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CULTURAS IN VITRO
Aesthetics of Failure:
I love the phrase “the aesthetic of failure”... it's so... so... Sartrian!
http://www.korrnet.org/pipermail/levnet/2001-May/018105.html
Aesthetics of Failure: “Post-Digital” Tendencies in Contemporary Computer Music
http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/Computer-Music-Journal/Documents/cmjlib/samples/CMJ24_4Cascone.pdf
The Aesthetics of Failure - Dynamic Structure in the Plays of Eugene O’Neill
http://www.eoneill.com/references/x01200.htm
The Aesthetics of Technical Difficulty
Artists working in electronic art are as affected by the aesthetics of failure as they are by their own concepts
http://www.coretext.net/2001a/difficulty.html
David Burrows: I was thinking about how to undermine photography’s claim to index the world. I’d say it’s more like an aesthetics of failure.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/becksfutures2001/story/0,7369,461943,00.html
Painting at the Edge of the World
Kelley is an artist whose roots in modernist painting come into violent collision with his interest in the aesthetics of failure and the delights of the American vernacular.
http://www.absolutearts.com/artsnews/2001/02/10/28075.html
Claude Jutra: Filmmaker by Jim Leach
Jutra continued to explore the aesthetics of failure and issues of identity that Leach perceives as the director’s driving creative concerns
http://www.total.net/~clcl/claudejutra.html
Refrains Electronic Music Symposium Report
Brady Cranfield discussed “Glitch” as an aesthetics of failure
http://www.creativesynth.com/news/refrains_conf.html
Why is Failure So Funny?
Each man crafts an aesthetics of failure… But why is this comic failure so engaging?
http://www.newartexaminer.org/archive/octkeaton.html
Life After Death: Long Live Swans
“The aesthetics of failure are alone durable”, writes Jean Cocteau. “He who does not understand failure is lost”.
http://www.addict.com/html/hifi/Reviews/44.1kHz/Swans/Swans_Are_Dead.html
The curse of cool is killing a quintessentially British sound
Boys just don’t want to sing “classically” any more. The great majority of youth and church choirs are now exclusively female.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2002/04/03/bmrupe03.xml&sSheet=/arts/2002/04/03/ixartleft.html
Why American singers are in constant demand?
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/04/04/1017206240411.html
Musicians’ Union Decries Kirov’s Soundtrack Job
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58280-2002Apr3.html
The Wagners and the rabbi
If the Wagners were basically decent chaps, where did the xenophobia spring from? http://www.scena.org/columns/lebrecht/020403-NL-wagner.html
Tommy, get your gun... by Pete Townshend
What’s wrong with rock operas? Pop composers don’t follow rules - they make them
http://www.observer.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,676410,00.html
Tune in tomorrow
What recent rock songs will become standards?
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/097/living/Tune_in_tomorrow+.shtml
Will Jam 4 Food
Improvising an alternative music scene [jamband]
http://www.laweekly.com/printme.php3?&eid=33682
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
http://www.folkways.si.edu
Press Play to Access the Future
One danger in the DVD is that the extras may become more interesting to audiences than the movie.
http://www.calendarlive.com/top/1,1419,L-LATimes-Calendar-X!ArticleDetail-55354,00.html
Digital Wars
With “Episode II” on the way, Lucas puts pressure on theater owners over costly digital projection technology
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/04/10/DD90545.DTL
“Spider-Man” caught in legal web over altered signs in film
http://www.hindustantimes.com/nonfram/120402/dlfor26.asp
Rio de Janeiro Irked by Simpsons Portrayal, Seeks Legal Action
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Entertainment/reuters20020408_437.html
Recording industry collects $1 million fine…
…from a company that let employees swap songs on an internal server.
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/bayarea/entertainment/3029974.htm
On the Contrary: Copywrongs
All the work I’ve produced since 1978 will enjoy copyright protection for the next 70 years. The Copyright Extension Act was primarily intended to benefit corporations that expect to live forever.
http://www.prospect.org/print/V13/8/kaminer-w.html
Marc Andreessen: Copy protection efforts are doomed
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3031836.htm
Digital distortion: Art or mischief?
The Digital Cutup Lounge have already produced two albums - based mainly on samples that are mixed and remixed on laptops
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/04/09/digital.distortion/index.html
Songs in the Key of F12
Who’s in control: the machine or the musician?
