29 junho 2006

VITAMEDIAS

OJE sai amanhã

VITAMEDIAS

Top 25 Censored Stories of 2006
#1 Bush Administration Moves to Eliminate Open Government
#2 Media Coverage Fails on Iraq: Fallujah and the Civilian Death
#3 Another Year of Distorted Election Coverage
#4 Surveillance Society Quietly Moves In
#5 U.S. Uses Tsunami to Military Advantage in Southeast Asia
#6 The Real Oil for Food Scam
#7 Journalists Face Unprecedented Dangers to Life and Livelihood
#8 Iraqi Farmers Threatened By Bremer?s Mandates
#9 Iran?s New Oil Trade System Challenges U.S. Currency
#10 Mountaintop Removal Threatens Ecosystem and Economy

28 junho 2006

VITAMEDIAS

Blogging for fun... then profit: And then, during one soul-searching month this spring, the writer who writes about start-ups decided to stake his reputation and his income on starting one himself.
Or to put it another way: Open mouth, insert money.
The money in this case was a little less than $1 million from True Venture Partners. They're betting that Malik can take his significant connections and experience and roll it into a profitable micropublishing venture based at gigaom.com. Malik's new business will be called GigaOmniMedia Inc.
Malik is the latest in a string of bloggers who are finding financial backing for their news-oriented sites. Another daily news blog, Paidcontent.org, recently received modest funding, as did Christoper Carey of Sharesleuth.com.

Marketers Curious About Blogs, But Not Spending: The study, "Interactive Marketing Channels to Watch in 2006," found that marketers are putting most of their money in e-mail, search, behavioral and contextual targeting, and rich media. More than 65 percent of those surveyed plan to invest in each of these mediums in the next year.
"Marketers are very curious about social channels like blogs, but are not putting their money in that space," said Shar VanBoskirk, a research analyst at Forrester Research, Cambridge, MA. "Instead, the momentum is really in behavioral targeting and in rich media."
Media and communication firms lead in exploring adopted channels. More than 60 percent of them use or plan to use e-mail marketing, social marketing, rich media e-mails and display ads, contextual and behavioral targeting, blogs/social networks, RSS and mobile marketing within the next year.

TECNOSFERA

Ainda o ViaCTT (já nem me lembrava que foi anunciado em Agosto de 2005...):
CTT passam a distribuir correio por via electrónica: A caixa electrónica postal está disponível, mas rodeada de incertezas. Só cenários de níveis de adesão foram construídos pelos CTT um total de 15. Luís Nazaré, presidente da empresa, disse ao DN que estimar o nível de adesão ao Via CTT é como jogar na lotaria.
ViaCTT: 2.000 pessoas aderiram até final do dia: Os CTT investiram 2,5 milhões de euros no novo serviço, que permite a qualquer pessoa, empresa ou instituição ter uma caixa de correio electrónica onde ficará reunida a correspondência.
Via CTT avança com uma dezena de parceiros: Sem custos de adesão para o utilizador, o Via CTT pode ser subscrito através da Internet, telefone (808202029) ou nas lojas dos CTT. Cabe ao utilizador decidir de que entidades pretende receber correspondência electrónica através deste endereço que apenas pode ser usado nestes moldes, não podendo ser fornecido a terceiros como endereço de email.
Cibercorreio já atraiu duas mil pessoas mas confiança é vital no longo prazo: Para primeiro dia, a participação impressiona. Foram mais de dois mil os portugueses que durante o dia de ontem, logo a partir das 11.30, se inscreveram no novo serviço de caixa postal electrónica disponibilizado na Internet, via CTT.
[Só uma curiosidade: se eles se inscreveram "a partir das 11.30" como é que Sócrates "foi o primeiro português a activar a sua caixa electrónica" quando a cerimónia só começou às 12 horas?]

