the leaker to the Post draws short of dribbling out the identities of who leaked to Novak and who else they tried to leak to.
In other words, a White House leaker is leaking to the Washington Post about Novak's White House leakers, but the leaker to the Post draws short of dribbling out the identities of who leaked to Novak and who else they tried to leak to.
VITAMEDIAS
Why blogs could be bad for business: In today's corporate culture, where knowledge is power, the information-sharing capabilities of weblogs may not be entirely welcome
TECNOSFERA
MIT for free, virtually: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is making its course materials available to the world for free download.
One year after the launch of its pilot program, MIT on Monday night quietly published everything from class syllabuses to lecture videos for 500 courses through its OpenCourseWare initiative, an ambitious project it hopes will spark a Web-based revolution in the way universities share information.
One year after the launch of its pilot program, MIT on Monday night quietly published everything from class syllabuses to lecture videos for 500 courses through its OpenCourseWare initiative, an ambitious project it hopes will spark a Web-based revolution in the way universities share information.
29 setembro 2003
TECNOSFERA
Ten Technologies That Deserve to Die: Some technologies are so blatantly obnoxious that the human race would rejoice if they were summarily executed. By Bruce Sterling
1. Nuclear Weapons
2. Coal-Based Power
3. The Internal-Combustion Engine
4. Incandescent Light Bulbs
5. Land Mines
6. Manned Spaceflight
7. Prisons
8. Cosmetic Implants
9. Lie Detectors
10. DVDs
1. Nuclear Weapons
2. Coal-Based Power
3. The Internal-Combustion Engine
4. Incandescent Light Bulbs
5. Land Mines
6. Manned Spaceflight
7. Prisons
8. Cosmetic Implants
9. Lie Detectors
10. DVDs
CULTURAS IN VITRO
Last night a mix tape saved my life: The cassette is 40 years old. And it's still going strong.
TECNOSFERA
The Sharer (Linus Torvalds)
We've been getting hit with a lot of viruses and worms lately. What's your idea for ending the attacks?
When you have people who hook up these machines that weren't designed for the Internet, and they don't even want to know about all the intricacies of network security, what can you expect? We get what we have now: a system that can be brought down by a teenager with too much time on his hands. Should we blame the teenager? Sure, we can point the finger at him and say, ''Bad boy!'' and slap him for it. Will that actually fix anything? No. The next geeky kid frustrated about not getting a date on Saturday night will come along and do the same thing without really understanding the consequences. So either we should make it a law that all geeks have dates - I'd have supported such a law when I was a teenager - or the blame is really on the companies who sell and install the systems that are quite that fragile.
Microsoft monoculture allows virus spread: A report published on Wednesday by the Computer and Communications Industry Association says that Microsoft?s dominance in PC operating systems has created a 'monoculture' that allows viruses to spread like wildfire over the Internet. This lack of diversity allows even simple viruses, created in minutes by so called 'script kiddies' to wreak havoc within hours of creation.
Microsoft: A Killer App That Could Kill the Competition: Its entry into the antivirus market has rivals spooked
We've been getting hit with a lot of viruses and worms lately. What's your idea for ending the attacks?
When you have people who hook up these machines that weren't designed for the Internet, and they don't even want to know about all the intricacies of network security, what can you expect? We get what we have now: a system that can be brought down by a teenager with too much time on his hands. Should we blame the teenager? Sure, we can point the finger at him and say, ''Bad boy!'' and slap him for it. Will that actually fix anything? No. The next geeky kid frustrated about not getting a date on Saturday night will come along and do the same thing without really understanding the consequences. So either we should make it a law that all geeks have dates - I'd have supported such a law when I was a teenager - or the blame is really on the companies who sell and install the systems that are quite that fragile.
Microsoft monoculture allows virus spread: A report published on Wednesday by the Computer and Communications Industry Association says that Microsoft?s dominance in PC operating systems has created a 'monoculture' that allows viruses to spread like wildfire over the Internet. This lack of diversity allows even simple viruses, created in minutes by so called 'script kiddies' to wreak havoc within hours of creation.
Microsoft: A Killer App That Could Kill the Competition: Its entry into the antivirus market has rivals spooked
27 setembro 2003
TECNOSFERA
Internet Demographics: A Subject Tracer Blog by the Virtual Private Library for the latest Internet Demographics resources and URLs
.DE!
Um incentivo para a indústria nacional dos sapatos? Anti-graft court allows Imelda Marcos to travel: Imelda Marcos has secured the permission of the Sandiganbayan anti-graft court to go on a month-long trip to the United States and Europe.
She was seeking eye treatment in the United States, Imelda said, and from there she would visit pilgrimage sites in France, Portugal and Italy.
She was seeking eye treatment in the United States, Imelda said, and from there she would visit pilgrimage sites in France, Portugal and Italy.
ECO-TERROR
Já tinha recebido isto (obrigado, João) mas não pude confirmar. O El Coronel pegou no mesmo assunto e cá vai:
"Pontes perigosas" em estradas que não existem....
2003-09-25, 13h17
Bragança, 25 Set (Lusa) - Os autarcas do distrito de Bragança e os serviços regionais do Instituto de Estradas de Portugal (IEP) não conseguem localizar duas das pontes "muito perigosas" identificadas num relatório do IEP.
Segundo o estudo do IEP, hoje divulgado pelo jornal Correio da Manhã, as pontes em perigo localizam-se nas estradas nacionais 210-2 e 212, respectivamente, porém nenhuma destas estradas atravessa o distrito de Bragança, segundo os mapas de que dispõem a direcção regional de estradas, a brigada de trânsito e as próprias autarquias.
[Quando é que se começa a punir a incompetência?...]
"Pontes perigosas" em estradas que não existem....
2003-09-25, 13h17
Bragança, 25 Set (Lusa) - Os autarcas do distrito de Bragança e os serviços regionais do Instituto de Estradas de Portugal (IEP) não conseguem localizar duas das pontes "muito perigosas" identificadas num relatório do IEP.
Segundo o estudo do IEP, hoje divulgado pelo jornal Correio da Manhã, as pontes em perigo localizam-se nas estradas nacionais 210-2 e 212, respectivamente, porém nenhuma destas estradas atravessa o distrito de Bragança, segundo os mapas de que dispõem a direcção regional de estradas, a brigada de trânsito e as próprias autarquias.
[Quando é que se começa a punir a incompetência?...]
VITAMEDIAS
Compatibility of Weblogs and ISSN Conclusions:
1. Weblogs are categorically eligible for ISSN under the existing guidelines.
2. There are no rational reasons to disqualify Weblogs from ISSN.
3. Registrars can expect an increase in applications, but only a fraction of Weblog authors will apply for ISSN.
4. ISSNs can be issued to Weblog authors in due course.
5. Content-related classifications or disqualifications of Weblogs are inappropriate and antithetical to principles of librarianship.
6. Weblogs are a powerful and democratic medium of expression. They merit due and serious acknowledgement from registrars.
1. Weblogs are categorically eligible for ISSN under the existing guidelines.
2. There are no rational reasons to disqualify Weblogs from ISSN.
3. Registrars can expect an increase in applications, but only a fraction of Weblog authors will apply for ISSN.
4. ISSNs can be issued to Weblog authors in due course.
5. Content-related classifications or disqualifications of Weblogs are inappropriate and antithetical to principles of librarianship.
6. Weblogs are a powerful and democratic medium of expression. They merit due and serious acknowledgement from registrars.
VITAMEDIAS
Transformer: Chris Anderson: Once considered a staple on the desks of anyone associated with tech, Wired seemed to lose its way after the Internet crash. Enter Chris Anderson, who joined the publication as editor-in-chief in June 2001. Since then, Anderson has subtley shifted Wired's focus to the science of technology—only natural for a former editorial staffer of Science, Nature and The Scientist. And that strategy seems to have paid off. [...]
But whom does Anderson read to stay on top of technology issues? "I think Walt Mossberg brings an important reality check to all of us who might get overexcited about technology," he says. But adds: "I don't look that much to journalists, not directly. I tend to look at bloggers."
But whom does Anderson read to stay on top of technology issues? "I think Walt Mossberg brings an important reality check to all of us who might get overexcited about technology," he says. But adds: "I don't look that much to journalists, not directly. I tend to look at bloggers."
ECO-TERROR
The Other Lies of George Bush: George W. Bush is a liar. He has lied large and small, directly and by omission. His Iraq lies have loomed largest. In the run-up to the invasion, Bush based his case for war on a variety of unfounded claims that extended far beyond his controversial uranium-from-Niger assertion. He maintained that Saddam Hussein possessed "a massive stockpile" of unconventional weapons and was directly "dealing" with Al Qaeda - two suppositions unsupported then (or now) by the available evidence. He said the International Atomic Energy Agency had produced a report in 1998 noting that Iraq was six months from developing a nuclear weapon; no such report existed (and the IAEA had actually reported then that there was no indication Iraq had the ability to produce weapons-grade material). Bush asserted that Iraq was "harboring a terrorist network, headed by a senior Al Qaeda terrorist planner"; US intelligence officials told reporters this terrorist was operating ouside of Al Qaeda control. And two days before launching the war, Bush said, "Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised." Yet former deputy CIA director Richard Kerr, who is conducting a review of the prewar intelligence, has said that intelligence was full of qualifiers and caveats, and based on circumstantial and inferential evidence. That is, it was not no-doubt stuff. And after the major fighting was done, Bush declared, "We found the weapons of mass destruction." But he could only point to two tractor-trailers that the CIA and the Defense Intelligence Agency had concluded were mobile bioweapons labs. Other experts - including the DIA's own engineering experts -disagreed with this finding.
But Bush's truth-defying crusade for war did not mark a shift for him. Throughout his campaign for the presidency and his years in the White House, Bush has mugged the truth in many other areas to advance his agenda. Lying has been one of the essential tools of his presidency.
But Bush's truth-defying crusade for war did not mark a shift for him. Throughout his campaign for the presidency and his years in the White House, Bush has mugged the truth in many other areas to advance his agenda. Lying has been one of the essential tools of his presidency.
26 setembro 2003
ECO-TERROR
Quem disse isto: "Quando uma pessoa vai para a porta do Tribunal de Instrução Criminal fazer uma reportagem com ciganos enraivecidos por uma decisão qualquer, está preparada para uma cena violenta, mas não era o caso"?
Resposta A: Paulo Portas
Resposta B: Sofia Pinto Coelho
A resposta certa não impede a leitura de A Justiça Rasca e, para perceber como Pacheco Pereira já tinha falado de Paulo Portas sobre o assunto da xenofobia, leia-se o último parágrafo: Paulo Portas na extrema-direita. Em resumo, nada de novo.
Resposta A: Paulo Portas
Resposta B: Sofia Pinto Coelho
A resposta certa não impede a leitura de A Justiça Rasca e, para perceber como Pacheco Pereira já tinha falado de Paulo Portas sobre o assunto da xenofobia, leia-se o último parágrafo: Paulo Portas na extrema-direita. Em resumo, nada de novo.
VITAMEDIAS
Google News Creator Watches Portal Quiet Critics With 'Best News' Webby: The thing I think is indicative of a news source is that some portion of the world believes it's a news source. Who are we to tell them it's not news?
How Can Google's Gold Be Inktomi's Spam? Because search engines rely on link popularity as one of the factors for determining relevance, link-popularity networks can fool the engines into delivering tainted results.
Google News Creator Watches Portal Quiet Critics With 'Best News' Webby
Amazon Plans Search Service to Drive Sales: Amazon has quietly established a beachhead in Silicon Valley to develop its own Web-search technology, a plan that could pit it more directly against Google and Yahoo in an emerging battle over who controls the major paths to online merchants
Moreover Launches First Enterprise-grade Weblog Search
How Can Google's Gold Be Inktomi's Spam? Because search engines rely on link popularity as one of the factors for determining relevance, link-popularity networks can fool the engines into delivering tainted results.
Google News Creator Watches Portal Quiet Critics With 'Best News' Webby
Amazon Plans Search Service to Drive Sales: Amazon has quietly established a beachhead in Silicon Valley to develop its own Web-search technology, a plan that could pit it more directly against Google and Yahoo in an emerging battle over who controls the major paths to online merchants
Moreover Launches First Enterprise-grade Weblog Search
VITAMEDIAS
TV Channel Usage Drops To New Low, But Networks Persevere: Just as the 2003-04 TV season is getting under way, new research unveiled Wednesday at a MediaPost conference in New York shows that while the number of TV channels received by the average household is greater than ever before the percentage of those channels that are actually viewed has hit a new low.
The new Nielsen data, which was revealed by CBS Executive Vice President-Planning & Research Dave Poltrack during his keynote at MediaPost's Forecast 2004 conference, finds the average household now receives 102 channels but watches only 15 of them, or 14.7% of what's available to them.
That's down from 26% of the 19 channels available to the average household in 1985 and down from 16% of the 89 channels averaged as recently as 2001.
The new Nielsen data, which was revealed by CBS Executive Vice President-Planning & Research Dave Poltrack during his keynote at MediaPost's Forecast 2004 conference, finds the average household now receives 102 channels but watches only 15 of them, or 14.7% of what's available to them.
That's down from 26% of the 19 channels available to the average household in 1985 and down from 16% of the 89 channels averaged as recently as 2001.
CULTURAS IN VITRO
Studios Moving to Block Piracy of Films Online: If Hollywood executives have learned anything watching their peers in the music business grapple with online file sharing, it is how not to handle a technological revolution.
While the major labels in the music industry squabbled among themselves about how best to deal with Internet piracy and failed to develop consumer-friendly ways to buy music online, the movie industry has gone on a coordinated offensive to thwart the free downloading of films before it spins out of control.
This summer, night-vision goggles became a familiar fashion accessory for security guards at movie premieres as they searched for people in the audience carrying banned video recorders.
While the major labels in the music industry squabbled among themselves about how best to deal with Internet piracy and failed to develop consumer-friendly ways to buy music online, the movie industry has gone on a coordinated offensive to thwart the free downloading of films before it spins out of control.
This summer, night-vision goggles became a familiar fashion accessory for security guards at movie premieres as they searched for people in the audience carrying banned video recorders.
VITAMEDIAS
Media needs to be skeptical, not cynical: Skeptics were big in USA Today founder Al Neuharth's comments Wednesday.
Discussing the state of media matters in 2003, Neuharth noted there were skeptics when he founded USA Today in September 1982 and critics today are warning about the decline of newspaper readership.
Further, Neuharth said he likes seeing more skeptics in media positions these days -- people whose outlook is preferable to the cynics the profession drew in the muckraking days after the Watergate story was broken by Woodward and Bernstein.
Too many in the 1970s joined the profession inclined to ferret out wrongdoing by government -- whether it existed or not, Neuharth said. That has turned around in the last 10 to 15 years, much to his pleasure. "There is a new breed of journalists coming out who are skeptics instead of cynics," he said.
Too many cynics make for a public that begins to mistrust the journalistic output, he said. However, Neuharth added, "the vast majority of journalists, in print and broadcast, really strive to be accurate and fair, and the vast majority of them succeed."
There is no mistaking, Neuharth said, the public's thirst for knowledge. The question is what source is going to provide that. With new media forms like the Internet moving in, those in print journalism definitely have their work cut out for them.
He recalled when TV cut into the news pie, and "the television generation was not reading newspapers," Neuharth said. "Now I think the Internet generation is not reading newspapers."
Discussing the state of media matters in 2003, Neuharth noted there were skeptics when he founded USA Today in September 1982 and critics today are warning about the decline of newspaper readership.
Further, Neuharth said he likes seeing more skeptics in media positions these days -- people whose outlook is preferable to the cynics the profession drew in the muckraking days after the Watergate story was broken by Woodward and Bernstein.
Too many in the 1970s joined the profession inclined to ferret out wrongdoing by government -- whether it existed or not, Neuharth said. That has turned around in the last 10 to 15 years, much to his pleasure. "There is a new breed of journalists coming out who are skeptics instead of cynics," he said.
Too many cynics make for a public that begins to mistrust the journalistic output, he said. However, Neuharth added, "the vast majority of journalists, in print and broadcast, really strive to be accurate and fair, and the vast majority of them succeed."
There is no mistaking, Neuharth said, the public's thirst for knowledge. The question is what source is going to provide that. With new media forms like the Internet moving in, those in print journalism definitely have their work cut out for them.
He recalled when TV cut into the news pie, and "the television generation was not reading newspapers," Neuharth said. "Now I think the Internet generation is not reading newspapers."
25 setembro 2003
ECO-TERROR
Afinal, o ministro da Defesa, Paulo Portas, está a comprar submarinos europeus ou americanos para o combate ao tráfico de droga e imigração ilegal?
A escolhida, aparentemente, foi a alemã HDW, adquirida pelo norte-americano Bank One Corp., num processo de contornos algo confuso.
Mas será que a empresa não vai voltar a ser europeia?...
