TECNOSFERA

Eis o Ligar Portugal, o Programa Nacional para a Sociedade de Informação

ECOPOL

Eu até posso concordar com a "micro-causa" do ABRUPTO: PODE O GOVERNO SFF COLOCAR EM LINHA OS ESTUDOS SOBRE O AEROPORTO DA OTA PARA QUE NA SOCIEDADE PORTUGUESA SE VALORIZE MAIS A ?BUSCA DE SOLUÇÕES? EM DETRIMENTO DA ?ESPECULAÇÃO??

Mas porquê apenas o aeroporto e não se pede o mesmo para o TGV?... E para os projectos de energia eólica?...

CULTURAS IN VITRO

GALVANIZE! by The Chemical Brothers

VITAMEDIAS

9 of 10 teens now using the Internet: WHAT TEENS DO ONLINE
The percentage of U.S. Internet users, ages 12-17, who do the following online:
84% - Go to Web sites about movies, TV shows, music groups, sports
76% - Go online to get news or information about current events
75% - Send or receive instant messages
43% - Buy online merchandise
57% - Go online to get information about college
22% - Look for information about a health topic that's hard to talk about
89% - Send or read e-mail
81% - Play online games
SOURCE: Pew Internet & American Life Project

VITAMEDIAS

Shuttle Launch Sets Record For Online Viewers: More than 335,000 people watched the Shuttle Discovery launch online through official NASA websites, topping all other space missions

ECOPOL

Ten Recurring Economic Fallacies, 1774?2004: The question for us is: What have we made of it? No one can justly appreciate the natural resources of this country until, by studying the deleterious effects of bad currency and bad taxation, he has formed some conception of how much, since the first settlers came here, has been wasted and lost."
The unseen again. Let us begin with geography and resources, to which Sumner alludes. The lower 48 states are entirely in the temperate zone. Apart from the desert states of the southwest, all receive ample rainfall. Most of the land is fertile, and it is abundant. The country teems with natural resources.
Then there are the people. Until very recently, the United States enjoyed a low density of population, which meant high wages and low land prices. And for centuries, the population has been one of the hardest working in the world, creating an infrastructure to build on. Then there is the culture. Largely because of the influence of Christianity, the debilitating sin of envy has no social standing here, unlike the Third World where it is perhaps the chief impediment to wealth-creation and development.
Also, for the same reason, there is little bribery, which also impedes growth. Finally, there is the tradition of law, respect for private property, tradition of profit, and contractual freedom. These institutions?and not the fallacious ideas, corrupt institutions, and bad policies named above?form the core of American prosperity.

TECNOSFERA

The next frontier: 'Interactive' launches: That future was on display Tuesday on CNN sister outlet America Online News, where users could watch the launch live from any of seven different angles. And later they could watch on-demand and voice their opinions. [...]
On television, there's a director on TV who controls what you see. On AOL, you control what you decide to see.

VITAMEDIAS

Quando os produtores se queixam...
Too many adds in primetime: "Boston Legal" creator/executive producer David E. Kelley said he's concerned about the amount of commercial time on primetime TV shows and raised the possibility of working in cable in the future. "If the commercial encroachment becomes worse, it's probably something that we'll all consider," Kelley told reporters Tuesday

VITAMEDIAS

Concentração dos media ? Negócio contra Jornalismo: A verdade é que as pretensas virtudes da concentração traduzem-se, no concreto, em realidades, no mínimo, preocupantes.

ECOPOL

Hiroshima bomb may have carried hidden agenda: The US decision to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 was meant to kick-start the Cold War rather than end the Second World War, according to two nuclear historians who say they have new evidence backing the controversial theory.
Causing a fission reaction in several kilograms of uranium and plutonium and killing over 200,000 people 60 years ago was done more to impress the Soviet Union than to cow Japan, they say. And the US President who took the decision, Harry Truman, was culpable, they add.
"He knew he was beginning the process of annihilation of the species," says Peter Kuznick, director of the Nuclear Studies Institute at American University in Washington DC, US. "It was not just a war crime; it was a crime against humanity."

