2009 Will Be a Year of Panic by Bruce Sterling: If science is discredited, why should mere politics have any intellectual rigor? [...] Believe whatever is whispered. Hide and conceal whatever you can. Spy on the phone calls, emails, and web browsing of those who might actually know something.
31 Janeiro 2009
Rigor intelectual?
2009 Will Be a Year of Panic by Bruce Sterling: If science is discredited, why should mere politics have any intellectual rigor? [...] Believe whatever is whispered. Hide and conceal whatever you can. Spy on the phone calls, emails, and web browsing of those who might actually know something.
O futuro da BD online
Infinite Canvas, a new way of looking at comics on the web developed by Live Labs' own Ian Gilman has started getting some attention lately. [Obrigado, A., imagem de Brad's Somber Mood by Scott McCloud]
Infeliz mente
Notícias discretas: «President Obama ‘orders Pakistan drone attacks»: Military Robots and the Laws of War: “The more society adheres to ethical norms, democratic values, and individual rights, the more successful a warfighter that society will be.”
30 Janeiro 2009
Por um segundo, era bom se eles se entendessem
Physicists raise serious LHC safety doubts: CERN, which operates the LHC, commissioned an extensive study which concluded that, if black holes were formed by the LHC, they would last for only milliseconds before extinguishing themselves.
However, a new study by Roberto Casadio of the University of Bologna, and Sergio Fabi and Benjamin Harms of the University of Alabama, has concluded that the black holes could survive for more than a second.
"While the growth of black holes to catastrophic size does not seem possible, it remains true that the expected decay times are much longer than is typically predicted by other models," the physicists state in a brief paper posted at the scientific discussion website ArXiv.org.
The danger would occur if the black holes stayed in existence long enough to absorb material and become self-sustaining, but the physicists say it is more likely that they would either collapse or stabilise at a very small level and drift out into space.
[imagem daqui]
Googladas
Google gives world net test lab [..] in tandem with the New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute and the PlanetLab Consortium, the search giant unveiled Measurement Lab - a distributed server platform where online researchers can set up their very own net tests.
tools running on M-Lab to test your Internet connection.
* Network Diagnostic Tool: Test your connection speed and receive sophisticated diagnosis of problems limiting speed.
* Glasnost: Test whether BitTorrent is being blocked or throttled.
* Network Path and Application Diagnosis: Diagnose common problems that impact last-mile broadband networks.
* DiffProbe (coming soon): Determine whether an ISP is giving some traffic a lower priority than other traffic.
* NANO (coming soon): Determine whether an ISP is degrading the performance of a certain subset of users, applications, or destinations.
Google Toolbar in Firefox: a personalized new tab page: Now, when you open up a new tab, instead of the blank white page you see by default in Firefox, you will instead see small thumbnails of your favorite sites (up to 9), as well as recently-closed and bookmarked pages based on your browser history.
Google Maps Find of the Day: The Google Maps van runs over a baby deer. (Due to several user requests using the “Report a concern” tool, these images are no longer available in Street View.) [Oh deer]
Já está online
Telecinco Portugal, "a derradeira oportunidade para o país dispor de uma televisão de qualidade"
Para trabalhadores independentes
Freelance Switch: We have developed this hourly rate calculator to give you a guide based on your costs, number of billable hours and desired profit. It is a simple tool for you to play with.
Programação genética
Evolution of Mona Lisa: Could you paint a replica of the Mona Lisa using only 50 semi transparent polygons?
EvoLisa: Optimizations and Improved quality
Clustering evolution - The failures in EvoLisa
29 Janeiro 2009
Barragem de contas
Pergunta: Como é que "Quatro barragens vão criar 13 500 empregos" (3 500 empregos directos e 10 000 indirectos)
Resposta: penso que é fácil fazer as contas:
- 12 técnicos sendo 4 para cada um dos 3 turnos
- 3 recepcionistas (1/turno)
- 3 para o bar (idem)
- 3 senhoras da limpeza (idem)
- 12 chefes de secção (1 para os técnicos, 1 para o recepcionista, 1 bar e 1 limpeza x 3 turnos)
- 12 secretárias (1 para cada chefe de secção)
- 5 directores (1 para os 3 chefes de secção dos técnicos, idem para os rec., bar e limp.) sendo um director só para o secretariado
- 5 secretárias para os directores
- 1 director geral (para todos os directores)
- 2 secretárias para o director geral
- 842 consultores (nas mais diversas áreas - ambiental, energia, relações luso-espanholas, camarárias) e tb pa dar emprego aos familiares de todas as pessoas que tiveram intervenção no projecto, nas decisões e na construção
PS.: faltou dizer k era por cada barragem para dar os cerca de 3500 postos... [e ainda] faltam os motoristas e os técnicos de manutenção, etc. etc.
PS1.: as contas bem feitas aqui.
[Obrigado, Z., pelas contas]
Psst, gestor de media, já leu?
Las redacciones de papel y online de 20 Minutos se separan: No puedes tener una empresa para el papel y otra para la Red y al mismo tiempo una Redacción unificada, no tiene sentido. La división tiene que llegar hasta sus últimas consecuencias. Y lo que es una necesidad juridica o legal también es una necesidad operativa en estos momentos. El periódico es líder en audiencia, y eso también hay que mantenerlo, pero creemos que la web tiene mucho camino por recorrer. Son dos campeonatos diferentes y la estructura anterior suponía una dificultad en ese sentido.
Até tu, gratuito? Cierra Metro: Metrorack Metro abandona España. La compañía sueca ha decidido cerrar su filial local, lo que implica dejar de publicar a partir de mañana mismo el periódico gratuito en las ciudades en las que lo hacía, clausurar todas sus delegaciones y despedir a la totalidad de su plantilla, conformada por 83 personas tras la reducción efectuada en diciembre pasado.
Testemunhos
EyeWitness to History from the Ancient World to the present. History through the eyes of those who lived it
História de media
From Cave Paintings to the Internet: An Annotated Interactive Timeline on the History of Information and Media
The History of Visual Communication attempts to walk you through the long and diverse history of a particular aspect of human endeavour: The translation of ideas, stories and concepts that are largely textual and/or word based into a visual format, i.e. visual communication.
Dedos e unhas
Ring finger length linked to City stockbrokers' success, claim scientists: Stockbrokers with long ring fingers make far greater profits than their counterparts, claims new research. [imagem daqui]
28 Janeiro 2009
O mundo em que também vivemos
Attenborough reveals creationist hate mail for not crediting God: Sir David Attenborough has revealed that he receives hate mail from viewers for failing to credit God in his documentaries. In an interview with this week's Radio Times about his latest documentary, on Charles Darwin and natural selection, the broadcaster said: "They tell me to burn in hell and good riddance."
Telling the magazine that he was asked why he did not give "credit" to God, Attenborough added: "They always mean beautiful things like hummingbirds. I always reply by saying that I think of a little child in east Africa with a worm burrowing through his eyeball. The worm cannot live in any other way, except by burrowing through eyeballs. I find that hard to reconcile with the notion of a divine and benevolent creator."
Twitter Quote of the Day: @gandhi_bot: "There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread."
The Places We Live [Jonas Bendiksen]: In 2008 more people live in cities than in rural areas. More than a billion people live in slums.
Free The Facts: Critical Issue, Killer Presentation for anyone who cares about either science or open access.
27 Janeiro 2009
O PSD Madeira tem toda a razãe
Sobre este "Presidente eterno - Cómo el líder de la autonomía de Madeira mantiene el control de la isla desde hace 30 años", o PSD Madeira tem toda a razão: "O contraditório não foi exercido".
