Memo to Jon Friedman: we don?t trust you either: Jon Friedman, Media Editor with CBS Marketwatch, has fired another salvo in the war on blogging with an article stating that bloggers frighten him and that ?I haven?t reached the point where I can completely trust them to be accurate or comprehensive or analytical or, especially, fair. Sometimes, I?m not even sure if they worry about such conventions of journalism".
Memo to Jon Friedman: many bloggers have reached the point where we cannot trust old media/ mainstream media to be accurate or comprehensive or analytical, and most off all: fair. [...]
Friedman, guilty of the perverse generalisations that are regular features of attacks on the blogosphere, writes of all bloggers as a collective whilst occasionally trying to mask his apparent dislike of blogging with notes that some bloggers have gained credibility and an audience. Like most of his CBS brethren, he pines over Dan Rather by claiming that Rathergate made the blogosphere, and gives credit to CNN for starting a decentralisation of news, of which blogging is apparently a result of.
28 fevereiro 2005
.DE!
Underwater bike ride to launch students' eight-week crime spree: a couple of students from Cornwall are intent on making American criminal history by spending their summer breaking as many US laws as possible. [...]
Mr Smith got the idea for his transatlantic crime wave while playing a board game called Balderdash with his 12-year-old neighbour. One of the game's questions asks players to complete the phrase: "It is illegal in Florida for a widow to ... "
The answer is to parachute on a Sunday.
Mr Smith got the idea for his transatlantic crime wave while playing a board game called Balderdash with his 12-year-old neighbour. One of the game's questions asks players to complete the phrase: "It is illegal in Florida for a widow to ... "
The answer is to parachute on a Sunday.
25 fevereiro 2005
VITAMEDIAS
Poynter Survey Reveals Journalists' Pressure Points: The 750 respondents tell a story of long hours, pressure to do more, missed vacations, staff cutbacks, and as a result, a significant number of journalists who are considering leaving the field. Those most at risk of leaving are young journalists, women, and minorities. But others are not far behind them in that consideration.
The risk of losing journalists due to work-life balance issues is especially troubling because they also report a high level of satisfaction with the work of journalism. It is the working conditions that are at issue.
The risk of losing journalists due to work-life balance issues is especially troubling because they also report a high level of satisfaction with the work of journalism. It is the working conditions that are at issue.
24 fevereiro 2005
VITAMEDIAS
Publico.pt vai ter acesso pago: O acesso à edição impressa do Público através do site vai passar a ser limitado a assinantes. [...] Fica, no entanto, a promessa de que a maioria dos conteúdos continuarão a ser de acesso livre.
Whither The Wall Street Journal? The Wall Street Journal is not only the best-written, most elegantly edited newspaper to cover business, it may be the best paper period. [...]
Nevertheless, the Journal faces an intractable problem. Because you have to subscribe to access both current news articles and the archive, the Journal is leaving only a faint footprint in cyberspace.
Whither The Wall Street Journal? The Wall Street Journal is not only the best-written, most elegantly edited newspaper to cover business, it may be the best paper period. [...]
Nevertheless, the Journal faces an intractable problem. Because you have to subscribe to access both current news articles and the archive, the Journal is leaving only a faint footprint in cyberspace.
VITAMEDIAS
Ao contrário deste texto "OLIVEDESPORTOS adquire Lusomundo Media" ou deste "Anão compra gigante: Olivedesportos adquire Lusomundo" (ver este enquadramento) ou notícias como "PT escolhe Olivedesportos para vender Lusomundo Serviços", ainda não está claro que assim seja.
A novidade do comunicado da empresa à CMVM é que a PT decidiu em Conselho de Administração vender a Lusomundo Serviços (media, parque gráfico e VASP).
Tal como deixa subentender o Público em "Olivedesportos escolhida para negociar aquisição da Lusomundo Media" ou o DE em "PT vai negociar Lusomundo Media com Olivedesportos" não é ainda claro que a venda seja feita à Controlinveste (Olivedesportos). A Cofina e a Prisa ainda estão em jogo e a PT pode mesmo não vender a ninguém ou vender a um consórcio alinhado dos proponentes... E falta a decisão final do Conselho de Administração...
A novidade do comunicado da empresa à CMVM é que a PT decidiu em Conselho de Administração vender a Lusomundo Serviços (media, parque gráfico e VASP).
Tal como deixa subentender o Público em "Olivedesportos escolhida para negociar aquisição da Lusomundo Media" ou o DE em "PT vai negociar Lusomundo Media com Olivedesportos" não é ainda claro que a venda seja feita à Controlinveste (Olivedesportos). A Cofina e a Prisa ainda estão em jogo e a PT pode mesmo não vender a ninguém ou vender a um consórcio alinhado dos proponentes... E falta a decisão final do Conselho de Administração...
TECNOSFERA
Making Windows XP Start Faster: discussion and solution for of one Windows XP's most frustrating problems: slow startup
VITAMEDIAS
Ads Embedded in Online News Raise Questions: Online sites are generating new revenue by steering readers to advertisements when they click on certain words. But when those keywords are embedded in the text of a news article, those sites are generating debate as well.
Two months after Forbes.com ended an experiment with such keyword ads, citing unease among its reporters, The New York Post is considering adopting the practice for its site. In the process, the newspaper is raising questions about the ethics of keyword advertising online. [...]
Internet-savvy advertising industry observers quickly noted the appearance of paid ads in Post news coverage. A blog at www.adjab.com first reported it yesterday morning, calling the practice "not normal." [...]
The challenge for most offline publishers today is finding ad revenue growth.
Two months after Forbes.com ended an experiment with such keyword ads, citing unease among its reporters, The New York Post is considering adopting the practice for its site. In the process, the newspaper is raising questions about the ethics of keyword advertising online. [...]
Internet-savvy advertising industry observers quickly noted the appearance of paid ads in Post news coverage. A blog at www.adjab.com first reported it yesterday morning, calling the practice "not normal." [...]
The challenge for most offline publishers today is finding ad revenue growth.
TECNOSFERA
ajax: a new approach to web applications: Ajax isn?t a technology. It?s really several technologies, each flourishing in its own right, coming together in powerful new ways.
23 fevereiro 2005
VITAMEDIAS
The Fall and Fall of Journalism: Date: Monday 28 February 2005
A panel of speakers will debate whether the traditional role of journalists is being usurped by simply anyone who has access to a digital camera, camcorder and the internet. This debate will explore the new phenomena of citizen reporting, blogging and other new technology/new media-enabled reporting.
A panel of speakers will debate whether the traditional role of journalists is being usurped by simply anyone who has access to a digital camera, camcorder and the internet. This debate will explore the new phenomena of citizen reporting, blogging and other new technology/new media-enabled reporting.
VITAMEDIAS
All The Loyalty That's Fit To Print: The New York Times Co. just bought the world's biggest blog.
OK, About.com isn't technically a blog, but it is a massive collection of content produced by non-journalist experts. [...]
User-generated content can be expanded far more quickly and cheaply than traditional media. If the New York Times wants to add pages, it needs to hire more journalists, whereas a community grows every time someone feels passionate enough about something to post their thoughts online.
And that's precisely what the Times is hoping to continue to foster on About.com.
OK, About.com isn't technically a blog, but it is a massive collection of content produced by non-journalist experts. [...]
User-generated content can be expanded far more quickly and cheaply than traditional media. If the New York Times wants to add pages, it needs to hire more journalists, whereas a community grows every time someone feels passionate enough about something to post their thoughts online.
And that's precisely what the Times is hoping to continue to foster on About.com.
TECNOSFERA
Spyware Snags Blogger Users: Weblogs are spreading more than opinions and observations across the Internet. Some are beginning to propagate malicious software downloads that can alter browser settings, track users and serve pop-up ads.
Dozens of blogs hosted by Google Inc.'s Blogger service can install programs that are widely considered to be spyware and adware onto visitors' computers, warn users and spyware researchers. In many cases, users are discovering the offending sites as they browse among blogs through Blogger's navigation bar.
Dozens of blogs hosted by Google Inc.'s Blogger service can install programs that are widely considered to be spyware and adware onto visitors' computers, warn users and spyware researchers. In many cases, users are discovering the offending sites as they browse among blogs through Blogger's navigation bar.
TECNOSFERA
The 2005 Wired Rave Awards:
Film: Brad Bird for imagining The Incredibles
Business: Shigeyuki Hori for putting the Prius on the fast track
Science: Steven Squyres for keeping Spirit and Opportunity roving
Medicine: Robert Lanza for eye-opening work on embryonic stem cells
Architecture: Rem Koolhaas for transforming the library. Next up: Beijing's skyline.
Music: Danger Mouse for bringing mash-ups to the masses
Television: Blair Harrison for on-demand video highlights
Blogs: Kevin Sites for rewriting the rules of war reporting
Books: Jeff Hawkins for rethinking the way we think
Industrial Design: Burt Rutan for launching the private space age
Technology: Mark Fletcher for making bloglines the Internet's news network
Art: Jennifer & Kevin Mccoy for turning media crit into pop art
Games: Pete Parsons for the mind-blowing world of Halo 2
Film: Brad Bird for imagining The Incredibles
Business: Shigeyuki Hori for putting the Prius on the fast track
Science: Steven Squyres for keeping Spirit and Opportunity roving
Medicine: Robert Lanza for eye-opening work on embryonic stem cells
Architecture: Rem Koolhaas for transforming the library. Next up: Beijing's skyline.
Music: Danger Mouse for bringing mash-ups to the masses
Television: Blair Harrison for on-demand video highlights
Blogs: Kevin Sites for rewriting the rules of war reporting
Books: Jeff Hawkins for rethinking the way we think
Industrial Design: Burt Rutan for launching the private space age
Technology: Mark Fletcher for making bloglines the Internet's news network
Art: Jennifer & Kevin Mccoy for turning media crit into pop art
Games: Pete Parsons for the mind-blowing world of Halo 2
VITAMEDIAS
Stopping The Presses: Online news sites (including our own), free from print's constraints of time and space, are using the medium to aggregate and deliver information tailored to each user in a way a newspaper never can.
Where does that leave the printed word? [...]
The combined weekday circulation of all U.S. dailies has dropped from 62.8 million in 1985 to 55.2 million in 2002. That gives it the lowest penetration of any medium.
Worse for newspaper publishers, that trend is accelerating as the Internet has become embedded in the daily lives of so many potential readers both young and old. The top 20 news sites drew an average of 5 million individuals each month in early 2002. That figure has risen to more than 8.5 million, with the top sites drawing more than 20 million unique visitors a month. [...]
Print publications will also have to find stronger tones of voice, along the lines of the European press, or like 19th-century American newspapers. Another option for serious journalism is that it will become the domain of nonprofits--or be reader, not advertiser, supported, along the public broadcasting model.
Can The Tabloid Format Save Newspapers? A publisher can use a format change as a catalyst for revamping business processes throughout the newspaper--from editorial to sales and distribution--cutting costs and modernizing wherever necessary. A format change affects the entire value chain of a newspaper and therefore provides a rare opportunity to prepare it for today's tougher operating environment. But if the newspaper merely alters its layout without changing its editorial operations, advertising sales, pricing and other practices, whatever gains it achieves may not endure.
Where does that leave the printed word? [...]
The combined weekday circulation of all U.S. dailies has dropped from 62.8 million in 1985 to 55.2 million in 2002. That gives it the lowest penetration of any medium.
Worse for newspaper publishers, that trend is accelerating as the Internet has become embedded in the daily lives of so many potential readers both young and old. The top 20 news sites drew an average of 5 million individuals each month in early 2002. That figure has risen to more than 8.5 million, with the top sites drawing more than 20 million unique visitors a month. [...]
Print publications will also have to find stronger tones of voice, along the lines of the European press, or like 19th-century American newspapers. Another option for serious journalism is that it will become the domain of nonprofits--or be reader, not advertiser, supported, along the public broadcasting model.
Can The Tabloid Format Save Newspapers? A publisher can use a format change as a catalyst for revamping business processes throughout the newspaper--from editorial to sales and distribution--cutting costs and modernizing wherever necessary. A format change affects the entire value chain of a newspaper and therefore provides a rare opportunity to prepare it for today's tougher operating environment. But if the newspaper merely alters its layout without changing its editorial operations, advertising sales, pricing and other practices, whatever gains it achieves may not endure.
VITAMEDIAS
American media vs the blogs: Bloggers. Truth-tellers or vigilantes? Trophy-hunters or watchdogs?
Bloggers' Internet obsession: "There is a narcotic quality to it," said Anil Dash, a prominent 29-year-old San Francisco technology blogger (www.anildash.com). "The more you post, the more readers you get. It's easy for people to get sucked into it." [...]
For most people, blogs are a healthy means of self-expression and validation, said Boston psychologist John Grohol, who studies online behavior. Most digital diarists find gratification in connecting with readers. Some feel the need to apologize to readers if they have not updated enough.
But blogging can become so all-consuming that it overshadows reality. "They spend enormous amounts of time blogging rather than living," Grohol said.
Doing kottke.org as a full-time job: I recently quit my web design gig and -- as of today -- will be working on kottke.org as my full-time job. And I need your help.
I'm asking the regular readers of kottke.org (that's you!) to become micropatrons
Day two of kottke.org full-time
Quit Your Job to Blog, Blog, Blog
Bloggers' Internet obsession: "There is a narcotic quality to it," said Anil Dash, a prominent 29-year-old San Francisco technology blogger (www.anildash.com). "The more you post, the more readers you get. It's easy for people to get sucked into it." [...]
For most people, blogs are a healthy means of self-expression and validation, said Boston psychologist John Grohol, who studies online behavior. Most digital diarists find gratification in connecting with readers. Some feel the need to apologize to readers if they have not updated enough.
But blogging can become so all-consuming that it overshadows reality. "They spend enormous amounts of time blogging rather than living," Grohol said.
Doing kottke.org as a full-time job: I recently quit my web design gig and -- as of today -- will be working on kottke.org as my full-time job. And I need your help.
I'm asking the regular readers of kottke.org (that's you!) to become micropatrons
Day two of kottke.org full-time
Quit Your Job to Blog, Blog, Blog
CULTURAS IN VITRO
The 10 greatest rock'n'roll myths
1: 'Mama' Cass choking on a sandwich
2: Marilyn Manson starring in 'The Wonder Years'
3: The Beatles' spliff in Buckingham Palace
4: Keef's blood transfusion
5: Stevie Nicks having cocaine blown up her bum
6: Robert Johnson's pact with the devil
7: Jacko and the elephant man
8: Sid checks in at Heathrow
9: Richey Edwards lives
10: Led Zep and the mud shark
1: 'Mama' Cass choking on a sandwich
2: Marilyn Manson starring in 'The Wonder Years'
3: The Beatles' spliff in Buckingham Palace
4: Keef's blood transfusion
5: Stevie Nicks having cocaine blown up her bum
6: Robert Johnson's pact with the devil
7: Jacko and the elephant man
8: Sid checks in at Heathrow
9: Richey Edwards lives
10: Led Zep and the mud shark
21 fevereiro 2005
ECOPOL
Global blogger action day called: The month-old Committee to Protect Bloggers' is asking those with blogs to dedicate their sites on 22 February to the "Free Mojtaba and Arash Day".
