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15, 24.05.02
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Information Dissemination During Times of Conflict [by Frank Mankiewicz, vice chairman of Hill and Knowlton]
The widely publicized and highly orchestrated public relations campaign adopted by the Bush administration in this “war on terrorism” is eerily reminiscent of the propaganda war waged during World War II.
http://www.abanet.org/irr/hr/winter02/mank.html
[Hill and Knowlton na guerra do Golfo, artigos de 1992:]
How To Build Support For War
http://www.cjr.org/year/92/5/war.asp
Is the Press Any Match for Powerhouse P.R.?
In the past couple of years, though, media manipulation has been taken to a new level.
http://www.cjr.org/year/92/5/pr.asp
Secure often means secret Post-9/11: Bush administration has moved more quickly than any administration since World War II to make government activities, documents and other information secret.
http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20020516/4116384s.htm
Cheney Rejects Broader Access to Terror Brief
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/20/politics/20POWE.html?pagewanted=print&position=top
Americans historically trade liberties for security
http://www.nandotimes.com/nation/story/406681p-3240764c.html
Straight Man
Bush’s message is that everything’s under control in a tightly disciplined White House that knows how to keep a secret. Ari Fleischer is the messenger
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17191-2002May14.html
White House Complains About Headline - ”NY Post” Got the Fleischer Call
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/editorandpublisher/headlines/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1495126
Flacks Americana
There’s a reason the government has turned to media professionals to run its propaganda war: It no longer has anyone in-house to do the job.
http://www.thenewrepublic.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20020520&s=foer052002
Sandstorm: The Saudis have hired GOP lobbyists [and PR firms] to deflect anger over documents detailing their connection to terror.
http://www.insightmag.com/main.cfm?include=detail&storyid=252751
CULTURAS IN VITRO
Emile Berliner and the Birth of the Recording Industry
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/berlhtml/berlhome.html
Towering stupidity: Following the success of the first Lord of the Rings film, there were concerns about the title of the second, The Two Towers.
http://www.spiked-online.com/printable/00000006D8EB.htm
“Sopranos” Creator Faces Lawsuit
http://tv.zap2it.com/news/tvnewsdaily.html?25967
In the Name of the Father [Coppola]
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/19/magazine/19COPPOLA.html
In Hollywood, Everyone Wants to Be Ozzy
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/19/fashion/19CELE.html?pagewanted=print&position=top
Charlie Chaplin colour film found [and released on DVD next year]
http://artscanada.cbc.ca/artsNow/index.jsp?label=chaplin170502
Online Gallery Is on the Block: Visitors Came, but Didn’t Buy
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/20/technology/20EYE.html?todaysheadlines
Sex Pistols golden jubilee
http://www.guardian.co.uk/friday_review/story/0,3605,716445,00.html
Moshing to the Oldies, No Lycra Required
About 20 people handed over $7 each to take a punk-rock aerobics class.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/13/nyregion/13AERO.html
“Copy-proof” CDs cracked with 99-cent marker pen
http://digitalmass.boston.com/news/2002/05/20/copy_proof_cds.html
Once-Banned Comic Books Now a Teaching Tool
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29900-2002May16.html
Let’s Get Animated
Time to add some movement to cartoons on content sites
http://www.ojr.org/ojr/lasica/1021401053.php
Why Arts Coverage Should be More Like Sports
http://www.poynter.org/centerpiece/051302_lavin.htm
ECO-TERRORES
Do Rectificativo à RTP: “Orçamento Rectificativo é de facto expansionista”
http://www.de.iol.pt/index.php?article=14010&visual=1
Portas Impõe “Lei da Rolha”
...para controlar a informação prestada à comunicação social
http://jornal.publico.pt/2002/05/23/Nacional/P08.html
EU wants identification system for users of prepaid telephone cards
http://www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/te/12574/1.html
EU to adopt arbitrary powers to freeze assets and seize evidence
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2002/may/01freezing.htm
Act Would OK Snail Mail Searches
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,52739,00.html
Clinton got ‘99 warning on hijacking crash threat
http://washtimes.com/national/20020518-23068722.htm
What Bush Knew In July, 2001
http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/2002/05/16_Bush_Knew.html
Some Pre-Sept. 11 Documents Released
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-1752446,00.html
The Man Behind the Hot Memo
http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101020527/phoenix.html
The bin Laden Warning: Why Did Bush Keep It a Secret?
http://www.thenation.com/capitalgames/index.mhtml?bid=3&pid=60
The Ideological Impostor - The fraudulence of the Bush presidency
http://www.prospect.org/print-friendly/print/V13/10/kuttner-r.html
America the fearful. America is being led by cowards
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/141/oped/America_the_fearful+.shtml
[Cobarde, eu?!?] Bush opposes Sept. 11 commission
http://www.msnbc.com/news/754110.asp
FBI stock fraud alleged: Agents allegedly passed confidential information on investigations to Internet stock analyst
http://money.cnn.com/2002/05/23/news/fbi_stocktips/
Distinguishing Politics From Terror: Separating terrorists from political leaders is not easy when the two groups are not mutually exclusive.
