Lembram-se da eleição do Pirate Party na Suécia? Bom, o resultado não foi grande coisa mas "Swedish pirates plan pan-European electoral assault": The leader of the pro-filesharing Swedish Pirate Party is co-ordinating a pan-European electoral assault for 2009's European Elections.
Façam o favor de se apresentar nas fileiras da frente. Da última vez só se conseguiu aqui um único voto. Que vergonha!
30 Setembro 2006
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VITAMEDIAS
Eu percebo porque mais de 110 mil pessoas, em média, compram o Correio da Manhã todos os dias.
Este anúncio (Jorge Sampaio edita edição 10 000 do CM) mostra como o diário está atento ao que se passa lá fora e sabe adaptar cá dentro.
Enquanto uns jornais se esvaziam de conteúdos, o CM tem uma postura curiosa e irreverente enquanto líder. Dizia o seu director João Marcelino à revista Dia D de 15 de Setembro sobre as alterações gráficas nos jornais: "é apenas meter perfume". Nem mais.
Dia 13 lá estarei a ler o CM...
ZITE
Era uma vez...
2005
Este é o país que vamos ter: É este o enquadramento da nossa dinâmica populacional. A baixa do índice sintético de fecundidade (que estima 2,1 crianças por mulher como limiar de substituição das gerações), associada ao aumento da esperança de vida da população (hoje, mais 14 anos do que em 1960 para os homens e mais 15 anos para as mulheres), especialmente o aumento da esperança de vida da população mais idosa, coloca ao país um conjunto de desafios não negligenciáveis.
Media Capital vai ser ponte para o Brasil e não só: Prisa eyeing Portugal as 'stepping stone' to Brazil, Mozambique: Cebrian said: 'We would like to use Portugal as a stepping-stone to countries where Spain has not traditionally had a presence,' citing Brazil and Mozambique as possible expansion opportunities.
Societies worse off 'when they have God on their side': Religious belief can cause damage to a society, contributing towards high murder rates, abortion, sexual promiscuity and suicide
2004
The key challenge facing newspapers today is simple. We need more readers and we need them now.
Why Google News signals the death of the online exclusive: the problem of trying to remember who was first has become completely irrelevant. Instead, the most popular news site on the Net - Google News - has created a system which is killing the value of the "exclusive" online.
2003
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.
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.
2002
Ex-conselheiro de Clinton abre site "vote.com" em Portugal: O ex-conselheiro de Bill Clinton Dick Morris vai lançar em Portugal uma iniciativa de e-política em parceria com uma equipa local. O site vote.com, que tem dois milhões de utilizadores só nos Estados Unidos, vai actualizar os temas quentes da actualidade, propondo aos cidadãos portugueses que votem. Os resultados serão depois enviados aos órgãos de soberania nacional, tal como nos EUA são encaminhados para o Congresso e o Presidente.
When do webloggers commit journalism? What do informed amateurs and niche experts bring to the media ecosystem? Should journalists blog? And should they rely on weblogs as news sources? Should bloggers and those in traditional media engage in a dance of fear and loathing, or do both sides stand to gain from the other? Should blogging be taught in journalism classes?
29 Setembro 2006
TECNOSFERA
Pan-European survey: More than 2/3 of the EU?s schools benefit from high-speed internet
E Portugal? Almost all Portuguese schools now use computers for teaching (97%) and have internet access (92%). 73% use the internet via a broadband connection. With this figure Portugal ranks at number 16 of the 27 countries participating in the survey.
There is a large variation between school types: while 70% of primary schools have a broadband internet connection, the penetration is highest among upper secondary schools, with 87%, and vocational schools which reach 91%. There is only minor variation with regard to broadband access between urban and rural areas.
Computers in school libraries seem to play an important role in Portuguese schools, especially in secondary schools, where significantly more than 90% of the schools offer computers in libraries probably as a compensation for the very poor general equipment with computers in schools which in Portugal is at only 6 computers for 100 pupils. With this figure, Portugal finds itself at the very bottom of the countries in Europe together with Poland, Latvia and Lithuania.
70% of Portuguese classroom teachers have used computers in class in the 12 months prior to the survey, with little variation across school types and between urban and rural areas. A majority (54%) of the teachers using computers use them in more than 25% of all lessons. [...]
Not surprisingly, the older the teachers (indicator used here: years of teaching experience), the less use they make of computers and the internet in schools. While 27% of the young teachers use ICT in more than half of their lessons, the corresponding figures for the older teachers is at 17%.
30% of teachers in Portugal still do not use computers in class.
When asked for the most important barrier 48% state a lack of computers in their schools as an important barrier, while some 24% believe that the lack of adequate material is an important constraint.
In Portugal the percentage of schools using computers for educational purposes has risen over the past 5 years from 70% in 2001 to 97% in 2006. While in 2001 one hundred pupils had to share 4 computers the figure rose to 6 until 2006, an improvement of almost 50%; however, Portugal still stays at the very bottom of European countries, with a figure only half of the European average of 12. [...]
A very high 95% of Portuguese teachers see significant learning benefits for pupils using computers in class. Only 9% argue that the use of ICT does not reveal significant benefits for pupils. This is a top figure compared to most other European countries.
With 36% of teachers having the necessary ICT skills and motivation but lacking ICT access, the situation in Portugal is much worse than the European average (21%). The same applies to the very large group of teachers who are motivated to use ICT in class but who lack the necessary ICT access and competence. With 15% this group is three times above the EU25 average. Finally, Portugal is also faced with a group of 8% of teachers with ICT access and motivation but lack of ICT competence, a figure which is almost twice as high as the European average. As a consequence the ICT readiness of Portuguese teachers is very low with the country ranking only 22nd in Europe.
It appears as if policy actions are required in Portugal to achieve a drastic improvement of the number of computers per school and the quality of ICT equipment in schools, but also the ICT skills of the teachers.
VITAMEDIAS
A resposta à questão das capas interna e externas da Newsweek: Newsweek's international editor, Fareed Zakaria, said that in the US, Newsweek was a mass market magazine with a broad reach, while overseas it "is a somewhat more upmarket magazine for internationally minded people".
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Xenophobia and In-Group Solidarity in Iraq: A Natural Experiment on the Impact of Insecurity: the Iraqi public today shows the highest level of xenophobia found in any of the 85 societies for which data are available ? together with extremely high levels of solidarity with one?s own ethnic group. [...]
But because xenophobia is currently so intense, any government that is seen as dependent on foreign military support is likely to have little legitimacy. Conversely, a new government, elected by a majority of the Iraqi public and no longer dependent on foreigners, should have a much better chance to attain legitimacy. Violent protest against the current government can be presented as resistance to foreign rule but violence against a democratically elected Iraqi government will be far less acceptable to the great majority of the Iraqi public.
Despite threats that anyone who took part in the elections would be killed, and in the face of suicide bombers attempting to infiltrate the polling places, on Election Day in January 2005, millions of Iraqis turned out to vote. Although 300 terrorist attacks took place that day, fully 58 percent of those eligible to vote did so?a higher rate of turnout than in most U.S. presidential elections.
In our survey, 85 percent of the Iraqi public said that ?democracy may have problems, but it?s better than any other form of government.? Their commitment to democracy seems genuine. They were willing to risk their lives for it. [...]
The basic thesis of the article is that insecurity is conducive to xenophobia. The new findings show that from 2004 to 2006, a sense of insecurity increased among the Iraq public?and feelings of xenophobia rose with it. A comparison of findings from the two surveys reveals the following information.
? The percentage of Iraqis who strongly agreed that
?in Iraq these days life is unpredictable and dangerous? rose from 46 percent in 2004 to 59 percent in 2006. This change varied by ethnicity but there was
an increasing sense of insecurity among all major
ethnic groups.
? During the same period, feelings of xenophobia rose among the Iraqis. The percentage of Iraqis who would not like to have Americans as neighbors went up from 87 percent in 2004 to 90 percent in 2006. The comparable figures were 87 percent and 90 percent for the British, and 84 percent and 90 percent for the French, respectively. People from other Islamic countries also became increasingly unwelcome as neighbors: the percentage of Iraqis who did not wish to have Iranians as neighbors increased from 55 percent to 61 percent between the two surveys, and the comparable figures were 50 percent and 59 percent for Kuwaitis, 59 percent and 71 percent for the Turks, and 43 percent and 61 percent for Jordanians.
.DE!
Gol de gandula qui a arbitra validou
No Amor e Ócio: O TJD (Tribunal de Justiça Desportiva) indeferiu nesta quarta-feira, por cinco votos a um, o recurso do Atlético Sorocaba, que pedia a anulação do empate por 1 a 1 contra o Santacruzense, pela Copa FPF.
O Atlético vencia o duelo por 1 a 0 até poucos minutos antes do final do jogo, quando o Santacruzense alcançou o empate através de um gol ilegal, marcado por um gandula.
CULTURAS IN VITRO
Hollywood unleashes dogs in war on movie piracy: The Motion Picture Association of America on Thursday unveiled its latest tool in the war on movie piracy: a pair of DVD-sniffing Labrador Retrievers named Lucky and Flo. [...]
The job for Lucky and Flo will be to sniff out optical discs in luggage or other containers, and stop the discs from getting to manufacturing plants where they can be reproduced.
28 Setembro 2006
VITAMEDIAS
Leitores dos diários compraram menos 21,5 mil jornais: Feitas as contas, os portugueses compraram menos 21,525 mil exemplares diários nestes primeiros seis meses, uma situação que abrangeu todos os títulos presentes em banca e que vem confirmar mais uma vez a tendência de descida do segmento.
1) Correio da Manhã: 112.650 exemplares (quebra de 2,9% relativamente a 2005)
2) Jornal de Notícias: 95.065 exemplares (quebra de 0,7%)
3) Público: 46.112 exemplares (quebra de 5,7%)
4) 24 Horas: 40.602 exemplares (quebra de 21,5%)
5) Diário de Notícias: 34.621 exemplares (quebra de 9,3%)
Expresso e Sol separados por 11 mil exemplares (acesso a assinantes): De acordo com os primeiros números avançados pelos dois semanários, o jornal da Impresa continua a assumir a liderança neste duelo particular, tendo vendido na última edição 191 mil exemplares, contra os 180 mil vendidos pelo projecto de Saraiva.
O mundo já não cabe nas páginas do jornal e reclama-se critério selectivo e criatividade para encontrar abordagens capazes de se compatibilizarem com modelos susceptíveis de garantir o futuro da Imprensa.
Será uma Imprensa, em média, com menos "qualidade"? Provavelmente, mas não dramatizemos. Os jornais de referência nunca foram produtos de massas, mas hoje dificilmente sobrevivem, remetidos, em muitos países, a nichos de mercado. Se o seu "aligeiramento" funcionar como instrumento de viabilização, o custo pode mostrar-se virtuoso. Assim consigam os jornalistas da "escrita" encontrar pontos razoáveis de equilíbrio entre o apelo da "modernidade" e a preservação da "substância" informativa. Será, em alguma medida, uma contribuição para que um número mais alargado de cidadãos conviva melhor com a complexidade dos tempos modernos.
TECNOSFERA
E pronto, vamos ficar sem saber nada sobre a pirataria no Abrupto: "embora haja elementos sobre esse episódio para que aceitei confidencialidade, posso revelar que ele foi resolvido directamente pelos engenheiros do Google, depois de várias tentativas falhadas anteriores do Blogger"
TECNOFERA
A ler: Monitorização da Internet - Onde fica o direito à privacidade? Tem sido prática comum enumerar o 11 de Setembro como um momento decisivo para o crescimento de uma tendência securitária, na sequência da ameaça terrorista. Com o devido respeito, não sufragamos esta visão. É nossa convicção que o 11 de Setembro apenas foi o perfeito pretexto para legitimar as tensões sempre existentes entre a defesa da privacidade e a propensão para a implementação de severas medidas de segurança; o acto terrorista, deu sustentação política para legitimar práticas já existentes, pela vulgarização na opinião pública de um sentimento de insegurança, criando um ambiente favorável ao surgimento de legislação castradora dos direitos individuais. [...]
É incontestável que vivemos uma era de voyeurismo governamental e empresarial absolutamente intolerável. Por tudo, é tremendamente importante estabelecer que, quando eu utilizo a Internet, todas os as informações que ?deixo? na rede sobre os meus percursos, são privadas e confidenciais, pelo que, por ninguém, podem ser utilizados sem o meu consentimento.
VITAMEDIAS
Report finds worldwide explosion of FOI laws: Almost 70 countries have now adopted freedom of information (FOI) laws, according to civil liberties group Privacy International. Over half of those have been adopted in the last 10 years, according to a survey just published.
"The previous two years have been an exciting time for those promoting and using the right of access to information," said the report's author, David Banisar, in its foreword. "Countries on every continent have adopted laws. Others have amended and improved their laws. International rights and duties through the UN and other international bodies have emerged. Innovation has flourished."
The report found that FOI laws are used across the world to ensure that governments are open and accountable. It also found, though, specific instances where the laws have been used for very specific ends beneficial to citizens.
VIDEO-GRAFIA
Study: 107M Viewed Online Video in July: More than 100 million Americans, or three out of every five Internet users, viewed video online in July, a new study finds.
ComScore Media Metrix recorded both streaming, which requires a live Internet connection, and downloads, in which a user saves a file that can be viewed later or offline. All told, 107 million people streamed or downloaded nearly 7.2 billion video clips ? an average of 67 apiece.
VIDEO-GRAFIA
NBC to put out some shows on PCs before TV: NBC Universal has cut a deal with Intel in which individuals who own Viiv PCs will be able to download and view certain programs before they air on the network, according to Merlin Kister, director of consumer client marketing for Intel.
TECNOSFERA
Official Google Blog: Our approach to content: Because we don?t own this content, over the years we?ve come up with three primary principles to ensure that we respect content owners and protect their rights:
* we respect copyright;
* we let owners choose whether we index their content in our products;
* we try to bring benefit back to content owners by partnering with them.
(BTW: Google Cheat Sheet lists all Google services and tools as well as background information. The Cheat Sheet offers a great reference to grasp of basic to advance Google query building concepts and ideas.)
VITAMEDIAS
O Jornalismo e Comunicação questiona a Newsweek em casa e lá fora, à semelhança deste "Newsweek Covers".
A resposta? "Who in the U.S. wants to buy a magazine with a terrorist on the cover?"
[act.: Ignorance is bliss, We Thought The Economist's Anne Geddes Cover Was a Bit Odd Too, If you want to know why the Media is fucked up]
27 Setembro 2006
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Portugal visto do Qatar...
?Speedy? Portugal ministers raise dust: The Portuguese capital?s streets have been strewn with smashed-up cars to shock some of Europe?s worst drivers out of their complacency, but campaigners said yesterday government ministers were setting a shoddy example themselves.
Portugal?s economy minister was caught speeding at 212kph two weeks ago - outdoing his predecessor who was caught at a mere 180kph.
ECOPOL
Mais um para ser queimado na fogueira das teorias da conspiração:
Interrogating 9/11 Five Years On: Five years on, the way forward for the 9/11 truth movement is to put an end to the obsessive infighting, forge bonds with all activists sceptical of the official 9/11 story regardless of whether they are LIHOP (Let It Happen On Purpose), MIHOP (Made It Happen On Purpose), or even neither, and unite on a common platform based on asking hard questions. We don?t have all the answers, but we do know that the official account is wrong on all counts. Interpreting the often complex (and sometimes technical) data is difficult enough; overcoming the reflexive psychological barriers that most people are socialised into putting up as soon as they hear of the possibility of state-sponsored self-terrorism is even more difficult.
