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25, 02.08.02
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CULTURAS IN VITRO
Copyright as Cudgel: Copyright […] is supposed to be an economic incentive for the next producer, not a guarantee for the established one. But after more than 200 years of legal evolution and technological revolution, copyright no longer offers strong democratic safeguards. It is out of balance.
Hollywood Vigilantes vs. Copyright Pirates: The entertainment industry doesn't need a law letting it hack and disable file-sharers. Why is Congress even considering it?
Movie Studios Press Congress in Digital Copyright Dispute
Webcastrated: Will Independent Webcasters Survive The New Copyright Royalties Recently Adopted By The Library Of Congress?
Artists slam music industry over royalties: Singers and entertainment attorneys criticized California's $41 billion recording industry, testifying that it routinely underreports royalties and cheats artists of millions of dollars.
Dan Gillmor: Hacking, hijacking our rights: Every challenge to the DMCA so far has been a failure.
Sour notes: The legal crackdown hasn't squelched MP3 trading - it's just made it more of a pain. But the music industry would still rather fight than give its online customers what they want.
When the Music Stopped
RIAA Web site disabled by attack
New Pressplay offers unlimited downloads
The New Napsters: There's more free downloading of music than ever. The big labels hate it - but shutting down the outlaw networks won't be so easy this time.
Eighties-Rocker Renaissance
The Remixmasters
A Novel Way to Write Hit Songs: As he was working on his latest novel, Anything Goes, he came up with the idea of writing actual songs, with the help of a songwriter friend, to include in the book.
Screenwriting: If you really want to be creative, write for television and not for the movies
Gallery gets controversial work 18 years late
Gale's Biggest Digitization Project Ever Covers Eighteenth Century: Believed to be the most ambitious single digitization project ever undertaken, nearly 150,000 English-language titles published between 1701 and 1800 will be available over the Web beginning June 2003.
Robin Hood Project: information about the Robin Hood stories and other outlaw tales
Movies! (The Gauntlet + Rise of the Empire)
Bugs Bunny tops greatest cartoon characters list
Games Kids Play
ECO-TERRORES
Portuguese protest over eurozone austerity: "After more than 16 years in the Community, we are exactly where we started, at the tail end of Europe," says Manuel Villaverde Cabral, a leftwing sociologist and columnist.
http://shorl.com/godregredretuse
Um Boeing à deriva? Portugal está, dezasseis anos e meio depois de ter aderido à CEE, exactamente no mesmo lugar em que estava então, isto é, na "cauda da Europa"
http://dn.sapo.pt/cronica/mostra_cronica.asp?codCronica=2494&codEdicao=345
Statement by Commissioner Solbes on the Portuguese deficit data
http://shorl.com/bemubrahegrybe
Italy warns EU agriculture chief: “hands off our pasta”
http://shorl.com/gadipobebyti
Italian police planted petrol bombs on G8 summit protesters: Italian police planted two Molotov cocktails in a school where anti-globalisation pro-testers were sleeping to justify a brutal crackdown during last year's G8 summit in Genoa.
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=319760
Terrorized by Numbers: Between the start of the second Intifada almost two years ago and the end of June, the war had killed 561 Israelis and 1,499 Palestinians. But a new study claims that these numbers obscure the reality of the conflict
http://shorl.com/jesabristomofy
The Corporate Scandal Sheet: With the avalanche of corporate accounting scandals that have rocked the markets recently, it's getting hard to keep track of all the transgressions. Our Corporate Scandal Sheet does the job
http://www.forbes.com/home/2002/07/25/accountingtracker.html
Internal Memos: Internet’s largest collection of corporate memos and internal communication
http://www.internalmemos.com
The Corporate Abuse-reform Cycle
http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2002-06/29herman.cfm
The world's biggest companies
http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=1263776
Stop the War Before it Starts
http://www.progressive.org/August%202002/oren0802.html
Its Own Worst Enemy: Washington spends more on its armed forces than any nation in history […] The member states of the EU between them have more soldiers than the US, and collectively their defense spending totaled nearly 70 percent that of Washington's pre-2002 outlays; but the results in technology and hardware are simply not comparable. The US can intervene or make war almost anywhere in the world. No one else even comes close.