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/mariner/20020513.html
Israel Refocuses On Urban Warfare
…and the world’s military leaders are watching closely
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Z5A3249E
[“Urban warfare”?] Boring, Passive Work May Hasten Death
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020523/hl_nm/work_death_1
The 20 Young Execs You Need to Know
http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/print/0,1643,40449,FF.html
VITAMEDIAS
Televisivamente incorrecto
http://dn.sapo.pt/cronica/mostra_cronica.asp?codCronica=1861&codEdicao=267
Uma Gigantesca Gargalhada
http://jornal.publico.pt/2002/05/21/EspacoPublico/O02.html
Media Skeptical About Terror Threats [finalmente!…]
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020522/ap_on_bi_ge/media_terrorism_warnings_1
White House quickens drumbeat of warnings
http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/news/0502/22warnings.html
Nation left jittery by latest warnings
http://www.msnbc.com/news/755562.asp
Dan Rather attacks media for being timid: The mood of extreme patriotism […] had stopped the media asking difficult questions of America’s leaders.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=295905
Duped! When journalists fall for fake news
http://www.spj.org/quill_issue.asp?ref=308
The Greatest Writing Tips the World has Ever Seen
http://www.poynter.org/centerpiece/051602_Hatcher5.htm
10 [Newspapers] That Do It Right
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/editorandpublisher/headlines/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1496818
Some U.S. Backers of Israel Boycott Dailies Over Mideast Coverage
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/23/international/23BOYC.html
MTV study: Young people see wide gap between them, newspapers
http://www.ap.org/pages/indnews/#anchor4
[Continua o “hype” dos blogs:] Will the Blogs Kill Old Media?
http://www.msnbc.com/news/751117.asp
Time to blog on
http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,7558,718517,00.html
Why the Wired West Still Matters
http://www.ojr.org/ojr/lasica/1020203502.php
Preparing for the Coming Era of Participatory News
The Internet means now everyone is a journalist - or can be.
http://www.ojr.org/ojr/future/1017170352.php
Media Monopoly
…and there is more than enough reason now to believe that bad things are very likely to happen to good news broadcasts.
http://www.cjr.org/year/02/3/gralnick.asp
Race in the media
http://media.guardian.co.uk/raceinmedia/0,12016,716477,00.html
Black print behind in Internet race
http://www.reddingnewsreview.com/blackpressonline.htm
Power Sources
On party, gender, race and class, TV news looks to the most powerful groups
http://www.fair.org/extra/0205/power_sources.html
Switched on: The prevalence of pornography online is one of the main reasons women’s involvement with the Web and ICT lags far behind men’s. [!!!]
http://www.guardian.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,712101,00.html
Mothers say goodbye TV, hello Internet
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905357865&rel=true
The Elephant in the Jury Room
Maybe it’s time to be as visionary as Joseph Pulitzer
http://www.ojr.org/ojr/workplace/1018398261.php
Why Is the Pulitzer Club Getting So Exclusive?
http://www.cjr.org/year/02/3/cunningham.asp
Source of concern
…as two TV journalists risk jail to protect their informants
http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,7558,718515,00.html
TV’s Nostalgia Rush Due for Slowdown
http://www.austin360.com/aas/life/ap/ap_story.html/Entertainment/AP.V2575.AP-TV-Nostalgia.html
Dope: After a teenager in Covington turned his father in for growing marijuana, local TV news reporters and daily newspapers fell all over themselves calling him a hero. Was I the only pot-smoking parent who was horrified?
http://www.thestranger.com/current/feature.html
Judge orders newspaper not to publish under name acquired by critic
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2002/05/21/national1748EDT0751.DTL
Behind The Mergers: Q&A
http://www.cjr.org/year/02/3/hickey.asp
The Italian media landscape
http://www.ejc.nl/jr/emland/italy.html
TECNO-HOUSE
Why CEOs still don’t get the Net
Q: What’s the biggest misconception about what IT can do for a business?
