30 Abril 2009
29 Abril 2009
28 Abril 2009
Home, o filme
Coming soon to YouTube: Besson's and Bertrand's environmental film project: Luc Besson's and Yann-Arthus Betrand's 90 minute full-length film "Home" will exclusively be available online on YouTube for English, French, Spanish and German–speaking countries beginning June 5 — just in time for the 37th World Environment Day.
27 Abril 2009
26 Abril 2009
A ver: promo Cinema 21:9 LCD TV (Philips)
Philips Carousel - a short film from Adam Berg and Stink Digital
25 Abril 2009
Lost & Found
Nanometraje por Philip Brink, Rogier Cornelisse, Floris Liesker y Hugo van Woerden, ganadores del QuickFlick Short Film Festival.
24 Abril 2009
Símbolos de física e astronomia em vídeo
'Sixty Symbols' - unravelling the secret language of science: project aimed at shedding light on the world of science, explaining the meaning of dozens of symbols and the fundamental part they play in modern life.
23 Abril 2009
Khuong Ngyuyen
basé à Paris, et ancien étudiant des Gobelins. Un travail avec beaucoup de style et de très belles idées.
A loucura das assinaturas (ou de como se pode cobrar pela qualidade)
Subscription price: $1.96;Newsstand price: $6.99;
*Change in circulation: +8.3%
Subscription price: 47¢;Newsstand price: $4.95;
*Change in circulation: –13%
*From 2007 to 2008*Change in circulation: –13%
In Switch, Magazines Think About Raising Prices: In the last six months of 2008, subscribers paid an average of 47 cents an issue for Newsweek, 77 cents an issue for BusinessWeek and 89 cents an issue for Fortune, according to an analysis of their filings with the Audit Bureau of Circulations.
Even Condé Nast’s magazines, filled with luxury ads and dispatches from far-flung locations, are cheap: 87 cents an issue for The New Yorker, 89 cents for Allure and just over a dollar each for Condé Nast Traveler and Bon Appétit. [...]
Most major magazines have cut prices recently as part of an effort to increase subscriptions. A New York Times analysis of circulation data for the 50 largest and most expensive magazines showed that in the last four years, as overall prices rose 14 percent, subscription prices dropped an average of 9 percent.
(Lower subscription prices do not necessarily mean less revenue for the publisher, however. When publishers reduce their reliance on subscriptions sold through agents, the subscription prices can fall, but the publisher earns more because it is no longer sharing the subscription revenue.) [...]
The Economist is leading the charge on expensive subscriptions, and its success is one reason publishers are rethinking their approaches. It is a news magazine with an extraordinarily high cover price — raised to $6.99 late last year — and subscription price, about $100 a year on average.
Even though The Economist is relatively expensive, its circulation has increased sharply in the last four years. Subscriptions are up 60 percent since 2004, and newsstand sales have risen 50 percent, according to the audit bureau.
“We get more money out of our readers than advertisers, and that’s a very different model,” said Alan Press, senior vice president for marketing in the Americas at the Economist Group. “We’ll never discount the kind of content we have.”
22 Abril 2009
Tecnologia ambiental
CE Green Guide Just in Time for Earth Day: In honor of Earth Day 2009, Retrevo has put out a guide to Greener Living with Electronics.
21 Abril 2009
A exploração dos jornais pelo Google e dos sujeitos das notícias pelos jornais...
Why Are Newspapers Exploiting The People They Cover? If you go by the journalist's own logic, then the truth is that they are exploiting the newsmakers they cover. After all, it's really the newsmakers who are "creating" the story, and all the journalists are doing is writing up an account of it, for commercial purposes, and not rewarding the newsmakers who make their jobs possible in the first place. Journalists have been freeriding on the backs of the people who actually make the news for too long! I think it's time that everyone who is in a news story start standing up for their rights, and demanding that journalists pay them to stop this free riding.
