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13, 10.05.02
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Na semana de todo o serviço público (SP), do que falamos quando falamos de SP?
Empresas que prestam SP em Portugal (indemnizações compensatórias em 2001):
LUSA e RTP (19.458 mil contos), OMNI, SATA e TAP (8.126 mil contos), CARRIS, STPC e BRISA (6. 315 mil contos), CP, ML e REFER (5.500 mil contos), SOFLUSA e TRANSTEJO (1.100 mil contos).
http://www.governo.gov.pt/PortalDoGoverno/GovernosAnteriores/GC14/ConselhoMinistros/Comunicados/20011219.htm [ponto 7]
O que é (era?) o SP de Televisão em Portugal?
Capítulo IV - artºs 42 a 47
http://www.aacs.pt/legislacao/lei_da_televisao.htm
“Governo chama a si a tarefa de definir o que é, em concreto, o SP de televisão”.
http://ultimahora.publico.pt/shownews.asp?id=141470
O que é o SP de Televisão na Suécia?
The Charter For Television Broadcasting Services [in the service of the public] in Sweden
http://www.svt.se/hela/inenglish/charter.pdf
A favor do SP: RTP - Operação Kamikaze Ou “Solução Final”? - por António-Pedro Vasconcelos
http://jornal.publico.pt/2002/05/07/Media/R03.html
http://jornal.publico.pt/2002/05/09/Media/R01OPI.html
Creating a Future for Public Service Television
http://www.bbc.co.uk/info/news/news286.htm
Contra o SP: Nem “Serviço”, nem “Público” - por José Pacheco Pereira
http://jornal.publico.pt/2002/05/09/EspacoPublico/O01.html
Televisão e serviço público - por Vasco Graça Moura
http://dn.sapo.pt/cronica/mostra_cronica.asp?codCronica=1783&codEdicao=256
A New Future for Communications (UK)
http://www.communicationswhitepaper.gov.uk
Public service broadcasting after spectrum scarcity [ver 5.3.3]
http://www.communicationswhitepaper.gov.uk/by_topic/keyword6/index.html
One man, one media?
Within five years one individual could be controlling over a third of national press and most popular free-to-air TV channel.
http://media.guardian.co.uk/city/story/0,7497,711820,00.html
Guess who’s coming to dinner
The new communications bill looks designed to stop Rupert Murdoch from dominating British television. It may not succeed
http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1120505
The Future of Public Service Television in a Multi-channel Digital Age [de 1996 mas, por cá, a discussão ainda é a mesma]
http://www.poptel.org.uk/carole-tongue/pubs/psb_b.html
CULTURAS IN VITRO
“Don Quixote” Considerado o Melhor Livro do Mundo
http://artscanada.cbc.ca/artsNow/index.jsp?label=list020508
[O problema de citar as agências internacionais que esquecem haver duas obras portuguesas: “Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet” & “Jose Saramago, Blindness”]
http://jornal.publico.pt/2002/05/09/Cultura/C08.html
http://dn.sapo.pt/noticia/noticia.asp?CodNoticia=42982&codEdicao=255&CodAreaNoticia=13
Hollywood vs. the Internet
Why entertainment companies want to hack your computer
http://www.reason.com/0205/fe.mg.hollywood.shtml
Hollywood vs. High-Tech
Disney’s Michael Eisner and others say Hollywood will defend its intellectual property at all costs. Silicon Valley eminences like Andy Grove say those are fightin’ words - if it means trampling consumers’ rights and squashing innovation.
http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/print/0,1643,39428,FF.html
Lawrence Lessig: The “Dinosaurs” Are Taking Over [mais uma! Não há outro?…]
If the media giants have their way, content will be rigidly controlled and innovation stifled
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/02_19/b3782610.htm
Technophobia Over the Years
Historically, the courts have refused to let copyrights block technology.
http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/print/0,1643,39436,FF.html
For a Song
Total cultural capitalism - we must prepare for its arrival in the digital world within the next few years. Technically, it involves Digital Rights Management (DRM) systems that make it possible to control legitimate access to digital resources.
http://www.faz.com/IN/INtemplates/eFAZ/archive.asp?doc={A6D8BA82-6564-42FC-A493-9EB6A14944EF}&width=1280&height=996&agt=explorer&ver=4&svr=4
Digital Rights Management
http://searchsystemsmanagement.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid20_gci493373,00.html
Boeing Puts Digital Movie Systems in 23 Theaters
… one week ahead of the widely anticipated debut of movie “Attack of the Clones”
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=581&ncid=738&e=2&u=/nm/20020509/tc_nm/leisure_boeing_digitalcinema_dc_1
“Star Wars” Returns for Better or Worse [first press screening]
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,52250,00.html
Will “Clones” clobber business?