9/11 truth needs to be understood and advocated in the context of clarifying the long tradition of state-sponsored self-terrorism that is so deeply embedded in our societies, as well as in relation to the wider dynamics of an increasingly unstable and indeed crumbling global imperial system, which the powers-that-be are desperately attempting to rehabilitate under the mantle of fighting the ?War on Terror.?
VITAMEDIAS
32 anos?
João Paulo Dinis acaba de colocar um anúncio num jornal a pedir emprego.
Cronologia do 25 de Abril: 22h55 - 1ª senha: a voz de João Paulo Dinis anuncia aos microfones dos Emissores Associados de Lisboa Faltam cinco minutos para as vinte e três horas. Convosco, Paulo de Carvalho com o Eurofestival 74 «E Depois do Adeus». Era o primeiro sinal para o início das operações militares a desencadear pelo Movimento das Forças Armadas.
VITAMEDIAS
As notícias já não são o que eram:
Como se faz manipulação de uma notícia
The Former President Was Showing Off A Little Leg
CULTURAS IN VITRO
O mundo está assim a modos que...
German opera house cancels show for fear of Muslim reaction: A leading German opera house unleashed a furious debate over free speech Tuesday by pulling a production over fears it posed a security risk because of a scene featuring the severed heads of Buddha, Jesus and Muhammad.
The Deutsche Oper said it had decided "with great regret" to cancel a planned production of Mozart's "Idomeneo" after Berlin security officials warned of an "incalculable risk" because of scenes dealing with Islam, as well as other religions.
High demand for Hitler's artworks: Watercolours and sketches attributed to Adolf Hitler sold for a total £115,000 (Dh803,762) at an auction on Tuesday, more than twice the expected sale price.
26 Setembro 2006
VIDEO-GRAFIA
Google Caught In Terror Storm Censorship: Google is again embroiled in a censorship farce after its Google Video sub-division was caught altering viewing statistics for Alex Jones' Terror Storm documentary, resetting runaway growth curbs to prevent the video making the website's top ten and its online viewership exploding exponentially.
VITAMEDIAS
INTERNET ADVERTISING REVENUES CONTINUE TO ACCELERATE AT AN UNPRECEDENTED RATE WITH A 36% INCREASE FOR FIRST HALF OF '06: First Six Months of '06 hit $7.9 Billion and Q2 Exceeds $4 Billion
A new kind of advertising: takes feeds of the latest posts from sponsors? blogs and puts that in an ad box on Techmeme. That?s their ad. It?s brilliantly simple: dynamic advertising controlled by the advertisers, who will make their ads ? their content ? relevant to the readers who see their feeds on Techmeme.
VITAMEDIAS
Is this the future of advertising? An attractive woman comes up to you and asks if you'd be kind enough to take her photo in front of the Golden Gate Bridge. Naturally, you agree. As you're lining up a good shot, you can't help but notice the camera's sleek, lightweight design. Sucker.
VITAMEDIAS
Why Aren't Newspapers Breaking Out of the Box? Why does the newspaper industry, for the most part, have so much trouble adapting to the changing of the media environment brought on by the Internet and digital communications technologies?
A huge part of the problem is that newspaper companies are still being run, mostly, by people from the print side -- and who, though they may attempt to understand interactive media and the needs and media habits of young people, aren't effective at moving their organizations in a radically different, and necessary, direction. That's because they're still too tied to the print business and thus are unwilling to go in directions that might damage it, even if in the long run placing more resources and executive energy into new lines of (digital) business at the expense of the print edition is the right way to go.
Several of my anonymous respondents suggested that more newspapers need to put online editors in charge of the entire news operation.
CONTAMINANTES
Bloggers rally for liberation of the "Tripoli Six": Bloggers have rallied around a call from a humanitarian lawyers' organization for greater international pressure to free six medical workers who risk execution by firing squad in Libya on charges of deliberately infecting over 400 children with HIV. [...]
The case involves five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor, who are charged with deliberately infecting more than 400 children with HIV at the Al-Fateh Hospital in Benghazi, Libya, in 1998, causing the deaths of at least 40 of them.
Scientists say the outbreak resulted from natural infections and that it had started before the medics began working at the hospital.
ECOPOL
The Cost of the War: Congress has appropriated about $437 billion for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan through FY 2006, according to a newly updated report from the Congressional Research Service.
Including all the funds Congress has voted this year, we will have spent $437 billion on Iraq, Afghanistan, and other parts of the war on terror since 2001?about $1,500 for every American. All this despite Paul Wolfowitz's promise that the war would be over quickly, the troops home soon, and that the reconstruction would be self-funding, thanks to the sale of Iraqi oil supplies.
The Cost of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Other Global War on Terror Operations Since 9/11: With passage of the FY2006 supplemental by both houses (H.R. 4939, P.L.109-234), Congress has appropriated a total of about $437 billion for military operations, base security, reconstruction, foreign aid, embassy costs, and veterans? health care for the three operations initiated since the 9/11 attacks: Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) covering Afghanistan and other Global War on Terror (GWOT) operations, Operation Noble Eagle (ONE) providing enhanced security at military bases, and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), Iraq.
The $437 billion total does not include the $50 billion ?placeholder? figure for FY2007 war costs that is listed in the FY2007 budget.
ECOPOL
Excertos de um manual apropriado aos dias que correm: 50 Ways a Manager can get Employees to Quit:
# Assign enough projects with tight deadlines so that your team has no choice but to work a 60 hour week while you only work 30 hours.
# Talk more than you listen.
# Avoid looking people in the eye.
# Hire someone that is very weak to take the place of a veteran and expect the same results from the team.
# Never cross train anybody on anything. The skills they walked in with are the skills they are leaving with.
# Give employees low raises because the more you save, the higher your bonus.
# Have a group of employees that you get a long with and go out to lunch with while those that you don't like get left out.
# Give advice on topics you are only partially educated in.
# When the kudos are handed out, you should take the credit because you managed the team. Do not give credit to anyone else.
# Monitor all phone use.
# Let a couple people work from the house, but provide no reason for it or ways for others to obtain the right.
# Insist that employees complete projects that even you admit are worthless.
TECNOSFERA
Ironia à atenção de quem se preocupa com o voto electrónico e tem acompanhado as questões com a tecnologia Diebold: 19 Year Old Diebold Technician Wins U.S. Presidency: In a dramatic development that has come as a surprise to pundits and the public alike, a youthful technician with Diebold, Inc. has emerged as the unlikely winner of the 2008 U.S. Presidential election.
VITAMEDIAS
À atenção dos jornalistas: A Study of Bias in the Associated Press: AP is a massive institutionalized bureaucracy that feeds new stories to nearly every newspaper and radio/TV station in the United States and the world. They are so large that top-down control of single news stories is literally impossible. However, our evidence clearly indicates a built-in bias favoring the powerful.
VITAMEDIAS
Para quem anda preocupado com a integração de Portugal na Espanha depois de uma já famosa sondagem, recorde-se que só foram validadas 741 entrevistas (de 1029).
25 Setembro 2006
PHOTO-GRAFIA
Top Ten coolest things seen with google earth:
1. Capsized Cruise Ship Captured in Google Earth / Maps
2. KC-135 Caught Refueling C-5 Galaxy in Mid-Air in Google Earth!
3. Huge Scale Model of Disputed Border Region of China Found in Google Earth
4. Lancaster Bomber Caught Flying in Google Earth
5. Flying Car? Not Really
6. Nude Sunbather caught by google earth.
7. Firefox Crop Circle in Google Earth
8. Google Earth Las Vegas
9. Shipwrecks Around the Google Earth
10. See African Animals in High Resolution in Google Earth
VITAMEDIAS
Passou despercebido ou eu não notei qualquer comentário nem ameaça de processo judicial a este COMO SE FAZ [...] EM PORTUGAL (ligação só para assinantes):
Os envolvidos em pressões dificilmente as confirmam. No dia 20 de Setembro, exactamente um mês depois de eu divulgar pressões do gabinete do primeiro-ministro sobre a RTP quanto à cobertura dos incêndios, a imprensa divulgou a demissão de Carlos Daniel, subdirector de Informação baseado no Porto, na sequência de alegadas pressões do poder desportivo (Federação Portuguesa de Futebol). Tal como o meu artigo, as notícias usaram fontes não identificadas para dar conta da pressão, pois essa é quase sempre a única forma de poder-se divulgá-las. Como aconteceu comigo, as partes envolvidas negaram as pressões. Vivemos num país em que pressões só as atmosféricas e arteriais. É um país do respeitinho: o meu artigo, intitulado Como se faz censura em Portugal e envolvendo o gabinete do primeiro-ministro, foi "gravíssimo" e originou um ai Jesus de virgindades ofendidas e queixas e insultos e mentiras sobre mim e o diabo a quatro. No caso Daniel mantêm-se a compostura, como se pressões e sua aceitação fizessem parte de um jogo que temos de aceitar como normal. Eu não aceito. Ao contrário do que sucedeu com o meu artigo, que eu saiba a ERC não tomou a iniciativa de abrir um inquérito às notícias de pressões do poder desportivo sobre a RTP publicadas no PÚBLICO, O Jogo, A Bola, Correio da Manhã, etc. Mas devia. O caso é igualmente sério e não pode haver critérios opostos.
Carlos Daniel é uma das pessoas que apresentou queixa-crime contra mim a propósito do artigo de 20 de Agosto. Suprema ironia, 30 dias mais tarde é afastado, segundo as notícias, em resultado de pressões a que a RTP vergou. Ele, que sentiu as dores dos seus colegas de Lisboa pela revelação das pressões que referi nesse artigo, é agora vítima de outras pressões. Veremos se surge agora alguma queixa-crime contra os órgãos de imprensa que escreveram sobre a pressão do poder desportivo...
O afastamento de Daniel deve-se segundo as informações publicadas e as que recolhi, à independência relativa, sua e da RTP Porto, perante Lisboa e, portanto, aos poderes pressionantes, seja ele o político ou o desportivo. Na sexta-feira (22.09), A Bola informou que o afastamento de Daniel "terá sido mesmo sugerido". A sugestão teria ocorrido na altura do acordo entre a RTP e a Federação "para a RTP transmitir todos os jogos de apuramento para o Europeu 2008." Esse acordo foi assinado em 27 de Julho. E, de facto, segundo uma informação que recolhi, Gilberto Madaíl almoçou a sós com a administração da RTP na sede desta empresa cerca de 20 de Julho.
Recordo que o empenho da administração da RTP pelo futebol oscilou nos últimos tempos. Em entrevista, o presidente da empresa, Almerindo Marques, tinha mostrado algum desinteresse, decerto por causa dos preços elevados, mas o seu renovado interesse ficou patente noutra entrevista depois de o ministro da tutela, em público, ter criticado implicitamente a operadora do Estado, que perdera o Mundial para a SIC. Numa reunião da UER realizada no Estoril em plena época do Mundial, o ministro Santos Silva "defendeu que os grandes eventos desportivos devem ser acompanhados pelo serviço público" (PÚBLICO, 06.07), o que na altura foi lido como mais uma pressão do poder político sobre a RTP. As informações disponíveis apontam, pois, para um outro quadro de pressões de poderes, político e desportivo, sobre a RTP. E, tal como eu fiz em relação aos incêndios, vários órgãos de imprensa afirmam que as pressões a respeito do futebol foram acatadas pela RTP. O citado artigo de A Bola é taxativo: desmente o desmentido da Federação e reitera que a Federação pressionou o afastamento de Daniel.
Ao mesmo tempo, outras informações indicam que a administração da RTP procura alargar a sua influência na área da programação e da informação, o que tem sido feito em boa medida através de um grupo de pessoas que vieram da SIC, em diferentes momentos. O mais recente foi Hélder Conduto, que chegou à RTP em Junho, nem por acaso para a área do desporto. Foi ele que substituiu Daniel no relato dum jogo da bola, sem que este tenha sido avisado senão poucos dias antes: tratava-se de, à moda da antiga RTP, levar Daniel a perceber que o estavam afastando, alegadamente pelos seus próprios colegas de Direcção, e, portanto, empurrando-o para a demissão.
Antes de Conduto, foram com Emídio Rangel da SIC para a RTP Luís Marinho e José Alberto Carvalho, actuais director e director-adjunto de Informação, e António Borga, administrador da RTP Meios, sendo agora os três «professores» numa pós-graduação no ISCSP de que Rangel será o "director técnico"; com ele foram também para a RTP Isabel Carvalho, recentemente promovida a directora, responsável do Gabinete de Planeamento e Controle das Antenas, pelo qual passam todos os contratos; Maria José Nunes, subdirectora de produção da Informação, cargo vital neste departamento; e Alberta Marques Fernandes, que tem sido mantida com responsabilidades na apresentação e coordenação do Jornal 2 apesar da sua má-prestação; pela SIC passou também José Alberto Lemos, director da RTPN e possível sucessor de Daniel. Este veio já pela mão do administrador com as áreas da programação e informação, Luís Marques, que, pelo cargo que ocupa, é quem, deste grupo de pessoas que veio da SIC, mais poder tem dentro da empresa.
Agora que Daniel foi afastado e com ele se demitiu um grupo de jornalistas do Porto onde há pessoas de reconhecido valor e independência, teremos de acompanhar de perto a evolução do Jornal da Tarde da RTP1, um noticiário feito no Porto, que se manteve mais desligado do poder político e da sua agenda e que, por causa disso, era até agora muitas vezes manifestamente superior em qualidade ao Telejornal. Veremos se "Lisboa", isto é, uma administração e uma direcção que, na minha opinião, vergam aos poderes, consegue partir a espinha à independência relativa do Jornal da Tarde e da redacção do Porto.
Há também que acompanhar o noticiário e o comentário sobre futebol nos canais da RTP. Veremos se se mantém a crítica livre à Federação e à Selecção Nacional, como aconteceu a propósito do Mundial, ou se essas críticas serão caladas, como, segundo a imprensa, pretendeu e conseguiu Madaíl e o universo do futebol e da sua mediatização.
Ass.: Eduardo Cintra Torres
[act.: Colocar o tema da nova Censura em cima da mesa: Um tema que, tragicamente, tem em si mesmo tendência a ser censurado. De uma coisa não há dúvida: as múltiplas novas formas de censura do pós-25 de Abril corroem a nossa jovem democracia, o regime e o futuro do país, em favor de interesses conjunturais de grupos políticos, corporativos, económicos e de media.]
VIDEO-GRAFIA
From hypertext to hypervideo: Hyperlinking video involves the use of ?object-tracking? software to make filmed objects, such as cars, clickable as they move around. Viewers can then click on items of interest in a video to watch a related clip; after it has played, the original video resumes where it left off. To inform viewers that a video is hyperlinked, editors can add highlights to moving images, use beeps as audible cues, or display still images from hyperlinked videos next to the clip that is currently playing.
As the amount of video available online increases, so do the possibilities for linking clips together.
Video downloads: destroying British high streets: Video download gremlins are holding growth back, however. The poll of 1,008 internet users said 39 per cent have been scuppered by poor quality. Users expect downloads to be cheaper too, but as we saw with the launch of Disney movies on iTunes at $14.99, so far they're not. [...]
The research was conducted for pollster ICM on behalf of video download distributor British Internet Broadcasting Company (BIBC). Managing director Paul Hague was predictably upbeat about the figures. He said: "For years people have talked about the death of the high street, and video downloads are set to offer a new challenge.
"This is particularly pertinent to the DVD market, which cannot compete with downloads as they cannot possibly offer the same cheap, environmentally-friendly, high-quality, and secure offering that video downloads can provide."