Nos contras:
viaCTT desmistificado: Na ausência de qualquer análise crítica, na comunicação social, ao lançamento, há muito anunciado, do viaCTT, impõe-se clarificar que [continua e merece leitura, incluindo os comentários]
ViaCTT, a culpa é do TITULAR: se ocorrer um Acesso ilegítimo que resulte em Falsidade informática, Sabotagem informática ou Intercepção ilegítima (tudo como definido na Lei da criminalidade informatica) causa pela incapacidade dos CTT em manter a segurança do serviço o problema e responsabilidade são do TITULAR. [...]
"Os CTT garantem a integridade e a confidencialidade do seu correio. "
Vejamos... se no contrato dizem que não podem "tecnicamente garantir a sua inviolabilidade"... mmmm... já me sinto muito mais seguro, como cidadão.
Via CTT: Os dados pessoais fornecidos pelo TITULAR no Formulário do Pedido de Registo serão processados e armazenados informaticamente numa base de dados pertencente aos CTT e destinam-se a ser utilizados pelos CTT no âmbito da relação contratual com o TITULAR e para a comercialização de serviços e/ou produtos das empresas do Grupo CTT.

27 junho 2006

CULTURAS IN VITRO

T minus 15 and FREE BOOKS! My publisher has given me 100 copies to GIVE AWAY. Here's the deal: I'll give them to the first 100 bloggers who would like to review it. [...]
UPDATE4: Well, that was fast. We've hit our number, and I'm out.

PHOTO-GRAFIA

PhotoBucket Leads Photo Sharing Sites; Flickr at #6: Examination of the category however, shows that Flickr is #6 among the top 10 photo sharing sites, with a market share of 5.95%. Industry standbys like Yahoo! Photos, Webshots Community, and Kodak Gallery currently rank higher than Flickr.
Photobucket dominates the category, with a 44% market share. It surpassed Yahoo! Photos in January, and its share of visits increased by 34% in the four months from February 2006 to May 2006.
[Ler os comentários para perceber a metodologia.]

VITAMEDIAS

Welcome to Convergence Culture: I am launching this site in anticipation of the release of my new book, Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide, coming later this summer, from New York University Press.
What's it all about? Here are some key passages from the book's introduction:
Reduced to its most core elements, this book is about the relationship between three concepts ? media convergence, participatory culture, and collective intelligence....

VITAMEDIAS

Study Says Jon Stewart May Be Bad for America: Someone please stop Jon Stewart before he destroys American democracy.
Two university professors have published a study claiming that Comedy Central's "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" drives down support for political institutions and makes young people more cynical about government.

TECNOSFERA

Leave me alone . . .: Where once our daily life interrupted our work, now our work interrupts our work. We have become enslaved to the very communications technology that was supposed to free us from office drudgery, from travel, from face-to-face meetings with disagreeable co-workers. There are hopes, however, that technology will once again come to the rescue. Software designed to prioritise communications and assess your "interruptability" is currently being tested by Microsoft. If it works it could become the electronic equivalent of an executive secretary, shielding you from unwanted and unnecessary intrusion.

TECNOSFERA

Divisões no Governo: MOPTC vs. MCTES/ME (outro título possível: Portugal lidera no email - Estado dá duas caixas de correio a cada português)

TECNOSFERA

O problema dos foguetes em época de fogos: sobre este Banda larga: PT conclui hoje cobertura total das centrais telefónicas, ler os comentários, também aqui. [e com foto aqui]

23 junho 2006

ZITE

Girl Caught Cheating
Worst Wedding Moments
When Garbage Men Fall In Love!
Amazing Tricks (é futebol...)

TECNOSFERA

BumpTop Prototype: Keepin' it Real: Pushing the Desktop Metaphor with Physics, Piles and the Pen (está tb aqui)

.DE!

?roof posters? on top of outdoor smoking areas

TECNOFERA

Depois da autorização da CNPD para a divulgação dos devedores ao Fisco (afinal são 30 mil ou 300 mil?), podem-se conhecer as empresas e individuais a quem o Estado deve?