Fosse num jornal nacional, fosse com outro personagem, e as críticas ao método seriam valorizadas. Neste caso, cita-se o jornalista espanhol e mandam-se as regras deontológicas às urtigas.
Ele nem sequer assume se tentou (ou não) falar com Jardim... Se fosse opinião, não precisava - mas é uma "reportaje"!!
Novas escritas
The Mechanics of New Media for Breaking News: My News Flow on Flight 1549
A propósito: The Death of Handwriting: As long as people can read and write printed writing on some basic level what does it mater if their cursive skills are up to par?
Led Zeppelin, Ramones, Sex Pistols, Neil Young, Talking Heads e Cars na Casa Branca
Obama's Secret Record Collection: Inside the White House Record Library
When Barack Obama moved into the White House on January 20th, he gained access to five chefs, a private bowling alley — and a killer collection of classic LPs. Stored in the basement of the executive mansion is the official White House Record Library: several hundred LPs that include landmark albums in rock (Led Zeppelin IV, the Rolling Stones' Let It Bleed), punk (the Ramones' Rocket to Russia, the Sex Pistols' Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols), cult classics (Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica, the Flying Burrito Brothers' The Gilded Palace of Sin) and disco. Not to mention records by Santana, Neil Young, Talking Heads, Isaac Hayes, Elton John, the Cars and Barry Manilow. [...]
A spokesman for Obama said it was too early to comment on whether the president would revive the library. But Obama may be pleased to learn that at least a few of his favorite albums — Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks, Bruce Springsteen's Born to Run — are there if he wants them on pristine slabs of vinyl.
26 Janeiro 2009
Filhos de... Hitler
Cops Take Away 3-Year-Old Adolf Hitler: Police and child protection officials removed a 3-year-old boy named for Adolf Hitler and his two younger sisters, whose names also have Nazi connotations, from their New Jersey home.
Hitler’s Mom Speaks Out, Defies Court Order
The secret to shock-rock glory? Name your band after Hitler: How would a musical act called Hitler fare? We may never know because no one would be stupid enough to… oh wait, they have
The odd case of Hitler's 'son': For almost three months, Judge Kelly heard the story of Michael O'Hara - a man who claimed to be Hitler's son and the owner of the Fuehrer's suicide gun.
Israel e Palestina
INHUMAN CALCULATIONS: Did Israel Commit War Crimes in Gaza?
Did Israel violate international law in Gaza? The immense number of Palestinian civilian casualties suggests that it did. But can the laws of war really be applied to asymmetrical conflicts such as Israel's war with Hamas?
Israeli/Palestinian Coffin Counter (Last updated on January 20, 2009 02:55 EST.)
Isreali Flag Israel: 13
Palestinian Flag Palestine: 1300
Informação agrícola
India debuts 'agricultural Wikipedia': Indian scientists have launched an 'agricultural Wikipedia' to act as an online repository of agricultural information in the country.
Para entender...
...o quarto parágrafo antes do final deste "A POLÍTICA DO 'HISTORIADOR'", sobre o situacionismo de JPP, uma excelente ajuda da Memória Virtual: "Foi lançada ontem [7 de Maio de 2004] uma nova revista de actualidade, a “Sábado“, editada pelo Grupo Cofina-Investec, com Direcção Editorial de João Marcelino, dirigida por João Gobern, com a colaboração de Filomena Martins e Martim Avillez Figueiredo.
O Chefe de redacção é André Macedo e o Redactor principal Ferreira Fernandes. Conta ainda com os cronistas Alberto Gonçalves, José Sócrates, Miguel Monjardino, Pacheco Pereira e Pedro Santana Lopes".
25 Janeiro 2009
Os primeiros 100 dias de Obama
A história imperdível de um ícone (ou vários...)
Shepard Fairey, o responsável pela agora famosa ilustração de Barack Obama com a palavra Hope, entretanto adquirida e exposta na National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institute), está também a ser exposto por usar como base imagens de fotógrafos, sem autorização e sem atribuição da autoria.
A revelação dos fotógrafos responsáveis pelas imagens foi efectuada pelo também fotógrafo Tom Gralish: "After almost a year now, credit for the photo source of the very first Shepard Fairey Obama poster (above, left) can be given properly to photographer Mannie Garcia. He joins previously credited photographers David C. Turnley (center) and Brooks Kraft (right), who provided the basis for two of Fairey's works later in the election year".
Fairey considera a mais conhecida como "my Obama image" mas a campanha de Obama não a adoptou oficialmente "because of legal issues related to the original photograph he used", "snagged by the artist from the Web".
Não é a primeira vez que ele é acusado de práticas menos próprias ou mesmo de uma longa lista de plágios. Em Dezembro de 2007, Mark Vallen descreveu e apresentou comparações embaraçosas em "Obey Plagiarist Shepard Fairey".
Eis o início do texto: "Most well known for his "Obey Giant" street posters, Shepard Fairey has carefully nurtured a reputation as a heroic guerilla street artist waging a one man campaign against the corporate powers-that-be. Infantile posturing aside, Fairey’s art is problematic for another, more troubling reason - that of plagiarism".
Mas há quem defenda o seu método (em resposta ao texto de Vallen): "I say, if the borrower makes new cloth from whole cloth, then the work should be judged on the merits. I feel Fairey has carved a niche. You can like it or not. Be inspired by it or loose interest in it. There will always be those who legitimately try to shoot holes in the accomplishment.
I don't disagree with the author, but I am not as concerned by Fairey's act as I am by others who pilfer because they have NO IDEAS of their own.
I concede this is a situational (and prejudicial) response, but for now that's where I stand. I don't think Fairey is a FRAUD - but I don't think he's Picasso, either".
Fairey assume-se, como sucedeu nesta entrevista na rádio em 2007, "I’m a populist”, [...] “I’m trying to reach as many people as possible.”
“I love the concept in fine art of making a masterpiece, something that will endure,” he said, adding that he understood, too, how unlikely that is for anyone. “But I also understand how short the attention span of most consumers is and that you really need to work with the metabolism of consumer culture a lot of the time to make something relevant within the zeitgeist.”
[act.: Shepard the Giant: He's gone from street artist to creating an iconic image of Barack Obama and having a solo ICA show: "I did the Obama thing on my own, grass-roots style."
Obama’s Obedient Artist: Is Shepard Fairey a Farce?
Copyright Infringement And Obama's Iconic Campaign Poster: Wouldn't this be considered a derivative work?]
24 Janeiro 2009
Whole Earth
In 1968 Stewart Brand launched an innovative publication called The Whole Earth Catalog.It was groundbreaking, enlightening, and spawned a group of later publications.
The collection of that work provided on this site is not complete — and probably never will be — but it is a gift to readers who loved the CATALOG and those who are discovering it for the first time.
23 Janeiro 2009
Cães (d)e presidentes
When presidential dogs attack: Former French President Jacques Chirac was recently mauled by his white Maltese, Sumo, who happens to suffer from clinical depression. [...]
This incident wasn't the first time a presidential dog has behaved aggressively:
* Last November, Barney, the Scottish terrier of former U.S. President George W. Bush, bit a reporter.
* Former Russian President Vladimir Putin, is reported to have used his black Lab, Koni, to intimidate German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who is afraid of dogs.
There are two presidential dogs, though, who couldn't have created well-publicized biting incidents even if they want to. Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's Pekingese, Dot and Buddy, appear to have been placed in hiding.
Gratuito?
Can Free Content Boost Your Sales? Yes, It Can: Have you checked out Monty Python’s YouTube channel? It’s got a selection of their brilliant (as always) clips, and it’s got links to buy their DVDs on Amazon. [...]