TV embraces the online clip age: with TV audiences dwindling and interest in online video content on the rise, it seems that audiences do not just want to watch TV shows any more.
They want to make and star in them too.
O fenómeno YouTube
A NOVA REVOLUÇÃO DA INTERNET
VITAMEDIAS
Italy blocks phone tapping leaks: Italy has passed a decree banning the use of illegally tapped telephone conversations in the media and as evidence in court.
The moves come after an investigation into a murky bugging ring reportedly targeting high-profile figures.
Leaked phone taps sparked a series of scandals in Italy, including one that rocked the country's football league.
CULTURAS IN VITRO
A dream come true: 24 countries will be on hand for the first European Dream Festival, an extravaganza with everything from Swiss drama to Estonian folk-rock [mas sem Portugal...]
TECNOFERA
Technology for Spying Lures More Than Military: But while H.P. may be in the spotlight for the spying imbroglio in its boardroom, it is far from alone in diving into the murky world of private investigators and secret surveillance.
Companies worldwide spent an estimated $95 billion on security last year, according to the Freedonia Group, a market research firm in Cleveland. While that?s a broad figure that includes spending on emergency planning in case of a terrorist attack and protecting corporate records from hackers, an increasing portion went to high-tech equipment like spyware and specialized data-mining software that was deployed in-house so companies could better see what their own employees were up to.
23 Setembro 2006
TECNOSFERA
Tenho de avisar a CMVM. Fui alvo de uma OPA hostil e ninguém me informou de nada?!?!...
Press Releases for ContraFactos & Argumentos
11 Sep 2006
ContraFactos & Argumentos was the subject of much speculation when analysts at several firms were heard to be very positive about it's recent performance. It's share price rose from B$1,290.98 to B$1,833.20. Much of the hype was said to originate from Congo Jack whose Network Engineer (artefact) was said to be involved.
Congo Jack declined to comment on the recent speculation.
11 Sep 2006
Philosophy Student performed a hostile takeover at a total cost of B$4,293,914.92 using a Journalist (artefact)
23 Sep 2006
Price: B$5,626.30
Valuation: B$31,193.15
22 Setembro 2006
TECNOSFERA
Firefox: el navegador de los socialistas y ex-comunistas? La empresa francesa dedicada al control de audiencias XiTi, informó los datos de utilización del navegador software libre Firefox en Europa y el resto del mundo.
En cuanto al viejo continente, se deduce que en los países europeos con gobiernos socialistas, o que han sido ex-repúblicas comunistas soviéticas, el uso es mayor.
[há discrepâncias de valores não referidas entre o mapa e a tabela da XiTi...]
VIDEO-GRAFIA
Stylus Magazine's Top 100 Music Videos of All Time presenting them here, fully equipped with YouTube links for your viewing pleasure.
VITAMEDIAS
Sete meses para isto: Dois jornalistas do "24horas" acusados de acesso indevido a dados pessoais: O Ministério Público acusou dois jornalistas do "24horas" do crime de acesso indevido a dados pessoais no âmbito do caso do envelope 9, relativo a registos de chamadas telefónicas de altas figuras do Estado anexos ao processo Casa Pia.
20 de Maio: "O INQUÉRITO ao caso do «envelope 9» - um ficheiro incluído no processo Casa Pia com facturação telefónica de altas figuras do Estado - já ilibou os procuradores envolvidos. [...]
Os funcionários da PT enviaram a facturação de vários clientes da conta Estado apesar dos procuradores terem pedido apenas a de Paulo Pedroso, então arguido no processo Casa Pia (mais tarde ilibado). Mas esse crime já prescreveu, pois os factos remontam a Junho de 2003. Apenas poderão ser responsabilizados os jornalistas, por acesso indevido a dados pessoais."
08 de Março: "5. Assim, cumpre afirmar que vigora entre nós o princípio da legalidade, nos termos do qual, numa investigação-crime não pode determinar-se, à partida, que uma parte dos factos com relevância criminal, ou ainda certas entidades, devam ser excluídas da investigação. Daí duas consequências: não é possível deixar de investigar jornalistas ou um jornal, só por serem jornalistas ou estar em causa um jornal, do mesmo modo que não poderá deixar de se investigar a conduta dos demais intervenientes na ?questão do envelope nove?, para além do que respeitar directamente à actuação do ?24 Horas?.
E é isso que tem vindo a ser feito.
6. Importa esclarecer que, quando a 15 de Fevereiro ocorreram buscas (no Código de Processo Penal não existe a palavra ?rusga?), reputadas necessárias pelo titular do processo, e que tiveram lugar com total respeito pela lei que temos, haviam tido lugar já inúmeras diligências. De tal modo que, presentemente, o processo conta com três volumes, mais de quinhentas folhas e dezenas de pessoas ouvidas. [...]
8. [...] A lei faculta o prazo de oito meses para a fase processual em curso. Tal prazo não irá ser usado e do despacho final será dado conhecimento público [...]".
16 de Fevereiro: PGR centra investigação na divulgação de telefones: Segundo o despacho que autorizou a busca, ontem, ao jornal 24 Horas, em causa está apenas o crime de acesso indevido a dados pessoais.
E agora? Lei n.º 67/98: Artigo 44.º - Acesso indevido
1 - Quem, sem a devida autorização, por qualquer modo, aceder a dados pessoais cujo acesso lhe está vedado, é punido com prisão até um ano ou multa até 120 dias.
2 - A pena é agravada para o dobro dos seus limites quando o acesso:
a) For conseguido através de violação de regras técnicas de segurança;
b) Tiver possibilitado ao agente ou a terceiros o conhecimento de dados pessoais;
c) Tiver proporcionado ao agente ou a terceiros, benefício ou vantagem patrimonial.
3 - No caso do n.º 1 o procedimento criminal depende de queixa.
VITAMEDIAS
Uma excelente história e um aviso sobre o problema de fotos, cuja autoria aparenta não ser duvidosa, vendidas a "sites" e entretanto disseminadas na Web: The Zidane smoking photo - a cautionary tale about ownership, copyright and licensing.
[julgo ser esta foto]
21 Setembro 2006
TECNOSFERA
Um verdadeiro profissional...
Calif. PC Thief Takes Court Computers: A man was convicted of various theft charges, after prosecutors say he stole computers from the courthouse while he was on trial for computer theft.
"It just amazed me that someone could be in the middle of a jury trial for a burglary involving computers and immediately get involved in another burglary at the Civic Center," said sheriff's Sgt. Jerry Niess.
VITAMEDIAS
Ainda sobre isto:
Estatuto do jornalista na Assembleia: Arons de Carvalho ataca Sindicato, considerando uma "vergonha" o apelo para alterar a proposta do novo Estatuto do Jornalista.
Arons de Carvalho criticou o SJ por redigir um abaixo-assinado que refere a impossibilidade de os jornalistas se oporem a modificações nos textos, esquecendo-se de dizer que ?o ponto anterior atribui o direito do jornalista se opor, se a modificação desvirtuar a obra?.
Alfredo Maia, presidente do SJ, defendeu a posição do seu organismo, considerando que a permissão para alterar textos ?esvazia, de facto, o ponto anterior?.
Aumenta adesão ao apelo do SJ pela liberdade dos jornalistas (Lista de subscritores do Apelo por ordem alfabética)
Direitos de autor são a maior preocupação dos partidos: De acordo com os deputados do PSD, CDS-PP, PCP e do Bloco de Esquerda, as alterações sobre direitos de autor provocam uma «fragilização do tecido empresarial», eventuais «bloqueios à publicação» de textos jornalísticos e possibilitam aos editores «mudarem textos sem autorização do jornalista que o criou».
Segundo explicou o ministro dos Assuntos Parlamentares, responsável pela pasta da Comunicação Social, os direitos de autor previstos na proposta do Estatuto de Jornalista «não se aplicam a todas as peças jornalísticas», deixando de fora «as que se limitam a dar notícias do dia ou relatos da actualidade».
[act.: SJ repudia afirmações de Arons de Carvalho]
VITAMEDIAS
Um problema com a Wikipedia em Portugal: Queixa da SIC e de Francisco Pinto Balsemão contra a revista Focus, por ofensa dos direitos à reputação e à imagem, na sua edição de 5 de Abril [o referido texto na Wikipedia já não tem quaisquer referências à pornografia]
ECOPOL
Porquê dizer isto agora?
Comitivas faraónicas: Eu também não compreendo e, sobretudo, não me conformo, com o gasto de dinheiros públicos, a parolice e falta de profissionalismo das enormes comitivas que é usual acompanharem os PRs e PMs portugueses em visitas de Estado, oficiais e outras que tais ao estrangeiro.
Não são só os ministros - são amigos, conhecidos, empresários, desportistas, artistas, intelectuais, deputados, políticos, equilibristas etc..., que - além das comitivas técnicas (do cabeleireiro para as Senhoras, ao médicos, dos seguranças e aos responsáveis pelas bagagens...) - não vão, em regra, realmente fazer nada de útil e com consequências. Servem talvez para habilitar o PR ou PM do momento a pagar facturas diversas (incluindo de apoio eleitoral)... Ah, e para dar dores de cabeça ao Protocolo de Estado, que não tem - nunca teve e hoje ainda menos - pessoal suficiente para enquadrar o grupo excursionista.
E o pior é a imagem pacóvia e a atitude abusiva que assim se projecta do país.
Sei do que falo. Trabalhei em Belém e participei na organização de dezenas de visitas presidenciais em Portugal e ao estrangeiro.
Quando se fez isto?
Com Arafat, perdendo Rabin: Passamos o resto da manhã a calcorrear as fascinantes ruelas do bairro árabe, onde se misturam os cheiros das especiarias. De tarde visitamos Belém (curva-te para entrar na pequena porta da Igreja da Natividade) e Hebron (os putos de kippa na cabeça e Uzi na mão, ocupantes de uma casa perto do túmulo de Abraão, em jeito mole e desafiador calcorreiam a rua, dificultando o passo a palestinos apressados para as orações na mesquita).
Não me lembro onde almoçamos, mas não implicou «trabalho» - o essencial tinha tido lugar na véspera, na visita que o Secretário de Estado para os Assuntos Europeus Seixas da Costa fizera à «Orient House» (com especial empenho, depois de termos resistido a indecorosas pressões dos israelitas para que lá não fossemos). Eu estava ali por ser chefe de gabinete do Xico (ia lá perder uma visita de Estado a Israel e à Palestina, de onde tinha tão marcantes recordações, da equipa da presidência portuguesa em 92, no inicio do Processo de Paz, brilhantemente chefiada por Leonardo Mathias).
20 Setembro 2006
ECOPOL
The George and Mahmoud show: The Iranian and American presidents both spoke to the United Nations? General Assembly on Tuesday. Neither man is backing down from confrontation
President Bush Addresses United Nations General Assembly: Today, I'd like to speak directly to the people across the broader Middle East: My country desires peace. [...]
To the people of Iran: [...] Iran must abandon its nuclear weapons ambitions. Despite what the regime tells you, we have no objection to Iran's pursuit of a truly peaceful nuclear power program. We're working toward a diplomatic solution to this crisis. And as we do, we look to the day when you can live in freedom -- and America and Iran can be good friends and close partners in the cause of peace.
Ahmadinejad Rants to UN on U.S. Foreign Policy, Structure of Security Council: The Islamic Republic of Iran is a member of the IAEA and is committed to the NPT. All our nuclear activities are transparent, peaceful and under the watchful eyes of IAEA inspectors. Why then are there objections to our legally recognized rights? Which governments object to these rights? Governments that themselves benefit from nuclear energy and the fuel cycle.
Some of them have abused nuclear technology for non-peaceful ends, including the production of nuclear bombs. And some even have a bleak record of using them against humanity. [...]
Excellencies, the question needs to asked: if the governments of the United States or the United Kingdom, who are permanent members of the Security Council, commit aggression, occupation and violation of international law, which of the organs of the U.N. can take them to account? Can a council in which they are privileged members address their violations? Has this ever happened? In fact, we have repeatedly seen the reverse.
[ao contrário da delegação iraniana, apenas um responsável norte-americano ouviu nas Nações Unidas o discurso do presidente iraniano]
ECOPOL
Um exemplo de cidadania: The 20 Most Corrupt Members of Congress (and five to watch): This encyclopedic report on corruption in the 109th Congress documents the egregious, unethical and possibly illegal activities of the most tainted members of Congress. [Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington] has compiled the members? transgressions and analyzed them in light of federal laws and congressional rules.
[Resultado? Republicanos 17 - Democratas - 3]
VITAMEDIAS
'NY Times' Typographical Changes to Separate News and Analysis: The New York Times took steps to address the age-old issues of clarity and separation of straight reporting from review, analysis and commentary.
VITAMEDIAS
Chamam-lhe "futurista" mas não devia ser analista de media? É ver aquela "confluência" de áreas...
Michael Rogers Joins The New York Times Company as Futurist-in-Residence: The New York Times Company announced today that Michael Rogers, interactive media pioneer, novelist and journalist, has joined the Company for a one-year appointment to the newly created position of futurist-in-residence. In this role, Mr. Rogers will act as a consultant to the Company's Research and Development unit.
In making the announcement, Michael Zimbalist, vice president, research and development operations, said, "Michael has unique insights into the confluence of digital technology, consumer behavior and journalism.
[via, por aqui: 'NY Times' Appoints First-Ever 'Futurist-in-Residence']
VIDEO-GRAFIA
Accenture survey shows huge demand: nearly 60% of people want more control over how they consume media. "We have moved from an appointment to view TV culture to a TV on my terms one," said Kumu Puri, a partner at Accenture Communications and High Tech Strategy.
The trend, said Puri, is going to accelerate as the MySpace generation grows up. According to the nine-country Accenture Global Digital Home Survey survey, 44% of those under 24 years of age prefer watching video on the internet rather than on the TV and 56% of that age group want to create and share their own content with others. [...]
Some 54% of respondents want Net content on their televisions within the next three years. To meet this appetite Puri said that companies need to provide more and better services to people. "Good media alone will not enable media companies to attract consumers. Companies need to experiment with new channels of content distribution and new models and they need to give an editorial role to the consumer," Puri said. New models must be flexible and able to scale quickly
VITAMEDIAS
João Pedro Henriques: A minha demissão do Sindicato dos Jornalistas
Fernanda Câncio: o sindicato, eu, o jph e os outros
Ana Sá Lopes: Refresco de menta
CULTURAS IN VITRO
Famous Firsts:
1965: First Recorded Rap Song
?RAP DIRTY? BY BLOWFLY
1966: First Double Album
BLONDE ON BLONDE BY BOB DYLAN
1967: First Rock Album with Printed Lyrics
SGT. PEPPER?S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND
1970: First Heavy-metal Song to Hail Satan
?BLACK SABBATH? BY BLACK SABBATH
1981: First Video Aired on MTV
?VIDEO KILLED THE RADIO STAR? BY THE BUGGLES
1982: First Rock Album Released on CD
52ND STREET BY BILLY JOEL
2004: First Multi-platinum Artist on the Terrorist Watch List
YUSUF ISLAM [aka Cat Stevens]
19 Setembro 2006
VITAMEDIAS
READING ? AND WATCHING: wealthier Americans are reading more magazines more often than ever. The 30-year-old survey measures the top quarter of Americans, with a current household income floor of $85,000, giving the survey's subscribers (among them, 119 magazines) an encyclopedia-like tome on what the affluent are reading, watching, and buying. [...]