VITAMEDIAS
Open Government Act to recognise Bloggers as legitimate journalists: Importantly for bloggers, the Cornyn-Leahy legislation grants privileged FOIA fees for bloggers and writers for Internet outlets, providing the same status as old media and will protect access to FOIA fee waivers for legitimate journalists, regardless of institutional association - including bloggers and other Internet-based journalists.
This act potentially opens up a new sphere in bloggers investigating and reporting on Government information and demonstrates a true maturity of the medium, now recognised at the highest levels of Government.
This act potentially opens up a new sphere in bloggers investigating and reporting on Government information and demonstrates a true maturity of the medium, now recognised at the highest levels of Government.
TECNOSFERA
A parent's primer to computer slang: Understand how your kids communicate online to help protect them
VITAMEDIAS
Time to get a life -- pioneer blogger Justin Hall bows out at 31: Hall began posting online in 1994 while working as a student intern at San Francisco-based Wired magazine in the summer of his sophomore year at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. He returned the next summer to work with technology icon Howard Rheingold (author of "Virtual Community" and "Smart Mobs").
From then on, his life became deeply connected with his work as a blogger -- and this was before the word was even created. [...]
Even Hall knows that Hall will be back.
"A lot of people have been asking me, 'Why aren't you posting about what you're going to do," he said during a phone interview. "I would, if I knew what I was gonna do. It's not goodbye."
From then on, his life became deeply connected with his work as a blogger -- and this was before the word was even created. [...]
Even Hall knows that Hall will be back.
"A lot of people have been asking me, 'Why aren't you posting about what you're going to do," he said during a phone interview. "I would, if I knew what I was gonna do. It's not goodbye."
CULTURAS IN VITRO
Pico Project: The Discourse on the Dignity of Man (1486) by Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494) is considered the "Manifesto of the Renaissance." Indeed, it exalts the human creature for his/her freedom and capacity to know and to dominate reality as a whole. Far from being simply that, however, the Discourse deals with the vocation of the human creature who, possessing no determinate image, is urged to pursue its own perfection. Such a pursuit begins with moral self-discipline, passes through the familiar, multifarious world of images and fields of knowledge, and strives toward that most lofty goal which defies representation. Pico believes that this paradigm, by virtue of the fact that it is to be found in every tradition, is universal. [...]
The Pico Project makes accessible a complete resource for the reading and interpretation of the Discourse within its own context, from an initial encounter through direct contact with the original text, presented here in its first printed edition (Bologna 1496) of which there exist no extant manuscripts.
The Pico Project makes accessible a complete resource for the reading and interpretation of the Discourse within its own context, from an initial encounter through direct contact with the original text, presented here in its first printed edition (Bologna 1496) of which there exist no extant manuscripts.
ECOPOL
Com amigos destes... In Secretly Taped Conversations, Glimpses of the Future President: As George W. Bush was first moving onto the national political stage, he often turned for advice to an old friend who secretly taped some of their private conversations, creating a rare record of the future president as a politician and a personality.
Author: Bush Tapes Not Meant for Public
Author: Bush Tapes Not Meant for Public
TECNOSFERA
In a British Mobile Phone Suit, the Color of Money Is Orange: But as a color, orange could one day become the legal property of Orange, the British mobile phone company.
Orange said yesterday evening that it would sue easyMobile, a wireless start-up founded by the entrepreneur Stelios Haji-Ioannou, who also founded the easyJet discount airline. Orange wants to keep easyMobile from ever using its signature color in advertisements. [...]
Suing for the rights to a color is not as unusual as it may sound, lawyers said.
Orange said yesterday evening that it would sue easyMobile, a wireless start-up founded by the entrepreneur Stelios Haji-Ioannou, who also founded the easyJet discount airline. Orange wants to keep easyMobile from ever using its signature color in advertisements. [...]
Suing for the rights to a color is not as unusual as it may sound, lawyers said.
VITAMEDIAS
Interactive Viral Campaigns Ask Consumers to Spread the Word: As more Americans become comfortable with the Web, though, major marketers are increasingly asking agencies to produce elaborate, interactive online campaigns - even for grocery store goods that hardly anyone researches or buys online. [...]
As viral marketing gains adherents, it is also gaining awards shows like this week's Viral Awards in New York. The event, a North American version of the Viral Awards in Britain, primarily honored bizarre or risqué work like "Subservient Chicken" and an online campaign for Trojan condoms that portrayed seminude athletes vaulting into sexual positions.
As viral marketing gains adherents, it is also gaining awards shows like this week's Viral Awards in New York. The event, a North American version of the Viral Awards in Britain, primarily honored bizarre or risqué work like "Subservient Chicken" and an online campaign for Trojan condoms that portrayed seminude athletes vaulting into sexual positions.
ECOPOL
Resultados das Eleições Legislativas de 2005
[do blogue auto-suspenso Margens de Erro: as sondagens de 2005 foram as mais precisas alguma vez conduzidas na história da democracia portuguesa.]
[do blogue auto-suspenso Margens de Erro: as sondagens de 2005 foram as mais precisas alguma vez conduzidas na história da democracia portuguesa.]
18 fevereiro 2005
ECOPOL
Anedotário: Frase do tempo de antena do PSD: «Vote no PSD para continuar a diminuir o desemprego». Agora deu-lhes para brincar com a gente?
[E quando é que Vital Moreira se preocupou com o seu desemprego? Está a "brincar com a gente?"...]
[E quando é que Vital Moreira se preocupou com o seu desemprego? Está a "brincar com a gente?"...]
VITAMEDIAS
Media: o que está verdadeiramente em causa
1- Concordo.
2- "certificação da qualidade"?!?!? Está bem... Já agora, vamos primeiro definir qualidade?
3- "Defesa intransigente da diversidade dos conteúdos"!!! Mas não existe já essa diversidade - nos canais de cabo, claro...
4- Concordo.
5- Como?
6- Como e em que condições? Já chega de vigilantes...
7- Como?
8- Talvez...
9- Sim e depois?
10- Nem mais! E quem as vai fazer? (Isso fica para debater depois, claro, porque o que interessa é a abertura de espírito e de espectro). Concordo, claro.
1- Concordo.
2- "certificação da qualidade"?!?!? Está bem... Já agora, vamos primeiro definir qualidade?
3- "Defesa intransigente da diversidade dos conteúdos"!!! Mas não existe já essa diversidade - nos canais de cabo, claro...
4- Concordo.
5- Como?
6- Como e em que condições? Já chega de vigilantes...
7- Como?
8- Talvez...
9- Sim e depois?
10- Nem mais! E quem as vai fazer? (Isso fica para debater depois, claro, porque o que interessa é a abertura de espírito e de espectro). Concordo, claro.
17 fevereiro 2005
VITAMEDIAS
Mazur's Hypothesis on Technology Controversy and Media: In the early 1980s, Allan Mazur published his hypothesis on the direct relation between media coverage and public reaction toward technological issues. This hypothesis stated, ?the rise in reaction against a scientific technology appears to coincide with a rise in quantity of media coverage, suggesting that media attention tends to elicit a conservative public bias. [...]
[T]his article tests Mazur?s hypothesis empirically by using media content and public reactions in a single research design. Results indicate that Mazur?s hypothesis is not supported by the data.
[T]his article tests Mazur?s hypothesis empirically by using media content and public reactions in a single research design. Results indicate that Mazur?s hypothesis is not supported by the data.
VITAMEDIAS
Don't Fear the Blog and the Fury: Does a blogosphere frenzy that helps bring down a CNN news exec for a comment he made mean free speech is in peril? Nope. It's exploding
The Blogs Must Be Crazy Or maybe the MSM is just suffering from freedom envy.
The blogosphere isn't some mindless eruption of wild opinion. That isn't their power. This is their power:
1. They use the tools of journalists (computer, keyboard, a spirit of inquiry, a willingness to ask the question) and of the Internet (Google, LexisNexis) to look for and find facts that have been overlooked, ignored or hidden. [...]
2. Bloggers, unlike reporters at elite newspapers and magazines, are independent operators. They are not, and do not have to be, governed by mainstream thinking. [...]
3. Bloggers have an institutional advantage in terms of technology and form. They can post immediately. [...]
4. Bloggers are also selling the smartest take on a story. They're selling an original insight, a new area of inquiry. [...]
5. And they're doing it free. That is, the Times costs me a dollar and so does the Journal, but Kausfiles doesn't cost a dime. [...]
6. It is not true that there are no controls. It is not true that the blogosphere is the Wild West. What governs members of the blogosphere is what governs to some degree members of the MSM, and that is the desire for status and respect. In the blogosphere you lose both if you put forward as fact information that is incorrect, specious or cooked. [...]
7. I don't know if the blogosphere is rougher in the ferocity of its personal attacks than, say, Drew Pearson. Or the rough boys and girls of the great American editorial pages of the 1930s and '40s. Bloggers are certainly not as rough as the splenetic pamphleteers of the 18th and 19th centuries
No Protection for Bloggers: Now, with two reporters from established news organizations facing jail time for defying an order to divulge confidential sources to a federal grand jury, bloggers are clamoring for the same legal protection that journalists are accorded under the First Amendment.
But they won't get it. Besides, even if they did, it wouldn't be of much use.
[Curiosidade: porque será que este blogue ou este, provindos de meios de comunicação social, não são muito referenciados?...]
The Blogs Must Be Crazy Or maybe the MSM is just suffering from freedom envy.
The blogosphere isn't some mindless eruption of wild opinion. That isn't their power. This is their power:
1. They use the tools of journalists (computer, keyboard, a spirit of inquiry, a willingness to ask the question) and of the Internet (Google, LexisNexis) to look for and find facts that have been overlooked, ignored or hidden. [...]
2. Bloggers, unlike reporters at elite newspapers and magazines, are independent operators. They are not, and do not have to be, governed by mainstream thinking. [...]
3. Bloggers have an institutional advantage in terms of technology and form. They can post immediately. [...]
4. Bloggers are also selling the smartest take on a story. They're selling an original insight, a new area of inquiry. [...]
5. And they're doing it free. That is, the Times costs me a dollar and so does the Journal, but Kausfiles doesn't cost a dime. [...]
6. It is not true that there are no controls. It is not true that the blogosphere is the Wild West. What governs members of the blogosphere is what governs to some degree members of the MSM, and that is the desire for status and respect. In the blogosphere you lose both if you put forward as fact information that is incorrect, specious or cooked. [...]
7. I don't know if the blogosphere is rougher in the ferocity of its personal attacks than, say, Drew Pearson. Or the rough boys and girls of the great American editorial pages of the 1930s and '40s. Bloggers are certainly not as rough as the splenetic pamphleteers of the 18th and 19th centuries
No Protection for Bloggers: Now, with two reporters from established news organizations facing jail time for defying an order to divulge confidential sources to a federal grand jury, bloggers are clamoring for the same legal protection that journalists are accorded under the First Amendment.
But they won't get it. Besides, even if they did, it wouldn't be of much use.
[Curiosidade: porque será que este blogue ou este, provindos de meios de comunicação social, não são muito referenciados?...]
CONTAMINANTES
In pictures: How the world is changing: While the effect of human activity on the global climate is hotly debated, physical signs of environmental change are all around us. [ver também este World View of Global Warming]
A whole new way of looking at the world: The world is a different place than it was five years ago, but what exactly changed?
A whole new way of looking at the world: The world is a different place than it was five years ago, but what exactly changed?
TECNOSFERA
Eight years of email stats: I've got a huge email archive. I started emailing in the early ArpaNet days, around 1972, and haven't stopped since. My archive has been extremely thorough for at least the past 12 years (and, in case you think I'm nuts for keeping all of these, my actual regret from a scientific/archive perspective is that I don't have the earlier ones too!). Why? Let's just say that one day I planned to do an analysis of it all...
.DE!
Manuuuuuel????? Original Fawlty Towers goes for £1.5m: John Cleese based the character of Basil Fawlty on Donald Sinclair, a former owner of the Hotel Gleneagles, in Torquay, Devon.
The new owners are a family from Bristol who say they are "big fans" of the comedy, which ran for 12 episodes between 1975 and 1979.
Cleese, who stayed at the hotel with the Monty Python team in 1971, described Sinclair as "the most wonderfully rude man I have ever met".
The new owners are a family from Bristol who say they are "big fans" of the comedy, which ran for 12 episodes between 1975 and 1979.
Cleese, who stayed at the hotel with the Monty Python team in 1971, described Sinclair as "the most wonderfully rude man I have ever met".
VITAMEDIAS
Whirled threatens BatesLine: This is not just about the sordid little world of Tulsa politics. This is the old media trying to intimidate their critics in the new media into silence. It has repercussions for any blogger engaged in media criticism.
CONTAMINANTES
Vamos continuar à espera dos homenzinhos verdes com antenas...
NASA Researchers Claim Evidence of Present Life on Mars: A pair of NASA scientists told a group of space officials at a private meeting here Sunday that they have found strong evidence that life may exist today on Mars, hidden away in caves and sustained by pockets of water. [...]
What [Carol Stoker and Larry Lemke of NASA?s Ames Research Center] have found, according to several attendees of the private meeting, is not direct proof of life on Mars, but methane signatures and other signs of possible biological activity remarkably similar to those recently discovered in caves here on Earth.
NASA Researchers Claim Evidence of Present Life on Mars: A pair of NASA scientists told a group of space officials at a private meeting here Sunday that they have found strong evidence that life may exist today on Mars, hidden away in caves and sustained by pockets of water. [...]
What [Carol Stoker and Larry Lemke of NASA?s Ames Research Center] have found, according to several attendees of the private meeting, is not direct proof of life on Mars, but methane signatures and other signs of possible biological activity remarkably similar to those recently discovered in caves here on Earth.
TECNOSFERA
Humor razoável: What Should I Do If The Internet Goes Down?
1. Panic!
2. Find A Telephone
3. Use Your Back-Up Computer
4. Install A Game
5. Perform Routine Maintenance
6. Turn On A Television Or Radio
7. Read
8. Go Outside
9. Spend Time With Your Spouse
10. Use Your Emergency AOL Disk
1. Panic!
2. Find A Telephone
3. Use Your Back-Up Computer
4. Install A Game
5. Perform Routine Maintenance
6. Turn On A Television Or Radio
7. Read
8. Go Outside
9. Spend Time With Your Spouse
10. Use Your Emergency AOL Disk
16 fevereiro 2005
VITAMEDIAS
Media Predictions 2005:
* Broadcast Television The long-standing business model for broadcast television ? the network model ? will, in developed countries, steadily be replaced by a complex and diverse media market with even greater opportunities. [...]
* Convergence This will remain a hot topic in 2005, but will provide strong returns for only a handful of media companies. [...]