A escolhida, aparentemente, foi a alemã HDW, adquirida pelo norte-americano Bank One Corp., num processo de contornos algo confuso.
Mas será que a empresa não vai voltar a ser europeia?...
24 setembro 2003
VITAMEDIAS
New E-Paper Could Show Moving Images Too: Even before the electronic ink has dried on the e-page, a new generation of electronic paper may soon be able to bring a moving image to a foldable screen near you, according to scientists in the Netherlands.
Hot on the heels of the invention of a wafer-thin foldable screen that can display static type and may one day replace newspapers as it can be overwritten each day, scientists at Philips Research in Eindhoven have found a way to display high-definition moving pictures as well.
Hot on the heels of the invention of a wafer-thin foldable screen that can display static type and may one day replace newspapers as it can be overwritten each day, scientists at Philips Research in Eindhoven have found a way to display high-definition moving pictures as well.
VITAMEDIAS
Consumers open wallets for paid content: U.S. consumer spending for paid Internet content jumped during the first half of 2003, due partly to more people looking for a mate online, according to a new study.
The Online Publishers Association reported that spending on paid content grew to $748 million in the first half of 2003, an increase of 23 percent over the same period last year. The study, conducted by ComScore Networks for OPA, showed 25 percent growth in the first quarter of 2003 with spending reaching $368 million, compared with $294 million for the first quarter of 2002.
The Online Publishers Association reported that spending on paid content grew to $748 million in the first half of 2003, an increase of 23 percent over the same period last year. The study, conducted by ComScore Networks for OPA, showed 25 percent growth in the first quarter of 2003 with spending reaching $368 million, compared with $294 million for the first quarter of 2002.
CONTAMINANTES
Cameras Watching Students, Especially in Biloxi: A digital camera hangs over every classroom here, silently recording students' and teachers' every move. The surveillance system is at the leading edge of a trend to outfit public schools with the same cameras used in Wal-Marts to catch thieves.
Fearful of violence, particularly in light of the nation's experience with schoolhouse shootings, educators across the country are rushing to install ceiling-mounted cameras in hallways, libraries and cafeterias. But no other district has gone as far as this Gulf Coast community, which, flush with casino revenue, has hung the cameras not only in corridors and other common areas but also in all of its 500 classrooms.
Fearful of violence, particularly in light of the nation's experience with schoolhouse shootings, educators across the country are rushing to install ceiling-mounted cameras in hallways, libraries and cafeterias. But no other district has gone as far as this Gulf Coast community, which, flush with casino revenue, has hung the cameras not only in corridors and other common areas but also in all of its 500 classrooms.
TECNOSFERA
Restrictions on Internet spam effective Jan. 1: Hoping to slow the rush of unsolicited e-mail crowding Californians' in-boxes, Gov. Davis on Tuesday signed anti-spam legislation allowing customers to sue spammers and those who benefit from the messages.
The new measure, taking effect Jan. 1, will allow customers, Internet service providers and the state attorney general to take action against companies that produce and send spam, as well as businesses that hawk their products and services in unsolicited messages. The law allows offenders to be penalized up to $1 million for each incident.
Senate Bill 186 creates an "ask first" requirement for commercial e-mail messages, but will allow companies to send messages to people with whom they have an existing business relationship. Political e-mail also will be allowed.
The new measure, taking effect Jan. 1, will allow customers, Internet service providers and the state attorney general to take action against companies that produce and send spam, as well as businesses that hawk their products and services in unsolicited messages. The law allows offenders to be penalized up to $1 million for each incident.
Senate Bill 186 creates an "ask first" requirement for commercial e-mail messages, but will allow companies to send messages to people with whom they have an existing business relationship. Political e-mail also will be allowed.
ECO-TERROR
'Portugal will have security ready for Euro 2004': Portugal's security preparations for the Euro 2004 finals, faulted by a number of top officials as being incomplete just nine-months from the big kick-off, will be ready on time, Interior Minister Antonio Figueiredo Lopes has said. [...]
The government has set aside 3.5 million euros (four million dollars) to buy water canons, batons, riot gear and other security equipment for the police, and has drawn up plans to set up round-the-clock courts that will have the power to quickly extradite potential troublemakers, in order to prepare for the football finals.
The government has set aside 3.5 million euros (four million dollars) to buy water canons, batons, riot gear and other security equipment for the police, and has drawn up plans to set up round-the-clock courts that will have the power to quickly extradite potential troublemakers, in order to prepare for the football finals.
ECO-TERROR
Alguém reparou que No Proof Connects Iraq to 9/11, Bush Says?
"We've had no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with the September 11th," Bush said in an impromptu session with reporters. He contended, however, that "there's no question that Saddam Hussein had Al Qaeda ties."
Bush's comments were his most direct on the issue to date. He drew a clear distinction between alleged Iraqi ties to Al Qaeda and the lack of evidence of Iraqi involvement in the Sept. 11 attacks. That is a distinction administration officials did not emphasize in the months before the war.
"We've had no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with the September 11th," Bush said in an impromptu session with reporters. He contended, however, that "there's no question that Saddam Hussein had Al Qaeda ties."
Bush's comments were his most direct on the issue to date. He drew a clear distinction between alleged Iraqi ties to Al Qaeda and the lack of evidence of Iraqi involvement in the Sept. 11 attacks. That is a distinction administration officials did not emphasize in the months before the war.
VITAMEDIAS
Text of Bush Interview
HUME: How do you get your news?
BUSH: I get briefed by Andy Card and Condi in the morning. They come in and tell me. In all due respect, you've got a beautiful face and everything.
I glance at the headlines just to kind of a flavor for what's moving. I rarely read the stories, and get briefed by people who are probably read the news themselves. But like Condoleezza, in her case, the national security adviser is getting her news directly from the participants on the world stage.
HUME: Has that been your practice since day one, or is that a practice that you've...
BUSH: Practice since day one.
HUME: Really?
BUSH: Yes. You know, look, I have great respect for the media. I mean, our society is a good, solid democracy because of a good, solid media. But I also understand that a lot of times there's opinions mixed in with news. And I...
HUME: I won't disagree with that, sir.
BUSH: I appreciate people's opinions, but I'm more interested in news. And the best way to get the news is from objective sources. And the most objective sources I have are people on my staff who tell me what's happening in the world.
HUME: How do you get your news?
BUSH: I get briefed by Andy Card and Condi in the morning. They come in and tell me. In all due respect, you've got a beautiful face and everything.
I glance at the headlines just to kind of a flavor for what's moving. I rarely read the stories, and get briefed by people who are probably read the news themselves. But like Condoleezza, in her case, the national security adviser is getting her news directly from the participants on the world stage.
HUME: Has that been your practice since day one, or is that a practice that you've...
BUSH: Practice since day one.
HUME: Really?
BUSH: Yes. You know, look, I have great respect for the media. I mean, our society is a good, solid democracy because of a good, solid media. But I also understand that a lot of times there's opinions mixed in with news. And I...
HUME: I won't disagree with that, sir.
BUSH: I appreciate people's opinions, but I'm more interested in news. And the best way to get the news is from objective sources. And the most objective sources I have are people on my staff who tell me what's happening in the world.
VITAMEDIAS
e blogues nacionais:
O Ciberscópio-Pt de José Magalhães foi actualizado, três meses depois da última vez. Será agora mais regular?
Alguém me explica como é que O Meu Pipi tem 2758 comentários a um texto? 2758?!?!?!? Não é inveja, juro, é curiosidade!...
E como o humor não faz mal a ninguém, vou lendo os textos do ML e da Gertrudes no Abrupto (M-L), enquanto espero pelo Causa Nossa, cujo atraso perante a declaração de entrada só cabe no lado do humor negro...
O Ciberscópio-Pt de José Magalhães foi actualizado, três meses depois da última vez. Será agora mais regular?
Alguém me explica como é que O Meu Pipi tem 2758 comentários a um texto? 2758?!?!?!? Não é inveja, juro, é curiosidade!...
E como o humor não faz mal a ninguém, vou lendo os textos do ML e da Gertrudes no Abrupto (M-L), enquanto espero pelo Causa Nossa, cujo atraso perante a declaração de entrada só cabe no lado do humor negro...
ECO-TERROR
Net censorship hits 'all time high': Internet restrictions, government secrecy and communications surveillance have reached an unprecedented level across the world.
A year-long study of Internet censorship in more than 50 countries found that a sharp escalation in control of the Internet since September 2001 may have outstripped the traditional ability of the medium to repel restrictions.
A year-long study of Internet censorship in more than 50 countries found that a sharp escalation in control of the Internet since September 2001 may have outstripped the traditional ability of the medium to repel restrictions.
CONTAMINANTES
Mais um ponto para a minha causa da semana de quatro dias: Workweek Causes Climate Fluctuations: The five-day workweek may be affecting the climate, researchers say. Findings published online this week by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences indicate that daily high and low temperatures fluctuate on a weekly cycle in many locales in direct response to human activity, causing scientists to dub it "the weekend" effect.
TECNOSFERA
Military wants way to attack satellites: With space becoming increasingly important in military operations, the Canadian Forces need the capability to conduct "non-lethal" attacks on foreign satellites, according to a draft plan for the Defence Department's future role in space. [...]
"The Department of National Defence requires the capability for localized, non-lethal negation of adversary space systems," adds the draft version of Space Strategy 2020.
The report notes that the only "lethal" method available to the Canadian Forces would be to attack another country's satellite ground stations. The most likely time that tactic would be used is in a coalition operation, it adds.
"The Department of National Defence requires the capability for localized, non-lethal negation of adversary space systems," adds the draft version of Space Strategy 2020.
The report notes that the only "lethal" method available to the Canadian Forces would be to attack another country's satellite ground stations. The most likely time that tactic would be used is in a coalition operation, it adds.
23 setembro 2003
VITAMEDIAS
Top Five Tips for Webloggers:
Have good content.
Update frequently.
Stay focused on your content.
Create an About page.
Have an original design.
‘Blogs:’ What’s the big deal, anyway?
Editors Rock Who Let Weblogs Roll
Religious Blogs Provide Forum for Personal Opinions on Faith, Worship and Spirituality: And on the 2,893,402,568th day, man created blogs.
How To Get An Instalanche [é para o InstaPundit mas também serve para os blogues nacionais...]
Sneaky PR People Discover Blogs
Chicago Bloggers e Chicago Blogmap
Have good content.
Update frequently.
Stay focused on your content.
Create an About page.
Have an original design.
‘Blogs:’ What’s the big deal, anyway?
Editors Rock Who Let Weblogs Roll
Religious Blogs Provide Forum for Personal Opinions on Faith, Worship and Spirituality: And on the 2,893,402,568th day, man created blogs.
How To Get An Instalanche [é para o InstaPundit mas também serve para os blogues nacionais...]
Sneaky PR People Discover Blogs
Chicago Bloggers e Chicago Blogmap
CULTURAS IN VITRO
100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000: Between 1990 and 2000, of the 6,364 challenges reported to or recorded by the Office for Intellectual Freedom:
1,607 were challenges to “sexually explicit” material (up 161 since 1999);
1,427 to material considered to use “offensive language”; (up 165 since 1999)
1,256 to material considered “unsuited to age group”; (up 89 since 1999)
842 to material with an “occult theme or promoting the occult or Satanism,”; (up 69 since 1999)
737 to material considered to be “violent”; (up 107 since 1999)
515 to material with a homosexual theme or “promoting homosexuality,” (up 18 since 1999) and
419 to material “promoting a religious viewpoint.” (up 22 since 1999)
1,607 were challenges to “sexually explicit” material (up 161 since 1999);
1,427 to material considered to use “offensive language”; (up 165 since 1999)
1,256 to material considered “unsuited to age group”; (up 89 since 1999)
842 to material with an “occult theme or promoting the occult or Satanism,”; (up 69 since 1999)
737 to material considered to be “violent”; (up 107 since 1999)
515 to material with a homosexual theme or “promoting homosexuality,” (up 18 since 1999) and
419 to material “promoting a religious viewpoint.” (up 22 since 1999)
TECNOSFERA
Google Search by Location [só para Estados Unidos]
How does Google search by location work?
Google search by location takes a new approach to helping users find geographic information on the web. For this experiment, we've done something new by analyzing the entire content of a page to extract hints or, what we call "signals," about the geographic nature of a page. From this information, Google determines the corresponding physical location and returns results that match the geographic range you specify (e.g., "near Jacksonville, Florida"). This provides a much broader range of businesses in most cases.
[act. sobre notícia de 9 de Setembro: Overture tests local service]
How does Google search by location work?
Google search by location takes a new approach to helping users find geographic information on the web. For this experiment, we've done something new by analyzing the entire content of a page to extract hints or, what we call "signals," about the geographic nature of a page. From this information, Google determines the corresponding physical location and returns results that match the geographic range you specify (e.g., "near Jacksonville, Florida"). This provides a much broader range of businesses in most cases.
[act. sobre notícia de 9 de Setembro: Overture tests local service]
VITAMEDIAS
Children 'distressed' by TV news: Children find violence on TV news more disturbing than anything else on screen, a study has suggested. [...]
The report said they accepted far-fetched TV dramas and cartoon-like film violence more easily because they knew they were made up.
The report said they accepted far-fetched TV dramas and cartoon-like film violence more easily because they knew they were made up.
TECNOSFERA
Putting Your Calls Into Context: Incessant calling and voicemails might become a thing of the past.
In Pittsburgh, a research team at Carnegie Mellon University's Institute of Technology, or CIT, has developed a new context-aware mobile-phone technology called the SenSay. The SenSay cellular phone, still in prototype stage, keeps tabs on e-mails sent, phone calls made and the user's location. The phone also adapts to the user's environment.
"SenSay is a huge productivity boost," said Dr. Asim Smailagic, a senior researcher at Carnegie Mellon's Institute for Complex Engineered Systems. "Because people can see when you are available, the time it takes to hand off or receive information is greatly reduced."
In addition to automatically manipulating ringer volume, vibration and phone alerts, SenSay (PDF) can give callers the capability to communicate the urgency of their calls, Smailagic said.
In Pittsburgh, a research team at Carnegie Mellon University's Institute of Technology, or CIT, has developed a new context-aware mobile-phone technology called the SenSay. The SenSay cellular phone, still in prototype stage, keeps tabs on e-mails sent, phone calls made and the user's location. The phone also adapts to the user's environment.
"SenSay is a huge productivity boost," said Dr. Asim Smailagic, a senior researcher at Carnegie Mellon's Institute for Complex Engineered Systems. "Because people can see when you are available, the time it takes to hand off or receive information is greatly reduced."
In addition to automatically manipulating ringer volume, vibration and phone alerts, SenSay (PDF) can give callers the capability to communicate the urgency of their calls, Smailagic said.
VITAMEDIAS
Porque é que a maioria das notícias dos telejornais são copiadas dos jornais mas há sempre um jornalista que assina como autor?
Porque é que uma reportagem na TVI sobre uma próxima marcha silenciosa tem como autor da imagem um Júlio Barulho?
Porque é que uma reportagem na TVI sobre uma próxima marcha silenciosa tem como autor da imagem um Júlio Barulho?
22 setembro 2003
VITAMEDIAS
Thanks to a Corporate Sponsor, The Post Will Be Free for a Day: The price war among New York's newspapers will hit a new low on Wednesday, when nearly a million copies of The New York Post will be distributed without charge as part of a promotion for America Online.
America Online is paying The Post an undisclosed fee for the free distribution.
America Online is paying The Post an undisclosed fee for the free distribution.
VITAMEDIAS
Editor caught out: Glamourous and glossy Elle magazine's first black editor, Cynthia Vongai, has shot herself in the foot when she plagiarised an article, word for word, that originally appeared on the internet website askmen.com.
VITAMEDIAS
Second sight: So you think sex is still the biggest draw on the web? Then you have never watched a bunch of webloggers get orgasmically excited over banner advertisments.
Yes, banner ads. Those mundane, aggravating bars of blather that blink, flash and annoyingly try to sell you a product associated with the web page content.
Now, thanks to ever more exacting algorithms that can pair a bland entry in someone's gushing weblog with some product you don't want, bloggers have rushed into the arms of Mammon.
Or, at least, they hope to. Bloggers always hope to rush into the arms of Mammon, despite all the signs that Mammon is not interested in even a small cuddle. Bloggers are convinced that at any moment, the rest of the world - besides the 2% of web users that analysts Jupiter say now look at weblogs - will eagerly pay for the stuff they write.
Yes, banner ads. Those mundane, aggravating bars of blather that blink, flash and annoyingly try to sell you a product associated with the web page content.
Now, thanks to ever more exacting algorithms that can pair a bland entry in someone's gushing weblog with some product you don't want, bloggers have rushed into the arms of Mammon.