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.05/laptop_pr.html
Six Machines That Changed The Music World
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.05/blackbox_pr.html
In pop culture, playing dumb can be a smart move
http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/epaper/editions/friday/features_c3daa504d17d42da00a3.html
Which is better, an independent bookstore or a chain bookstore?
http://www.mobylives.com/Kuralt_v_chains.html
Iliad, Odyssey Mystery Solved?
By applying mathematical principles, statistical physics and computer analysis to ancient Greek and Latin poetry, a team of researchers may have shed light on one of literature’s most enduring mysteries, who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey?
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20020401/odyssey.html
Group blasts Amazon’s used-book sales
http://news.com.com/2100-1017-880022.html
Online Sales of Used Books Draw Protest
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/10/technology/10BOOK.html
Authors Guild and Association of American Publishers press Amazon.com to alter its marketing of used books [12.2000]
http://www.authorsguild.org/pramazon1200.html
Who Wants To Be Read? [weblog de Virginia Postrel com opinião diferente]
http://www.dynamist.com/scene.html
Milhares de Livros à Venda na Baixa Lisboeta por Metade do Preço [e ninguém se queixa da perda de direitos - estão talvez mais perto da posição de Postrel]
http://jornal.publico.pt/2002/04/03/Cultura/C06.html
Mythe Hammett
Dashiell Hammett revisité à travers sa Correspondance.
http://www.liberation.fr/quotidien/semaine/020411-080001001LIVR.html
Winsor McCay’s “Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend”
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Hills/3874/silas1.html
The Social Life Of Paper
http://www.newyorker.com/printable/?critics/020325crbo_books
Health secretary pushes paperless prescriptions
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2002/04/10/prescriptions.htm
The monetary appreciation of paintings: from realism to Magritte
How investments in paintings compare with those in stocks
http://cje.oupjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/26/3/331
Where Postmodern Art and Schizophrenia Intersect
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/31/arts/design/31MUNR.html
The Science of the Palette
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/interviews/int2002-04-04.htm
Can you dig it?
The growing importance of ethical considerations is transforming archaeology
http://www.economist.co.uk/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1056932
Going Up in History
Developers have submitted plans for a sound-and-light show at Angkor Wat.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44674-2002Mar31.html
Benvenuto a Barnsley
What's so funny about a Yorkshire town reinventing itself as a Tuscan hill village?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/saturday_review/story/0,3605,679446,00.html
ECO-TERRORES
Confessed Russian spy Robert Hanssen snooped on Hillary, Chelsea, FBI director…
… and was never detected by FBI internal security officials
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20020405-12894296.htm
Statement of FBI Director Robert S. Mueller Regarding Webster Commission Review of FBI Security Programs [“link” para relatório, com actividades de Hanssen e outros]
http://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel02/mueller040402.htm
American Airlines sued for $50 mn in WTC attack
http://www.hindustantimes.com/nonfram/090402/dlfor04.asp
Planes Often Enter Prohibited Air
Pilots have intruded into America’s protected airspace at least 567 times since 9-11.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&ncid=716&e=5&u=/ap/20020405/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/attacks_prohibited_airspace
Six Areas in U.S. Pilots Must Avoid
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020404/ap_on_go_pr_wh/prohibited_airspace_glance_1
Boy Becomes Ill After Airport Security Told Him To Drink From Bottle Of Stream Water
As part of new security measures at all airports, passengers must take a drink of any beverages they are taking aboard aircraft.
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/den/news/stories/news-135745820020405-090410.html
Search Me
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/07/magazine/07WWLN.html
High-Tech Identity Checks…
…using iris scans, handprints and even cellphones to track movements of passengers and airport personnel.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/07/travel/07SHELF.html?todaysheadlines
Smallest-ever infrared cameras - each measures a few centimeters on a side.
http://www.techreview.com/articles/wo_leo040502.asp
Nuclear Plant Operators Missed Warning Signs
http://ens-news.com/ens/apr2002/2002L-04-08-06.html
Radioactive Disappearances: Hundreds of Radioactive Devices Missing
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/wnt/DailyNews/nuclear_material020410.html
End of Their Rope - By Steven Brill
The Feds threw the book at John Walker Lindh, whetting the nation’s appetite for vengeance. Too bad the evidence is so weak.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/735202.asp
A Slow Process
Nearly three months have passed since the first detainees arrived at Guantanamo and officials there say getting useful information has been - and will continue to be - a slow process.