* Personalized content Companies will spend heavily trying to convince consumers to watch television on mobile phones and other mobile devices. But what consumers really want is simple content [...]
* Publishing Newspaper publishers will see modest growth from their on-line operations, while magazine publishers will enjoy greater success. Niche journals, in particular, will increasingly be offered in electronic form ? providing instantaneous global distribution at massively reduced cost. Traditional media outlets will lose their monopoly on content, as more and more people express their opinions on the internet through blogs (web logs) and wikis (editable web pages). While these sources will not directly threaten traditional media revenue, they will compete for eyeballs and influence, which are the media industry?s underlying currency.
* Digital Terrestrial Television 2005 will be a pivotal year for DTTV.
* Broadcast Television The long-standing business model for broadcast television ? the network model ? will, in developed countries, steadily be replaced by a complex and diverse media market with even greater opportunities. [...]
* Convergence This will remain a hot topic in 2005, but will provide strong returns for only a handful of media companies. [...]
* Personalized content Companies will spend heavily trying to convince consumers to watch television on mobile phones and other mobile devices. But what consumers really want is simple content [...]
* Publishing Newspaper publishers will see modest growth from their on-line operations, while magazine publishers will enjoy greater success. Niche journals, in particular, will increasingly be offered in electronic form ? providing instantaneous global distribution at massively reduced cost. Traditional media outlets will lose their monopoly on content, as more and more people express their opinions on the internet through blogs (web logs) and wikis (editable web pages). While these sources will not directly threaten traditional media revenue, they will compete for eyeballs and influence, which are the media industry?s underlying currency.
* Digital Terrestrial Television 2005 will be a pivotal year for DTTV.
VITAMEDIAS
How to save blogs from ourselves:
I. THE MEDIUM IS NOT THE MESSAGE
II. RIGHT VS LEFT ENDS NOW
III. STOP THE ENDLESS NETWORK BASHING
IV. BE LOCAL
V. ELEVATE THE DIALOGUE
I. THE MEDIUM IS NOT THE MESSAGE
II. RIGHT VS LEFT ENDS NOW
III. STOP THE ENDLESS NETWORK BASHING
IV. BE LOCAL
V. ELEVATE THE DIALOGUE
VITAMEDIAS
Bad Language: Associated Press' fake blog: So Bad Language isn't, in fact, a blog at all. It's another wire, written as if it was a blog and unavailable to the general public except through the sites of those purveyors of news who have the cash to pay up for it. Bad Language is a phantom, a pretence, a fake.
I really don't understand what AP think they are doing. You can't become a part of the blogosphere simply by calling a wire a blog. It doesn't work like that.
[ver também "AP, Too, Offers a Blog; 'Bad Language' Will Cover Pop Culture" e um exemplo de texto: "Bad LANGuage: AP's Pop Culture Blog"]
I really don't understand what AP think they are doing. You can't become a part of the blogosphere simply by calling a wire a blog. It doesn't work like that.
[ver também "AP, Too, Offers a Blog; 'Bad Language' Will Cover Pop Culture" e um exemplo de texto: "Bad LANGuage: AP's Pop Culture Blog"]
VITAMEDIAS
A Newspaper Blog for Transparency: Here's another innovation from the Ventura County Star in California: a new blog by assistant managing editor for new media and technology John Moore that offers a daily peek into the decision-making process that goes into story choices for the front page (and the rest) of the paper each day.
VITAMEDIAS
Projecto Mundial Estuda a Representação das Mulheres e Homens nas Notícias: Cinco investigadoras e duas finalistas do curso de Jornalismo da Universidade de Coimbra estarão de olhos postos nas televisões generalistas, rádios e jornais diários nacionais durante o dia de hoje. O seu trabalho é recolher toda a informação referente à representação das mulheres e homens nas notícias difundidas ou publicadas.
[mas com estes anúncios não podem desvirtuar a essência do seu trabalho?...]
[mas com estes anúncios não podem desvirtuar a essência do seu trabalho?...]
VITAMEDIAS
Tape It, Baby, Tape It! Scrawled Interviews Are a Risky Romance: "[I] don?t understand journalists who don?t record their interviews. Sure there are situations where you can?t record [and] I understand that newspaper writers facing daily deadlines don?t often have time to tape and transcribe?it?s an incredibly slow and tedious process?but magazine writers should tape more than they do." [via Atrium]
VITAMEDIAS
Tape It, Baby, Tape It! Scrawled Interviews Are a Risky Romance: "[I] don?t understand journalists who don?t record their interviews. Sure there are situations where you can?t record [and] I understand that newspaper writers facing daily deadlines don?t often have time to tape and transcribe?it?s an incredibly slow and tedious process?but magazine writers should tape more than they do." [via Atrium]
ECOPOL
Crise? Qual?: Há dois países um, o verdadeiro, que não está em nenhuma crise profunda - como aliás foi referido nos relatórios de reputadas empresas de análise financeira, numa das conferências económicas ontem realizadas em Lisboa, no caso a PriceWaterHouse -, e no qual se prevê um crescimento para este ano, e próximo, acima da média europeia.
O outro país, político e mediático, em fase de campanha eleitoral, dá a ideia de que Portugal está afundado na pior das depressões e recessões, o que representa a maior distorção da realidade que alguma vez foi tão sistematicamente montada e concebida.
Salários dos gestores de topo portugueses sobem 4% em 2005, de acordo com um estudo efectuado pela consultora Watson Wyatt. No mesmo relatório, divulgado ontem, apenas a Grécia ultrapassa Portugal em relação a este indicador, já que as remunerações dos profissionais deverão sofrer incrementos na ordem dos 5%. A Espanha, Irlanda e a Itália são os restantes países que deverão subir 4% as remunerações.
O outro país, político e mediático, em fase de campanha eleitoral, dá a ideia de que Portugal está afundado na pior das depressões e recessões, o que representa a maior distorção da realidade que alguma vez foi tão sistematicamente montada e concebida.
Salários dos gestores de topo portugueses sobem 4% em 2005, de acordo com um estudo efectuado pela consultora Watson Wyatt. No mesmo relatório, divulgado ontem, apenas a Grécia ultrapassa Portugal em relação a este indicador, já que as remunerações dos profissionais deverão sofrer incrementos na ordem dos 5%. A Espanha, Irlanda e a Itália são os restantes países que deverão subir 4% as remunerações.
HISTÓRIA
You Must Remember This... As Time Goes By
Fevereiro de 2004:
- Jornais diários ganham 107 mil leitores em dez anos: Os matutinos aumentaram em 24,5% o número de leitores desde 1993.
- Gates predicts death of the password because it cannot "meet the challenge" of keeping critical information secure.
- BlogBinders: Turn your weblog into a book!
- 'Diário do Sul' denuncia situação de crise no sector: A imprensa regional vive uma situação «alarmante» e «dolorosa», sem a atenção que merece dos sucessivos governos, defendeu ontem em editorial o director do Diário do Sul, assinalando o 35.º aniversário deste jornal de Évora.
- Grey Tuesday: Tuesday, February 24 will be a day of coordinated civil disobedience: websites will post Danger Mouse's Grey Album on their site for 24 hours in protest of EMI's attempts to censor this work.
- 1º Concurso de Literatura Para Blogs até ao final da primeira quinzena de Março.
- Kurt Gottfried, à la tête des scientifiques qui accusent Bush de manipulation: La Maison Blanche a fait détruire certaines données
- Os brindes: se na União Europeia diminui a venda dos jornais, Portugal foi o país em que o fenómeno atingiu proporções mais graves: menos 2,2% de leitores de jornais entre 2001 e 2002, e menos 22,4% entre 1996 e 2002. Além, disso, nos jovens entre os 15 e os 24 anos, encontramos 60,4% que não lêem jornais. Onde estão os futuros leitores? Aterrador!
Leitura de jornais e riqueza do País: Curioso é que na Suécia 92,2% dos jovens lêem jornais, na Finlândia 78,4%, na Dinamarca 64,8% e na Irlanda 59,8%. Em todos os demais países da UE os jovens que não lêem jornais superam a percentagem dos que lêem. Por isso, a idade média dos leitores de jornais está a aumentar.
- Um país sob escuta: É difícil entender, do ponto de vista filosófico, moral e político, que se admitam as escutas telefónicas que visam cidadãos e não aquelas, muito mais úteis e ricas de ensinamentos, que colocariam sob escuta os confessionários, os escritórios de advogados e os consultórios de médicos. Tal como, aliás, as salas de reunião dos conselhos de administração dos bancos, sem os quais não há branqueamento de dinheiros do crime.
- Editores contra revelação das fontes de informação: O Conselho Europeu de Editores, presidido por Francisco Pinto Balsemão e que representa alguns dos principais grupos de comunicação da Europa, está a pressionar para que se imponham novas directrizes que protejam os jornalistas responsáveis pela informação financeira em relação à obrigação de revelar as fontes de informação, de acordo com a directiva da União Europeia sobre o abuso da informação financeira.
- Professors blog away in the classroom: Increasingly more Stanford professors are using ?Web logging,? more popularly known as ?blogging? in their classrooms.
- Mais dinheiro para a "estratégia de Lisboa", menos para as auto-estradas: Portugal vai ter de reorientar os fundos estruturais comunitários de apoio ao seu desenvolvimento para o reforço da qualificação dos recursos humanos, investigação científica e inovação, de modo a diminuir o peso das estradas e auto-estradas nos financiamentos da União Europeia
- The Blogfather's Hit List: Glenn Reynolds' blog is the most visited in the world. His site, InstaPundit.com, averages more than 100,000 visits each day - as many as a medium-size city daily or a cable news show.
- Atenção blogues de Portugal: Web publishers could be liable for libel Europe-wide: A draft European Union (EU) law could subject web publishers to defamation laws in any EU country where their work is downloaded, says campaign group Article 19.
- Jornalistas acusam anterior direcção do "DN" de revelar fonte a ministro: A acusação foi feita pelos jornalistas Margarida Maria, actualmente desempregada, e Rudolfo Rebelo, que permanece no "Diário de Notícias", no programa Clube de Jornalistas, emitido domingo à noite no canal 2. [...]
"É nossa convicção profunda que a haver revelação de fontes ela aconteceu na reunião entre dois elementos da direcção do 'DN' [António Ribeiro Ferreira (então director-adjunto) e Mário Bettencourt Resendes (director)] e o ministro Vera Jardim", declarou Rudolfo Rebelo no programa e reafirmou-o ontem ao PÚBLICO.
- ?Leonardo Da Vinci, master draftsman? at the Metropolitan in New York was the most popular show of 2003
Fevereiro de 2003:
- Blog Não Discuto: eis o primeiro blog a querer ser comprado...
- Lynch Moblogs: News travels faster than ever - and that includes news about your company. First came the Internet, with its seething chat rooms and mailing lists. Then came blogging, which made it easy for loudmouths to publish commentary on the Web. Now get ready for moblogging - shorthand for "mobile weblogging" - which can turn any street corner, checkout line, or supermarket aisle into a multimedia complaint hotline.
- Devem os media ser escrutinados com mais atenção? [...] diz António Granado: "Pacheco Pereira [PP] escreve hoje no "Público" um texto onde, pela milésima vez, diz que é preciso escrutinar a comunicação social [...] Alguém é capaz de me explicar onde é que o homem quer chegar?"
Manuel Pinto argumenta (síntese): "Tal como há uma crítica de TV (de facto: da sua programação), de cinema, de música, etc, porque não há-de existir igualmente uma crítica dos media?" [...] Só me parece que uma tal linha de trabalho dos/nos media não pode ficar circunscrita ao jornalismo. Penso mesmo que tendências de fundo que se registam hoje no campo jornalístico resultam, em grande medida, da "contaminação" de outras variáveis do campo mediático-económico que não podem deixar de ser equacionadas. [...]
Mas existe uma crítica dos media frágil tal como é a crítica a sectores económicos e políticos. Reclamar uma linha de acção forte num momento em que há cada vez menos jornalistas nas redacções é sintomático da linha de actuação dos políticos: intervir num sector quando ele está mais fragilizado.
- The Biggest Threat To Peace: Which country really poses the greatest danger to world peace in 2003?
North Korea: 5.7%
Iraq: 6.7%
The United States: 87.6%
- Cada canal seu ministro: Durão Barroso foi o ministro que em 2002 ocupou mais tempo na informação da SIC, enquanto Paulo Portas foi o preferido da TVI e Manuela Ferreira Leite teve mais «tempo de antena» na RTP2. Quanto ao Canal 1 as preferências são divididas entre Bagão Félix e Morais Sarmento.
- Blog addiction: You are addicted to blogging if you answer "yes" to at least 3 of the following questions:
Do you think about everything in terms of whether it will make a good blog entry?
Do you keep your computer in standby mode beside your bed and wake up at 2am to blog?
Do you skip lunch and blog instead?
Do you accept speaking engagements or make travel decisions based on whether they will make good blog material?
Do you have your RSS newsreader open during meetings and keep hitting "refresh"?
Do you sit around trying to figure out how you can redesign your job so you can blog more?
Do you think blogs will suddenly cause an emergent democracy and save the world?
- CNN leaves 750 words out of Blix transcript: How in the world do you trust a 'news' organiztion like CNN, when they offer what purports to be a full transcript of Hans Blix' address to the UN Security Council but they leave out nearly 800 words - and those words just happen to be the ones where Blix refutes Colin Powell's 'smoking gun' presentation from earlier this week?
- As polémicas são o prato forte da ciência para os portugueses: Do que é que os portugueses ouvem falar quando lhes falam de ciência? Não é tanto das grandes descobertas mas antes da que é usada para fundamentar decisões políticas e administrativas.
- Just 3 1/2 years old, Pyra's Blogger software has 1.1 million registered users
- Report Says TV Stations Owned by Bigger Companies Tend to Produce Lower-Quality Newscasts
- A persistent theme among people writing about the social aspects of weblogging is to note (and usually lament) the rise of an A-list, a small set of webloggers who account for a majority of the traffic in the weblog world.
- Bloggers tend to form online cliques and pat one another on the back. Few of them have been able to keep up the same level of quality for long periods of time
[B]logging is a modest revolution, one that we can now view with some perspective but that has not yet fully run its course.
The smartest words on the phenomenon, it seems to me, came from the USA Today columnist Walter Shapiro, a frequent blog reader [...]: "Like every revolution, 'blogging' is overhyped on the way up, overscorned on the way down, and settles into the middle realm of reality."
Fevereiro de 2004:
- Jornais diários ganham 107 mil leitores em dez anos: Os matutinos aumentaram em 24,5% o número de leitores desde 1993.
- Gates predicts death of the password because it cannot "meet the challenge" of keeping critical information secure.
- BlogBinders: Turn your weblog into a book!
- 'Diário do Sul' denuncia situação de crise no sector: A imprensa regional vive uma situação «alarmante» e «dolorosa», sem a atenção que merece dos sucessivos governos, defendeu ontem em editorial o director do Diário do Sul, assinalando o 35.º aniversário deste jornal de Évora.