TECNOSFERA

O Civilities foi "hackado" hoje, restando apenas a mensagem "SpyKids From Brasil Never Stop".
É pena mas é um sinal do que vai suceder aos blogues...

"Hackado" também fui eu pelo + Direito da Informática, um "Blawg complementar ao Direito da Informática e ao Informática Jurídica e Direito da Informática - LEFIS".
Esqueceram-se de disponibilizar a fonte do artigo copiado - o que, diga-se, não é normal neste blogue. Mas não deixa de ser irónico para quem escreve sobre direito nas novas tecnologias :)))

TECNOSFERA

Blog-a-thon: Blog for Freedom, July 19-August 2
We want to hear about your "click moment" ? the very first step you to took to stand up for your digital rights -- whether it was blogging about an issue you care about, participating in a demonstration, writing your representatives, or getting involved with EFF.

VITAMEDIAS

Interactive Journalism: Some Winning Sites: J-Lab, the Institute for Interactive Journalism, has chosen its five finalists for the annual Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism. Great projects, all. The winner will be announced September 12.

TECNOSFERA

Destinatário: Ministério da Educação
$100 Laptop
What can a $1000 laptop do that the $100 version can't?
Not much. The plan is for the $100 Laptop to do almost everything. What it will not do is store a massive amount of data.
How will these be marketed?
The idea is to distribute the machines through those ministries of education willing to adopt a policy of "one laptop per child." Initial discussions have been held with China, where there are approximately 220 million students (for which an order would drive prices way down). In addition, smaller countries will be selected for beta testing. Initial orders will be limited to a minimum of one million units (with appropriate financing).
When do you anticipate these laptops reaching the market? What do you see as the biggest hurdles?
Our preliminary schedule is to have units ready for shipment by the end of 2006 or early 2007.

TECNOSFERA

Microsoft's Earth deletes Apple HQ: Google shows the Apple Cupertino HQ - a lovely, shiny building probably full of iPods. MSN on the other hand shows an apparently empty field.

VITAMEDIAS

Why we are what we are: Thomas de Zengotita argues that the modern media shape people's lives in totally new ways in his haunting study, Mediated

VITAMEDIAS

Crisis of confidence: For Americans, a journalist is as trustworthy as a used car salesman, says Sreenath Sreenivasan, dean of students, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.

VITAMEDIAS

All The News That Clicks: Newspapers, radio, TV, and magazines are scrambling to boost their Web presence

VITAMEDIAS

Watch Me Do This and That Online: Can you vlog a dead horse? Only if you make a video of it and post it on the Web.

.DE!

Dois em um, para quem gosta de touradas e seios: Animal rights protester strips to stop bullfights: Yvonne Taylor, 33, a worker at animal rights group PETA, is to strip off to a bikini in opposition to the sport.
Ms Taylor, from Leith, will protest on Sunday ahead of the first bullfight at the ring in Povoa de Varzim, in the north of Portugal.

VITAMEDIAS

Em Portugal:
Pais do Amaral prepara-se para vender Media Capital à Prisa ou Paes do Amaral prepara anúncio importante para a TVI, "que envolve a venda de capital do grupo Media Capital. Ao que o Jornal de Negócios apurou, a TVI deverá ter novos accionistas, que deverão ser espanhóis."
Em comunicado, os ACCIONISTAS DA MEDIA CAPITAL INFORMAM SOBRE ACORDOS CELEBRADOS COM GRUPO PRISA, depois de anunciarem um aumento de capital.

Entretanto e finalmente e antecipadamente, a Autoridade da Concorrência aprova compra da Lusomundo por Joaquim Oliveira, "sem qualquer tipo de reservas", num anúncio feito pela PT à CMVM, numa decisão que "é no sentido de considerar que tal operação não é susceptível de criar ou reforçar uma posição dominante da qual possam vir a resultar entraves significativos à concorrência no mercado relevante em causa".