Job tracking firm warns Star Wars sickout could cost $319 million.
http://money.cnn.com/2002/05/06/news/companies/darthvirus/
“The Matrix” Reloads
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101020513-235417,00.html
“Spider-Man” nets all-time gate record
http://ktla.trb.com/business/chi-0205060193may06.story?coll=ktla-business-1
Tangled Webs: How come “Spider-Man” begins in such good humor and ends completely up the spout?
http://www.newyorker.com/critics/cinema/?020513crci_cinema
Man Robs N.Y. Store of Rare Comics
http://ktla.trb.com/business/sns-ap-brf-comic-book-theft0506may06.story?coll=ktla%2Dbusiness%2D1
“Tome Raider” stole antique books worth £1.1m
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,707576,00.html
Selling and Collecting the Intangible, at $1,000 a Share
As interest in online art has increased, artists have been stymied in their efforts to get paid for digital creations.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/29/arts/design/29ARTS.html
Documenta11: Globalism
http://www.artforum.com/inprint/id=2748
A Tradition of Innovation
http://www.faz.com/IN/INtemplates/eFAZ/archive.asp?doc={A015E7B2-1B20-467D-9C65-AEB0437E6EE4}
Visitors flock to free museums
Attendance at museums and galleries in the UK has risen by 75% since entrance fees were scrapped.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/arts/newsid_1961000/1961610.stm
Méliès, le Mage de l’Image
Une exposition parisienne restitue l’univers d’illusions et de passe-passe du magicien de la fin du XIXe, devenu l’un des pionniers du cinéma.
http://www.liberation.fr/quotidien/semaine/020508-080001113CINE.html
The Ancient Art of Kabuki Made New, With Computer Animation
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/02/technology/circuits/02KABU.html?todaysheadlines
Cable Execs Ponder “The Osbournes” Success
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=805&e=15&cid=854&u=/variety/20020506/tv_variety/television_cable_convention_dc_1
Pi The Movie
http://www.pithemovie.com/pithemovie.html
ECO-TERRORES
Operation Northwoods: quand l’état-major américain planifiait des attentats terroristes contre sa population
http://www.asile.org/citoyens/numero13/northwoods/documents1.htm
Pim Fortuyn - The Big Lie
http://live.curry.com/stories/2002/05/08/theBigLie.html
Drug companies maintain “astounding” profits
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/324/7345/1054/b
Goodbye stars, hello stripes: The new symbol of the EU
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=292939
Man Who Went to FBI to Detail His Trip With Hijackers Faces Deportation
His story sheds new light on the relationships among the terrorists.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33701-2002May4.html
Bomb Suspect Traced by Cell Phone
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,52396,00.html
Playing the ID Card
Americans have never had to “show papers” to move around. Now they must choose between privacy and security
http://www.msnbc.com/news/747901.asp
Panel to Screen Foreign Students
…and researchers seeking to come to the country to study and those already here who want to move into graduate or postgraduate areas of study with technology that is available only in the US.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/wire/sns-ap-terrorism-foreign-students0508may08.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines
US non-lethal weapon reports suppressed
Bugs that eat roads and buildings. Biocatalysts that break down fuel and plastics. Devices that stealthily corrode aluminium and other metals. These are just a few of the non-lethal weapons that the US has tried to develop, or is trying to develop.
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992254
U.S. Offensive in Latin America: Coups, Retreats, and Radicalization
http://www.monthlyreview.org/0502petras.htm
Guerrillas, Drugs and Human Rights in U.S.-Colombia Policy, 1988-2002
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB69/
Cybercadre
http://home.earthlink.net/~jamiranda/contents.html
Bush chooses Clinton for East Timor mission
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washdc/2002/05/06/clinton-timor.htm
New Details Emerge From the Einstein Files…
[and] spells out how the FBI spied on Einstein and his associates and identifies some of the informants who said he was a spy.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/07/science/physical/07EINS.html?pagewanted=all&position=bottom
Enron memos reveal tactics used against California during energy crisis
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/gmsv/3211436.htm
World Trade Center Building Performance Study
http://www.house.gov/science/hot/wtc/wtcreport.htm
VITAMEDIAS
Citizens Bill of Journalism Rights
What do we as citizens have a right to expect from journalists?
http://www.journalism.org/ccj/resources/citizenrights.html
Media Literacy: An Alternative To Censorship
http://fepproject.org/policyreports/medialiteracyfull.html
Investimento publicitário cai 9,2% na imprensa
Cresceu 5,1% no primeiro trimestre deste ano, mas a imprensa continua a ser penalizada.
http://www.de.iol.pt/index.php?article=12571&visual=1
Circulation at U.S. Newspapers Slips; Trends Are Mixed at Largest Papers
USA Today remained the country’s top-selling paper. The Wall Street Journal remained in the second spot.