- Grey Tuesday: Tuesday, February 24 will be a day of coordinated civil disobedience: websites will post Danger Mouse's Grey Album on their site for 24 hours in protest of EMI's attempts to censor this work.
- 1º Concurso de Literatura Para Blogs até ao final da primeira quinzena de Março.
- Kurt Gottfried, à la tête des scientifiques qui accusent Bush de manipulation: La Maison Blanche a fait détruire certaines données
- Os brindes: se na União Europeia diminui a venda dos jornais, Portugal foi o país em que o fenómeno atingiu proporções mais graves: menos 2,2% de leitores de jornais entre 2001 e 2002, e menos 22,4% entre 1996 e 2002. Além, disso, nos jovens entre os 15 e os 24 anos, encontramos 60,4% que não lêem jornais. Onde estão os futuros leitores? Aterrador!
Leitura de jornais e riqueza do País: Curioso é que na Suécia 92,2% dos jovens lêem jornais, na Finlândia 78,4%, na Dinamarca 64,8% e na Irlanda 59,8%. Em todos os demais países da UE os jovens que não lêem jornais superam a percentagem dos que lêem. Por isso, a idade média dos leitores de jornais está a aumentar.
- Um país sob escuta: É difícil entender, do ponto de vista filosófico, moral e político, que se admitam as escutas telefónicas que visam cidadãos e não aquelas, muito mais úteis e ricas de ensinamentos, que colocariam sob escuta os confessionários, os escritórios de advogados e os consultórios de médicos. Tal como, aliás, as salas de reunião dos conselhos de administração dos bancos, sem os quais não há branqueamento de dinheiros do crime.
- Editores contra revelação das fontes de informação: O Conselho Europeu de Editores, presidido por Francisco Pinto Balsemão e que representa alguns dos principais grupos de comunicação da Europa, está a pressionar para que se imponham novas directrizes que protejam os jornalistas responsáveis pela informação financeira em relação à obrigação de revelar as fontes de informação, de acordo com a directiva da União Europeia sobre o abuso da informação financeira.
- Professors blog away in the classroom: Increasingly more Stanford professors are using ?Web logging,? more popularly known as ?blogging? in their classrooms.
- Mais dinheiro para a "estratégia de Lisboa", menos para as auto-estradas: Portugal vai ter de reorientar os fundos estruturais comunitários de apoio ao seu desenvolvimento para o reforço da qualificação dos recursos humanos, investigação científica e inovação, de modo a diminuir o peso das estradas e auto-estradas nos financiamentos da União Europeia
- The Blogfather's Hit List: Glenn Reynolds' blog is the most visited in the world. His site, InstaPundit.com, averages more than 100,000 visits each day - as many as a medium-size city daily or a cable news show.
- Atenção blogues de Portugal: Web publishers could be liable for libel Europe-wide: A draft European Union (EU) law could subject web publishers to defamation laws in any EU country where their work is downloaded, says campaign group Article 19.
- Jornalistas acusam anterior direcção do "DN" de revelar fonte a ministro: A acusação foi feita pelos jornalistas Margarida Maria, actualmente desempregada, e Rudolfo Rebelo, que permanece no "Diário de Notícias", no programa Clube de Jornalistas, emitido domingo à noite no canal 2. [...]
"É nossa convicção profunda que a haver revelação de fontes ela aconteceu na reunião entre dois elementos da direcção do 'DN' [António Ribeiro Ferreira (então director-adjunto) e Mário Bettencourt Resendes (director)] e o ministro Vera Jardim", declarou Rudolfo Rebelo no programa e reafirmou-o ontem ao PÚBLICO.
- ?Leonardo Da Vinci, master draftsman? at the Metropolitan in New York was the most popular show of 2003
Fevereiro de 2003:
- Blog Não Discuto: eis o primeiro blog a querer ser comprado...
- Lynch Moblogs: News travels faster than ever - and that includes news about your company. First came the Internet, with its seething chat rooms and mailing lists. Then came blogging, which made it easy for loudmouths to publish commentary on the Web. Now get ready for moblogging - shorthand for "mobile weblogging" - which can turn any street corner, checkout line, or supermarket aisle into a multimedia complaint hotline.
- Devem os media ser escrutinados com mais atenção? [...] diz António Granado: "Pacheco Pereira [PP] escreve hoje no "Público" um texto onde, pela milésima vez, diz que é preciso escrutinar a comunicação social [...] Alguém é capaz de me explicar onde é que o homem quer chegar?"
Manuel Pinto argumenta (síntese): "Tal como há uma crítica de TV (de facto: da sua programação), de cinema, de música, etc, porque não há-de existir igualmente uma crítica dos media?" [...] Só me parece que uma tal linha de trabalho dos/nos media não pode ficar circunscrita ao jornalismo. Penso mesmo que tendências de fundo que se registam hoje no campo jornalístico resultam, em grande medida, da "contaminação" de outras variáveis do campo mediático-económico que não podem deixar de ser equacionadas. [...]
Mas existe uma crítica dos media frágil tal como é a crítica a sectores económicos e políticos. Reclamar uma linha de acção forte num momento em que há cada vez menos jornalistas nas redacções é sintomático da linha de actuação dos políticos: intervir num sector quando ele está mais fragilizado.
- The Biggest Threat To Peace: Which country really poses the greatest danger to world peace in 2003?
North Korea: 5.7%
Iraq: 6.7%
The United States: 87.6%
- Cada canal seu ministro: Durão Barroso foi o ministro que em 2002 ocupou mais tempo na informação da SIC, enquanto Paulo Portas foi o preferido da TVI e Manuela Ferreira Leite teve mais «tempo de antena» na RTP2. Quanto ao Canal 1 as preferências são divididas entre Bagão Félix e Morais Sarmento.
- Blog addiction: You are addicted to blogging if you answer "yes" to at least 3 of the following questions:
Do you think about everything in terms of whether it will make a good blog entry?
Do you keep your computer in standby mode beside your bed and wake up at 2am to blog?
Do you skip lunch and blog instead?
Do you accept speaking engagements or make travel decisions based on whether they will make good blog material?
Do you have your RSS newsreader open during meetings and keep hitting "refresh"?
Do you sit around trying to figure out how you can redesign your job so you can blog more?
Do you think blogs will suddenly cause an emergent democracy and save the world?
- CNN leaves 750 words out of Blix transcript: How in the world do you trust a 'news' organiztion like CNN, when they offer what purports to be a full transcript of Hans Blix' address to the UN Security Council but they leave out nearly 800 words - and those words just happen to be the ones where Blix refutes Colin Powell's 'smoking gun' presentation from earlier this week?
- As polémicas são o prato forte da ciência para os portugueses: Do que é que os portugueses ouvem falar quando lhes falam de ciência? Não é tanto das grandes descobertas mas antes da que é usada para fundamentar decisões políticas e administrativas.
- Just 3 1/2 years old, Pyra's Blogger software has 1.1 million registered users
- Report Says TV Stations Owned by Bigger Companies Tend to Produce Lower-Quality Newscasts
- A persistent theme among people writing about the social aspects of weblogging is to note (and usually lament) the rise of an A-list, a small set of webloggers who account for a majority of the traffic in the weblog world.
- Bloggers tend to form online cliques and pat one another on the back. Few of them have been able to keep up the same level of quality for long periods of time
[B]logging is a modest revolution, one that we can now view with some perspective but that has not yet fully run its course.
The smartest words on the phenomenon, it seems to me, came from the USA Today columnist Walter Shapiro, a frequent blog reader [...]: "Like every revolution, 'blogging' is overhyped on the way up, overscorned on the way down, and settles into the middle realm of reality."
15 fevereiro 2005
VITAMEDIAS
Building Audience with Blogs: Whose stories are untold using conventional reporting methods? Whose voices are we leaving out of traditional newspapers and newscasts? Who feels alienated by media coverage of their lives?
Role Shift: We're Targeted by the New Paparazzi: In the world of political blogging, bloggers are the new paparazzi and the traditional news media reporters and columnists are the new targets.
Role Shift: We're Targeted by the New Paparazzi: In the world of political blogging, bloggers are the new paparazzi and the traditional news media reporters and columnists are the new targets.
VITAMEDIAS
Protecting the Print Edition From Online Success: One of Scandinavia's newspaper giants, Norwegian Verdens Gang (VG), has set out to protect its paper edition from its own online edition [with] these new rules of publication:
* Feature stories will not be published in the online edition.
* Consumer-interest stories will not be published online before after lunch.
* The front pages of the paper and online editions will have different expressions.
* Columnists will write exclusively for the paper edition.
* Feature stories will not be published in the online edition.
* Consumer-interest stories will not be published online before after lunch.
* The front pages of the paper and online editions will have different expressions.
* Columnists will write exclusively for the paper edition.
VITAMEDIAS
Ethics and Blogging Survey: online survey to study the practices and attitudes of bloggers on ethics and blogging [...]
Your participation in this survey is voluntary and should take no longer
than 20 minutes to complete.
Your participation in this survey is voluntary and should take no longer
than 20 minutes to complete.
VITAMEDIAS
Seattle Times Plagiarism Guidelines: n August, 2004, high-profile reports of plagiarism at several newspapers - including this one - touched off wide-ranging conversations in the newsroom about what constituted plagiarism and, in particular, whether practices some of us engage in routinely might be unwitting violations of the profession?s ban on word-stealing.
A subcommittee of the newsroom?s Ethics and Standards Committee formed to address those questions. Before we could do that, we concluded, we had to agree on what plagiarism was, then identify principles that would guide us as we attempted to provide some guidance for our colleagues.
Plagiarism, we decided, is the representation of others? language or creative work as one?s own. It?s wrong, we determined, because it violates several inter-related principles that are essential to credible journalism: [continua e vale a pena ler]
A subcommittee of the newsroom?s Ethics and Standards Committee formed to address those questions. Before we could do that, we concluded, we had to agree on what plagiarism was, then identify principles that would guide us as we attempted to provide some guidance for our colleagues.
Plagiarism, we decided, is the representation of others? language or creative work as one?s own. It?s wrong, we determined, because it violates several inter-related principles that are essential to credible journalism: [continua e vale a pena ler]
VITAMEDIAS
Por causa deste "Um blogue não é jornalismo!", deste Separar as águas, que remete para estas "Ligações Perigosas" - que não é sobre bloggers mas sobre jornalistas-bloggers, o que é uma outra grande conversa... - veja-se o trabalho jornalístico deste blogue: CNN's Nuke Plant Photos Identical for Both Iran and N. Korea! Two stories posted in the last week on the CNN website, one on nukes in Iran last Wednesday, and another on nukes in North Korea on Saturday, both use the same aerial photograph of the same purported nuclear power plant!
But one is supposed to be in Iran and the other is supposed to be in North Korea!
Não é jornalismo num blogue?
E ainda estas reflexões à conta da demissão de um jornalista por causa de bloggers que afinal souberam da história por um... jornalista:
The Jordan Kerfuffle: So it was only normal for our Bret Stephens to report a January 27 panel discussion he attended at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, during which CNN's Eason Jordan appeared to say -- before he tried to unsay it -- that U.S. troops had deliberately targeted journalists in Iraq. [...]
No doubt this point of view will get us described as part of the "mainstream media." But we'll take that as a compliment since we've long believed that these columns do in fact represent the American mainstream. We hope readers buy our newspaper because we make grown-up decisions about what is newsworthy, and what isn't.
Rebecca Blood: I don't know what Eason Jordan said at Davos--no one does, who wasn't in that room. [...]
Those writing about Eason Jordan have missed the most important angle. It is a collision of expectations that is at the root of the whole incident. The Davos conference, as I understand it, is explicitly understood to be off the record--a place where movers and shakers (and select journalists) can get together and speak openly to each other without worrying about representing their professions, their employers, or their constituencies. The conference is designed to elicit the uncensored remark: for open conversation and debate without fear of public repercussion.
Non-Blogger Fired For Blogging! Net effect? Lots of negatives, few positives.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but you're hurting us. You're hurting all weblogs.
We're just barely into the phase where normal people have heard the word "blog", and the zealous political bloggers who form a loud, obnoxious minority of bloggers have decided they want their grandmothers to think of blogging as "that thing that gets journalists fired". That sucks, and it's going to limit the number of people who join into our medium. And the zealous tech bloggers who form a loud, obnoxious minority of bloggers have decided they want their grandmothers to think that blogging is "that thing that gets regular people fired". That's not better.
But one is supposed to be in Iran and the other is supposed to be in North Korea!
Não é jornalismo num blogue?
E ainda estas reflexões à conta da demissão de um jornalista por causa de bloggers que afinal souberam da história por um... jornalista:
The Jordan Kerfuffle: So it was only normal for our Bret Stephens to report a January 27 panel discussion he attended at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, during which CNN's Eason Jordan appeared to say -- before he tried to unsay it -- that U.S. troops had deliberately targeted journalists in Iraq. [...]
No doubt this point of view will get us described as part of the "mainstream media." But we'll take that as a compliment since we've long believed that these columns do in fact represent the American mainstream. We hope readers buy our newspaper because we make grown-up decisions about what is newsworthy, and what isn't.
Rebecca Blood: I don't know what Eason Jordan said at Davos--no one does, who wasn't in that room. [...]
Those writing about Eason Jordan have missed the most important angle. It is a collision of expectations that is at the root of the whole incident. The Davos conference, as I understand it, is explicitly understood to be off the record--a place where movers and shakers (and select journalists) can get together and speak openly to each other without worrying about representing their professions, their employers, or their constituencies. The conference is designed to elicit the uncensored remark: for open conversation and debate without fear of public repercussion.
Non-Blogger Fired For Blogging! Net effect? Lots of negatives, few positives.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but you're hurting us. You're hurting all weblogs.
We're just barely into the phase where normal people have heard the word "blog", and the zealous political bloggers who form a loud, obnoxious minority of bloggers have decided they want their grandmothers to think of blogging as "that thing that gets journalists fired". That sucks, and it's going to limit the number of people who join into our medium. And the zealous tech bloggers who form a loud, obnoxious minority of bloggers have decided they want their grandmothers to think that blogging is "that thing that gets regular people fired". That's not better.
14 fevereiro 2005
ECOPOL
Calma, a culpa é do ADN!
Morte da irmã Lúcia: D. Manuel Martins critica cancelamento da campanha eleitoral
No entanto, como se explica em God and Evolution, It turns out that our DNA may predispose humans toward religious faith. [...]
One bit of evidence supporting a genetic basis for spirituality is that twins separated at birth tend to have similar levels of spirituality, despite their different upbringings. And identical twins, who have the same DNA, are about twice as likely to share similar levels of spirituality as fraternal twins. [...]
A propensity to faith in some form appears to be embedded within us as a profound part of human existence, as inextricable and perhaps inexplicable as the way we love and laugh.
Morte da irmã Lúcia: D. Manuel Martins critica cancelamento da campanha eleitoral
No entanto, como se explica em God and Evolution, It turns out that our DNA may predispose humans toward religious faith. [...]