Or, at least, they hope to. Bloggers always hope to rush into the arms of Mammon, despite all the signs that Mammon is not interested in even a small cuddle. Bloggers are convinced that at any moment, the rest of the world - besides the 2% of web users that analysts Jupiter say now look at weblogs - will eagerly pay for the stuff they write.
CULTURAS IN VITRO
Think Debate on Music Property Rights Began With Napster? Hardly: Since Thomas A. Edison recorded the human voice in 1877, the music industry has grappled with the uncertainties wrought by new technologies.
CULTURAS IN VITRO
Pursuing the 17th-Century Origins of the Hacker's Grail: Waterhouse's project is imagined by Neal Stephenson in his gargantuan 927-page historical novel, "Quicksilver," to be published next week. But the project also derives from one imagined by the 17th-century philosopher Leibniz and that still lives on in varied incarnations.
For if all the world's knowledge could be encoded in number, then the acts of creation and invention would just be forms of calculation. And the world would reveal itself as a calculating machine, an information processor.
In Mr. Stephenson's book, Waterhouse's stacks tumble down like a house of cards, which is probably a demonstration of how impossible this dream is to realize, but it still haunts contemporary computer culture. What is the hacker, after all, but someone who is a master of number and code? What is the hacker's power, but the ability to affect the engines of commerce simply by manipulating number? The hacker controls the material world by mastering its code, a notion that has become familiar from the "Matrix" films.
[act.: The Metaweb: is a collaborative structure for learning. In our first phase, we are annotating the ideas and historical period explored in Neal Stephenson's novel Quicksilver, seeding the Metaweb with an initial base of information. We are currently working on 116 articles, and hope you will expand and relate these and many other entries.]
For if all the world's knowledge could be encoded in number, then the acts of creation and invention would just be forms of calculation. And the world would reveal itself as a calculating machine, an information processor.
In Mr. Stephenson's book, Waterhouse's stacks tumble down like a house of cards, which is probably a demonstration of how impossible this dream is to realize, but it still haunts contemporary computer culture. What is the hacker, after all, but someone who is a master of number and code? What is the hacker's power, but the ability to affect the engines of commerce simply by manipulating number? The hacker controls the material world by mastering its code, a notion that has become familiar from the "Matrix" films.
[act.: The Metaweb: is a collaborative structure for learning. In our first phase, we are annotating the ideas and historical period explored in Neal Stephenson's novel Quicksilver, seeding the Metaweb with an initial base of information. We are currently working on 116 articles, and hope you will expand and relate these and many other entries.]
CONTAMINANTES
Fossil reveals world's oldest genitals: The discovery of the world's oldest genitals proves that little has changed over the last 400 million years - at least for daddy-long-legs.
Fossils of harvestmen arachnids (Opiliones) have been found by palaeontologists in an ancient rock at Rhynie near Aberdeen in Scotland. Preserved within a male is a penis two-thirds the length of his body, and on a female there is a long egg-laying organ known as an ovipositor.
The organs are remarkably similar to those in modern-day species of harvestmen.
Fossils of harvestmen arachnids (Opiliones) have been found by palaeontologists in an ancient rock at Rhynie near Aberdeen in Scotland. Preserved within a male is a penis two-thirds the length of his body, and on a female there is a long egg-laying organ known as an ovipositor.
The organs are remarkably similar to those in modern-day species of harvestmen.
VITAMEDIAS
FBI Seeking Reporters' Notes: The FBI says it will soon demand reporters' notes in its attempts to nail the so-called Homeless Hacker, Adrian Lamo.
On Friday, FBI agent Christine Howard told a Wired News reporter to expect a federal order to surrender all notes related to Lamo.
On Friday, FBI agent Christine Howard told a Wired News reporter to expect a federal order to surrender all notes related to Lamo.
TECNOSFERA
Putting a lid on broadband use: Cable Internet service subscribers are quietly capping the volume of downloading they allow their subscribers to do. So far, it's only affecting the heaviest users.
CULTURAS IN VITRO
Dan Gillmor e David Weinberger lançaram o Word Pirates, "a site devoted to reclaiming some good words from the people and organizations that have twisted them beyond recognition".
VITAMEDIAS
Blogging Versus Journalism Job: Another Conflict: Chi-Chu Tschang says he was fired from his job at the Bloomberg news service because of his blog
NOTAS
relacionadas com o 1º Encontro Nacional sobre Weblogs:
O António Granado já disponibilizou o gráfico do crescimento dos blogues em Portugal e o Paulo Querido argumenta que são mais.
Claro que concordo com esta visão para cidadãos mais activos, partilho desta desilusão, questiono-me se os blogues não são "para sentir as minhas pulsações" e concordo com o Hugo Real: "se eu pensava que percebia alguma coisa de blogs estava muito enganado. Sei muito pouco. Fica a vontade de aprender."
Recomendo ainda este relato, com ligações para alguns dos textos apresentados, como o de José Luis Orihuela.
E claro que se falou de um e de outro - mas não nesta excelente forma de os juntar. Também por lá andaram as audiências e as promessas e consequências dos "moblogs" (ou dos fotoblogs).
Não vi nada disto e tenho pena :))
O António Granado já disponibilizou o gráfico do crescimento dos blogues em Portugal e o Paulo Querido argumenta que são mais.
Claro que concordo com esta visão para cidadãos mais activos, partilho desta desilusão, questiono-me se os blogues não são "para sentir as minhas pulsações" e concordo com o Hugo Real: "se eu pensava que percebia alguma coisa de blogs estava muito enganado. Sei muito pouco. Fica a vontade de aprender."
Recomendo ainda este relato, com ligações para alguns dos textos apresentados, como o de José Luis Orihuela.
E claro que se falou de um e de outro - mas não nesta excelente forma de os juntar. Também por lá andaram as audiências e as promessas e consequências dos "moblogs" (ou dos fotoblogs).
Não vi nada disto e tenho pena :))
19 setembro 2003
18 setembro 2003
VITAMEDIAS
Lusomundo funde empresas de media: A Lusomundo Media anunciou ontem a fusão por incorporação de várias das sociedades que domina. A Diário de Notícias, SA, a Pressmundo, SA, a Publicações Prodiário, SA e a Someios, Lda vão passar na sua totalidade para a Jornal de Notícias, SA.
Portugal Telecom admite parcerias na área de media
Público lança novos suplementos: um à sexta, outro ao domingo: O jornal Público vai lançar dois novos suplementos. A acompanhar as edições das sextas-feira, onde o Público já integra o suplemento de cultura Y, estará um caderno dedicado ao humor, da autoria das Produções Fictícias. Trata-se do Inimigo Público, um jornal de sátira política e social, coordenado por Luís Pedro Nunes. Aos sábados mantêm-se o Fugas e o Mil Folhas, enquanto que ao domingo haverá um novo suplemento. Trata-se de um caderno com reportagens mais alargadas, matérias internacionais e análise, à semelhança dos suplementos de Domingo do El Pais ou do Crónica do El Mundo.
Revistas masculinas escapam à crise: As três revistas masculinas editadas em Portugal, Maxmen. GQ e Men’s Health, continuam, segundo os responsáveis a ter receitas publicitárias acima do resto do mercado, apesar da crise.
Providência cautelar tira TV Guia das bancas: A TV Guia foi retirada das bancas no passado fim de semana, após a mãe de um dos concorrentes do ‘Big Brother’ ter interposto uma providência cautelar, onde acusa a revista de ter feito declarações, nunca prestadas de forma directa pela alegada entrevistada, a tia do concorrente.
Portugal Telecom admite parcerias na área de media
Público lança novos suplementos: um à sexta, outro ao domingo: O jornal Público vai lançar dois novos suplementos. A acompanhar as edições das sextas-feira, onde o Público já integra o suplemento de cultura Y, estará um caderno dedicado ao humor, da autoria das Produções Fictícias. Trata-se do Inimigo Público, um jornal de sátira política e social, coordenado por Luís Pedro Nunes. Aos sábados mantêm-se o Fugas e o Mil Folhas, enquanto que ao domingo haverá um novo suplemento. Trata-se de um caderno com reportagens mais alargadas, matérias internacionais e análise, à semelhança dos suplementos de Domingo do El Pais ou do Crónica do El Mundo.
Revistas masculinas escapam à crise: As três revistas masculinas editadas em Portugal, Maxmen. GQ e Men’s Health, continuam, segundo os responsáveis a ter receitas publicitárias acima do resto do mercado, apesar da crise.
Providência cautelar tira TV Guia das bancas: A TV Guia foi retirada das bancas no passado fim de semana, após a mãe de um dos concorrentes do ‘Big Brother’ ter interposto uma providência cautelar, onde acusa a revista de ter feito declarações, nunca prestadas de forma directa pela alegada entrevistada, a tia do concorrente.
CONTAMINANTES
Portugal não pagou quotas em organismos internacionais: O Estado português ainda não pagou as quotas aos organismos científicos internacionais de que faz parte. Um montante de 25 milhões de euros que já devia ter sido transferido para entidades como a Agência Espacial (ESA), Laboratório Europeu de Físicas e Partículas (CERN), Observatório Europeu (ESO) e Laboratório Europeu de radiação Sincrotrão, entre outros, não se sabe quando será pago.
O Diário Económico confirmou junto da direcção do Gabinete de Relações Internacionais do ministério do Ensino Superior (GRICES) que as quotas não foram ainda pagas, mas «que o assunto está a ser tratado com o ministério das Finanças e a solução será encontrada em breve». [...]
Recentemente, o primeiro-ministro Durão Barroso afirmou que os investimentos em Ciência e Tecnologia serão uma das prioridades no OE 2004, sendo um dos sectores menos afectados pelos cortes orçamentais.
Portugal continua a ser um dos poucos países europeus que investe menos de 1% da percentagem do Produto Interno Bruto em ciência, o que o coloca na cauda da Europa, neste domínio.
O Diário Económico confirmou junto da direcção do Gabinete de Relações Internacionais do ministério do Ensino Superior (GRICES) que as quotas não foram ainda pagas, mas «que o assunto está a ser tratado com o ministério das Finanças e a solução será encontrada em breve». [...]
Recentemente, o primeiro-ministro Durão Barroso afirmou que os investimentos em Ciência e Tecnologia serão uma das prioridades no OE 2004, sendo um dos sectores menos afectados pelos cortes orçamentais.
Portugal continua a ser um dos poucos países europeus que investe menos de 1% da percentagem do Produto Interno Bruto em ciência, o que o coloca na cauda da Europa, neste domínio.
17 setembro 2003
VITAMEDIAS
Sommet mondial sur la société de l'information - La farce onusienne des droits de l'homme continue: Pierre Gagné, directeur exécutif du Sommet mondial sur la société de l'information (SMIS), vient de notifier à Reporters sans frontières l'interdiction d'assister au Sommet qui se tiendra à Genève au mois de décembre. Cette décision ubuesque fait suite à la suspension de l'association, pour un an, de la Commission des droits de l'homme des Nations unies. [...]
l'interdiction faite à une association de défense la liberté d'expression d'accéder au SMIS est de nature à alarmer les défenseurs de la liberté.
l'interdiction faite à une association de défense la liberté d'expression d'accéder au SMIS est de nature à alarmer les défenseurs de la liberté.
16 setembro 2003
CULTURAS IN VITRO
Insiders blamed for most online movie piracy: Most pirate copies of popular movies circulated online are the result of leaks by industry insiders rather than home or cinema copying, according to US research.
A team from AT&T Laboratories and the University of Pennsylvania created software to track movies in the US box office top 50 uploaded to file-sharing networks between January 2002 and June 2003.
Seventy-seven percent of films uploaded during this period were apparently created during production or distribution. Some simply appeared online before their cinema release - meaning they must have been leaked.
A team from AT&T Laboratories and the University of Pennsylvania created software to track movies in the US box office top 50 uploaded to file-sharing networks between January 2002 and June 2003.
Seventy-seven percent of films uploaded during this period were apparently created during production or distribution. Some simply appeared online before their cinema release - meaning they must have been leaked.
CULTURAS IN VITRO
Out of Tune: Apple , NEWSWEEK learned, quietly informed some music insiders that it’s moved up the date for expanding its current Mac-only iTunes for the vast universe of Windows-based PCs to mid-October.
VITAMEDIAS
BBC quer lançar dez revistas em 2004: Os editores de revistas britânicas estão em estado de alerta máximo, com a intenção da estação pública lançar dez novas revistas em 2004, que se podem vir a juntar aos 35 títulos existentes da BBC Magazines. [...]
Este impulso da BBC contrasta com o comportamento cauteloso da maioria dos editores.
Este impulso da BBC contrasta com o comportamento cauteloso da maioria dos editores.
TECNOSFERA
O Paulo Querido já desmistificou isto mas para que não restem dúvidas, o Blogger só envia a "password" para o "email" que criou a conta:
- Enter your Blogger username in the field below and your password will be sent to the email address you entered when you created an account.
- If you have forgotten both your username AND password, enter the email address you registered with below. We will send you the corresponding username(s).
Se alguém souber de casos onde isso não sucedeu, quer partilhar?
- Enter your Blogger username in the field below and your password will be sent to the email address you entered when you created an account.
- If you have forgotten both your username AND password, enter the email address you registered with below. We will send you the corresponding username(s).
Se alguém souber de casos onde isso não sucedeu, quer partilhar?
VITAMEDIAS
Social Currency: No matter how colorful you make it, content will never be king in a wireless world. It's not the content that matters - it's the contact. [...]
But elaborately produced content - like prepackaged video shorts, inscrutable weather maps, and football game TV replays - are not only inappropriate for a two-inch screen, they are inappropriate as social currency. Sorry, but people won't use their cell phones to buy content any more than they used their Internet connections to buy content - unless that content is something that gives them a reason to call someone else.
But elaborately produced content - like prepackaged video shorts, inscrutable weather maps, and football game TV replays - are not only inappropriate for a two-inch screen, they are inappropriate as social currency. Sorry, but people won't use their cell phones to buy content any more than they used their Internet connections to buy content - unless that content is something that gives them a reason to call someone else.
15 setembro 2003
VITAMEDIAS
A (Flash) mob dos jornalistas ou o jornalista multimédia (veja-se a assinatura do texto, das fotos e - não ouvi mas presumo - da peça radiofónica)...
A (Flash) mob dos jornalistas ou o jornalista multimédia (veja-se a assinatura do texto, das fotos e - não ouvi mas presumo - da peça radiofónica)...
ECO-TERROR
Homefront Confidential: How the War on Terrorism Affects Access to Information and the Public's Right to Know
$1 billion international image campaign isn't enough to buy U.S. love: The Bush administration spends $1 billion a year trying to polish the United States' image around the world, yet polls show anti-Americanism rising to record levels, especially in Muslim and Arab nations where the government is concentrating its efforts.
Now, a new report from Congress' General Accounting Office explains why the federal government's efforts at "public diplomacy" have been such a failure.
Homefront Confidential: How the War on Terrorism Affects Access to Information and the Public's Right to Know
$1 billion international image campaign isn't enough to buy U.S. love: The Bush administration spends $1 billion a year trying to polish the United States' image around the world, yet polls show anti-Americanism rising to record levels, especially in Muslim and Arab nations where the government is concentrating its efforts.
Now, a new report from Congress' General Accounting Office explains why the federal government's efforts at "public diplomacy" have been such a failure.
VITAMEDIAS
Emerging Alternatives: Terms of Authority: Readers and Viewers — Rich Now in Alternative Sources of News — Are More Assertive and Far Less in Awe of the Press
First we had readers at the other end of the journalistic act. Then in the twentieth century came radio listeners, then TV viewers, and along the way we picked up news consumers. Now we have "users," which has become a conventional term for the audience on the Internet. These are all ways of further describing the public, while inscribing an image of what a public does. Thus, we speak of the reading public, the listening public, the viewing public. But a computer and Internet-using public is not really in the same genealogical line as readers, listeners, viewers, consumers. They were all receivers of information. The Net user, it has been said many times, doesn't fit that mold. It's a much more active identity, requiring more active nouns and verbs, which is why it hardly makes sense at all to talk about an Internet "audience."
The age of global interactivity that is now descending changes the terms of the transaction not only by upgrading what publics can do for themselves, but also by granting new powers of invention to journalists. In that long historical arc from the first correspondents writing letters to today's pros uplinked by satellite, there have been several revolutions in journalistic authority. The last big one was in the mid-twentieth century, when journalism evolved from a low-status trade to a higher-status profession. By pledging themselves to fairness, accuracy, and disinterested truth-telling, American journalists improved their cultural authority, separating it from partisan politics and the struggle to shape opinion. They became, in a sense, experts in the public's daily business. This worked well enough, and it still works.
