31 dezembro 2006
CONTAMINANTES
Recycling Calendars: Before you go out and buy a 2007 calendar, check and see if you have an old calendar from any of these years: 1906, 1917, 1923, 1934, 1945, 1951, 1962, 1973, 1979, 1990, or 2001. For any of those years, the days are the same as in 2007.
29 dezembro 2006
CONTAMINANTES
100 things we didn't know last year
10. Panspermia is the idea that life on Earth originated on another planet.
(para discordar, ver Panspermia, de Karl Sims, autor da imagem)
50 Things We Know Now (That We Didn't Know This Time Last Year) 2006 Edition
TECNOFERA
Top Ten Orwellian Moments of 2006
1) Fox News airs an infomercial for torture.
2) Federal semantics eliminates the hunger problem.
3) Defending the First Amendment by proposing that we scrap it.
4) Halliburton contracts to build large detention camps in the US.
5) The Inexorable Worldwide Rollout of RFID Chips.
6) Stay What?
7) Guilty Until Proven Innocent: Carrying Cash is a Crime.
8) The Automated Targeting System.
9) NSA Warrantless Surveillance and Crypto-City.
10) You tell me.
Bush Admin: What You Don't Know Can't Hurt Us: Just how many different ways has the Bush Administration tried to hide once-public information sources from the public record?
Por cá? Só um exemplo recente:
Deputados de quem?
Daqui a uns anos, inclusive, o mundo estará cheio de nostálgicos da liberdade. [...] Sim, estamos em guerra pela nossa liberdade.
A coisa está preta.
vs.
Notas sobre o Cartão Único (ou do Cidadão)
[imagem dos Big Brother Awards]
CULTURAS IN VITRO
Listas das maravilhas são "conservadoras" e "saudosistas": Está ao alcance de todos votar nas sete novas maravilhas do mundo e nas sete maravilhas de Portugal. Freitas do Amaral, comissário da iniciativa para Portugal, disse que as listas de monumentos podem e devem ser discutidas. Peritos em história de arte e arquitectura discutem-nas e questionam os critérios.
Quanto aos americanos: The 7 Wonders of the USA & U.S.A. 7 Wonders (por estado)
Quanto aos americanos: The 7 Wonders of the USA & U.S.A. 7 Wonders (por estado)
TECNOSFERA
Atenção aos "backups"
Gmail Disaster: Reports Of Mass Email Deletions: Most of the users reported using Firefox 2.0 and that Gmail was open in their browser when the deletions occured.
The cause of the problem isn’t clear.
Google Faces Catch-22 With Deleted Gmails: Now, what if Google is able to restore the deleted emails of the Gmail accounts effected? Wouldn’t that prove that Google keeps a secret backup of all deleted data?
Gmail Disaster: Reports Of Mass Email Deletions: Most of the users reported using Firefox 2.0 and that Gmail was open in their browser when the deletions occured.
The cause of the problem isn’t clear.
Google Faces Catch-22 With Deleted Gmails: Now, what if Google is able to restore the deleted emails of the Gmail accounts effected? Wouldn’t that prove that Google keeps a secret backup of all deleted data?
28 dezembro 2006
TECNOSFERA
Microsoft hands out Ferrari’s to bloggers: Microsoft together with AMD gave out some timely Christmas presents (which are officially review PCs) to a bunch of bloggers this year.
Microsoft "Gifts" and Ethics
Blogger ethics? Oh, please. [a ler também os comentários]
Edelman Has New Ethics Scandal Brewing With Microsoft's Blogger Bribe Campaign
Microsoft "Gifts" and Ethics
Blogger ethics? Oh, please. [a ler também os comentários]
Edelman Has New Ethics Scandal Brewing With Microsoft's Blogger Bribe Campaign
VITAMEDIAS
Me, ‘Person of the Year’? No thanks
For some reason I just don’t feel as empowered as you think I feel [...]
We do ourselves a major disservice when we exaggerate the revolutionary power of ourselves as individuals. Narcissism may be good marketing. But it’s not good for humanity.
For some reason I just don’t feel as empowered as you think I feel [...]
We do ourselves a major disservice when we exaggerate the revolutionary power of ourselves as individuals. Narcissism may be good marketing. But it’s not good for humanity.