One bit of evidence supporting a genetic basis for spirituality is that twins separated at birth tend to have similar levels of spirituality, despite their different upbringings. And identical twins, who have the same DNA, are about twice as likely to share similar levels of spirituality as fraternal twins. [...]
A propensity to faith in some form appears to be embedded within us as a profound part of human existence, as inextricable and perhaps inexplicable as the way we love and laugh.
CONTAMINANTES
Can This Black Box See Into the Future? At first glance it is an unremarkable piece of equipment. Encased in metal, it contains at its heart a microchip no more complex than the ones found in modern pocket calculators.
But, according to a growing band of top scientists, this box has quite extraordinary powers. [...]
Its aim is to detect whether all of humanity shares a single subconscious mind that we can all tap into without realising.
But, according to a growing band of top scientists, this box has quite extraordinary powers. [...]
Its aim is to detect whether all of humanity shares a single subconscious mind that we can all tap into without realising.
VITAMEDIAS
Pois é: O pluralismo na televisão do Estado: Mas quem é que já mediu alguma vez, através de uma análise de conteúdo, se há pluralismo na RTP? Há algum estudo feito ao longo de 47 anos de RTP?
VITAMEDIAS
War, terror and Internet era: Rumsfeld stresses 'new realities' [A]t the annual Munich security conference this weekend, the controversial US defense secretary mounted a passionate argument for his conviction that the Internet and other modern means of communication have magnified the value of the most powerful weapon of all: information.
"Bloggers and hackers and chat rooms!" Rumsfeld exclaimed Saturday during a question-and-answer session with defense and security officials and experts from around the world. "E-mails and cell phones with global reach!"
"It alters how you have to behave... it adds a level of complexity" to warfare in the 21st century.
Bloggers as News Media Trophy Hunters: With the resignation Friday of a top news executive from CNN, bloggers have laid claim to a prominent media career for the second time in five months. [...]
"The moral of the story: the media can't just cover up the truth and expect to get away with it - and journalists can't just toss around allegations without substantiation and expect people to believe them anymore." [...]
Some on line were simply trying to make sense of what happened. "Have we entered an era where our lives can be destroyed by a pack of wolves hacking at their keyboards with no oversight, no editors, and no accountability?" asked a blogger named Mark Coffey, 36, who says he works as an analyst in Austin, Tex. "Or does it mean that we've entered a brave new world where the MSM has become irrelevant," he asked, using blogger shorthand for mainstream media.
His own conclusion is that the mainstream media "is being held to account as never before by the strong force of individual citizens who won't settle for sloppy research and inflammatory comments without foundation, particularly from those with a wide national reach, such as Rather and Eason." [...]
Mr. Abovitz, who started it all, said he hoped bloggers could develop loftier goals than destroying people's careers. "If you're going to do this open-source journalism, it should have a higher purpose," he said. "At times it did seem like an angry mob, and an angry mob using high technology, that's not good."
Old media hypocrisy in the war on blogging: After threatening for so long to launch an attack on bloggers and blogging, old media has formally launched its attack on blogging this week following the forced resignation of Eason Jordon from CNN.
Newpaper man accuses bloggers of McCarthyism: In an extraordinary attack, a leading international newspaper representative has accused bloggers of McCarthyism in a post to leading editors around the globe.
Authoring the attack was Bertrand Pecquerie, an expert in newspaper syndication and press networks, who is the Director of the World Editors Forum, the organisation for editors within the World Association of Newspapers (WAN).
Eason Jordan vs. the Blogosphere: But the Davos conference organizers refuse to release the tape that would so clearly indict Jordan.
This is reprehensible. However, as blogger Jim Geraghty has written, we can only get at the facts if this tape is released. So, why won?t the Davos people release it? What exactly are they hiding? [...]
The obvious fact is that CNN is trying desperately to make the story go away. This episode merely confirms the institutional anti-military bias of that news organization. If CNN had any patriotic backbone, or even good professional journalistic common sense, it would have, at the very least, suspended Jordan pending a thorough investigation.
Seeing as the blogosphere?s reporting has moved into the upper reaches of the U.S. Senate, it is unlikely that CNN will succeed in its attempted cover-up. Freedom of the press is the best disinfectant for public corruption. Bloggers are doing their duty.
Easongate: A Retrospective
CNN: Eason Jordan Resigns: CNN executive Eason Jordan resigns over his remarks on U.S. soldiers killing journalists in Iraq. Was he too slow to apologize? And did bloggers help seal his fate?
Urge to rant propelling blogs to status of mainstream media: Bloggers have been aided by scandals at the likes of CBS News and The New York Times that tarnished the "gold standards" of the legacy media. Without a doubt, the fact that most office workers and students now have daily access to high-speed Internet has helped bloggers as well. What really boosted bloggers, however, have been their edginess and uniqueness. [...]
Blogging is at once serious journalism, startup business, frustrated ranting, amusing minutiae, relentless self-promotion and revenge of the nerds. (What is the difference between conservative and liberal nerds? Conservative nerds have guns.) In other words, it is a subculture with cultlike loyalty to the phenomenon. Because of this strong sense of community, there is unusual generosity and mutual help among bloggers. [...]
Where then is blogging headed? Some blogs will fade away as exigencies of families and jobs take their toll. Others will doggedly persist, even in obscurity. A few will leverage blogging fame into real jobs in the maligned traditional media. A select few will actually earn a living purely through blogging. [...]
What will keep "independent" blogging alive, however, is the undying need of outcasts to rant. They, like conservatives in Seattle, will blog on, frustrated with their environment and hoping desperately that someone out there will share their views and provide the validation they crave.
A blog-eat-blog world: Journalist warns of Web's credibility issues: The proliferation of online bloggers stands to threaten mainstream news agencies, the Washington bureau chief of the Wall Street Journal said Friday.
Jerry Seib, at Kansas University to receive the annual William Allen White Citation, said traditional media organizations need to do a better job explaining why their standards of objectivity make them preferable to some online sites.
"What an objective press can do that no one else can do is this: It can shine a light on dark corners of the world and do so with credibility," he said.
Spinning Frenzy: P.R.'s Bad Press: Public relations specialists are scrambling to adjust to a time in which the Internet revolution and a boom in alternative media sources are rewriting the parameters of the communications industry and challenging traditional sources of authority. So, despite an avalanche of freely available information, the truth is becoming harder to discern.
No blogs, no chat, no Web fun: Blogs have been banned at Cincinnati City Hall.
So are the Web sites of local radio stations, chat rooms, "adult content" and alcohol and tobacco companies.
Not banned: Web sites of racist groups, organizations advocating the overthrow of the U.S. government, cult groups, and abortion and sex education sites.
How does the city determine which Web sites city employees can surf and which they can't? With the help of Websense, a sort of industrial strength version of software that parents use to block their children from adult Web sites.
MSNBC.com Announces Blog This, the latest communication tool designed to help online news consumers share information and ideas with friends and the public. Blog This is designed to allow users to quickly and efficiently write blogs related to specific MSNBC.com news stories and communicate their opinions to others.
"Bloggers and hackers and chat rooms!" Rumsfeld exclaimed Saturday during a question-and-answer session with defense and security officials and experts from around the world. "E-mails and cell phones with global reach!"
"It alters how you have to behave... it adds a level of complexity" to warfare in the 21st century.
Bloggers as News Media Trophy Hunters: With the resignation Friday of a top news executive from CNN, bloggers have laid claim to a prominent media career for the second time in five months. [...]
"The moral of the story: the media can't just cover up the truth and expect to get away with it - and journalists can't just toss around allegations without substantiation and expect people to believe them anymore." [...]
Some on line were simply trying to make sense of what happened. "Have we entered an era where our lives can be destroyed by a pack of wolves hacking at their keyboards with no oversight, no editors, and no accountability?" asked a blogger named Mark Coffey, 36, who says he works as an analyst in Austin, Tex. "Or does it mean that we've entered a brave new world where the MSM has become irrelevant," he asked, using blogger shorthand for mainstream media.
His own conclusion is that the mainstream media "is being held to account as never before by the strong force of individual citizens who won't settle for sloppy research and inflammatory comments without foundation, particularly from those with a wide national reach, such as Rather and Eason." [...]
Mr. Abovitz, who started it all, said he hoped bloggers could develop loftier goals than destroying people's careers. "If you're going to do this open-source journalism, it should have a higher purpose," he said. "At times it did seem like an angry mob, and an angry mob using high technology, that's not good."
Old media hypocrisy in the war on blogging: After threatening for so long to launch an attack on bloggers and blogging, old media has formally launched its attack on blogging this week following the forced resignation of Eason Jordon from CNN.
Newpaper man accuses bloggers of McCarthyism: In an extraordinary attack, a leading international newspaper representative has accused bloggers of McCarthyism in a post to leading editors around the globe.
Authoring the attack was Bertrand Pecquerie, an expert in newspaper syndication and press networks, who is the Director of the World Editors Forum, the organisation for editors within the World Association of Newspapers (WAN).
Eason Jordan vs. the Blogosphere: But the Davos conference organizers refuse to release the tape that would so clearly indict Jordan.
This is reprehensible. However, as blogger Jim Geraghty has written, we can only get at the facts if this tape is released. So, why won?t the Davos people release it? What exactly are they hiding? [...]
The obvious fact is that CNN is trying desperately to make the story go away. This episode merely confirms the institutional anti-military bias of that news organization. If CNN had any patriotic backbone, or even good professional journalistic common sense, it would have, at the very least, suspended Jordan pending a thorough investigation.
Seeing as the blogosphere?s reporting has moved into the upper reaches of the U.S. Senate, it is unlikely that CNN will succeed in its attempted cover-up. Freedom of the press is the best disinfectant for public corruption. Bloggers are doing their duty.
Easongate: A Retrospective
CNN: Eason Jordan Resigns: CNN executive Eason Jordan resigns over his remarks on U.S. soldiers killing journalists in Iraq. Was he too slow to apologize? And did bloggers help seal his fate?
Urge to rant propelling blogs to status of mainstream media: Bloggers have been aided by scandals at the likes of CBS News and The New York Times that tarnished the "gold standards" of the legacy media. Without a doubt, the fact that most office workers and students now have daily access to high-speed Internet has helped bloggers as well. What really boosted bloggers, however, have been their edginess and uniqueness. [...]
Blogging is at once serious journalism, startup business, frustrated ranting, amusing minutiae, relentless self-promotion and revenge of the nerds. (What is the difference between conservative and liberal nerds? Conservative nerds have guns.) In other words, it is a subculture with cultlike loyalty to the phenomenon. Because of this strong sense of community, there is unusual generosity and mutual help among bloggers. [...]
Where then is blogging headed? Some blogs will fade away as exigencies of families and jobs take their toll. Others will doggedly persist, even in obscurity. A few will leverage blogging fame into real jobs in the maligned traditional media. A select few will actually earn a living purely through blogging. [...]
What will keep "independent" blogging alive, however, is the undying need of outcasts to rant. They, like conservatives in Seattle, will blog on, frustrated with their environment and hoping desperately that someone out there will share their views and provide the validation they crave.
A blog-eat-blog world: Journalist warns of Web's credibility issues: The proliferation of online bloggers stands to threaten mainstream news agencies, the Washington bureau chief of the Wall Street Journal said Friday.
Jerry Seib, at Kansas University to receive the annual William Allen White Citation, said traditional media organizations need to do a better job explaining why their standards of objectivity make them preferable to some online sites.
"What an objective press can do that no one else can do is this: It can shine a light on dark corners of the world and do so with credibility," he said.
Spinning Frenzy: P.R.'s Bad Press: Public relations specialists are scrambling to adjust to a time in which the Internet revolution and a boom in alternative media sources are rewriting the parameters of the communications industry and challenging traditional sources of authority. So, despite an avalanche of freely available information, the truth is becoming harder to discern.
No blogs, no chat, no Web fun: Blogs have been banned at Cincinnati City Hall.
So are the Web sites of local radio stations, chat rooms, "adult content" and alcohol and tobacco companies.
Not banned: Web sites of racist groups, organizations advocating the overthrow of the U.S. government, cult groups, and abortion and sex education sites.
How does the city determine which Web sites city employees can surf and which they can't? With the help of Websense, a sort of industrial strength version of software that parents use to block their children from adult Web sites.
MSNBC.com Announces Blog This, the latest communication tool designed to help online news consumers share information and ideas with friends and the public. Blog This is designed to allow users to quickly and efficiently write blogs related to specific MSNBC.com news stories and communicate their opinions to others.
13 fevereiro 2005
VITAMEDIAS
Sobre este Arquivo audiovisual [da RTP] recuperado a pensar no futuro, ler também New approaches to television archiving: Worldwide, more than 30 million hours of unique television programming are broadcast every year, yet only a tiny fraction of it is preserved for future reference, and only a fraction of that preserved footage is publicly accessible. Most television broadcasts are simply lost forever, though television archivists have been working to preserve selected programs for fifty years. Recent reductions in the cost of storage of digital video could allow preservation of this portion of our culture for a small fraction of the worldwide library budget, and improvements in the distribution of online video could enable much greater collaboration between archival institutions.
TECNOSFERA
Blogging: 'A lot of fuss about nothing': Despite huge growth in the blog phenomenon and high profile stories about companies undone by blogging staff there is still a 'why all the fuss?' mindset among IT professionals.
Amazon puts cash into blogging with an investment in 43 Things, a new website where people write about their goals and accomplishments and are linked to others with similar interests.
Amazon puts cash into blogging with an investment in 43 Things, a new website where people write about their goals and accomplishments and are linked to others with similar interests.
11 fevereiro 2005
VITAMEDIAS
Web has changed the shape of 'reporting': Anyone, informed or not, can publish for the world [...]
Conventional rules of journalism dictate that information is verified before it is published; for better or worse, many Web sites don't follow the rules.
"There is an affirmative philosophy to the blogosphere that is very different from journalism - that philosophy is, in effect, publish first and verify later," said Tom Rosenstiel, director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism, an organization that works to raise journalistic standards.
The dangers of this are clear, he said, especially to public officials who have few ways to fight back when gossip about them is spread: Even denying a rumor legitimizes it and makes it fodder for the mainstream press. Some Web sites, then, degrade rather than further public dialogue, Rosenstiel said.
"It creates an opportunity for people who are not simply citizens but who are political dirty tricksters to use techniques that can only be considered Nixonian - to engage in smear, to engage in rumor campaigns - and there really isn't an upside to that for anybody," he said.
But Web-born news has its merits, said Jay Rosen, a journalism professor at New York University and the author of the blog Pressthink.org, and comparisons with traditional media aren't necessarily relevant. [...]
"The Internet has a different basis for strength, and that is openness."
Conventional rules of journalism dictate that information is verified before it is published; for better or worse, many Web sites don't follow the rules.
"There is an affirmative philosophy to the blogosphere that is very different from journalism - that philosophy is, in effect, publish first and verify later," said Tom Rosenstiel, director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism, an organization that works to raise journalistic standards.