And you know what? Despite the entertainment industry’s constant cries about how bad they’re doing, it works. As we wrote yesterday, Monty Python’s DVDs climbed to No. 2 on Amazon’s Movies & TV bestsellers list, with increased sales of 23,000 percent.
Obama: isto começa bem...
Economy, Jobs Trump All Other Policy Priorities In 2009: Environment, Immigration, Health Care Slip Down the List
On First Day, Obama Quickly Sets a New Tone: A major Bush rule gets scrapped by Obama: It's the same Oval Office. The same desk. Even the same curtains. But President Obama has already made one major change: Go through eight years of White House photos, and you won't find one of former President Bush in the Oval Office without his jacket on.
AP, Reuters and Agence France-Presse Refuse to Distribute Obama Photo: Three news agencies refused to distribute White House-provided photos of President Barack Obama in the Oval Office on Wednesday, arguing that access should have been provided to news photographers.
The Associated Press, Reuters and Agence France-Presse said the White House was breaking with long-standing tradition in not allowing news photographers to capture the president at work in the Oval Office on his first day.
The Moment: Quartet pre-recorded Obama music: Millions watching the US presidential inauguration heard a recording made in advance by four famous musicians - amid fears the cold could ruin the concert.
Who Runs Gov offers a unique look at the world of Washington through its key players and personalities. Our site will feature profiles of a select group of government officials, including members of the new presidential administration, legislators, senior Congressional aides and committee staff, and experts at think tanks and interest groups who influence how policy is made.
[act.: Wiki Your Town Council: American Solutions, a national grassroots group based in Washington, DC, that was founded by former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich but describes its Internet effort as nonpartisan, is preparing to launch a site that will, at first, allow people to enter basic contact information on all local officials. Then future users can enter their full nine-digit zip code to find the local officials who represent them.]
Bush em 2004 e em 2008
One sunny day in 2009, an old man approached the White House from across Pennsylvania Ave, where he’d been sitting on a park bench. He spoke to the US Marine standing guard and said, “I would like to go in and meet with President Bush.”
The Marine looked at the man and said, “Sir, Mr. Bush is no longer president and no longer resides here.”
The old man said, “Okay” and walked away.
The following day, the same man approached the White House and said to the same Marine, “I would like to go in and meet with President Bush.”
The Marine again told the man, “Sir, as I said yesterday, Mr. Bush is no longer president and no longer resides here.”
The man thanked him and, again just walked away
The third day, the same man approached the White House and spoke to the very same US Marine, saying “I would like to go in and meet with President Bush.”
The Marine, understandably agitated at this point, looked at the man and said, “Sir, this is the third day in a row you have been here asking to speak to Mr. Bush. I’ve told you already that Mr. Bush is no longer the president and no longer resides here. Don’t you understand?”
The old man looked at the Marine and said, “Oh, I understand. I just love hearing it.”
The Marine snapped to attention, saluted, and said, “See you tomorrow, Sir.”
Nota: foi reciclada de outra datada de, pelo menos, 2004.
Rotinas célebres
Daily Routines: How writers, artists, and other interesting people organize their days.
22 Janeiro 2009
Inovadores mas moderados
European Innovation Scoreboard 2008: Summary of the situation in the 27 Member States: Based on performance over a five year period, four main groupings of countries emerge:
* Switzerland, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Denmark and the UK are the Innovation leaders, with scores well above that of the EU27 and all other countries.
* Austria, Luxembourg, Ireland, France, Belgium and the Netherlands are the Innovation followers, with scores below those of the innovation leaders but equal to or above that of the EU27. Austria is close to moving from the innovation followers to the innovation leaders.
* Cyprus, Estonia, Slovenia, Iceland, Czech Republic, Norway, Spain, Portugal and Italy are the Moderate innovators with scores below that of the EU27, except for Cyprus. Recent improvements in innovation performance for Cyprus, Estonia, Slovenia and Iceland suggest that these countries could move to the innovation followers in the near future.
* Malta, Greece, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, Lithuania, Romania, Latvia, Bulgaria and Turkey are the Catching-up countries. Although their scores are significantly below the EU average, these scores are increasing towards the EU average over time with the exception of Greece and Lithuania.
Portugal: For Portugal, one of the Moderate innovators, innovation performance is below the EU27 average but the rate of improvement is more than twice that of the EU27 making it a growth leader within its group of countries. Relative strengths, compared to the country’s average performance, are in Finance and support and Innovators while relative weaknesses are in Human resources, Firm investments, Linkages & entrepreneurship and Throughputs.
Over the past 5 years, Human resources, Finance and support, Firm investments and Throughputs have been the main drivers of the improvement in innovation performance, in particular as a result from strong growth in S&E and SSH graduates (9.8%), S&E and SSH doctorate graduates (19.2%), Broadband access by firms (25.1%), Business R&D expenditures (26.3%), EPO patents (8.4%) and Community trademarks (12.1%). Performance in the other dimensions has increased at a slower pace, except in Innovators where there has been almost no improvement.
A propósito: Report: EU citizens keen to boost R&D investment: Scientists in Europe can count on citizens' support for sustained investment in research and development amid fears that the ongoing economic crisis may lead to cuts, a new survey revealed last week.
Europeans are generally very positive towards science, whether as a means of improving the environment or as a way of improving their own health and everyday lives, according to a special EU-wide Eurobarometer conducted last summer among 17-60 year olds.
Tealium: chá com Valium?
New Web Analytics Service Spies on Web Browsing Activity Without Permission: Tealium Social Media, a service of Tealium in San Diego, California, is a commercial analytics service that uses JavaScript tricks to inspect -- without the knowledge or permission of Web users -- specific URLs in their current browser histories.
The service attempts to provide a finer grain of usage information than is typically available through analytical techniques, by querying users' browsers for the presence of particular URLs. While this does not permit the reading out of complete browser URL histories, it does permit the service to ask the potentially highly privacy-invasive question: "Has this user been to a particular URL recently?"
Obviously, by sending a variety of such queries (all of which are essentially invisible to the user), a fascinating portrait of users' activities could be generated. Visited this CNN story? This government Web page? This porn image? This medical information page? Well, you get the idea.
Social Media Measurement is Here: We’re proud to announce the general availability of Tealium Social Media, a new measurement service for social media and online PR that’s tightly integrated into web analytics. The service is designed for marketing professionals who use social media and online PR as marketing vehicles to generate awareness and demand, and require side-by-side comparison with other marketing channels.
Tealium Social Media Overview
As more online marketers turn their attention to social media, there’s a growing demand to see the value associated with these efforts.
Do videos in YouTube result in traffic to the web site?
How much of the web site traffic was generated as a result of the online press coverage?
How many leads can be attributed to the Wall Street Journal article?
Are any online sales being generated as a result of the coverage by bloggers?
Mission impossible? Not anymore.
O Alexandre Gamela
Imagem daquiAlexandre Gamela, no blogue O Lago, desabafa como está "lixado pela forma como fui descrito num jornal depois da minha cobertura informal do Acidente no Hudson: “Alexandre Gamela, um jornalista desempregado”. O descaramento!"
O autor do "descaramento" fui eu, que não costumo trazer coisas da vida profissional para este blogue. Pelo que respondi no blogue do Gamela, há dois dias, sobre as suas afirmações e comentários.
48 horas depois, o "freelancer/empreendedor" já postou vários textos, eu já reenviei o comentário mas ele não viu a luz n'O Lago. Por isso aqui transcrevo o texto que lhe reenviei ontem, sabendo-o leitor do ContraFactos & Argumentos (pelo menos no ano passado, quando até o recomendou no Online Journalism Blog):
Caro Alexandre,
reenvio um comentário aqui colocado ontem mas até agora não publicado por acreditar ter havido qualquer problema técnico para o não mostrar aos seus leitores ou a ele responder.