TECNOSFERA
Paid Blog Reviews: ReviewMe & PayPerPost
In Summary:
That is a tough one... Let's look back... E-mail is a great thing, but spammers got to it and make it tough to use sometimes. The Web is a great thing, but spammers got to it (spyware, adware) and make it tough to use sometimes. Search engines are a great thing, but spammers got to it... Blogs are a great thing, but comment spammers got to it, making it tough... Paid blogger reviews are a great thing, but they can and will be used by people with bad intentions. As a blogger, I believe you can judge for yourself if a review is for a link or for a review. It is up to you if you are willing to risk a site-wide trust devaluation by Google or other engines. You are the only one who can judge, but don't let Google scare you - do what you know is right.
In Summary:
That is a tough one... Let's look back... E-mail is a great thing, but spammers got to it and make it tough to use sometimes. The Web is a great thing, but spammers got to it (spyware, adware) and make it tough to use sometimes. Search engines are a great thing, but spammers got to it... Blogs are a great thing, but comment spammers got to it, making it tough... Paid blogger reviews are a great thing, but they can and will be used by people with bad intentions. As a blogger, I believe you can judge for yourself if a review is for a link or for a review. It is up to you if you are willing to risk a site-wide trust devaluation by Google or other engines. You are the only one who can judge, but don't let Google scare you - do what you know is right.
27 dezembro 2006
CULTURAS IN VITRO
Searching E-phemera: "The average life of a Web page is 100 days," said Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle. "If we don't aggressively go and archive these materials that we're depending on, not just for scholarship but for cultural fun and trivial pursuits, they will be gone forever." [...]
The Internet Archive at Archive.org boasts more than a few impressive numbers. Here's a sampling:
60 days: How often the archive collects a broad snapshot of the web.
100 days: How often, on average, web pages are changed or deleted.
10 years: The amount of time the archive has been operating.
300: The amount of requests the Wayback Machine search engine receives per second.
2,300: The number of servers used at the archive's San Francisco location. Each holds about a terabyte, or 1,024 gigabytes, of information.
50,000: The number of 30 gigabyte iPods needed to store the archive's collected information.
90,000: The number of audio recordings, concerts and lectures on the nonweb archive.
1.5 million: Total amount of memory, in gigabtyes, on Archive.org's web project.
61 million: The number of unique pages in the archive's Hurricane Katrina collection, all text searchable, from over 1,700 different sites.
85 billion: The number of pages on the current archive. That's a 13-page website for each man, woman and child on Earth.
The Internet Archive at Archive.org boasts more than a few impressive numbers. Here's a sampling:
60 days: How often the archive collects a broad snapshot of the web.
100 days: How often, on average, web pages are changed or deleted.
10 years: The amount of time the archive has been operating.
300: The amount of requests the Wayback Machine search engine receives per second.
2,300: The number of servers used at the archive's San Francisco location. Each holds about a terabyte, or 1,024 gigabytes, of information.
50,000: The number of 30 gigabyte iPods needed to store the archive's collected information.
90,000: The number of audio recordings, concerts and lectures on the nonweb archive.
1.5 million: Total amount of memory, in gigabtyes, on Archive.org's web project.
61 million: The number of unique pages in the archive's Hurricane Katrina collection, all text searchable, from over 1,700 different sites.
85 billion: The number of pages on the current archive. That's a 13-page website for each man, woman and child on Earth.
VITAMEDIAS
2007 Edgie Awards Finalists for the Newspaper Association of America’s Digital Edge Awards!
The winners will be announced at a special reception January 28, 2007 in Las Vegas at NAA’s annual marketing conference.
The winners will be announced at a special reception January 28, 2007 in Las Vegas at NAA’s annual marketing conference.
26 dezembro 2006
VITAMEDIAS
Lá como cá: How can the FCC fine us when they don't publish the rules? Fox is confused because the FCC does not issue clear standards about what is and is not acceptable on TV and radio. The agency believes that doing so would amount to censorship, so they only sanction broadcasters once a show has aired. The obvious problem here is that broadcasters never know in advance if a show will be found indecent; the end result is self-censorship by networks trying to avoid the FCC's wrath.
FCC Moves to Clear Video Route: The Federal Communications Commission has narrowly approved regulations that make it more difficult for local governments to interfere with new cable industry competitors entering the video marketplace.
FCC Moves to Clear Video Route: The Federal Communications Commission has narrowly approved regulations that make it more difficult for local governments to interfere with new cable industry competitors entering the video marketplace.
TECNOSFERA
Founder of Wikipedia plans search engine to rival Google: Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia, is set to launch an internet search engine with amazon.com that he hopes will become a rival to Google and Yahoo! [...]
The project has been dubbed Wikiasari — a combination of wiki, the Hawaiian word for quick, and asari, which is Japanese for "rummaging search".