The dangers of this are clear, he said, especially to public officials who have few ways to fight back when gossip about them is spread: Even denying a rumor legitimizes it and makes it fodder for the mainstream press. Some Web sites, then, degrade rather than further public dialogue, Rosenstiel said.
"It creates an opportunity for people who are not simply citizens but who are political dirty tricksters to use techniques that can only be considered Nixonian - to engage in smear, to engage in rumor campaigns - and there really isn't an upside to that for anybody," he said.
But Web-born news has its merits, said Jay Rosen, a journalism professor at New York University and the author of the blog Pressthink.org, and comparisons with traditional media aren't necessarily relevant. [...]
"The Internet has a different basis for strength, and that is openness."
PHOTO-GRAFIA
World Press Photo of the Year 2004: Arko Datta, India, Reuters.
Woman mourns relative killed in tsunami, Cuddalore, India, Tamil Nadu, 28 December
Woman mourns relative killed in tsunami, Cuddalore, India, Tamil Nadu, 28 December
10 fevereiro 2005
ECOPOL
Homem Rico, Homem Pobre: Algo que nesta campanha parece estar praticamente ausente, e é algo desconcertante pelo menos para mim, é a incapacidade de se discutir o facto de sermos o país na ?antiga? Europa dos 15 com a maior desigualdade na distribuição de riqueza (dizem as estatísticas europeias) e qual o impacto que isso está a ter e pode vir a ter na nossa sociedade.
Mas porque haveria isto de espantar-me?
Grande tanga! Crise? Qual crise?
Mas porque haveria isto de espantar-me?
Grande tanga! Crise? Qual crise?
09 fevereiro 2005
VITAMEDIAS
Fear and Favor: Why is everyone mad at the mainstream media?
Politicians?especially conservative politicians, and especially the Bush team?felt free to criticize the press more openly than in past election cycles. Conservatives are relativists when it comes to the press. In their view, nothing is neutral: there is no disinterested version of the news; everything reflects politics and relationships to power and cultural perspective. If mainstream journalists find it annoying that conservatives think of them as unalterably hostile, they find it just as annoying that liberals think of them as the friend who keeps letting them down. Mainstream journalists want to think that the public is aware of?and respects?the boundaries that separate real journalism from entertainment, and opinion, and propaganda, and marketing. If, instead, the public not only enjoys the quasi-journalistic pleasures that lie outside the boundaries, but also doesn?t accept that what?s inside really is distinct and superior?well, that would sting. [...]
Journalism that is inquisitive and intellectually honest, that surprises and unsettles, didn?t always exist. There is no law saying that it must exist forever, and there are political and business interests that would be better off if it didn?t exist and that have worked hard to undermine it. This is what journalists in the mainstream media are starting to worry about: what if people don?t believe in us, don?t want us, anymore?
Politicians?especially conservative politicians, and especially the Bush team?felt free to criticize the press more openly than in past election cycles. Conservatives are relativists when it comes to the press. In their view, nothing is neutral: there is no disinterested version of the news; everything reflects politics and relationships to power and cultural perspective. If mainstream journalists find it annoying that conservatives think of them as unalterably hostile, they find it just as annoying that liberals think of them as the friend who keeps letting them down. Mainstream journalists want to think that the public is aware of?and respects?the boundaries that separate real journalism from entertainment, and opinion, and propaganda, and marketing. If, instead, the public not only enjoys the quasi-journalistic pleasures that lie outside the boundaries, but also doesn?t accept that what?s inside really is distinct and superior?well, that would sting. [...]
Journalism that is inquisitive and intellectually honest, that surprises and unsettles, didn?t always exist. There is no law saying that it must exist forever, and there are political and business interests that would be better off if it didn?t exist and that have worked hard to undermine it. This is what journalists in the mainstream media are starting to worry about: what if people don?t believe in us, don?t want us, anymore?
.DE!
Hokkaido installs musical roads, with grooved sections of road that boom a melody up through your car.
TECNOSFERA
Taste for the Web: why Google Maps and GMail represent one step in the road to intellectual and cultural bankruptcy for Google.
08 fevereiro 2005
ECOPOL
Segundo o ABRUPTO, como "não há tradição de fact checking, depois esquece-se tudo".
Os factos! Dêem-nos os factos! Pelo meu lado, disponibilizo um blogue dedicado ao fact checking da política nacional. Chama-se (à falta / à espera de melhor nome) Verifiquemos os factos e está ainda em branco, aguardando submissões.
[Ao contrário deste FactCheck.org.]
Os factos! Dêem-nos os factos! Pelo meu lado, disponibilizo um blogue dedicado ao fact checking da política nacional. Chama-se (à falta / à espera de melhor nome) Verifiquemos os factos e está ainda em branco, aguardando submissões.
[Ao contrário deste FactCheck.org.]
VITAMEDIAS
IV Congresso Luso-Galego de Estudos Jornalísticos + II Congresso Luso-Brasileiro de Estudos Jornalísticos: Tema central: Jornalismo, Ciências e Saúde
Porto - Universidade Fernando Pessoa - 17 e 18 de Março de 2005
(via Intermezzo)
Porto - Universidade Fernando Pessoa - 17 e 18 de Março de 2005
(via Intermezzo)
VITAMEDIAS
Media Capital pediu frequência à Anacom para experimentar TDT: A entidade reguladora das comunicações ainda não respondeu, mas, caso aceda ao pedido, o grupo de Miguel Paes do Amaral conta arrancar com as emissões experimentais até Junho.
O grupo Media Capital pretende testar as tecnologias DVBH e DVBT: a primeira permite disponibilizar conteúdos e sinal de televisão em aparelhos móveis, enquanto a segunda se destina à televisões convencionais.
Media Capital reincide: Espera-se que quem o vier a pretender saiba justificar, com clareza, e os estudos necessários, a legitimidade, a pertinência e a existência de condições inequívocas para que a plataforma digital terrestre possa avançar neste pequeno mercado (onde já existe a plataforma da TV Cabo) e se o vai fazer de forma complementar ou concorrencial face a essa mesma plataforma. E será que alguém acredita que Portugal pode ter mesmo duas plataformas de TV Digital com oferta semelhante?
Passagem do analógico para o digital ainda incerta: O projecto de passagem do sistema analógico para o digital terrestre em Portugal tem encontrado vários obstáculos, que vão desde as reservas dos consumidores portugueses à adopção de sistemas de televisão pagos à ausência de definição de um modelo por parte das autoridades competentes a que acresce a actual situação política do país, que mais uma vez ditou um atraso no calendário de arranque da TDT.
O grupo Media Capital pretende testar as tecnologias DVBH e DVBT: a primeira permite disponibilizar conteúdos e sinal de televisão em aparelhos móveis, enquanto a segunda se destina à televisões convencionais.
Media Capital reincide: Espera-se que quem o vier a pretender saiba justificar, com clareza, e os estudos necessários, a legitimidade, a pertinência e a existência de condições inequívocas para que a plataforma digital terrestre possa avançar neste pequeno mercado (onde já existe a plataforma da TV Cabo) e se o vai fazer de forma complementar ou concorrencial face a essa mesma plataforma. E será que alguém acredita que Portugal pode ter mesmo duas plataformas de TV Digital com oferta semelhante?
Passagem do analógico para o digital ainda incerta: O projecto de passagem do sistema analógico para o digital terrestre em Portugal tem encontrado vários obstáculos, que vão desde as reservas dos consumidores portugueses à adopção de sistemas de televisão pagos à ausência de definição de um modelo por parte das autoridades competentes a que acresce a actual situação política do país, que mais uma vez ditou um atraso no calendário de arranque da TDT.
TECNOSFERA
The Origins of Cyberspace: A Library on the History of Computing, Networking & Telecommunications
Sale 1484
23 February 2005, 10:00 am
20 Rockefeller Plaza, New York
Sale 1484
23 February 2005, 10:00 am
20 Rockefeller Plaza, New York
VITAMEDIAS
Super Bowl Special! - The best and worst ads this year.
2005 Super Bowl Ads
[act.: McDonalds outed for fake TypePad Blog: Reports in that McDonalds have set up a fake blog on SixApart?s TypePad as part of the companies Super Bowl ad spoof around a French Fry shaped as Lincoln.]
2005 Super Bowl Ads
[act.: McDonalds outed for fake TypePad Blog: Reports in that McDonalds have set up a fake blog on SixApart?s TypePad as part of the companies Super Bowl ad spoof around a French Fry shaped as Lincoln.]
TECNOSFERA
The Weblog Question: Who owns Weblog content? What are the risks? And how far should employees go in sharing their thoughts? [...]
Ownership is important because Weblog material has both potential value and liability. "I would think the employer would want to own the content," [Cydney Tune, an intellectual-property lawyer with law firm Pillsbury Winthrop] says. "As a general rule, it's better for employers to own everything that the employee creates because you never know when it's going to become important to your business." [...]
For now, few business bloggers seem overly concerned about the legal fine points. But it may be only a matter of time before the copyright question becomes a copyright issue. "It will become important if liability arises out of it or if it becomes extremely valuable," Tune says. Given the soaring popularity of Weblogs, both scenarios seem all but inevitable.
Ownership is important because Weblog material has both potential value and liability. "I would think the employer would want to own the content," [Cydney Tune, an intellectual-property lawyer with law firm Pillsbury Winthrop] says. "As a general rule, it's better for employers to own everything that the employee creates because you never know when it's going to become important to your business." [...]
For now, few business bloggers seem overly concerned about the legal fine points. But it may be only a matter of time before the copyright question becomes a copyright issue. "It will become important if liability arises out of it or if it becomes extremely valuable," Tune says. Given the soaring popularity of Weblogs, both scenarios seem all but inevitable.
ECOPOL
Top 10 Most Underreported Humanitarian Stories of 2004
- Intense Grief and Fear in Northern Uganda
- No End in Sight to Devastating Conflict in Democratic Republic of Congo
- Civilians Caught in Colombia's Crossfire
- Tuberculosis Spiraling Out of Control
- Somalia Shattered By Anarchy and Chaos
- The Trauma of Ongoing War in Chechnya
- User-Fee System Excludes Burundi's Poorest From Basic Health Care
- North Koreans Endure Massive Deprivation and Repression
- Constant Threat of Hunger and Disease in Ethiopia
- The War is Over, But Liberians Still Live in Crisis
- Intense Grief and Fear in Northern Uganda
- No End in Sight to Devastating Conflict in Democratic Republic of Congo
- Civilians Caught in Colombia's Crossfire
- Tuberculosis Spiraling Out of Control
- Somalia Shattered By Anarchy and Chaos
- The Trauma of Ongoing War in Chechnya
- User-Fee System Excludes Burundi's Poorest From Basic Health Care
- North Koreans Endure Massive Deprivation and Repression
- Constant Threat of Hunger and Disease in Ethiopia
- The War is Over, But Liberians Still Live in Crisis
07 fevereiro 2005
CONTAMINANTES
Portuguese students get taste of America: Mariana Silva, 15, can't wait to visit MIT and Harvard. She hopes to earn a place in their pre-med programs when she graduates from her private school in Opporto. "Portugal is great, but I want to be a doctor," she said during a reception for students from the Externato Ribadouro school Thursday. "Sometimes it's too hard in Portugal" to be accepted to medical school.
On the other end of the spectrum were male students who asked Principal John Stapelfeld how they could meet the kind of girls they had seen on American TV shows: cheerleaders.
"That was the first thing they wanted to do," Stapelfeld said.
On the other end of the spectrum were male students who asked Principal John Stapelfeld how they could meet the kind of girls they had seen on American TV shows: cheerleaders.
"That was the first thing they wanted to do," Stapelfeld said.
TECNOSFERA
Blogger Survey about why people visit blogs.
This questionnaire is part of a series of masters thesis projects being conducted by graduate students at the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication in Los Angeles. All data collected will remain entirely anonymous.
This questionnaire is part of a series of masters thesis projects being conducted by graduate students at the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication in Los Angeles. All data collected will remain entirely anonymous.
ECOPOL
Iraqi Police Use Kidnappers' Videos to Fight Crime: In the first week after the elections, the Iraqi Interior Ministry and the Mosul police chief are turning the tables on the insurgency here in the north by using a tactic - videotaped messages - that the insurgents have used time and again as they have terrorized the region with kidnappings and executions.
But this time the videos, which are being broadcast on a local station, carry an altogether different message, juxtaposing images of the masked killers with the cowed men they become once captured.
The broadcast of such videos raises questions about whether they violate legal or treaty obligations about the way opposing fighters are interrogated and how their confessions are made public. [...]
But officials in Mosul, short on manpower, apparently hope the psychological force of the broadcasts will help undermine the insurgency, making its fighters appear weak and encouraging citizens to call up with their reactions or information about those still at large. A program loosely based on "most wanted" crime shows in the United States is also being developed, a Mosul television official said.
But this time the videos, which are being broadcast on a local station, carry an altogether different message, juxtaposing images of the masked killers with the cowed men they become once captured.
The broadcast of such videos raises questions about whether they violate legal or treaty obligations about the way opposing fighters are interrogated and how their confessions are made public. [...]
But officials in Mosul, short on manpower, apparently hope the psychological force of the broadcasts will help undermine the insurgency, making its fighters appear weak and encouraging citizens to call up with their reactions or information about those still at large. A program loosely based on "most wanted" crime shows in the United States is also being developed, a Mosul television official said.
04 fevereiro 2005
VITAMEDIAS
The State of Investigative Reporting: Those who report on political corruption must often confront everything from insidious lies to death threats. [F]our journalists-from Russia, Peru, Zimbabwe, and the United States-describe the deteriorating state of press freedom in their respective parts of the world and the risks they face personally in trying to uncover the truth.
03 fevereiro 2005
VITAMEDIAS
Os objectivos do CJ e o seu papel no debate: Os jornalistas presentes no debate, Maria Flor Pedroso, Ricardo Costa, José Gomes Ferreira e o moderador Rodrigo Guedes de Carvalho, assegurarão, estamos certos, um confronto sereno, civilizado e substantivo, distante das tricas, boatos ou insinuações que em nada contribuem para a afirmação de uma classe política credível e de um jornalismo responsável.
[E não é que a primeira pergunta é precisamente sobre "as tricas, boatos ou insinuações"? Obrigadinho...]
[E não é que a primeira pergunta é precisamente sobre "as tricas, boatos ou insinuações"? Obrigadinho...]
VITAMEDIAS
A Bill to Stop Taxpayer Funded Government Propaganda: Our bill will shut down the Administration's propaganda mill once and for all.
Propaganda had its place in Saddam's Iraq. Propaganda was a staple of the old Soviet Union. But covert government propaganda has no place in the United States Government.
