Ah pois é, bébé! :))) É o "take 2" do mesmo filme?
Sharecontent: Penso que o sharecontent, por assim dizer, é uma evolução natural na web. É já uma realidade. Considero natural e desejável promover livremente artigos, textos e análises através do "balcão" que é um blogue, tendo a possibilidade (privilégio de cada um de a explorar ou não, conforme a sua conveniência) de estabelecer com o leitor um acordo comercial para lhe facultar uma visão mais profunda de alguns desses artigos, textos e análises.
Como no shareware, teremos multidões que apenas precisam da versão gratuita e minorias que desejarão aprofundar a ligação ao autor. [...]
Como na indústria do software, teremos na indústria dos conteúdos (de que a blogosfera faz parte) a sã convivência entre informação livre (a maior quantidade, de longe), informação partilhada em regime de troca de serviços, e informação distribuída contra pagamento em espécie.
[Basta lembrar o que aconteceu há 10 anos com as páginas pessoais, os Terràvistas, os Sapos e outros que tais. Quando a "Business Week" coloca na capa os blogues, espera-se o quê?...]
[act. a 02.05:
An Open Letter to All Bloggers
Warning: read the Pajamas Media fine print first]
29 abril 2005
TECNOSFERA
Trackback is dead. Are Comments dead too? I think it's time we faced the fact that Trackback is dead. We should state up front - the aspirations behind Trackback were admirable. We should reassert that we understand that there is a very real need to find mechanisms to knit together the world of webloggers and to allow conversations across multiple weblogs to operate effectively. We must recognise that Trackback was one of the first and most important attempts to work in that area. But Nevertheless, we have to face the fact - Trackback is dead.
28 abril 2005
CULTURAS IN VITRO
Portugal ainda pode assinar. Porquê o atraso?
European Libraries Fight Google-ization: In a stand against a deal struck by five of the world's top libraries and Google to digitize millions of books, 19 European libraries have agreed to back a similar European project to safeguard literature. [...]
The statement was signed by national libraries in Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Slovenia, Slovakia, Spain and Sweden. [...]
The British National Library has given its implicit support to the move, without signing the motion, while Cyprus and Malta have agreed verbally to the text. Portugal is also set to approve it.
European Digital Library Is Proposed: Six European leaders jointly proposed Thursday that works contained in European libraries be made accessible online, in what they called a "European digital library."
European Libraries Fight Google-ization: In a stand against a deal struck by five of the world's top libraries and Google to digitize millions of books, 19 European libraries have agreed to back a similar European project to safeguard literature. [...]
The statement was signed by national libraries in Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Slovenia, Slovakia, Spain and Sweden. [...]
The British National Library has given its implicit support to the move, without signing the motion, while Cyprus and Malta have agreed verbally to the text. Portugal is also set to approve it.
European Digital Library Is Proposed: Six European leaders jointly proposed Thursday that works contained in European libraries be made accessible online, in what they called a "European digital library."
VITAMEDIAS
Global Voices Online: The world is talking. Are you ready to listen?
Global Voices is an international effort to diversify the conversation taking place online by involving speakers from around the world, and developing tools, institutions and relationships to help make these voices heard.
BlogNashville: We are truly in the early days, because only now is technology cheap enough and bandwidth (sort of) sufficiently available for many more folks to join the global conversation. But we need to ask ourselves a bunch of questions. For example, will Draconian copyright laws will stifle people's ability to make their media available? Do all that many other people want to read, listen to or watch what we create? Will cable and phone companies, moving quickly to create a broadband duopoly in data services, make today's version of media consolidation seem tame by comparison -- with the obvious risks to freedom of expression? While the cost is dropping for creating media, will the tools will get sufficiently easy to use for truly average folks, as opposed to early adopters like us who will try anything just to see what happens? And so on.
Global Voices is an international effort to diversify the conversation taking place online by involving speakers from around the world, and developing tools, institutions and relationships to help make these voices heard.
BlogNashville: We are truly in the early days, because only now is technology cheap enough and bandwidth (sort of) sufficiently available for many more folks to join the global conversation. But we need to ask ourselves a bunch of questions. For example, will Draconian copyright laws will stifle people's ability to make their media available? Do all that many other people want to read, listen to or watch what we create? Will cable and phone companies, moving quickly to create a broadband duopoly in data services, make today's version of media consolidation seem tame by comparison -- with the obvious risks to freedom of expression? While the cost is dropping for creating media, will the tools will get sufficiently easy to use for truly average folks, as opposed to early adopters like us who will try anything just to see what happens? And so on.
TECNOSFERA
Nokia cell phone the first of its kind: Nokia set its sights on dethroning Apple's iconic iPod music device with the cellular industry's first 4-gigabyte hard drive handset.
That's enough room to store more than 1,000 MP3 digital songs, or hundreds of digital photographs or video clips.
The Nokia N91 is comparable in size to Apple's 4-GB iPod Mini, but there's a price differential. The Mini is $199, while the N91, to ship in Europe and Asia by the fourth quarter, is expected to sell for around $900 overseas, and $500 in the USA after discounts. Nokia hopes to have the phone here by year's end, but needs a carrier.
That's enough room to store more than 1,000 MP3 digital songs, or hundreds of digital photographs or video clips.
The Nokia N91 is comparable in size to Apple's 4-GB iPod Mini, but there's a price differential. The Mini is $199, while the N91, to ship in Europe and Asia by the fourth quarter, is expected to sell for around $900 overseas, and $500 in the USA after discounts. Nokia hopes to have the phone here by year's end, but needs a carrier.
VITAMEDIAS
Next: The Google Street Journal: Yahoo is worth almost $50 billion; Google's market capitalization is an astonishing $60 billion. And yet, for all their revolutionary and transformative power as information hubs, these companies have not reinvented the news business. [...]
Newspapers have been agonizing about the degree to which they will control this revolution via their own websites, and with good reason. In the digital world, the Yahoos and Googles have built brands that eclipse those of the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times. [...]
It's only a matter of time before a Yahoo or a Google decides to buy an old media company in order to differentiate itself by offering high-quality, proprietary news. Or a company like Amazon could buy a prestigious newspaper publisher and reinvent itself as a portal, leapfrogging over those that treat news updates as a commodity.
The L.A. Times' owner, Tribune Co., can probably be had for about $15 billion, if anyone is interested. Dow Jones, publisher of the Wall Street Journal, is a steal these days, with a market capitalization below $3 billion. Google's value often fluctuates by that amount in one day of trading. It would be a real coup for any digital native to position itself as the only online provider of the WSJ.
Things could get even more interesting if the buyer took the next logical step and abandoned the print edition altogether.
Newspapers have been agonizing about the degree to which they will control this revolution via their own websites, and with good reason. In the digital world, the Yahoos and Googles have built brands that eclipse those of the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times. [...]
It's only a matter of time before a Yahoo or a Google decides to buy an old media company in order to differentiate itself by offering high-quality, proprietary news. Or a company like Amazon could buy a prestigious newspaper publisher and reinvent itself as a portal, leapfrogging over those that treat news updates as a commodity.
The L.A. Times' owner, Tribune Co., can probably be had for about $15 billion, if anyone is interested. Dow Jones, publisher of the Wall Street Journal, is a steal these days, with a market capitalization below $3 billion. Google's value often fluctuates by that amount in one day of trading. It would be a real coup for any digital native to position itself as the only online provider of the WSJ.
Things could get even more interesting if the buyer took the next logical step and abandoned the print edition altogether.
VITAMEDIAS
Line56.com: Blogging for Bucks: How the Atlanta Journal-Constitution balances free and paid content; a model to accommodate different kinds of readers [...]
The idea of paid blogs is admittedly a new concept for both companies and their customers or prospects. Very few companies (Marqui is an example) are paying consumers to blog about them, but the idea of paying companies for access to their own premium blogs is more mainstream -- at least in the sports world, where the ever-popular ESPN.com introduced paid content several years ago.
Still, after about a year of experience with the model, AJC.com met its -- admittedly modest -- revenue and subscription goals, and in future the contribution could be greater.
The idea of paid blogs is admittedly a new concept for both companies and their customers or prospects. Very few companies (Marqui is an example) are paying consumers to blog about them, but the idea of paying companies for access to their own premium blogs is more mainstream -- at least in the sports world, where the ever-popular ESPN.com introduced paid content several years ago.
Still, after about a year of experience with the model, AJC.com met its -- admittedly modest -- revenue and subscription goals, and in future the contribution could be greater.
26 abril 2005
VITAMEDIAS
Open Access or Differential Pricing for Journals: The Road Best Traveled? Open access (OA) is becoming a reality, with new cost models under development. The various cost models will have serious short- and long-term implications for libraries and dangerously impact the scholarly communication network. I believe that the adoption of the OA model for journals will create serious instabilities within the existing scholarly publication industry. OA, as a business model, is neither necessary nor desirable. With or without the often-discussed author charges approach, it would be almost impossible to obtain the same amount of total revenue through selected libraries as now exists from the much larger base of library subscriptions. Tiered or differential pricing (and services) among the existing subscribers would be a far more logical approach to supporting a modified scholarly journal distribution network.
VITAMEDIAS
Open Media Network, the future of public tv and radio
Netscape pioneers launch free content network: Mike Homer and Marc Andreessen are back on the start-up scene, launching a TiVo-like online network for distributing and viewing public TV, radio and grassroots media.
Startup to offer digital TV, radio shows online for free: A Silicon Valley startup plans to begin distributing television shows, radio programs, movies, podcasts and video blogs for free online today.
The Smart Money Behind Video Blogging
Netscape pioneers launch free content network: Mike Homer and Marc Andreessen are back on the start-up scene, launching a TiVo-like online network for distributing and viewing public TV, radio and grassroots media.
Startup to offer digital TV, radio shows online for free: A Silicon Valley startup plans to begin distributing television shows, radio programs, movies, podcasts and video blogs for free online today.
The Smart Money Behind Video Blogging
CONTAMINANTES
Lembram-se das "vacas loucas"? E isto proporcionará "humanos loucos"?
GM industry puts human gene into rice: Scientists have begun putting genes from human beings into food crops in a dramatic extension of genetic modification. The move, which is causing disgust and revulsion among critics, is bound to strengthen accusations that GM technology is creating "Frankenstein foods" and drive the controversy surrounding it to new heights. [...]
Environmentalists say that no one will want to eat the partially human-derived food because it will smack of cannibalism.
But supporters say that the controversial new departure presents no ethical problems and could bring environmental benefits.
In the first modification of its kind, Japanese researchers have inserted a gene from the human liver into rice to enable it to digest pesticides and industrial chemicals. The gene makes an enzyme, code-named CPY2B6, which is particularly good at breaking down harmful chemicals in the body.
[Lembro que desde a semana passada temos um decreto-lei que "regula o cultivo de variedades geneticamente modificadas" e outro "relativo a géneros alimentícios e alimentos geneticamente modificados para animais".
E puxo a conversa havida nos comentários:
Manuel Lopes: O Pedro Fonseca percebe de Agicultura ?
Sabe o que é um enxerto ? Não sabe ? Ok, eu explico, há milhares de anos que se enxertam plantas duma especie noutra. Não lhe diz nada ? Ok, eu compreendo. Mas olhe que já se faz há milhares de anos, e o mundo não colapsou. Poderia dar-lhe dezenas, ou centenas de exemplos, em que o homem há milhares de anos interfere com a natureza. Desde os bois cobridores ao enxerto de videiras.
Eu tb acho que deve haver debate, mas lamento que o discurso critico ignore pura e simplesmente tudo o que há de bom nos transgénicos. E que não é pouco ...
Saberá o Pedro, que o tal muilho já à venda em Portugal, com uma modificação genética muito simples e básica, evitará a utilização de muitas e muitas toneladas de pesticidas, esses sim, comprovadamente prejudiciais ao ambiente e à nossa saúde.
PedroF: O homem há milhares de anos que faz enxertos e mexe na natureza mas, de forma natural, da mesma forma como pode emendar os resultados. Uma videira enxertada doente pode ser removida sem afectar as outras, não dissemina a "doença".
Com as sementes GM, espalhadas pelo vento ou pelas aves a mais ou a menos de 200 metros, dificilmente poderá haver controlo de danos. E mesmo que o meu vizinho queira usar essas sementes e eu não, estou lixado porque acabarei sempre por ter contaminação. Não é justo (estou a pensar nos agricultores biológicos, por exemplo).
E diferente dos milhares de anos de testes naturais, estas sementes têm uns poucos anos de testes reais em que os resultados não são conclusivos.
Eu não digo que não são seguras (também não digo que são), não afirmo que todas estão a ser distribuídas pelas mesmas multinacionais que desenvolveram os pesticidas e, nalguns casos, patentearam nos Estados Unidos compostos naturais localizados em certas zonas geográficas pobres que têm de pagar agora pelo que era gratuito, e muito menos presumo que elas não sejam indicadas para certas regiões (certas zonas de África têm sido apontadas como um caso viável, Portugal pode ser outro). Não sei.
O que defendo - e, pelos vistos, ambos concordamos -, é que devia ter havido um debate público e sério por quem sabe deste assunto, prós e contras. Não houve!]
GM industry puts human gene into rice: Scientists have begun putting genes from human beings into food crops in a dramatic extension of genetic modification. The move, which is causing disgust and revulsion among critics, is bound to strengthen accusations that GM technology is creating "Frankenstein foods" and drive the controversy surrounding it to new heights. [...]
Environmentalists say that no one will want to eat the partially human-derived food because it will smack of cannibalism.
But supporters say that the controversial new departure presents no ethical problems and could bring environmental benefits.
In the first modification of its kind, Japanese researchers have inserted a gene from the human liver into rice to enable it to digest pesticides and industrial chemicals. The gene makes an enzyme, code-named CPY2B6, which is particularly good at breaking down harmful chemicals in the body.
[Lembro que desde a semana passada temos um decreto-lei que "regula o cultivo de variedades geneticamente modificadas" e outro "relativo a géneros alimentícios e alimentos geneticamente modificados para animais".
E puxo a conversa havida nos comentários:
Manuel Lopes: O Pedro Fonseca percebe de Agicultura ?
Sabe o que é um enxerto ? Não sabe ? Ok, eu explico, há milhares de anos que se enxertam plantas duma especie noutra. Não lhe diz nada ? Ok, eu compreendo. Mas olhe que já se faz há milhares de anos, e o mundo não colapsou. Poderia dar-lhe dezenas, ou centenas de exemplos, em que o homem há milhares de anos interfere com a natureza. Desde os bois cobridores ao enxerto de videiras.
Eu tb acho que deve haver debate, mas lamento que o discurso critico ignore pura e simplesmente tudo o que há de bom nos transgénicos. E que não é pouco ...
Saberá o Pedro, que o tal muilho já à venda em Portugal, com uma modificação genética muito simples e básica, evitará a utilização de muitas e muitas toneladas de pesticidas, esses sim, comprovadamente prejudiciais ao ambiente e à nossa saúde.
PedroF: O homem há milhares de anos que faz enxertos e mexe na natureza mas, de forma natural, da mesma forma como pode emendar os resultados. Uma videira enxertada doente pode ser removida sem afectar as outras, não dissemina a "doença".