A 14 de Junho, aquela Autoridade considerava que "a operação em causa, face aos elementos recolhidos, é susceptível de criar ou reforçar uma posição dominante da qual pudessem vir a resultar entraves significativos à concorrência em diversos mercados relevantes no sector da comunicação social, em particular no mercado da imprensa escrita diária generalista de circulação nacional."

O que mudou num mês e pouco? O que mudou numa semana?
É que a 7 de Julho, segundo o Diário Económico, "A Autoridade da Concorrência (AdC) enviou um conjunto de novas questões às entidades envolvidas na operação de aquisição da Lusomundo Media pela Controlinveste, no âmbito da investigação aprofundada para a qual decidiu fazer avançar o negócio.
Nesse sentido, foram notificados não apenas o grupo de Joaquim Oliveira mas também a contra-interessada Investec, de Paulo Fernandes, e outros grupos do mercado dos ?media?. A AdC está igualmente a receber diversos pareceres técnicos e académicos sobre esta operação de concentração".

Já os receberam, leram e decidiram? É impressão minha ou foi demasiado rápido para isso tudo, após alguma lentidão sobre isto tudo?

VITAMEDIAS

Dos blogues: Weblog Ethics Survey Results: Conclusion
Overall, our findings show that personal and non-personal bloggers are distinctively different in their demographics, blogging experiences, and habits. Our findings also show that there are significant differences between personal and non-personal bloggers in the ethical beliefs they value and in the ethical practices they adhere to.
Therefore, an important point to note is that when studying the blogging population, distinctions must be made regarding the type of bloggers who are being examined to prevent any misperceptions.
In addition, the limited support from bloggers for a blogging code of ethics poses a serious problem for advocates of on-line social responsibility. If any inroads are to be made in terms of bloggers regulating themselves, consensus in the community must be developed.

Panel explores giving reporters' shield to bloggers: Certain bloggers may deserve the same privileges as professional reporters, panelists suggested Wednesday at a U.S. Senate hearing about a proposed media "shield" law.

Web Publishers Eye Your Wallet: "Every blogger is a rock band without a record contract"

Digital Citizens: The blogger: All this week the BBC News website is speaking to people whose creativity has been transformed in the digital age.
From blogging to podcasting, millions of ordinary people are becoming writers, journalists, broadcasters and film-makers thanks to increasingly affordable and accessible tools.

VITAMEDIAS

Three Irrefutable Laws of Media:
1. People can never get enough content. [...]
2. Any new media distribution channel will fill with content. Also stated as: Content expands to fill any new and viable distribution channel. [...]
3. Any successful new media distribution channel follows the dictum "any content, any time, anywhere."

TECNOSFERA

It rings, it plays, it has TV: First there were TVs. Then came PCs. Now, mobile phones are becoming the 'third screen' for viewing video.

TECNOSFERA

Bank puts the 'fun' into 'funds': Ogaki Kyoritsu Bank is introducing fruitmachine-style games of chance which run while the ATM processes its more mundane transactions.
Get three sevens, and your withdrawal fee is waived; three golds promise a jackpot of 1,000 yen (£5; $9).
The purpose of the gimmick, says the bank's Yoshi Enami, is simply "fun".

VITAMEDIAS

How Effective Is This Ad, in Real Numbers? Beats Me: THE results of a survey scheduled to be released today at a conference sponsored by the Association of National Advertisers bring to mind the familiar Mark Twain remark about the weather: Everyone complains about the inability to determine the return on investment from advertising spending, but no one seems satisfied with what is being done about it.