Wikia To Launch Search Engine: Exclusive Screenshot (Update 12/25/06: Jimmy Wales says this isn’t a Wikiasari screen shot. So what is it?)
Search Wikia: A project to create the search engine that changes everything.
WikiSari . com: The next search is coming
The project has been dubbed Wikiasari — a combination of wiki, the Hawaiian word for quick, and asari, which is Japanese for "rummaging search".
Wikia To Launch Search Engine: Exclusive Screenshot (Update 12/25/06: Jimmy Wales says this isn’t a Wikiasari screen shot. So what is it?)
Search Wikia: A project to create the search engine that changes everything.
WikiSari . com: The next search is coming
.DE!
Dear Abby: Intense love morphs into teen depression
I am a 13-year-old who lives in northern Portugal, and while it's true that the vast majority of teens suffer from depression, mine is different.
Before I went to grade school, I was a happy kid, extroverted and showing a talent for the violin. But when I was 6, I met a girl who I thought was so beautiful that I couldn't look at her.
As much as adults might insist that love in a 6-year-old is impossible, that's the only thing it could have been. And the idea that she didn't love me back gave me many nights of pain and even sent me to the hospital for an emotional breakdown. My parents don't have the time for my emotions. My intense love has turned me into a bitter teen. How can I ease my pain?
CULTURAS IN VITRO
Call for papers for anarchist historiography panel Portugal: From Wednesday, February 27 up to and including Saturday March 1, 2008, the European Social Sciences History Conference will take place in Lisbon, Portugal at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon. We plan to organize a panel on new ways to research anarchism and revolutionary syndicalism and herewith invite researchers to participate.
21 dezembro 2006
VITAMEDIAS
Atenção aos "press releases": PR Newswire Says Innotrac Release Today Was False: The bogus press release came from a third-party distributor called eReleases, whose statements are carried on PR Newswire, said Rachel Meranus, a spokeswoman for PR Newswire. The fake statement said Innotrac had won a ``multiyear, multi-million- dollar'' contract with Siemens AG. Innotrac shares soared before PR Newswire distributed a company release saying the first was unauthorized.
VITAMEDIAS
The Top Ten Stories You Missed in 2006:
1. India Helps Iran Build the Bomb, While the White House Looks the Other Way
2. China Runs up African Debt
3. Bush?s Post-Katrina Power Grab
4. Russia Fuels Latin American Arms Race
5. United States Funds the Taliban
6. Iran and Israel Hold Secret Talks
7. The Gender Gap Gets Smaller
8. Petro Powers Drop the Dollar
9. What?s Worse Than Bird Flu? The Cure.
10. Hackable Passports
1. India Helps Iran Build the Bomb, While the White House Looks the Other Way
2. China Runs up African Debt
3. Bush?s Post-Katrina Power Grab
4. Russia Fuels Latin American Arms Race
5. United States Funds the Taliban
6. Iran and Israel Hold Secret Talks
7. The Gender Gap Gets Smaller
8. Petro Powers Drop the Dollar
9. What?s Worse Than Bird Flu? The Cure.
10. Hackable Passports
VITAMEDIAS
Poll reveals Americans prefer TV news to YouTube: Most Americans polled also think that new camera and Internet technologies are turning the United States "into a nation of voyeurs and paparazzi."
TECNOSFERA
Not sure where you lie in the great wilderness that is the Internet? Wondering how far away your friends (or enemies) are along the TCP/IP pipes? Look no further ? just use the Map of the Internet!
TECNOSFERA
Blog-Tag: Start your own Virtual Cocktail Party in the Blogosphere: To play, simply share five things about yourself that relatively few people know, and then tag five other bloggers to be "it." (The Blog Tag Tree)
TECNOSFERA
As principais pesquisas do ano no 2006 Year-End Google Zeitgeist. A Search for Ourselves: User-Generated Content Dominates Google's 2006 Hot List
19 dezembro 2006
TECNOSFERA
The Shrinking Long Tail - Top 10 Web Domains Increasing in Reach: It does appear that the top 10 web properties are claiming proportionally more page views in 2006 than in 2001.
The impact of the Long Tail can still be felt strongly on the content creation side, on sites like MySpace and YouTube. So in one sense you could argue that The Long Tail has had an impact on the top 10 domains after all - in terms of who is creating the content. But the fact is that those properties are still owned and operated by big media (News Corp and Google in the above two cases). So in that respect, and according to Compete's stats, the top 10 domains have more reach now than 5 years ago.