"In this day and age, all we hear about is doom and gloom, ad pages down and circulation being clobbered, and we only hear that the Internet is going to save the world," [survey head Mitch Lurin] said. "But our data are saying that magazines are healthier than they've ever been."
Which, of course, raises the question that if magazines are healthier than ever, why are publishers flocking to launch, update, reconfigure, expand, redesign, or otherwise change their Web sites ? and also selling them off or closing them? [...]
This year, the magazines with the biggest gains in overall average issue audience ? a composite figure suggesting how many eyeballs a magazine advertiser can expect to reach in print ? were People, House & Garden, Time, Sports Illustrated, and Southern Living
VITAMEDIAS
2006 Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism: $10,000 Grand Prize Winner: Global Voices Online
VIDEO-GRAFIA
O Soapbox, serviço da Microsoft concorrente do YouTube e outros, está a caminho. Aconselhável apenas a quem não usa Firefox. A sério.
CONTAMINANTES
Global Text Project: The goal is to create a free library of 1,000 electronic textbooks for students in the developing world
Textbook free for all: Well, it's not an entire free-for-all. Anyone will be able to contribute to the new textbooks, true ? but unlike wikipedia, the online, user-made encyclopedia, only an editor will be able to approve contributions. Otherwise the texts risk being wrong, long and hard to follow, with students being able to fall back on the old "but it's in the text, sir" excuse for wrong answers in their essays.
ECOPOL
[via]
White House race may cost hopefuls $500M: Strategists from both parties estimate the White House race in 2008 could cost each nominee $500 million ? far more than the Presidential Election Campaign Fund can afford. As a result, this next presidential campaign could mark the first time in 30 years that the Democratic and Republican nominees turn down the fund's millions in both the primary and the general elections.
"The public financing system was a great system, but it's broke," said Steve Elmendorf, the deputy campaign manager for Democrat
John Kerry when the Massachusetts senator ran in 2004.
"There's not enough money in it anymore. It's highly unlikely that any candidate in any party will stay in the public funding system," Elmendorf said.
The decision has precedent.
George W. Bush declined the public money in the 2000 GOP primaries, when he was a first-time candidate, and did so again in 2004, when he sought re-election. Democrats
Howard Dean and John Kerry made the same choice in 2004.
Still, Bush and Kerry each accepted $74.5 million from the fund to run their general election campaigns. For 2008, the amount could reach $85 million per nominee.
If the major party candidates decline the general election funds in two years, they in effect would kill one of the chief post-Watergate overhauls in campaign law.
The fund, which is expected to have about $200 million by the end of 2007, still would help pay for party presidential nominating conventions and assist primary candidates who do not raise large amounts of money.
Bush 'prepares emissions U-turn': President Bush is preparing an astonishing U-turn on global warming, senior Washington sources say.
After years of trying to sabotage agreements to tackle climate change he is drawing up plans to control emissions of carbon dioxide and rapidly boost the use of renewable energy sources.
Administration insiders privately refer to the planned volte-face as Mr Bush's "Nixon goes to China moment", recalling how the former president amazed the world after years of refusing to deal with its Communist regime. Hardline global warming sceptics, however, are already publicly attacking the plans.
ECOPOL
Pirate Party falls short of Swedish election goals, blames faulty procedures: Under current election procedures, you need at least 4 percent of the national votes or 12 percent in any one electoral district to qualify for a parliamentary seat, and the Pirate Party came up short with only 0.6 percent of the national vote.
VITAMEDIAS
Como dar um tiro no pé em 24 horas ou resquícios preocupantes na educação das massas:
É estúpido. E contagia. E depois? Fará, porém, sentido este policiamento do gosto ou, no caso de JPP, da inteligência?
Há aqui - sejamos benévolos - resquícios altamente preocupantes de uma certa «educação das massas».
E insistem, e insistem...: Eu acho que aquele documentário, além de estúpido (pudera, foi produzido por estação de tv estatal, a BBC...), é anti-americano (pudera, foi feito pela BBC e, como se sabe, a BBC ainda não perdoou o Bush aquela coisa do Iraque e coisa e tal...), e contagiante. Já viram a quantidade de palermas que andam para aí a falar do aquecimento global?
Que a RTP, serviço público pago por todos nós, passe aquilo é ultrajante. Aquilo deveria ser proíbido.
18 Setembro 2006
VITAMEDIAS
A democracia no seu melhor: U.S. Detains AP Photographer for five months, accusing him of being a security threat but never filing charges or permitting a public hearing.
Military officials said Bilal Hussein, an Iraqi citizen, was being held for "imperative reasons of security" under United Nations resolutions. AP executives said the news cooperative's review of Hussein's work did not find anything to indicate inappropriate contact with insurgents, and any evidence against him should be brought to the Iraqi criminal justice system.
VITAMEDIAS
ECOPOL
International Religious Freedom Report 2006, Released by the US Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
Portugal: The constitution provides for freedom of religion, and the Government generally respected this right in practice.
There was no change in the status of respect for religious freedom during the period covered by this report, and government policy continued to contribute to the generally free practice of religion.
TECNOSFERA
As maiores felicidades ao Bem bunito para não dizer Impacabel por este divertido texto:
"Depois de pedir uma opinião profissional a uma colega, surgiu uma ideia conjunta que pode solucionar o 'pseudo-problema' do endereço ser comprido... ou seja:
no endereço ficaria:
contrafactos.blogspot.com, depois no titulo do blog, levantava-se o véu e dizia-se: contra factos... há sempre argumentos..
ou entao: veiaoblogeopina.blogspot.com e depois no titulo: vai ao blog e opina... para não dizer outra coisa parecida...
Que vos parece, irmãos?!
veijos..."
VIDEO-GRAFIA
Male Restroom Etiquette: All men of the world can find common ground in these simple rules of "evacuation" etiquette.
TECNOSFERA
Bye-Bye Blogger
Q: As one of the country?s most eloquent and acid-tongued cultural critics, what is it like to be so sharply criticized in public yourself? Your blog for The New Republic was terminated this month after you deceived readers, using a pseudonym to post comments in which you belittled your enemies and praised yourself as ?brave, brilliant and wittier than [Jon] Stewart will ever be.?
Of course it was wrong, and I am sorry I did it. I lost my footing and foolishly answered my anonymous detractors with misplaced satire.
You took as your pseudonym Sprezzatura, which means what exactly?
It?s the art of doing something difficult with the appearance of no effort. [...]
Anonymous bloggers are also saddled with obscurity, which I doubt you would similarly glorify.
That?s right. In their case, anonymity is obscurity?s rash. At least for those who practice incessant character assassination, which represents a good portion of the blogosphere, they vent out of the pain of being unacknowledged.
VITAMEDIAS
Cobertura dos incêndios: mais achas para o debate: A coluna de hoje de Eduardo Cinta Torres, no Público, adianta um conjunto de dados que tornam mais consistente a acusação, que havia feito em Agosto, de que a RTP enviesou o tratamento dos incêndios no Telejornal. [...]
Mas, com o texto de ECT de hoje, continuamos na mesma quanto a uma denúncia que o crítico fez no seu primeiro texto (Público, 20 de Agosto) e que é aqui capital: "as informações de que disponho indicam que o gabinete do primeiro-ministro deu instruções directas à RTP para se fazer censura à cobertura dos incêndios: são ordens directas do gabinete de Sócrates". Não faço ideia se algum dia saberemos a resposta. Mas, a matéria é factual e não admite meio termo: ou essas instruções foram dadas, e o caso é gravíssimo. Ou não foram dadas, e a acusação é ... gravíssima.
ECOPOL
Isto é uma descarada mentira: UE considera ilegais as prisões secretas de Bush
Basta ler o título da própria notícia: "EU ministers fail to adopt official text on CIA camps"
E o resto do texto [negritos meus]? "EU foreign ministers have failed to agree on an official statement on the secret CIA jails and instead allowed the Finnish EU presidency to read out a "press line" with hardly any status. [...]
But ministers finally agreed only on a move which has the lowest diplomatic status possible at EU foreign ministers meetings - a "press line" not forming part of the official conclusions and not being an official declaration. [...]
A Finnish presidency contact said the press line "has no official status," with one EU diplomat adding that two member states in particular ? the UK and the Czech Republic ? still disliked the wording. [...]
The Guantanamo statement was not even read out by the presidency and was solely prepared for the event that journalists would raise the issue in the press briefing after the meeting."
[BTW: Barroso denies knowledge of Portugal CIA flights]
VITAMEDIAS
[via]
Mais do que qualquer vitória entre o Expresso e a Expressa ("Afinal, qual dos dois semanários é o novo???") - neste mediacaos, ambos atiraram com os leitores para a segunda divisão -, um fenómeno interessante tem sido ver o lado online desses semanários e respectivos comentários.
No Expresso, aqui ou aqui, por exemplo e que já levou a um comunicado da direcção do multimédia, ou no Sol, onde já surgiu um primeiro aviso, percebe-se a tensão entre jornalistas, espaços abertos, anónimos e comentadores "off topic". Os que realmente querem participar de forma séria são trucidados. Como de costume.
Mas os que querem abrir a participação - para potenciar a "comunidade", um dos famosos C's... - parecem não saber o que andam a fazer. É a minha opinião.
CONTAMINANTES
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16 Setembro 2006
CULTURAS IN VITRO
[via]
Não aparecer é das poucas formas de elitismo que restam (Vasco Vieira de Almeida)
VITAMEDIAS
Qual é o país, qual é, onde semanários esgotam semana após semana?
É o mesmo onde em 2005 os diários pagos perderam 3,88 por cento de leitores e os diários gratuitos conseguiram 33 por cento do mercado.
VITAMEDIAS
À atenção dos proprietários nacionais de media:
Muslims urged to buy influence in world media: Muslim tycoons should buy stakes in global media outlets to help change anti-Muslim attitudes around the world, ministers from Islamic countries heard at a conference in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday.
Information ministers and officials meeting under the auspices of the 57-nation Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), the world's largest Islamic body, said Islam faced vilification after the September 11 attacks, when 19 Arabs killed nearly 3,000 people in U.S. cities in 2001.
"Muslim investors must invest in the large media institutions of the world, which generally make considerable profits, so that they have the ability to affect their policies via their administrative boards," OIC chief Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu told the gathering in the Saudi city of Jeddah.
VIDEO-GRAFIA
Ten Things that Will Happen to TV and Newspapers
4. What you know will become more a case of what can you believe and who else believes it too. [...]
6. As all information is now free to the end-user, everybody in news production has to go to the advertiser pool for every cent that it takes. [...]
10. Recommenders will become a new profession. [Aceitam-se propostas :)]
What?s Happening to Newspapers and What Will
YouTube is fastest growing online brand in the UK
Neave.tv
Web 2.0 Television
ECOPOL
Undisclosed U.S. Detention Sites Overseas: Background and Legal Issues: This report provides background information regarding the controversy and discusses the possible legal frameworks that may apply. It is based on available open-source documentation, as cited, and not on any independent CRS investigation.
It focuses on protections accorded to persons under international law, and is not intended to address intelligence operations or policy. It also focuses primarily on the allegations relating to Europe, although other countries may be involved, and includes in its appendix a status discussion concerning relevant investigations being conducted by the European Parliament and the Council on Europe.
15 Setembro 2006
VITAMEDIAS
A democracia no seu melhor: Pacheco Pereira ataca canal público: A passagem pela RTP de um filme intitulado ?Loose Change? sobre o 11 de Setembro é inaceitável no quadro deontológico de qualquer estação de informação?, escreve Pacheco Pereira na sua crónica publicada ontem na revista ?Sábado? [não disponível no Abrupto, ao contrário de out_ras]. No entanto, segundo Paquete de Oliveira, provedor do Telespectador da RTP, os consumidores do canal público não partilham desta opinião. Os pedidos de reposição são tantos que já está agendada uma nova transmissão do bloco de documentários sobre os atentados terroristas, em data a designar oportunamente.
ECOPOL
A ler: Likud contra cartoons "satânicos" de brasileiro & Entrevista com Carlos Latuff
[disclaimer: discordo de uma entrevista (pedindo "esclarecimentos sobre o caso") em que se mostra "solidariedade". Pode ser aceitável num blogue? Talvez.]
VITAMEDIAS
O facto de ter carteira de jornalista, ser tesoureira no Sindicato dos Jornalistas e escrever no Avante não é incompatível.
Por isso, é totalmente irrelevante afirmar isto: "Perfeita "voz do dono" comunista num sindicato supostamente independente de todas as forças partidárias mas que cada vez mais parece "dominado" pelo PCP".
Este tipo de afirmações devia ser provado, não apenas atirado. É feio.
[act.: Alocução às massas, Anabela «mais ou menos» Fino]
[act.1: Por este "Uma incompatibilidade flagrante", um comentário:
Caro João Paulo,
o que digo é que não é actualmente incompatível, por culpa das leis, pelo que os ataques referidos no CF&A não fazem sentido.
O que dizes é que é incompatível mas não é, segundo a lei.
Ora como não escreves leis nem eu as pretendo alterar, essa é a realidade com que temos de viver.
Devia ser assim? Os jornalistas que escrevem para um "jornal" de um supermercado ou de um partido político devem ter carteira?
Até se mudar a lei, estamos no "whishfull thinking".
Uma pequena memória: no terceiro congresso dos jornalistas (em 1998!!!!, 12 anos depois do 2º e quando ainda não se sabe quando vamos ter outro...) propunha-se o debate sobre "a atribuição, ou não, de carteira a profissionais que exercem a actividade em jornais partidários e a militantes políticos ou outros."
(http://www.jornalistas.online.pt/noticia.asp?id=541&idselect=411&idCanal=411&p=51)
Passaram oito anos e o debate? Nada. Porque o presidente do Sindicato é militante partidário? Não sei.
A única certeza que tenho é que a lei permite isto de que estamos a falar. Podes não concordar mas é a lei. Lamento.]
[act.2: Sobre a Anabela Fino]
VITAMEDIAS
Uma questão de opinião? O estatuto editorial do Sol está na página de opinião sem assinatura.
"Sol" online e com estatuto editorial [a notícia aqui é o regresso de Manuel Pinto à blogo-escrita...]
O seu a seu dono: Peço desculpa pela imodéstia, mas a anunciada parceria entre o METRO e o Sol foi ideia minha
Antes que o Sol nasça...
O Expresso light
Análise aO site do Sol
O Expresso mostrou a cara
Tiragem sobe para 200.000 exemplares
As horas que antecederam o nascimento do EXPRESSO em formato berliner.
TECNOFERA
Tinha sido prometido mas agora a DRI avançou mesmo: Digital Rights Ireland brings legal action over mass surveillance: Irish civil rights group Digital Rights Ireland (DRI) has started a High Court action against the Irish Government challenging new European and Irish laws requiring mass surveillance. DRI Chairman TJ McIntyre said:
These laws require telephone companies and internet service providers to spy on all customers, logging their movements, their telephone calls, their emails, and their internet access, and to store that information for up to three years. This information can then be accessed without any court order or other adequate safeguard. We believe that this is a breach of fundamental rights. We have written to the Government raising our concerns but, as they have failed to take any action, we are now forced to start legal proceedings.
Accordingly, we have now launched a legal challenge to the Irish government?s power to pass these laws. We say that it is contrary to the Irish Constitution as well as Irish and European Data Protection laws. [...]
These mass surveillance laws are a direct, deliberate attack on our right to have a private life, without undue interference by the government. That right is underpinned in the laws of European countries and is also explicitly stated in Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights. The Article specifies that public authorities may only interfere with this right in narrowly defined circumstances.
[Não vale a pena procurar, não consta nenhuma organização portuguesa a apoiar esta iniciativa...]