Com as sementes GM, espalhadas pelo vento ou pelas aves a mais ou a menos de 200 metros, dificilmente poderá haver controlo de danos. E mesmo que o meu vizinho queira usar essas sementes e eu não, estou lixado porque acabarei sempre por ter contaminação. Não é justo (estou a pensar nos agricultores biológicos, por exemplo).
E diferente dos milhares de anos de testes naturais, estas sementes têm uns poucos anos de testes reais em que os resultados não são conclusivos.
Eu não digo que não são seguras (também não digo que são), não afirmo que todas estão a ser distribuídas pelas mesmas multinacionais que desenvolveram os pesticidas e, nalguns casos, patentearam nos Estados Unidos compostos naturais localizados em certas zonas geográficas pobres que têm de pagar agora pelo que era gratuito, e muito menos presumo que elas não sejam indicadas para certas regiões (certas zonas de África têm sido apontadas como um caso viável, Portugal pode ser outro). Não sei.
O que defendo - e, pelos vistos, ambos concordamos -, é que devia ter havido um debate público e sério por quem sabe deste assunto, prós e contras. Não houve!]
ECOPOL
E pronto! CIA?s final report: No WMD found in Iraq: In his final word, the CIA?s top weapons inspector in Iraq said Monday that the hunt for weapons of mass destruction has ?gone as far as feasible? and has found nothing, closing an investigation into the purported programs of Saddam Hussein that were used to justify the 2003 invasion.
25 abril 2005
TECNOSFERA
New reality blog competition launched: The Ultimate Blogger is a 6-week competition between 12 people to be the best blogger in order to win a $500 dollar prize package.
VITAMEDIAS
Newspapers struggle to avoid their own obit: "The newspapers will have to be smart about distributing the news in the way [young] consumers want, or they won't be relevant," says Sammy Papert III of Belden Associates, a newspaper research firm.
Indeed, newspapers are trying to reach younger people through quick-read free papers, Spanish-language papers, and stand-alone weekly entertainment tabloids. But most of the new strategies rely on an old standby: ink printed on a page. And that may spell trouble. [...]
Younger people are used to news content on the Internet, which allows them to pick from lists of headlines instead of flipping through pages to find stories that interest them, says Adam Penenberg, assistant professor in the business and economic reporting program at New York University. "They customize their news-gathering experience in a way a single paper publication could never do"
Unread and Unsubscribing: The circulation of daily U.S. newspapers is 55.2 million, down from 62.3 million in 1990. The percentages of adults who say they read a paper "yesterday" are ominous:
? 65 and older -- 60 percent.
? 50-64 -- 52 percent.
? 30-49 -- 39 percent.
? 18-29 -- 23 percent.
Americans ages 8 to 18 spend an average of 6 hours and 21 minutes a day with media of all sorts but just 43 minutes with print media. [...]
The young are voracious consumers of media, but not of journalism. Sixty-eight percent of children 8 to 18 have televisions in their rooms; 33 percent have computers. And if they could have only one entertainment medium, a third would choose the computer, a quarter would choose television. They carry their media around with them: 79 percent of young people ages 8 to 18 have portable CD, tape or MP3 players. Fifty-five percent have hand-held video game players. Sony's PlayStation Portable, which plays music, games and movies, sold more than 500,000 units in the first two days after its March debut.
[Exemplos de tentativas inovadoras:
Time Inc. Plans Long-Term Mobile Strategy: The mobile channel helps magazines not just extend their brand reach, but also interact with subscribers between publication dates. New revenue streams like premium rate SMS services, paid content and commercial database sponsorship are other advantages.
FM broadcasts proposed for cell phones: Hewlett-Packard, Nokia and Infinity Broadcasting [...] announced a plan to introduce what they call Visual Radio. The technology would combine the traditional over-the-air FM broadcast -- through a receiver included in the phone -- with text and graphics displayed on the phone's screen.]
Indeed, newspapers are trying to reach younger people through quick-read free papers, Spanish-language papers, and stand-alone weekly entertainment tabloids. But most of the new strategies rely on an old standby: ink printed on a page. And that may spell trouble. [...]
Younger people are used to news content on the Internet, which allows them to pick from lists of headlines instead of flipping through pages to find stories that interest them, says Adam Penenberg, assistant professor in the business and economic reporting program at New York University. "They customize their news-gathering experience in a way a single paper publication could never do"
Unread and Unsubscribing: The circulation of daily U.S. newspapers is 55.2 million, down from 62.3 million in 1990. The percentages of adults who say they read a paper "yesterday" are ominous:
? 65 and older -- 60 percent.
? 50-64 -- 52 percent.
? 30-49 -- 39 percent.
? 18-29 -- 23 percent.
Americans ages 8 to 18 spend an average of 6 hours and 21 minutes a day with media of all sorts but just 43 minutes with print media. [...]
The young are voracious consumers of media, but not of journalism. Sixty-eight percent of children 8 to 18 have televisions in their rooms; 33 percent have computers. And if they could have only one entertainment medium, a third would choose the computer, a quarter would choose television. They carry their media around with them: 79 percent of young people ages 8 to 18 have portable CD, tape or MP3 players. Fifty-five percent have hand-held video game players. Sony's PlayStation Portable, which plays music, games and movies, sold more than 500,000 units in the first two days after its March debut.
[Exemplos de tentativas inovadoras:
Time Inc. Plans Long-Term Mobile Strategy: The mobile channel helps magazines not just extend their brand reach, but also interact with subscribers between publication dates. New revenue streams like premium rate SMS services, paid content and commercial database sponsorship are other advantages.
FM broadcasts proposed for cell phones: Hewlett-Packard, Nokia and Infinity Broadcasting [...] announced a plan to introduce what they call Visual Radio. The technology would combine the traditional over-the-air FM broadcast -- through a receiver included in the phone -- with text and graphics displayed on the phone's screen.]
CULTURAS IN VITRO
A culpa é da tecnologia?
I Link, Therefore I am: [A] man was found dead at his computer apparently the victim of trying to keep up with too many professional forums.
Childress H. Wanamaker, 54, an account executive at a New York-based new media company, died of starvation according to the West Nyack coroner's office. Wanamaker's emaciated body was found by Loraine, his wife of 26 years, who told MediaPost she had been bringing her husband meals on plastic trays for weeks, but that he never took the time to eat them.
"He was glued to his computer 24/7," she said tearfully. "He was so afraid he was going to miss an opportunity to contribute a comment or start a discussion, that he just stopped eating."
E-mails 'hurt IQ more than pot': Workers distracted by phone calls, e-mails and text messages suffer a greater loss of IQ than a person smoking marijuana [...]
The constant interruptions reduce productivity and leave people feeling tired and lethargic
This Is Your Brain on Clicks: Suddenly, everybody's talking about Internet addiction. What's next--methadone for mouse fiends?
Um blogue não é um jornal mas pode ser mais uma fonte de informação: CP ? E para terminar? hoje em dia conseguia passar um dia sem escrever no seu blogue?
RS ? O meu problema é o de estar a ficar adicto, dependente. Não aconselho a que construam blogues. Pode ser um vício e matar como o tabaco. [via I.C.]
Watching TV Makes You Smarter: Beneath the violence and the ethnic stereotypes, another trend appears: to keep up with entertainment like ''24,'' you have to pay attention, make inferences, track shifting social relationships. This is what I call the Sleeper Curve: the most debased forms of mass diversion -- video games and violent television dramas and juvenile sitcoms -- turn out to be nutritional after all.
I believe that the Sleeper Curve is the single most important new force altering the mental development of young people today, and I believe it is largely a force for good: enhancing our cognitive faculties, not dumbing them down. And yet you almost never hear this story in popular accounts of today's media. Instead, you hear dire tales of addiction, violence, mindless escapism. It's assumed that shows that promote smoking or gratuitous violence are bad for us, while those that thunder against teen pregnancy or intolerance have a positive role in society. Judged by that morality-play standard, the story of popular culture over the past 50 years -- if not 500 -- is a story of decline: the morals of the stories have grown darker and more ambiguous, and the antiheroes have multiplied.
The usual counterargument here is that what media have lost in moral clarity, they have gained in realism. The real world doesn't come in nicely packaged public-service announcements, and we're better off with entertainment like ''The Sopranos'' that reflects our fallen state with all its ethical ambiguity. I happen to be sympathetic to that argument, but it's not the one I want to make here. I think there is another way to assess the social virtue of pop culture, one that looks at media as a kind of cognitive workout, not as a series of life lessons. There may indeed be more ''negative messages'' in the mediasphere today. But that's not the only way to evaluate whether our television shows or video games are having a positive impact. Just as important -- if not more important -- is the kind of thinking you have to do to make sense of a cultural experience. That is where the Sleeper Curve becomes visible.
I Link, Therefore I am: [A] man was found dead at his computer apparently the victim of trying to keep up with too many professional forums.
Childress H. Wanamaker, 54, an account executive at a New York-based new media company, died of starvation according to the West Nyack coroner's office. Wanamaker's emaciated body was found by Loraine, his wife of 26 years, who told MediaPost she had been bringing her husband meals on plastic trays for weeks, but that he never took the time to eat them.
"He was glued to his computer 24/7," she said tearfully. "He was so afraid he was going to miss an opportunity to contribute a comment or start a discussion, that he just stopped eating."
E-mails 'hurt IQ more than pot': Workers distracted by phone calls, e-mails and text messages suffer a greater loss of IQ than a person smoking marijuana [...]
The constant interruptions reduce productivity and leave people feeling tired and lethargic
This Is Your Brain on Clicks: Suddenly, everybody's talking about Internet addiction. What's next--methadone for mouse fiends?
Um blogue não é um jornal mas pode ser mais uma fonte de informação: CP ? E para terminar? hoje em dia conseguia passar um dia sem escrever no seu blogue?
RS ? O meu problema é o de estar a ficar adicto, dependente. Não aconselho a que construam blogues. Pode ser um vício e matar como o tabaco. [via I.C.]
Watching TV Makes You Smarter: Beneath the violence and the ethnic stereotypes, another trend appears: to keep up with entertainment like ''24,'' you have to pay attention, make inferences, track shifting social relationships. This is what I call the Sleeper Curve: the most debased forms of mass diversion -- video games and violent television dramas and juvenile sitcoms -- turn out to be nutritional after all.
I believe that the Sleeper Curve is the single most important new force altering the mental development of young people today, and I believe it is largely a force for good: enhancing our cognitive faculties, not dumbing them down. And yet you almost never hear this story in popular accounts of today's media. Instead, you hear dire tales of addiction, violence, mindless escapism. It's assumed that shows that promote smoking or gratuitous violence are bad for us, while those that thunder against teen pregnancy or intolerance have a positive role in society. Judged by that morality-play standard, the story of popular culture over the past 50 years -- if not 500 -- is a story of decline: the morals of the stories have grown darker and more ambiguous, and the antiheroes have multiplied.
The usual counterargument here is that what media have lost in moral clarity, they have gained in realism. The real world doesn't come in nicely packaged public-service announcements, and we're better off with entertainment like ''The Sopranos'' that reflects our fallen state with all its ethical ambiguity. I happen to be sympathetic to that argument, but it's not the one I want to make here. I think there is another way to assess the social virtue of pop culture, one that looks at media as a kind of cognitive workout, not as a series of life lessons. There may indeed be more ''negative messages'' in the mediasphere today. But that's not the only way to evaluate whether our television shows or video games are having a positive impact. Just as important -- if not more important -- is the kind of thinking you have to do to make sense of a cultural experience. That is where the Sleeper Curve becomes visible.
CULTURAS IN VITRO
How to Be Your Own Publisher: iUniverse is one of more than 100 ''author services'' companies in a fast-growing industry aimed primarily at writers who can't get the attention of traditional publishers. [...] For the first time, print-on-demand companies are successfully positioning themselves as respectable alternatives to mainstream publishing and erasing the stigma of the old-fashioned vanity press. Some even make a case that they give authors an advantage -- from total control over the design, editing and publicity to a bigger share of the profits.
VITAMEDIAS
A blogosfera no seu melhor: A Boldface Name Invites Others to Blog With Her: Arianna Huffington, the columnist and onetime candidate for governor of California, is about to move blogging from the realm of the anonymous individual to the realm of the celebrity collective. [...]
[Kenneth B. Lerer, a former executive vice president of AOL Time Warner, who helped found the Huffington Post] said the Post, which will generate revenue by selling advertising space, was being financed initially by him, Ms. Huffington and 10 others he identified as "friends and family." The bloggers will not be paid.
[Kenneth B. Lerer, a former executive vice president of AOL Time Warner, who helped found the Huffington Post] said the Post, which will generate revenue by selling advertising space, was being financed initially by him, Ms. Huffington and 10 others he identified as "friends and family." The bloggers will not be paid.
TECNOSFERA
VII Semana Internacional do Audiovisual e Multimédia na Universidade Lusófona: o cinema de animação e as tecnologias digitais (nomeadamente nos jogos)
22 abril 2005
.DE!
Microsoft patents 911: "The present invention provides a method and system for maintaining emergency data in a manner that provides straightforward user access thereto via a displayed emergency page (or set of pages) or other suitable user interface"
TECNOSFERA
Blogs Will Change Your Business: Your customers and rivals are figuring blogs out. Our advice: Catch up...or catch you later
CONTAMINANTES
E assim, sem qualquer discussão pública decente, temos um "Decreto-Lei que regula o cultivo de variedades geneticamente modificadas, visando assegurar a sua coexistência com culturas convencionais e com o modo de produção biológico (e também um outro "relativo a géneros alimentícios e alimentos geneticamente modificados para animais.").
Assegura-se uma "distância mínima exigida entre culturas, que se estabelece em 200 metros para os sistemas de produção convencional e 300 metros para os sistemas de produção biológica, sem prejuízo da adopção, em alternativa, de linhas de bordadura destinadas a conferir as necessárias condições de segurança".
Como se 200 ou 300 metros fosse impeditivo para em certos dias de vento as culturas ficarem contaminadas...
Assegura-se uma "distância mínima exigida entre culturas, que se estabelece em 200 metros para os sistemas de produção convencional e 300 metros para os sistemas de produção biológica, sem prejuízo da adopção, em alternativa, de linhas de bordadura destinadas a conferir as necessárias condições de segurança".
Como se 200 ou 300 metros fosse impeditivo para em certos dias de vento as culturas ficarem contaminadas...
VITAMEDIAS
The future of journalism: Is Rupert Murdoch right to predict the end of newspapers as we now know them?
VITAMEDIAS
Which Papers Are the 'Bloggiest'? (link per thousand circulation (LkpC))
[Ethan Zuckerman (of Global Voices)] calculated a LkpC of 134.9 for the Christian Science Monitor. He noted, "That's more than double its nearest competitor, the New York Times, with a score of 63.08." For context, according to Zuckerman the six next "bloggiest" papers are: Washington Post (58.44), San Francisco Chronicle (38.32), Boston Globe (29.80), Seattle Post Intelligencer (18.56), New York Post (12.48), Los Angeles Times (11.21).
This method definitely needs some refinement. [...]