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/15632
Profound Effect on U.S. Economy Seen in a War on Iraq
…because the U.S. would have to pay most of the cost and bear the brunt of any oil price shock or other market disruptions
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/30/international/30COST.html
How bin Laden's huge convoy gave American forces the slip
“We don’t understand how they weren’t all killed the night before because they came in a convoy of at least 1,000 cars and trucks”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-362078,00.html
US accused of airstrike cover-up: American forces may have breached human rights and then removed evidence after the so-called wedding party airstrike that killed more than 50 Afghan civilians this month
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-368297,00.html
9/11 probe panel on deck? A surprise House vote reopened the issue of how to investigate the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and raised the possibility that President Bush might be forced to accept an independent commission he has long opposed.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2002-07-26-house-panel_x.htm
Council Task Force urges the Bush Administration to upgrade public diplomacy
http://www.cfr.org/public/resource.cgi?pub!4681
Bush to Create Formal Office To Shape U.S. Image Abroad
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18822-2002Jul29.html
Learning to love Big Brother: George W. Bush channels George Orwell
Here's a question for constitutional scholars: Can a sitting president be charged with plagiarism?
http://shorl.com/folonuvubradi
Buying Trouble: Your Grocery List Could Spark a Terror Probe
http://villagevoice.com/issues/0230/baard.php
Higher Education Contribution to National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace
http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/word/NET0027.doc
Blair told not to rush voting online
…despite the success of both methods in experiments in May's local elections.
http://media.guardian.co.uk/newmedia/story/0,7496,768009,00.html
From Jail Cell, Unabomber Finds a Forum
Essay in Newsletter Pits Prison Rules vs. First Amendment Claims
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7705-2002Jul26.html
Crimes of War Project
http://www.crimesofwar.org
Maps of Nuclear Power Reactors
http://www.insc.anl.gov/pwrmaps/map/world_map.html
VITAMEDIAS
“Anjo Selvagem” atinge o maior número de inserções comerciais
O episódio de 25 de Julho [...] obteve o maior número de inserções com 65 spots [...] distribuído por 1414 segundos. [com indicação de “publicidade”?]
http://www.meiosepublicidade.pt/?id=2388
Impresa aposta na integração dos portais do Expresso e SIC [e muito mais...]
http://www.obercom.pt/04news/newsletters/jul2002/36.htm
A Shift Registers in Willingness to Pay for Internet Content
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/01/technology/01ONLI.html?todaysheadlines
Factiva CEO: News will cost in two years
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1106-947155.html
Survey: Web Doesn't Affect Print Readership: Sites Draw New Audiences For Publishers
http://shorl.com/dyfrelehetosty
Print media loses out to internet: The internet is now the third source for news, views and entertainment - after TV and radio, beating newspapers and magazines
http://media.guardian.co.uk/presspublishing/story/0,7495,764264,00.html
Internet Profit: Finally, about a third of newspapers' Internet operations are in the black. New-media executives share strategies.
http://www.naa.org/Presstime/PTArtPage.cfm?AID=4409
Unethical Media Practices
Survey reveals widespread incidences of “cash for editorial”
http://ipranet.org/press16.htm
IPRA Charter On Media Transparency
http://ipranet.org/media.htm
Who Needs Dr. J? If a virus were to strike our universities tonight, wiping out - by tomorrow - all schools of medicine, would the sudden disappearance of med-school graduates throw America's hospitals into crisis? Of course, and you'd better believe it. But if, instead, the virus were to kill off all our schools of journalism, would America's newspapers seize up? Of course not
http://opinionjournal.com/taste/?id=110002042
Media giants: What’s new is old: Thomas Middelhoff's departure as CEO of Germany's Bertelsmann this week has all but cemented the victory of the old guard in big media following years of costly ventures by bold Internet experimenters.
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-947260.html?tag=fd_top
Death of the American dreams: Middelhoff and Messier tried to give Europe's two big media groups a US-style makeover. They both must rue it now
http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,765494,00.html
The traditionalists’ revenge: Thomas Middelhoff, the chief executive of Bertelsmann, a privately-held German media conglomerate, has been forced out after a boardroom battle. The board disagreed with his plan to take the company public by 2005. Following the departure of Jean-Marie Messier from Vivendi and Bob Pittman from AOL Time Warner, Mr Middelhoff’s ouster is further proof that the much-vaunted convergence between old media and the Internet has yet to pay off
http://www.economist.com/agenda/displaystory.cfm?story_id=1258076
Bertelsmann: départ d'un patron novateur: Middelhoff avait la même ambition que Jean-Marie Messier, PDG de VU, et Ron Sommer, celui de Deutsche Telekom: changer en profondeur l'entreprise dont il avait pris les commandes.