The impact of the Long Tail can still be felt strongly on the content creation side, on sites like MySpace and YouTube. So in one sense you could argue that The Long Tail has had an impact on the top 10 domains after all - in terms of who is creating the content. But the fact is that those properties are still owned and operated by big media (News Corp and Google in the above two cases). So in that respect, and according to Compete's stats, the top 10 domains have more reach now than 5 years ago.
VITAMEDIAS
A nova 2: vista pelo seu ex-director (com episódios como a RTP contratar à SIC Notícias "um jornal de meia hora").
TECNOSFERA
My Battle with MGM Over Wargames.Com: For the past three months I've been privately engaged in a time-consuming dispute with Nathan J. Hole, a lawyer representing MGM Studios who claims that Wargames.Com, a domain that I've owned since April 16, 1998, is the rightful property of the film company because it produced the 1983 movie WarGames and registered it as a trademark.
CONTAMINANTES
Este caso termina mal: Medics sentenced to death in Libya: A Libyan court today condemned to death six foreign health professionals accused of infecting over 400 children with HIV in 1998. The court refused to take into account a swathe of independent scientific evidence indicating that the outbreak had begun several years before the accused began working there and was caused by poor hygiene at the hospital.
18 dezembro 2006
VITAMEDIAS
New bid to bring professionalism to the blogosphere: The Media Bloggers Association is to unveil new membership criteria aimed at bringing professionalism to the "blogosphere" (...) which would include:
* requiring that members take an online course with the US-based Poynter Institute on legal issues related to blogging
* making members must demonstrate they have worked as professional journalists or undergone training.
* making members adhere to the organisation's ethical standards (which includes using their own names unless there are exceptional circumstances) and adopt formal editorial and corrections policies.
* requiring that members take an online course with the US-based Poynter Institute on legal issues related to blogging
* making members must demonstrate they have worked as professional journalists or undergone training.
* making members adhere to the organisation's ethical standards (which includes using their own names unless there are exceptional circumstances) and adopt formal editorial and corrections policies.
TECNOFERA
Passou-se um ano mas nunca se soube o porquê dos 21 votos portugueses (em 24) para a retenção de dados nas telecomunicações. Quem não deve não teme? Só pode ser piada...
VITAMEDIAS
As perguntas não páram: depois de Manuel Pinto, José Manuel Fernandes e Eduardo Cintra Torres, Francisco Rui Cádima (que continua aqui - com um apelo ao voto no que deverá ser o primeiro demissionário ou demitido da ERC - ou aqui).
ECOPOL
Ainda a propósito de entidades fiscalizadoras, a ler este Às portas do céu (com os poderes inscritos no novo regulamento da Câmara de Lisboa): a partir de Janeiro de 2007, os fiscais da Empresa Municipal de Estacionamento de Lisboa (EMEL) passarão a dispor de poderes idênticos aos da PSP e Polícia Municipal [...]
A vereadora do pelouro da Mobilidade da CML, Marina Ferreira [...], autora do documento, e, por sinal, presidente da EMEL, ter-se-á, porventura, esquecido, mas existe um decreto-lei (327/98) que ainda está em vigor.
E que, aprovado que foi pela Assembleia da República (AR), não poderá ser alterado com a simples aprovação
camarária.
A vereadora do pelouro da Mobilidade da CML, Marina Ferreira [...], autora do documento, e, por sinal, presidente da EMEL, ter-se-á, porventura, esquecido, mas existe um decreto-lei (327/98) que ainda está em vigor.
E que, aprovado que foi pela Assembleia da República (AR), não poderá ser alterado com a simples aprovação
camarária.
VITAMEDIAS
Acabou-se o desrespeito a quem detiver o cartão de identificação da ERC, emitido para "pessoas ou entidades qualificadas devidamente credenciadas para o exercício de funções de fiscalização, em nome da ERC", que a lei equipara a "agentes de autoridade".
As funções de fiscalização das referidas "pessoas ou entidades" são as seguintes:
1 - Os funcionários e agentes da ERC, os respectivos mandatários, bem como as pessoas ou entidades qualificadas devidamente credenciadas que desempenhem funções de fiscalização, quando se encontrem no exercício das suas funções e apresentem título comprovativo dessa qualidade, são equiparados a agentes de autoridade e gozam, nomeadamente, das seguintes prerrogativas:
a) Aceder às instalações, equipamentos e serviços das entidades sujeitas à supervisão e regulação da ERC;
b) Requisitar documentos para análise e requerer informações escritas;
c) Identificar todos os indivíduos que infrinjam a legislação e regulamentação, cuja observância devem respeitar, para posterior abertura de procedimento;
d) Reclamar a colaboração das autoridades competentes quando o julguem necessário ao desempenho das suas funções.