Zuckerman also offers a list of the "least bloggy" newspapers. Tellingly, the Wall Street Journal is among these laggards, with a puny LkpC of just 0.40. Says Zuckerman, "The Journal is notorious in the blogging community for hiding nearly all of its content behind a paid firewall. Despite the fact that it boasts the second-highest circulation of a U.S. paper (2,106,774), it's anemic in the blogosphere, with 910 links from 828 sources.
[Ethan Zuckerman (of Global Voices)] calculated a LkpC of 134.9 for the Christian Science Monitor. He noted, "That's more than double its nearest competitor, the New York Times, with a score of 63.08." For context, according to Zuckerman the six next "bloggiest" papers are: Washington Post (58.44), San Francisco Chronicle (38.32), Boston Globe (29.80), Seattle Post Intelligencer (18.56), New York Post (12.48), Los Angeles Times (11.21).
This method definitely needs some refinement. [...]
Zuckerman also offers a list of the "least bloggy" newspapers. Tellingly, the Wall Street Journal is among these laggards, with a puny LkpC of just 0.40. Says Zuckerman, "The Journal is notorious in the blogging community for hiding nearly all of its content behind a paid firewall. Despite the fact that it boasts the second-highest circulation of a U.S. paper (2,106,774), it's anemic in the blogosphere, with 910 links from 828 sources.
21 abril 2005
VITAMEDIAS
TV-Turnoff Network: activists in at least 10 countries outside the United States are promoting TV-Turnoff events this year. [...]
Among the countries where Turnoff events will occur are Australia, Brazil, Great Britain, Canada, Japan, Taiwan, Italy, Mexico and others. These add to an effort that is expected to inspire more than 7.6 million Americans to break free of TV this April 25-May 1.
[act.: Can your family go a week without computers? Modeled after TV-Turnoff Week, PC-Turnoff Week runs Aug. 1 through Aug. 7 and is meant to raise awareness of the hazards of excessive computer use in the home.]
Among the countries where Turnoff events will occur are Australia, Brazil, Great Britain, Canada, Japan, Taiwan, Italy, Mexico and others. These add to an effort that is expected to inspire more than 7.6 million Americans to break free of TV this April 25-May 1.
[act.: Can your family go a week without computers? Modeled after TV-Turnoff Week, PC-Turnoff Week runs Aug. 1 through Aug. 7 and is meant to raise awareness of the hazards of excessive computer use in the home.]
PHOTO-GRAFIA
Whale Found in Egypt Desert: geologist Philip D. Gingerich announced his team had excavated the first known nearly complete skeleton of a Basilosaurus isis [The first of the truly gigantic whales]
20 abril 2005
TECNOSFERA
Denmark Ranks 1st in Web-Savvy, U.S. 2nd -Study: Denmark remained No. 1 in taking advantage of the Internet, both connecting citizens securely over broadband and wireless networks as well as using its near ubiquitous hook-ups for Internet banking and government services such as tax returns.
Denmark has also established a government Web site that pulls together ministries and other organizations, in which citizens and companies can access public services.
E Portugal?
Rank, 2005 Rank, 2004 Country Score, 2005 Score, 2004
1 1 Denmark 8.74 8.28
2 6 US 8.73 8.04
3 3 Sweden 8.64 8.25
4 10 Switzerland 8.62 7.96
5 2 UK 8.54 8.27
6 (tie) 9 Hong Kong 8.32 7.97
6 (tie) 5 Finland 8.32 8.08
8 8 Netherlands 8.28 8.00
9 4 Norway 8.27 8.11
10 12 Australia 8.22 7.88
11 7 Singapore 8.18 8.02
12 (tie) 11 Canada 8.03 7.92
12 (tie) 13 Germany 8.03 7.83
14 12 Austria 8.01 7.68
15 16 Ireland 7.98 7.45
16 19 New Zealand 7.82 7.33
17 17 Belgium 7.71 7.41
18 14 S. Korea 7.66 7.73
19 18 France 7.61 7.34
20 22 Israel 7.45 7.06
21 25 Japan 7.42 6.86
22 20 Taiwan 7.13 7.32
23 21 Spain 7.08 7.20
24 23 Italy 6.95 7.05
25 24 Portugal 6.90 7.01
Denmark has also established a government Web site that pulls together ministries and other organizations, in which citizens and companies can access public services.
E Portugal?
Rank, 2005 Rank, 2004 Country Score, 2005 Score, 2004
1 1 Denmark 8.74 8.28
2 6 US 8.73 8.04
3 3 Sweden 8.64 8.25
4 10 Switzerland 8.62 7.96
5 2 UK 8.54 8.27
6 (tie) 9 Hong Kong 8.32 7.97
6 (tie) 5 Finland 8.32 8.08
8 8 Netherlands 8.28 8.00
9 4 Norway 8.27 8.11
10 12 Australia 8.22 7.88
11 7 Singapore 8.18 8.02
12 (tie) 11 Canada 8.03 7.92
12 (tie) 13 Germany 8.03 7.83
14 12 Austria 8.01 7.68
15 16 Ireland 7.98 7.45
16 19 New Zealand 7.82 7.33
17 17 Belgium 7.71 7.41
18 14 S. Korea 7.66 7.73
19 18 France 7.61 7.34
20 22 Israel 7.45 7.06
21 25 Japan 7.42 6.86
22 20 Taiwan 7.13 7.32
23 21 Spain 7.08 7.20
24 23 Italy 6.95 7.05
25 24 Portugal 6.90 7.01
VITAMEDIAS
Profiting from Digital: This report presents digital media strategies that are delivering success to newspaper publishers today, rather than attempt to forecast the likely value of untried technologies that are emerging. It offers practical applications that can produce revenue immediately. [acesso exclusivo por assinatura]
VITAMEDIAS
Firms Paid TV's Tech Gurus To Promote Their Products: Corey Greenberg, tech editor for NBC's "Today" show, appeared last July to praise Apple's iPod as "a great portable musical player . . . the coolest-looking one" and suggested a compatible device to "share your music with other people." "This is the way to go," he declared.
"Let's cut the Apple commercial here right now, okay?" co-host Matt Lauer interjected.
Lauer was onto something. Greenberg, an NBC contributor, confirmed yesterday that he has received payments from Apple as well as Sony, Hewlett-Packard, Seiko Epson, Creative Technology and Energizer Holdings, charging $15,000 apiece to talk up their products on news shows. The contracts were first disclosed by the Wall Street Journal.
"Let's cut the Apple commercial here right now, okay?" co-host Matt Lauer interjected.
Lauer was onto something. Greenberg, an NBC contributor, confirmed yesterday that he has received payments from Apple as well as Sony, Hewlett-Packard, Seiko Epson, Creative Technology and Energizer Holdings, charging $15,000 apiece to talk up their products on news shows. The contracts were first disclosed by the Wall Street Journal.
VITAMEDIAS
The 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Public Relations: That's right, a Pulitzer Prize. Last week the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism awarded journalism's highest honor to a series of newspaper editorials that resulted from the efforts of a Bay Area publicist -- but without giving her any credit.
VITAMEDIAS
Internet feeding, not beating, other media: A study to be released today [Apr. 18, 2005] shows that the proliferation of high-speed Internet service is not taking audiences away from television or other media, including newspapers and magazines [o acesso ao artigo é pago]
RSS may generate 25% or more of NY Times total website traffic within 3 years: if current growth rates continue, in 3 years RSS click-throughs will represent 27% of total page views for the NY Times website!
RSS may generate 25% or more of NY Times total website traffic within 3 years: if current growth rates continue, in 3 years RSS click-throughs will represent 27% of total page views for the NY Times website!
ECOPOL
The Catholic church's new leader: The choice of Joseph Ratzinger, an arch-conservative German, as pope is unsurprising. It will delight traditionalist Catholics but disappoint those hoping for more flexibility than John Paul II offered on controversial issues, such as birth control, homosexuality and euthanasia
Picking the Pope's Domain Name: If the newly elected pope wants his own website, he'll have to talk to Rogers Cadenhead first.
The Jacksonville, Florida-based writer purchased the rights to BenedictXVI.com on April 1 -- more than two-and-a-half weeks before Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger announced that he would assume the papacy under the name of Benedict XVI.
New pope memorabilia for auction on eBay: Since the announcement that the former Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger will be the 265th pope of the Catholic Church came at 11:50 a.m. ET, auction sites such as eBay have started featuring items bearing his name or signature.
Picking the Pope's Domain Name: If the newly elected pope wants his own website, he'll have to talk to Rogers Cadenhead first.
The Jacksonville, Florida-based writer purchased the rights to BenedictXVI.com on April 1 -- more than two-and-a-half weeks before Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger announced that he would assume the papacy under the name of Benedict XVI.
New pope memorabilia for auction on eBay: Since the announcement that the former Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger will be the 265th pope of the Catholic Church came at 11:50 a.m. ET, auction sites such as eBay have started featuring items bearing his name or signature.
TECNOSFERA
New York Times Link Generator: Need to link to a New York Times article from your weblog? Enter your link here, and we'll give you the weblog-safe link
VITAMEDIAS
NBC Chief Mulls Blogs for Top News Anchors and celebrity interviewers as it seeks to maintain the appeal of U.S. network news
ECOPOL
Down to the Wire: Once a leader in Internet innovation, the United States has fallen far behind Japan and other Asian states in deploying broadband and the latest mobile-phone technology. This lag will cost it dearly. By outdoing the United States, Japan and its neighbors are positioning themselves to be the first states to reap the benefits of the broadband era: economic growth, increased productivity, and a better quality of life.
19 abril 2005
VITAMEDIAS
Financial Times: Uma "bíblia" cobiçada, essencial em Portugal: O administrador do grupo Mello, António Nogueira Leite, esclarece que em apenas 15 minutos consegue perceber quais os artigos que mais lhe interessam só de ler as "gordas". No entanto, não deixa de lado a leitura dos jornais nacionais, por considerar que também estes são importantes.
"Decifro melhor a informação nos jornais do país porque, normalmente, sei quem a escreve", explica. Mas reconhece que os jornais nacionais contêm muitos recados para quem gere.
José Penedos [presidente da Rede Eléctrica Nacional] acrescenta que os jornais nacionais "têm ainda muito a fazer em termos de objectividade e de intensidade da informação que transmitem".
"Decifro melhor a informação nos jornais do país porque, normalmente, sei quem a escreve", explica. Mas reconhece que os jornais nacionais contêm muitos recados para quem gere.
José Penedos [presidente da Rede Eléctrica Nacional] acrescenta que os jornais nacionais "têm ainda muito a fazer em termos de objectividade e de intensidade da informação que transmitem".
TECNOSFERA
A fotografia de uma comunidade "online": os últimos dados demográficos do Orkut: 67,6 por cento são do Brasil, seguindo-se os Estados Unidos com apenas 8,12 por cento. Metade são solteiros, quase 90 por cento procura amigas(os) e 56,12 por cento tem entre 18 e 25 anos.
ECOPOL
Simplifying tax systems: Pioneered in eastern Europe, flat tax systems seem to work because they are simple
In 1994, Estonia became the first country in Europe to introduce a so-called ?flat tax?, replacing three tax rates on personal income, and another on corporate profits, with one uniform rate of 26%. Simplicity itself. At the stroke of a pen, this tiny Baltic nation transformed itself from backwater to bellwether, emulated by its neighbours and envied by conservatives in America who long to flatten their own country's taxes.
In 1994, Estonia became the first country in Europe to introduce a so-called ?flat tax?, replacing three tax rates on personal income, and another on corporate profits, with one uniform rate of 26%. Simplicity itself. At the stroke of a pen, this tiny Baltic nation transformed itself from backwater to bellwether, emulated by its neighbours and envied by conservatives in America who long to flatten their own country's taxes.
VITAMEDIAS
Tracking How Long It Takes the New York Times to Pick Up Stories From the Blogosphere: I've decided to start an unscientific project tracking how long it takes a story to get from the blogosphere to The New York Times. In the case of bloggers getting fired for what they write on their personal blogs, it's been about five months
VITAMEDIAS
Drudge vs. Blogs: Competition.
Blogs are a threat to Drudge's leadership of Internet media. Major blogs like InstaPundit, and emerging Drudge competitors like The Roth Report, The Daou Report, and Memeorandum may be big fish by blogosphere standards, but they are a small but emerging threat to Drudge's millions of daily uniques. They're the Firefox to Drudge's Microsoft.
Blogs are a threat to Drudge's leadership of Internet media. Major blogs like InstaPundit, and emerging Drudge competitors like The Roth Report, The Daou Report, and Memeorandum may be big fish by blogosphere standards, but they are a small but emerging threat to Drudge's millions of daily uniques. They're the Firefox to Drudge's Microsoft.
18 abril 2005
VITAMEDIAS
Study on co-regulation measures in the media sector
The study (Co-Regulatory Measures in the Media Sector of the EU) [...] focuses on media services (press, broadcasting, online services, film and interactive games) as they are fields where new forms of regulation have been used at an early stage. In these fields, the need for specific legal requirements to serve the public interest will remain (i.e. protecting minors, furthering journalistic quality, fair and non-discriminatory access). However, traditional instruments and concepts run the risk of unnecessarily increasing the regulatory costs for the industry as well as becoming less and less effective under changing social conditions. Therefore, the field of media services can serve as test case even for more general research on new forms of regulation. [...]
The final report will be finished by the beginning of 2006.
The study (Co-Regulatory Measures in the Media Sector of the EU) [...] focuses on media services (press, broadcasting, online services, film and interactive games) as they are fields where new forms of regulation have been used at an early stage. In these fields, the need for specific legal requirements to serve the public interest will remain (i.e. protecting minors, furthering journalistic quality, fair and non-discriminatory access). However, traditional instruments and concepts run the risk of unnecessarily increasing the regulatory costs for the industry as well as becoming less and less effective under changing social conditions. Therefore, the field of media services can serve as test case even for more general research on new forms of regulation. [...]
The final report will be finished by the beginning of 2006.
TECNOSFERA
Lo -mucho- que ganan algunos bloggers: Convertirse en autor de bitácoras puede llegar a ser una profesión muy rentable. Algunos bloggers se levantan sueldos ciertamente interesantes.
VITAMEDIAS
Internet's growth, innovation threatens newspapers: Newspaper publishers find themselves in a confounding position as readers continue to defect to the Internet.
Watergate journalist says media losing public's trust: Though the nation's newspapers are hardly faultless, Bernstein said television news had been taken over by an "idiot culture" that spends more time chasing celebrities than explaining life-changing events.
Publishers put bloggers between the covers: bloggers are jumping on the publishing bandwagon in a trend that industry insiders say benefits both writers and publishers.
For Every Story, An Online Epilogue: Via E-Mail and Blog, Anyone's a Critic
The growing tide of personal attacks by bloggers and e-mailers "can make you really paranoid," says New York Times reporter Adam Nagourney.
Speech by Rupert Murdoch to the American Society of Newspaper Editors: One commentator, Jeff Jarvis, puts it this way: give the people control of media, they will use it. Don?t give people control of media, and you will lose them.
In the face of this revolution, however, we?ve been slow to react. We?ve sat by and watched while our newspapers have gradually lost circulation. We all know of great and expensive exceptions to this ? but the technology is now moving much faster than in the past.