http://www.liberation.fr/page.php?Article=44473
Liberté de la presse: Paris peut mieux faire
En moins de quatre ans, la Cour européenne des droits de l'homme de Strasbourg a condamné cinq fois la France pour “violation de la liberté d'expression”.
http://www.liberation.fr/page.php?Article=44469
And finally: After 20 years as a top television news executive, Richard Tait retired […] as editor of ITN. Media freedom, he warns, is under more pressure than is good for the state of our democracy
http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,7558,764712,00.html
Reality bytes: "Our aim was to reinvent television for the web"
http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,7558,764719,00.html
OneWorldTV: Filmmakers, civil society organisations and activists around the world have contributed footage to create this unique collaboration for social change.
http://tv.oneworld.net
One in three viewers are digital refusniks: The government's plan to turn the UK into a nation of digital TV viewers was dealt a blow after new research showed one in three people will not even pay £25 to upgrade their TV sets.
http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,765254,00.html
Boas perspectivas da DVB-T apesar dos casos britânico e espanhol
http://www.obercom.pt/04news/newsletters/jul2002/28.htm
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The first newspapers in this initiative are New York Times (1851-1999), Wall Street Journal (1889-1985), Washington Post (1877-1987), Christian Science Monitor (1908-1990)
http://www.il.proquest.com/proquest/histdemo/
Read All About It
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,54030,00.html
Magazines Jump on Maxim's Bandwagon: Imitation really is the sincerest form of flattery, according to editors of today's leading men's magazines.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,59051,00.html
How Weblogs Keep the Media Honest
http://shorl.com/dafobrysigraly
Flogged by bloggers: Keep an eye on bloggers. The main arena for media criticism is not going to be books, columns, or panel discussions, and it certainly won't be journalism schools. It will be the Internet.
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/020805/opinion/5john.htm
Weblog competition a “bloody stupid idea”?
http://media.guardian.co.uk/newmedia/comment/0,7496,765161,00.html
Does Your Weblog Own You?
http://wannabegirl.org/quiz/owned/
Top Twenty Blogger Insults
http://www.davezilla.com/index.php?p=1277
TECNO-HOUSE
Resolução do Conselho de Ministros que nomeia um novo gestor da Intervenção Operacional da Sociedade da Informação [Francisco Jaime Baptista do Paço Quesado] e exonera, a seu pedido, o actual gestor.
http://www.portugal.gov.pt/pt/Conselho+de+Ministros/Comunicados/20020801.htm
Piracy and free software not always counted: The annual software piracy statistics […] are compiled from several sources but none take into account the growing use of open-source desktop applications.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/07/20/1026898931824.html
How the Postman Almost Owned E-Mail
A short history of the Postal Service's long relationship with electronic mail.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/7045.asp?p=0
Online users starting to embrace pay sites
http://www.iht.com/cgi-bin/generic.cgi?template=articleprint.tmplh&ArticleId=66526
Instant Messages, Slower Profit
“The computer industry has never seen a phenomenon like instant messaging”.
http://www.forbes.com/technology/2002/07/25/0725simons.html?partner=newscom
When the toys talk back via IM
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-947010.html?tag=fd_top
Children's text messages are “the key to their future”: The way children write text messages on a mobile phone could hold the key to their future career
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_637803.html?menu=news.technology
Phone gamesmanship: Operators want to ring up some revenue
http://shorl.com/fapabibokisti
PAMPAS: Focusing on the area of privacy and security for beyond-3G mobile systems and applications
http://www.pampas.eu.org
Man indicted in alleged hacking of county's system: A Houston man who once showed a Harris County official how easy it was for an outsider to access a county computer system was accused by a federal grand jury […] of doing just that.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/tech/news/1507766
Free Firewalls for Windows
http://www.iopus.com/guides/free-firewall.htm
New Trends in Virus Technology
http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/18796.html
Los discos flexibles, al borde de la desaparición
http://www.idg.es/pcworld/noticia.asp?idn=25047
“El disquete sobrevivirá varios años”
http://shorl.com/bufryvymipupo
The 19th-Century Internet
http://www.contextmag.com/archives/200208/Catalyst2.asp
A (very) brief overview of cookies
http://www.rbj.net/sitetemplate2.cfm?incpage=cookiespage.htm
Spam filter: A boon or a bomb?