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/0,,SB1020713258294463800,00.html
Cutting the Cord With Print: Three publications exchange paper for picas
http://www.ojr.org/ojr/business/1020818946.php
Children taking interest in Web ads
…having difficulty distinguishing it from regular content.
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-904180.html
MIT 2: Media In Transition - Globalization and Convergence
http://cms.mit.edu/conf/mit2/
Upton Sinclair and the Contradictions of Capitalist Journalism
http://www.monthlyreview.org/0502rwmscott.htm
How new is news?
http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/papers/bearings.html
Could “Rolling Stone” magazine’s days be numbered?
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/media/story.jsp?story=292668
Women Size 12 and Up: New magazine isn’t thinking small
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/bayarea/business/3228911.htm
Transfert en difficulté
http://www.transfert.net/fr/net_economie/article.cfm?idx_rub=86&idx_art=8442
At Large in the Blogosphere
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/05/books/review/05SHULEVT.html?todaysheadlines
Blog Nation
http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/print/0,1643,39413,00.html
The Entertainment Server
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/09/technology/circuits/09HOME.html
SonicBlue ordered to track ReplayTV users’ viewing choices…
… and turn the information over to the film studios and television networks suing it for contributing to copyright infringement
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3186191.htm
SonicBlue to Challenge Court Order
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Video%20Spying
TV ratings system getting tech upgrade
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2002/05/06/people-meter.htm
Newsweek Exposes Use of Child Soldiers Abroad, But Turns Blind Eye to US
http://www.fair.org/activism/child-soldiers.html
Wanted motorist chases diplomacy off TV news
As Israeli Prime Minister visited the nation’s capital, cable TV cut away to provide helicopter views of the latest car chase on the freeways of Southern California.
http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20020507/4088861s.htm
TECNO-HOUSE
Did Microsoft Flirt With Piracy?
Complaints about open-source software policy reveal piracy rap in France.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,99104,tk,dn050902X,00.asp
Microsoft convicted of software piracy
http://www.pcworldmalta.com/specials/MSPiracy/
Microsoft winds up on both ends of software piracy stick
http://newsforge.com/newsforge/02/05/07/2234251.shtml?tid=3
MS Scales Back Digi-TV Plans
Microsoft will put its high-end Microsoft TV Advanced software on ice
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,52393,00.html
Biometric Security Not Ready to Replace Passwords
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176325.html
Are pictures worth a thousand passwords?
http://www.iht.com/cgi-bin/generic.cgi?template=articleprint.tmplh&ArticleId=56738
Undetectable “son of cookie” system wins grant
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/25182.html
Keeping It Real
Virtual reality is still more virtual than real, but new technologies may soon change that.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/wo_cameron050802.asp
A Better View for Advanced Surgery
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/innovation70502.asp
Virtually Rebuilt, a Ruin Yields Secrets
3D modeling is turning some of archaeology’s once-established truths on their heads.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/02/technology/circuits/02ARCH.html
Delete, Baby, Delete
Some 600 companies specialize in rendering documents into cinders or confetti. They have a trade association (the National Association for Information Destruction) and a code of ethics.
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2002/05/murphy.htm
The art of office e-mail war
They don’t call it a “killer app” for nothing. E-mail is corporate culture’s favorite new weapon.
http://salon.com/tech/feature/2002/05/09/corporate_e_mail/print.html
IBM, Startup Launch Massive “Grid” for Online Gaming
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=581&ncid=738&e=1&u=/nm/20020509/tc_nm/tech_ibm_butterfly_dc_1
Insanely Overhyped Technology of the Month: Grid Computing
http://www.networkmagazine.com/article/NMG20020429S0014
Video games to help you relax
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1972000/1972571.stm
Sony Working on New PlayStation
http://www.asiadaily.com/p/2a/baa034bf9d50.html
Workstations “dirtier than toilets”
The average workstation has 400 times more bacteria than the average loo.