Watergate journalist says media losing public's trust: Though the nation's newspapers are hardly faultless, Bernstein said television news had been taken over by an "idiot culture" that spends more time chasing celebrities than explaining life-changing events.
Publishers put bloggers between the covers: bloggers are jumping on the publishing bandwagon in a trend that industry insiders say benefits both writers and publishers.
For Every Story, An Online Epilogue: Via E-Mail and Blog, Anyone's a Critic
The growing tide of personal attacks by bloggers and e-mailers "can make you really paranoid," says New York Times reporter Adam Nagourney.
Speech by Rupert Murdoch to the American Society of Newspaper Editors: One commentator, Jeff Jarvis, puts it this way: give the people control of media, they will use it. Don?t give people control of media, and you will lose them.
In the face of this revolution, however, we?ve been slow to react. We?ve sat by and watched while our newspapers have gradually lost circulation. We all know of great and expensive exceptions to this ? but the technology is now moving much faster than in the past.
VITAMEDIAS
Teen magazines blamed for rise in girls? suicide: The suicide rate among young women aged 15-24 has risen more rapidly than in any other group.
The alarming trend is exposed in a study by academics at Glasgow University, which shows that the number of suicides has risen to nearly two a week ? a rise of almost 50% over the past 20 years.
Leading academics and children?s campaigners are calling for urgent government action to tackle the problem, which they believe is fuelled by pressure on young women to conform to images of female perfection in teenage magazines.
A recent survey of 2,000 teenage girls in Britain found that 70% dislike their faces and only 8% are happy with their body. Two-thirds think their lives would improve dramatically if they lost weight. Most said they were made to feel bad about their bodies by images of ?perfect? celebrities.
The alarming trend is exposed in a study by academics at Glasgow University, which shows that the number of suicides has risen to nearly two a week ? a rise of almost 50% over the past 20 years.
Leading academics and children?s campaigners are calling for urgent government action to tackle the problem, which they believe is fuelled by pressure on young women to conform to images of female perfection in teenage magazines.
A recent survey of 2,000 teenage girls in Britain found that 70% dislike their faces and only 8% are happy with their body. Two-thirds think their lives would improve dramatically if they lost weight. Most said they were made to feel bad about their bodies by images of ?perfect? celebrities.
14 abril 2005
VITAMEDIAS
Apple Decision a Threat to Journalists, Claims EFF: A decision by a local California judge poses grave threats to First Amendment protections for journalists, said a group of major media organizations in response to the latest actions in Apple Computer Inc.'s suit involving some bloggers who let a few of Apple's product plans out of the bag.
The decision, made by Judge James Kleinberg of the Santa Clara County Superior Court, said that journalists are not protected by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, or by California's shield law, when they publish trade secrets.
Blog censorship gains support: Most Americans believe bloggers should not be allowed to publish sensitive personal information about individuals
The decision, made by Judge James Kleinberg of the Santa Clara County Superior Court, said that journalists are not protected by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, or by California's shield law, when they publish trade secrets.
Blog censorship gains support: Most Americans believe bloggers should not be allowed to publish sensitive personal information about individuals
CULTURAS IN VITRO
Simply nod, to send mobile messages: Computer scientists are developing ways of operating gadgets using "body talk" such as the nod of a head [...]
The scientists are currently developing the "audioclouds" technology in a bid to allow safe communication with any hand-held device - such as a mobile phone, MP3 players and hand-held computers - while on the move.
Instead of fiddling with tiny buttons as is done now, the breakthrough will allow the devices to be activated by body gestures through surround-sound headphones. [...]
"We hope that by using surround-sound technology, a mobile phone user will never need to take their eyes off the road ahead."
The scientists are currently developing the "audioclouds" technology in a bid to allow safe communication with any hand-held device - such as a mobile phone, MP3 players and hand-held computers - while on the move.
Instead of fiddling with tiny buttons as is done now, the breakthrough will allow the devices to be activated by body gestures through surround-sound headphones. [...]
"We hope that by using surround-sound technology, a mobile phone user will never need to take their eyes off the road ahead."
TECNOSFERA
Surveillance Works Both Ways: Surveilling the surveillers. [...]
In an attempt to establish equity in the world of surveillance, participants at the Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference in Seattle this week took to the streets to ferret out surveillance cameras and turn the tables on offensive eyes taking their picture.
Following wearable computing guru Steve Mann into a downtown Seattle shopping mall, about two dozen conference attendees, some of them armed with handheld cameras, snapped photos of smoked-glass ceiling domes in Nordstrom and Gap stores, which may or may not have contained cameras.
Companies have been known to install empty camera domes to save money while giving the impression of surveillance. [...]
Mann quoted Simon Davies of Privacy International, a London-based nonprofit that monitors civil liberties issues: "The totalitarian regime is the regime that would like to know everything about everyone but reveal nothing about itself," Mann said.
In an attempt to establish equity in the world of surveillance, participants at the Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference in Seattle this week took to the streets to ferret out surveillance cameras and turn the tables on offensive eyes taking their picture.
Following wearable computing guru Steve Mann into a downtown Seattle shopping mall, about two dozen conference attendees, some of them armed with handheld cameras, snapped photos of smoked-glass ceiling domes in Nordstrom and Gap stores, which may or may not have contained cameras.
Companies have been known to install empty camera domes to save money while giving the impression of surveillance. [...]
Mann quoted Simon Davies of Privacy International, a London-based nonprofit that monitors civil liberties issues: "The totalitarian regime is the regime that would like to know everything about everyone but reveal nothing about itself," Mann said.
CULTURAS IN VITRO
Unintentionally sexual comic book covers: The artists who created these covers probably never meant for them to to be used as spank fodder, but being the mean-spirited, immature, asshole that I am, I've decided to do the only thing that a grown adult would do: point out juvenile observations of unintentionally sexual acts on comic book covers.
ECOPOL
Two-Fifths of Americans Online Have Read Political Blogs and more than a quarter read them once a month or more, according to a recent Harris Interactive poll.
Still, 56% of the public has never read a political blog and only 7% of online adults have posted a comment
Still, 56% of the public has never read a political blog and only 7% of online adults have posted a comment
VITAMEDIAS
Que estranho: é só impressão minha ou os ataques a Luís Delgado cessaram com a eleição do novo governo? Porquê? Ele não tem razão sobre esta Crise? Qual? Por milagre, a crise acabou, os analistas económicos deixaram de ser catastrofistas, e afinal Portugal sempre estava melhor do que se dizia.
[Já agora, alguém responde à interminável questão do Portugal Profundo sobre o currículo de José Sócrates?]
[Já agora, alguém responde à interminável questão do Portugal Profundo sobre o currículo de José Sócrates?]
TECNOSFERA
Ah pois é! Já existe: Automated detection of pornographic images: An image with a detected area of possible skin is compared with the shape database, and depending on the results of the shape analysis, a predefined percentage of the images are classified for manual review.
13 abril 2005
TECNOSFERA
Counter-surveillance likely for papal deliberations: As cardinals gather in Vatican City to choose the successor to Pope John Paul II, the temptation to eavesdrop on their deliberations could prove too much for some.
The name of the papal successor would provide explosive news headlines and the private discussions between different factions within the papal conclave could be politically sensitive.
So media and government intelligence agencies might both have reason to try to listen in when 115 cardinals gather at the Sistine Chapel on 18 April to decide upon a new leader for the Roman Catholic Church.
Conclave goes hi-tech to stop spies: The Vatican is to place an ?electromagnetic force field? around the conclave to choose the next pope to prevent ?electronic intrusion?. [...]
Under new rules laid down in 1996 by the late Pope, [the 115 cardinal electors] are forbidden to carry electronic devices such as mobile telephones or computers or to use radios and televisions.
[Act.: Hacking the Papal Election]
The name of the papal successor would provide explosive news headlines and the private discussions between different factions within the papal conclave could be politically sensitive.
So media and government intelligence agencies might both have reason to try to listen in when 115 cardinals gather at the Sistine Chapel on 18 April to decide upon a new leader for the Roman Catholic Church.
Conclave goes hi-tech to stop spies: The Vatican is to place an ?electromagnetic force field? around the conclave to choose the next pope to prevent ?electronic intrusion?. [...]
Under new rules laid down in 1996 by the late Pope, [the 115 cardinal electors] are forbidden to carry electronic devices such as mobile telephones or computers or to use radios and televisions.
[Act.: Hacking the Papal Election]
12 abril 2005
TECNOSFERA
Atenção a isto: Phishing twist relies on bogus blogs: A new form of phishing is taking shape and riding on the growing popularity of blogs, security company Websense said Tuesday.
Malicious virus writers are attempting to lure people to malicious blogs using enticing e-mails and instant messages, according to a new report from Websense. Once a person arrives at the blog, which can be posted on a legitimate host site, the victim's computer becomes infected with software designed to steal sensitive information, such as passwords and bank account information.
Malicious virus writers are attempting to lure people to malicious blogs using enticing e-mails and instant messages, according to a new report from Websense. Once a person arrives at the blog, which can be posted on a legitimate host site, the victim's computer becomes infected with software designed to steal sensitive information, such as passwords and bank account information.
TECNOSFERA
Cell Phone Users Interrupt Sex for Phone Calls: Fourteen percent of the world's cell phone users report that they have stopped in the middle of a sex act to answer a ringing wireless device, Ad Age reported.
The highest incidence of cellular interruptus was found in Germany and Spain, where 22 percent of users interrupted sex to answer their cell phones; the lowest was in Italy, where only 7 percent reported doing so. In the U.S., the figure was 15 percent, the magazine said, citing a study conducted by BBDO Worldwide and Proximity Worldwide.
"People can't bear to miss a call," said Christine Hannis, head of communications for BBDO Europe. "Everybody thinks the next call can be something really exciting. And getting so many calls proves social success," she said. "It fulfills a fundamental insecurity."
The highest incidence of cellular interruptus was found in Germany and Spain, where 22 percent of users interrupted sex to answer their cell phones; the lowest was in Italy, where only 7 percent reported doing so. In the U.S., the figure was 15 percent, the magazine said, citing a study conducted by BBDO Worldwide and Proximity Worldwide.
"People can't bear to miss a call," said Christine Hannis, head of communications for BBDO Europe. "Everybody thinks the next call can be something really exciting. And getting so many calls proves social success," she said. "It fulfills a fundamental insecurity."
VITAMEDIAS
Papers Back Bloggers In Apple Suit: More than a half-dozen news organizations are supporting three online journalists who published articles about a top-secret technology product that Apple Computer Inc. says was protected by trade secret laws.
"In an era when anyone with a computer and modem can publish information that reaches thousands, who is a 'journalist?' asked Peter Scheer, executive director of the California First Amendment Coalition. "The answer matters like never before."
Carat Interactive Embraces Blogs by launching a new practice focused on blog media and monitoring.
"We see it as the fastest growing area of the Internet," said John Cate, vice president and national media director at Carat Interactive. "We're interested in it, our clients are interested in it. We see it as a great opportunity for two-way communication between our clients and their consumers."
"In an era when anyone with a computer and modem can publish information that reaches thousands, who is a 'journalist?' asked Peter Scheer, executive director of the California First Amendment Coalition. "The answer matters like never before."
Carat Interactive Embraces Blogs by launching a new practice focused on blog media and monitoring.
"We see it as the fastest growing area of the Internet," said John Cate, vice president and national media director at Carat Interactive. "We're interested in it, our clients are interested in it. We see it as a great opportunity for two-way communication between our clients and their consumers."
TECNOSFERA
Direitos & blogues sobre este "O Direito no mundo dos blogues: Aproximação à problemática numa perspectiva da responsabilidade civil pelos conteúdos", cujo sumário é o seguinte:
§ 1 - Sendo prematuro tentar vacinar o futuro dos blogues, sempre se diz que são (mais) uma ferramenta de comunicação no mundo da Internet, desempenhando uma função cada vez mais pertinente na difusão de informação, permitindo "dar voz" a milhares de oprimidos pelos sistemas de poder informativo estatuídos. Sendo certo que o momento actual se caracteriza por um crescimento exponencial é previsível que os anos vindouros nos tragam uma diminuição do número de blogues e um incremento da sua qualidade.
§ 2 - O Direito não pode alhear-se do mundo virtual que não pode permanecer como um vácuo jurídico; mais do que regular actuações, impõe-se punir os ilícitos existentes na Internet.
§ 3 - Os institutos tradicionais do Direito são susceptíveis de serem aplicados ao mundo virtual, embora necessitem de ser auxiliados por normas específicas constituídas tendo em consideração as peculiaridades da rede.
§ 4 - O autor de um blogue que disponibilize conteúdos ilícitos deverá ser demandado nos termos da responsabilidade civil por factos ilícitos. Na noção de autoria, engloba-se a colocação de ligações em hiper-texto.
§ 5 - Os Internet Service Providers não devem ser responsabilizados pelos conteúdos colocados na rede pelos proprietários dos blogues; no entanto, sobre estes impele a obrigação de identificarem de forma idónea os seus autores. A omissão da obrigação de identificar o proprietário do blogue é ilícita, fazendo incorrer o fornecedor de serviço em responsabilidade civil pelos conteúdos ilícitos existentes no blogue.
§ 1 - Sendo prematuro tentar vacinar o futuro dos blogues, sempre se diz que são (mais) uma ferramenta de comunicação no mundo da Internet, desempenhando uma função cada vez mais pertinente na difusão de informação, permitindo "dar voz" a milhares de oprimidos pelos sistemas de poder informativo estatuídos. Sendo certo que o momento actual se caracteriza por um crescimento exponencial é previsível que os anos vindouros nos tragam uma diminuição do número de blogues e um incremento da sua qualidade.
§ 2 - O Direito não pode alhear-se do mundo virtual que não pode permanecer como um vácuo jurídico; mais do que regular actuações, impõe-se punir os ilícitos existentes na Internet.
§ 3 - Os institutos tradicionais do Direito são susceptíveis de serem aplicados ao mundo virtual, embora necessitem de ser auxiliados por normas específicas constituídas tendo em consideração as peculiaridades da rede.
§ 4 - O autor de um blogue que disponibilize conteúdos ilícitos deverá ser demandado nos termos da responsabilidade civil por factos ilícitos. Na noção de autoria, engloba-se a colocação de ligações em hiper-texto.
§ 5 - Os Internet Service Providers não devem ser responsabilizados pelos conteúdos colocados na rede pelos proprietários dos blogues; no entanto, sobre estes impele a obrigação de identificarem de forma idónea os seus autores. A omissão da obrigação de identificar o proprietário do blogue é ilícita, fazendo incorrer o fornecedor de serviço em responsabilidade civil pelos conteúdos ilícitos existentes no blogue.
VITAMEDIAS
The Pentagon Papers: Lessons for Blogging and Journalism: The New York Review of Books has a retrospective on the 1971 Pentagon Papers case that is germane to the current discussion about blogging and journalism.
The article recounts the internal debate at the New York Times over whether to publish the secret papers and how columnist James Reston said if the Times didn't, he would -- in the Vineyard Gazette, a small weekly he owned.
Open-Access Journals Flourish: Despite concerns about the ethics of pay-for-play publishing, the number of open-access academic and medical journals is growing at a fast clip.[...]