20 Abril 2009
Para perder tempo
Name Masher
Exemplo com a casa: contrafactosumentos, contrafactargumentos ou contrafumentos
Políticas
100 biggest givers in American politics since 1989:
Top 10 donors:
AT&T Inc - $40,838,395
American Fedn of State, County & Municipal Employees - $40,690,630
National Assn of Realtors - $34,635,003
Goldman Sachs - $30,878,682
American Assn for Justice - $30,103,429
Intl Brotherhood of Electrical Workers - $29,684,341
National Education Assn - $29,624,876
Laborers Union - $27,797,489
Service Employees International Union - $27,363,922
Carpenters & Joiners Union - $26,789,808
Anti-terrorismos
Top 10 Strangest Anti-Terrorism Patents (Note: yes, most of these patents cite fighting terrorism as raison d'être)
19 Abril 2009
Números de polícia
365 Budapest: typographical diversity of Budapest’s street numbers. I will post a number each day in 2009. 365 different types of street numbers hopefully.
5000 livros
Chorro de literatura: Alicia Martín ha instalado en Córdoba una escultura gigante compuesta por 5000 libros llamada Biografías
18 Abril 2009
Vozes
Open Source Resistance: On April 18, 2007, Open Source Resistance hosted a gathering in LA. Musicians, artists, and ordinary people gathered in support of a simple message: speak up to defend the things that matter to you. The concert planned to end the evening was broken up by police.
17 Abril 2009
American Standard Code for Information Interchange
Europe Beyond ASCII: The size of the countries on this map does not correspond to their geographical area, but to the foreign language level of their official languages in Unicode
16 Abril 2009
15 Abril 2009
Onde vão os blogues buscar informação? O exemplo do Daily Kos
Where we get our information from the past week, from Monday, April 6, to Sunday, April 12:
Newspapers: 102 primary, 21 secondary
Blogs: 83 primary, 19 secondary
Advocacy organizations: 77 primary, 9 secondary
Television network: 69 primary, 14 secondary
Online news organizations: 54 primary, 5 secondary
Magazines and journals: 36 primary
Political trade press: 28 primary
Research/polling: 20 primary
Wikipedia: 21 primary, 8 secondary
Educational (.edu): 15 primary
Government: 14 primary, 5 secondary
Campaigns: 13 primary
Books: 6 primary
AP and other Wire: 5 secondary
Radio: 4 primary
In the unlikely and tragic event that every single newspaper went out of business today, we'd have little problem replacing them as a source of information.
14 Abril 2009
13 Abril 2009
12 Abril 2009
A evolução das religiões
Jared Diamond, professor of geography at UCLA, received the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction in 1998 for Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. In 1999, he received the National Medal of Science. His most recent book is Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (2004).
Professor Diamond argues that religion has encompassed at least four independent components that have arisen or disappeared at different stages of development of human societies over the last 10,000 years.
11 Abril 2009
Prognósticos
2020 vision: What's next for news
I. AFTER THE FIRE (2009-2010)
II. TRENDS, SIGNALS & INFLUENCES (2009-2014)
III. THE KNOWN COMPETITORS (2009-2014)
IV. THE NEW EXOTICS (2010-2020)
So when people ask me, “What should I do to prepare for the future?” I suggest they just wrap their brains around this idea: The current meltdown is just a warm-up act.
10 Abril 2009
09 Abril 2009
08 Abril 2009
07 Abril 2009
Futuro digital
The Myths and Fallacies of Digital Photographs and Their Preservation: This briefing paper reviews some of the core challenges in preserving digital photographs to make sure that the value of a digital photo archive remains and grows for the benefit of the photographer.
06 Abril 2009
Coisas da televisão
Maior prazer mesmo com anúncios maus: Investigadores dos EUA concluíram que os telespectadores que assistem aos anúncios nos intervalos, mesmo aos de qualidade duvidosa, retomam a programação com mais entusiasmo.
Dulce Pinzón
Superhéroes: El principal objetivo de esta serie es homenajear al hombre ordinario que sin ningún poder supernatural logra que su comunidad sobreviva y progrese.
05 Abril 2009
04 Abril 2009
Justine Lai
In Join Or Die, I paint myself having sex with the Presidents of the United States in chronological order.
03 Abril 2009
Em duas linhas
Pigasus Awards'08
Every year, on the appropriate date of April 1, the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF) gives out the Pigasus Awards, a dubious honor to people or organizations that have done their best in the past year to snuff out science and promote irrationality.
02 Abril 2009
01 Abril 2009
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