A: It’s that people get focused on the technology rather than on the business.
http://news.com.com/2008-1082-919439.html?tag=fd_nc_1
Companies squander billions on tech: U.S. companies threw away $130 billion in the past two years on unneeded software and other technology
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2002/05/20/too-tech.htm
Six ways to keep spending on track and in line
http://www.darwinmag.com/read/0502/tech_spending2.html
150 high-tech firms form virtual corporation
http://www.fcw.com/geb/articles/2002/0520/web-wit-05-20-02.asp
Reshaping Industries with Internet Supply Chains
http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/community/bmag/sbsm0108/feature_internet_supply_chains1.html
Bill Gates Kicks Off CEO Summit
CEOs got the chance to test Microsoft’s soon-to-be-launched Tablet PC
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59770-2002May22.html
Tablet PC [para quem está a pensar adquirir um portátil…]
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/tabletpc/
Tablet PC Hardware Requirements
Must support a single, dedicated, non-overloaded hardware mechanism for generating the Secure Attention Sequence (SAS), also known as “Ctrl-Alt-Delete”
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/tabletpc/hardware.asp
Leaky Cyber Borders
A U.S. shield against foreign spam and hackers: national security or censorship?
http://www.techreview.com/articles/garfinkel0602.asp
Hackers Still Ahead of Security Gurus
http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/17850.html
A Bad, Sad Hollywood Ending?
Open-source software could find itself locked out of a whole industry if the entertainment giants get their way on copyright protection
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/may2002/tc20020515_8741.htm
An Empirical Examination of 100 Mature Open Source Projects
http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/krishnamurthy.pdf
Linux Goes Mainstream [há quantos anos andam a dizer o mesmo?!?]
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/tc_special/linux.htm
Linux grabs big win with Reuters
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/9915532.htm
Linux-based handheld is halfway there
http://digitalmass.boston.com/news/2002/05/17/product_review.html
Working parents “spend longer on email” […as playing with their children]
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_591142.html?menu=news.technology
Prisoners go to work for Dell
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/25343.html
Sony Out to Claim Victory as Game Giants Battle
“Officially, the console wars are over” [importam-se de repetir?…]
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=581&ncid=738&e=2&u=/nm/20020522/tc_nm/tech_videogames_dc_1
Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony playing different strategies
Internet, movies, teens influence big gamemakers
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/05/22/BU236017.DTL&type=tech
The games people play
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=711&ncid=738&e=5&u=/usatoday/20020521/tc_usatoday/4127084
Console makers believe future of gaming is online
http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/407906p-3251331c.html
Sid Meier Interview
http://www.mindjack.com/interviews/sidmeier.html
Army Turns to Computer Games to Woo Recruits
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=581&ncid=738&e=3&u=/nm/20020523/tc_nm/tech_army_dc_1
UK Video Game Makers Get $35 Million Fund
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=581&ncid=738&e=4&u=/nm/20020523/tc_nm/tech_videogames_britain_dc_1
Video Games Go Mainstream: Grown-up gamers are still playing on PCs, though younger players dominate consoles
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,100904,tk,dn052202X,00.asp
Turning pictures into passwords
[Tema recorrente mas será mais fácil recordar sequências em imagens do que texto, para mais quando:] “It is as easy for a hacker to take a picture off a machine as it is to take a text password”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1986000/1986713.stm
Radio-Ready Chips
All-silicon radios could make everything wireless.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/innovation10602.asp
In the future, we’ll be seeing the world differently
http://digitalmass.boston.com/news/globe_tech/at_large/2002/052002.html
La distinction entre voyage virtuel et physique devient absurde
http://www.liberation.fr/page.php?Article=27770
LG Internet Family [Família unida: uma semana na montra do Harrods...]
http://www.lginternetfamily.co.uk
Top 10 e-mail scams exposed
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_2003000/2003264.stm
[Spam, drogas e afro’n’roll…] Six arrested over “Nigerian e-mail” fraud
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=73&ncid=738&e=7&u=/zd/20020523/tc_zd/5108178
10 Technology Disasters
http://www.techreview.com/articles/print_version/scigliano0602.asp
CONTAMINANTES
Stop to waste of space: Space is accumulating garbage so fast that within decades dangerous collisions will become inevitable
http://www.nature.com/nsu/020513/020513-9.html
“No Littering” Plea Extended to Space Junkyard
http://www.space.com/news/debris_plea_020517.html
The future of mind control
People already worry about genetics. They should worry about brain science too
http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1143583
The ethics of brain science
http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1143317
Building Emotional Machines
http://www.mindjack.com/feature/emachines.html
Cybugs: Possono le macchine pensare?
http://www.cybugs.info
Consciousness Based on Wireless?
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,52674,00.html
Anybody Really Know What Time Is?