CULTURAS IN VITRO
A ler: How Copyright Broke: The idea that copyright confers the exclusive right to control copying, performance, adaptation, and general use of a creative work is a polite fiction that has been mostly harmless throughout its brief history, but which has been laid bare by the Internet, and the disjoint is showing.
Theoretically, if I sell you a copy of one of my novels, I'm conferring upon you a property interest in a lump of atoms ? the pages of the book ? as well as a license to make some reasonable use of the ethereal ideas embedded upon the page, the copyrighted work. [...]
While fair use is a vital part of the way that works get made and used, it's very rare for an unauthorized use to get adjudicated on this basis.
No, the realpolitik of unauthorized use is that users are not required to secure permission for uses that the rights holder will never discover. If you put some magazine clippings in your mood book, the magazine publisher will never find out you did so. If you stick a Dilbert cartoon on your office-door, Scott Adams will never know about it. [...]
Regular customers didn't have lawyers or negotiating leverage. They were a natural for licensing regimes. Have a look at the next click-through "agreement" you're provided with on purchasing a piece of software or an electronic book or song. The terms set out in those agreements are positively Dickensian in their marvelous idiocy. Sony BMG recently shipped over eight million music CDs with an "agreement" that bound its purchasers to destroy their music if they left the country or had a house-fire, and to promise not to listen to their tunes while at work.
But customers understand property ? you bought it, you own it ? and they don't understand copyright. [...]
So this is where copyright breaks: When copyright lawyers try to treat readers and listeners and viewers as if they were (weak and unlucky) corporations who could be strong-armed into license agreements you wouldn't wish on a dog. There's no conceivable world in which people are going to tiptoe around the property they've bought and paid for, re-checking their licenses to make sure that they're abiding by the terms of an agreement they doubtless never read. Why read something if it's non-negotiable, anyway?
The answer is simple: treat your readers' property as property. What readers do with their own equipment, as private, noncommercial actors, is not a fit subject for copyright regulation or oversight. The Securities Exchange Commission doesn't impose rules on you when you loan a friend five bucks for lunch.
[via "E isto não é ficção científica", comentários no blogue de Cory Doctorow]
14 Setembro 2006
VITAMEDIAS
Uma página difícil na história do Libération contada no... Libération: Ce travail journalistique en profondeur nécessite des moyens importants. Une enquête, ça peut prendre des semaines. Un reportage, plusieurs jours. Un débat, ça nécessite de la place, donc du papier. Etc. Nous ne méconnaissons pas les impératifs financiers qui pèsent sur Libération. Nous avons même accepté d'en prendre partiellement en charge la gestion. Notre intention n'est pas de lancer des investissements démesurés. Mais notre projet n'est pas non plus de réduire la voilure jusqu'à nous laisser mourir doucement. Notre projet est, dans une conjoncture industrielle extrêmement difficile, d'utiliser au maximum notre marge de manoeuvre pour vous apporter un meilleur journal. [...]
Aujourd'hui, il nous reste peu de temps et peu de moyens. C'est pourquoi nous lançons cet appel aux lecteurs et aux amis de Libération. Nous avons besoin de vous. Besoin de vous entendre. Besoin de savoir que nous ne sommes pas seuls à déplorer cette disparition lente, silencieuse, d'une presse libre et indépendante. Au profit d'une presse jetable. Ces messages, suggestions ou soutiens, nous vous proposons de les exprimer via une société des lecteurs dont les statuts, la composition, le rôle seront définis dans les semaines à venir.
[act.: Rothschild: un "projet de la dernière chance" pour "Libération"]
VITAMEDIAS
Sobre o Apelo em Defesa da Liberdade de Criação e de Expressão dos Jornalistas, uma boa iniciativa do SJ sobre a proposta de lei do futuro Estatuto do Jornalista, deixo de lado os pontos 1 e 2 (sobre os quais tenho dúvidas) mas não percebo de todo o fundamento dos pontos 3 e 4, ambos sobre a mesma questão:
"3. Ao conferir à entidade proprietária e ao grupo económico em que esta se integra o direito à livre utilização, em todo e qualquer órgão de informação pertencente à empresa ou ao grupo, de obras destinadas ao meio a que o jornalista pertence (Art.º 7.º - B, n.º 3), viola grosseiramente um princípio fundamental do direito de autor, pois está a dar-se protecção legal a uma verdadeira usurpação;
4. Ao legitimar a livre reutilização em diversos órgãos de informação pertencentes ao mesmo grupo económico, contribui de forma decisiva para:
a) Agravar o empobrecimento da diversidade informativa,
b) Estrangular o pluralismo na comunicação social;
c) Aumentar a precariedade e o desemprego entre os jornalistas em resultado da consequente eliminação de postos de trabalho no sector;
d) Transformar a informação num mero produto branco, sem a marca de um autor que responda por ela;
e) Legitimar um verdadeiro atentado aos direitos morais dos autores das obras usurpadas e quiçá contrafeitas;
f) Transformar a informação ? um bem essencial ? numa mera mercadoria adaptável aos interesses de mercado, susceptível de condicionar as opções dos cidadãos."
Sou eu que não li bem ou tudo isto - a utilização ("usurpação"?!?) pela própria empresa ou outras do trabalho diário do jornalista - está previsto no Código do Direito de Autor, esse sim aprovado sem qualquer apelo mas de enorme agravo para os jornalistas? Cito:
"Artigo 7.º
Exclusão de protecção
1 - Não constituem objecto de protecção:
a) As notícias do dia e os relatos de acontecimentos diversos com carácter de simples informações de qualquer modo divulgadas"
É à conta disto que empresas de clipping funcionam sem qualquer pagamento aos jornais, rádios ou TVs; que as rádios copiam dos jornais e estes das TVs que por sua vez copiam (acrescentando imagem) os assuntos dos jornais e das rádios. E que os sites na Web citam os anteriores e são igualmente copiados - a maior parte das vezes sem indicar a fonte porque sabem que não podem ser penalizados. Está na lei, estão protegidos!
Vamos lá clarificar: a lei de direito de autor protege o copianço das "notícias do dia e os relatos de acontecimentos diversos". A proposta do Estatuto do Jornalista segue essa lei. Combate-se esta sem atacar a outra? Não percebo.
[act.: Mais de mil já assinaram apelo em defesa da liberdade dos jornalistas]
VITAMEDIAS
Strike threat at Guardian over equal pay for web journalists: Huge pay disparities between Guardian journalists working for the newspaper and on the website have prompted NUJ [National Union of Journalists] members at the paper to this week start balloting for industrial action. [...]
Around 80 of The Guardian's 400 or so journalists work on the website, Guardian Unlimited. According to the NUJ, a typical internet sub or reporter might earn £10,000 less than their newspaper counterpart.
ECOPOL
À atenção do Governo, como medida para a transparência dos financiamentos estatais. É simples, basta olhar para este Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006. E o que diz?
"require Federal financial assistance data, as well as data about government contracts, to be available for public access.
This bill would require the Office of Management and Budget to create a Web site listing all grant awards and contracts in a manner that would be easily accessible and free of charge. In a nutshell, this is about information to taxpayers about how their hard-earned dollars are being spent. Each award or contract would have to be listed on the Web site within 30 days of enactment of this act. Currently, no such real-time disclosure is required to grant awards, and data that is available often is not timely.
Further, there is no central database of all entities receiving Federal funds, including the nearly 30,000 organizations that are awarded nearly $300 billion in Federal grants each year. In fact, several agencies have taken different approaches to publicizing information about grantees, and all too often little or no information is available online."
TECNOSFERA
Liberalgate?
Internet hacker scandal before swedish elections: A little more than a week before election, social democrats, in power in Stockholm, raised a complaint against Liberal Party, accused of having penetrated into their computer network 78 times between last November and March.
This hacking of the Democratic Social Party?s Intranet would have had for objective to obtain confidential information on the party?s electoral strategy. Three Liberal Party officials included the General Secretary, have resigned whereas his leader denied having known that the information was obtained illegally.
[E a culpa não é do Partido Pirata...]
ECOPOL
Teacher won't shave until bin Laden caught: After the September 11 terrorist attacks, Gary Weddle followed the news so closely he forgot to shave. After a week he decided not to shave until Osama bin Laden was caught or killed.
TECNOSFERA
À atenção dos ISPs nacionais: 'No son 20 megas, a ver si te enteras': La Federación de Consumidores en Acción (Facua) ha denunciado ante la Secretaría de Estado de Telecomunicaciones, la CMT, el Instituto Nacional de Consumo y la Comunidad de Madrid a Jazztel, Wanadoo y Ya.com por anunciar "de forma engañosa" servicios de acceso a Internet de 20 megas.
La velocidad real de estos servicios es "desproporcionadamente inferior, pudiendo llegar no ya a la mitad, sino a la décima parte de los megas ofertados".
La organización de consumidores advirtió de que las tres compañías inducen a error a los usuarios sobre las características reales de sus servicios, "incurriendo en publicidad engañosa y competencia desleal".
TECNOSFERA
Female Space Tourist Ansari To Blog, Podcast From Space: Anousheh Ansari, who is set to be the first female commercial space tourist on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft which is launching next Monday, will host a blog from space hosted by Los Angeles-based X PRIZE Foundation.
TECNOSFERA
blogsitter.net is the plattform for bloggers who need caring people to sit their blogs. Register and place your advertisment to search for a fitting blogsitter. Someone who has your skills in the field of your blog, someone who is trustful and eager to care about your blog.
CONTAMINANTES
Lançamento oficial do Programa MIT ? Portugal no próximo dia 11 de Outubro: O acordo na área de Engenharia, a coordenar no MIT pela Engineering Systems Division e envolvendo várias escolas de engenharia, ciência e tecnologia em Portugal, será desenvolvido com base em 4 áreas temáticas, nomeadamente: Engenharia de Concepção e Sistemas Avançados de Produção Industrial; Sistemas de Energia; Sistemas de Transporte; e Sistemas de Bio-engenharia. [...]
O projecto de colaboração na área de gestão, a coordenar no MIT pela Sloan School of Management, será lançado com o desenho e preparação de um Programa de MBA, de âmbito internacional. Inclui
ainda o lançamento de um programa de seminários de doutoramento a iniciar já em 2006, na forma de "Lisbon-Sloan Seminar Series in Management Science".
13 Setembro 2006
ECOPOL
Five Years After And We Still Don't Know: The scientists, engineers, and professors who pose the tough questions about 9/11 are not people who spend their lives making sense of their experience by constructing conspiracy theories. Scientists and scholars look to facts and evidence. [...]
There are many holes in the official 9/11 story and very little evidence in its behalf. Did the government, terrified by possible public reaction to the catastrophe and expected to have an explanation for the terrifying event, simply concoct a story?
The reason so many people doubt the 9/11 story is not because they have psychological needs for conspiracies, but because the 9/11 story is not believable.
How 50 Men May Have Engineered 911: Here's how it might be done.
Empires with Expiration Dates: Empires drive history. But the empires of the past 100 years were short lived, none surviving to see the dawn of the new century. Today, there are no empires, at least not officially. But that could soon change if the United States?or even China?embraces its imperial destiny. How can they avoid the fate of those who came before them?
VITAMEDIAS
São as notícias, estúpido! A chegada do Sol, o fim de O Independente e a revolução do Expresso representam o maior abanão na imprensa portuguesa dos últimos 15 anos, mas temo bem que o rumo continue por traçar. [...]
De nada servem cabeçalhos novos com velhos hábitos. O que faz falta em Portugal não são jornais mais bonitos. O que faz falta - muita falta - são jornais melhores.
[links meus]
VITAMEDIAS
Morreu João Carlos Garcia, jornalista e secretário da FPC [a notícia é igual à do comunicado da FPC e lembra este caso]: O jornalista João Carlos Garcia, repórter da estação radiofónica Antena 1 e secretário da Mesa da Assembleia Geral da Federação Portuguesa de Ciclismo (FPC), morreu esta madrugada [...]
Durante os 13 anos em que permaneceu na Antena 1, João Carlos Garcia foi o responsável pela cobertura noticiosa da Volta a Portugal
[Claro que a culpa foi da Antena 1.]
TECNOSFERA
Já são seis, com diferentes filosofias mas a mesma postura de elevar as questões das novas tecnologias ao debate político sério:
PiratPartiet
Piratenpartei
Parti Pirate Belge
The Pirate Party
Partido Pirata Español
Pirat Partiet.it
Por cá, onde existem tantos partidos, ainda faltam 7499 cidadãos eleitores para lançar o Partido Pirata Português (PPP)...
VIDEO-GRAFIA
A 'Mistake' Hollywood Had Better Start Making: Now two companies that actually know a thing or two about selling entertainment online -- Amazon.com and Apple -- are making their own attempts to drag movie downloads into this millennium.
Apple made its official entry into the movie-download business yesterday at a splashy event in San Francisco, which included the introduction of new iPods and a preview of a set-top box, iTV, that will let viewers watch downloaded flicks on their TVs. Amazon's Unbox service launched last week.
The Amazon and Apple efforts show a lot more promise than earlier stores, with noteworthy improvements in the shopping and downloading experience.
VITAMEDIAS
À atenção do Metro e do Destak:
Robbing the free news rack is a no-no / Governor signs bill punishing the theft of no-charge papers: A new state law makes it a punishable offense to take more than 25 copies of a free newspaper for reasons other than reading them.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill that would fine offenders up to $250 for the first infraction. On subsequent offenses, the crime could become a misdemeanor punishable by up to 10 days in county jail and a fine of up to $500.
The law seeks to protect free newspapers from being "stolen because of content or viewpoint," said Morgan Crinklaw, spokesman for Assembly Republican leader George Plescia of San Diego.
CULTURAS IN VITRO
Câmara impõe condições para apoio a três filmes: Câmara do Porto condicionou o apoio técnico e logístico a três filmes que serão rodados na cidade a uma cláusula que obriga cada um dos produtores a não "expressar publicamente afirmações que ponham em causa o bom nome e imagem do município" e a "não dar uma imagem negativa da cidade". As propostas dos protocolos foram levadas, ontem, à reunião privada do Executivo e mereceram o chumbo da Oposição. [...]
Como "moeda de troca", a autarquia isenta as produtoras do pagamento de taxas e apoia as filmagens em questões como ocupação de domínio municipal, cedência de espaços e instalações pertencentes ao município, selecção de locais de filmagem e controlo de tráfego e segurança.
As propostas ontem aprovadas com os votos da Maioria PSD/PP mereceram duras críticas da Oposição.
TECNOSFERA
Six Tips to Protect Your Online Search Privacy:
1. Don't put personally identifying information in your search terms (easy)
2. Don't use your ISP's search engine (easy)
3. Don't login to your search engine or related tools (intermediate)
4. Block "cookies" from your search engine (intermediate)
5. Vary your IP address (intermediate)
6. Use web proxies and anonymizing software like Tor (advanced)
TECNOSFERA
Nada como a clareza de princípios, sejam eles originais ou retirados de outros sítios: Precisam-se redactores: O Informática.pt procura pessoas com bons conhecimentos de informática que queiram submeter notícias para o nosso portal regularmente, sejam elas originais ou retiradas de outros sites.
12 Setembro 2006
ECOPOL
Mickey Mouse, 9/11 Co-conspirator: From his role in the Kennedy assassination to his piloting of United Flight 93 on September 11, Mickey Mouse has been at the center of every major national tragedy over the past 70 years.