VITAMEDIAS

Editorial processes: the magazine vs. the blogs: Consider the path of a story as it winds its way through our system.
I looked at a draft of the story over the weekend, suggested changes, and spent nine hours editing it yesterday. (Usually two people share this job, but this week we're short-handed.) Then I sent it to the copy desk. There, people who are new to the story read it to see if it makes sense, if the thinking is logical, the context clear, the grammar and spelling ok, the names and titles correct. Meantime, some facts, such as names and Web addresses, are checked by a researcher. The copy desk sends the story, with questions, back to the writer and me. At the same time, the top editors of the magazine have a chance to read the story and suggest changes of their own. Potentially contentious or delicate stories are often sent upstairs to a McGraw-Hill lawyer, who might suggest further adjustments.
Today we work answering the questions, clearing up doubts, filling in holes, and cutting the story to fit on the page.
Then, wouldn't you know, the story goes back to the desk. They edit again--mostly proofreading, making sure questions have been answered, and writing display language this time around--and put it on a literal sheet of paper. Then that paper is circulated back to us. We read it and make fixes, and then carry it to the close desk, where editors make the final changes and push the button to send it to the printing press.
The editorial process of blogging is far simpler. We write, we publish. This takes our journalism into a new sphere, but carries inherent risks. How do we handle them?
[a ler, igualmente, os comentários]

CULTURAS IN VITRO

List of films ordered by uses of the word fuck: This page lists films that use the word fuck more than 100 times.

TECNOSFERA

The politics of nannies and blogging: Helaine Olen wrote a self-serving article in the NY Times on firing her nanny because she didn't like what she read about the nanny's non-work on her blog. Here's the nanny's reply. What did the nanny do that Olen didn't like?

VITAMEDIAS

O País de José Eduardo Moniz: Antigamente, o País existia como "reflexo" da Televisão; agora, a Televisão "superiorizou-se" ao País. Em ambos os casos, nunca, nem na mais ínfima fracção de segundo, se admite a possibilidade de o País ser aquilo que é também por causa de alguns modos de fazer televisão?
Por causa…? Sei, todos sabemos, o que passa pela cabeça de muitas pessoas respeitáveis do mundo televisivo quando emerge esta questão (aliás, as ideologias mais simplistas são sempre fáceis de prever). Traduz-se numa imediata e cândida interrogação então é a Televisão que tem culpa do estado do País?

VITAMEDIAS

Do-It-Yourself Journalism Spreads: The explosion of the Internet over the past decade has allowed anyone with an Internet connection to instantaneously publish whatever he or she wants, fueling the growth of "citizen reporters." Over the past year or so, media companies have been backing citizen journalism efforts like Your Mom in various shapes and sizes across the country. They are creating what some believe to be a more democratic press, but throwing into question what it means to be a journalist and adding a new dimension to debates over fairness, libel, protection of confidential sources and trust in the media.

Armés de vidéo-phones, les citoyens sont des reporters TV: tard dans la nuit de mercredi, Hong, un reporter d?un des quotidiens les plus lus en Corée du Sud, The Chosun Ilbo, à fait la une des médias pour avoir agressé un chauffeur de taxi et plusieurs employés d?un hôtel.
Cet incident serait resté anonyme sans la présence d?esprit du chauffeur de taxi nommé Ahn, qui a filmé toute la scène avec son téléphone mobile, puis l?a téléchargée sur Internet.
Les trois chaînes nationales KBS, MBC et SBS saisissant l?affaire, ont alors diffusé des extraits vidéo à l?antenne dans le cadre de leur journal télévisé, provoquant un tollé d?indignation

Why I have serious doubts about the 'citizen reporters': I find it astonishing - not to say macabre - that virtually the first thing a lay person would do after escaping injury in an explosion in which dozens of other human beings are killed or maimed is to film or photograph the scene and then relay it to a broadcasting organisation. [...]
And how long will it be, I wonder, before the mobile networks start using 7/7 as yet another argument for upgrading to a 3G cameraphone?

