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12, 03.05.02
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World Press Freedom [To]Day
http://www.wan-press.org/3may/
http://portal.unesco.org/ci/ev.php?URL_ID=1204&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC
The Meaning Of Freedom
http://www.mediachannel.org/views/roundtables/pressfreedom.shtml
There is good news on press freedom
http://www.internews.org/articles/2002/20020503_iht_wpfday.htm
France: In less than a week, the FN has tried three times to intimidate the media.
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=1987
Utah Reporter Charged For Not Calling 911s
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/editorandpublisher/headlines/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1477261
Newspaper Reporting Too Timid
Journalists are being far too timid in reporting the news, and the public is poorly informed about the media’s role in democracy
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Reporter-Patriots.html
Press Ahead: Don’t be an idiot. Read newspapers.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/tvaradarajan/?id=105002002
British newspapers “the least trusted in Europe”
Only 19% of Portuguese and 20% of Greeks read one daily.
http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/article.html?id=020424002867
Ad Exec Presents Newspaper “Deprivation Study” Findings
http://www.adage.com/news.cms?newsId=34589
Newspapers in the Digital Age: Forget the death of newspapers
http://www.ojr.org/ojr/future/1020298748.php
Start-Up Says Newspapers of Future May Be Printed With Electronic Ink
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/0,,SB1019763168152707600,00.html
Newspaper Execs Mull Industry Future
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/020501/naa_future_2.html
AP’s Boccardi Outlines New Services
Regional and national advertisers will be able to use a secure AP site to place ads in multiple newspapers.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020429/ap_on_bi_ge/ap_annual_meeting_6
CULTURAS IN VITRO
What is performance art?
Some say that you really had to be there. Others see no reason why the notorious “happenings” of the 1960s and 1970s shouldn’t be recreated.
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=288080
An Opera That’s a Talk Show That’s a Philosophy
You’re listening in the audience, and suddenly Mr. Rouse walks up and sticks the microphone in the face of the person next to you, who stands up and sings. Pretty soon you’re looking at all your neighbors with suspicion: did they pay to see the show, or are they in the cast?
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/28/arts/music/28GANN.html
Music Fans Rip More, Spend More
Experienced file sharers are 41 percent more likely than the average online music fan to have increased their music spending levels
http://cyberatlas.internet.com/big_picture/applications/article/0,,1301_1025351,00.html
How Hip Hop Destroyed Black Power
http://athena.tbwt.com/content/article.asp?articleid=545
The Rappers You Love to Hate
Let’s assume, just for fun, that the Beatles are the most influential group in the history of pop music. That would make N.W.A. a solid No. 2.
http://www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/n/nwa-straight.shtml
UK acts disappear from US charts
For the first time in more than 38 years, there are no UK acts in the top 100 singles chart in the US.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/music/newsid_1946000/1946331.stm
U.S. 2002 Special 301 Report
Adequacy and effectiveness of intellectual property protection in approximately 72 countries.
http://www.ustr.gov/reports/2002/special301.htm
High political tension behind the scenes at the Venice Biennale
A stand-off between the Italian government and the Biennale’s administration over freedom of choice
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=9372
Bibliotheca Alexandrina - The revival of the Ancient Library of Alexandria
http://www.unesco.org/webworld/alexandria_new/
Will the Web Save Comics?
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/wo_jenkins050102.asp
Cowabunga! “The Simpsons” not ending after all
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/020501/80/cy2zh.html
Silent But Deadly
Tired of plot-revealing websites, George Lucas sends out a few Stormtroopers to help the film geeks see the error of their ways.
http://atomfilms.shockwave.com/af/content/silent_deadly
ECO-TERRORES
September 11th Environmental Hypocrisy
EPA has covered up the existence of deadly pollution in the area of the destroyed World Trade Center towers in New York
http://ens-news.com/ens/apr2002/2002L-04-26g.html
Choking on the facts
When the WTC came crashing down, the casualties and the impact were obvious. But you may have heard of a new threat to New York City which some worry is more insidious - the “WTC cough”.
http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/00000006D8AC.htm
The Bush Administration’s Assault on the Environment
Nearly 90 agency actions - spanning the spectrum of the nation’s most important environmental programs, including those protecting air, water, forests, wildlife and public lands - are cataloged by the report, which also finds that the administration intensified its assault after September 11, when public attention was diverted by the war on terrorism.