At least 1,525 journals provide free access, making up 5 to 10 percent of the world's journals. The free journals are gaining influence too: Thomson Scientific, which tracks academic publishing, found they're commonly cited by other journals, suggesting that they're well-read. Meanwhile, other journals are opening their archives to readers for free. [...]
[T]raditional academic journals face their own potential conflicts of interest. They are, after all, generally supported by advertisers with agendas. "I would prefer, as a matter of fact, to have no ads," Journal of the American Medical Association editor Dr. Cathy DeAngelis told the health journalists. "The problem is then that nobody could afford the subscription price, or very few would."
What Can Bloggers Do That Reporters Can't? And vice versa.
Because bloggers answer to no one, they need not worry if their dispatches cause the chairman of the board of General Motors to stop talking to the publisher?or placing ads. Their independence gives them a subversive strength, one that undermines the cozy relationship the press has with its corporate cousins and government. The unmediated nature of blogs, which frightens so many professional journalists, is really a plus. With so many bloggers writing outside the bounds of authority, they've become impossible to silence or censor, and their provocations help keep the national debate going at full tilt. Too bad constructive recklessness can't be taught.
The article recounts the internal debate at the New York Times over whether to publish the secret papers and how columnist James Reston said if the Times didn't, he would -- in the Vineyard Gazette, a small weekly he owned.
Open-Access Journals Flourish: Despite concerns about the ethics of pay-for-play publishing, the number of open-access academic and medical journals is growing at a fast clip.[...]
At least 1,525 journals provide free access, making up 5 to 10 percent of the world's journals. The free journals are gaining influence too: Thomson Scientific, which tracks academic publishing, found they're commonly cited by other journals, suggesting that they're well-read. Meanwhile, other journals are opening their archives to readers for free. [...]
[T]raditional academic journals face their own potential conflicts of interest. They are, after all, generally supported by advertisers with agendas. "I would prefer, as a matter of fact, to have no ads," Journal of the American Medical Association editor Dr. Cathy DeAngelis told the health journalists. "The problem is then that nobody could afford the subscription price, or very few would."
What Can Bloggers Do That Reporters Can't? And vice versa.
Because bloggers answer to no one, they need not worry if their dispatches cause the chairman of the board of General Motors to stop talking to the publisher?or placing ads. Their independence gives them a subversive strength, one that undermines the cozy relationship the press has with its corporate cousins and government. The unmediated nature of blogs, which frightens so many professional journalists, is really a plus. With so many bloggers writing outside the bounds of authority, they've become impossible to silence or censor, and their provocations help keep the national debate going at full tilt. Too bad constructive recklessness can't be taught.
VITAMEDIAS
1) Rogério Santos do Indústrias Culturais atira com a candidatura de JPMenezes para provedor do Público. Em tempos de conclaves papáveis, é para queimar? É pena...
2) José Carlos Abrantes continua como provedor dos leitores do DN a achar que é colunista sobre o tema dos media. Tudo bem - cada um usa a sua tribuna como quer - mas perdem os leitores e os interessados nestes temas.
Mas quando sabe e escreve que "Jeffrey Dvorkin, com a visão alargada que a presidência da Organization of News Ombudsmen (ONO) lhe proporciona, sustenta que a comunidade jornalística de cada país está muita atenta ao que os provedores escrevem" e que "Tenho alguns sinais que algo de semelhante se passa em Portugal", não deveria ter uma outra postura, mesmo sabendo que não é sancionatória? Ou seja, um provedor não deve ser principalmente um "ouvidor"?
3) O Jornalismo e Comunicação comemorou três anos. TRÊS grandes velas, acendidas, merecidas e bem alumiadas que podiam ser exemplo para muitos blogues que andam eufóricos a comemorar 12 ou menos meses...
Não vale a pena o esforço da leitura para quem procura ali qualquer estudo sobre esta blogosfera.
2) José Carlos Abrantes continua como provedor dos leitores do DN a achar que é colunista sobre o tema dos media. Tudo bem - cada um usa a sua tribuna como quer - mas perdem os leitores e os interessados nestes temas.
Mas quando sabe e escreve que "Jeffrey Dvorkin, com a visão alargada que a presidência da Organization of News Ombudsmen (ONO) lhe proporciona, sustenta que a comunidade jornalística de cada país está muita atenta ao que os provedores escrevem" e que "Tenho alguns sinais que algo de semelhante se passa em Portugal", não deveria ter uma outra postura, mesmo sabendo que não é sancionatória? Ou seja, um provedor não deve ser principalmente um "ouvidor"?
3) O Jornalismo e Comunicação comemorou três anos. TRÊS grandes velas, acendidas, merecidas e bem alumiadas que podiam ser exemplo para muitos blogues que andam eufóricos a comemorar 12 ou menos meses...
Não vale a pena o esforço da leitura para quem procura ali qualquer estudo sobre esta blogosfera.
11 abril 2005
VITAMEDIAS
It?s Official! News University (Training for Journalists. Anytime. Anywhere.) Launches with Added Course
NewsU is a project of The Poynter Institute and the Knight Foundation to offer tightly focused courses that appeal to print, broadcast and online journalists.
NewsU is a project of The Poynter Institute and the Knight Foundation to offer tightly focused courses that appeal to print, broadcast and online journalists.
VITAMEDIAS
Celebrity Journalism and Other Corruptions: Everyone has a theory about the current problems in journalism. I, too, have one. And with it, I am hoping to break some glass, shatter some illusions, and perhaps get people talking. The critics who discuss the crisis facing journalism today usually miss something substantial when they unleash their attacks on our profession. They choose to ignore the obvious: the journalist as celebrity in our celebrity-driven world. The journalist becomes bigger than the story he or she covers. The journalist becomes a news story, one driven by his own greed and his own ego. For me this helps keep journalism in a crisis from which it may never recover.
CULTURAS IN VITRO
The Mall Goes Undercover: It now looks like a city street.
They represent a bait-and-switch routine on the part of developers, one that exchanges the public realm for the commercial one. They're also enormously successful?by the most recent count, there are about 130 lifestyle centers scattered around the country.
Magazine ranks 7 new architectural wonders of the world: Architectural triumphs in Chicago, Seattle, London, Germany and Japan have made it on to Conde Nast Traveler's list of the "new seven wonders of the world."
They represent a bait-and-switch routine on the part of developers, one that exchanges the public realm for the commercial one. They're also enormously successful?by the most recent count, there are about 130 lifestyle centers scattered around the country.
Magazine ranks 7 new architectural wonders of the world: Architectural triumphs in Chicago, Seattle, London, Germany and Japan have made it on to Conde Nast Traveler's list of the "new seven wonders of the world."
VITAMEDIAS
News network to pay 'citizen journalists': Most people who write blogs just do it for kicks--as a way to vent, be creative and connect to a community.
But profit motive may soon be added to the mix. GetLocalNews.com, a nationwide network of 6,000 local news sites, is planning to share its advertising revenue with thousands of volunteer writers.
The idea is to reward and motivate contributors whose stories and photos generate the most traffic, which in turn fuels ad revenue, said Edgar Canon, chief executive of the San Francisco company. He hopes the quality of contributions improves, too.
But it's also the principle of the matter. "I think the writing-for-free thing is kind of demeaning to content producers," Canon said.
But profit motive may soon be added to the mix. GetLocalNews.com, a nationwide network of 6,000 local news sites, is planning to share its advertising revenue with thousands of volunteer writers.
The idea is to reward and motivate contributors whose stories and photos generate the most traffic, which in turn fuels ad revenue, said Edgar Canon, chief executive of the San Francisco company. He hopes the quality of contributions improves, too.
But it's also the principle of the matter. "I think the writing-for-free thing is kind of demeaning to content producers," Canon said.
VITAMEDIAS
Raisparta! A tentação não tem fim. Agora é um jornalista a alertar que precisa de vigiar "teclados" de outros jornalistas neste Precisam-se colaboradores, assunto sério.
Já dei para o peditório da tentação da vigilância de certas profissões, nomeadamente dos jornalistas, e continua a ser uma questão que me eriça o pêlo, lamento.
Desta vez, leva com o "Be a Clown" do Cole Porter:
Act the fool, play the calf, and you'll always have the last laugh.
Wear the cap and the bells and you'll rate all the great swells.
If you become a doctor, folks'll face you with dread.
If you become a dentist, they'll be glad when you're dead.
You get a bigger hand if you can stand on your head.
Be a clown, be a clown, be a clown.
Be a clown, be a clown, all the world loves a clown.
Be a crazy buffoon and the 'demoiselles 'll all swoon.
Dress in huge baggy pants and you'll ride the road to romance.
A butcher or a baker, ladies never embrace.
A barber for a beau would be a social disgrace.
They'll come to call if you can fall on your face.
Be a clown, be a clown, be a clown.
Be a clown, be a clown, all the world loves a clown.
Be the poor silly ass and you'll always travel first class.
Give 'em quips, give 'em fun and they'll pay to say you're A-one.
If you become a farmer, you've the weather to buck.
If become a gambler you'll be struck with your luck.
But jack you'll never lack if you can quack like a duck.
Be a clown, be a clown, be a clown.
E que sejam felizes os que têm a tendência para a vigilância. Eu acho que já são, nos dias actuais. Mas porque não se preocupam eles com coisas como estes "Public Eyes", em que "The Internet creates interesting opportunities for citizens to call public organizations to account. Government Web sites provide information and facilitate debates on public sector performance. An explorative study in the Netherlands indicates that citizens make little use of the opportunities to call public organizations to account. Openness, however, does have a direct effect: ?public eyes? stimulate government organizations to score better on performance indicators and comply with formal rules."?
Já dei para o peditório da tentação da vigilância de certas profissões, nomeadamente dos jornalistas, e continua a ser uma questão que me eriça o pêlo, lamento.
Desta vez, leva com o "Be a Clown" do Cole Porter:
Act the fool, play the calf, and you'll always have the last laugh.
Wear the cap and the bells and you'll rate all the great swells.
If you become a doctor, folks'll face you with dread.
If you become a dentist, they'll be glad when you're dead.
You get a bigger hand if you can stand on your head.
Be a clown, be a clown, be a clown.
Be a clown, be a clown, all the world loves a clown.
Be a crazy buffoon and the 'demoiselles 'll all swoon.
Dress in huge baggy pants and you'll ride the road to romance.
A butcher or a baker, ladies never embrace.
A barber for a beau would be a social disgrace.
They'll come to call if you can fall on your face.
Be a clown, be a clown, be a clown.
Be a clown, be a clown, all the world loves a clown.
Be the poor silly ass and you'll always travel first class.
Give 'em quips, give 'em fun and they'll pay to say you're A-one.
If you become a farmer, you've the weather to buck.
If become a gambler you'll be struck with your luck.
But jack you'll never lack if you can quack like a duck.
Be a clown, be a clown, be a clown.
E que sejam felizes os que têm a tendência para a vigilância. Eu acho que já são, nos dias actuais. Mas porque não se preocupam eles com coisas como estes "Public Eyes", em que "The Internet creates interesting opportunities for citizens to call public organizations to account. Government Web sites provide information and facilitate debates on public sector performance. An explorative study in the Netherlands indicates that citizens make little use of the opportunities to call public organizations to account. Openness, however, does have a direct effect: ?public eyes? stimulate government organizations to score better on performance indicators and comply with formal rules."?
08 abril 2005
ECOPOL
Portugal no seu melhor: BMW says first-quarter sales rise by 8.2 per cent, Mini sales higher: Carmaker BMW AG said Thursday that its auto sales rose 8.2 per cent during the first quarter compared with a year ago, with the U.S. and Germany its top markets.
For the quarter, the company sold 292,207 vehicles, up from 269,974 during the first quarter of 2004, fuelled by growth in Portugal, Russia and the Caribbean.
[Crise, qual crise?...]
For the quarter, the company sold 292,207 vehicles, up from 269,974 during the first quarter of 2004, fuelled by growth in Portugal, Russia and the Caribbean.
[Crise, qual crise?...]
TECNOSFERA
Microsoft claims 4.5 million bloggers [on MSN Spaces] However, fewer than 4% (about 170,000) are updated daily
VITAMEDIAS
All the News You Can Trust: Got an interesting survey recently from MoveOn.org. The online activist group is considering whether to set up an online news service that's filtered by both journalists and "citizen reviewers" for accuracy, fairness, credibility, and relevance. From the depth of the survey, it appears they're pretty serious. [...]
They'd rate each news story and produce a daily selection of "news you can trust" on the Web and by e-mail.
They'd rate each news story and produce a daily selection of "news you can trust" on the Web and by e-mail.
CONTAMINANTES
The EU?s new Research Framework Programme 2007-2013: On 6 April the European Commission adopted a proposal for a new EU programme for Research. The proposal provides new impetus to increase Europe?s growth and competitiveness, recognising that knowledge is Europe?s greatest resource. The programme places greater emphasis than in the past on research that is relevant to the needs of European industry, to help it compete internationally, and develop its role as a world leader in certain sectors. The programme will also for the first time provide support for the best in European investigator-driven research, with the creation of a European Research Council. Focus will be on excellence throughout the programme, a requirement if it is to play its role in developing Europe?s global competitiveness. Another priority will be to make participation in the programme simpler and easier, through measures addressing the procedures, plus a rationalisation of instruments In spite of this new approach, there are many elements of continuity: in practice, for the majority of participants, the programme itself will not change, but participation will become simpler.
VITAMEDIAS
Ainda sobre o Público em contra-mão:
Caro Luís, não tenho informação privilegiada para poder responder se o Público continua (ou não) "a afastar-se, cada vez mais, das marcas que o diferenciaram (pela positiva) quando apareceu". Não faço futurologia.
Discordo dos actuais "tempos de acesso livre" porque, como refere, a "produção micro-disseminada" leva obviamente ao pagamento dos produtos micro-disseminados (veja-se o caso dos SMS, toques e rings).
Acho que a "construção de credibilidade e de "branding"" do Público está feita (não percebi - falha minha, clara - o que é a "base em parâmetros muito fluídos"). Acho que não deve ser desperdiçada e isso passa por projectos futuros credíveis. Mais uma vez, continuamos no campo do futuro, que desconheço.
Ao fim de 10 anos, a publicidade não falhou - ela não existiu em termos consistentes por aquilo que se viu, quer no Público quer em qualquer outra entidade "online". A culpa, quanto a mim, não é apenas de quem apostou nesse modelo (copiado, como diz e eu concordo, sem inovação e com todas as fragilidades pensadas para outros formatos, apostando em algo em que se sentiam confortáveis) mas de um mercado que continuou a apostar mal e de forma inexpressiva nos projectos "online" de media. Veja quantos e com alguma qualidade terminaram! Veja os que se mantiveram e o que lhes sucedeu se não tivessem apoios ligados ao Estado ou ISPs interessados no número de acessos.
Ao fim de 10 anos a suportar um projecto, se fosse eu o gestor daquilo, faria o mesmo. 10 anos! Estava a Web a dar os primeiros passos e o Público já tinha uma edição "online". 10 anos! Qual é "o caminho necessário a fazer"? Já o percorreu, quanto a mim, entre o crescimento e o "rebentar da bolha" tecnológica e económica.