http://www.vnunet.com/News/1131608
Welcome to Our Law School, Young Man. We’ll See You in Court.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/06/national/06LSU.html?todaysheadlines
Hearing on Technology Reveals Other Heroes of 9/11
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/07/nyregion/07HEAR.html?todaysheadlines
Competition to “reverse engineer” mystery program
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992250
The Electronic Journal on Information Systems in Developing Countries
http://www.ejisdc.org/
Theater and Internet
http://www.netzwissenschaft.de/sem1.htm
CONTAMINANTES
Coca Cola Brand List [“Jesus”?!?!?]
http://www2.coca-cola.com/ourcompany/brandlist.html#J
Pepsi Blue
http://www.adbusters.org/magazine/20/pepsi.html
Pepsi Blue is coming
PepsiCo unveils blue cola a week before rival Coke launches vanilla soft drink.
http://money.cnn.com/2002/05/07/news/companies/pepsi/
First Humans to Receive ID Chips
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-050902chipped.story
Verichip’s First-Ever “Chipping” Procedures Attracting Worldwide Media Attention
http://www.adsx.com/news/2002/050702.html
Should Courts Allow DNA Testing to Fix Paternity in Child-Support Cases?
Yes: If DNA is used to free death-row inmates, we should accept it in paternity cases.
http://www.insightmag.com/main.cfm?include=detail&storyid=249705
No: Biology shouldn’t always be considered as destiny in child-support cases.
http://www.insightmag.com/main.cfm?include=detail&storyid=249708
Biology and politics: The great cloning debate
http://www.economist.com/world/na/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1125284
Spy, Then Innovate
Innoveillance represents yet another battleground where innovators and their customers will clash over the future of value creation.
http://www.techreview.com/articles/schrage0502.asp
Urbanisation: The brown revolution
The world is in the middle of a surge of urbanisation, with more than a dozen new “megacities” having arrived in the past two decades
http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1120305
Green with Ideology
The hidden agenda behind the “scientific” attacks on Bjørn Lomborg’s controversial book, “The Skeptical Environmentalist”.
http://www.reason.com/0205/fe.rb.green.shtml
Fat Chance: America is facing a fat epidemic
http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/presents/
Diet? Not Today
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/nodietday020506.html
Check, please
Some argue that the convention of men paying for women is a harmless gallantry, like holding a door open. I beg to differ.
http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2002/05/04/who_pays/print.html
The Botox Boom
The drug that’s smoothed a million brows is coming soon to a doctor’s office near you
http://www.msnbc.com/news/746982.asp
The Seductress of Vanity
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/05/magazine/05WEXLER.html?pagewanted=all&position=bottom
Still Not Good Enough - From Barbie to Botox
http://www.fair.org/media-beat/020502.html
Shoplifting Detection Devices Are Getting Smaller and Harder to Find
Shoplifting cost retailers more than $10 billion in 2001 and is the second most important source of inventory shortage retailers face after employee theft.
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/business/DailyNews/shoplifting_020506.html
Family in Need Flexes Its Quads
Weeks before their birth, the Tetrick quadruplets already had their very own professionally designed logo. And Web site. And advertising agency.
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-000031712may05.story
The Bank of Time
http://www.theBankofTime.com
. DE !
Monkey mascot elected mayor [ou os novos caminhos da política e do futebol…]
The mascot’s vote-winning slogan was “free bananas for schoolchildren”.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk_politics/newsid_1965000/1965569.stm
Pirate attacks soar worldwide
… in the first three months of 2002, with Africa rivaling Southeast Asia for the first time as a high-risk region
http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/africa/05/09/africa.pirates.ap/
Turn Off the Internet
[Para voltar a ligar? Ctrl+Alt+Del e fechar a página.]
http://www.turnofftheinternet.com
The world’s greatest hot dog maker?
http://www.msnbc.com/news/748272.asp
The Tabasco Challenge
http://www.stinkfactor.com/cohandler.cfm?coid=14
Outros “desafios”: http://www.stinkfactor.com/challenges.cfm
Risking Limbs for Height, and Success, in China
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/05/international/asia/05LEGS.html
Chelsea Clinton Called New “JFK Jr.” [& sex symbol]
http://www.pagesix.com/apstories/V7266.htm
Pa. man brings cocaine to court appearance
http://www.boston.com/news/daily/08/court_drugs.htm
PHOTO-GRAFIAS
Memo to Catholic priests everywhere
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/lapriest1.html
Exercise to overcome shyness
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/020508/168/1ib39.html
ZITE ZA ZEMANA (2 de 1 a 3 Zs):
Blogdex - a system built to harness the power of personal news
http://blogdex.media.mit.edu
Traffic_Report: Experiment in data_voyeurism/data_exhibitionism
http://www.lab404.com/data/