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/world/DailyNews/STRIKE_MAIN.html
Frustration inside the FBI’s anthrax investigation: a so-far perfect crime
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/020415/usnews/15anthrax.htm
What We Think of America
How America has entered non-American lives, and to what effect, for good and bad and both.
http://www.granta.com/shop/product?usca_p=t&product_id=839
Among the Bourgeoisophobes
Why the Europeans and Arabs, each in their own way, hate America and Israel.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/001/102gwtnf.asp
The lies leaders tell when they want to go to war
The real problem with Arafat is that he has a lot in common with Sharon.
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=279881
Ain’t nobody here but the chickens!
How humiliating to see the Arab countries doing nothing for their Palestinian brothers!
http://www.arabnews.com/Article.asp?ID=14027
Martyrdom is for lesser men
The apparent flaw within Palestinian policy is their inability to perceive the ground realities
http://www.iranian.com/Opinion/2002/April/Martyr/
Gen X
In recent months the aspiration to become a suicide bomber has become particularly prevalent among Palestinian girls.
http://www.thenewrepublic.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020415&s=rubin041502
Thinking ahead - After survival, what happens?
http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2002/580/op2.htm
Is There a Solution?
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/15280
China tops list of world executioners
http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/east/04/10/amnesty.china.executions/
Worldwide executions doubled in 2001
http://web.amnesty.org/ai.nsf/recent/ACT500052002?OpenDocument
US Human Rights Report Interferes China’s Internal Affairs [sem nunca referir qual relatório ou “pena de morte”...]
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200203/05/eng20020305_91463.shtml
China issues US human rights record…
…to show America’s own human rights-related problems
http://www1.chinadaily.com.cn/news/2002-03-11/60296.html
Is the Human Rights Era Ending? - by Michael Ignatieff
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/bush/ignatieff.htm
Rasterfahndung at European level?
Germany proposes computerized searches for terrorists on European level
http://www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/te/12274/1.html
Free speech and the Internet; a fish story
A legal dispute between online aquatic plant enthusiasts and a pet supply store illustrates the perils of casual opining on the Web.
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/04/04/aquatic_plants/print.html
Just Another Company
The last commercials of Enron, a typical large corporation
http://www.rtmark.com/enron/
The Totally Unauthorized Enron Joke Book
http://www.enronjokebook.com/
VITAMEDIAS
Papers Saw Greatest Journalist Drain In 25 Years
Newspapers experienced their largest loss of journalists in 25 years: nearly 2,000 editorial employees had left the industry in the past year
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/editorandpublisher/headlines/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1460214
Fewer Bonuses For Newspaper Execs In 2001
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/editorandpublisher/headlines/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1459521
Newspaper M&A Activity Is Up This Year - Q1 Saw Deals For 25 Dailies
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/editorandpublisher/headlines/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1455914
Dot-Com Ads Reappear on TV, Signaling Advertising Rebound
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/0,,SB1018383638422510840,00.html
U.S. journalists say they feel unready
In a survey of 401 journalists, most say they’re poorly prepared to cover the most significant issues facing the country.
http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20020411/4018121s.htm
The Pulitzer Prize Winners 2002
http://www.pulitzer.org/2002/2002.html
Clay Bennett’s 2002 Pulitzer-winning cartoons
http://www.christiansciencemonitor.com/slideshows/pulitzer/slide1.html
The Wall Street Journal’s smear campaign
The paper’s Op-Ed pages have long been a platform for political assassination. But their latest target is a rival paper that is competing for a Pulitzer Prize.
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2002/04/06/pulitzers/print.html
The Elephant in the Jury Room
http://www.ojr.org/ojr/workplace/1018398261.php
No names...unless the court decides otherwise
What stands between a reporter and a prison sentence or hefty fine?
http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,7558,680398,00.html
“Don't get in our way”
The message from the Pentagon to journalists wanting to cover any conflict involving America is: stay out, or assume your technology will make you one of our targets.