http://www.nrdc.org/legislation/rollbacks/rollbacksinx.asp
Los países pobres denuncian la creciente invasión de los biopiratas del norte
http://www.elpais.es/suple/ciberpais/articulo.html?xref=20020425elpcibenr_3&type=Tes&d_date=20020425&anchor=elpcibred
2002 National Academy of Sciences President’s Address
[entre outros tópicos] I am worried about a movement to restrict publication that has been proceeding quietly but quickly in Washington.
http://www4.nationalacademies.org/nas/nashome.nsf/urllinks/NAS-59MUXF?OpenDocument
University presses, one of the pillars of U.S. intellectual life, are in trouble.
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/entertainment/3142915.htm
Survey finds few in U.S. understand science…
…and many believe in mysterious psychic powers and may be quick to accept phony science reports
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/04/30/science.understanding.ap/
Moving Target on Policy Battlefield
Increasingly, “Science” Used by Proponents and Critics to Score a Shot
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A18131-2002May1?language=printer
Bush Swells the State
From October 2001 to March 2002, federal outlays were up by $60 billion over the same period the previous year. In this time period, the federal government […] has somehow managed to burn through fully $1 trillion in wealth formerly owned by the private sector.
http://www.mises.org/fullstory.asp?control=939
Double The Deficit?
Lagging federal tax revenues could cause this year’s budget deficit to swell beyond $100 billion, more than twice what Congress had anticipated
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/04/26/politics/main507363.shtml
U.S. Propaganda Chief Beers Asks Congress For Nearly $600M Propaganda Budget
http://www.odwyerpr.com/0501beers.htm
The U.S. Hit List at the United Nations
http://www.foreignpolicy-infocus.org/commentary/2002/0204un.html
WTC RIP
The twin towers were destroyed, and it was truly horrible. But what is achieved by pretending they were never there in the first place?
http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/00000006D8B1.htm
Why the Towers Fell
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/wtc/
The Enemy Within? The FBI’s anthrax investigation turns on itself.
What scientific authorities could the FBI turn to if it's effectively investigating the very labs that do its testing?
http://www.prospect.org/print/V13/9/rozen-l.html
How to rig an election
In a normal democracy, voters choose their representatives. In America, it is rapidly becoming the other way around - and now technology makes it worse
http://www.economist.com/world/na/PrinterFriendly.cfm?Story_ID=1099030
The Ugly Europeans: Jean-Marie Le Pen, Jörg Haider, and other xenophobes
http://slate.msn.com/?id=2064776
Images et slogans en un clic
http://www.liberation.fr/presidentielle/actu/affiches01.php
£33m budget passed for Euro-CIA
The European Union is rapidly creating a full-scale police and intelligence arm, similar to a joint FBI/CIA wrapped together at Europol headquarters.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;$sessionid$PAPNTBIAABJANQFIQMGCFFOAVCBQUIV0?xml=/news/2002/04/27/wpol27.xml&sSheet=/news/2002/04/27/ixworld.html
Paranoia Over Privacy
How can citizens be protected while still retaining some semblance of our privacy and civil liberties being irrevocable?
http://popmatters.com/features/020410-paranoia.html
Cyberspace next target for terrorists
Louis Freeh, the head of the FBI from 1993-2001: companies such as Microsoft must be legally obligated to hand over the keys needed to decipher encrypted messages
http://cbc.ca/stories/2002/04/30/elcock_terror020430
John Balzar: Privacy vs. anonymity on the Web
We should making it harder to be anonymous, marginalizing those who try.