Did London bombings turn citizen journalists into citizen paparazzi?: Cameraphones and videophones on the scene were important tools in giving the world the first look at the horrific London bombings. But what about people with cameraphones who vied for the most gruesome shots of victims?

VITAMEDIAS

Los Angeles Times issues new ethics guidelines: The guidelines also note that the emergence of Web logs, or "blogs," creates "potential quandaries for staff members who want to express themselves through that medium."
The new policy requires reporters who establish outside blogs to receive prior approval from a supervisor.
"Approval will be granted only if the blog meets the paper's journalistic standards," the policy states.

TECNOSFERA

Geocoding the world of weblogs: Researchers in the School of Informatics have undertaken a long-term research project to study how information from blogs produced in specific American urban areas reflects the political agendas, opinions, attitudes and cultural idiosyncrasies of the general population of those places.

Dogging bloggers: Firms tracking Web writers' opinions: Marketing firms are closely monitoring bloggers to get a read on what's being said about corporate clients and products in the blogosphere.
So-called ``marketing and business intelligence'' firms have developed sophisticated software and other technologies to detect, categorize and analyze specific words, phrases and even emotions expressed by those typing away on Internet blogs about anything and everything.

.DE!

Free Beer for Geeks: Beer always tastes better when it's free, or so the saying goes.
So leave it to a group of college students to find a way to make sure their beer is always free. Well, at least the recipe they use to brew it is. A group of students at IT University of Copenhagen have produced what they claim is the first open-source beer.
The recipe and brand of their beer is published under a Creative Commons license, which means anyone can use the recipe for pleasure or profit.
The only catch: If you make money selling their unique beer, you have to give them credit and publish any changes you make to the recipe under a similar license.

VITAMEDIAS

Hacked-off writer vows to make Postie pay: Writer Robin Gregg is suing New York Post editor-in-chief Col Allan, personally, over not paying him for a story that he ripped off from The National Enquirer. [...]
A rep for the Post said: "This man's claim is laughable."

TECNOSFERA

Time to check: Are you using the right blogging tool? Blogs are one of the hottest publishing tools around, but picking blog software can be confusing and frustrating. Use this primer to get a feel for what's available and what will work best for you.

VITAMEDIAS

Já está em consulta pública: 1ª Versão do Anteprojecto da Proposta de Lei de Alteração ao Estatuto do Jornalista

VITAMEDIAS

E se os jornalistas portugueses fossem obrigados por uma lei a ouvir as diversas partes e a dar notícias, não infotretenimento?...
The Reason Our Media Doesn't Report Real News: [Robert Kennedy, Jr.] said that by law the media had an obligation to cover the news and to cover news affecting their community, and to cover all sides of an issue/event. That law was called the Fairness Doctrine. It also forbade the consolidation of businesses, including the broadcasting companies. [...]
That law and responsibility was abolished by Ronald Reagan in 1988.
Since that time mergers and consolidations have become endemic, and Kennedy points out that the media has focused more on gaining returns for its shareholders than keeping citizens properly informed as they were once mandated to do.
?(Now), instead of reporting the news, they?re entertaining us. [...]
Kennedy asserts that this informational deficit is directly attributable to the lack of coverage by the press. ?It?s not that people don?t care about these issues,? Kennedy says, ?it?s that they don?t know about them."
[via Rebecca Blood]

CULTURAS IN VITRO

40 Things That Only Happen In Movies:
1. It is always possible to find a parking spot directly outside or opposite the building you are visiting.
2. When paying for a taxi, don't look at your wallet as you take out a note. Just grab one out at random and hand it over. It will always be the exact fare.
3. Television news bulletins usually contain a story that affects you personally at the precise moment it's aired.

ZITE

Planarity [um "jogo" inteligente...]