O Luís refere que o momento é de "crescimento". Ainda bem, é então mais uma razão para finalmente cobrar por conteúdos. Haverá uma maior disponibilidade financeira para os pagar. Porque razão hão-de os conteúdos ser gratuitos? Como já citei, isso é uma ideologia mas deixou de ser realidade, excepto pela obtenção de pagamentos paralelos (ISPs e tráfego). Infelizmente, porque nunca se teve acesso a tanto conhecimento e informação e dados. E foi bom e vai ser mau, sem dúvida.
Mas porque não se ouve o Luís - ou outros, claro - a argumentar o mesmo sobre uma Science, sobre uma Nature, sobre revistas científicas com maior influência que um Público e que deveriam e se calhar poderiam estar disponíveis gratuitamente para o nosso país, para todos nós? Porque há-de a Sonaecom pagar pela influência do Público na sociedade? Acredita que o DN ou o JN vão continuar gratuitos "online" se a Olivedesportos ficar com eles? É que a rede de distribuição "online" era da PT. Não estamos a falar de influência mas de tendência.
Por isso só posso concordar quando diz "que valerá mais a pena pensar em 'modelos de negócio' alternativos do que tentar moldar a net a ideias que serviram noutros espaços". Sem dúvida. Mas também acredito que, no entretanto, se escolham apostas seguras.
Por isso discordo da visão simplicista sobre os editores e dos rapazes novos - ela existe, não duvido, então por cá... -, mas é paralela a uma outra e radica na questão da tal influência e da concorrência dos media: ninguém quer fechar os seus conteúdos quando sabe que vai perder leitores e a publicidade se pode transferir para a concorrência. Excepto quando se tem um bem único e se investe nele, como o Wall Street Journal fez. Pode-se ler o Finantial Times ou ver o Bloomberg mas o WSJ é único. Foi precipitado? Não está a obter lucro com isso? Não disponibiliza conteúdos de qualidade? O que perdeu ele? Citações na Web? O que ganhou? 700 mil leitores online a 79 dólares anuais (ou 39 se assinam a edição em papel)...
Não percebo como é que pagando pelos conteúdos não se transforma o jornalismo em algo melhor. O meu merceeiro deve dar-me laranjas só para que eu o referencie e ele seja conhecido no bairro? Sim, ele ganha com isso. Mas quando o fizer com todos os clientes, o que ganha ele?
O mercado em Portugal é reduzido, nomeadamente na aquisição de medias e principalmente no papel. Porque não se questiona o pagamento da "gratuita" rádio através do pagamento da electricidade? Porque não se debate o pagamento às TVs por cabo dos canais noticiosos, nacionais ou não? Porque hei-de pagar para ter acesso ao canal da Assembleia da República, orgão cujo funcionamento eu já ajudo a pagar? Porque há-de ser o Diário da República e as suas leis, que todos temos de conhecer, pago? Há aqui algo que não entendo: conteúdos privados gratuitos e os públicos pagos? Não há contradição?
Luís, tem um modelo de negócio para as "empresas cuja actividade é a produção de conteúdos informativos, dispersos por vários suportes, de forma possivelmente diferenciada, não simultânea, interactiva e em estreito relacionamento com os indivíduos que constituem a sua comunidade de influência"? Se sim e sem ser as que estão ligadas aos media tradicionais em Portugal, gostaria de trabalhar para elas. Sabe o meu email, contacte-me por favor.
Sobre o Expresso, não me alongo mais mas não percebo essa lógica de influências diferentes para o papel ou o "online". Se vamos por aí, e a televisão? E a rádio?...
Quanto às notas finais, uma dúvida sobre a segunda: o Público fechar a edição diária e abrir o arquivo? Já reparou que se quiser aceder a uma edição do DN em papel de 1900s, ele é pago? Claro! O arquivo é dos mais importantes bens de um jornal. Não é rentabilizado? Essa é outra questão...
Sobre a terceira nota, não tenho as certezas que me atribui. Tenho algumas dúvidas sobre se as gerações mais novas não vão optar pelas edições electrónicas mas não consigo acreditar que o papel vá desaparecer (problema da idade :))); quando referi o "entretenimento pessoal" ("entertainment" num sentido muito lato) era também de usufruto dos medias noticiosos, de forma pessoal (um bocado aquela ideia do MyNewspaper, quando, como e onde o quero).
Ah, e também eu discordo da opção "lucrar enquanto podemos". Não "é inevitável", excepto para as empresas que querem estar pouco tempo no mercado e isso nos media paga-se caro. Lembra-se do "Século"?
Caro Luís, não tenho informação privilegiada para poder responder se o Público continua (ou não) "a afastar-se, cada vez mais, das marcas que o diferenciaram (pela positiva) quando apareceu". Não faço futurologia.
Discordo dos actuais "tempos de acesso livre" porque, como refere, a "produção micro-disseminada" leva obviamente ao pagamento dos produtos micro-disseminados (veja-se o caso dos SMS, toques e rings).
Acho que a "construção de credibilidade e de "branding"" do Público está feita (não percebi - falha minha, clara - o que é a "base em parâmetros muito fluídos"). Acho que não deve ser desperdiçada e isso passa por projectos futuros credíveis. Mais uma vez, continuamos no campo do futuro, que desconheço.
Ao fim de 10 anos, a publicidade não falhou - ela não existiu em termos consistentes por aquilo que se viu, quer no Público quer em qualquer outra entidade "online". A culpa, quanto a mim, não é apenas de quem apostou nesse modelo (copiado, como diz e eu concordo, sem inovação e com todas as fragilidades pensadas para outros formatos, apostando em algo em que se sentiam confortáveis) mas de um mercado que continuou a apostar mal e de forma inexpressiva nos projectos "online" de media. Veja quantos e com alguma qualidade terminaram! Veja os que se mantiveram e o que lhes sucedeu se não tivessem apoios ligados ao Estado ou ISPs interessados no número de acessos.
Ao fim de 10 anos a suportar um projecto, se fosse eu o gestor daquilo, faria o mesmo. 10 anos! Estava a Web a dar os primeiros passos e o Público já tinha uma edição "online". 10 anos! Qual é "o caminho necessário a fazer"? Já o percorreu, quanto a mim, entre o crescimento e o "rebentar da bolha" tecnológica e económica.
O Luís refere que o momento é de "crescimento". Ainda bem, é então mais uma razão para finalmente cobrar por conteúdos. Haverá uma maior disponibilidade financeira para os pagar. Porque razão hão-de os conteúdos ser gratuitos? Como já citei, isso é uma ideologia mas deixou de ser realidade, excepto pela obtenção de pagamentos paralelos (ISPs e tráfego). Infelizmente, porque nunca se teve acesso a tanto conhecimento e informação e dados. E foi bom e vai ser mau, sem dúvida.
Mas porque não se ouve o Luís - ou outros, claro - a argumentar o mesmo sobre uma Science, sobre uma Nature, sobre revistas científicas com maior influência que um Público e que deveriam e se calhar poderiam estar disponíveis gratuitamente para o nosso país, para todos nós? Porque há-de a Sonaecom pagar pela influência do Público na sociedade? Acredita que o DN ou o JN vão continuar gratuitos "online" se a Olivedesportos ficar com eles? É que a rede de distribuição "online" era da PT. Não estamos a falar de influência mas de tendência.
Por isso só posso concordar quando diz "que valerá mais a pena pensar em 'modelos de negócio' alternativos do que tentar moldar a net a ideias que serviram noutros espaços". Sem dúvida. Mas também acredito que, no entretanto, se escolham apostas seguras.
Por isso discordo da visão simplicista sobre os editores e dos rapazes novos - ela existe, não duvido, então por cá... -, mas é paralela a uma outra e radica na questão da tal influência e da concorrência dos media: ninguém quer fechar os seus conteúdos quando sabe que vai perder leitores e a publicidade se pode transferir para a concorrência. Excepto quando se tem um bem único e se investe nele, como o Wall Street Journal fez. Pode-se ler o Finantial Times ou ver o Bloomberg mas o WSJ é único. Foi precipitado? Não está a obter lucro com isso? Não disponibiliza conteúdos de qualidade? O que perdeu ele? Citações na Web? O que ganhou? 700 mil leitores online a 79 dólares anuais (ou 39 se assinam a edição em papel)...
Não percebo como é que pagando pelos conteúdos não se transforma o jornalismo em algo melhor. O meu merceeiro deve dar-me laranjas só para que eu o referencie e ele seja conhecido no bairro? Sim, ele ganha com isso. Mas quando o fizer com todos os clientes, o que ganha ele?
O mercado em Portugal é reduzido, nomeadamente na aquisição de medias e principalmente no papel. Porque não se questiona o pagamento da "gratuita" rádio através do pagamento da electricidade? Porque não se debate o pagamento às TVs por cabo dos canais noticiosos, nacionais ou não? Porque hei-de pagar para ter acesso ao canal da Assembleia da República, orgão cujo funcionamento eu já ajudo a pagar? Porque há-de ser o Diário da República e as suas leis, que todos temos de conhecer, pago? Há aqui algo que não entendo: conteúdos privados gratuitos e os públicos pagos? Não há contradição?
Luís, tem um modelo de negócio para as "empresas cuja actividade é a produção de conteúdos informativos, dispersos por vários suportes, de forma possivelmente diferenciada, não simultânea, interactiva e em estreito relacionamento com os indivíduos que constituem a sua comunidade de influência"? Se sim e sem ser as que estão ligadas aos media tradicionais em Portugal, gostaria de trabalhar para elas. Sabe o meu email, contacte-me por favor.
Sobre o Expresso, não me alongo mais mas não percebo essa lógica de influências diferentes para o papel ou o "online". Se vamos por aí, e a televisão? E a rádio?...
Quanto às notas finais, uma dúvida sobre a segunda: o Público fechar a edição diária e abrir o arquivo? Já reparou que se quiser aceder a uma edição do DN em papel de 1900s, ele é pago? Claro! O arquivo é dos mais importantes bens de um jornal. Não é rentabilizado? Essa é outra questão...
Sobre a terceira nota, não tenho as certezas que me atribui. Tenho algumas dúvidas sobre se as gerações mais novas não vão optar pelas edições electrónicas mas não consigo acreditar que o papel vá desaparecer (problema da idade :))); quando referi o "entretenimento pessoal" ("entertainment" num sentido muito lato) era também de usufruto dos medias noticiosos, de forma pessoal (um bocado aquela ideia do MyNewspaper, quando, como e onde o quero).
Ah, e também eu discordo da opção "lucrar enquanto podemos". Não "é inevitável", excepto para as empresas que querem estar pouco tempo no mercado e isso nos media paga-se caro. Lembra-se do "Século"?
TECNOSFERA
How to Blog Safely (About Work or Anything Else): a few simple precautions to help you maintain control of your personal privacy so that you can express yourself without facing unjust retaliation.
VITAMEDIAS
As primeiras páginas de jornais sobre a morte do Papa: Updated Sunday, April 03, 2005. 286 front pages from 34 countries presented alphabetically
07 abril 2005
VITAMEDIAS
A ler, claro: surgiu o Travessias Digitais, de Hélder Bastos, sobre "Média, novos média, jornalismo e ciberjornalismo".
A abrir, um texto sobre o livro "Web Journalism", de James Stovall, onde se fala também do "Nós, os Media", de Dan Gillmor.
Nem de propósito, também Rogério Santos, no Indústrias Culturais, aborda Gillmor, lembra Alvin Toffler e ainda Howard Rheingold e o seu "A Comunidade Virtual" (Rogério, apenas uma insignificante precisão: o livro foi editado originalmente não em 1993 mas no início de 1994).
Tudo isto quando no Intermezzo decorre uma interessante conversa sobre o "ciber" no ciberjornalismo...
A abrir, um texto sobre o livro "Web Journalism", de James Stovall, onde se fala também do "Nós, os Media", de Dan Gillmor.
Nem de propósito, também Rogério Santos, no Indústrias Culturais, aborda Gillmor, lembra Alvin Toffler e ainda Howard Rheingold e o seu "A Comunidade Virtual" (Rogério, apenas uma insignificante precisão: o livro foi editado originalmente não em 1993 mas no início de 1994).
Tudo isto quando no Intermezzo decorre uma interessante conversa sobre o "ciber" no ciberjornalismo...
VITAMEDIAS
Controvérsia sobre uma foto vencedora dos Pulitzer.
Já agora, a ler também esta história sobre uma foto do Papa, via Jornalismo e Comunicação.
Já agora, a ler também esta história sobre uma foto do Papa, via Jornalismo e Comunicação.
TECNOSFERA
Condutores de carros com muita electrónica, cuidado com os dedos:
Malaysia car thieves steal finger: Police in Malaysia are hunting for members of a violent gang who chopped off a car owner's finger to get round the vehicle's hi-tech security system.
The car, a Mercedes S-class, was protected by a fingerprint recognition system. [...]
The attackers forced Mr Kumaran to put his finger on the security panel to start the vehicle, bundled him into the back seat and drove off.
But having stripped the car, the thieves became frustrated when they wanted to restart it. They found they again could not bypass the immobiliser, which needs the owner's fingerprint to disarm it.
They stripped Mr Kumaran naked and left him by the side of the road - but not before cutting off the end of his index finger with a machete.
Malaysia car thieves steal finger: Police in Malaysia are hunting for members of a violent gang who chopped off a car owner's finger to get round the vehicle's hi-tech security system.
The car, a Mercedes S-class, was protected by a fingerprint recognition system. [...]
The attackers forced Mr Kumaran to put his finger on the security panel to start the vehicle, bundled him into the back seat and drove off.
But having stripped the car, the thieves became frustrated when they wanted to restart it. They found they again could not bypass the immobiliser, which needs the owner's fingerprint to disarm it.
They stripped Mr Kumaran naked and left him by the side of the road - but not before cutting off the end of his index finger with a machete.
ECOPOL
Concordo! sobre estas Incoerências [entre Estado e Igreja]: Se um ministro vai a S. Tomé num Falcon da Força Aérea Portuguesa todos se indignam porque "os custos são desmesurados e desnecessários", porque, garantem, "não existe interesse público", e, sobretudo, porque o ministro poderia ter simplesmente ido "num vôo regular" poupando preciosos fundos ao erário público.
Mas quando o Presidente da República cede ao Cardeal Patriarca um Falcon para este chegar mais depressa a Roma (algumas horas? Quanto muito, 1 dia?) à ceia dos Cardeais quase ninguém se indigna, os mesmos pressurosos vigilantes da derrapagem das contas públicas não protestam contra esse gasto público aparentemente dispensável
[Só não sei se o texto foi escrito antes ou depois deste Levemos a sério a separação entre o Estado e a religião...]
Mas quando o Presidente da República cede ao Cardeal Patriarca um Falcon para este chegar mais depressa a Roma (algumas horas? Quanto muito, 1 dia?) à ceia dos Cardeais quase ninguém se indigna, os mesmos pressurosos vigilantes da derrapagem das contas públicas não protestam contra esse gasto público aparentemente dispensável
[Só não sei se o texto foi escrito antes ou depois deste Levemos a sério a separação entre o Estado e a religião...]