Agradeço a publicação.
Pedro
Caro Alexandre,
sou o autor do texto no DN a que se refere neste post.
Não tenho por norma responder a críticas aos meus artigos. No seu caso, tenho de abrir uma excepção porque me parece haver alguma má fé, que prosseguiu nos comentários.
Não diferencio qual a contextualização a que se refere que atenua o que Paulo Querido fez no Certamente/Expresso online mas não a minha frase no DN. Ambos falámos de um jornalista desempregado - algo que o Alexandre confirma ao dizer que procura emprego. Não vejo onde está a ofensa.
Mas o que me levou principalmente a escrever é a sua afirmação de que o meu texto "é uma cópia pobre do artigo do Paulo Querido no Expresso".
Não sei qual é a sua posição sobre o plágio ou cópia no jornalismo mas eu não gosto dele e fico ofendido quando alguém ma faz, sem apresentar provas. Sendo jornalista, presumo que o Alexandre compreende a minha indignação.
O seu "desabafo" denota que ou não leu o artigo todo no DN e se fixou no parágrafo em que é referido o seu nome ou faz afirmações gratuitas sobre outras pessoas e que não abonam muito a seu favor.
Apenas mais umas notas:
- ainda sobre a contextualização: o Paulo escreveu sobre o Twitter e a rapidez do Alexandre, eu não procurei esse ângulo - basta ler os títulos... - mas não podia deixar de referir o seu nome porque, na noite (cá) do acidente, ele foi inevitável no Twitter. Mas, diferente do Paulo, o texto no DN não era sobre si e se está "lixado" com isso, é um problema seu.
- sobre o seu desemprego (ou o que lhe quiser chamar): há muitos meses que acompanho o seu blogue e não é de hoje que escreve sobre a sua situação laboral. Não precisei de ver no blogue do Paulo essa indicação. Porquê escrevê-la? Por dar ao leitor uma indicação de que é alguém, português, habituado a usar ferramentas jornalísticas e as transpõe para o Twitter. Podia ter usado outros exemplos, americanos? Podia.
- sobre a "espada" do DN: eu ainda não a senti mas presumo que saiba do que fala. Se também me quiser esclarecer neste assunto, agradeço.
Repito, não vejo o tamanho da ofensa - tanto mais escrita por um jornalista que também não está empregado mas a trabalhar para o DN.
Desejos de boa sorte para a sua vida profissional e também que não encerre O Lago.
BTW: para conhecer um caso bem mais grave, em que um blogue estraga a reputação e a saúde de uma pessoa, oiçam um inesperado testemunho nesta Prova Oral em que participei.
Tomada de posse de Obama
BTW: The Obameter: PolitiFact has compiled about 500 promises that Barack Obama made during the campaign and is tracking their progress on our Obameter.
21 Janeiro 2009
20 Janeiro 2009
U2
‘Get On Your Boots’ - U2’s single goes live: Band releases song on Irish radio, Web site in advance of new album
Emoticons e presidentes
Is That an Emoticon in 1862? A historical newspaper specialist at the digital archival company Proquest believes he has found an example of a sideways winking smiley face embedded in The New York Times transcript of an 1862 speech given by President Lincoln. Other historians are not so sure, saying the semicolon alongside a closed parenthesis is either a mistake or a misinterpretation of something that is perfectly grammatical for that era.
Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States: George Washington to George W. Bush
Presidential Inauguration Videos: McKinley(March 4, 1901) to George W. Bush (January 20, 2005)
Read the President's entire agenda & Change has come to WhiteHouse.gov: Just like your new government, WhiteHouse.gov and the rest of the Administration's online programs will put citizens first. Our initial new media efforts will center around three priorities:
Communication -- Americans are eager for information about the state of the economy, national security and a host of other issues. This site will feature timely and in-depth content meant to keep everyone up-to-date and educated. Check out the briefing room, keep tabs on the blog (RSS feed) and take a moment to sign up for e-mail updates from the President and his administration so you can be sure to know about major announcements and decisions.
Transparency -- President Obama has committed to making his administration the most open and transparent in history, and WhiteHouse.gov will play a major role in delivering on that promise. The President's executive orders and proclamations will be published for everyone to review, and that’s just the beginning of our efforts to provide a window for all Americans into the business of the government. You can also learn about some of the senior leadership in the new administration and about the President’s policy priorities.
Participation -- President Obama started his career as a community organizer on the South Side of Chicago, where he saw firsthand what people can do when they come together for a common cause. Citizen participation will be a priority for the Administration, and the internet will play an important role in that. One significant addition to WhiteHouse.gov reflects a campaign promise from the President: we will publish all non-emergency legislation to the website for five days, and allow the public to review and comment before the President signs it.
Word Cloud Analysis of Obama's Inaugural Speech Compared to Bush, Clinton and Reagan's:
Obama Day
Advice to Obama on battling presidential aging: The president ages twice as fast while in office
Dear Sir Obama: Presidential Advice - What Obama Should Eat
Inauguration Speech Generator: to help him craft the best inauguration speech ever...
19 Janeiro 2009
Presidentes dos EUA
44 presidents coming: This site will continue to be updated until all 44 presidents have finished.
Carros parados
Growing stocks of unsold cars around the world: Nissan has announced plans to cut its Sunderland workforce by 1,200. Thousands of unsold cars are stored around the factory's test track (Photograph: Nigel Roddis/Reuters)
Clientes mal servidos e piratas
Valve: Pirates Are Just Underserved Customers: The final sacred cow that [Valve's Jason Holtman, director of business development and legal affairs] took a stab at was the issue of piracy. "There's a big business feeling that there's piracy," he says. But the truth is: "Pirates are underserved customers."
"When you think about it that way, you think, 'Oh my gosh, I can do some interesting things and make some interesting money off of it.'"
"We take all of our games day-and-date to Russia," Holtman says of Valve. "The reason people pirated things in Russia," he explains, "is because Russians are reading magazines and watching television -- they say 'Man, I want to play that game so bad,' but the publishers respond 'you can play that game in six months...maybe.' "
"We found that our piracy rates dropped off significantly," Holtman says, explaining that Valve makes sure their games are on the shelves in Moscow and St. Petersberg, in Russian, when they release it to North America and Western Europe.
There are, concludes Holtman, "tons of undiscovered customers," because publishers look very narrowly at the Western market.
BTW, Learning How To Benefit From Piracy Is Not The Same As Endorsing Piracy
Aviso à navegação
It's not just dumb, drunk, scantily-clad teens who forget that anything posted on the web can be seen by EVERYONE: Trouble is, Andrews was in Memphis to visit his client FedEx. Memphis is home to FedEx's headquarters. His comment on Twitter came to the attention of FedEx and Ketchum executives who are understandably angry.
Bush, W. Bush
An Extremist Makeover? Asked by People magazine what moments from the last eight years he revisited most often, W. talked passionately about the pitch he threw out at the World Series in 2001: “I never felt that anxious any other time during my presidency, curiously enough.”
[Humor] Bush To Throw Out First Through 120th Pitch Of World Series: Nolan Ryan, Bush's personal pitching coach for the event, said he is confident that the president won't get rattled, even in a pressure-packed situation like Game 1 of the World Series. "Mr. Bush may walk his share of batters, but as long as he keeps the ball down and prevents the big inning, he should be fine," Ryan said. "After all, the president has worked himself into jams before. But everyone knows he's a man who always finds a way to get out unscathed."
Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, the Powerful Forces That Put It in the White House, and What Their Influence Means for America
* Why George H.W. Bush can’t remember where he was on November 22, 1963
* Why oilman George H.W. Bush shows up in early CIA documents
* A new, more troubling explanation of the Watergate scandal
* The real story behind George W. Bush’s missing military service
* The inside scoop on the Bushes and Saudi influence in America
* The strange saga of Harvard University and its endowment
* The untold real story behind George W. Bush’s religious awakening
* Never before told anecdotes from George W. Bush’s wild past
* How the CIA monitors the White House and its occupants
* Why Barack Obama and his supporters should read this book
The Bush-Dynasty Bull's-eye: a loopy, labyrinthine Family of Secrets bullseye—part eye chart, part pie chart, part Otto Preminger-esque movie poster for the Bush-whacked masses.
via The Book Cover Archive, for the appreciation and categorization of excellence in book cover design Harper’s Index:
Number of news stories from 1998 to Election Day 2000 containing “George W. Bush” and “aura of inevitability”: 206
Total amount the Bush campaign paid Enron and Halliburton for use of corporate jets during the 2000 recount: $15,400
Percentage of Bush’s first 189 appointees who also served in his father’s administration: 42
Minimum number of Bush appointees who have regulated industries they used to represent as lobbyists: 98
Months before September 11, 2001, that Cheney’s Energy Task Force investigated Iraq’s oil resources: 6
Hours after the 9/11 attacks that an Alaska congressman speculated they may have been committed by “eco-terrorists”: 9
Date on which the first contract for a book about September 11 was signed: 9/13/01
Percentage of the amendments in the Bill of Rights that are violated by the USA PATRIOT Act, according to the ACLU: 50
Minimum number of laws that Bush signing statements have exempted his administration from following: 1,069
Estimated number of U.S. intelligence reports on Iraq that were based on information from a single defector: 100
Number of times the defector had ever been interviewed by U.S. intelligence agents: 0
Date on which Bush said of Osama bin Laden, “I truly am not that concerned about him”: 3/13/02
Percentage change from 2004 to 2007 in the number of Army recruits admitted despite having been charged with a felony: +295
Date on which the White House announced it had stopped looking for WMDs in Iraq: 1/12/05
Number of White House officials in 2006 and 2007 authorized to discuss pending criminal cases with the DOJ: 711
Number of Clinton officials ever authorized to do so: 4
Number of U.S. cities and towns that have passed resolutions calling for the impeachment of President Bush: 92
Percentage change since 2001 in U.S. government spending on paper shredding: +466
Percentage of EPA scientists who say they have experienced political interference with their work since 2002: 60
Estimated amount Bush-era policies will cost the U.S. in new debt and accrued obligations: $10,350,000,000,000
Total value of U.S. government contracts in 2000 that were awarded without competitive bidding: $73,000,000,000
Total in 2007: $146,000,000,000
Minimum number of Bush-related books published since 2001: 606
George W. Bush Presidential Library: This patriotic website will serve as an authoritative digital archive, dedicated to preserving and celebrating the godly legacy of the most honest, peaceful, and intelligent leader in the 6,000 year history of the planet Earth. [ :-) ]
Help Bush Pack
Send Your Heartfelt Goodbye Letter to George W. Bush
Goodbye Bush: Advanced Photoshop Pictures Contest
18 Janeiro 2009
Uma rica obra de arte
One Billion Dollar is stacked on 12 standard pallets, alltogether 10 million 100 USD notes. One Billion Dollar is not so much about what you see but what you could do or not do with the money. Besides, this is the most expensive piece of art ever made.
17 Janeiro 2009
16 Janeiro 2009
Como as notícias também podem ser distribuídas
6 Sites that are changing the way you follow the news: Even relatively new news aggregators like Google News seem antiquated compared to these game-changing tools.
Track This Now
Spreed News
MemeTracker
Stitcher
DiggGraphr
NewsIsFree: NewsMaps
Admarkmedia
Power 150: Ranking the top blogs and bloggers in advertising, marketing and media
1. Seth's Blog
2. Search Engine Land
3. Search Engine Watch
4. Ads of the World
5. Copyblogger
6. Micro Persuasion
7. [chrisbrogan.com]
8. Adrants
9. PSFK
10. ProBlogger
Portugas:
163. The Hidden Persuader
188. Invisible Red
192. A Source of Inspiration
Uma estonteante fórmula: 3700 milhões de dólares de receitas num ano com roubo online de 95 por cento em 16 países durante três anos?
95 per cent of music downloads are unauthorised, with no payment to artists and producers: The digital music business internationally saw a sixth year of expansion in 2008, growing by an estimated 25 per cent to US$3.7 billion in trade value. Digital platforms now account for around 20 per cent of recorded music sales, up from 15 per cent in 2007. Recorded music is at the forefront of the online and mobile revolution, generating more revenue in percentage terms through digital platforms than the newspaper (4%), magazine (1%) and film industries (4%) combined. [...]
Despite these developments, the music sector is still overshadowed by the huge amount of unlicensed music distributed online. Collating separate studies in 16 countries over a three-year period, IFPI estimates over 40 billion files were illegally file-shared in 2008, giving a piracy rate of around 95 per cent.
Aviso à navegação
How to protect your ideas as a freelancer: "Unfortunately, copyright doesn't protect ideas for a piece of work" [...] "It's only when the work is in writing that copyright automatically protects it."
Voo 1549: La Guardia - Rio Hudson (Nova Iorque)
Latest statement regarding flight 1549: US Airways flight 1549 has been involved in an accident. The Airbus A320 was en route to Charlotte from LaGuardia with 150 passengers onboard. The flight was operated with a crew of 5 (2 pilots and 3 flight attendants). Our preliminary report is that everyone is off the plane.
USA1549: Live Flight Tracker
O acidente acompanhado por um jornalista no Twitter & Twitter Power
Twitter: Realtime results for "Hudson River" [+ antigos]
[act.: Twitter Spreads News Of U.S. Airways Crash In An Instant: Today was yet another indicator that Twitter is the way we're going to consume breaking news in the future. I learned about the U.S. Airways Hudson River plane crash before it was on CNN.com, NYTimes.com, and FoxNews.com.
Photo of Hudson River plane crash downs TwitPic: TwitPic, an application that allows users to take pictures from their mobile phones and append them to Twitter posts, went down after at least 7,000 people attempted to view the photo of the airplane taken from a commuter ferry by Sarasota, Fla., resident Janis Krums.]
Wikipedia: US Airways Flight 1549
Flickr: We found 1,708 results matching hudson and plane.
Sites: excepto Flight1549.org, variações [aproveitamentos...] deste ou de usa1549 foram logo registadas. Exemplo:
Domain Name: usa1549.com
Created on..............: Thu, Jan 15, 2009
Administrative Contact:
Bluesky Tech.
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US
FAA: Major Accidents From Bird Strikes Are Rare: Bird strikes have been part of aviation from its inception. According to the diaries of the Wright brothers, Orville Wright hit a bird (thought to be a red-winged blackbird) during a flight in 1905.