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3170530.htm
Prepared Statement of Jim Harper, Editor of Privacilla.org
http://www.privacilla.org/releases/federal_agency_privacy_testimony.html
Porn Panel Plays It Safe
A government-commissioned report titled “Youth, Pornography, and the Internet” could have been a near-hysterical condemnation of technology and a cry for intrusive new laws.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,52257,00.html
[Australian] officials spy on calls
Phone companies released an average of 2000 records a day. No warrants are needed
http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,4220299%255E2,00.html
Police use new software to arrest 27 in child porn raid
New computer software helps officers filter a mass of information to track down potential suspects and their computers in homes and offices.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,690128,00.html
North Korea: Behind the Tyrant’s Mask
“If you have secrets don’t use the telephone too much. We should also tighten controls over use of typewriters and photocopiers”.
http://www.feer.com/articles/2002/0205_02/p012region.html
The intrusion explosion
The hot new technique in exploring your buying decision is called “observational research” or “retail ethnography”.
http://www.iht.com/cgi-bin/generic.cgi?template=articleprint.tmplh&ArticleId=56486
Website in court over sale of JFK map
The US government has begun a court action to stop a website owner selling the original map of Cuba - complete with hand-scrawled crosses marking Soviet missile sites - used by John F. Kennedy throughout the 1962 missile crisis.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,689578,00.html
Enron: The Anatomy of a Cover-Up
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0203/S00066.htm
The Enron Nine (J.P. Morgan Chase, Citigroup, Credit Suisse First Boston, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, Barclays, Deutsche Bank, Lehman Brothers)
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020513&s=greider
Enron plans to return as smaller firm
http://www.msnbc.com/news/746601.asp
How Saddam reaps illegal oil profits
Millions meant for food aid diverted by Iraqi regime
http://www.msnbc.com/news/746401.asp
VITAMEDIAS
Parachute Journalists
Journalists often swoop in to foreign countries, file stories and fly out - while putting their sources and contacts at risk.
http://tompaine.com/feature.cfm/ID/5488
Who is a journalist?
http://www.journalism.ubc.ca/thunderbird/2001-02/april/journalist.html
All Dressed Up But Will It Go Places?
A newspaper, whatever its political bent or ideological bent, should provide adequate space for dissenting voices
http://www.malaysia.net/aliran/monthly/2002/2i.html
A Case History in the Culture of Lies: The Washington Post
http://www.americanpolitics.com/20020426Utwater.html
Coup? Not Cisneros’s Style. But Power? Oh, Yes.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/28/business/yourmoney/28CISN.html?pagewanted=all
How the US news media made patient safety a priority
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/324/7344/1044?lookupType=volpage&vol=324&fp=1044&view=short
Public image limited - But what are image rights?
http://media.guardian.co.uk/marketingandpr/story/0,7494,707768,00.html
MTV Reclamou Contra o Nome Escolhido pela NTV
http://jornal.publico.pt/2002/05/03/Media/R01.html
Viacom loses fight over domain name mtv.com.sg
The word “MTV” used in the domain name was descriptive and generic and Viacom was unable to prove it had “clear or unequivocal” exclusive rights over it.
http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,1870,116391,00.html
Ad, Ad, Ad World
With the advent of ad-zapping software, those annoying pop-ups may soon be a thing of the past. One problem: Once we nuke all the ads, who foots the bill?
http://journalism.fas.nyu.edu/opensource/readme/index.php?art_id=126
Skipping Commercials Is Stealing According to Turner CEO
http://www.2600.com/news/display.shtml?id=1113
Web Site Introduces Commercials Online
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/29/business/media/29ADDE.html
Clinton No.1 target of Leno, Letterman
New study raises questions about the impact of the proliferation of political humor and the blurring line between entertainment and news
http://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/04/30/political.humor/
Late Night Joke Archives
http://www.newsmax.com/liners.shtml
Bored viewers forget TV
Almost half of all television viewers cannot remember anything interesting from the previous night’s programmes
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/tv_and_radio/newsid_1950000/1950828.stm
The World Cup’s Media Winners
This year's tournament promises to be a very different commercial experience. Live games will be broadcast in UK [& Portugal] between 7.30am and 12.30pm.
http://specials.ft.com/creativebusiness/apr302002/FT3FU4R8M0D.html
“We’re going all out on this one”
The Cup will offer the BBC the perfect chance to catapult itself into the lead in the interactive TV game. But is it spending our money on services we don’t really want?