VITAMEDIAS

BBC edits out the word terrorist: The BBC has re-edited some of its coverage of the London Underground and bus bombings to avoid labelling the perpetrators as "terrorists", it was disclosed yesterday.
Early reporting of the attacks on the BBC's website spoke of terrorists but the same coverage was changed to describe the attackers simply as "bombers". [...]
A BBC spokesman said last night: "The word terrorist is not banned from the BBC."

TECNOSFERA

O novo Google? SiliconValleyWatcher.com: The selling of the Blogosphere - Technorati's big push into monetizing its treasure trove of data collected about millions of blogs
Are Technorati and others, spying on the blogosphere? I don't think so, it is a public space after all. . . but it is a bit creepy.

ZITE

Dontclick.it

VITAMEDIAS

London's citizen reporters prove their worth with their coverage of bombing: With the tsunami on Boxing Day we saw the power of the "citizen journalist" in providing instantaneous footage of events when no camera crews or photojournalists were present. But last week marked another step in the disintegration of media hierarchies. When the tsunami happened, people were holidaying, often with video cameras to hand, in a frame of mind in which they were thinking of recording events for posterity, even if they had no inkling of what a very different experience they would be bringing home. The explosions in London happened at a time when commuters and other travellers would not have expected an event, when they would have had to search in their bags or rummage in their pockets for phones.

Blogosphere zeros in on Castro: As Hurricane Dennis bears down on the U.S. this evening, it's done some of the worst damage, ever, in Castro's decaying island tyranny on Cuba.
But something's happening. Cubans, long deprived of technology like the Internet and cell phones, except in the most controlled circumstances, somehow are getting their hands on them anyway. And they are giving live reports from every corner of Cuba, to Cuban-Americans in Miami and elsewhere, who are now posting them on Val's Babalu blog.

(ler também Why Newspapers Are Betting on Audience Participation: Under this model [what is called participatory journalism, or civic or citizen journalism], readers contribute to the newspaper. And they are doing so in many forms, including blogs, photos, audio, video and podcasts.
Whether such efforts can revive revenue for newspaper publishers is an open question. But with gloomy financial forecasts and declines in circulation, some papers are starting to see participatory journalism as their hope for reconnecting with their audiences.)

TECNOSFERA

Bloggers Need Not Apply: What is it with job seekers who also write blogs?

ECOPOL

A Letter To The Terrorists, From London: What the fuck do you think you're doing?
This is London. We've dealt with your sort before. You don't try and pull this on us. [...]
We're London, and we've got our own way of doing things, and it doesn't involve tossing bombs around where innocent people are going about their lives.
And that's because we're better than you. Everyone is better than you. Our city works. We rather like it. And we're going to go about our lives. We're going to take care of the lives you ruined. And then we're going to work. And we're going down the pub.
So you can pack up your bombs, put them in your arseholes, and get the fuck out of our city.

CONTAMINANTES

O bom... EU clears 45 mln euros for R&D project in Portugal: It will be run by a company known as BIAL, which is based in a part of Portugal suffering from a very low standard of living, the Commission said.

...e o mau: Former Student Sues U Of L After Rape Claim: According to the alleged victim's lawyer, Eric Jacobi, she went out to dinner in Lisbon with a friend from the program when they somehow were separated. She then accepted a ride with a Portugese man who took the student to a secluded spot and raped her, Jacobi said.

VITAMEDIAS

Free Dailies: Past or Future? the free newspaper model is proving to have a clear ability to capture the attention of audiences and satisfy the needs of an increasing number of advertisers.

CONTAMINANTES

Intellectual Property Is Costing Me My Life: In an unbelievable twist of fate, a combination of terrible drug laws, intellectual property laws, and misguided patents and copyrights have come together to prevent me from receiving lifesaving medecine.

PHOTO-GRAFIA

Onde estão as roupas?