Public Relations and Propaganda: Restrictions on Executive Agency Activities: Controversies recently have arisen over certain executive branch agencies? expenditures of appropriated funds on public relations activities, some of which have been characterized as propagandistic. Generally speaking, there are two legal restrictions on agency public relations activities and propaganda. 5 U.S.C. 3107 prohibits the use of appropriated funds to hire publicity experts. Appropriations law ?publicity and propaganda? clauses restrict the use of funds for puffery of an agency, purely partisan communications, and covert propaganda. No federal agency monitors federal public relations activities, but a Member or Committee of Congress may ask the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to examine an agency?s expenditures on public relations activities with a view to their legality. Any effort to reform current statutory restrictions on agency public relations activities will face two challenges: defining ?propaganda? and tracking public relations activities by agencies.
Propaganda had its place in Saddam's Iraq. Propaganda was a staple of the old Soviet Union. But covert government propaganda has no place in the United States Government.
Public Relations and Propaganda: Restrictions on Executive Agency Activities: Controversies recently have arisen over certain executive branch agencies? expenditures of appropriated funds on public relations activities, some of which have been characterized as propagandistic. Generally speaking, there are two legal restrictions on agency public relations activities and propaganda. 5 U.S.C. 3107 prohibits the use of appropriated funds to hire publicity experts. Appropriations law ?publicity and propaganda? clauses restrict the use of funds for puffery of an agency, purely partisan communications, and covert propaganda. No federal agency monitors federal public relations activities, but a Member or Committee of Congress may ask the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to examine an agency?s expenditures on public relations activities with a view to their legality. Any effort to reform current statutory restrictions on agency public relations activities will face two challenges: defining ?propaganda? and tracking public relations activities by agencies.
ECOPOL
META-DEBATE: O ABRUPTO EM DIRECTO DURANTE O DEBATE SANTANA - SÓCRATES: A partir das 20.30, ou até um pouco antes, o Abrupto iniciará uma série de comentários ao debate em tempo (quase) real.
[act.: Inédito: reacções ao debate, sim, mas só com camisa de vénus
Debate?
"45 segundos"
CNE adverte contra discriminações nos média, decorrente da legislação em vigor, de "tratar de forma igualitária, e sem discriminações", as candidaturas concorrentes às eleições.]
[act.: Inédito: reacções ao debate, sim, mas só com camisa de vénus
Debate?
"45 segundos"
CNE adverte contra discriminações nos média, decorrente da legislação em vigor, de "tratar de forma igualitária, e sem discriminações", as candidaturas concorrentes às eleições.]
TECNOSFERA
Popular Blog Defaced: Apparently a bug in a popular log file analysis program has been exploited by attackers, who were then able to deface a popular blog and other Web sites.
VITAMEDIAS
Notícias de ouro! Newspaper made of gold: The world's first newspaper made of gold has been published in south China, selling for 69,000 yuan ($10,675) a copy [...]
The paper, called China's Flourishing Period, was issued to commemorate the "achievements of the past 10 sessions of China's top legislative body", the National People's Congress
The paper, called China's Flourishing Period, was issued to commemorate the "achievements of the past 10 sessions of China's top legislative body", the National People's Congress
TECNOSFERA
Blogues nas bibliotecas: DELIVERING THE NEWS WITH BLOGS: THE GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY EXPERIENCE
Despite the increasing popularity of blogs (or weblogs), few libraries have taken advantage of what they offer. Blogs can be updated easily, frequently and continuously, making them an appealing alternative to static newsletters. This article summarizes the librarians? rationale for moving to this dynamic format, how the technology was balanced with the needs of the librarians and patrons, and the issues and challenges that are being addressed to ensure that this will be a viable and successful newsdelivery system. Some preliminary user statistics have also been gathered and analyzed, offering encouragement that patrons are reading it. The experience with Science News is already serving as the model for the additional subject-specific blogs that have been developed to meet the informational needs of other patron groups.
Despite the increasing popularity of blogs (or weblogs), few libraries have taken advantage of what they offer. Blogs can be updated easily, frequently and continuously, making them an appealing alternative to static newsletters. This article summarizes the librarians? rationale for moving to this dynamic format, how the technology was balanced with the needs of the librarians and patrons, and the issues and challenges that are being addressed to ensure that this will be a viable and successful newsdelivery system. Some preliminary user statistics have also been gathered and analyzed, offering encouragement that patrons are reading it. The experience with Science News is already serving as the model for the additional subject-specific blogs that have been developed to meet the informational needs of other patron groups.
ECOPOL
Eu já li isto (entre outros):
A política que não ousa dizer o seu nome e Questões esotéricas; O Tumor Santana; A Marinha Grande de Sócrates; os vários textos da Grande Loja do Queijo Limiano; Sócrates acusa Santana de campanha «indigna»; Entrevista à RTP 1; PSD Denuncia "O Fantástico Mundo da Mentira" ou Santana "Extremamente Ofendido".
Mas porque é que ainda ninguém falou de Miguel Sousa Tavares ter divulgado publicamente aquilo que Santana Lopes supostamente disse sobre a "suposta" vida pessoal de Sócrates?
A política que não ousa dizer o seu nome e Questões esotéricas; O Tumor Santana; A Marinha Grande de Sócrates; os vários textos da Grande Loja do Queijo Limiano; Sócrates acusa Santana de campanha «indigna»; Entrevista à RTP 1; PSD Denuncia "O Fantástico Mundo da Mentira" ou Santana "Extremamente Ofendido".
Mas porque é que ainda ninguém falou de Miguel Sousa Tavares ter divulgado publicamente aquilo que Santana Lopes supostamente disse sobre a "suposta" vida pessoal de Sócrates?
ECOPOL
Eligen los 52 municipios para la prueba de voto electrónico en el referúndum europeo: El Ministerio del Interior ya ha elegido los 52 municipios, uno por provincia, ?incluidas Ceuta y Melilla? que podrán participar de la primera experiencia piloto de voto electrónico a nivel nacional para el referéndum de la Contitución Europea que se celebrará el 20 de febrero.
E por cá? Após o sucesso do primeiro projecto-piloto de Voto Electrónico em 2004, Portugal testa sistema de voto através de Internet junto das Comunidades: Portugal vai efectuar, em coincidência com as próximas eleições legislativas de dia 20 de Fevereiro, uma nova experiência de voto electrónico em duas vertentes: presencial e através da Internet. [...]
Desta vez a experiência decorrerá nas cinco freguesias onde votam S. Exa o Sr. Presidente da República e os cinco líderes dos partidos políticos/coligações com assento parlamentar [Santos ? Lisboa (Pedro Santana Lopes e Paulo Portas), Conceição ? Covilhã (José Sócrates), Santa Iria da Azóia ? Loures (Jerónimo de Sousa), Coração de Jesus ? Lisboa (Francisco Louçã) e São Sebastião da Pedreira ? Lisboa (Jorge Sampaio)]. Simultaneamente e destinado aos eleitores inscritos nos círculos internacionais da Europa e Fora da Europa, será pela primeira vez testado o voto electrónico através da Internet. [...]
Cada voto será depositado numa base de dados certificada digitalmente. A Chave publica de desencriptação será repartida pela Comissão Nacional de Eleições e pela Comissão Nacional de Protecção de Dados. Só com a junção destes dois organismos será possível abrir os votos.
E por cá? Após o sucesso do primeiro projecto-piloto de Voto Electrónico em 2004, Portugal testa sistema de voto através de Internet junto das Comunidades: Portugal vai efectuar, em coincidência com as próximas eleições legislativas de dia 20 de Fevereiro, uma nova experiência de voto electrónico em duas vertentes: presencial e através da Internet. [...]
Desta vez a experiência decorrerá nas cinco freguesias onde votam S. Exa o Sr. Presidente da República e os cinco líderes dos partidos políticos/coligações com assento parlamentar [Santos ? Lisboa (Pedro Santana Lopes e Paulo Portas), Conceição ? Covilhã (José Sócrates), Santa Iria da Azóia ? Loures (Jerónimo de Sousa), Coração de Jesus ? Lisboa (Francisco Louçã) e São Sebastião da Pedreira ? Lisboa (Jorge Sampaio)]. Simultaneamente e destinado aos eleitores inscritos nos círculos internacionais da Europa e Fora da Europa, será pela primeira vez testado o voto electrónico através da Internet. [...]
Cada voto será depositado numa base de dados certificada digitalmente. A Chave publica de desencriptação será repartida pela Comissão Nacional de Eleições e pela Comissão Nacional de Protecção de Dados. Só com a junção destes dois organismos será possível abrir os votos.
ECOPOL
A ler, sem dúvida, Blogues políticos em Portugal: O dispositivo criou novos actores? (via Ponto Media)
Mas algumas questões:
1) Qual a base para afirmar que "no final de 2004 estima-se que existam cerca de 90.000 blogues feitos por portugueses, embora apenas cerca de 25.000 tenham sido actualizados nos últimos 30 dias do ano"?
2) Qual a base para afirmar que "embora o ritmo de crescimento da blogosfera tenha abrandado, os blogues que abordam questões políticas não têm parado de crescer"?
3) Qual a base para afirmar que "Em Portugal, o número de blogues com um número de leitores superior a 500 por dia não ultrapassa os 40"?
4) Porque é que "Na blogosfera interessa "quantos lêem" mas, mais importante, "quem lê"?
5) Porque é que "Apesar da crescente importância da blogosfera, até meados de 2004 o fenómeno foi praticamente ignorado pelos políticos. À excepção José Magalhães e, mais tarde, de Pacheco Pereira, os políticos portugueses só prestaram alguma atenção aos blogues depois dos jornais de referência terem dado grande destaque à temática", quando "só durante o ano de 2003 viria a ocorrer a grande explosão da blogosfera [e a] chegada Pacheco Pereira à blogosfera foi um momento importante no crescimento da blogosfera portuguesa já que atraiu o interesse dos media tradicionais, sobretudo a imprensa generalista"?
[Nota: Para este estudo foram escolhidos 51 blogues cujos temas mais abordados são a actualidade política nacional ou local. Conseguiram-se 35 respostas ao inquérito enviado, o que permitiu obter uma taxa de retorno de 68,7%.]
[act.: Blogs podem ser mass media e Os "queridos diários" dos políticos]
Mas algumas questões:
1) Qual a base para afirmar que "no final de 2004 estima-se que existam cerca de 90.000 blogues feitos por portugueses, embora apenas cerca de 25.000 tenham sido actualizados nos últimos 30 dias do ano"?
2) Qual a base para afirmar que "embora o ritmo de crescimento da blogosfera tenha abrandado, os blogues que abordam questões políticas não têm parado de crescer"?
3) Qual a base para afirmar que "Em Portugal, o número de blogues com um número de leitores superior a 500 por dia não ultrapassa os 40"?
4) Porque é que "Na blogosfera interessa "quantos lêem" mas, mais importante, "quem lê"?
5) Porque é que "Apesar da crescente importância da blogosfera, até meados de 2004 o fenómeno foi praticamente ignorado pelos políticos. À excepção José Magalhães e, mais tarde, de Pacheco Pereira, os políticos portugueses só prestaram alguma atenção aos blogues depois dos jornais de referência terem dado grande destaque à temática", quando "só durante o ano de 2003 viria a ocorrer a grande explosão da blogosfera [e a] chegada Pacheco Pereira à blogosfera foi um momento importante no crescimento da blogosfera portuguesa já que atraiu o interesse dos media tradicionais, sobretudo a imprensa generalista"?
[Nota: Para este estudo foram escolhidos 51 blogues cujos temas mais abordados são a actualidade política nacional ou local. Conseguiram-se 35 respostas ao inquérito enviado, o que permitiu obter uma taxa de retorno de 68,7%.]
[act.: Blogs podem ser mass media e Os "queridos diários" dos políticos]
TECNOSFERA
Yahoo Japan launches blog beta of Yahoo Japan Blogs, a free service that lets users post blogs and up to 2GB of images, comment on other blogs, and associate their blogs with animated representations of users known as avatars.
02 fevereiro 2005
VITAMEDIAS
BBC apologises over Iraqi figures which suggested more Iraqi civilians had been killed by coalition and Iraqi forces than by insurgents.
VITAMEDIAS
Resposta à "vigilância" ou exercício de cidadania?
"Pedro Fonseca, parece-me, assume uma visão muito pessimista daquilo que os cidadãos podem fazer com os instrumentos de "voz" à sua disposição".
- Um pessimista não é um optimista realista?
"Fico com a ideia de que o Pedro acredita que, por uma questão de justiça e de qualidade, o escrutínio deve ser organizado e institucionalizado"
- só pela questão da qualidade. E por uma questão de equidade e de desconfiança por entidades como "bloggers" que ninguém conhece ou se podem esconder no anonimato e apenas em caso de litígio judicial serão conhecidos (exemplo? veja-se o caso Muito Mentiroso...)
"(via um Obercom que não o que existe ou via um espaço como o Clube de Jornalistas)"
- ou seja, um que não tem essa vocação ou outro que entra timidamente nesta esfera quando é "clube" dos jornalistas?
Não são as suas competências!
Muito têm feito eles mas é necessária outra entidade, outro grupo de interesses, se quiser, ou então nada, deixar andar.
Quem controla o que é dito nas televisões ou nas rádios? O que eu já disse é simples: se querem vigiar, vigiem-se todos mas não pode ser só a imprensa escrita ou online por ser a que mais deixa registos. E isto quando a TV é a que mais impacto provoca!
Mas quem está disposto a pagar por uma entidade, empresa ou organização popular (tipo blogue) que grave, analise e verifique as calinadas da TV (e dos media, em geral, claro)? Outra TV, um jornal ou uma rádio?!?!?! Não é possível, actualmente. É necessária uma terceira via, com as devidas distâncias políticas.
"Eu não vejo nenhuma incompatibilidade na existência simultânea de orgãos como estes e de olhares individuais de observação crítica da actividade jornalística (seja via a tradicional carta ao Director, a mais nóvel Carta ao Provedor ou, ainda, num qualquer blogue)".
- Nem eu mas o espaço reduzido das cartas (repare como andamos na imprensa e se deixa de lado a rádio ou a TV...), e a atomização e personalização dos blogues não permite a construção conjunta de um contraponto público eficaz e forte que as acima referidas entidades possam ter. Podem vir a ter, sem dúvida, mas não o são actualmente. Os blogues, pela sua quantidade, apenas contribuem para mais ruído e ineficácia. Mas e se houvesse uma entidade que avaliasse os blogues que se dedicam - directa ou indirectamente - às práticas do jornalismo?
"O Pedro parece ainda desejar que os blogues tivessem um papel mais interventivo e mais responsável. Nisso estamos de acordo. Mas o mesmo podia dizer da nossa vida social, na generalidade".
- E já o disse várias vezes - lembra-se de me lembrar a minha defesa das élites intervenientes?...
A questão essencial nesta conversa, para mim, é se podemos ou não melhorar o jornalismo que é feito em Portugal hoje. Eu acho que sim, com blogues atentos, "think thanks" inexistentes, observatórios independentes e claramente focados, com meios e reprodução pública e vigiada dos resultados (a tal questão de quem vigia os "watchdogs").
"Se calhar temos os blogues que merecemos, assim como temos os jornais, as rádios, as televisões, as estradas, os políticos e a bendita Guarda Republicana".