Name: Bush, George
Address: [...] Washington, DC
Phone Calls
Date - City (Country) - Who - Phone Number - Duration
17 Aug 2004 - Darnah (Libya) - ???? ????? ???? ????? - 93950XX - 00:41:15
28 Dec 2003 - Nahariya (Israel) - ??? ?????? ????? - 46242XX - 01:25:06
14 May 2002 - Sa'dah (Yemen) - ????? ???? ???? ??? - 74549XX - 00:08:35
Emails
Date - From/To - Who - Email - Subject
17 May 2006 - To - ????? ??? ????? - xxxxxx@xxx.kw - **
25 Mar 2006 - To - ???? ???? ??? - xxxxx@xxxxxx.sy - **
24 Feb 2006 - To - ??? ???? ?????? - xxxxxxxxx@xxxxx.ye - **
Threat Analysis
Severe: Based on the destination and duration of phone calls and email messages sent and received, this individual is considered to be a severe risk of terrorist threat.
[há mais cinco George Bush's analisados em Washington, DC, mas só este apresenta o maior risco na análise de ameaça]
Ainda as teorias da conspiração (Enfim, é melhor esquecer a lógica. Dá para provar tudo e o seu contrário) vs. A Sombra (Como é possível que os corpos dos ocupantes dos vôos 93 e 77 tenham sido recolhidos e identificados enquanto que os aviões em que viajavam se volatilizaram?)
Appropriate Sept. 11 tribute by our President Section 8c ?The flag should never be fastened, displayed, used, or stored in such a manner as to permit it to be easily torn, soiled, or damaged in any way.? [...]
To paraphrase George Orwell: ?If you want a vision of the future, imagine a shoe stamping on a symbol of freedom - forever.?
TECNOSFERA
Eu falo em qualquer media porque tenho de falar, porque tenho de falar, porque tenho de falar... até à exaustão. Porque já ninguém me ouve, principalmente na "blogosfera", a única que se interessa por mim. Irrelevante, eu?
- O que é que lhe diz a palavra "blogosfera"?
[Carlos Pinto Coelho] Um mundo de modernidade, ainda incipiente e encantatório como todos os instrumentos de comunicação novos. Já começou a abrandar a quase histeria dos seus primórdios, quando parecia que a blogosfera chegara para esmagar irremediavelmente todos os restantes media de palavra escrita. Muitos dos seus prosélitos fundadores já o abandonaram, no cansaço de todos os paroxismos inúteis. Hoje a blogosfera é território exclusivo de adolescente (os ?queridos diários? de antigamente), feirantes de vaidades, autores frustrados que só ali conseguem publicar-se, almas solitárias à procura de um qualquer eco, e também ? certamente ? de espíritos generosos que fazem doação militante das suas ideias, entre os quais coloco o autor do ?Miniscente?.
Condenada pelo Terceiro Ciclo do Inferno «Blogosphere» refers to a cultural Internet phenomenon. The increased interactivity of the World Wide Web has brought about a method of publishing that is enabling some Internet idiots to post about the bowel movements of their cats, all the while distracting the rest of the observing world from excellent content that is being published elsewhere. The promulgation of the term ?blogosphere? is letting these unfortunate minds of our time think that we care.? (em buzzword hell).
Ass.: Um adolescente, feirante de vaidades, autor frustrado, alma solitária e também espírito generoso.
ECOPOL
Balanço:
Five Years of Consequence: an attempt, admittedly selective and incomplete, to survey the first five years of our post-9/11 world ? a world that is certainly new, though not always brave.
The Journal of 9/11 Studies is a peer-reviewed, open-access, electronic-only journal covering the whole of research related to 9/11/2001.
The Disbelievers: 9/11 Conspiracy Theorists Are Building Their Case Against the Government From Ground Zero
A recent Scripps Howard/Ohio University poll of 1,010 Americans found that 36 percent suspect the U.S. government promoted the attacks or intentionally sat on its hands. Sixteen percent believe explosives brought down the towers. Twelve percent believe a cruise missile hit the Pentagon.
Distrust percolates more strongly near Ground Zero. A Zogby International poll of New York City residents two years ago found 49.3 percent believed the government "consciously failed to act."
You could dismiss this as a louder than usual howl from the CIA-controls-my-thoughts-through-the-filling-in-my-molar crowd. Establishment assessments of the believers tend toward the psychotherapeutic. Many academics, politicians and thinkers left, right and center say the conspiracy theories are a case of one plus one equals five. It's a piling up of improbabilities. [...]
Chip Berlet, senior analyst at Political Research Associates, a Boston-based left-leaning think tank, is no fan of the 9/11 Commission. He believes a serious investigation should have led to indictments and the firing of incompetent generals and civilian officials.
But he has no patience with the conspiracy theorists.
"They don't do their homework; it's a kind of charlatanism," Berlet says over the phone. "They say there's no debris on the lawn in front of the Pentagon, but they base their analysis on a photo on the Internet . That's like analyzing an impressionist painting by looking at a postcard."
Bin Laden Trail 'Stone Cold': The clandestine U.S. commandos whose job is to capture or kill Osama bin Laden have not received a credible lead in more than two years. Nothing from the vast U.S. intelligence world -- no tips from informants, no snippets from electronic intercepts, no points on any satellite image -- has led them anywhere near the al-Qaeda leader, according to U.S. and Pakistani officials.
The Victory of September 11, 1565: La Valette's final address to his men has come down to us:
A formidable army composed of audacious barbarians is descending on this island. These persons, my brothers, are the enemies of Jesus Christ. Today it is a question of the defense of our faith -- as to whether the Gospels are to be superseded by the Koran. God on this occasion demands of us our lives, already vowed to his service. Happy will be those who first consummate this sacrifice.
The date of this victory has for us a certain resonance: it was September 11, 1565.
From that day we may date the decline of Turkish power on the Mediterranean. [...]
On this day, when we remember the act of treachery and malevolence that finally made manifest to us this war, it is foolish to abstract it from its historical context. It is foolish to remember New York, September 11, 2001, and never once think about Vienna, September 11, 1683, or Malta, September 11, 1565; or even Constantinople, May 29, 1453 or Tours, October 7, 732. We might as well talk obsessively about Normandy and say nothing of Pearl Harbor or the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. We might as well fix our attention on Gettysburg and cultivate perfect innocence of Ft. Sumter or First Manassas. No, we must show more imagination than that. We must bring ourselves around to see that there are older and more implacable things on this earth than what our predilections tell us, and that the Jihad is one of the oldest and most implacable.
More Muslims Arrive in U.S., After 9/11 Dip: The events of Sept. 11 transformed life for Muslims in the United States, and the flow of immigrants from countries like Egypt, Pakistan and Morocco thinned sharply.
But five years later, as the United States wrestles with questions of terrorism, civil liberties and immigration control, Muslims appear to be moving here again in surprising numbers, according to statistics collected by the Department of Homeland Security and the Census Bureau.
Immigrants from predominantly Muslim countries in the Middle East, North Africa and Asia are planting new roots in states from Virginia to Texas to California.
In 2005, more people from Muslim countries became legal permanent United States residents ? nearly 96,000 ? than in any year in the previous two decades.
More than 40,000 of them were admitted last year, the highest annual number since the terrorist attacks, according to data on 22 countries provided by the Department of Homeland Security.
The shame and the glory: From cave painters to the avant garde, artists have felt compelled to depict battle. But where are the images of 21st-century conflict?
Has Art Helped You Make Sense of 9/11? What work of art or literature has helped you make sense of the attacks and the world after them?
The Whole Ball of Wax: Can Art Change the World? A Holistic Theory
Five Years Later: Pop Culture of Denial: Our fascination with glitz is unabated, and artists remain cautious. We haven't come to grips with 9/11.
Drawing light from concrete and smoke: Our appetite for works about Sept. 11 depends upon how much pain we have to feel
[A]udiences still aren't ready to embrace films that explicitly depict the tragedy. [...]
For the past five years, we have lived in a state of tension and hyper-alertness. The messages we've received from our political leaders have been "be vigilant." Those messages have not been, "Relax. Everything will be OK."
What words of reassurance we have had have come from... artists and entertainers.
They Captured 9/11 on Film: What is the proper response to this glut of photographic information?
The books and network specials rolled out on each anniversary serve to buttress the claim that the attacks on the U.S. are the most documented event in history.
Post-9/11 antiterror technology: a list of 10 technologies, five that should be adopted more speedily to help in homeland security efforts--and five that raise at least some privacy and security concerns.
In need of support
1. Going wireless
2. Better search technology
3. Inspecting cargo containers
4. Smarter translation software
5. Faster chemical detection
Raising privacy concerns
1. Omnipresent cameras
2. Registered traveler
3. Backscatter X-ray
4. "Brain fingerprinting"
5. DNA dragnets
Fraying of Academic Freedom: The start of the academic year ? in part because it coincides with the fifth anniversary of 9/11 ? is being marked by numerous debates over academic freedom.
Illness Persisting in 9/11 Workers: The largest health study yet of the thousands of workers who labored at ground zero shows that the impact of the rescue and recovery effort on their health has been more widespread and persistent than previously thought, and is likely to linger far into the future. [...]
Roughly 70 percent of nearly 10,000 workers tested at Mount Sinai from 2002 to 2004 reported that they had new or substantially worsened respiratory problems while or after working at ground zero.
Em Setembro de 2001 (dia 11): As minhas memórias. As primeiras.
2001-2006 World Trade Center Gold and Silver Clad Commemorative
08 Setembro 2006
VITAMEDIAS
'Economist' Makes Amends for Harming Environment: Magazines from Vanity Fair to Flaunt to Wired have all published special "green" issues designed to raise awareness and bring attention to rising concern over global warming and climate control. But none went as far as The Economist to directly address the impact their own publications have on the environment.
Emma Duncan, deputy editor for the London-based newsweekly, wanted to do something unique for the magazine's 16-page green section, on newsstands tomorrow. So she arranged for the spread to be carbon-neutralized through the Carbon Neutral Co. in London. [...]
The eco-friendly process -- which entailed calculating all the carbon dioxide burned from all the traveling, production, printing and distribution of the issue so Carbon Neutral could trap the equivalent amount of carbon dioxide (118 tons) in a U.S. mine as a way of neutralizing the emissions created by producing the magazine -- cost about $1,200.
In addition to production, advertising also provided the section with some creative opportunities.
TECNOSFERA
A List of 1000 Domains Owned by Google: It insane how many random domain names google has just pointing to google.com?It makes you wonder what % of their traffic is from mistake visitors?
VITAMEDIAS
A Wired propôs aos seus leitores a escrita de um texto-wiki. O resultado teve uma análise: When the experiment closed, Wednesday afternoon, there were 348 edits of the main story, 21 suggested headlines and 39 edits of the discussion pages. Thirty hyperlinks were added to the 20 in the original story, and a sidebar of sorts, called the enumeration page, holds the overflow of information and links that could not fit into the main story.
Certainly the final story is more accurate and more representative of how wikis are used.
Is it a better story than the one that would have emerged after a Wired News editor worked with it?
I think not.
The edits over the week lack some of the narrative flow that a Wired News piece usually contains. The transitions seem a bit choppy, there are too many mentions of companies, and too much dry explication of how wikis work.
It feels more like a primer than a story to me.
That doesn't make the experiment a failure
TECNOSFERA
É uma triste história a dos registos .pt. Não que a FCCN não tivesse razão ao tentar evitar ao longo dos anos o "cybersquatting" e por isso foi tão criticada - num assunto que só lhe traria dinheiro por liberalizar os registos.
As regras (novas ou velhas) foram sempre criticadas.
Enfim, com o aproveitamento dos registos .pt à maluca, sem que se perceba bem porquê (o exemplo .eu não é exemplo?), quem os faz nem sequer se sabe proteger. Domínios como video.pt, noticias.pt ou terra.pt foram efectuados sem se saber como (Terra é marca? Alô terra!...) a 4 de Setembro por um profissional de fisioterapia de Lamas.
O resultado? A sua página hackada esta noite:
Não foi o único, é certo. Mas pôs-se a jeito? Porquê?
07 Setembro 2006
VITAMEDIAS
Grandes Opções do Plano 2007: MELHOR COMUNICAÇÃO SOCIAL [...]
Principais medidas em curso (2006)
- Aprovação e apresentação ao Parlamento de uma Proposta de Lei que revê o Estatuto do Jornalista;
- aprovação e apresentação ao Parlamento de uma Proposta de Lei que estabelece limites à concentração da titularidade dos meios de comunicação;
- aprovação e apresentação ao Parlamento de uma Proposta de revisão da Lei da Televisão;
- na sequência da aprovação de uma nova Lei da Televisão, será revista a Lei que regula o Sector Empresarial do Estado na área do audiovisual;
- aprovação e apresentação ao Parlamento de uma Proposta de revisão da Lei da Rádio;
- extinção do Instituto da Comunicação Social e criação do Gabinete para os Meios de Comunicação Social, de acordo com o PRACE;
- abertura de concurso para a Televisão Digital Terrestre (em colaboração com o Ministério das Obras Públicas, Transportes e Comunicações);
- revisão do contrato de prestação de serviço público entre a Lusa e o Estado, para o período de 2007-2010.
Principais actuações previstas para 2007
Tendo em vista a realização das opções definidas nas GOP 2005-2009, serão tomadas medidas de concretização dos seguintes objectivos:
Comunicação Social Livre e Plural
- Revisão do Decreto-Lei que regula o acesso à carteira profissional de jornalista e elaboração da nova legislação para os estágios de jornalismo, na sequência da aprovação do novo Estatuto do Jornalista;
- prossecução da aplicação do regime de depósito legal aos materiais audiovisuais.
Serviço Público de Qualidade
- Revisão do contrato de concessão do serviço público de rádio e televisão, na sequência da nova lei do Sector Empresarial do Estado no sector audiovisual Comunicação Social, tornando mais precisas as obrigações da concessionária e os critérios de avaliação do seu cumprimento;
- integração da RTP e da RDP numa só empresa, a RTP SA, mantendo naturalmente a autonomia de cada meio, assim como as duas marcas históricas: RTP e RDP;
- acompanhamento, em representação do accionista Estado, do desempenho organizacional e financeiro da RTP e da LUSA, apoiando as respectivas administrações nos planos de desenvolvimento das actividades de prestação de serviço público, designadamente no quadro da participação da RTP na nova plataforma da Televisão Digital Terrestre e no quadro do aproveitamento pela LUSA das oportunidades da sociedade da informação;
- inauguração de um novo edifício no conjunto de instalações da RTP, que acolherá, entre outros equipamentos, o Museu da Rádio e da Televisão.
Comunicação Social Regional e Local
- Revisão da legislação que regula estes sistemas, na sequência das consultas públicas sobre revisão dos sistemas de incentivos e porte pago, que ocorrerão ao longo de 2006;
- apoio à criação, no quadro do Plano Tecnológico, de um Portal para a edição electrónica de meios de comunicação social regional e local, designadamente aqueles que se dirigem às comunidades portuguesas residentes no estrangeiro.
CONTAMINANTES
Eu cá não sou de arranjar confusões mas olhando para este Balanço dos fogos, porque será que é nos governos PSD (2002-2005) que o país é mais incendiado?
CULTURAS IN VITRO
Live Opera To Come To Movie Theaters: The Metropolitan Opera will begin transmitting live performances to movie theaters throughout the United States, Canada and Europe next year as part of an extraordinary and unprecedented arrangement among the company, its unions and several media partners.
"Opera now enters the digital era," Peter Gelb, the Met's new general manager, said yesterday. [...]
The Met will be working with three different companies to bring the productions into theaters -- National CineMedia in the United States, Cineplex Entertainment in Canada and Odeon/UCI in Europe.