CONTAMINANTES
Ena, ena, uma notícia positiva sobre Portugal: Portugal a one-hit wonder no longer: Today, the wines we see from Portugal are good - really good - and most of the prices are still fantastic.
One of the things that I like most about Portugal is that it has resisted the urge to jump on the Cabernet, Chardonnay and Merlot bandwagon, as so many other wine-producing countries have.
Portugal has more than 230 grape varieties, and most of the table wines are blends of several of them. Because of this, the wines are individualistic and interesting.
One of the things that I like most about Portugal is that it has resisted the urge to jump on the Cabernet, Chardonnay and Merlot bandwagon, as so many other wine-producing countries have.
Portugal has more than 230 grape varieties, and most of the table wines are blends of several of them. Because of this, the wines are individualistic and interesting.
VITAMEDIAS
Pope's Death Spurs 35,000 Stories in a Day: The Global Language Monitor, which scans the Internet for the use of specific words or phrases using Roman characters, found 35,000 new stories on the pope in the 24 hours after his death Saturday.
That compares with about 3,500 new stories on Bush within a day of his re-election and 1,000 new stories on former President Reagan within a day of his death last year. (via Percepção)
That compares with about 3,500 new stories on Bush within a day of his re-election and 1,000 new stories on former President Reagan within a day of his death last year. (via Percepção)
06 abril 2005
VITAMEDIAS
O Atrium retoma argumentos, com a habitual pertinência, sobre o pagamento pelo Público.pt. Volto ao assunto, citando Luís Santos e respondendo:
- "O marginal sucesso financeiro imediato não equilibra, de forma nenhuma, a perda de influência na net. "
Não se sabe ainda se vai ou não existir sucesso financeiro. Também não se sabe qual vai ser a perda de influência na Net. Uma e outra estão ligadas? Não? Porque dei o exemplo do Expresso?
- "E é SÓ na net que o jornalismo pode encontrar um espaço de crescimento."
O Público Online existe há 10 anos gratuito, com custos inerentes. Porque teve agora de tomar esta decisão? Porque não houve investimento publicitário? Porque razão o Paulo Querido - onde o Atrium e muitos outros blogues, está albergado - teve de escolher opções pagas?
Duvido, com a devida consideração, de que o jornalismo apenas pode crescer na Net. Não são certezas, apenas dúvidas, para mais quando o próprio Dan Gillmor voltou a colaborar com jornais em papel e de acesso restrito na Net (o seu site não explica nada sobre este assunto).
Em relação às minhas dúvidas, diz:
1 - "O Público só não é distribuido gratuitamente nas ruas porque existe um preconceito histórico relativamente a publicações que adoptem essa estratégia".
Onde está esse "preconceito histórico" quando os jornais gratuitos foram o "fenómeno" de 2004, segundo os dados da APCT? Cito, do Diário de Notícias: "o grande fenómeno surgiu na imprensa gratuita, que, de um ano para o outro, registou crescimentos significativos. O diário Destak e o semanário Jornal da Região foram os que mais cresceram, 33%, enquanto o semanário Dica da Semana aumentou a circulação em 12%, atingindo mais de dois milhões de exemplares oferecidos. [...] Dos sete diários de informação geral, só três registaram subidas."
Não devíamos antes analisar a queda destes diários, tanto mais que os ditos de referência (DN ou Público, por exemplo) perderam novamente leitores?
"Todos sabemos que nenhum jornal português vive do preço de capa e que em quase nada ele determina a sua gestão";
Não é essa uma razão para optar pelo pagamento da versão "online"?
2 - "A influência do jornal na blogosfera é algo de novo, que o Público escolheu agora rejeitar. Outros escolhem caminhos bem distintos e começam a capitalizar;"
Como é que se define influência? Repito, por ser de acesso pago não pode ter influência?
Quanto aos "outros" que capitalizam por estarem gratuitos "online", acho que o exemplo norte-americano é distanciado do nosso. Mesmo assim, e seguindo essa linha de adopção, remeto para um artigo recente (29 de Março) da Reuters:
"More U.S. publishers likely will try to wean readers off free Internet versions of their newspapers by starting to charge online subscription fees, a Dow Jones & Co. Inc. executive said on Tuesday.
Charging for news that appears in print -- and then giving it away over the Web -- is "an unsustainable business model," said Gordon Crovitz, president of electronic publishing at Dow Jones. The company's Wall Street Journal is the only national U.S. newspaper to restrict access to virtually its entire Web edition to paid subscribers.
"It would be good for the industry" for more publishers to follow suit, Crovitz said in an interview after a company presentation at the Banc of America Securities media conference in New York on Tuesday.
"Publishers in all mediums have tended to devalue their brands," he said. "I am very confident that other publishers will find ways to generate online subscription revenues."
Converting free newspaper Web sites to a paid subscription business is a big issue in the publishing industry.
Paid Internet sites can help publishers bring in new subscription revenue from readers who want access to the online content, but free sites are attractive to advertisers because they attract many more readers.
Internet advertising is growing much faster than traditional print advertising, although it still represents only a small amount of overall ad revenue.
New York Times Co. has been reviewing whether to charge for its Web edition, but it has not made any announcement about its plans. The New York Times already charges fees for access to parts of its Web site, such as its daily crossword puzzle and news archives."
3 - "O Expresso tem uma existência residual enquanto orgão de comunicação citado na net portuguesa. A sua página online é diariamente lida, é certo, mas ninguém estabelece um link para um texto de acesso restrito. O seu poder de permanência - no sentido que lhe dá Simon Waldman - é quase nulo. Pode até aceitar-se que, no imediato, não perde grande coisa. Mas é absolutamente certo que esta decisão traz ritmo acrescido à sua paulatina perda de influência como 'espaço onde encontramos informação'."
Mas quantos de nós deixámos de ler o Expresso em papel só porque a sua edição "online" passou a ser paga? Ou, pelo contrário, quantos de nós passámos a comprar o Expresso quando foi vedado o acesso pela Internet? E não deixa de ser citado na Net, pois não, nem de ter influência?
Posso concordar que o Público vai deixar de ser citado pela Marktest como o jornal mais lido na Net. Vai sofrer uma quebra imediata nos acessos "online", como sucedeu no Expresso (75 por cento), com óbvias implicações para a publicidade.
Mas há algo que eu acredito que os responsáveis do Público sabem, desde Janeiro de 2004 e segundo algo que o próprio jornal revelou: "Os cibernautas portugueses estão a recorrer mais aos "sites" e portais de informação na Internet para se manterem a par das notícias diárias, em detrimento da consulta dos jornais. Mas a esmagadora maioria (71 por cento) declara que não está disposta a pagar pelos conteúdos actualmente oferecidos.
Um estudo da Netsonda indica que quase metade (49 por cento) dos utilizadores de Internet que "navegam" nos "sites" noticiosos "lê imprensa em papel com menos frequência do que lia anteriormente".
O que vai ganhar? Não se sabe. Poderia ter optado por alternativas menos radicais? Talvez. A minha opinião é que seria possível fazê-lo de outras formas, talvez mais graduais. Mas percebo perfeitamente a decisão tomada e tendo em atenção a nova tendência de que o "Personal Entertainment Is Replacing Mass Media".
P.S.: Obrigado pela ligação para o texto de Tim Porter. Concordo com todos os tópicos e saliento como uma "American Society of Newspaper Editors" apenas dedica uma hora para o debate sobre o futuro dos jornais. Ou não há muito a debater ou é tudo feito "off the record" :))) Já agora, ele tem outro texto com interesse: "The Abandoned Newspaper".
[act. a 7 Abril: Publico.pt: uma análise que nem precisa ser muito cuidada ou sequer atenta, mostra que quem ganhou com esta nova política do Público foram os restantes jornais online: nunca antes tinham sido tão citados na blogosfera nacional [como é que AJS chegou a esta conclusão?]
Expresso online sem pedalada: Mais de 24 horas depois do falecimento do papa, a "manchete" do Expresso online é: "João Paulo II: estado de saúde piora".
Não há ciberjornalismo que resista a tanto amadorismo.]
- "O marginal sucesso financeiro imediato não equilibra, de forma nenhuma, a perda de influência na net. "
Não se sabe ainda se vai ou não existir sucesso financeiro. Também não se sabe qual vai ser a perda de influência na Net. Uma e outra estão ligadas? Não? Porque dei o exemplo do Expresso?
- "E é SÓ na net que o jornalismo pode encontrar um espaço de crescimento."
O Público Online existe há 10 anos gratuito, com custos inerentes. Porque teve agora de tomar esta decisão? Porque não houve investimento publicitário? Porque razão o Paulo Querido - onde o Atrium e muitos outros blogues, está albergado - teve de escolher opções pagas?
Duvido, com a devida consideração, de que o jornalismo apenas pode crescer na Net. Não são certezas, apenas dúvidas, para mais quando o próprio Dan Gillmor voltou a colaborar com jornais em papel e de acesso restrito na Net (o seu site não explica nada sobre este assunto).
Em relação às minhas dúvidas, diz:
1 - "O Público só não é distribuido gratuitamente nas ruas porque existe um preconceito histórico relativamente a publicações que adoptem essa estratégia".
Onde está esse "preconceito histórico" quando os jornais gratuitos foram o "fenómeno" de 2004, segundo os dados da APCT? Cito, do Diário de Notícias: "o grande fenómeno surgiu na imprensa gratuita, que, de um ano para o outro, registou crescimentos significativos. O diário Destak e o semanário Jornal da Região foram os que mais cresceram, 33%, enquanto o semanário Dica da Semana aumentou a circulação em 12%, atingindo mais de dois milhões de exemplares oferecidos. [...] Dos sete diários de informação geral, só três registaram subidas."
Não devíamos antes analisar a queda destes diários, tanto mais que os ditos de referência (DN ou Público, por exemplo) perderam novamente leitores?
"Todos sabemos que nenhum jornal português vive do preço de capa e que em quase nada ele determina a sua gestão";
Não é essa uma razão para optar pelo pagamento da versão "online"?
2 - "A influência do jornal na blogosfera é algo de novo, que o Público escolheu agora rejeitar. Outros escolhem caminhos bem distintos e começam a capitalizar;"
Como é que se define influência? Repito, por ser de acesso pago não pode ter influência?
Quanto aos "outros" que capitalizam por estarem gratuitos "online", acho que o exemplo norte-americano é distanciado do nosso. Mesmo assim, e seguindo essa linha de adopção, remeto para um artigo recente (29 de Março) da Reuters:
"More U.S. publishers likely will try to wean readers off free Internet versions of their newspapers by starting to charge online subscription fees, a Dow Jones & Co. Inc. executive said on Tuesday.
Charging for news that appears in print -- and then giving it away over the Web -- is "an unsustainable business model," said Gordon Crovitz, president of electronic publishing at Dow Jones. The company's Wall Street Journal is the only national U.S. newspaper to restrict access to virtually its entire Web edition to paid subscribers.
"It would be good for the industry" for more publishers to follow suit, Crovitz said in an interview after a company presentation at the Banc of America Securities media conference in New York on Tuesday.
"Publishers in all mediums have tended to devalue their brands," he said. "I am very confident that other publishers will find ways to generate online subscription revenues."
Converting free newspaper Web sites to a paid subscription business is a big issue in the publishing industry.
Paid Internet sites can help publishers bring in new subscription revenue from readers who want access to the online content, but free sites are attractive to advertisers because they attract many more readers.
Internet advertising is growing much faster than traditional print advertising, although it still represents only a small amount of overall ad revenue.
New York Times Co. has been reviewing whether to charge for its Web edition, but it has not made any announcement about its plans. The New York Times already charges fees for access to parts of its Web site, such as its daily crossword puzzle and news archives."
3 - "O Expresso tem uma existência residual enquanto orgão de comunicação citado na net portuguesa. A sua página online é diariamente lida, é certo, mas ninguém estabelece um link para um texto de acesso restrito. O seu poder de permanência - no sentido que lhe dá Simon Waldman - é quase nulo. Pode até aceitar-se que, no imediato, não perde grande coisa. Mas é absolutamente certo que esta decisão traz ritmo acrescido à sua paulatina perda de influência como 'espaço onde encontramos informação'."
Mas quantos de nós deixámos de ler o Expresso em papel só porque a sua edição "online" passou a ser paga? Ou, pelo contrário, quantos de nós passámos a comprar o Expresso quando foi vedado o acesso pela Internet? E não deixa de ser citado na Net, pois não, nem de ter influência?
Posso concordar que o Público vai deixar de ser citado pela Marktest como o jornal mais lido na Net. Vai sofrer uma quebra imediata nos acessos "online", como sucedeu no Expresso (75 por cento), com óbvias implicações para a publicidade.
Mas há algo que eu acredito que os responsáveis do Público sabem, desde Janeiro de 2004 e segundo algo que o próprio jornal revelou: "Os cibernautas portugueses estão a recorrer mais aos "sites" e portais de informação na Internet para se manterem a par das notícias diárias, em detrimento da consulta dos jornais. Mas a esmagadora maioria (71 por cento) declara que não está disposta a pagar pelos conteúdos actualmente oferecidos.
Um estudo da Netsonda indica que quase metade (49 por cento) dos utilizadores de Internet que "navegam" nos "sites" noticiosos "lê imprensa em papel com menos frequência do que lia anteriormente".
O que vai ganhar? Não se sabe. Poderia ter optado por alternativas menos radicais? Talvez. A minha opinião é que seria possível fazê-lo de outras formas, talvez mais graduais. Mas percebo perfeitamente a decisão tomada e tendo em atenção a nova tendência de que o "Personal Entertainment Is Replacing Mass Media".
P.S.: Obrigado pela ligação para o texto de Tim Porter. Concordo com todos os tópicos e saliento como uma "American Society of Newspaper Editors" apenas dedica uma hora para o debate sobre o futuro dos jornais. Ou não há muito a debater ou é tudo feito "off the record" :))) Já agora, ele tem outro texto com interesse: "The Abandoned Newspaper".
[act. a 7 Abril: Publico.pt: uma análise que nem precisa ser muito cuidada ou sequer atenta, mostra que quem ganhou com esta nova política do Público foram os restantes jornais online: nunca antes tinham sido tão citados na blogosfera nacional [como é que AJS chegou a esta conclusão?]
Expresso online sem pedalada: Mais de 24 horas depois do falecimento do papa, a "manchete" do Expresso online é: "João Paulo II: estado de saúde piora".
Não há ciberjornalismo que resista a tanto amadorismo.]
VITAMEDIAS
The Vee Pee's New Tee Vee: Former Vice President Al Gore unveiled a new interactive cable TV channel for the internet generation Monday that blends the immediacy of video blogging with the voyeurism of reality TV.
Gore's TV network set to launch with Google tie-in: Former Vice President Al Gore and partners have renamed their upcoming youth-oriented TV network and set Aug. 1 as its launch date.
The venture, formerly called INdTV, will be called Current.tv, it was announced on Monday. The 24-hour network will target an 18- to 34-year-old audience and offer short-form content--15-second to five-minute segments--to be contributed by viewers.
Viewers will also be able to vote for their favorite videos and get tutorials via the Internet on how to produce their own segments
Gore's new media venture seeks to blend TV, Internet [T]he new San Francisco-based cable TV network he's heading promises to transform television by plugging it into the Internet.