Emerging Alternatives: Terms of Authority: Readers and Viewers — Rich Now in Alternative Sources of News — Are More Assertive and Far Less in Awe of the Press
First we had readers at the other end of the journalistic act. Then in the twentieth century came radio listeners, then TV viewers, and along the way we picked up news consumers. Now we have "users," which has become a conventional term for the audience on the Internet. These are all ways of further describing the public, while inscribing an image of what a public does. Thus, we speak of the reading public, the listening public, the viewing public. But a computer and Internet-using public is not really in the same genealogical line as readers, listeners, viewers, consumers. They were all receivers of information. The Net user, it has been said many times, doesn't fit that mold. It's a much more active identity, requiring more active nouns and verbs, which is why it hardly makes sense at all to talk about an Internet "audience."
The age of global interactivity that is now descending changes the terms of the transaction not only by upgrading what publics can do for themselves, but also by granting new powers of invention to journalists. In that long historical arc from the first correspondents writing letters to today's pros uplinked by satellite, there have been several revolutions in journalistic authority. The last big one was in the mid-twentieth century, when journalism evolved from a low-status trade to a higher-status profession. By pledging themselves to fairness, accuracy, and disinterested truth-telling, American journalists improved their cultural authority, separating it from partisan politics and the struggle to shape opinion. They became, in a sense, experts in the public's daily business. This worked well enough, and it still works.
VITAMEDIAS
Expert devotes life to how news looks: 'In 20 years I see all newspapers in a tabloid format, with fewer pages,' Mario Garcia says. [...]
His conclusion: We're a nation with environmentally induced attention-deficit disorder. It's not just that we're in a hurry. After years of flipping TV channels with remote controls, mouse-clicking through Web pages, we want, we need a change of stimulation about every five seconds. We can't read a newspaper story by story, top to bottom, front to back as readers used to.
"With TV or the Internet, this generation can go backward and forward. They expect the newspaper to be the same. These are not even scanners. Scanners were 10 years ago. I call them supersonic readers.''
Expert devotes life to how news looks: 'In 20 years I see all newspapers in a tabloid format, with fewer pages,' Mario Garcia says. [...]
His conclusion: We're a nation with environmentally induced attention-deficit disorder. It's not just that we're in a hurry. After years of flipping TV channels with remote controls, mouse-clicking through Web pages, we want, we need a change of stimulation about every five seconds. We can't read a newspaper story by story, top to bottom, front to back as readers used to.
"With TV or the Internet, this generation can go backward and forward. They expect the newspaper to be the same. These are not even scanners. Scanners were 10 years ago. I call them supersonic readers.''
VITAMEDIAS
Crean el primer sitio web sobre columnismo en España dirigido a periodistas: Cuatro jóvenes periodistas han llevado a cabo una iniciativa sin precedentes en España. Se han puesto manos a la obra para poner en marcha la creación de www.sincolumna.com, el primer portal sobre columnismo en nuestro país, que se inaugura hoy mismo, 15 de septiembre.
Crean el primer sitio web sobre columnismo en España dirigido a periodistas: Cuatro jóvenes periodistas han llevado a cabo una iniciativa sin precedentes en España. Se han puesto manos a la obra para poner en marcha la creación de www.sincolumna.com, el primer portal sobre columnismo en nuestro país, que se inaugura hoy mismo, 15 de septiembre.
CONTAMINANTES
Bionic Bodies: Marrying electronics and biology promises new devices that could transform millions of lives [...]
Ultimately, scientists want to "grow" living tissue that will eliminate the need for a transplant. For that, "we want to design smart materials that can sense their environment and adapt," says Allan J. Russell, director of the University of Pittsburgh's McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Bionic devices already available are halfway to Russell's goal. The Dobelle Institute in Lisbon, Portugal, has developed a pair of glasses that combine a tiny video camera, a handheld computer, and a grid of electrodes embedded in the part of the brain that processes visual images.
Bionic Bodies: Marrying electronics and biology promises new devices that could transform millions of lives [...]
Ultimately, scientists want to "grow" living tissue that will eliminate the need for a transplant. For that, "we want to design smart materials that can sense their environment and adapt," says Allan J. Russell, director of the University of Pittsburgh's McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Bionic devices already available are halfway to Russell's goal. The Dobelle Institute in Lisbon, Portugal, has developed a pair of glasses that combine a tiny video camera, a handheld computer, and a grid of electrodes embedded in the part of the brain that processes visual images.
CULTURAS IN VITRO
Beatles' Company Sues Apple Computer: The Beatles want to take another bite out of Apple Computer Inc.
Their record company, Apple Corps Ltd., said Friday that it was suing Apple Computer because the technology company violated a 1991 agreement by entering the music business with its iTunes online store.
When Steve Jobs co-founded Apple Computer in 1977, he is said to have chosen the name in part as a tribute to the Beatles. The 1991 agreement dealt with the future use of the name "Apple" and of both companies' well-known logos.
Apple Corps, founded in 1968, is owned by Sir Paul McCartney; Ringo Starr; John Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono; and the estate of George Harrison. It sued on July 4, about a month after Apple Computer launched its iTunes Music Store, a download music service.
Beatles' Company Sues Apple Computer: The Beatles want to take another bite out of Apple Computer Inc.
Their record company, Apple Corps Ltd., said Friday that it was suing Apple Computer because the technology company violated a 1991 agreement by entering the music business with its iTunes online store.
When Steve Jobs co-founded Apple Computer in 1977, he is said to have chosen the name in part as a tribute to the Beatles. The 1991 agreement dealt with the future use of the name "Apple" and of both companies' well-known logos.
Apple Corps, founded in 1968, is owned by Sir Paul McCartney; Ringo Starr; John Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono; and the estate of George Harrison. It sued on July 4, about a month after Apple Computer launched its iTunes Music Store, a download music service.
VITAMEDIAS
A new and improved News.com: Well, here we are celebrating another birthday - CNET News.com was born on Sept. 4, 1996 - with a redesign. In those seven years, a lot has changed about our site and the Web in general. What has not changed is our unwavering commitment to credible journalism and to "Tech News First." [...]
what of the next seven years? Our quest to exploit the online medium in order to provide you with an even better site is far from over. There will be more changes to CNET News.com, but I can guarantee you that our devotion to timely, credible journalism will remain our bedrock.
A new and improved News.com: Well, here we are celebrating another birthday - CNET News.com was born on Sept. 4, 1996 - with a redesign. In those seven years, a lot has changed about our site and the Web in general. What has not changed is our unwavering commitment to credible journalism and to "Tech News First." [...]
what of the next seven years? Our quest to exploit the online medium in order to provide you with an even better site is far from over. There will be more changes to CNET News.com, but I can guarantee you that our devotion to timely, credible journalism will remain our bedrock.
TECNOSFERA
High-Tech Heroin: Technology, like gambling and heroin, is addictive. We're driven or forced into buying new gadgets and constantly upgrading our technology for any number of reasons, both real and perceived, and feel uncomfortable without our latest "fix." Corporations love this because once we accept and begin using their products or services, the dependency is formed and they essentially own our information – and subsequently, society and us. Their proprietary lock on our collective information means they can force us to spend money and upgrade on their schedule and not when we truly need - or can afford - to do so, regardless of whether or not we need the latest features, and regardless of the consequences that may haunt us down the road.
But unlike many other industries from the Industrial Age and the heroin dealers, high-tech corporations are in a unique position to determine - and force - us addicts to spend money while relinquishing our rights to seek recourse for damages arising from their faulty products no matter what pain we must endure during our period of indentured servitude and addiction to their problematic technologies.
High-Tech Heroin: Technology, like gambling and heroin, is addictive. We're driven or forced into buying new gadgets and constantly upgrading our technology for any number of reasons, both real and perceived, and feel uncomfortable without our latest "fix." Corporations love this because once we accept and begin using their products or services, the dependency is formed and they essentially own our information – and subsequently, society and us. Their proprietary lock on our collective information means they can force us to spend money and upgrade on their schedule and not when we truly need - or can afford - to do so, regardless of whether or not we need the latest features, and regardless of the consequences that may haunt us down the road.
But unlike many other industries from the Industrial Age and the heroin dealers, high-tech corporations are in a unique position to determine - and force - us addicts to spend money while relinquishing our rights to seek recourse for damages arising from their faulty products no matter what pain we must endure during our period of indentured servitude and addiction to their problematic technologies.
CULTURAS IN VITRO
Hollywood Faces Online Piracy, but It Looks Like an Inside Job: When "Hulk" hit the small screen early, Hollywood hit the roof. Two weeks before this summer's film adaptation of the angry green giant opened in theaters in June, copies started showing up on file-sharing networks around the world. The film cost Universal $150 million to make and distribute, but anyone with a fast Internet connection, a big hard drive and plenty of time could see it free.
Hollywood is desperately worried that it will soon face the widespread illegal copying that has bedeviled the music industry — and that prompted record companies to file lawsuits last week against 261 people accused of illegally distributing copyrighted music online. Piracy of works in digital format, like DVD's or high-definition television is, in theory, so simple that whole movies could be zapped around the globe with a click of a mouse
Fighting the Idea That All the Internet Is Free: The Internet sprang from a research culture where information of all kinds was freely shared. That mentality still resonates with the millions of Internet users who routinely download music onto their computers. But the emphatic message of the music industry's two-step program announced yesterday is that the days of plucking copyrighted songs off the Internet without paying for them are numbered.
Whatever Will Be Will Be Free on the Internet: Since Gutenberg's printing press, new technologies for creating, copying and distributing information have eroded the power of the people, or industries, in control of various media. In the last century, the pattern held true, for example, when recorded music became popular in the early 1900's, radio in the 1920's and cable television in recent years.
But the heritage and design of the Internet present a particularly disruptive technology. Today's global network had its origins in the research culture of academia with its ethos of freely sharing information. And by design, the Internet turns every user in every living room into a mass distributor of just about anything that can be digitized, including film, photography, the written word and, of course, music. Already, Hollywood is trying to curb the next frontier, film swapping. The inevitable advance of technology will make reading on digital tablets more convenient than reading on paper, so the publishers of books, magazines and newspapers have their worries as well. "Nobody is immune," observed Michael J. Wolf, managing partner in charge of the media practice at McKinsey & Company, a consulting firm.
"The cultural and technical principle embedded in today's Internet is that it is neutral in the sense that the people who use it have the power to determine its use, not corporations or the network operators," said Jonathan Zittrain, a co-director of the Berkman Center for the Internet and Society at the Harvard Law School. "The plan for the Internet was to have no plan."
Hollywood Faces Online Piracy, but It Looks Like an Inside Job: When "Hulk" hit the small screen early, Hollywood hit the roof. Two weeks before this summer's film adaptation of the angry green giant opened in theaters in June, copies started showing up on file-sharing networks around the world. The film cost Universal $150 million to make and distribute, but anyone with a fast Internet connection, a big hard drive and plenty of time could see it free.
Hollywood is desperately worried that it will soon face the widespread illegal copying that has bedeviled the music industry — and that prompted record companies to file lawsuits last week against 261 people accused of illegally distributing copyrighted music online. Piracy of works in digital format, like DVD's or high-definition television is, in theory, so simple that whole movies could be zapped around the globe with a click of a mouse
Fighting the Idea That All the Internet Is Free: The Internet sprang from a research culture where information of all kinds was freely shared. That mentality still resonates with the millions of Internet users who routinely download music onto their computers. But the emphatic message of the music industry's two-step program announced yesterday is that the days of plucking copyrighted songs off the Internet without paying for them are numbered.
Whatever Will Be Will Be Free on the Internet: Since Gutenberg's printing press, new technologies for creating, copying and distributing information have eroded the power of the people, or industries, in control of various media. In the last century, the pattern held true, for example, when recorded music became popular in the early 1900's, radio in the 1920's and cable television in recent years.
But the heritage and design of the Internet present a particularly disruptive technology. Today's global network had its origins in the research culture of academia with its ethos of freely sharing information. And by design, the Internet turns every user in every living room into a mass distributor of just about anything that can be digitized, including film, photography, the written word and, of course, music. Already, Hollywood is trying to curb the next frontier, film swapping. The inevitable advance of technology will make reading on digital tablets more convenient than reading on paper, so the publishers of books, magazines and newspapers have their worries as well. "Nobody is immune," observed Michael J. Wolf, managing partner in charge of the media practice at McKinsey & Company, a consulting firm.
"The cultural and technical principle embedded in today's Internet is that it is neutral in the sense that the people who use it have the power to determine its use, not corporations or the network operators," said Jonathan Zittrain, a co-director of the Berkman Center for the Internet and Society at the Harvard Law School. "The plan for the Internet was to have no plan."
TECNOSFERA
Profits in Missed Exits on Information Highway: VeriSign [...]has a plan for redirecting people who make errors in trying to call up a Web site. [...]
VeriSign Inc. the country's largest registrar of Web addresses ending in .com and .net, plans to jump into the fray on Monday by introducing a Web navigation service that whisks typo traffic to its Site Finder, which will try to put users back on the right track — and which VeriSign hopes can generate pay-per-click revenue from commercial Web sites that Site Finder would steer their way.
In May, NeuStar, which administers Web addresses ending in .biz and .us, did its own trial.
Profits in Missed Exits on Information Highway: VeriSign [...]has a plan for redirecting people who make errors in trying to call up a Web site. [...]
VeriSign Inc. the country's largest registrar of Web addresses ending in .com and .net, plans to jump into the fray on Monday by introducing a Web navigation service that whisks typo traffic to its Site Finder, which will try to put users back on the right track — and which VeriSign hopes can generate pay-per-click revenue from commercial Web sites that Site Finder would steer their way.
In May, NeuStar, which administers Web addresses ending in .biz and .us, did its own trial.
VITAMEDIAS
Os produtores de espectáculos: Os "media" portugueses constituem globalmente uma triste ilustração dos efeitos nefastos da concorrência em tempos de neo-liberalismo selvagem e de fragilização do poder político. Renunciam cada vez mais a propor uma abordagem inteligível da actualidade capaz de permitir uma melhor inserção dos indivíduos na vida da "polis", fazendo deles cidadãos no pleno sentido da palavra. E assumem-se gradualmente como produtores de um espectáculo permanente que transforma as pessoas em actores narcísicos e exibicionistas ou espectadores "voyeurs" e amadores de sensações fortes. A sociedade do consumismo e do "lazerismo" terá pois o futuro garantido. E a democracia?...
[Um exemplo da "triste ilustração dos efeitos nefastos da concorrência ": Títulos Obscenos Generalizam-se na Imprensa: São casos como o da manchete do "Correio da Manhã" [... e duas] revistas de TV optaram também esta semana por chamar à capa linguagem deste género".
Quando é títulos de um diário e de duas revistas se podem apontar como generalização na imprensa?...]
Os produtores de espectáculos: Os "media" portugueses constituem globalmente uma triste ilustração dos efeitos nefastos da concorrência em tempos de neo-liberalismo selvagem e de fragilização do poder político. Renunciam cada vez mais a propor uma abordagem inteligível da actualidade capaz de permitir uma melhor inserção dos indivíduos na vida da "polis", fazendo deles cidadãos no pleno sentido da palavra. E assumem-se gradualmente como produtores de um espectáculo permanente que transforma as pessoas em actores narcísicos e exibicionistas ou espectadores "voyeurs" e amadores de sensações fortes. A sociedade do consumismo e do "lazerismo" terá pois o futuro garantido. E a democracia?...
[Um exemplo da "triste ilustração dos efeitos nefastos da concorrência ": Títulos Obscenos Generalizam-se na Imprensa: São casos como o da manchete do "Correio da Manhã" [... e duas] revistas de TV optaram também esta semana por chamar à capa linguagem deste género".
Quando é títulos de um diário e de duas revistas se podem apontar como generalização na imprensa?...]