http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,7558,706722,00.html
HDTV: a “revolution” in search of couch potatoes
http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/388083p-3083964c.html
Digital TV rollout gets boost from cable industry
http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20020502/4077770s.htm
TV stations signal a slow pace to digital broadcasts
Only 15% of the nation’s commercial TV stations are transmitting a digital TV signal
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2002/04/23/digital-tv.htm
Most U.S. TV Stations Aren’t Ready For Deadline on Digital Upgrades
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/0,,SB1020112521382417800,00.html
Many Bidders May Pursue New Method to Carry TV
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/30/technology/30WAVE.html?todaysheadlines
“Seed” Mag brings science to the Maxim generati
If it weren’t for the age of its founder and editor, Seed might be just another magazine launch. But Adam Bly is only 21.
http://www.newsday.com/features/ny-feat-seed0430.story?coll=ny%2Dfeatures%2
Wall Street Journal Hedcut auctions on eBay
http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/the_wall_street_journal/
The Dead Beat - A story about the city’s obituary writers
http://www.chicagomag.com/pressbox/pressbox_story.htm
TECNO-HOUSE
The Internet is for Everyone - by Vint Cerf
http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3271.txt
Who can speak for the Internet? More voices would help
http://www.iht.com/cgi-bin/generic.cgi?template=articleprint.tmplh&ArticleId=56121
Net’s Webby awards reflect changing times
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/04/30/BU85864.DTL&type=tech
2002 Webby Awards Nominees
http://www.webbyawards.com/main/webby_awards/nominees.html
Vivendi considers purge of internet activities…
… that could lead to it abandoning the Vizzavi portal it co-owns with Vodafone.
http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3Q866PM0D&live=true&tagid=ZZZLZDL1B0C&subheading=media,%20entertainment,%20%20sport
Telecom meltdown intensifies
http://www.iht.com/cgi-bin/generic.cgi?template=articleprint.tmplh&ArticleId=56533
Telecom’s New Shape
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/tc_special/telecom.htm
Impressions after riding a Segway
http://www.bricklin.com/segwayride1.htm
Was Bill Gates Lying?
http://www.tidbits.com/tb-issues/TidBITS-628.html#lnk3
New penalties disputed
http://www.iht.com/articles/56285.html
Neck and Shoulder Pain Common in Computer Users
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020426/hl_nm/computers_pain_1
Piracy “does have victims”
34% of software on computers in Western Europe in 2000 was pirated, representing $3 billion in revenue.
http://www.iht.com/cgi-bin/generic.cgi?template=articleprint.tmplh&ArticleId=56126
A law to protect spyware
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/04/26/hollings_spyware/print.html
Prototyping an Armored Data Vault - Rights Management on Big Brother’s Computer
http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~sasho/papers/vault.pdf
Anti-EULA script removes offending text
Because software makers presume users to be bound by text which is read and agreed to after the sale, the idea here is to undermine the presumption on which the agreement is based.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25120.html
Status of the national law application of the EUCD (Directive 2001/29/CE).
http://wiki.ael.be/index.php/EUCD-Status
New Stealth Attack Found Against Personal Firewalls
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176213.html
Anatomy of a hacking
http://news.com.com/2009-1017-893228.html?tag=fd_lede
Employees seen as computer saboteurs
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1946000/1946368.stm
Cultures@SiliconValley
Anthropological expedition into the everyday lives of people living in, and connected to Silicon Valley.
http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/anthropology/svcp/SVCPbook.html
Inside the Earth Simulator (the world’s fastest supercomputer)
http://www.es.jamstec.go.jp/esc/gallary/index_e.html
Geek Holiday Destinations [Science & Tech Museums]
http://www.sericyb.com.au/geek-holiday.html
Where do I find the “Any key” on my keyboard? (FAQ2859)
http://web14.compaq.com/falco/detail.asp?FAQnum=FAQ2859
CONTAMINANTES
The Twenty-First-Century Firm: Changing Economic Organization in International Perspective
http://pup.princeton.edu/chapters/s7205.html
The Crisis in Corporate Governance
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/toc/02_18/B3781govern.htm
Forbes Best Paid CEOs 2002
http://www.forbes.com/lists/home.jhtml?passListId=12&passYear=2002&passListType=Person&searchOn1=numberfield1&searchType1=GTE&searchValue1=1
What Europe can teach Uncle Sam
http://www.guardian.co.uk/bush/story/0,7369,706976,00.html
It’s Amazing What You Can Learn from the Guardian These Days...
http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/TotW/Daily_Journal.html#2002-04-29-pdty
McDonald’s and Corporate Social Responsibility?
http://www.foodfirst.org/media/press/2002/mcdresponsibility.html
Issues that McDonald’s Did Not Deal with in the Report on Corporate Social Responsibility
http://www.foodfirst.org/media/press/2002/mcdonaldsissues.html
Kill Them With Kindness
http://www.americanradioworks.org/features/mcdonalds/temple_print.html
“The Long Boom” is back!