As funções de fiscalização das referidas "pessoas ou entidades" são as seguintes:
1 - Os funcionários e agentes da ERC, os respectivos mandatários, bem como as pessoas ou entidades qualificadas devidamente credenciadas que desempenhem funções de fiscalização, quando se encontrem no exercício das suas funções e apresentem título comprovativo dessa qualidade, são equiparados a agentes de autoridade e gozam, nomeadamente, das seguintes prerrogativas:
a) Aceder às instalações, equipamentos e serviços das entidades sujeitas à supervisão e regulação da ERC;
b) Requisitar documentos para análise e requerer informações escritas;
c) Identificar todos os indivíduos que infrinjam a legislação e regulamentação, cuja observância devem respeitar, para posterior abertura de procedimento;
d) Reclamar a colaboração das autoridades competentes quando o julguem necessário ao desempenho das suas funções.
CULTURAS IN VITRO
Museums boost economy by £1.5bn a year, says report: Britain's museums are not only vital to the economy, but are also the glue that binds communities together, reflecting society and providing ways of understanding the world in which we live, according to a report published yesterday.
They are also a key British export, "just as much as the car industry or hedge funds", according to Tony Travers, of the London School of Economics, author of Museums and Galleries in Britain, which analyses their social and economic impact. [...]
The report was jointly commissioned by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council and the National Museum Directors' Conference.
They are also a key British export, "just as much as the car industry or hedge funds", according to Tony Travers, of the London School of Economics, author of Museums and Galleries in Britain, which analyses their social and economic impact. [...]
The report was jointly commissioned by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council and the National Museum Directors' Conference.
PHOTO-GRAFIA
Salgado, Sebastião Salgado (lamento se vieram até aqui à procura de outras salgalhadas...)
17 dezembro 2006
15 dezembro 2006
CONTAMINANTES
10 things we didn't know last week:
9. There are 200 million blogs which are no longer being updated, say technology analysts.
Do ano passado: 100 things we didn't know this time last year:
3. While it's an offence to drop litter on the pavement, it's not an offence to throw it over someone's garden wall.
32. "Restaurant" is the most mis-spelled word in search engines.
33. Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho has only been in an English pub once, to buy his wife cigarettes.
50. Only 36% of the world's newspapers are tabloid.
54. Deep Throat is reportedly the most profitable film ever. It was made for $25,000 (£13,700) and has grossed more than $600m.
76. The day when most suicides occurred in the UK between 1993 and 2002 was 1 January, 2000.
100. Musical instrument shops must pay an annual royalty to cover shoppers who perform a recognisable riff before they buy, thereby making a "public performance".
9. There are 200 million blogs which are no longer being updated, say technology analysts.
Do ano passado: 100 things we didn't know this time last year:
3. While it's an offence to drop litter on the pavement, it's not an offence to throw it over someone's garden wall.
32. "Restaurant" is the most mis-spelled word in search engines.
33. Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho has only been in an English pub once, to buy his wife cigarettes.
50. Only 36% of the world's newspapers are tabloid.
54. Deep Throat is reportedly the most profitable film ever. It was made for $25,000 (£13,700) and has grossed more than $600m.
76. The day when most suicides occurred in the UK between 1993 and 2002 was 1 January, 2000.
100. Musical instrument shops must pay an annual royalty to cover shoppers who perform a recognisable riff before they buy, thereby making a "public performance".
TECNOSFERA
Mais um: BlogKits is the world's first true performance marketing network built just for bloggers! That means that we've created a simple, yet effective way for bloggers to generate revenue from their blogs that makes sense.
14 dezembro 2006
TECNOSFERA
O Miniscente publica no sábado, em princípio e após aviso sensato :), uma entrevista com este vosso [colocar o termo adequado].
Um conselho: gastem o tempo nestas Interviews. A sério.
Um conselho: gastem o tempo nestas Interviews. A sério.
PHOTO-GRAFIA
The Best Photos of the Year 2006 da Time (via).
Olhando para os últimos dois anos (depois, desisti), é só miséria no fotojornalismo da revista...
Olhando para os últimos dois anos (depois, desisti), é só miséria no fotojornalismo da revista...
12 dezembro 2006
ECOPOL
O Sistema de blogs da Assembleia da República ainda está a funcionar. O mais exemplar é o da "Cidadania - As causas do Portugal moderno": Entradas (0) Artigos (0 ) Comentários (0)
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