NOTA
Porque tudo debater é cada vez mais necessário - e os blogs não são excepção -, lembro o próximo e primeiro Encontro Nacional sobre Weblogs, na Universidade do Minho, a 18 e 19 de Setembro de 2003:
18 de Setembro
17.30h Abertura do secretariado e recepção dos participantes
18.00h Abertura e sessão de boas-vindas
18.15h Intervenções:
*Panorama da blogosfera em Portugal: António Granado
*Panorama espanhol e europeu da blogosfera: Jose Luis Orihuela
19.45h Suspensão dos trabalhos
19 de Setembro
09.30h Weblogs, cidadania e participação
*Abrupto
*Blog de Esquerda
*Socioblogue
11.00h Intervalo
11.30h Weblogs, ensino, aprendizagem e investigação
*Aula de Jornalismo
*Gente Jovem
*JornalismoPortoNet
*Teoria da Comunicação
13.00h Intervalo para almoço
14.30h Weblogs, jornalismo e comunicação
*ContraFactos e Argumentos
*Íntima Fracção
*Jornalismo Digital
16.30h Intervalo
16.45h Weblogs e sociedade - Horizontes da blogosfera
*Todos os participantes
18.00h Encerramento dos trabalhos
[E para os interessados no assunto, um Encontro Informal de Blogues está previsto para 30 de Outubro na Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa]
Porque tudo debater é cada vez mais necessário - e os blogs não são excepção -, lembro o próximo e primeiro Encontro Nacional sobre Weblogs, na Universidade do Minho, a 18 e 19 de Setembro de 2003:
18 de Setembro
17.30h Abertura do secretariado e recepção dos participantes
18.00h Abertura e sessão de boas-vindas
18.15h Intervenções:
*Panorama da blogosfera em Portugal: António Granado
*Panorama espanhol e europeu da blogosfera: Jose Luis Orihuela
19.45h Suspensão dos trabalhos
19 de Setembro
09.30h Weblogs, cidadania e participação
*Abrupto
*Blog de Esquerda
*Socioblogue
11.00h Intervalo
11.30h Weblogs, ensino, aprendizagem e investigação
*Aula de Jornalismo
*Gente Jovem
*JornalismoPortoNet
*Teoria da Comunicação
13.00h Intervalo para almoço
14.30h Weblogs, jornalismo e comunicação
*ContraFactos e Argumentos
*Íntima Fracção
*Jornalismo Digital
16.30h Intervalo
16.45h Weblogs e sociedade - Horizontes da blogosfera
*Todos os participantes
18.00h Encerramento dos trabalhos
[E para os interessados no assunto, um Encontro Informal de Blogues está previsto para 30 de Outubro na Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa]
VITAMEDIAS
A pior televisão é o melhor negócio: Se atentarmos em que, mesmo para crianças com cinco a seis anos, os pais não conseguem contrariar a tendência, e já só lhes resta lamentar-se, logo se evidencia a força irresistível do fenómeno televisão. [...]
A nossa civilização tem por isso um grave problema, com este poder imenso e sem controlo da televisão. De facto, sendo considerada o mais potente dos instrumentos de influência social na educação e na cultura de massas, ela escapa-se ao respectivo estatuto e responsabilidades. São em comparação muito mais controladas pelo Estado as escolas, privadas e públicas, do que as televisões, privadas e públicas. Ora, se estas são mais poderosas e ambíguas do que as escolas, difícil é justificar tão contraditório regime jurídico e político, entre o rigor do estatismo educativo escolar (em matéria de liberdade escolar de ensino e educação) e o laxismo do indiferentismo televisivo (em matéria de liberdade televisiva de informação e de cultura des/educativa).
[É quando leio estes discursos que me lembro da dedicatória de Douglas Rushkoff no seu "Media Virus": "To my mom and dad, for letting me watch as much TV as I wanted"...]
New season? I couldn't care less... I don't watch TV: I'm better than you. I didn't plan it this way, but you've made your choices and I've made mine. Let's accept the consequences.
I don't watch TV. That's not to say I don't own a television — I do. I simply choose not to watch it. People who don't own televisions are either anarchists or, worse, poor. There is a working television in my house, yet I choose — I elect — not to turn it on.
Yes, I suppose this lends my persona a certain scent of sophistication. If this is the price I must pay to free my central nervous system of the pabulum that passes for televised entertainment, so be it.
A pior televisão é o melhor negócio: Se atentarmos em que, mesmo para crianças com cinco a seis anos, os pais não conseguem contrariar a tendência, e já só lhes resta lamentar-se, logo se evidencia a força irresistível do fenómeno televisão. [...]
A nossa civilização tem por isso um grave problema, com este poder imenso e sem controlo da televisão. De facto, sendo considerada o mais potente dos instrumentos de influência social na educação e na cultura de massas, ela escapa-se ao respectivo estatuto e responsabilidades. São em comparação muito mais controladas pelo Estado as escolas, privadas e públicas, do que as televisões, privadas e públicas. Ora, se estas são mais poderosas e ambíguas do que as escolas, difícil é justificar tão contraditório regime jurídico e político, entre o rigor do estatismo educativo escolar (em matéria de liberdade escolar de ensino e educação) e o laxismo do indiferentismo televisivo (em matéria de liberdade televisiva de informação e de cultura des/educativa).
[É quando leio estes discursos que me lembro da dedicatória de Douglas Rushkoff no seu "Media Virus": "To my mom and dad, for letting me watch as much TV as I wanted"...]
New season? I couldn't care less... I don't watch TV: I'm better than you. I didn't plan it this way, but you've made your choices and I've made mine. Let's accept the consequences.
I don't watch TV. That's not to say I don't own a television — I do. I simply choose not to watch it. People who don't own televisions are either anarchists or, worse, poor. There is a working television in my house, yet I choose — I elect — not to turn it on.
Yes, I suppose this lends my persona a certain scent of sophistication. If this is the price I must pay to free my central nervous system of the pabulum that passes for televised entertainment, so be it.
13 setembro 2003
TECNOSFERA
Should License Be Required to Go Online? Experts Debate Idea of Instituting Mandatory Education Before People Can Go Online
Should Microsoft be liable for bugs? Consumer advocates and some computer users argue that the protections should be ended or diminished to let businesses and people try to hold software makers at least partially liable for the effects of product flaws. Doing so, they say, would make companies such as Microsoft more accountable, resulting in programs with fewer defects.
Should License Be Required to Go Online? Experts Debate Idea of Instituting Mandatory Education Before People Can Go Online
Should Microsoft be liable for bugs? Consumer advocates and some computer users argue that the protections should be ended or diminished to let businesses and people try to hold software makers at least partially liable for the effects of product flaws. Doing so, they say, would make companies such as Microsoft more accountable, resulting in programs with fewer defects.
CONTAMINANTES
Portugal tops list of food and drink spending in European Union: The Portuguese are the European Union's keenest purchasers of food and soft drinks, considering annual household spending, according to European Union statistical agency Eurostat.
Portugal's consumers devoted 18.5% of their spending on food and non-alcoholic drinks in 2001 and 2000 - the latest available comparative statistics.
Second were the Greeks - 16.9%, and Spain third - 15.2%, reflecting common patterns about poorer countries spending comparatively more on food.
Among richer EU countries the highest spenders were the French and Italians at 14.4%. Across the EU, the lowest spending country was Britain - 9.7%, with Ireland second lowest at 10.7%.
Portugal tops list of food and drink spending in European Union: The Portuguese are the European Union's keenest purchasers of food and soft drinks, considering annual household spending, according to European Union statistical agency Eurostat.
Portugal's consumers devoted 18.5% of their spending on food and non-alcoholic drinks in 2001 and 2000 - the latest available comparative statistics.
Second were the Greeks - 16.9%, and Spain third - 15.2%, reflecting common patterns about poorer countries spending comparatively more on food.
Among richer EU countries the highest spenders were the French and Italians at 14.4%. Across the EU, the lowest spending country was Britain - 9.7%, with Ireland second lowest at 10.7%.
TECNOSFERA
Game Boy Advance Can Work As Videophone: Nintendo's Game Boy Advance Hand-Held Machine Now Can Work As a Videophone With an Attachment
Game Boy Advance Can Work As Videophone: Nintendo's Game Boy Advance Hand-Held Machine Now Can Work As a Videophone With an Attachment
ECO-TERROR
Um verdadeiro mimo nos tempos que correm:
Impossível apanhar criminosos da Net: Se amanhã aparecer uma página na Internet a difamar o Presidente da República, todos vão exigir que as autoridades identifiquem o autor do crime, mas a verdade é que a Polícia Judiciária não tem meios para encontrar o responsável. Tudo porque as operadoras de telecomunicações não guardam os registos que estabelecem a origem da página.
O CDS-PP, partido que tem a pasta da Justiça, tem em mãos uma proposta de lei para que as operadoras guardem os dados sobre essas páginas, pelo menos, durante seis meses. Esta já sofreu um primeiro revés ao ser reprovada pela Comissão Nacional de Protecção de Dados Pessoais (ver caixa*). O parecer negativo da Comissão, embora não sendo impeditivo para o legislador, coloca entraves ao processo, na opinião dos autores da proposta. [...] Fonte ligada à investigação da PJ considera lamentável que não existam mecanismos para permitir encontrar os autores dos crimes dos novos tempos. «A difamação através da Internet é actualmente um crime sem punição, qualquer pessoa pode destruir a vida de outra ficando impune», explica.
Alerta que ganhou maior destaque com o surgimento de um «blog» (Muito Mentiroso) sobre o caso de pedofilia na Casa Pia, com dezenas de referências a pessoas da sociedade portuguesa, que semana a semana vai tendo mais acusações e os visados nada podem fazer. «Até agora não entrou nenhuma queixa na PJ sobre essa página, mas se entrar não podemos fazer nada», disse ao DN a mesma fonte.
Há um argumento que dificulta a legislação nesta área, que é o custo de manutenção dos registos pelos operadores. «É caro, mas também sabemos que há um crime em crescimento, cada vez com mais instrumentos, que fica impune». Ou seja, quando o juiz de instrução determina que deve ser procurada a autoria de uma página, nós vamos ao operador que nos diz não ter registos. Não se preservou a prova, não há forma de encontrar o criminoso».
*Excessos securitários» chumbam
A Comissão Nacional da Protecção de Dados (CNPD), no parecer de 3 de Junho, em resposta à proposta do CDS-PP. considera «preocupantes os excessos securitários que se pretende impor de forma a vigiar, por antecipação e de forma generalizada, todos os cidadãos». E destaca a importância em não se legislar sob a «pressão dos acontecimentos do 11 de Setembro», um dos acontecimentos referidos no Regime Jurídico da Obtenção da Prova Digital Electrónica na internet, nome do projecto-lei. Entende que a proposta restringe as liberdades e direitos fundamentais dos cidadãos, Acrescenta «não se vislumbrar uma necessidade social imperativa que justifique medidas, que se pretendem aplicar por tempo indeterminado, a todas as pessoas e, em alguns casos, independentemente das circunstâncias». E conclui: «Aquilo que começou com o objectivo de servir a luta contra o terrorismo corre o risco de se generalizar como mecanismo de utilização no combate a toda e qualquer criminalidade.»
Vamos por partes:
1) a PJ tem meios para identificar o autor de qualquer página difamatória, tal como teve em Abril de 2002 quando deteve "um grupo que se dedicava à contrafacção de programas informáticos cuja venda era efectuada através da Internet";
2) quanto a "sites" ou blogues como o Muito Mentiroso, "que semana a semana vai tendo mais acusações e os visados nada podem fazer", isto é falso, como explica o criminologista Barra da Costa no Correio da Manhã: mesmo que os visados não apresentem queixa, o Ministério Público pode agir. Só fica impune quem o MP quiser;
2a) "Fonte ligada à investigação da PJ considera lamentável que não existam mecanismos para permitir encontrar os autores dos crimes dos novos tempos. «A difamação através da Internet é actualmente um crime sem punição, qualquer pessoa pode destruir a vida de outra ficando impune», explica."
- Mais uma vez, é falso: só fica impune por inépcia do MP - a PJ sabe como chegar aos dados da entidade que alberga um sítio Web ou blogue;
3) a fonte não identificada da PJ (ou o jornalista?) mistura a dificuldade de acesso aos registos dos operadores nacionais de acesso à Internet com o Muito Mentiroso, blogue albergado num servidor de uma empresa dos Estados Unidos, a Pyra (Google), com um quadro legal diferente do nosso. Não se percebe porquê;
4) "quando o juiz de instrução determina que deve ser procurada a autoria de uma página, nós vamos ao operador que nos diz não ter registos. Não se preservou a prova, não há forma de encontrar o criminoso»".
- Não é bem assim. Esta foi a desculpa para obrigar os operadores de telemóveis a manterem registo das chamadas, processo que decorreu com os operadores a reclamarem por verbas para o fazer e a PJ a dizer que era necessário para impedir crimes. Até hoje, quantos foram evitados por esta técnica? Não se sabe...
5) "O CDS-PP, partido que tem a pasta da Justiça, tem em mãos uma proposta de lei para que as operadoras guardem os dados sobre essas páginas, pelo menos, durante seis meses."
- Não é o CDS-PP mas uma proposta de directiva da Comissão Europeia, forçada pela Europol (onde a PJ tem assento), que pretende um ano de registo de dados, embora deixe aos países o critério de estabelecer o período de tempo.
6) Alguém se preocupa que a CNPD, "em resposta à proposta do CDS-PP, considera «preocupantes os excessos securitários que se pretende impor de forma a vigiar, por antecipação e de forma generalizada, todos os cidadãos»", relativamente a uma proposta que considera "restringe as liberdades e direitos fundamentais dos cidadãos"?
Hello, is anybody out there? E que mais diz a CNPD? «Aquilo que começou com o objectivo de servir a luta contra o terrorismo corre o risco de se generalizar como mecanismo de utilização no combate a toda e qualquer criminalidade.»
7) Percebem agora o problema do aparecimento do Muito Mentiroso? Seja verdade ou mentira o que ele diz, é muito fácil usá-lo como exemplo extremo para aprovar leis extremistas...
Um verdadeiro mimo nos tempos que correm:
Impossível apanhar criminosos da Net: Se amanhã aparecer uma página na Internet a difamar o Presidente da República, todos vão exigir que as autoridades identifiquem o autor do crime, mas a verdade é que a Polícia Judiciária não tem meios para encontrar o responsável. Tudo porque as operadoras de telecomunicações não guardam os registos que estabelecem a origem da página.
O CDS-PP, partido que tem a pasta da Justiça, tem em mãos uma proposta de lei para que as operadoras guardem os dados sobre essas páginas, pelo menos, durante seis meses. Esta já sofreu um primeiro revés ao ser reprovada pela Comissão Nacional de Protecção de Dados Pessoais (ver caixa*). O parecer negativo da Comissão, embora não sendo impeditivo para o legislador, coloca entraves ao processo, na opinião dos autores da proposta. [...] Fonte ligada à investigação da PJ considera lamentável que não existam mecanismos para permitir encontrar os autores dos crimes dos novos tempos. «A difamação através da Internet é actualmente um crime sem punição, qualquer pessoa pode destruir a vida de outra ficando impune», explica.
Alerta que ganhou maior destaque com o surgimento de um «blog» (Muito Mentiroso) sobre o caso de pedofilia na Casa Pia, com dezenas de referências a pessoas da sociedade portuguesa, que semana a semana vai tendo mais acusações e os visados nada podem fazer. «Até agora não entrou nenhuma queixa na PJ sobre essa página, mas se entrar não podemos fazer nada», disse ao DN a mesma fonte.
Há um argumento que dificulta a legislação nesta área, que é o custo de manutenção dos registos pelos operadores. «É caro, mas também sabemos que há um crime em crescimento, cada vez com mais instrumentos, que fica impune». Ou seja, quando o juiz de instrução determina que deve ser procurada a autoria de uma página, nós vamos ao operador que nos diz não ter registos. Não se preservou a prova, não há forma de encontrar o criminoso».
*Excessos securitários» chumbam
A Comissão Nacional da Protecção de Dados (CNPD), no parecer de 3 de Junho, em resposta à proposta do CDS-PP. considera «preocupantes os excessos securitários que se pretende impor de forma a vigiar, por antecipação e de forma generalizada, todos os cidadãos». E destaca a importância em não se legislar sob a «pressão dos acontecimentos do 11 de Setembro», um dos acontecimentos referidos no Regime Jurídico da Obtenção da Prova Digital Electrónica na internet, nome do projecto-lei. Entende que a proposta restringe as liberdades e direitos fundamentais dos cidadãos, Acrescenta «não se vislumbrar uma necessidade social imperativa que justifique medidas, que se pretendem aplicar por tempo indeterminado, a todas as pessoas e, em alguns casos, independentemente das circunstâncias». E conclui: «Aquilo que começou com o objectivo de servir a luta contra o terrorismo corre o risco de se generalizar como mecanismo de utilização no combate a toda e qualquer criminalidade.»
Vamos por partes:
1) a PJ tem meios para identificar o autor de qualquer página difamatória, tal como teve em Abril de 2002 quando deteve "um grupo que se dedicava à contrafacção de programas informáticos cuja venda era efectuada através da Internet";
2) quanto a "sites" ou blogues como o Muito Mentiroso, "que semana a semana vai tendo mais acusações e os visados nada podem fazer", isto é falso, como explica o criminologista Barra da Costa no Correio da Manhã: mesmo que os visados não apresentem queixa, o Ministério Público pode agir. Só fica impune quem o MP quiser;
2a) "Fonte ligada à investigação da PJ considera lamentável que não existam mecanismos para permitir encontrar os autores dos crimes dos novos tempos. «A difamação através da Internet é actualmente um crime sem punição, qualquer pessoa pode destruir a vida de outra ficando impune», explica."
- Mais uma vez, é falso: só fica impune por inépcia do MP - a PJ sabe como chegar aos dados da entidade que alberga um sítio Web ou blogue;
3) a fonte não identificada da PJ (ou o jornalista?) mistura a dificuldade de acesso aos registos dos operadores nacionais de acesso à Internet com o Muito Mentiroso, blogue albergado num servidor de uma empresa dos Estados Unidos, a Pyra (Google), com um quadro legal diferente do nosso. Não se percebe porquê;
4) "quando o juiz de instrução determina que deve ser procurada a autoria de uma página, nós vamos ao operador que nos diz não ter registos. Não se preservou a prova, não há forma de encontrar o criminoso»".