http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,7558,680402,00.html
A Reporter’s Nightmare: “People Are Saying You’re A CIA Agent”
http://www.tompaine.com/feature.cfm/ID/5366
Reporters Under Attack In The Occupied Territories
http://www.webactive.com/pacifica/demnow/dn20020409.html
SPJ Asks Israel to Stop Threatening Journalists
http://www.spj.org/news.asp?ref=231
Critics of mergers fear TV viewers’ choices will drop
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/3015732.htm
Beware a Dangerous New Marketing Innovation
http://www.adage.com/news.cms?newsId=34382
Breathing New Life Into Old TV Scripts
http://www.nydailynews.com/2002-04-09/New_York_Now/Television/a-146991.asp
Sony to Sell TV Soaps on Web In Bid for Pay-Per-View Niche
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/0,,SB1018305859436461760,00.html
Microsoft trying to move into movie, television distribution
http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/348938p-2862894c.html
The Last Gerontocracy - Why the anchors are so ancient. [ao contrário de Portugal…]
http://slate.msn.com/?id=2064171
10 most powerful in TV news & whys and wherefores of their influence
http://www.emonline.com/newspro/040802tenmostpowerful.html
You Paid For It
Researchers spent $180,000 of taxpayers’ dollars to find out if reporters have become more adversarial over the years.
http://more.abcnews.go.com/sections/gma/goodmorningamerica/gma020404reporter_studies_taxpayer.html
The Rise of Digital News Networks
http://www.ojr.org/ojr/lasica/1018588363.php
Newsblaster - Automatic system for event tracking and summarization [fiquei com dúvidas…]
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/nlp/newsblaster/
Rock writer Jane Scott retires after 50 years at The Plain Dealer…
…and one month shy of her 83rd birthday.
http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/plaindealer/index.ssf?/xml/story.ssf/html_standard.xsl?/base/entertainment/1017916310158052.xml
Do architecture critics matter?
It is a curious thing: we do not have architecture reviewers - only critics.
http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/20/apr02/kamin.htm
The Lomborg File - When the Press is Lured By a Contrarian’s Tale
[sobre o “The Skeptical Environmentalist” de Bjorn Lomborg]
http://www.cjr.org/year/02/2/bakerbook.asp
Le Monde editor warns over free papers
http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT30Z6LGLZC
Legal Affairs – The magazine at the intersection of law and life [primeiro número]
http://www.legalaffairs.org/index.html
TECNO-HOUSE
Deleted voice mail messages may not really be gone
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3039551.htm
Voice Mail Is Vulnerable - Just Ask HP
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,93886,tk,dn041102X,00.asp
Websites watch and learn…
…using increasingly sophisticated methods to watch what surfers are doing
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1910000/1910347.stm
Seeking Profits, Internet Companies Alter Privacy Policy
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/11/technology/ebusiness/11PRIV.html
Technology buffs adopt the new with attitude
A growing number of technology users spend more time on the Internet than watching free-to-air television
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/04/05/1017206252909.html
The next round in the PC wars
http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=1075937
The Trio Tackling Tomorrow’s Chips
The IBM-Sony-Toshiba deal to develop next-generation chipmaking techniques could change the industry’s “entire landscape”
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/apr2002/nf2002048_1268.htm
Anti-Trustworthy computing
Microsoft’s new security drive aims to appease Hollywood, comfort consumers and reinvigorate the PC. But will the price for such safety be too high?
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/04/09/trustworthy/print.html
At Microsoft, three’s a crowd [reflexões de um ex-]
Rick Belluzzo, president and COO, would step down May 1.
http://news.com.com/2008-1082-878712.html
A unified theory of software evolution
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/04/08/lehman/print.html
Linus without Linux
http://www.enrus.ru/english/public_5.html
Mr. Gates Goes to Moscow
http://www.enrus.ru/english/public_3.html
The WAP 2.0 Effect
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/17187.html
Sample “new” cell phone really just modified Nokia
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/03/29/BU13539.DTL
Virtual U - The World’s First Higher Education Simulation and Learning Tool
http://www.virtual-u.org
Googlewhacking
http://www.googlewhack.com
[Variante:] Andrew Childs: loaded search queries
http://rhizome.org/digest.rhiz
CONTAMINANTES
Gonçalo Ribeiro Telles: Ninguém está interessado em ser português
http://www.de.iol.pt/index.php?article=9931&visual=1
Restating the ‘90s
The biggest winners from the faster productivity growth of the 1990s were workers.