Wreckage of Wright Brothers Flyer [1908] in which aviator Thomas Selfridge was killed, making him the first man to die in a powered plane. Orville Wright was injured in the crash, but recovered.This is how Orville Wright described the crash, in letter to his brother Wilbur: “On the fourth round, everything seemingly working much better and smoother than any former flight, I started on a larger circuit with less abrupt turns. It was on the very first slow turn that the trouble began. ... A hurried glance behind revealed nothing wrong, but I decided to shut off the power and descend as soon as the machine could be faced in a direction where a landing could be made. This decision was hardly reached, in fact I suppose it was not over two or three seconds from the time the first taps were heard, until two big thumps, which gave the machine a terrible shaking, showed that something had broken. ... The machine suddenly turned to the right and I immediately shut off the power. Quick as a flash, the machine turned down in front and started straight for the ground. Our course for 50 feet (15 meters) was within a very few degrees of the perpendicular. Lt. Selfridge up to this time had not uttered a word, though he took a hasty glance behind when the propeller broke and turned once or twice to look into my face, evidently to see what I thought of the situation. But when the machine turned head first for the ground, he exclaimed 'Oh! Oh!' in an almost inaudible voice.”
15 Janeiro 2009
Foto oficial de Obama por Pete Souza
New official portrait released: It was taken by Pete Souza, the newly-announced official White House photographer.
It is the first time that an official presidential portrait was taken with a digital camera.
Pete Souza is a freelance photographer and assistant professor of photojournalism at Ohio University's School of Visual Communication. He has worked as an Official White House Photographer for President Reagan, a freelancer for National Geographic, and as the national photographer for the Chicago Tribune based in their Washington bureau.
Souza's latest book, "The Rise of Barack Obama," was published in July 2008 and includes exclusive photographs of the Senator's rise to power. Souza extensively documented Obama's first year in the Senate and accompanied Obama to seven countries including Kenya, South Africa and Russia.
Recessão em perspectiva
This page places the current economic downturn into historical (post-WWII) perspective. It compares output and employment changes during the present recession with the same data for the 10 previous recessions that have occurred since 1946.
This page provides a current assessment of “how bad" the recession is relative to past recessions.
14 Janeiro 2009
A piada europeia
Czech sculpture tests EU sense of humour: "We're Ikea ...of course," said one grinning Swedish official, referring to the representation of his country as a giant flatpack of the kind often found at the Nordic country's retail giant. "Who are you?" he asked. But his colleague was unsure. She thought she was the "one with meat on it."
This "one with the meat" turns out to be Portugal, representing colonisation.
I don’t like fat and I don’t like colonialism. Empire-building, the influence of colonisation on post-colonial history, economy, science and culture, the cultural output of colonised societies, feminism and post-colonialism, the state of post-colonialism in a contemporary economic and cultural context – all these are some of the general themes in this field. What were the experiences of the colonised and the colonisers?
Carla de Miranda [aka Beatriz Cunha]
"Entropa est une oeuvre d’art, pas une déclaration politique, c’est conçu pour être amusant et ironique, l’humour peut parfois être une catharsis", a expliqué l’artiste mercredi dans un entretien avec l’AFP.
David Cerny says hoax EU sculpture inspired by Monty Python [...] to test whether the EU had a sense of humour.
Europe needs the 'shocking' Czechs: I agree it is all great fun. But I am not sure that the Czech government will share the joke. Nor will the EU officials who were already very unsettled by the iconolastic sculpture in the first place.
This story is not over. I think a campaign is needed to save this installation.
Jornalismo de blogues
New Media Venture Turns Bloggers Into Print Journalists: The Printed Blog, a startup founded and funded by former business productivity software entrepreneur Joshua Karp, is launching a twice-daily free print newspaper in cities across the country aggregating localized blog posts.
“Why hasn’t anyone tried to take the best content and bring it offline?” said Karp, who thinks print media is far from dying.
WHAT IS THE PRINTED BLOG? The Printed Blog is an independent media outlet that aggregates user-generated content from the Internet and publishes it twice daily via print. [...]
The selection of content in The Printed Blog is based solely on the votes of readers and their geographic location. In such a way, The Printed Blog revolts against the top-down, ‘one size fits all’ model of newsprint, as we know it. Instead of one paper serving hundreds of thousands of people, as is often the case, The Printed Blog publishes hundreds or even thousands of highly-localized editions based on what a community declares is important to them. The papers are distributed to neighborhood pickup points in A.M. and P.M. editions, and will incorporate rapid turnaround reader comments.
Revista feita por bloggers: BloggersBase is an online magazine and also a community, giving everyone an equal and fair chance to be a contributing and influencing member.
You can immediately become a blogger, contribute as a photographer, or publish your videos. On the other hand, if you are an avid reader, you can make your opinion known and influence the content of our magazine, effectively becoming an editor.
13 Janeiro 2009
Mais sobre o lixo electrónico
Já aqui se falou do "The dirty little secret of the electronic age". A Time tem agora um texto sobre Guiyu, "China's Electronic Waste Village"
Reciclagem na Disney
Disney Animation Reuse: Disney reuses its animation but this is hard to spot unless pictures are put side by side for comparison. [texto de 2006]
O melhor emprego do mundo?
Island-sitter wanted, salary £70,000: Tourism chiefs in Australia are advertising for the post of caretaker of Hamilton island, in the Great Barrier Reef, the "jewel in the crown" of the Whitsunday islands, where work requires "minimum effort" and involves "relaxed" duties such as feeding turtles, watching whales, and picking up the island's post.
Applicants require no academic qualifications, but must possess good swimming skills and a love of snorkelling, scuba diving and other water sports, say tourism chiefs who want to raise the island's profile as a holiday destination. [...]
The caretaker will be required to produce a weekly online blog, photo diary and video updates of his or her time.
12 Janeiro 2009
Uma questão de peso
The Recession Could Make You Fat: One reason: Poor neighborhoods tend to have more fast food restaurants and fewer grocery stores, so it's harder for residents to eat well.
"In Seattle we have found that there are fivefold differences in obesity rates depending on the zip code — the low-income zip codes have a much higher proportion of obese people," Adam Drewnowski, the director of the Nutrition Sciences Program at the University of Washington, tells Reuters.
Obese Now Outweigh the Overweight: Results from the 2005-2006 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), released last month, indicate that an estimated 32.7 percent of U.S. adults 20 years and older are overweight, 34.3 percent are obese and 5.9 percent are extremely obese.
The obesity figure of 34.3 percent is up from 23 percent in a similar study done in 1988 through 1994.
Or, Why Fat is a Paranoid Issue: If adults are eating much less healthily than they used to, so are their kids. Instead of spending their evenings playing outside, children now have the delights of multi-channel television, computer games, and the Internet to choose from. And then there's the fact that increasing numbers of us just won't let our children outside on their own.
Lá como cá
Rowan Atkinson Jesus sketch cleared by Ofcom after 540 complaints
O Conselho Regulador da ERC decidiu [...], por unanimidade, não dar razão às 122 participações contra a SIC por motivo da emissão do sketch "Louvado sejas ó Magalhães", no programa Zé Carlos, da autoria dos Gato Fedorento.
Palavras iluminadas
A Puzzle on the House: People of Lvov city in Ukraine decided to add another attraction for the visitors of their city. According to the artistic project it was decided to place a giant 100 feet (30 meters) tall at the wall of the one of the multi-stored residential houses.
There is one interesting detail about the design of the puzzle. It looks like an empty puzzle during the day-light, but at night when special lights are on the words in the puzzle become visible with a lightly-glowing fluorescent color.
11 Janeiro 2009
10 Janeiro 2009
É hoje
Biggest Full Moon of the Year: This Saturday night, Jan. 10th, another perigee Moon is coming. It's the biggest full Moon of 2009, almost identical to the one that impressed onlookers in Dec. 2008.
Above: The perigee full of Dec. 2008. "A cold wind was blowing as the Moon set over a neighbor's farm," says photographer Eric Ingmundson of Sparta, Wisconsin. "Next time (Jan. 10th) I plan to use a tripod."