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,52703,00.html
The Nature of Time: Geometry, Physics & Perception
http://www.astro.sk/~msaniga/nato_arw/index.html
The Top 200 Prescriptions for 2001 by Number of US Prescriptions Dispensed
http://www.rxlist.com/top200.htm
Too Much to Eat
Sen. Deborah Ortiz has proposed a two-cent tax on soda pop to fund education programs to combat the growing epidemic of childhood obesity and related diseases
http://www.newmassmedia.com/etc.phtml?code=fai&db=etc_fea&ref=20262
Tips from the “food police”
http://www.cnn.com/2002/HEALTH/diet.fitness/05/20/ots.fast.food.cnna/
Am I a Food Snob?
http://www.utne.com/bBody.tmpl?command=search&db=dArticle.db&eqheadlinedata=View%20from%20Loring%20Park%20111
Stomach secretes hormone that orders, “Food!”
http://www.iht.com/cgi-bin/generic.cgi?template=articleprint.tmplh&ArticleId=58716
Health experts question water rule
Eight-glasses-a-day guideline may be bloated: “This idea is being promoted terrifically by the bottled-water industry, but I have found no scientific evidence that supports the claim”
http://www.msnbc.com/news/756351.asp
Clone free
[Mais uma vez, agora na Salon,] Fukuyama warns that the combination of runaway biotechnology and individual freedom could lead to a social nightmare.
http://salon.com/tech/feature/2002/05/21/fukuyama/print.html
Cloning Can’t Be Stopped
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/print_version/kevles0602.asp
L’appropriation du vivant n’est pas acceptable
http://www.transfert.net/fr/techno/article.cfm?idx_rub=89&idx_art=8474
Patent claims add to cost of tailored medicines
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992280
The Global Technology Revolution: Bio/Nano/Materials Trends and Their Synergies with Information Technology by 2015
http://www.cia.gov/nic/pubs/research_supported_by_nic/rand.htm
Thinking Big About Nanotechnology
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,52552,00.html
Big Bucks From Little Science
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,52707,00.html
Drug delivery by microchip may not be far off
http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/407983p-3251758c.html
Nanomedicine Art Gallery
http://www.foresight.org/Nanomedicine/Gallery/Captions/index.html
Are your pet’s medical records private?
http://www.politechbot.com/p-03566.html
Germany, the first European nation to vote for animal rights
http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/05/17/germany.animals/
Animais na Constituição
http://online.expresso.pt/home/interior.asp?id=24732044
L’accès au porno brouille les repères des ados
http://www.liberation.fr/page.php?Article=28846
Foul Play
A lawsuit charges that Major League Baseball discriminates against players who have escaped from communist Cuba. Some suspect a secret deal between baseball owners and dictator Fidel Castro.
http://www.insightmag.com/main.cfm?include=detail&storyid=252748
Inventors hall of fame to induct pioneers who “changed the world”
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3282076.htm
.DE!
More than 18,000 adults in the USA die each year because they are uninsured and can’t get proper health care
http://usatoday.com/news/healthscience/health/healthcare/2002-05-22-insurance-deaths.htm
Nearly $10,000 lost in money burnin’
http://boston.com/dailynews/142/region/Nearly_10_000_lost_in_money_bu:.shtm
Teacher displays porn during exam
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/education/newsid_1998000/1998218.stm
GM Brasil demite 33 por e-mail pornográfico
http://www2.uol.com.br/info/aberto/infonews/052002/23052002-4.shl
Suspect Calls Victim For Stereo Help [e foi apanhado, claro!]
http://www.mycfnow.com/orlpn/news/stories/news-146623520020517-100536.html
Getaway robbery suspect jumps into cop car
http://www.boston.com/news/daily/23/getaway.htm
Wal-Mart wedding
http://www.stpetersburgtimes.com/2002/05/18/TampaBay/Wal_Mart_wedding.shtml
Digital Warriors
Artificial Intelligence May Help Spot Future Terrorism Attacks [acredite se quiser…]
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/DailyNews/terrorismAI020522.html
Miami drivers ranked rudest
http://www.boston.com/news/daily/22/drivers.htm
PHOTO-GRAFIAS
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s online collection of public domain still photographs
http://images.fws.gov
[Star Wars] Troop Believers
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/photo/style/G54999-2002May08.html
ZITE ZA ZEMANA (2 de 1 a 3 Zs):
Google Demos
http://labs.google.com
Dilbert and the Google Doodle
http://www.google.com/dilbert.html
Google, Dilbert Team Up for a Logo Redesign
http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article/0,,7_1141261,00.html