New software promises more order for your in-box, separating the critical messages from the “reply all” excesses. But it could pose a political problem for managers
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2120002,00.html
Why Use A Search Toolbar?
http://www.webmasterbase.com/article/826
New Search Engine Tool Searches Javascript Files
http://www.urlwire.com/news/073002.html
The Seven Myths of Knowledge Management
http://www.contextmag.com/archives/200208/Insight1SevenMyths.asp
Investing in Innovation: A strategy for science, engineering and technology [UK]
http://www.ost.gov.uk/science_strategy.pdf
Sony loses Aussie Playstation suit: The Australian subsidiary of Sony was suing Sydney man Eddy Johnson for selling and installing modifications to its PlayStation machines, claiming his actions breached copyright laws.
http://shorl.com/hykegrugiprupru
Gamers get into “The Zone”: What have a Buddhist Monk, a sports person exhibiting peak performance, and a computer gamer got in common? […] The answer is actually alpha brainwave activity.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2154092.stm
Practical Technology… for pratical people.
http://www.practical-tech.com
CONTAMINANTES
Portugal y España
http://shorl.com/fadolakarobra
Time Pressure and Creativity: Why Time is Not on Your Side: You may think you are more productive under deadline pressure - but you probably are not.
http://shorl.com/bugrastipramabu
More may lose jobs due to vulgar e-mail
More state employees are expected to be fired for using state computers to distribute e-mail messages involving vulgar jokes and cartoons
http://www.dmregister.com/news/stories/c4780932/18833074.html
Online resumes make it difficult for companies to follow federal regulations
http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/business/technology/3767127.htm
Too posh to push?
Cesarean sections have spiked dramatically. Progress or [medical] convenience?
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/020805/biztech/5demons.htm
Older Americans “Shacking Up” More: There aren't many trends where grandparents are imitating their grandchildren, but cohabitation is one of them
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/07/30/national/main516814.shtml
Paranormal beliefs linked to brain chemistry
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992589
The origins of violence: Nurturing nature
http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=1259045
Don’t Be Rude: Part 1, Kindness
http://shorl.com/bamoresybida
A Black Box for Your Car: Event data recorders could make cars safer - and tell accident investigators what really happened.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/wo_baldwin073002.asp?p=0
Criminal care at a high price
More prisoners are sicker than ever. And you're paying for their medical bills
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/020805/health/5prison.htm
Cruel and usual: How some of America's best zoos get rid of their old, infirm, and unwanted animals
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/020805/usnews/5zoos.htm
Moon Metro [example of what a 21st-century travel guidebook series can be]
http://www.moon.com/metro/index.html
.DE!
O premiê Tony Blair vai passar o Dia Mundial do Orgasmo no Brasil...
http://www.jt.estadao.com.br/editorias/2001/07/31/ger025.html
...tal como todos os Presidentes e Chefes de Estado da CPLP
http://ultimahora.publico.pt/shownews.asp?id=166768&idCanal=12
“But Officer, I Didn't Do Anything!”
They call it a “Voluntary Roadside Interview.” But for hundreds of motorists flagged down by state troopers on Interstate 4, there was nothing voluntary about it.
http://www.tampatrib.com/MGA5WPU8Z3D.html
Woman sues Delta over sex toy incident… saying she was publicly humiliated.
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TRAVEL/NEWS/07/26/airline.sex.toy.ap/
Saudi prince found dead in desert: The prince apparently died of thirst. Prince Fahd was the third member of the extensive Saudi royal family to die in a week.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_28319,0005.htm
What Are the Odds of Dying? [United States, 1998]
http://www.nsc.org/lrs/statinfo/odds.htm
Extreme Survival Quiz
http://tlc.discovery.com/convergence/extremesurvival/extremesurvival.html
Dining in The Dark: Germany's Unsicht-Bar restaurant offers its customers a whole new way of looking at food: Waiters are either completely blind or visually handicapped
http://shorl.com/dedrubroguvore
Beetle Bailey [Recruta Zero]? At The World Trade Center?
http://www.royaljournal.com/projects/200203/beetle_bailey_at_the_wor.shtml
Origami Gifts
http://origamiboulder.com
The Making of a BattleMech
http://shorl.com/gysebojesopre
Tantive IV - World’s Largest “Star Wars” Toy
http://www.pegwarmer.com/tantive/
R2-D2 Interactive Astromech Droid
http://www.creaturelabs.com/toys_r2-d2.html
Mouse Pad Couch
PHOTO-GRAFIAS
Visible Earth (Portugal)
Postcards and Postcard Collecting
If Hackers Ruled
The Ultimate Computer Chair
ZITE ZA ZEMANA (2 de 1 a 3 Zs):
The Wacky World of Japanese Ice Cream [gelado de polvo?!?!?!]