- Sem dúvida mas não há na frase alguma desistência? Eu ainda acredito ser possível - mas também tenho os meus dias em que não acredito - a sua realização. Sou humano (não-bipolar, acho), antes de ser jornalista.
"Não creio que haja qualquer problema de abuso de liberdade no acto de ler com atenção, elogiar, apontar falhas ou avançar sugestões a um qualquer jornalista". Isto - e é disto que falamos
- Não é isso que está em causa, isso é positivo. Já concordámos nisso e então só podemos concordar e deixar de lado a conversa sobre os potenciais abusos que podem advir da vigilância de jornalistas caso-a-caso.
"Talvez por cá as pessoas tenham mesmo aderido tanto aos blogues porque, por exemplo, as edições online dos nossos maiores diários continuam a não integrar links para documentos nos seus textos e a não disponibilizar o endereço electrónico de quem escreve (para apenas citar duas pequenas medidas)."
- Talvez mas, sobre o segundo ponto, o que me diz do trabalho do José Pedro Castanheira que no Expresso percebeu a enormidade do trabalho que era responder a leitores "online"?
"E talvez por isso - como acontece no mais das vezes face ao desconhecido - a reacção primeira seja, sobretudo, de crítica pesada, muito pouco construtiva."
- Mas não é verdade! Os jornalistas, por exemplo aqueles que escrevem sobre novas tecnologias, são muitas vezes quem mais alerta para o potencial (e também para os perigos) das mesmas. Não há nesta conversa crítica pesada; existem dúvidas e alertas construtivos para o que pode advir de certas posições tomadas em períodos de "soundbytes" ou fascínio pelo que é "modernaço". Esse é o erro de alguns jornalistas - tal como é de políticos quando pegam nestas novas tecnologias: lembra-se de Paulo Portas a reinvindicar o "V-chip" (microprocessador de vigilância para a televisão) só porque alguns norte-americanos conservadores o defendiam? A sua proposta era ineficaz porque aquele sistema nem sequer existia ainda? Isto são os "modernaços", os "soundbytes" ineficazes. Temos de olhar para as coisas de forma mais ponderada e realista!
"Percorra o jornalismo o caminho necessário e talvez as reacções sejam diferentes."
- E que caminho é esse?
"Pedro Fonseca, parece-me, assume uma visão muito pessimista daquilo que os cidadãos podem fazer com os instrumentos de "voz" à sua disposição".
- Um pessimista não é um optimista realista?
"Fico com a ideia de que o Pedro acredita que, por uma questão de justiça e de qualidade, o escrutínio deve ser organizado e institucionalizado"
- só pela questão da qualidade. E por uma questão de equidade e de desconfiança por entidades como "bloggers" que ninguém conhece ou se podem esconder no anonimato e apenas em caso de litígio judicial serão conhecidos (exemplo? veja-se o caso Muito Mentiroso...)
"(via um Obercom que não o que existe ou via um espaço como o Clube de Jornalistas)"
- ou seja, um que não tem essa vocação ou outro que entra timidamente nesta esfera quando é "clube" dos jornalistas?
Não são as suas competências!
Muito têm feito eles mas é necessária outra entidade, outro grupo de interesses, se quiser, ou então nada, deixar andar.
Quem controla o que é dito nas televisões ou nas rádios? O que eu já disse é simples: se querem vigiar, vigiem-se todos mas não pode ser só a imprensa escrita ou online por ser a que mais deixa registos. E isto quando a TV é a que mais impacto provoca!
Mas quem está disposto a pagar por uma entidade, empresa ou organização popular (tipo blogue) que grave, analise e verifique as calinadas da TV (e dos media, em geral, claro)? Outra TV, um jornal ou uma rádio?!?!?! Não é possível, actualmente. É necessária uma terceira via, com as devidas distâncias políticas.
"Eu não vejo nenhuma incompatibilidade na existência simultânea de orgãos como estes e de olhares individuais de observação crítica da actividade jornalística (seja via a tradicional carta ao Director, a mais nóvel Carta ao Provedor ou, ainda, num qualquer blogue)".
- Nem eu mas o espaço reduzido das cartas (repare como andamos na imprensa e se deixa de lado a rádio ou a TV...), e a atomização e personalização dos blogues não permite a construção conjunta de um contraponto público eficaz e forte que as acima referidas entidades possam ter. Podem vir a ter, sem dúvida, mas não o são actualmente. Os blogues, pela sua quantidade, apenas contribuem para mais ruído e ineficácia. Mas e se houvesse uma entidade que avaliasse os blogues que se dedicam - directa ou indirectamente - às práticas do jornalismo?
"O Pedro parece ainda desejar que os blogues tivessem um papel mais interventivo e mais responsável. Nisso estamos de acordo. Mas o mesmo podia dizer da nossa vida social, na generalidade".
- E já o disse várias vezes - lembra-se de me lembrar a minha defesa das élites intervenientes?...
A questão essencial nesta conversa, para mim, é se podemos ou não melhorar o jornalismo que é feito em Portugal hoje. Eu acho que sim, com blogues atentos, "think thanks" inexistentes, observatórios independentes e claramente focados, com meios e reprodução pública e vigiada dos resultados (a tal questão de quem vigia os "watchdogs").
"Se calhar temos os blogues que merecemos, assim como temos os jornais, as rádios, as televisões, as estradas, os políticos e a bendita Guarda Republicana".
- Sem dúvida mas não há na frase alguma desistência? Eu ainda acredito ser possível - mas também tenho os meus dias em que não acredito - a sua realização. Sou humano (não-bipolar, acho), antes de ser jornalista.
"Não creio que haja qualquer problema de abuso de liberdade no acto de ler com atenção, elogiar, apontar falhas ou avançar sugestões a um qualquer jornalista". Isto - e é disto que falamos
- Não é isso que está em causa, isso é positivo. Já concordámos nisso e então só podemos concordar e deixar de lado a conversa sobre os potenciais abusos que podem advir da vigilância de jornalistas caso-a-caso.
"Talvez por cá as pessoas tenham mesmo aderido tanto aos blogues porque, por exemplo, as edições online dos nossos maiores diários continuam a não integrar links para documentos nos seus textos e a não disponibilizar o endereço electrónico de quem escreve (para apenas citar duas pequenas medidas)."
- Talvez mas, sobre o segundo ponto, o que me diz do trabalho do José Pedro Castanheira que no Expresso percebeu a enormidade do trabalho que era responder a leitores "online"?
"E talvez por isso - como acontece no mais das vezes face ao desconhecido - a reacção primeira seja, sobretudo, de crítica pesada, muito pouco construtiva."
- Mas não é verdade! Os jornalistas, por exemplo aqueles que escrevem sobre novas tecnologias, são muitas vezes quem mais alerta para o potencial (e também para os perigos) das mesmas. Não há nesta conversa crítica pesada; existem dúvidas e alertas construtivos para o que pode advir de certas posições tomadas em períodos de "soundbytes" ou fascínio pelo que é "modernaço". Esse é o erro de alguns jornalistas - tal como é de políticos quando pegam nestas novas tecnologias: lembra-se de Paulo Portas a reinvindicar o "V-chip" (microprocessador de vigilância para a televisão) só porque alguns norte-americanos conservadores o defendiam? A sua proposta era ineficaz porque aquele sistema nem sequer existia ainda? Isto são os "modernaços", os "soundbytes" ineficazes. Temos de olhar para as coisas de forma mais ponderada e realista!
"Percorra o jornalismo o caminho necessário e talvez as reacções sejam diferentes."
- E que caminho é esse?
01 fevereiro 2005
VITAMEDIAS
Bloggers are in: The Los Angeles Press Club has established an entry for weblogs in the online category of its journalism awards this year.
MediaBistro.com launches new blogs: Three of the new online publications focus on the media.
Blogging is the most honest form of self-promotion...can corporations adjust?
MediaBistro.com launches new blogs: Three of the new online publications focus on the media.
Blogging is the most honest form of self-promotion...can corporations adjust?
VITAMEDIAS
10 Years: Looking Back, Looking Forward: The Age newspaper just yesterday sent out a press release noting the 10th anniversary of its news website, theage.com.au. It claims to have been the first news website in Australia.
As part of the anniversary, the site is featuring a look back at past homepages and articles about the evolution of the operation. Back in 1995, theage.com.au served only a few thousand readers; today, the site reports more than 250,000 unique visitors daily.
As part of the anniversary, the site is featuring a look back at past homepages and articles about the evolution of the operation. Back in 1995, theage.com.au served only a few thousand readers; today, the site reports more than 250,000 unique visitors daily.
VITAMEDIAS
Trends in Newsrooms to be Examined at World Editors Forum: First there was the trend to compact newspapers, and then an explosion of new titles to compete with free papers and attract young readers. But what will be the defining newsroom trends in 2005?
Among the topics to be examined at the [12th World Editors Forum, to be held in Seoul, Korea, from 29 May to 1 June], will be:
- The rise of the "citizen journalist."
- The risks and challenges posed by RSS (Real Simple Syndication) and news aggregators such as Google News and Google Alerts, in which general and personalised news is provided by machines, not editors.
- An audit of changing formats. The rush to compact newspapers is well documented, but what is less clear are the results of the latest format and design changes.
Among the topics to be examined at the [12th World Editors Forum, to be held in Seoul, Korea, from 29 May to 1 June], will be:
- The rise of the "citizen journalist."
- The risks and challenges posed by RSS (Real Simple Syndication) and news aggregators such as Google News and Google Alerts, in which general and personalised news is provided by machines, not editors.
- An audit of changing formats. The rush to compact newspapers is well documented, but what is less clear are the results of the latest format and design changes.
TECNOSFERA
La fracture numérique en Europe. Les enjeux économiques et sociaux au regard d?une «Europe de la connaissance»: Les années 1990 ont marqué l?avènement d?une nouvelle ère pour la plupart des sociétés développées. En effet, l?essor des nouvelles technologies de l?information et de la communication a ouvert une période de changements très rapides qui ont bouleversé le quotidien des citoyens. Mais si ces évolutions sont éminemment porteuses de modernité et d?espoirs dans un grand nombre de domaines (communication, médecine, éducation?), elles ont leur revers: elles laissent un certain nombre de citoyens au bord de la route. Comme le montrent ici Patrick Cohendet et Lucy Stojak, la société de la connaissance a effectivement ses laissés-pour-compte en Europe et cette «fracture numérique» (ici essentiellement analysée à l?aune de l?usage d?Internet) pourrait bien s?aggraver si aucune mesure concrète n?est prise pour y remédier. [...]
[C]et article propose une série de mesures politiques visant à réduire cette fracture, en tête desquelles l?aménagement numérique du territoire européen et la mise en place d?un service universel d?accès à l?Internet haut débit (à l?instar de ce qui s?est pratiqué par le passé pour la téléphonie).
[C]et article propose une série de mesures politiques visant à réduire cette fracture, en tête desquelles l?aménagement numérique du territoire européen et la mise en place d?un service universel d?accès à l?Internet haut débit (à l?instar de ce qui s?est pratiqué par le passé pour la téléphonie).
TECNOSFERA
Endangered Gizmos! to help you defend fair use and preserve the environment for innovation.
VITAMEDIAS
Os baixos e altos de um jornalista em Hollywood: 14 Years Later, My Hollywood Ending: I Came to Hollywood in 1991 thinking I knew quite a lot about the world and its ways. [...]
Journalists in Washington do not feel diminished by their lower salaries. In Hollywood, many do. I did. Waiting for a valet at the Bel-Air Hotel to bring my company-leased Ford, I once stood beside a journalist turned producer who said, "I used to drive a car like that." Though I'm ashamed to say it, I was soon hunting for parking spots near Orso or the Peninsula Hotel to avoid the discomfort of having a valet drive up my leased two-year-old Buick in front of some luncheon companion with a Mercedes.
For many of us on the press side, the money gap leads to resentment and envy, compounded by a conviction that studio executives and producers are no better or smarter than the journalists who cover them. Initially, I was simply amazed. [...]
I'm part of the Hollywood world now. I can't deny it. I drive a Range Rover. I live in Brentwood. Not everyone is contemptible.
Journalists in Washington do not feel diminished by their lower salaries. In Hollywood, many do. I did. Waiting for a valet at the Bel-Air Hotel to bring my company-leased Ford, I once stood beside a journalist turned producer who said, "I used to drive a car like that." Though I'm ashamed to say it, I was soon hunting for parking spots near Orso or the Peninsula Hotel to avoid the discomfort of having a valet drive up my leased two-year-old Buick in front of some luncheon companion with a Mercedes.
For many of us on the press side, the money gap leads to resentment and envy, compounded by a conviction that studio executives and producers are no better or smarter than the journalists who cover them. Initially, I was simply amazed. [...]
I'm part of the Hollywood world now. I can't deny it. I drive a Range Rover. I live in Brentwood. Not everyone is contemptible.
CULTURAS IN VITRO
Brand Rankings by Impact 2004: After a two-year hiatus Apple has returned to win the 2004 Readers? Choice Awards for the brand with the most global impact?a title held by Google since 2002.
Global Top Votes:
Apple
Google
Ikea
Starbucks
Al Jazeera
Mini
Coca-Cola
Virgin
eBay
Nokia
Europe & Africa Top Votes:
Ikea
Virgin
H&M
Nokia
Al Jazeera
Mini
Puma
Zara
BBC
Audi
Global Top Votes:
Apple
Ikea
Starbucks
Al Jazeera
Mini
Coca-Cola
Virgin
eBay
Nokia
Europe & Africa Top Votes:
Ikea
Virgin
H&M
Nokia
Al Jazeera
Mini
Puma
Zara
BBC
Audi
TECNOSFERA
Squared Circle/Flickr Collaborative Poster Project: This image was made by compositing 2600 photographs and arranging them in a fibonacci spiral, a form commonly seen in plants, such as sunflowers and pinecones.
The red band indicates unlicensed photos. The purple band indicates photos which are licensed, but have a "No Derivatives" clause. The photos in the center are useable.
CULTURAS IN VITRO
Video Sales Abroad Are Good News in Hollywood. Shhh.: For the last two years, the Motion Picture Association of America, the lobbying group for the studios, has claimed that Hollywood loses $3.5 billion every year, almost all of it overseas, to the sale of illegally copied films, mainly on bootleg DVD's and their cheaper Asian equivalent, video compact discs (VCD's).
But the M.P.A.A. is far less forthcoming when asked how much money the Hollywood studios are making on legitimate foreign sales of home video (a category that includes DVD's, VCD's and VHS tapes).
"Those figures are confidential, and we don't release them," said Barbara Berger, a spokeswoman for the M.P.A.A.
But the M.P.A.A. is far less forthcoming when asked how much money the Hollywood studios are making on legitimate foreign sales of home video (a category that includes DVD's, VCD's and VHS tapes).
"Those figures are confidential, and we don't release them," said Barbara Berger, a spokeswoman for the M.P.A.A.
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