09 Janeiro 2009
Seis meses de exposição
Stunning photographs of landmark captured over six-month period: The spectacular picture shows each phase of the sun over Bristol's Clifton Suspension Bridge taken over a six month period.
08 Janeiro 2009
Enredos de nova geração
Tão amigos que são, os da nova geração... O protocolo não teve de facto grande importância, se não o de sinalizar o início do processo, fazendo com que quatro concorrentes apertassem as mãos direitas enquanto as esquerdas faziam figas atrás das costas. Se três dessas empresas são cotadas e não emitiram junto da CMVM qualquer facto relevante, está tudo dito: não há facto relevante...
Esta irrelevância, não das redes de amanhã mas do protocolo de ontem, torna ainda mais surpreendente a ausência de última hora da Vodafone, que o Governo provavelmente entenderá como uma afronta. Seja ou não verdade que foi a casa-mãe inglesa que cancelou os projectos da filial portuguesa, isso será usado contra António Carrapatoso, numa reedição do discurso dos centros de decisão nacional: quando o País precisa, as empresas portuguesas investem, as estrangeiras não.
A irrelevância é tanto maior quanto o objectivo era ter uma única rede nacional e não andar a plantar e multiplicar fibra óptica pelo país. Nada mudou, excepto o facto de "Os Operadores de Comunicações comprometem-se, por seu turno, a antecipar para 2009 a afectação de recursos que permitam a ligação de uma rede de fibra óptica a 1,5 milhão de utilizadores". Ou seja, as empresas avançam com investimentos para este ano, algo que já pensavam fazer.
Mas como é que se vai medir a ligação a 1,5 milhões de utilizadores no fim do ano? Se fosse a lares, empresas, organismos, qualquer coisa mensurável, tudo bem - mas um número tão certinho de 1,5 milhões de utilizadores?
[act.: a PT fala em "cerca de 1,5 milhões de lares"...]
Timor-Leste, baleias e cana de açucar
“All whaling vessels please proceed to waters of East Timor”: the biggest concentration ever reported of whales and dolphins, among other cetaceans, was found 50 km (30 miles) off the coast of East Timor.
Carta aberta a Ramos-Horta: This current Government has, under your watchful eyes, signed a dubious MoU presenting the government’s intention in granting 6/10 of Timor-Leste’s total arable land and nearly 90% of Timor-Leste’s arable flatlands and plains to plant sugarcane.
It is commonsense that this project poses significant threats to our food and water security and, presents itself as a threat to the sustainability of Timor-Leste as a sovereign nation and yet you have not come forward and spoken up.
The product of this sugarcane plantation is meant to produce bioethanol that is meant to power cars at the other end of the world, this project will simply nourish egos of several hundred “eco gluttons” while Timorese starve by the thousands because their land was taken away from them, and their economic freedom. The unwary Maubere and Buibere are at the dawn of eminent starvation. Those that say they are eco-friendly, actually have ecological footprints that would make big foot look like an infant.
Paranóia com receios justificados
É, realmente, um "problema muito interessante".
António Barreto escreveu sobre Sócrates e a liberdade há um ano. Dizia então:
"Foram tomadas medidas e decisões que limitam injustificadamente a liberdade dos indivíduos. A expressão de opiniões e de crenças está hoje mais limitada do que há dez anos. A vigilância do Estado sobre os cidadãos é colossal e reforça-se. A acumulação, nas mãos do Estado, de informações sobre as pessoas e a vida privada cresce e organiza-se. O registo e o exame dos telefonemas, da correspondência e da navegação na Internet são legais e ilimitados. Por causa do fisco, do controlo pessoal e das despesas com a saúde, condiciona-se a vida de toda a população e tornam-se obrigatórios padrões de comportamento individual."
E prosseguia:
"A nova lei de controlo do tráfego telefónico permite escutar e guardar os dados técnicos (origem e destino) de todos os telefonemas durante pelo menos um ano. Os novos modelos de bilhete de identidade e de carta de condução, com acumulação de dados pessoais e registos históricos, são meios intrusivos. A videovigilância, sem limites de situações, de espaços e de tempo, é um claro abuso. A repressão e as represálias exercidas sobre funcionários são já publicamente conhecidas e geralmente temidas. A politização dos serviços de informação e a sua dependência directa da Presidência do Conselho de Ministros revela as intenções e os apetites do Primeiro-ministro."
Barreto afirmava ainda:
"NÃO SEI SE SÓCRATES É FASCISTA. Não me parece, mas, sinceramente, não sei. De qualquer modo, o importante não está aí. O que ele não suporta é a independência dos outros, das pessoas, das organizações, das empresas ou das instituições. Não tolera ser contrariado, nem admite que se pense de modo diferente daquele que organizou com as suas poderosas agências de intoxicação a que chama de comunicação. No seu ideal de vida, todos seriam submetidos ao Regime Disciplinar da Função Pública, revisto e reforçado pelo seu governo. O Primeiro-ministro José Sócrates é a mais séria ameaça contra a liberdade, contra autonomia das iniciativas privadas e contra a independência pessoal que Portugal conheceu nas últimas três décadas".
O texto, escrito no Público de 6 de Janeiro de 2008, dizia finalmente:
"TEMOS DE RECONHECER: tão inquietante quanto esta tendência insaciável para o despotismo e a concentração de poder é a falta de reacção dos cidadãos. A passividade de tanta gente. Será anestesia? Resignação? Acordo? Só se for medo..."
Sem medo, Fátima Rolo Duarte (FRD) respondeu passado um ano, acusando Barreto de ser "o mesmo que se serve de um contador de hits e tráfego, que controla o IP de quem o visita, hora a hora, minuto a minuto? Um contador invisível a olho nu e apenas disponível no view source deste blog?!"
Um dos responsáveis pelo Sorumbático explicou que o comentário de FRD era "completamente descabido por um motivo muito simples: Quando [Barreto] entrou para este blogue, já o 'site-meter' existia há muito (e até já houve outros)" mas resolveu "premiar o melhor comentário".
Alguns humoristas não fariam melhor, tanto mais que Barreto insiste num outro texto recente (Gostaria..., no Jacarandá e Público de 28 de Dezembro de 2008) que "Gostaria que o governo, num sobressalto de consciência e de preocupação com as liberdades públicas e os direitos fundamentais do cidadão, reconsiderasse todas as medidas e procedimentos em curso que consolidam um clima de intrusão, de violação da privacidade, de despotismo e de controlo dos cidadãos, incluindo, evidentemente, o bilhete de identidade múltiplo, o chip dos automóveis, a legislação sobre escutas telefónicas, a actuação da ASAE e a delação fiscal e económica".
Três pequenas notas sobre todo este assunto:
1) Barreto não sabe do que fala quando fala da retenção de dados (não há escutas);
2) FRD não sabe do que fala quando aborda o registo de IP em contadores de blogues, esquecendo que podem ser disfarçados ou usados por variadas pessoas a partir de um mesmo computador;
3) pelas suas demonstradas sensibilidades, gostava de ver estas pessoas envolvidas numa entidade pública preocupada com a privacidade electrónica. Chama-se cidadania, não era?...
07 Janeiro 2009
Um mundo à distância de 48 horas
Travel time to major cities: A global map of Accessibility
Concentration & density: 95% of the people live on just 10% of the land
Wilderness? Only 10% of the land area is remote – more than 48 hours from a large city
Why was this map made? This map was made for the World Bank's World Development Report 2009 Reshaping Economic Geography. The message of the report can be summarised as: Concentration & density. 95% of the people live on just 10% of the land "As economies grow from low to high income, production becomes more concentrated spatially. Some places—cities, coastal areas, and connected countries—are favored by producers. ... The way to get both the immediate benefits of concentration of production and the long-term benefits of a convergence in living standards is economic integration." (WDR 2009, Overview). For measuring the concentration of economic activity, instead of using binary distinctions of rural versus urban, the report takes advantage of global accessibility measures which can be combined with data on population density to create a much finer typology which is termed the Agglomeration Index (AI). The global map of travel time to major cities (cities of 50,000 or more people in year 2000) is a useful dataset in its own right, but it is also a component of the AI.