- Não é bem assim. Esta foi a desculpa para obrigar os operadores de telemóveis a manterem registo das chamadas, processo que decorreu com os operadores a reclamarem por verbas para o fazer e a PJ a dizer que era necessário para impedir crimes. Até hoje, quantos foram evitados por esta técnica? Não se sabe...
5) "O CDS-PP, partido que tem a pasta da Justiça, tem em mãos uma proposta de lei para que as operadoras guardem os dados sobre essas páginas, pelo menos, durante seis meses."
- Não é o CDS-PP mas uma proposta de directiva da Comissão Europeia, forçada pela Europol (onde a PJ tem assento), que pretende um ano de registo de dados, embora deixe aos países o critério de estabelecer o período de tempo.
6) Alguém se preocupa que a CNPD, "em resposta à proposta do CDS-PP, considera «preocupantes os excessos securitários que se pretende impor de forma a vigiar, por antecipação e de forma generalizada, todos os cidadãos»", relativamente a uma proposta que considera "restringe as liberdades e direitos fundamentais dos cidadãos"?
Hello, is anybody out there? E que mais diz a CNPD? «Aquilo que começou com o objectivo de servir a luta contra o terrorismo corre o risco de se generalizar como mecanismo de utilização no combate a toda e qualquer criminalidade.»
7) Percebem agora o problema do aparecimento do Muito Mentiroso? Seja verdade ou mentira o que ele diz, é muito fácil usá-lo como exemplo extremo para aprovar leis extremistas...
CULTURAS IN VITRO
Disney Animates Dalí's Flick: In 1946, Walt Disney and Salvador Dalí, in one of cinema's oddest collaborations, teamed up on a short film called Destino. But Disney's studio ran into financial trouble and put the unfinished film on the shelf.
Now, 57 years later, a team of Disney animators has finished what Dalí started. The six-minute film, spearheaded by Walt's nephew Roy E. Disney and producer Baker Bloodworth (Dinosaur), premiered at the Annecy Animation Festival in June and is currently touring festivals worldwide. Recent stops include the Telluride, Montreal and Venice festivals, along with the Melbourne International Film Festival, where it won the grand prize for best short film.
Destino will likely be shown in theaters next year before a Disney feature film, and eventually will be released on DVD.
Disney Animates Dalí's Flick: In 1946, Walt Disney and Salvador Dalí, in one of cinema's oddest collaborations, teamed up on a short film called Destino. But Disney's studio ran into financial trouble and put the unfinished film on the shelf.
Now, 57 years later, a team of Disney animators has finished what Dalí started. The six-minute film, spearheaded by Walt's nephew Roy E. Disney and producer Baker Bloodworth (Dinosaur), premiered at the Annecy Animation Festival in June and is currently touring festivals worldwide. Recent stops include the Telluride, Montreal and Venice festivals, along with the Melbourne International Film Festival, where it won the grand prize for best short film.
Destino will likely be shown in theaters next year before a Disney feature film, and eventually will be released on DVD.
CULTURAS IN VITRO
Hendrix, Allman, King Ranked as Top Guitarists: Late rock musicians Jimi Hendrix and Duane Allman lead the list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time in the upcoming issue of Rolling Stone magazine. [...]
B.B. King, who turns 78 next month, came in at No. 3.[...]
Clapton landed at No. 4, followed by Delta bluesman Robert Johnson. Rounding out the top 10 were Chuck Berry, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Ry Cooder, Jimmy Page and Keith Richards.
Hendrix, Allman, King Ranked as Top Guitarists: Late rock musicians Jimi Hendrix and Duane Allman lead the list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time in the upcoming issue of Rolling Stone magazine. [...]
B.B. King, who turns 78 next month, came in at No. 3.[...]
Clapton landed at No. 4, followed by Delta bluesman Robert Johnson. Rounding out the top 10 were Chuck Berry, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Ry Cooder, Jimmy Page and Keith Richards.
TECNOSFERA
Manhattan Mob Meets Its Maker: The mother of all flash mobs officially came to an end on Wednesday night, in an inexplicable grand finale that amazed and confused both participants and mob organizers. [...]
events are now happening around the world.
"The response has been sort of disappointing," said Bill. "After all, they never did do a mob in Antarctica."
"Seriously, I continue to be blown away by how far and fast the mobs have spread," Bill added. "I've never agreed with those who see the mobs as a 'movement,' but it's clear that for groups of people in individual cities around the world, the mob idea has been a great basis on which to create their own social art."
A summer's worth of organizing mobs has taught Bill some things about creating an unplanned planned event, and he's happy to share his tips with other mobsters.
"Most of the things I've learned I'm sure they've already figured out for themselves. Keep the ideas short and funny. Be meticulous in your planning, and in your instructions. Keep the organizers in the background.
"Really, the idea is so simple that it's hard to mess up. What's really been cool is seeing the ways that organizers in different cities have interpreted the idea differently."
Manhattan Mob Meets Its Maker: The mother of all flash mobs officially came to an end on Wednesday night, in an inexplicable grand finale that amazed and confused both participants and mob organizers. [...]
events are now happening around the world.
"The response has been sort of disappointing," said Bill. "After all, they never did do a mob in Antarctica."
"Seriously, I continue to be blown away by how far and fast the mobs have spread," Bill added. "I've never agreed with those who see the mobs as a 'movement,' but it's clear that for groups of people in individual cities around the world, the mob idea has been a great basis on which to create their own social art."
A summer's worth of organizing mobs has taught Bill some things about creating an unplanned planned event, and he's happy to share his tips with other mobsters.
"Most of the things I've learned I'm sure they've already figured out for themselves. Keep the ideas short and funny. Be meticulous in your planning, and in your instructions. Keep the organizers in the background.
"Really, the idea is so simple that it's hard to mess up. What's really been cool is seeing the ways that organizers in different cities have interpreted the idea differently."
TECNOSFERA
IBM Hot, Lilly Not for Workplace Privacy: IBM is least likely to snoop on its employees, while drug maker Eli Lilly is the most notorious Big Brother boss, Wired magazine said in its October edition:
THE BEST +
1. IBM
2. HP
3. Ford
4. Baxter Healthcare
5. Sears
THE WORST -
1. Eli Lilly
2. Wal-Mart
3. New York Times
4. Burlington Northern Santa Fe
5. Hilton Hotels
IBM Hot, Lilly Not for Workplace Privacy: IBM is least likely to snoop on its employees, while drug maker Eli Lilly is the most notorious Big Brother boss, Wired magazine said in its October edition:
THE BEST +
1. IBM
2. HP
3. Ford
4. Baxter Healthcare
5. Sears
THE WORST -
1. Eli Lilly
2. Wal-Mart
3. New York Times
4. Burlington Northern Santa Fe
5. Hilton Hotels
Study: Boomers Still Prefer Printed Pages: Preliminary data from a report Pew is to release this fall shows [...] a pattern in which the older tech elite, ages 42 to 62, are fond of technologies yet fall back on more traditional ways and means of doing things.
Forty-four percent of this group go online for news on a typical day, but many more, 60 percent, pick up the newspaper.
By comparison, 39 percent of the younger tech elite, ages 18 to 29, get news online and 42 percent read a newspaper.
"The young tech elite are roughly even as to how they get their news, through newspapers and online, and for the older generation, it's very clearly old media," said [John Horrigan of the Pew Internet and American Life Project], who is Pew's senior research specialist.
The pattern reflects social conditioning, Horrigan said.
Forty-four percent of this group go online for news on a typical day, but many more, 60 percent, pick up the newspaper.
By comparison, 39 percent of the younger tech elite, ages 18 to 29, get news online and 42 percent read a newspaper.
"The young tech elite are roughly even as to how they get their news, through newspapers and online, and for the older generation, it's very clearly old media," said [John Horrigan of the Pew Internet and American Life Project], who is Pew's senior research specialist.
The pattern reflects social conditioning, Horrigan said.
VITAMEDIAS
How do you get a job in journalism?
Jeremy Vine, Radio 2 presenter: Never take no for an answer and never stop knocking until the door has fallen off its hinges
Peter McKay, Daily Mail columnist: Be charming in your dealings with potential employers. Feign intense interest.
Dylan Jones, editor of GQ magazine: The best way is to do lots of work experience and to be the kind of 'workee' who is always offering to help, often to the point where you are annoying.
Sarah Montague, Today presenter: Go to your local newspaper, television or radio station and ask if you can make the coffee unpaid, or else generally make yourself useful.
Peter Hill, editor of the Daily Star: It's really quite hard now. The most important thing is total determination.
Eva Simpson, Daily Mirror '3am Girl': Some aspiring young journalists think that the way forward is to do a media studies degree and that this alone will get them a job. It won't, so steer clear. Instead, I'd recommend getting a good degree before doing a post-graduate course.
I'd also encourage you to get as much work experience as possible.
Robert Harris, novelist and columnist: [...] my advice would be to start early. [...] Those who are later starters need to show initiative.
Charlie Catchpole, Daily Express TV critic: It is very different now from my day, but the basic principle remains: pester people and know your market.
Piers Morgan, editor of Daily Mirror: Sleep with the editor. [...] Other than that: work hard, play hard, dress smart, think smart, file on time and remember that factual inaccuracy is never, ever acceptable.
How do you get a job in journalism?
Jeremy Vine, Radio 2 presenter: Never take no for an answer and never stop knocking until the door has fallen off its hinges
Peter McKay, Daily Mail columnist: Be charming in your dealings with potential employers. Feign intense interest.
Dylan Jones, editor of GQ magazine: The best way is to do lots of work experience and to be the kind of 'workee' who is always offering to help, often to the point where you are annoying.
Sarah Montague, Today presenter: Go to your local newspaper, television or radio station and ask if you can make the coffee unpaid, or else generally make yourself useful.
Peter Hill, editor of the Daily Star: It's really quite hard now. The most important thing is total determination.
Eva Simpson, Daily Mirror '3am Girl': Some aspiring young journalists think that the way forward is to do a media studies degree and that this alone will get them a job. It won't, so steer clear. Instead, I'd recommend getting a good degree before doing a post-graduate course.
I'd also encourage you to get as much work experience as possible.
Robert Harris, novelist and columnist: [...] my advice would be to start early. [...] Those who are later starters need to show initiative.
Charlie Catchpole, Daily Express TV critic: It is very different now from my day, but the basic principle remains: pester people and know your market.
Piers Morgan, editor of Daily Mirror: Sleep with the editor. [...] Other than that: work hard, play hard, dress smart, think smart, file on time and remember that factual inaccuracy is never, ever acceptable.
VITAMEDIAS
For Pioneers of Web Journalism, the Future Is Still Full of Surprises: [Christopher Barr, founding editor in chief of CNET Networks in 1995 and left in 2001]: Weblogs, or something very similar, were dreamed up more than 100 years ago by Jules Verne. In his 1890 futuristic "A Day in the Life of an American Journalist in 2890," he predicted that instead of being printed, every morning the news is spoken directly (IM'd?) to subscribers, who, from interesting conversations with reporters, learn the news of the day. Each subscriber owns a recorder (hard disk?) to gather the news if he doesn't want to listen to it himself.
For Pioneers of Web Journalism, the Future Is Still Full of Surprises: [Christopher Barr, founding editor in chief of CNET Networks in 1995 and left in 2001]: Weblogs, or something very similar, were dreamed up more than 100 years ago by Jules Verne. In his 1890 futuristic "A Day in the Life of an American Journalist in 2890," he predicted that instead of being printed, every morning the news is spoken directly (IM'd?) to subscribers, who, from interesting conversations with reporters, learn the news of the day. Each subscriber owns a recorder (hard disk?) to gather the news if he doesn't want to listen to it himself.
VITAMEDIAS
Making Blogs More Than Just What's for Dinner: Yes, like most everything else that begins existence as a hip underground trend, blogging has gone corporate.
Making Blogs More Than Just What's for Dinner: Yes, like most everything else that begins existence as a hip underground trend, blogging has gone corporate.
VITAMEDIAS
Media regulation in America: Who will win the political war over the ownership of media in America?
Media madness: Opposition to a modernisation of America's media-ownership rules is wrongheaded [...]
The new rules, detailed in July, finally acknowledge the extra competition. They relax, in modest ways, some of the earlier restrictions. For example, America's four-biggest television networks are allowed to own stations whose broadcasts can reach 45% of the national audience, up from 35%. Within some local markets, some firms will be able to own three TV broadcasters instead of two. In most markets, media firms will be able to own both a TV station and a newspaper, lifting a blanket ban, although other restrictions will remain.
Media regulation in America: Who will win the political war over the ownership of media in America?
Media madness: Opposition to a modernisation of America's media-ownership rules is wrongheaded [...]
The new rules, detailed in July, finally acknowledge the extra competition. They relax, in modest ways, some of the earlier restrictions. For example, America's four-biggest television networks are allowed to own stations whose broadcasts can reach 45% of the national audience, up from 35%. Within some local markets, some firms will be able to own three TV broadcasters instead of two. In most markets, media firms will be able to own both a TV station and a newspaper, lifting a blanket ban, although other restrictions will remain.
CONTAMINANTES
Cop uses Internet to catch fugitive: Some of the most wanted fugitives are getting caught in the World Wide Web. Police are logging on to track them down and you may not believe how easy it is in some cases. Fugitives are good at staying off the radar until they go online.
Cop uses Internet to catch fugitive: Some of the most wanted fugitives are getting caught in the World Wide Web. Police are logging on to track them down and you may not believe how easy it is in some cases. Fugitives are good at staying off the radar until they go online.
VITAMEDIAS
New spam technique exploits news events: There is a new scam to spam.
E-mail marketers increasingly are sending unsolicited e-mail with subject headers disguised as news alerts to fool consumers into opening them.
New spam technique exploits news events: There is a new scam to spam.
E-mail marketers increasingly are sending unsolicited e-mail with subject headers disguised as news alerts to fool consumers into opening them.
TECNOSFERA
Disney to Test Self-Destructing DVDs: Disney movies on disposable DVDs are set to arrive in convenience stores, pharmacies and other outlets in a four-city test of whether Americans will pick up a limited-life DVD rather than dropping by a video rental store.
The red DVDs turn an unreadable black 48 hours after their packages are opened, exposing them to oxygen which reacts with the disc in a process similar to how Polaroid film develops.
The DVDs, which are being distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Disney's home video unit, will carry a suggested price of $6.99.
Some retailers are expected to sell them for as little as about $5 said Alan Blaustein, Chief Executive of Flexplay, which owns the self-destruct technology.
The advantage to the disposable DVD format - known as EZ-D - is that such discs can be sold anywhere and never need to be returned, potentially making any retailer a competitor with Blockbuster Inc.
Disney to Test Self-Destructing DVDs: Disney movies on disposable DVDs are set to arrive in convenience stores, pharmacies and other outlets in a four-city test of whether Americans will pick up a limited-life DVD rather than dropping by a video rental store.
The red DVDs turn an unreadable black 48 hours after their packages are opened, exposing them to oxygen which reacts with the disc in a process similar to how Polaroid film develops.
The DVDs, which are being distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Disney's home video unit, will carry a suggested price of $6.99.
Some retailers are expected to sell them for as little as about $5 said Alan Blaustein, Chief Executive of Flexplay, which owns the self-destruct technology.
The advantage to the disposable DVD format - known as EZ-D - is that such discs can be sold anywhere and never need to be returned, potentially making any retailer a competitor with Blockbuster Inc.
TECNOSFERA
Is That a Newspaper on Your Cell Phone? Articles now confined to books, magazines, and similar print media will appear on phones and handhelds as wireless telecommunications proliferate - but it won't happen quickly or easily.
Is That a Newspaper on Your Cell Phone? Articles now confined to books, magazines, and similar print media will appear on phones and handhelds as wireless telecommunications proliferate - but it won't happen quickly or easily.
12 setembro 2003
CONTAMINANTES
Satellite Tracking of Suspects Requires a Warrant, Court Rules: The police cannot attach a Global Positioning System tracker to a suspect's vehicle without a warrant, the Washington Supreme Court said [...]
"Use of G.P.S. tracking devices is a particularly intrusive method of surveillance," Justice Barbara Madsen wrote in the unanimous decision, "making it possible to acquire an enormous amount of personal information about the citizen under circumstances where the individual is unaware that every single vehicle trip taken and the duration of every single stop may be recorded by the government."
Satellite Tracking of Suspects Requires a Warrant, Court Rules: The police cannot attach a Global Positioning System tracker to a suspect's vehicle without a warrant, the Washington Supreme Court said [...]