What recession? A coauthor of 1999’s infamously optimistic screed says the future is still bright.
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/04/30/longboom/print.html
Everything You Need to Know about Cloning
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/02_17/b3780061.htm
The Secrets of Autism
The number of children diagnosed in the U.S. is exploding. Why?
http://www.time.com/time/health/printout/0,8816,234018,00.html
Don’t Get Up. She’s Only Riding for 2
One thing most New Yorkers will not give to anyone, under any circumstances: a seat on a crowded subway train.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/30/nyregion/30TUNN.html
US activists demand lawyers for chimps
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1952000/1952902.stm
Silicon Pets, but the Pride Is Real
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/02/technology/circuits/02AIBO.html
Here come the Ratbots [remote-controlled rats]
http://www.nature.com/nsu/020429/020429-9.html
Rats Turned Into Remote-Controlled Robots
Technique’s potential uses include aid to victims of disaster or neural injuries [but] “in theory, you could guide the animal anywhere”.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18261-2002May1.html
Images from the 1939-40 New York World’s Fair
http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/wooda/nywf.html
. DE !
Hairogenics: Until there’s a safe, proven and attractive alternative to baldness
http://www.hairogenics.com/
Worst Car of the Millennium
http://cartalk.cars.com/About/Worst-Cars/
Height and earnings: Walk tall
http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=1099333
Short Changed: Why do tall people make more money?
http://slate.msn.com/?id=2063439
Countryside at risk from a Dracula theme park in Transylvania
http://www.theecologist.org/article.html?article=288
Why conductors have great sex
The idea that rock stars enjoy the best sex is a popular myth that can be doubly disproved. […] Conductors have the liveliest, longest and most rewarding sex lives.
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/dynamic/hottx/review.html?in_review_id=556960&in_review_text_id=523132
Toilet Technology: Great Moments in Toilet Paper History
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/WolfFiles/wolffiles.html
Sulabh International Museum of Toilets
http://www.sulabhtoiletmuseum.org/pg01.htm
Where Migrants’ Journeys Began, and How They Are Faring in the European Squeeze
Portugal: There are an estimated 60,000 undocumented workers. Most illegal immigrants are from Algeria and enter the country via Spain. In 2001, 234 people applied for asylum, mostly from Angola.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/28/international/28EBOX.html
50 years later, California man receives grandfather’s lost wallet in the mail
http://www.boston.com/news/daily/30/lost_wallet.htm
City’s Latest Target: A noisy old-time ice cream truck that serves up the soft serve and cranks out the canned kiddie music.
http://www.ctnow.com/news/local/hc-softee0429.artapr29.story
[Pérolas da estupidez humana:] Robbers pose as Starbucks workers…
…not satisfied with the amount of money they found in a Starbucks safe, the pair served at least 18 unsuspecting customers over a half-hour period.
http://www.boston.com/news/daily/01/starbucks.htm
History teacher robs his own bank
http://www.boston.com/news/daily/02/bank.htm
Clumsy criminals trip themselves up
Two car burglars locked themselves out of their getaway car after breaking into a vehicle owned by a police officer’s son
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/sttammany/index.ssf?/newsstory/t_lockout26.html
O perigo de caçar coiotes de um avião!
http://www.ntsb.gov/NTSB/brief.asp?ev_id=20020328X00418&key=1
PHOTO-GRAFIAS
Brake On Through
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/editorandpublisher/features_columns/photo_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1476813
Microsoft goes Dindows?!
http://www.tomshardware.com/technews/images/20020425-dindows.jpg
ZITE ZA ZEMANA (2 de 1 a 3 Zs):
So You’ve Decided to Be Evil
http://www.darksites.com/evilplan.php