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/02_13/b3776001.htm
Salários dos executivos de empresas norte-americanas
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/business/20020307_EXECUTIVEPAY/sbn_PAYY_01.pdf
Freeze Tax Cuts Just For Richest 2 Percent [proposta de compromisso nos impostos entre sociedade civil e Estado]
http://www.rollcall.com/pages/columns/kondracke/
Mandelbrot: A Math Maverick Takes Stock
Economists have not described the stock market well - so how can they predict it?
http://www.forbes.com/technology/2002/04/02/0402mandelbrot.html
The Dollar Project
http://www.museumofconceptualart.com/dollar/dollar.html
Exercise Pill Is Possible
http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,51729,00.html
Portugueses São Os Mais Sedentários da União Europeia
http://jornal.publico.pt/publico/2002/04/06/Sociedade/S03.html
Making Time For A Baby
Women could wait until 40 or later to have babies?.Maybe that’s way too late
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/printout/0,8816,227528,00.html
First cloned baby is the son of rich Arab, says doctor
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/main.jhtml?xml=/connected/2002/04/09/ecnclone09.xml
Doubt, Anger Greet Clone Report
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/reu/20020401/clone.html
Bush backs ban of all human cloning
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/./latestnewsstory.cfm?storyID=1391634&thesection=news&thesubsection=world
Therapeutic Cloning Should Not Be Banned
http://www.franklinsociety.org/petition.html
A Retail Spying Spree
Unprecedented boom in the practice of snooping on workers. An estimated 500 mystery shopping firms operate today - a 25% increase from three years ago - and weekly send out as many as 500,000 freelancers who work as amateur sleuths.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-040602mystshop.story
Policing Disorder
Can we reduce serious crime by punishing petty offenses?
http://www-polisci.mit.edu/BR27.2/harcourt.html
Cyber-dog born to patrol the home…
…equipped with a camera that scans for intruders and beams pictures to a 3G phone
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2107361,00.html
Fotos: http://www.sanyo.co.jp/koho/hypertext4/0203news-j/0325-1.html
Zero Risk – News Safety and Security Information Database
http://www.zerorisk-international.com/About_This_Site.html
Ivan Illich - writing on the web
The top-down management of schools makes students powerless - and that the same top-down management is typical of the modern, technological economy that prevents people from learning.
http://www.preservenet.com/theory/Illich.html
Why Do You Crave Certain Foods?
http://www.healthleader.uthouston.edu/archive/foodandnutrition/020103/
This man says his happiest meals are at McDonald’s
Holden has eaten at more than 11,000 of the 13,500-plus McDonald’s in North America
http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20020405/4002109s.htm
Beer: High-Octane Brew
Sam Adams Utopias MMII: a potent, robust, uncarbonated concoction that’s more like a liqueur than any beer you’ve ever tasted.
http://www.newmassmedia.com/etc.phtml?code=har&db=etc_fea&ref=19873
. DE !
Redneck Neighbor - Everything you read here is entirely true
http://www.knology.net/~carlos/redneck.htm
Website sparks heresy case
A website has become the centre of the first heresy case to be brought in Ireland for nearly a century
http://www.vnunet.com/News/1130746
Internet gambling led to suicide…
…after he amassed debts of more than £53,000.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,680442,00.html
Saddam Hussein Suffers a Stroke, Sources Say
He liked Portuguese Mateus rose wine
http://www.nursinghands.com/news/NewsStory.html?4482
Mateus Rose raises glass to 70s nostalgia…
… with a rebranding campaign to introduce it to a new generation of wine drinkers.
http://media.guardian.co.uk/marketingandpr/story/0,7494,681057,00.html
US military creates indestructible sandwich
Capable of surviving airdrops, rough handling and extreme climates
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992151
Judge orders prisoner to don robes, sentence himself
No one had ever seen a prisoner ordered to put on a judge’s robe to sentence himself.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/04/10/BA97849.DTL
Do you think you are targetted by neuro-electromagnetic technology?
http://www.raven1.net/emsurvy2.htm
Researcher who claimed sharks won’t bite him loses part of leg in attack
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-pshark11apr11.story
Cow that escaped meatpacking plant finds sanctuary
http://boston.com/dailynews/101/region/Cow_that_escaped_meatpacking_p:.shtml
The Bad Fads Museum
http://badfads.com/home.html
ZITE ZA ZEMANA (2 de 1 a 3 Zs):
Teatro della Memoria (Topics: Giulio Camillo and his memory’s theatre)
http://www.ba.infn.it/~zito/memory.html
[Contexto?] Hiper-texto, Hiper-realidade
http://jornal.publico.pt/2002/04/08/SupEconomia/TEFUT.html
Almost Famous - The rise of the “nobody” memoir
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2001/0204.adams.html