"Use of G.P.S. tracking devices is a particularly intrusive method of surveillance," Justice Barbara Madsen wrote in the unanimous decision, "making it possible to acquire an enormous amount of personal information about the citizen under circumstances where the individual is unaware that every single vehicle trip taken and the duration of every single stop may be recorded by the government."
CONTAMINANTES
DNA tests sought 'for every Briton': Every single person in the UK should be compelled to have their DNA on the national database in an effort to prevent crime, a senior police officer has argued.
Currently about two million people who have been charged with criminal offences have their DNA profiles on the national database. [...]
[Kevin Morris, chairman of the Police Superintendents Association]: "If we have a compulsory database to which every citizen is expected to donate their DNA as a responsibility within our society, I fervently believe we will not only detect crimes quicker but we will help prevent them in the first place.
[Recordações do filme "Relatório Minoritário", sem dúvida...]
Morris told the newspaper people would be more worried about abuses of the DNA by commercial companies than about being seen as suspects. [Ou, porque não, em ambas as situações?...]
DNA tests sought 'for every Briton': Every single person in the UK should be compelled to have their DNA on the national database in an effort to prevent crime, a senior police officer has argued.
Currently about two million people who have been charged with criminal offences have their DNA profiles on the national database. [...]
[Kevin Morris, chairman of the Police Superintendents Association]: "If we have a compulsory database to which every citizen is expected to donate their DNA as a responsibility within our society, I fervently believe we will not only detect crimes quicker but we will help prevent them in the first place.
[Recordações do filme "Relatório Minoritário", sem dúvida...]
Morris told the newspaper people would be more worried about abuses of the DNA by commercial companies than about being seen as suspects. [Ou, porque não, em ambas as situações?...]
05 setembro 2003
VITAMEDIAS
Prosseguindo a conversa sobre a eliminação dos links de certos blogues, a tendência parece instalada: enquanto o Dicionário do Diabo omite o link para o Muito Mentiroso ("um reles panfleto papel anónimo em formato web"), não faz o mesmo para um "canalha" com um discurso indecifrável sobre pai e um filho que não subscreve o apelido mas que o DdD assume.
O Conversas de café pega no tema para descobrir "um mundo que desconhecia na blogosfera portuguesa", pelo que não apresenta links para o tal "canalha", "Propositadamente. Se quiserem, chamem-lhe política editorial. Eu assumo a censura".
Longe de mim criticar opções pessoais (não lhes chamo política editorial ou censura): cada blog é um mundo próprio e autoral, com as suas virtudes e defeitos.
Mas descobri, sobre isto, um texto sobre o MM do Extravaganza: "Não revelá-lo citando-o, aguça o apetite de o descobrir. De uma vez por todas, digamos onde ele se encontra para que todos possam constatar da sua indiferença. O que repugna no dito blog é tão só a cobarde dissimulação de um pseudo-Grupo que lembra os “heróis” mesquinhos de outrora, escondidos por detrás de máscaras e escudos protectores."
Li, já não sei onde, que afinal o jornal Crime e a mulher de Carlos Cruz já tinham escarrapachado - antes de ele circular pela Web - o endereço do suposto grupo de "vigilantes" (termo que só por si é de fugir...) do MM.
E lembrei-me de um artigo sobre blogs que saiu no Público, a 28 de Agosto, denominado "Propaganda fascista", sobre o "exibicionismo ideológico prodigalizado por quatro blogues fascistas" (nacionalismo-de-futuro, viriatos, brincalhao e ultimoreduto), com os endereços escritos para se saber quem são.
E é nesta confusão de linkar ou não, em blogs ou em jornais, que se vai construindo um mundo de referências - ou de falta delas...
[não me levem a mal se não responder nos próximos dias, vou estar fora :(]
Prosseguindo a conversa sobre a eliminação dos links de certos blogues, a tendência parece instalada: enquanto o Dicionário do Diabo omite o link para o Muito Mentiroso ("um reles panfleto papel anónimo em formato web"), não faz o mesmo para um "canalha" com um discurso indecifrável sobre pai e um filho que não subscreve o apelido mas que o DdD assume.
O Conversas de café pega no tema para descobrir "um mundo que desconhecia na blogosfera portuguesa", pelo que não apresenta links para o tal "canalha", "Propositadamente. Se quiserem, chamem-lhe política editorial. Eu assumo a censura".
Longe de mim criticar opções pessoais (não lhes chamo política editorial ou censura): cada blog é um mundo próprio e autoral, com as suas virtudes e defeitos.
Mas descobri, sobre isto, um texto sobre o MM do Extravaganza: "Não revelá-lo citando-o, aguça o apetite de o descobrir. De uma vez por todas, digamos onde ele se encontra para que todos possam constatar da sua indiferença. O que repugna no dito blog é tão só a cobarde dissimulação de um pseudo-Grupo que lembra os “heróis” mesquinhos de outrora, escondidos por detrás de máscaras e escudos protectores."
Li, já não sei onde, que afinal o jornal Crime e a mulher de Carlos Cruz já tinham escarrapachado - antes de ele circular pela Web - o endereço do suposto grupo de "vigilantes" (termo que só por si é de fugir...) do MM.
E lembrei-me de um artigo sobre blogs que saiu no Público, a 28 de Agosto, denominado "Propaganda fascista", sobre o "exibicionismo ideológico prodigalizado por quatro blogues fascistas" (nacionalismo-de-futuro, viriatos, brincalhao e ultimoreduto), com os endereços escritos para se saber quem são.
E é nesta confusão de linkar ou não, em blogs ou em jornais, que se vai construindo um mundo de referências - ou de falta delas...
[não me levem a mal se não responder nos próximos dias, vou estar fora :(]
VITAMEDIAS
Blogs: Hanging dirty laundry on-line: Blogs feed the modern appetite for gossip, which seems to grow faster than even technology can feed it.
What urge is satisfied by this public confession of private tensions? The same satisfaction of the confessional itself: There is a relief in speaking a secret aloud. Indeed, there are several "confession" sites, where one can anonymously describe one's sins (usually under seven predictable categories). The important thing here is the idea that others can read them. The Internet affords an illusory sense of having made a public pronouncement. (These pronouncements are nominally public, since anybody can in theory read all of them, but in truth the authors can be pretty sure nobody will, unless they're personally involved.)
In fairy tales, protagonists with terrible secrets whisper them to the grass or to a hole in the ground. In the absence of such a poetic sensibility - and in the absence of actual priests - the Internet serves as a neutral receptor for yearnings and anger and confession: It is a cosmic ear.
Blogs: Hanging dirty laundry on-line: Blogs feed the modern appetite for gossip, which seems to grow faster than even technology can feed it.
What urge is satisfied by this public confession of private tensions? The same satisfaction of the confessional itself: There is a relief in speaking a secret aloud. Indeed, there are several "confession" sites, where one can anonymously describe one's sins (usually under seven predictable categories). The important thing here is the idea that others can read them. The Internet affords an illusory sense of having made a public pronouncement. (These pronouncements are nominally public, since anybody can in theory read all of them, but in truth the authors can be pretty sure nobody will, unless they're personally involved.)
In fairy tales, protagonists with terrible secrets whisper them to the grass or to a hole in the ground. In the absence of such a poetic sensibility - and in the absence of actual priests - the Internet serves as a neutral receptor for yearnings and anger and confession: It is a cosmic ear.
VITAMEDIAS
Revista "A Dois" passa a "TV a dois", ficando em situação irregular junto do ICS": A revista «A Dois», lançada pelo grupo Impala há dois meses, tem sido alvo de uma reestruturação consecutiva, que culminou numa nova designação: «TV a dois – Revista de Televisão». De revista feminina, com conteúdos bastante semelhantes aos da «Maria», a mais recente publicação de Jacques Rodrigues passou a disponibilizar conteúdos cada vez mais relacionados com televisão. [...]
A mudança de nome acabou por ser oportuna, já que «A Dois» será a designação da nova RTP2, nos últimos meses designada como canal Sociedade ou Conhecimento.
Revista "A Dois" passa a "TV a dois", ficando em situação irregular junto do ICS": A revista «A Dois», lançada pelo grupo Impala há dois meses, tem sido alvo de uma reestruturação consecutiva, que culminou numa nova designação: «TV a dois – Revista de Televisão». De revista feminina, com conteúdos bastante semelhantes aos da «Maria», a mais recente publicação de Jacques Rodrigues passou a disponibilizar conteúdos cada vez mais relacionados com televisão. [...]
A mudança de nome acabou por ser oportuna, já que «A Dois» será a designação da nova RTP2, nos últimos meses designada como canal Sociedade ou Conhecimento.
CULTURAS IN VITRO
'Full Monty' Producer Scores Internet First: Leading British film producer Simon Beaufoy, who wrote the smash hit "The Full Monty," is set to break new boundaries with the world's first Internet film premiere.
The screening late on Friday of "This Is Not a Love Song" was described by the UK Film Council as "globally groundbreaking" and the "first-ever e-premiere in the world." [...]
The film will be available on the Web Site www.thisisnotalovesong.com at 1 p.m.
'Full Monty' Producer Scores Internet First: Leading British film producer Simon Beaufoy, who wrote the smash hit "The Full Monty," is set to break new boundaries with the world's first Internet film premiere.
The screening late on Friday of "This Is Not a Love Song" was described by the UK Film Council as "globally groundbreaking" and the "first-ever e-premiere in the world." [...]
The film will be available on the Web Site www.thisisnotalovesong.com at 1 p.m.
PHOTO-GRAFIA
The Science Image: Felice Frankel?s pictures illuminate scientific research and sometimes suggest new directions of exploration
The Science Image: Felice Frankel?s pictures illuminate scientific research and sometimes suggest new directions of exploration
VITAMEDIAS
Indications That Ad Spending Will Increase: There are accumulating signs that advertising spending is resuming its growth after almost two years of deeply disappointing results. But Madison Avenue remains cautious: to paraphrase the old joke about economists, forecasters have predicted nine out of the last five upturns.
Indications That Ad Spending Will Increase: There are accumulating signs that advertising spending is resuming its growth after almost two years of deeply disappointing results. But Madison Avenue remains cautious: to paraphrase the old joke about economists, forecasters have predicted nine out of the last five upturns.
VITAMEDIAS
Euro-Parliament attacks Berlusconi's media empire: The European Parliament has condemned the media situation in Italy, where media power is concentrated in the hands of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, and has criticised the fact that no rules of conflict of interest have been adopted on this issue.
Euro-Parliament attacks Berlusconi's media empire: The European Parliament has condemned the media situation in Italy, where media power is concentrated in the hands of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, and has criticised the fact that no rules of conflict of interest have been adopted on this issue.
ECO-TERROR
The blind prophet: Before the war, President Bush told us Iraq was a throbbing hub of terror. It wasn't, of course. But it is now [...]
With astonishing speed, the United States and Britain are making their nightmares come true. Iraq is fast becoming the land that they warned about: a throbbing hub of terror. Islamists bent on murder, all but non-existent in Saddam's Iraq, are now flocking to the country, from Syria, Iran and across the Arab world. In the way that hippies used to head for San Francisco, jihadists are surging towards Baghdad. For those eager to strike at the US infidel, Iraq is the place to be: a shooting gallery, with Americans in easy firing range. Afghanistan is perilous terrain, but Iraq is open country. For the Islamist hungry for action, there are rich pickings.
Bush insisted that Saddam's Iraq was packed with these people, ready to be deployed at a moment's notice. Proof was always thin, thinner even than the evidence of weapons of mass destruction - which is why Blair, to his credit, never mentioned it. But never mind; events have taken care of that little lacuna in the US argument. Iraq may not have been a terrorists' paradise at the start of the year - a retirement home for a few has-beens, perhaps - but it is now.
[Mas Bush tem igualmente outras preocupações...]
The blind prophet: Before the war, President Bush told us Iraq was a throbbing hub of terror. It wasn't, of course. But it is now [...]
With astonishing speed, the United States and Britain are making their nightmares come true. Iraq is fast becoming the land that they warned about: a throbbing hub of terror. Islamists bent on murder, all but non-existent in Saddam's Iraq, are now flocking to the country, from Syria, Iran and across the Arab world. In the way that hippies used to head for San Francisco, jihadists are surging towards Baghdad. For those eager to strike at the US infidel, Iraq is the place to be: a shooting gallery, with Americans in easy firing range. Afghanistan is perilous terrain, but Iraq is open country. For the Islamist hungry for action, there are rich pickings.
Bush insisted that Saddam's Iraq was packed with these people, ready to be deployed at a moment's notice. Proof was always thin, thinner even than the evidence of weapons of mass destruction - which is why Blair, to his credit, never mentioned it. But never mind; events have taken care of that little lacuna in the US argument. Iraq may not have been a terrorists' paradise at the start of the year - a retirement home for a few has-beens, perhaps - but it is now.
[Mas Bush tem igualmente outras preocupações...]
CONTAMINANTES
Viagra secrets uncovered:
One small South Korean bioscience firm with big ambitions claimed on Thursday to have pinpointed exactly how Viagra and other impotency drugs work. [...]
Founded three years ago, CrystalGenomics said it hoped to cash in on the technology through a domestic initial public offering in the second half of 2004 and a Nasdaq listing in the next two or three years.
Viagra secrets uncovered:
One small South Korean bioscience firm with big ambitions claimed on Thursday to have pinpointed exactly how Viagra and other impotency drugs work. [...]
Founded three years ago, CrystalGenomics said it hoped to cash in on the technology through a domestic initial public offering in the second half of 2004 and a Nasdaq listing in the next two or three years.
CONTAMINANTES
Depois do car that parks itself (publicidade oficial aqui), eis um carro anfíbio, o Gibbs Aquada, para facilitar a travessia Cacilhas-Lisboa por 250 mil euros...
Depois do car that parks itself (publicidade oficial aqui), eis um carro anfíbio, o Gibbs Aquada, para facilitar a travessia Cacilhas-Lisboa por 250 mil euros...
ECO-TERROR
2. Decreto-Lei que autoriza o Departamento de Jogos da Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa a registar apostas e pagar prémios de Lotarias e Apostas Mútuas nos canais de distribuição electrónica (internet, multibanco, telemóvel, telefone, televisão, etc.), através de uma plataforma de acesso multicanal.: Para efectuar apostas através da plataforma de acesso multicanal, qualquer pessoa poderá recorrer ao cartão de jogador, emitido pelo Departamento de Jogos da Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa, cuja emissão não terá quaisquer custos para o apostador.
Trata-se de mais um canal de distribuição dos jogos sociais do Estado que permite captar novos jogadores e dar maior comodidade à colocação de apostas, sem aumentar a oferta de mais jogos no mercado, o que poderia ser nocivo para os objectivos de protecção dos consumidores e de limitação do vício do jogo e da fraude.
Esta medida permitirá combater o jogo ilegal na Internet, fenómeno que começa a ser preocupante, não só pelas receitas que desvia dos jogos Sociais do Estado, como pelas consequências, nomeadamente a aditividade que provoca, sobretudo nos mais jovens.
[Como é que mais canais de distribuição que permitem captar mais jogadores evitam a "aditividade" ou protegem o consumidor?...]
2. Decreto-Lei que autoriza o Departamento de Jogos da Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa a registar apostas e pagar prémios de Lotarias e Apostas Mútuas nos canais de distribuição electrónica (internet, multibanco, telemóvel, telefone, televisão, etc.), através de uma plataforma de acesso multicanal.: Para efectuar apostas através da plataforma de acesso multicanal, qualquer pessoa poderá recorrer ao cartão de jogador, emitido pelo Departamento de Jogos da Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa, cuja emissão não terá quaisquer custos para o apostador.
Trata-se de mais um canal de distribuição dos jogos sociais do Estado que permite captar novos jogadores e dar maior comodidade à colocação de apostas, sem aumentar a oferta de mais jogos no mercado, o que poderia ser nocivo para os objectivos de protecção dos consumidores e de limitação do vício do jogo e da fraude.
Esta medida permitirá combater o jogo ilegal na Internet, fenómeno que começa a ser preocupante, não só pelas receitas que desvia dos jogos Sociais do Estado, como pelas consequências, nomeadamente a aditividade que provoca, sobretudo nos mais jovens.
[Como é que mais canais de distribuição que permitem captar mais jogadores evitam a "aditividade" ou protegem o consumidor?...]
CONTAMINANTES
A EDP a investir em energias alternativas: Vestas receives turnkey contracts for Portugal [press-release]: The contracts, which have a value to Vestas of more than mEUR 57 if the options are fully utilised, have been awarded by Enersis SGPS, S.A., the largest Portuguese wind energy developer, and Enernova - Novas Energias, S.A., the second largest wind energy developer in Portugal, owned by the local utility EDP - Electricidade de Portugal S.A.