One Question
Q: Al Gore's forthcoming Current television network will allow "citizen programmers," armed with video cameras, to both create and watch programming -- which sounds very blog-like. Did blogs influence the creation of Current?
A: Robin Sloan, Current's blogger: "The explosion of conversation and creation that blogs represent is absolutely a proof point for this model. Because of blogs, we know that people are capable of making incredibly cool, fresh, honest stuff, in huge quantity. Except with blogs it's mostly just text and images. So we want to provide the framework, resources, community and distribution to jumpstart that kind of massive creation and conversation with video."
Gore's TV network set to launch with Google tie-in: Former Vice President Al Gore and partners have renamed their upcoming youth-oriented TV network and set Aug. 1 as its launch date.
The venture, formerly called INdTV, will be called Current.tv, it was announced on Monday. The 24-hour network will target an 18- to 34-year-old audience and offer short-form content--15-second to five-minute segments--to be contributed by viewers.
Viewers will also be able to vote for their favorite videos and get tutorials via the Internet on how to produce their own segments
Gore's new media venture seeks to blend TV, Internet [T]he new San Francisco-based cable TV network he's heading promises to transform television by plugging it into the Internet.
One Question
Q: Al Gore's forthcoming Current television network will allow "citizen programmers," armed with video cameras, to both create and watch programming -- which sounds very blog-like. Did blogs influence the creation of Current?
A: Robin Sloan, Current's blogger: "The explosion of conversation and creation that blogs represent is absolutely a proof point for this model. Because of blogs, we know that people are capable of making incredibly cool, fresh, honest stuff, in huge quantity. Except with blogs it's mostly just text and images. So we want to provide the framework, resources, community and distribution to jumpstart that kind of massive creation and conversation with video."
ECOPOL
Portugal no seu melhor:
O Estado Ladrão (e os indispensáveis comentários)
Kafka - Processos Básicos
Twilight Zona 1, FNAC, IGAC e a globalização
O Estado Ladrão (e os indispensáveis comentários)
Kafka - Processos Básicos
Twilight Zona 1, FNAC, IGAC e a globalização
04 abril 2005
VITAMEDIAS
Software agents give out PR advice: Governments and big business like to indulge in media spin, and that means knowing what is being said about them. But finding out is becoming ever more difficult, with thousands of news outlets, websites and blogs to monitor.
Now a British company is about to launch a software program that can automatically gauge the tone of any electronic document. It can tell whether a newspaper article is reporting a political party's policy in a positive or negative light, for instance, or whether an online review is praising a product or damning it. Welcome to the automation of PR.
Now a British company is about to launch a software program that can automatically gauge the tone of any electronic document. It can tell whether a newspaper article is reporting a political party's policy in a positive or negative light, for instance, or whether an online review is praising a product or damning it. Welcome to the automation of PR.
TECNOSFERA
"The Vulgar Spirit of Blogging": On Language, Culture, and Power in Persian Weblogestan (via este Travels in Weblogestan que explica: "Weblogestan" is an Iranian online slang term for the realm of Persian-language blogs.)
Blogging from East to West: What should we make of blogging? Is it simply the latest internet fad, a truly democratic tool for change or, as some have suggested, a vehicle for mob rule?
Blogging from East to West: What should we make of blogging? Is it simply the latest internet fad, a truly democratic tool for change or, as some have suggested, a vehicle for mob rule?
TECNOSFERA
3% of Americans read blogs daily: Only 7% of Americans are very familiar with online blogs, according to the Gallup Poll. 19% are somewhat familiar with blogs, 18% are not too familiar and the remaining 56% of Americans are not familiar at all.
VITAMEDIAS
Journalism Should Not be an Exclusive Club: Who is a journalist?
That is the central question in the weblogs versus journalism debate.
Journalism likes to think of itself as a profession. But the key elements of professions such as medicine or law - an accepted course of study and apprenticeship, certification for practitioners, discipline for those stray from the ethical and professional standards of the field - don't exist in journalism. Not to mention that the pay in the lower rungs of journalism is only slightly better than fast food restaurants.
The beauty of journalism is that anyone can be one. You don't have to take a exam to get your journalist license, because there is no licensing. [...]
The one thing I've noticed in nearly 10 years of online writing is that whatever you write, you can expect to have it dissected and analyzed by your readers, who will let you know immediately if you are wrong or off point.
This is called open-source journalism, and it scares the hell out of most news editors and producers. They're used to telling you what the news is and you passively accepting it. Most aren't ready to allow news consumers to add their ideas and information to the reporting process.
But this is the direction that journalism should be heading. [...]
Anyone can be a journalist. That's what the First Amendment assures us. And the Internet is the tool that can give the average person the means to do so. While most of the Blogosphere is a cacophony of voices competing for attention, if you have something intelligent to say, you have a better chance to be heard online than in any other medium.
The people aren't always right, but they aren't always wrong, either. Interactivity keeps reporters and editors honest. It builds trust, and when news consumers trust you, they'll keep coming back for more.
That is the central question in the weblogs versus journalism debate.
Journalism likes to think of itself as a profession. But the key elements of professions such as medicine or law - an accepted course of study and apprenticeship, certification for practitioners, discipline for those stray from the ethical and professional standards of the field - don't exist in journalism. Not to mention that the pay in the lower rungs of journalism is only slightly better than fast food restaurants.
The beauty of journalism is that anyone can be one. You don't have to take a exam to get your journalist license, because there is no licensing. [...]
The one thing I've noticed in nearly 10 years of online writing is that whatever you write, you can expect to have it dissected and analyzed by your readers, who will let you know immediately if you are wrong or off point.
This is called open-source journalism, and it scares the hell out of most news editors and producers. They're used to telling you what the news is and you passively accepting it. Most aren't ready to allow news consumers to add their ideas and information to the reporting process.
But this is the direction that journalism should be heading. [...]
Anyone can be a journalist. That's what the First Amendment assures us. And the Internet is the tool that can give the average person the means to do so. While most of the Blogosphere is a cacophony of voices competing for attention, if you have something intelligent to say, you have a better chance to be heard online than in any other medium.
The people aren't always right, but they aren't always wrong, either. Interactivity keeps reporters and editors honest. It builds trust, and when news consumers trust you, they'll keep coming back for more.
VITAMEDIAS
Sobre o pagamento do Público pela sua versão "online":
(nota: não consigo concordar com os pontos de vista propostos mas não os vou discutir em detalhe. Fico com estas grandes dúvidas:
- porque não se ouvem vozes a reclamar que o Público em papel seja distribuído gratuitamente nas ruas?
- ou a influência do jornal, esse seu valor intangível - seja lá o que isso signifique - só existe na blogosfera?
- o que perdeu o Expresso por passar a ser pago no formato digital?
Dúvidas, só dúvidas...)
Público em linha pago: O Público irá desaparecer das ligações quotidianas da blogosfera e de outro tipo de páginas da rede e ficará apenas dependente do mecanismo de citação da comunicação social tradicional. Ou seja, perde a rede, local de influência, perde valor em sectores cada vez mais significativos da opinião e que têm um efeito multiplicador único para um jornal que se pretende "de referência".
público em contra-mão
Leitor-pagador: Tenho dúvidas sobre as vantagens desta solução radical. O jornal vai seguramente angariar muitas assinaturas electrónicas, mas a maior parte delas com sacrifício da compra da edição impressa (salvo no estrangeiro). E perderá seguramente os efeitos colaterais positivos das citações e hiperligações electrónicas, por exemplo dos blogues, onde o jornal levava a dianteira entre nós.
Teremos um dia somente a edição electrónica dos jornais?
Conteúdos pagos: Tenho pena que tenha optado por este caminho. Acredito mesmo que venha a ter uma grande surpresa em relação às audiências e às vantagens económicas a ganhar com esta decisão.
Perder e ganhar, a montante a jusante: Os grandes consumidores de jornais que consultam edições online não deixam de comprar as edições impressas por lerem edições electrónicas. Por sua vez, aqueles que apenas costumam aceder a edições online muito provavelmente não passarão a comprar edições impressas (nem estarão dispostos a pagar as edições online, tanto mais que existem alternativas que não são pagas, pelo que «emigrarão» para outras publicações online).
Inevitavelmente, o Público perderá uma parte significativa da sua capacidade de «spill-over». Esta redução implicará, seguramente, menos leitores e, indirectamente, o jornal tornar-se-á menos interessante para eventuais colaboradores.
Àparte mas a propósito: Can Justice Scalia Solve the Riddles Of the Internet?: Without profit even the digital world will break down. [...]
The Web isn't just a technology; it's become an ideology. The Web's birth as a "free" medium and the downloading ethic have engendered the belief that culture--songs, movies, fiction, journalism, photography--should be clickable into the public domain, for "everyone."
What a weird ethic. Some who will spend hundreds of dollars for iPods and home theater systems won't pay one thin dime for a song or movie. So Steve Jobs and the Silicon Valley geeks get richer while the new-music artists sweating through three sets in dim clubs get to live on Red Bull. Where's the justice in that?
(nota: não consigo concordar com os pontos de vista propostos mas não os vou discutir em detalhe. Fico com estas grandes dúvidas:
- porque não se ouvem vozes a reclamar que o Público em papel seja distribuído gratuitamente nas ruas?
- ou a influência do jornal, esse seu valor intangível - seja lá o que isso signifique - só existe na blogosfera?
- o que perdeu o Expresso por passar a ser pago no formato digital?
Dúvidas, só dúvidas...)
Público em linha pago: O Público irá desaparecer das ligações quotidianas da blogosfera e de outro tipo de páginas da rede e ficará apenas dependente do mecanismo de citação da comunicação social tradicional. Ou seja, perde a rede, local de influência, perde valor em sectores cada vez mais significativos da opinião e que têm um efeito multiplicador único para um jornal que se pretende "de referência".
público em contra-mão
Leitor-pagador: Tenho dúvidas sobre as vantagens desta solução radical. O jornal vai seguramente angariar muitas assinaturas electrónicas, mas a maior parte delas com sacrifício da compra da edição impressa (salvo no estrangeiro). E perderá seguramente os efeitos colaterais positivos das citações e hiperligações electrónicas, por exemplo dos blogues, onde o jornal levava a dianteira entre nós.
Teremos um dia somente a edição electrónica dos jornais?
Conteúdos pagos: Tenho pena que tenha optado por este caminho. Acredito mesmo que venha a ter uma grande surpresa em relação às audiências e às vantagens económicas a ganhar com esta decisão.
Perder e ganhar, a montante a jusante: Os grandes consumidores de jornais que consultam edições online não deixam de comprar as edições impressas por lerem edições electrónicas. Por sua vez, aqueles que apenas costumam aceder a edições online muito provavelmente não passarão a comprar edições impressas (nem estarão dispostos a pagar as edições online, tanto mais que existem alternativas que não são pagas, pelo que «emigrarão» para outras publicações online).
Inevitavelmente, o Público perderá uma parte significativa da sua capacidade de «spill-over». Esta redução implicará, seguramente, menos leitores e, indirectamente, o jornal tornar-se-á menos interessante para eventuais colaboradores.
Àparte mas a propósito: Can Justice Scalia Solve the Riddles Of the Internet?: Without profit even the digital world will break down. [...]
The Web isn't just a technology; it's become an ideology. The Web's birth as a "free" medium and the downloading ethic have engendered the belief that culture--songs, movies, fiction, journalism, photography--should be clickable into the public domain, for "everyone."
What a weird ethic. Some who will spend hundreds of dollars for iPods and home theater systems won't pay one thin dime for a song or movie. So Steve Jobs and the Silicon Valley geeks get richer while the new-music artists sweating through three sets in dim clubs get to live on Red Bull. Where's the justice in that?
VITAMEDIAS
Why media ownership matters: George Bush must have been delighted to learn from a recent Washington Post-ABC News poll that 56 percent of Americans still think Iraq had weapons of mass destruction before the start of the war, while six in 10 said they believe Iraq provided direct support to the al-Qaida terrorist network ? notions that have long since been thoroughly debunked by everyone from the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee to both of Bush's handpicked weapons inspectors, Charles Duelfer and David Kay.
Americans believe these lies not because they are stupid, but because they are good media consumers. Our media have become an echo chamber for those in power. Rather than challenge the fraudulent claims of the Bush administration, we've had a media acting as a conveyor belt for the government's lies. [...]
A blow against media ownership consolidation ? now or in the future ? will have far-reaching implications, as critical information gains exposure to a caring, active public. Instead of fake reality TV, maybe the media will start to cover the reality of people struggling to get by and of the victories that happen every day in our communities, and in strife-torn regions around the globe.
When people get information, they are empowered. We have to ensure that the airwaves are open for more of that.
Americans believe these lies not because they are stupid, but because they are good media consumers. Our media have become an echo chamber for those in power. Rather than challenge the fraudulent claims of the Bush administration, we've had a media acting as a conveyor belt for the government's lies. [...]
A blow against media ownership consolidation ? now or in the future ? will have far-reaching implications, as critical information gains exposure to a caring, active public. Instead of fake reality TV, maybe the media will start to cover the reality of people struggling to get by and of the victories that happen every day in our communities, and in strife-torn regions around the globe.
When people get information, they are empowered. We have to ensure that the airwaves are open for more of that.
VITAMEDIAS
Cable wants to be more: Cable television will incorporate an increasing number of Internet features such as music downloads, video games and instant messaging over the next several years.
01 abril 2005
VITAMEDIAS
Um culto país online: Notícias mais consultadas online: Em 2004, as notícias são referidas como os temas mais consultados pelos residentes no Continente com 15 e mais anos que utilizam a internet; 58.9% destes indivíduos afirma consultar notícias online.
A música é a segunda área de interesses dos internautas portugueses, com 48.6% deles a referirem usar a internet para consultar temas relacionados com música.
A cultura é o terceiro tema mais referido, por 48.4% dos internautas e o desporto recebe as referências de 37.5% dos que costumam utilizar a internet.
(A ler, claro, Ai os números!...
act.: este texto de Joaquim Fidalgo está disponível aqui)
A música é a segunda área de interesses dos internautas portugueses, com 48.6% deles a referirem usar a internet para consultar temas relacionados com música.
A cultura é o terceiro tema mais referido, por 48.4% dos internautas e o desporto recebe as referências de 37.5% dos que costumam utilizar a internet.
(A ler, claro, Ai os números!...
act.: este texto de Joaquim Fidalgo está disponível aqui)
ECOPOL
Why we'll never see the second round of Abu Ghraib photos: The Abu Ghraib photos are sort of the military equivalent of the Rodney King case...
TECNOSFERA
Top 100 April Fool's Day Hoaxes of All Time
Big Hoaxes: Have you ever been duped?
A ORIGEM DAS MENTIRAS DO 1º DE ABRIL
(E não, não é mentira, a Well comemora mesmo 20 anos: Incredibly, twenty years of living online have sped by since the Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link opened to members on April 1, 1985.)
Big Hoaxes: Have you ever been duped?
A ORIGEM DAS MENTIRAS DO 1º DE ABRIL
(E não, não é mentira, a Well comemora mesmo 20 anos: Incredibly, twenty years of living online have sped by since the Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link opened to members on April 1, 1985.)
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