Informação com impacto no sector imobiliário
Online crime maps go live: All 43 police forces across England and Wales are now offering online crime maps showing offences broken down by area.
Jornalistas e licenças Creative Commons
Creative Commons Q&A: How can journalists get the most out of it?
Journalists, like anyone, can use CC in two different ways.
Firstly, when releasing their work online, they should consider releasing it under a CC licence. It is now inevitable that people are going to share work, print it out, translate it and so on.
By using a CC licence, a journalist can indicate that they are okay with these uses of the work instead of just turning a blind eye to them.
Depending on the publisher of their work, this may be easier than most journalists think. All that is required is putting a notice and a link to one of our licences at the bottom of an article.
The second way journalists - and everyone else for that matter - can use CC licences is to find work to build upon.
06 Janeiro 2009
No ano da Ciência, da Astronomia e do Planeta Terra
In 2009, Year of Science participants will be celebrating science and seminal events in science, which include:
* Darwin Day — This annual international celebration will have added value in 2009 as we celebrate the 200th anniversary of Darwin’s birth and the 150th Anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species.
* The 200th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln (whose contributions to science include founding the National Academy of Sciences, as well as creating the Land grant system of agricultural colleges through signing the Morrill Act, which was very important to the development of applied biological sciences).
* The 400th anniversary of the publication of Johannes Kepler’s first two Laws of Planetary Motion.
* The 100th anniversary of the discovery of the Burgess Shale by the paleontologist Charles D. Walcott.
* The 400th anniversary of Galileo’s first use of a telescope to study the skies.
* The 100th anniversary of the establishment of USDA Forest Service Experimental Forest and Ranges, the largest system of dedicated experimental sites in the US.
Other community wide celebrations of science in 2009 include:
* International Year of Astronomy
* International Year of Planet Earth
05 Janeiro 2009
Duas décadas de VaR
Risk Mismanagement: There are many such models, but by far the most widely used is called VaR — Value at Risk. Built around statistical ideas and probability theories that have been around for centuries, VaR was developed and popularized in the early 1990s by a handful of scientists and mathematicians — “quants,” they’re called in the business — who went to work for JPMorgan. VaR’s great appeal, and its great selling point to people who do not happen to be quants, is that it expresses risk as a single number, a dollar figure, no less.
Atenção, twitters
Phishing Scam Spreading on Twitter: Suggestion: do NOT log in to your Twitter account through any site other than Twitter.com.
[act.: Monday Morning Madness: This morning we discovered 33 Twitter accounts had been "hacked" including prominent Twitter-ers like Rick Sanchez and Barack Obama (who has not been Twittering since becoming the president elect due to transition issues). We immediately locked down the accounts and investigated the issue. Rick, Barack, and others are now back in control of their accounts.
Following The Twitter Hack Trail To DigitalGangster: One thing that didn’t make a lot of sense about the 33 celebrity Twitter accounts hacked this morning - the messages left on the various accounts weren’t consistent and were clearly written by different people with different agendas.
Twitter Hack: How It Happened and What's Being Done]
04 Janeiro 2009
03 Janeiro 2009
Lei de Moore ilustrada
Moore’s Law: The computer chip has evolved from a simple integrated circuit to a microprocessor with millions of transistors.
AMD’s Phenom II, scheduled for release in early 2009, has four cores (flanking the rightmost yellow blocks), a large shared cache, and around 758 million transistors.
The first working integrated circuit on germanium was demonstrated by Jack Kilby at Texas Instruments in 1958. This prototype has a transistor (small left dot) attached to two gold wires and a capacitor (middle black dot). The germanium itself, secured on a glass slide, is divided into three resistors by the tabs at the bottom. By showing that all three types of components could work in the same slice of germanium, Kilby offered a way to improve the performance and lower the cost of electronic devices.
02 Janeiro 2009
Regras simples para comentários em blogues de jornais - e não só...
Comments, version 2009 -- Can we all just get along?
Rules for commenting:
* Stay on topic.
* If you find the topic boring, or trivial, just go away. No one, least of all me, wants to hear you complain that there are more important subjects to be writing about.
* I am (usually) not the topic. Neither is the Tribune. Neither is the person who posted a comment above yours. Address your comments to the arguments, assertions or other information in the blog post and in the comments, not the character, talent or integrity of the writers.
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* Don't violate copyright by quoting huge hunks from the works of others.Two or three paragraphs max, please.
* Don't try to sell anything.
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* Don't libel or defame anyone or any entity; take your racism, sexism and other forms of hate speech elsewhere, pal. We don't need your kind here.
* No profanity, of course. And don't try to slip stuff in by leaving out, transposing or changing a couple of letters on me. Use "bleep," if you must.
* Don't whine. Comment control on a blog is not "censorship." Shooing someone from the room is not the same as trying to silence him. I encourage banished commenters to go to blogger.com or similar sites, start their own forums with their own rules. I promise not to object.
* Don't assume that I'll be reviewing or even reading all the comments. I'll try, particularly when the items are recent, because I am very interested in what others are saying. But things will get posted that violate these rules, so...
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Looking for a job in 2009? Here are 25 of the best jobs to look for in the New Year, defined as jobs that saw growth in the second half of 2008.
Industry: Management, business and financial operations occupations
1. Public relations manager
2. Purchasing agent
3. Claims adjuster, appraiser, examiner and investigator
4. Human resources, training and labor relations specialist
5. Budget analyst
Industry: Professional and related occupations
6. Computer programmer
7. Electrical and electronics engineer
8. Writer and editor
9. Pharmacist
10. Audiologist
Industry: Service occupations
11. Private detective and investigator
12. Chef and head cook
13. Tour and travel guide
14. Recreation and fitness worker
15. Grounds maintenance worker
Industry: Sales and office occupations
16. Cashier
17. Telephone operator
18. Hotel, motel and resort desk clerk
19. Cargo and freight agent
20. Statistical assistant
Industry: Installation, maintenance and repair occupations
21. Computer, automated teller and office machine repairer
22. Electric motor, power tool and related repairer
23. Security and fire alarm systems installer
24. Telecommunication line installers and repairers
25. Locksmiths and safe repairer
Top 25 Careers to Pursue in a Recession: These are just a few of the careers and industries that can be expected to thrive in a down economy.
1. Health Care
2. Energy
3. Education
4. Utilities
5. International Business
6. Public Safety
7. Funerals
8. Accounting
9. Federal Government
10. Pharmaceuticals
11. Sales
12. Military
13. Gambling
14. Alcohol
15. Politics
16. Skilled Services
17. Debt Management
18. Consulting
19. Bankruptcy Law
20. Government Contracting
21. Food
22. Beauty, Health and Erotic Services
23. Debt Collection
24. Ultraluxury Items
25. Multifaceted Careers
01 Janeiro 2009
Déjà vu
2009 is the year of the journalist: As organisations downsize we will begin to see a new layer or ‘freelance’ journalist who are bought in to deliver specialist content. If you are in broadcast you’ll recognise this model as the kind of producer/contract working common in the industry. The smart organisations will keep a kind of halo of these people around them, bringing the audience they cultivate in to their orbit. The individuals keep a level of autonomy but everyone benefits as the media brand and the individual brand work together.
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