A EDP a investir em energias alternativas: Vestas receives turnkey contracts for Portugal [press-release]: The contracts, which have a value to Vestas of more than mEUR 57 if the options are fully utilised, have been awarded by Enersis SGPS, S.A., the largest Portuguese wind energy developer, and Enernova - Novas Energias, S.A., the second largest wind energy developer in Portugal, owned by the local utility EDP - Electricidade de Portugal S.A.
TECNOSFERA
Many more worms will wriggle into our future: Security expert foresees no end to bugs hitting computer networks
Now that most businesses have recovered from the Blaster and SoBig worms, and the FBI has arrested one of the alleged virus writers, the computer world is settling back to normalcy.
Until the next hacker decides to whip up a little Internet mayhem. Then the whole dispiriting process of computer shut-downs and emergency alerts will begin again. And next time, it will probably be worse.
Many more worms will wriggle into our future: Security expert foresees no end to bugs hitting computer networks
Now that most businesses have recovered from the Blaster and SoBig worms, and the FBI has arrested one of the alleged virus writers, the computer world is settling back to normalcy.
Until the next hacker decides to whip up a little Internet mayhem. Then the whole dispiriting process of computer shut-downs and emergency alerts will begin again. And next time, it will probably be worse.
04 setembro 2003
VITAMEDIAS
Blogworld: The New Amateur Journalists Weigh In So what have [blogs] contributed to journalism? Four things: personality, eyewitness testimony, editorial filtering, and uncounted gigabytes of new knowledge.
[act.: Blogs for Public Lawyers: Lawyers have now gotten into the blogging game. There is even a name for legally-oriented blogs: “blawgs” Because so many web logs are of poor quality, their value as a tool for lawyers may not be obvious to everyone. However, there is more going on with blogs than is probably apparent to the casual observer. This article will explain four reasons why public lawyers should keep an eye on the blog phenomenon: legal and factual research, distribution of government information, improved knowledge management inside public legal offices, and their potential to fill in the gaps left by the typical web efforts of bureaucratic organizations.]
Blogworld: The New Amateur Journalists Weigh In So what have [blogs] contributed to journalism? Four things: personality, eyewitness testimony, editorial filtering, and uncounted gigabytes of new knowledge.
[act.: Blogs for Public Lawyers: Lawyers have now gotten into the blogging game. There is even a name for legally-oriented blogs: “blawgs” Because so many web logs are of poor quality, their value as a tool for lawyers may not be obvious to everyone. However, there is more going on with blogs than is probably apparent to the casual observer. This article will explain four reasons why public lawyers should keep an eye on the blog phenomenon: legal and factual research, distribution of government information, improved knowledge management inside public legal offices, and their potential to fill in the gaps left by the typical web efforts of bureaucratic organizations.]
VITAMEDIAS
NBC Universal: A media giant is born
Vivendi has agreed to merge its American media interests, including Universal Pictures, with General Electric?s NBC television network. The deal creates the sort of vertically integrated media group that GE has shied away from in the past [...]
The new entity, which could be worth up to $40 billion, is a media monster by any standards. GE?s NBC is contributing the NBC broadcast network; MSNBC, a cable news channel jointly owned with Microsoft; CNBC, a financial network jointly owned with Dow Jones that is gradually regaining its popularity after the dotcom bust; Bravo, an arts channel; and Telemundo, a Spanish-language television station. From Vivendi?s side comes Universal Pictures (whose recent hits include ?2 Fast 2 Furious?, ?Bruce Almighty? and ?A Beautiful Mind?); the Universal theme parks; USA Network, a cable station with a big but ageing audience; the Sci-Fi channel; and Universal Television, which produces popular shows like ?Law & Order?.
NBC Universal: A media giant is born
Vivendi has agreed to merge its American media interests, including Universal Pictures, with General Electric?s NBC television network. The deal creates the sort of vertically integrated media group that GE has shied away from in the past [...]
The new entity, which could be worth up to $40 billion, is a media monster by any standards. GE?s NBC is contributing the NBC broadcast network; MSNBC, a cable news channel jointly owned with Microsoft; CNBC, a financial network jointly owned with Dow Jones that is gradually regaining its popularity after the dotcom bust; Bravo, an arts channel; and Telemundo, a Spanish-language television station. From Vivendi?s side comes Universal Pictures (whose recent hits include ?2 Fast 2 Furious?, ?Bruce Almighty? and ?A Beautiful Mind?); the Universal theme parks; USA Network, a cable station with a big but ageing audience; the Sci-Fi channel; and Universal Television, which produces popular shows like ?Law & Order?.
03 setembro 2003
VITAMEDIAS [de forma indirecta mas mesmo assim...]
Information Quality, Liability, and Corrections: Before considering any solutions to the problems presented to information professionals by imperfect information, we need to understand the nature of the problem - or, more accurately, multiple problems - at the heart of "when information is wrong." Only then can we make progress towards modifying our processes in order to cope better in future.
Information Quality, Liability, and Corrections: Before considering any solutions to the problems presented to information professionals by imperfect information, we need to understand the nature of the problem - or, more accurately, multiple problems - at the heart of "when information is wrong." Only then can we make progress towards modifying our processes in order to cope better in future.
TECNOSFERA
Will CDs and DVDs Disappear? A new report entitled "From Discs to Downloads" states that 20 percent of Americans participate in some form of music downloading activity, and half of those admit to buying fewer CDs. The report says that in five years' time, a third of all music sales will come from downloads, and video file sharing will increase as well.
Forrester expects that almost 15 percent of the movie rental business will come from on-demand movie services; as it stands now, 20 percent of "young file sharers" has already downloaded a feature film from online services.
Will CDs and DVDs Disappear? A new report entitled "From Discs to Downloads" states that 20 percent of Americans participate in some form of music downloading activity, and half of those admit to buying fewer CDs. The report says that in five years' time, a third of all music sales will come from downloads, and video file sharing will increase as well.
Forrester expects that almost 15 percent of the movie rental business will come from on-demand movie services; as it stands now, 20 percent of "young file sharers" has already downloaded a feature film from online services.
VITAMEDIAS
Science Journals Do Ethics-Check: Two leading scientific journals, Science and Nature, are reviewing their editorial policies after complaints that they published material by researchers with undisclosed financial interests in their research fields.
Science Journals Do Ethics-Check: Two leading scientific journals, Science and Nature, are reviewing their editorial policies after complaints that they published material by researchers with undisclosed financial interests in their research fields.
CULTURAS IN VITRO
Le verrouillage de CD prend une veste au tribunal: Acheté par une consommatrice, Françoise Marc, dans un hypermarché Auchan, le CD d'Alain Souchon était illisible sur l'autoradio de sa Clio. D'où l'action contre l'éditeur, doublée d'une action contre Auchan, pour défaut d'information.
«C'est une grande victoire», estimait hier la directrice juridique de l'association [UFC-Que choisir], Gaëlle Patetta. Parce que le tribunal «n'a pas seulement jugé qu'il y avait un défaut d'information» - aucune mention signalant un problème éventuel de lecture n'était porté sur le CD -, «mais surtout que ce dysfonctionnement constituait un vice caché», rendant en quelque sorte le produit impropre à la consommation. Et le tribunal d'ordonner à la maison de disques de rembourser le CD à la consommatrice.
Le verrouillage de CD prend une veste au tribunal: Acheté par une consommatrice, Françoise Marc, dans un hypermarché Auchan, le CD d'Alain Souchon était illisible sur l'autoradio de sa Clio. D'où l'action contre l'éditeur, doublée d'une action contre Auchan, pour défaut d'information.
«C'est une grande victoire», estimait hier la directrice juridique de l'association [UFC-Que choisir], Gaëlle Patetta. Parce que le tribunal «n'a pas seulement jugé qu'il y avait un défaut d'information» - aucune mention signalant un problème éventuel de lecture n'était porté sur le CD -, «mais surtout que ce dysfonctionnement constituait un vice caché», rendant en quelque sorte le produit impropre à la consommation. Et le tribunal d'ordonner à la maison de disques de rembourser le CD à la consommatrice.
VITAMEDIAS
Passada mais de uma semana sobre o seu aparecimento, o
Muito Mentiroso (MM) inicia lentamente as suas 100 perguntas.
Diferente do Abrupto ou do Jornalismo e Comunicação (os dois blogs que apanhei com posições mais determinadas, desculpem os que não li), que entendem que o anonimato é base para se esconder o endereço do blogue, eu não concordo neste caso.
Se é mentira o que o MM diz, porque não agiu ainda o Ministério Público? O director da Polícia Judiciária, segundo o Euronotícias, diz tratar-se de um "processo de desinformação" e que não ia alocar elementos para a investigação.
Se é verdade, quem o quer confirmar? Nenhum media pegou nisso (o Euronotícias cita partes mas elimina os nomes e atira noutro sentido).
Estas duas questões enformam o desenvolvimento da questão: se é difamação ninguém age, se é informação, passa-se o mesmo. Admirável.
Quanto aos dois blogues:
1) Abrupto (cito encurtando e tentando não deturpar a ideia original):
- Trata-se de "uma operação de desinformação de bastante gravidade", "não é um blogue mas uma carta anónima" que "não se lêem, rasgam-se. Mas convém que as pessoas estejam prevenidas, de que é grave, muito grave, e não caiam no truque de se porem a discutir se é verdade ou mentira.
É uma típica operação criminosa ao modelo de algumas operações policiais. ou de serviços de informação, feita por gente profissional, que sabe o que está a fazer e conhece obviamente aquilo sobre o que está falar. Mais: está directamente envolvida no que fala, ou profissionalmente, ou individualmente. É também um crime, um crime cometido na blogosfera, presumo que o primeiro. Entramos noutra dimensão."
- Como é que não se pode "discutir se é verdade ou mentira", quando é sobre conteúdos escritos por alguém "que sabe o que está a fazer e conhece obviamente aquilo sobre o que está falar"?
- Se é uma "operação criminosa" e "um crime", porque não agem as polícias?
- Se é uma "operação criminosa ao modelo de algumas operações policiais. ou de serviços de informação, feita por gente profissional, que sabe o que está a fazer e conhece obviamente aquilo sobre o que está falar. Mais: está directamente envolvida no que fala, ou profissionalmente, ou individualmente", não será mais uma razão para tentar perceber o que se passa? Ou seja, é alguém que está directamente envolvido, sabe do que fala mas não deve ser lido pelo público, nem investigado pelas polícias ou sequer questionado pelos media? Admirável.
- Se o Abrupto sabe que é desinformação porque não a desmonta com factos concretos?
- Qual a diferença entre o MM e isto, cujo autor escreveu um outro texto contra-corrente sobre o assunto no Expresso há vários meses? Há ou não desinformação? Eu não sei mas gostava de saber.
2) Diz o JeC:
- "aqui, não é o o direito à informação que está em causa, uma vez que se trata fundamentalmente de factos e de insinuações anónimas, não verificadas por instâncias credíveis, que colocam em risco direitos de terceiros".
- Sem dúvida mas se essas "instâncias credíveis" já tinham conhecimento ou passaram a ter e não agiram, não há uma validação dessa informação como mais uma - e apenas isso? Não é uma prova, pode ser uma difamação mas então porque não agem as autoridades competentes? Não é estranho?
- "Reafirmo a inquietação de ver abrir-se esta forma de utilização dos blogs. Em rigor, não é nada de inesperado. Mas não contribui de todo para credibilizar esta nova modalidade de informação e comunicação."
- É verdade mas também não contribui para credibilizar o sistema judicial - não há conhecimento de acusação ao autor -, nem do sistema mediático - ninguém investigou o que ali é dito ou desmentiu por histórias anteriormente publicadas. Não é estranho?
Ao eliminar o endereço de um blog deste tipo, não se está a diminuir o acesso à informação e a querer, mesmo de forma inconsciente, evitar a discussão sobre uma tendência que alguns blogues vão obviamente seguir e surgir para isso?
[Momento de humor a evitar: Ou também neste caso estamos perante desinformação, tentando descredibilizar os blogues para mais facilmente intervir e facilitar a sua transformação em Pintainhos?]
[act.: Já li os Argumentos do JeC. Tantas questões para debater e tão pouco tempo. Descubro que algumas já foram respondidas ou pelo menos abordadas nalguns textos sobre o mesmo assunto no Sopa de Pedra. Em síntese, assumo e cito o António José Silva: "Somos todos crescidinhos para ler o que há para ser lido e tirarmos daí as ilações que entendermos. E há sempre a possibilidade de levarmos o nome e descrição do blog a sério e não acreditarmos em nada do que lá está escrito."]
Passada mais de uma semana sobre o seu aparecimento, o
Muito Mentiroso (MM) inicia lentamente as suas 100 perguntas.
Diferente do Abrupto ou do Jornalismo e Comunicação (os dois blogs que apanhei com posições mais determinadas, desculpem os que não li), que entendem que o anonimato é base para se esconder o endereço do blogue, eu não concordo neste caso.
Se é mentira o que o MM diz, porque não agiu ainda o Ministério Público? O director da Polícia Judiciária, segundo o Euronotícias, diz tratar-se de um "processo de desinformação" e que não ia alocar elementos para a investigação.
Se é verdade, quem o quer confirmar? Nenhum media pegou nisso (o Euronotícias cita partes mas elimina os nomes e atira noutro sentido).
Estas duas questões enformam o desenvolvimento da questão: se é difamação ninguém age, se é informação, passa-se o mesmo. Admirável.
Quanto aos dois blogues:
1) Abrupto (cito encurtando e tentando não deturpar a ideia original):
- Trata-se de "uma operação de desinformação de bastante gravidade", "não é um blogue mas uma carta anónima" que "não se lêem, rasgam-se. Mas convém que as pessoas estejam prevenidas, de que é grave, muito grave, e não caiam no truque de se porem a discutir se é verdade ou mentira.
É uma típica operação criminosa ao modelo de algumas operações policiais. ou de serviços de informação, feita por gente profissional, que sabe o que está a fazer e conhece obviamente aquilo sobre o que está falar. Mais: está directamente envolvida no que fala, ou profissionalmente, ou individualmente. É também um crime, um crime cometido na blogosfera, presumo que o primeiro. Entramos noutra dimensão."
- Como é que não se pode "discutir se é verdade ou mentira", quando é sobre conteúdos escritos por alguém "que sabe o que está a fazer e conhece obviamente aquilo sobre o que está falar"?
- Se é uma "operação criminosa" e "um crime", porque não agem as polícias?
- Se é uma "operação criminosa ao modelo de algumas operações policiais. ou de serviços de informação, feita por gente profissional, que sabe o que está a fazer e conhece obviamente aquilo sobre o que está falar. Mais: está directamente envolvida no que fala, ou profissionalmente, ou individualmente", não será mais uma razão para tentar perceber o que se passa? Ou seja, é alguém que está directamente envolvido, sabe do que fala mas não deve ser lido pelo público, nem investigado pelas polícias ou sequer questionado pelos media? Admirável.
- Se o Abrupto sabe que é desinformação porque não a desmonta com factos concretos?
- Qual a diferença entre o MM e isto, cujo autor escreveu um outro texto contra-corrente sobre o assunto no Expresso há vários meses? Há ou não desinformação? Eu não sei mas gostava de saber.
2) Diz o JeC:
- "aqui, não é o o direito à informação que está em causa, uma vez que se trata fundamentalmente de factos e de insinuações anónimas, não verificadas por instâncias credíveis, que colocam em risco direitos de terceiros".
- Sem dúvida mas se essas "instâncias credíveis" já tinham conhecimento ou passaram a ter e não agiram, não há uma validação dessa informação como mais uma - e apenas isso? Não é uma prova, pode ser uma difamação mas então porque não agem as autoridades competentes? Não é estranho?
- "Reafirmo a inquietação de ver abrir-se esta forma de utilização dos blogs. Em rigor, não é nada de inesperado. Mas não contribui de todo para credibilizar esta nova modalidade de informação e comunicação."
- É verdade mas também não contribui para credibilizar o sistema judicial - não há conhecimento de acusação ao autor -, nem do sistema mediático - ninguém investigou o que ali é dito ou desmentiu por histórias anteriormente publicadas. Não é estranho?
Ao eliminar o endereço de um blog deste tipo, não se está a diminuir o acesso à informação e a querer, mesmo de forma inconsciente, evitar a discussão sobre uma tendência que alguns blogues vão obviamente seguir e surgir para isso?
[Momento de humor a evitar: Ou também neste caso estamos perante desinformação, tentando descredibilizar os blogues para mais facilmente intervir e facilitar a sua transformação em Pintainhos?]
[act.: Já li os Argumentos do JeC. Tantas questões para debater e tão pouco tempo. Descubro que algumas já foram respondidas ou pelo menos abordadas nalguns textos sobre o mesmo assunto no Sopa de Pedra. Em síntese, assumo e cito o António José Silva: "Somos todos crescidinhos para ler o que há para ser lido e tirarmos daí as ilações que entendermos. E há sempre a possibilidade de levarmos o nome e descrição do blog a sério e não acreditarmos em nada do que lá está escrito."]
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