[Que cinemas tem a UCI em Portugal?]
VITAMEDIAS
In Brazil, Roberto Civita Applauds New and Old Media, a Free Press and the Coming Tide of Investors [negritos meus]
Knowledge@Wharton: The print media, especially in the U.S., seems to be on the decline. More and more people are getting their information from the Internet. Some categories of advertising also, such as classified advertising, seem to be migrating to the Internet. Could you explain the situation with regard to Brazil? Do you find the same decline of print in Brazil? And what is happening with new media there?
Civita: First of all, broadcast television and radio in Brazil -- the so-called 'old media' -- are still booming. The press is not growing, but it is not declining. Now if you say print media, you have to be very careful. There are many types of print media. I would say roughly, for your audience, that the more segmented the media -- for instance, in our case, the more segmented the magazine, the more specialized it is, the more it does something very specific that only specialized magazines can do -- the less it has been affected up to now by the Internet.
The broad-spectrum media tends to be more affected than the more tightly focused. I'm talking, for example, about fashion magazines, car magazines, science magazines and travel magazines. These have not yet been affected at all. They are growing and prospering. The general print medium, for instance newspapers, will be hurt more in terms of their classified advertising than they have been in circulation. I would say that there is a long horizon left for print still. I wouldn't say that it is going to be a growth sector overall, for sure. But I would say that there are still opportunities for specific print media. And there is certainly going to be very profitable print media for many, many years.
I'm not talking about growth. There is an obsession in the U.S. with growth. [Everyone] is focused on growth. If you look at ROI, if you look at profitability and if you look at the relatively small demands for capital, print is a very exciting area. But if rapid growth is what you're looking for, I would say invest in other places.
TECNOSFERA
A Contract Only Microsoft Can Break: What kind of contract includes a provision that one of the parties has the right to violate the contract with impunity? Well, the Windows XP EULA for one, as an interesting analysis of Microsoft's legalese points out.
VITAMEDIAS
Para Pacheco Pereira:
Red-Hot and Filthy Library Smut (What I?m talking about here is the full-frontal objectification of the library itself. Oh yeah.)
Pelo comentário da leitora Teresa Santos neste Um dia de comício, por demonstrar como tantas vezes nos blogues (e na imprensa em geral) se escreve ou fala para o umbigo e não para os leitores. Sem contexto e actualização sobre o que foi escrito antes não há bom texto, bom blogue ou bom programa.
Por ter explicitado na Quadratura do Círculo de ontem que a "propaganda" do Governo não era apenas sobre o MIT mas também sobre outras entidades, como aqui se reclamou.
Já agora, pode actualizar o que tem ocorrido com o "pirata" do Abrupto? Para clarificar aqueles "imbecis que dizem que não aconteceu nada." "O(s) responsável(eis) ainda não teve (tiveram) que se passear pela prancha ou ver a vista de uma corda alta"? Já passou um mês e nada?!
.DE!
À atenção da Renova: Brides Dressed in Toilet Paper
[isto é o tipo de publicidade que se pode ver em n blogues - só que aqui a Renova não me pagou nada, por enquanto... Precisava de escrever e linkar três vezes Renova, não era? Fico à espera do cheque :))]
CULTURAS IN VITRO
Dylan tops worldwide charts with new album: Musician becomes oldest living person to launch a new disc at No. 1 [...]
The 65-year-old rock poet?s latest album, ?Modern Times,? sold 192,000 copies in the week ended Sept. 3, his best sales week since tracking firm Nielsen SoundScan started using its point-of-sales data to collate the charts in 1991.
06 Setembro 2006
VITAMEDIAS
Alguém por cá está a ouvir?
"Winning Online" -- A Manifesto: Newspapers must win online, or face a future of painful contraction.
1. Breakthrough online innovation won?t come from newspapers
2. "Local" is indefensible online
3. The big money is in vertical partnerships
4. Newspapers gain by moving onto common platforms
5. Newspapers bring critical assets to the table
6. The window of opportunity is closing
7. It?s all about leadership
TECNOSFERA
Exemplo de uma empresa que devia largar a informática e dedicar-se às telecomunicações?
Phone-Records Scandal at HP: To catch a leaker, Hewlett-Packard's chairwoman spied on the home-phone records of its board of directors. [...]
Last January, the online technology site CNET published an article about the long-term strategy at HP, the company ranked No. 11 in the Fortune 500. While the piece was upbeat, it quoted an anonymous HP source and contained information that only could have come from a director. HP?s chairwoman, Patricia Dunn, told another director she wanted to know who it was; she was fed up with ongoing leaks to the media going back to CEO Carly Fiorina?s tumultuous tenure that ended in early 2005. According to an internal HP e-mail, Dunn then took the extraordinary step of authorizing a team of independent electronic-security experts to spy on the January 2006 communications of the other 10 directors?not the records of calls (or e-mails) from HP itself, but the records of phone calls made from personal accounts. That meant calls from the directors? home and their private cell phones.
VIDEO-GRAFIA
The trouble with YouTube: Even as advertisers evaluate these new ideas, however, YouTube and the other video-sharing sites face other difficulties. For one thing, they are in a no-man's land of copyright law: they promise to pull pirated content from their sites when asked to do so, but it is only a matter of time before one of them is hit with a big lawsuit. Then there are the costs of running such a site?video requires a lot of bandwidth and storage. A rival estimates that YouTube is losing more than $500,000 a month.
YouTube IPO Soon? Over the weekend the Wall Street Journal reported that YouTube hired Yahoo's Treasurer, Gideon Yu, to take the role as the CFO. No doubt this is a critical role for a high-flier IPO.
Media firm moves advertising cash to video-sharing sites: The issue, however, is finding a viable financial model for the sort of viral marketing programmes that can take off on YouTube as users email videos to their friends. "It is easy to spend $20,000 doing a little video to put on YouTube," said Mr Lerwill, "But if it then becomes the most viralled video on the internet, how do we keep a percentage of the value we have created for the advertiser?"
The migration of advertising spending online is a challenge for television and radio firms who need to become smarter to attract cash. One way is to shorten the time it takes to put adverts on air, allowing advertisers to react to specific events such as a wet Bank Holiday weekend.
PHOTO-GRAFIA
Ainda mas não só a propósito disto: A MATTER OF MISUNDERSTANDING: Last month, one of the most celebrated photojournalists died in San Francisco at the age of 94. Joe Rosenthal took probably the single most famous image of the 20th century, the raising of the American flag on Mt. Suribachi in the closing months of World War II. The Pulitzer Prize-winning picture was published on front pages around the world, made into a postage stamp, and eventually, inspired the massive U.S. Marines Memorial near Washington, D.C. Yet for years, so-called "historic and photographic experts" have carried the accusation over the Web that this picture too was "posed." In fact, it is probably one of the greatest misunderstandings in history. [...]
Today, with the Web, bloggers who do not know the facts can easily jump to incorrect conclusions. The problem is that these mistakes can lead to a a worldwide smear campaign against photographers who are risking their lives to report honestly on events taking place in highly-charged political arenas. [...]
For more on photo manipulation in the press go to: http://www.frankwbaker.com/isb.htm
[Obrigado, Mário]
TECNOSFERA
A Microsoft patenteou um "método e sistema para seleccionar e conjugar um verbo". Como? É simples: "A verb conjugating system allows a user to input a form of a verb and display the verb forms. The verb conjugating system allows the user to input the infinitive form or non-infinitive forms of a verb. When a user inputs a non-infinitive form of a verb, the verb conjugating system identifies a corresponding base form of the verb. The verb conjugating system then uses the base form to retrieve and display the verb forms for the verb. The verb conjugating system may highlight the non-infinitive form of the verb within the displayed verb forms to assist the user in locating the verb form of interest."
E a "prior art"? Considering What Constitutes Prior Art in the United States [em 1991], "First, a person is not entitled to a patent if the invention was "known or used by others in this country, or was patented or described in a printed publication in this or a foreign country" before the date of invention by the applicant for the patent. If, for example, an invention is known or is being used by someone in the United States, another person who makes the same invention at a later date may not obtain a patent. Prior knowledge or use in a different country, however, is not a bar to a patent application in the United States. In contrast, a prior patent or a printed publication anywhere in the world will bar an applicant for patent in the United States if it appeared before the date of the applicant's invention."
[act.: Exemplo anterior em português: Imperativo Afirmativo de blogar:
bloga tu
blogue ele
bloguemos nós
blogai vós
bloguem eles]
VITAMEDIAS
Mais não; menos, por favor!
Clearing the Clutter: Shutting Down Weak Magazines: It would be great if more magazines went out of business in the coming months. And more websites were shut down, TV shows yanked off the air, newspapers folded and radio programs unplugged. The media landscape needs to be cleared of some of its clutter.
VIDEO-GRAFIA
Noah takes a photo of himself everyday for 6 years, de 11 de Janeiro de 2000 a 31 de Julho de 2006, e depois de as colocar em vídeo resultou num efeito surpreendente...
VITAMEDIAS
Repetição: Porque é que isto não dá processo judicial?
UM REGIME PERIGOSO: Não há-de ser por acaso que o Governo e seus apêndices estrategicamente colocados dedicaram particular atenção à nomeação de um director para a agência Lusa, que já se tornou conhecido entre os jornalistas por querer ler de fio a pavio, com especial atenção, todo o noticiário político antes de ele ser enviado para a linha.
05 Setembro 2006
VITAMEDIAS
RTP: 50 anos de quê: O essencial resume-se numa pergunta: está ou não está a RTP disponível para se repensar como alternativa aos canais privados? É uma grande questão cultural, um salutar desafio económico e um incontornável drama político. [negrito meu]
VIDEO-GRAFIA
Online viewers shun lengthy videos: Only one in five online video viewers has watched or downloaded a full-length movie or television show, according to a new AP-AOL Video poll.
Overall, more than half of Internet users have watched or downloaded video. News clips were the most popular, seen by 72 percent of online video viewers, followed by short movie and TV clips, music videos, sports highlights and user-generated amateur videos.
The poll's findings come as major Hollywood studios and television networks are increasingly making their old and current programs available online
VIDEO-GRAFIA
A culpa foi dos Pink Floyd? Film May Unlock Mystery Of Missing Apollo Videos: Could a never-completed Pink Floyd video hold the answer to the missing moon tape mystery currently plaguing NASA?
VIDEO-GRAFIA
At 30, these Bihar men look 80: Old age is catching up with young men in Bihar's Aurangabad district, and it's not anxiety or stress that?s causing it.
The problem is so severe that 30-year-old men have greyed and become frail, lookin like 80-year-olds. Medical experts have been unable to find the cause of the bizarre phenomenon but many believe it?s due to polluted water.
VIDEO-GRAFIA
Sewer Diver in Mexico City, World's Worst Job? As workers across the United States take a day of rest this Labor Day, Barrios will likely be swimming the Mexican capital's sewers. He'd be submerged in a toxic brew of garbage, bacteria, excrement, dead animals?even the occasional murder victim.
His job: to clear blockages and ensure these contaminated waters don't gush into city streets, subway tunnels, or people's homes.
VITAMEDIAS
The Long Tail: To be honest, I don?t look to the publishing industry for guidance. I look at what the readers are doing. Once upon a time I used to compete with magazines and newspapers. Now I compete with magazines and newspapers and 20 million blogs. Readers have choices out there?some of them professional, some of them amateur. The name of the game is attention and I?m fighting for attention share with a vast, increasing number of competitors.
VIDEO-GRAFIA
How to be a Net video hit: So you want to be a video star? [...]
The explosion of online video has made it increasingly easier -- not to mention cheaper -- to make a video and post it online for the world to see. [...]
Quick tips for getting yourself on the not so silver screen.
1. Record your movie.
2. Transfer your movie.
3. Edit your movie.
4. Compress your movie.
5. Upload your movie.
6. Share your movie.
VITAMEDIAS
Há pessoas generosas que se dedicam a afirmar que os media são de esquerda, outras questionam: importam-se de apresentar provas sobre o esquerdismo dos media?
A origem actual da coisa está no French Kissin a partir de um texto de JPP.
Eu gostava que alguém provasse por A+B que isso sucede, mas não acredito ser possível. A intuição vem dos EUA, há anos, com exemplos destes [negritos meus]:
DEMOCRATS' SPURNED MEDIA LOVE.: At this point, even Democrats acknowledge that the opposition is more adept at media management. "Democrats are less disciplined," says former Kerry campaign manager Jim Jordan (echoing others). "We're chattier, less discreet, more prone to sending advice and tough love to the campaigns through the press." Every operative and journalist has at least one theory about why this is: Democrats are inherently less hierarchical. Republicans have more respect for authority. Democrats never punish anyone for blabbing. Republicans have a more corporate mindset. When a presidential candidate lacks a trusted team, as did the past couple of Dems, the campaign is run by hired guns whose first concern is advancing their own careers--which, folks from both parties note, typically requires ingratiating yourself with the political media.
But another, less frequently discussed factor is that Democrats simply like the media more than Republicans do--or, at least, more than the Republicans currently running the show. They respect the profession more, feel more of a kinship with reporters, and generally care more about being liked by the media than do members of Bush World. This relationship is as much about a perceived cultural affinity as any politically based "liberal media bias," and, contrary to what conservatives would have people believe, it hardly guarantees more sympathetic coverage of Democratic campaigns. In fact, as often as not, it winds up muddling Dems' working relationship with the media, leaving both groups unhappy with one another. And, as anyone in politics can tell you, a surly reporter is a dangerous one.
THE TRIANGLE: Matthews, Moore, Murtha and the Media: These narratives [Bush is likable, Bush is a regular guy, Bush is firm, Bush is a religious man, Bush relishes a fight, Democrats are muddled, Democrats have no message, national security is Bush?s strength, terror attacks and terror threats help Bush (even though he presided over the worst attack ever on American soil), Democrats are weak on security, Democrats need to learn how to talk about values, Republicans favor a ?strict interpretation? of the Constitution, and on and on.] are woven so deeply into the fabric of news coverage that they have become second nature and have permeated the public psyche and are regurgitated in polls. (The polls are then used to strengthen the narratives.) They are delivered as affirmative statements, interrogatives, hypotheticals; they are discussed as fact and accepted as conventional wisdom; they are twisted, turned, shaped, reshaped, and fed to the American public in millions of little soundbites, captions, articles, editorials, news stories, and opinion pieces. They are inserted into the national dialogue as contagious memes that imprint the idea of Bush=strong/Dems=weak. And they are false.
What?s so dumbfounding to progressive netroots activists, who clearly see the role of the traditional media in perpetuating these storylines - and are taking concrete action (here, here, and here) to remedy the problem - is that Democratic politicians, strategists, and surrogates have internalized these narratives and play into them, publicly wringing their hands over how to fix their "muddled" message, how to deal with Bush?s "strength" on national security, how to talk about "values." It?s become a self-fulfilling cycle, with Democrats reinforcing anti-Dem myths because they can?t imagine any other explanation for the apparent lack of resonance of their message. Out of desperation, they resort to hackneyed, focus-grouped slogans in a vain attempt to break through the filter. [...]
The media can create a crisis -- and can squelch one. The media can deliver narratives, they can frame events, they can shape the way Americans see the political landscape. A disproportionate amount of power is wielded by a handful of opinion-shapers, and when these individuals tell America a story that favors the right and marginalizes the left, the remedies are few.
Progressive bloggers and the millions of online activists whose conversations they shepherd are fighting to close the triangle. Sadly, Democrats will resist, out of fear. And the press will fight back, hard. Not to mention the anticipated wrath of the rightwing machine, built on the "liberal media" myth. Still, the latent power of the netroots is ignored at the political and media establishment's peril.