ECOPOL

Através do Estrago da Nação:
O relatório hoje publicado pela Direcção-Geral dos Recursos Florestais sobre os incêndios florestais ocorridos entre Janeiro e final de Junho mostra valores preocupantes. Em síntese temos o seguinte:
* 2873 incêndios - mais 97,7% do que a média dos últimos seis anos
* 9817 fogachos - mais 78,2% do que a média dos últimos seis anos
* 21.504 hectares de área ardida - o valor mais elevado dos últimos seis anos; mais 36% que a média do período de referência.
Estes valores significam pouco num país que na última década tem ardido uma média de quase 150 mil hectares por ano e que desde 1999 não baixa a fasquia dos 100 mil hectares em qualquer ano.
No entanto, aquilo que os números mostram é um preocupante aumento do número de ocorrência - mais de 12 mil chamadas dos bombeiros; onde estão os efeitos das alterações da lei do ano passado? - que apenas por sorte (e acredito também pela intervenção dos bombeiros) não têm resultado (ainda) em fogos de grandes proporções. Até agora, ainda não se registou qualquer incêndios que superasse os 600 hectares, mas será ingénuo pensar que assim sempre ocorrerá até ao final da época dos fogos... [continua]

.DE!

Obituaries of the Future (não recomendável a pessoas sensíveis e aos oito visados...)

TECNOSFERA

Be Your Own Hotspot: Turn a backpack into a portable, solar-powered Wi-Fi hotspot, and share a high-speed connection anywhere

VITAMEDIAS

No país da liberdade de expressão: Judge Orders Jail for N.Y. Times Reporter for refusing to divulge her source to a grand jury investigating who in the Bush administration leaked an undercover CIA operative's name.

(act.: Prosecutor jail for journalists in leak case: "Journalists are not entitled to promise confidentiality -- no one in America is," [Special Counsel Patrick] Fitzgerald, a U.S. Justice Department prosecutor, wrote in one of the court filings.)

VITAMEDIAS

An Aura of Mystery Still Hovers Around the Man Who Is Deep Throat: Deep Throat, a k a W. Mark Felt, a k a "the Secret Man" of Bob Woodward's new book, was the most famous anonymous source in modern American political history. [...]
"The Secret Man" provides an intriguing if not fully satisfying portrait of the real-life relationship between Mr. Woodward and Mr. Felt, and it reaffirms the vital role that confidential sources play in keeping the public informed. Deep Throat's identity remained a mystery for more than 30 years, and his repeated insistence on what Mr. Woodward calls in these pages "secrecy at all cost" suggests that today's media-bashing climate - when reporters' right to keep sources secret is under attack - could well inhibit sources like Mr. Felt from stepping forward. [...]
"It is critical that confidential sources feel they would be protected for life," Mr. Woodward writes near the end of this slight but provocative book. "There needed to be a model out there where people could come forward or speak when contacted, knowing they would be protected."

CONTAMINANTES

É impressão minha ou ninguém comentou a coincidência entre o Deep Impact e o 4 de Julho (dois dias antes deste aniversário)...
Mas ainda há astrólogos russos atentos a este atentado contra ?natural balance of forces in the universe? :)

VITAMEDIAS

A informação nas TVs: No primeiro semestre de 2005, os serviços regulares dos quatro canais de Tv de sinal aberto emitiram mais de 1260 horas de informação, de acordo com os dados do serviço Telenews da MediaMonitor.
Nos primeiros seis meses de 2005 foram 42 507 as notícias emitidas pelos serviços de informação regulares da RTP1, 2:, Sic e Tvi. Estas notícias tiveram uma duração total superior a 1260 horas e obtiveram uma audiência média de 8.2%.

.DE!

Tanto tempo e sem saber o que fazer...!
Extra Second Will be Added to 2005 to make up for the slowing down of the Earth's rotation

VITAMEDIAS

Era uma vez um arrastão - um vídeo de Diana Andringa [para a "história da manipulação de massas em Portugal"]

[act.: e a ler/ver Rua da Judiaria e O Céu Sobre Lisboa. O vídeo está também aqui]