No Outlet Stands Out as Most Reliable: Republicans express less confidence than Democrats in the credibility of nearly every major news outlet, with the exception of Fox News Channel. [...]
Party differences also are substantial for daily newspapers as well as for the Associated Press a major provider of newspaper content. Just 10% of Republicans who could rate the AP said they believe all or most of what the wire service reports, compared with 25% of Democrats. Similarly, 12% of Republicans give their daily newspaper the highest rating for credibility, compared with 26% of Democrats. [...]
Despite the substantial partisan differences in credibility ratings, the gap has narrowed since 2004 for many major outlets. This has occurred largely because Democrats see many news sources as less credible now than they did two years ago, including CNN, the major television networks, and the New York Times. At the same time, the credibility of nearly all of the sources remained statistically unchanged for Republicans.
Taking on the '527 Media': The first ground truth is that the liberal media, not the Democrats, are the party standing in opposition to the Republicans. The Democrats ran out of ideas the night Bobby Kennedy died, and since then the media have become the primary source of Democrat ideas and policy.
The second truth is that the media are more than just the Dems' think tank. In fact, some of the biggest media outlets are the source of thinly veiled attack ads aimed at your candidates just like the so-called "527 Groups," those huge soft-money peddlers supposedly independent of the candidates they support. Think of what George Soros could do if he had a global news network that could produce multi-million dollar attack ads every day, and then you'll know what some mainstream media outlets have become. [...]
Americans knew they'd heard something important last year when Washington Post editor Marie Arana said, "The elephant in the newsroom is our narrowness ... If you work here, you must be one of us. You must be liberal, progressive, a Democrat. I've been in communal gatherings at the Post, watching election returns, and have been flabbergasted to see my colleagues cheer unabashedly for the Democratic candidates." Tell America that it's a media culture, not a conspiracy.
Claro que se pode avançar para este tipo de coisas:
Democrats.com Media Watch Project: Media_Watch has 3 goals:
(1) document specific examples of anti-Democratic media bias
(2) take direct, immediate action to challenge anti-Democratic bias
(3) keep up the pressure to END anti-Democratic bias
The Patriot Project: Freedom of speech and the right to dissent are cornerstones of our democracy.
The Patriot Project will defend any man or woman, regardless of party or affiliation, who is attacked or defamed and whose patriotism is questioned simply because they exercise their rights as Americans.
This is our mission.
Ah, e claro que vão surgir também projectos deste tipo: "Our job is to reclaim America for Christ, whatever the cost. As the vice regents of God, we are to exercise godly dominion and influence over our neighborhoods, our schools, our government, our literature and arts, our sports arenas, our entertainment media, our news media, our scientific endeavors -- in short, over every aspect and institution of human society." (via The Rise of the Religious Right in the Republican Party)
O escrutínio dos media e dos jornalistas é tão giro, não é? Não páro de me admirar porque são sempre os jornalistas ou quem é pago pelos media que suscitam estas questões. Onde pára a chamada opinião pública? Duas notas de um mesmo autor:
1) "o estudo da comunicação social numa perspectiva histórica permite compreender alguns conceitos com que lidamos hoje e encaramos como naturais";
2) "É fácil fazer uma observação sobre as limitações que a nossa sociedade democrática sofre devido às limitações que os media têm. A crítica é fácil. Pode até pôr-se em causa a existência de uma opinião pública verdadeira, na medida em que esta exige uma opinião pública crítica, livre num espaço amplo de debate de ideias. Parece-me óbvio haver condicionamentos a que os media estão sujeitos, por via dos vários poderes da sociedade - dos económicos, mas sobretudo dos políticos. A questão é até onde poderá ir a corrosão sem afectar profundamente a estabilidade do regime democrático, mas a resposta é política. Uma via de solução passa pela intervenção dos cidadãos. A cidadania tem aqui um papel fundamental. A organização e consciência dos cidadãos do perigo real que isto tem para a democracia está a ser assumida."
ECOPOL
Sondagem Gallup International em 33 países [incluindo Portugal] sobre Israel e Líbano:
3. Which side do you sympathize with more?
Aí está uma pergunta sem paninhos quentes. Mas portugueses, suíços, suecos, alemães, finlandeses e luxemburgueses repõem os paninhos: nem com uns nem com outros. Nos países asiáticos - incluindo, note-se, Coreia do Sul e Vietname - a resposta mais mencionada é "Hezbollah". O mesmo em África. Excepções: Índia e África do Sul, of course. [...]
O relatório é de dia 28. Será que algum jornal português já apresentou estes resultados? E especialmente os resultados em Portugal? Não reparei.
VITAMEDIAS
Porque é que isto não dá processo judicial? [negrito meu]
UM REGIME PERIGOSO (sobre o fim de «O INDEPENDENTE»): Num universo de degradação da experiência e qualidade das redacções, a agência noticiosa volta a ganhar relevância ? que não teve durante uma série de anos. Hoje a taxa de publicação ipsis-verbis dos despachos da agência é maior que nos anos 90 e isso é sinal do desinvestimento nas redacções e da degradação da qualidade do produto final. Não há-de ser por acaso que o Governo e seus apêndices estrategicamente colocados dedicaram particular atenção à nomeação de um director para a agência Lusa, que já se tornou conhecido entre os jornalistas por querer ler de fio a pavio, com especial atenção, todo o noticiário político antes de ele ser enviado para a linha.
VIDEO-GRAFIA
[uma nova secção dedicada ao vídeo, não só mas especialmente na Internet]
How Video Killed the Video Star: But while viewers used to complain about the dearth of music videos on MTV, that complaint itself now seems old-fashioned. Anyone who cares about music videos can find them elsewhere, sometimes courtesy of MTV itself. (The network unveiled a video-heavy site, mtv.com/overdrive, last year.) [...]
The ceremony will celebrate an old ? though not quite obsolete ? idea of what music videos can be. Once upon a time MTV outgrew the music video. But now it seems that the music video has outgrown MTV.
VITAMEDIAS
Morte lenta: As experiências que se fizeram, incluindo títulos novos e remodelações de títulos antigos, com a inutilidade de praticamente todas elas e a aparente impossibilidade de estancar a perda de leitores, já devia, talvez, chegar para concluir:
1) que a procura global da imprensa generalista não só deixou de poder crescer como tenderá fatalmente a reduzir-se;
2) que o consumidor deste tipo de imprensa deixou de ser o leitor indiscriminado, para passar a ser alguém com relativa exigência, que precisa de mais informação do que aquela que outros meios lhe oferecem;
3) que o universo de leitores nestas condições é tão reduzido que não dá para qualquer veleidade de um jornal com agenda política a médio ou longo prazo.
Blogs e jornais: nos últimos anos, os jornais portugueses se entretiveram a disputar leitores e mercado publicando verdadeiras abjecções supostamente informativas. Deste modo, e muito na senda de um estilo inaugurado pelo O Independente - que, curiosamente, acabaria por ser a sua primeira vítima fatal, os jornais portugueses dedicaram-se a competir entre si para ver quem publicava mais lixo, tendo conseguido saturar os leitores e o país. É que, como dizia o outro, o povo é sereno, mas não é estúpido.
Por outro lado, não há dúvida que o que se vai escrevendo, por ora, na net e, essencialmente, nos blogs, é mais genuíno e descomprometido.
The real reason why no one reads your blog.: Consider the following facts [tem links no texto original]:
There are approximately 6.5 billion people in the world.
Only 16%of the world?s population (1 billion people) have internet access.
16% of the world?s population is illiterate, which leaves only 840 million readers.
Of that, only 20% of the world?s population speaks English, leaving 168 million readers.
Only 30% of internet users read blogs, leaving 50 million readers.
50 million people, sounds like a lot right? Wrong!
Technorati is currently tracking around 50 million blogs.
That?s pretty simple math, 50 million blogs for 50 million readers.
Therefore, with an average of only 1 reader per blog, then who?s reading your blog?
That?s right, just you. Depressing, ain?t it?
04 Setembro 2006
VITAMEDIAS
Epitáfio: sobre a morte de O Independente está quase tudo dito, seja pela sua influência no lado cultural como na aposta política.
Da vivência na lógica interventiva do semanário, lembro-me de um actual director de uma revista escarrapachado numa cadeira a questionar um ministro sem ter qualquer ideia do assunto para o qual tinha sido chamado. Pormenores.
Mas também esperei por algumas coisas a realçar que as não vi ditas. Por exemplo, o trabalho único de O Independente sobre os eventos marcantes de Tiananmen, muito longe de qualquer outro jornal. Jornalismo de causas de esquerda? Talvez mas porquê num jornal dito de interesse na gestão da direita? Pela redacção de esquerda? Tss...
Outra que vi relativizada: a importância na desmistificação da economia por Leonardo Ferraz de Carvalho. Foi importante por produzir textos sobre economia que eram explícitos para todos e interessantes de ler, tal como faz o dono do texto acima linkado.
Pacheco Pereira questiona "Agora que um jornal morreu, continuo perplexo com a vida de outros. Como é que o Semanário sobrevive? Não lhe desejo nada de mal, mas é para mim um mistério a sua continuidade sem jornalistas, sem leitores e sem anunciantes."
No Semanário, uma resposta sobre o falecido concorrente: "É verdade que, como jornal político que não alimentava nenhum projecto de conquista de poder, "O Independente" não interessava aos ricos. Aliás, os ricos não fazem política: no dia em que a fizessem, deixavam de ser ricos. Os ricos estão sempre do lado do poder, do lado do governo que está, seja ele quem for. Porque, senão, perdem as suas fortunas, as suas empresas, os seus negócios. Os ricos são pragmáticos.
Dito isto, resulta que a política é para os pobres: querem saber quem vai ganhar as próximas eleições? Perguntem aos pobres. Os ricos serão sempre ignorantes e nem querem saber... Só que sem projecto de poder (mesmo que seja pessoal como o de Marcelo) não há dinheiro. É neste contexto que a imprensa se transforma no espaço nobre da própria Democracia."
O texto continua numa lógica de disparar à toa e sem factos baseada numa opinião que só o ajuda a ir em direcção ao abismo Independente: "o "Sol" resume-se à ambição de um homem que quer ser Presidente da República. À ambição de Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, que se lança numa aventura editorial - contra Francisco Pinto Balsemão (a mostrar também algum desnorte, ao avançar já com a remodelação gráfica do Expresso) - acreditando que um dia será presidente da República, acreditando no seu projecto de poder pessoal, passando a frente de Durão Barroso ou de outros putativos candidatos do centro-direita.
Conhecem-se algumas recusas de colonistas para escreverem no novo jornal de António José Saraiva. Se o novo jornal de sábado ficar reduzido a Saraiva e a Marcelo, saberemos, finalmente, que o marcelismo ficou reduzido a duas pessoas, o que é pouco para alguém que quer ser Presidente da República.
Marcelo anda há muito tempo nisto e, dificilmente, pode repetir na televisão o que escrever no jornal. Não terá novidade e portanto editorialmente pode estar gasto."
TECNOSFERA
A ler por quem usa fotos e textos sem autorização no seu blogue:
The rights, wrongs and Rights of digital images: And the result is that there is a whole pool of pictures and stories and other intellectual property which has been purchased by copyright owners. [...]
And there really is a firm of lawyers in America that doesn't do anything except watch movies and TV and wait till someone starts singing "Happy Birthday!" and as soon as they play more than five bars, they send the bill requesting payment. Being lawyers, they win the arguments that result.
You were thinking of using a picture on your blog? Think hard... [negrito meu]
VITAMEDIAS
O One web show é do Expresso e afirma-se como "O blogue onde o futuro da informação já chegou".
No seu último texto, "A saída do casulo", revela que "Oitenta dos cem jornais que constituem o top do melhor da imprensa dos EUA têm blogues de jornalistas. Em 63 desses casos, os leitores podem comentar os textos dos autores.
Os números são fáceis de confirmar, basta contar os sites e os respectivos blogues. Foi o que fizeram os responsáveis pelo blogue «The Bivings Report» (em www.bivingsreport.com), um observatório de imprensa composto por vários especialistas."
Este "observatório de imprensa" (TBG) "is a Washington, DC-based Internet communications firm that develops cutting edge web programs for corporations, trade associations, advocacy groups, political candidates and non-profits. [...]
Today, TBG is a full service Internet communications firm made up of a culturally diverse team of designers, programmers and strategists. The Bivings Group?s sole focus is on helping our clients use technology to converse and communicate with the audiences that matter to them.
In everything it does, [negrito meu] The Bivings Group believes the power of the Internet lies not in the technology, but in it its strategic use."
Há mais: "TBR content is posted, created and managed by internet strategists, media/communications analysts, web developers, designers and programmers, all of whom are employees of The Bivings Group."
"O blogue onde o futuro da informação já chegou" cita uma entidade com vários clientes mas o Expresso não consta dela... até agora. Se o futuro da informação já chegou e é desta forma, não se podia olhar um bocadinho para o passado, para certos cuidados, sei lá, por exemplo, não confundir uma empresa de relações públicas com um "observatório de imprensa composto por vários especialistas"?
[act. (via): 9 Ways for Newspapers to Improve Their Websites & Discussion Roundup: Ways to Improve Newspaper Websites
[act.1: não relacionado mas sobre o jornalismo de tecnologia (e media e tantas outras coisas inter-ligadas) nos dias que correm: A página de tecnologia do DN: "O mais certo é que, sendo assuntos de tecnologia, ninguém se importe muito, porque, afinal, só os "maluquinhos dos computadores" é que reparam nos erros."
TECNOSFERA
Gosto de ter razão antes de tempo mas gosto ainda mais de a ver confirmada (negrito meu) por Tim Berners-Lee: "Web 1.0 was all about connecting people. It was an interactive space, and I think Web 2.0 is of course a piece of jargon, nobody even knows what it means. If Web 2.0 for you is blogs and wikis, then that is people to people. But that was what the Web was supposed to be all along."
TECNOSFERA
Começou a corrida aos BOBs - Weblog Awards. 85 blogues em português do Portugal e do Brasil já lá estão...
01 Setembro 2006
CULTURAS IN VITRO
Scholar: Iliad, Odyssey Penned by Woman: Andrew Dalby, author of Rediscovering Homer, argues that the attribution of the poems to Homer was founded on a falsehood.
Homer?s link to the poems, Dalby writes, stems from an "ill-informed postclassical text, the anonymous Life of Homer, fraudulently ascribed to Herodotus," a respected Greek historian who lived from around 484-425 B.C.
Herodotus does mention Homer in his work Histories, but by then the legend of the mysterious, blind, male poet had already taken root, Dalby says. [...]
Aside from the poems themselves, no concrete clues exist to identify their author, but Dalby builds a case that the person probably was a woman.
"In many oral traditions, the best and most reliable creators, the ones who are used by folklore collectors, happen to be women," he said.
Dalby explained that women throughout the ancient world were "often the last and most skillful exponents of an oral tradition."
CULTURAS IN VITRO
What If...? An alternative history of the world: What if the dinosaurs had survived? Or Hitler won in 1945? Or the aeroplane had been invented 1,000 years earlier? Would there even be life on earth if the moon had failed to form? Science fiction writer Stephen Baxter canvasses the possibilities.
VITAMEDIAS
Se fechar, também estou de luto (Luís Nobre Guedes, Presidente do Conselho de Administração da SOCI, primeira proprietária de "O Independente")
Ex-jornalistas escrevem no Mau Tempo no Canil
O bom e o mau Independente
Começo de ciclo na imprensa
Os jornais suicidam-se
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