VITAMEDIAS

os textos do blogouve-se: Uma explicação: «Os textos do Blogouve-se» é uma espécie de livro virtual: quando, há cerca de um ano, me sugeriram a hipótese de escolher uns 500 textos do blogue para os publicar em livro, recusei a ideia. Houve outras razões (mais pessoais), mas prevaleceu esta em particular: qual é a necessidade de passar para o papel uma realidade que nasceu na Internet? Por que é que há-de sair da Internet? A Internet não tem dignidade suficiente? Claro que tem.

VITAMEDIAS

Le présentateur du JT doit rester neutre: les Français sont attachés à la neutralité politique, religieuse et idéologique du présentateur du journal de 20 Heures. En revanche, ils sont aujourd'hui majoritairement indifférents à ses revenus, à ses contrats publicitaires, à sa vie privée, à son ancienneté dans le poste, à son "look", à son âge ou encore à ses origines. 85% ne voient pas d'inconvénient à ce que le présentateur vive avec un homme ou une femme politique et 97% se déclarent "pas gênés" par le fait que le présentateur soit de couleur.

22 junho 2006

VITAMEDIAS

From Print to Pixel: Dan Gillmor knows that newspapers need to stop lecturing their readers and start conversing with them [...]
The competition issue that matters in the near term is the financial one. When companies that consider journalism a distraction take away classified advertising and other revenues that support traditional journalists, you have the real issue. Blogs aren't driving newspapers out of business; eBay and Craigslist and the host of advertising competitors might. [...]
Newspapers and other media companies have no more innate right to exist than any other enterprise, but it would be terrible for our society if what Big Journalism does well failed to survive the current turmoil.

CONTAMINANTES

Por aqui, descobri este "World scientists unite to attack creationism", cujo anúncio está aqui, ao lado do documento final.
Mas nenhuma instituição portuguesa participa na discussão do Creation Myth. Porque acreditam em milagres?

CONTAMINANTES

O futebol também serve para isto: A dinâmica da nova bola e das antigas, as ciências no futebol ("teams that wear red have the best chance of winning"...).

TECNOFERA

Por cá, a Base de dados genéticos avança. Lá fora, UK DNA database shared with other countries: The UK Home Office has admitted that DNA stored in the UK National DNA Database has been shared with other countries.
UK has today one of the largest law enforcement DNA database with profiles from 3.5 million people, including 500 000 children under 16 years old. The database was established in 1995.
Privacy concerns regarding the database have been expressed, especially when the database was revealed to contained more than 50 000 DNA profiles of children who have never been charged with any offence.

ECOPOL

Pouco se vê nas notícias mas Área ardida já é superior à média dos últimos 5 anos: Apesar da aposta do Governo no reforço da vigilância e do combate aos incêndios, em apenas um mês foram devastados 6799 hectares de floresta, enquanto a média dos últimos cinco anos foi de 3846 hectares.

A propósito, Abriu a "saison" e A montanha que pariu um rato (ou não passa tudo de boa imprensa?) Uma resposta oficial aqui, com uma ENORME imprecisão: NÃO "tem havido quase trezentos incêndios por dia" - basta consultar a tabela referida.

21 junho 2006

VITAMEDIAS

Alguém está a ouvir, por cá?
Sorrell warns of e-communities ?threat?: Media owners must find ways to attract and retain talent and create stand-alone digital divisions in order to compete in the era of internet blogs, open access and online communities, Sir Martin Sorrell, the chief executive of WPP, has warned.
The head of the UK advertising group also acknowledged the difficulty of competing against websites that destroyed business models. ?How do you deal with socialistic anarchists?? he asked, referring to Craigslist, the popular, free classified advertising site that has been threatening revenues at US city newspapers.
?The internet is the most socialistic force you?ve ever seen,? he added, noting that the response from some media groups had been to offer their content for free in traditional and digital form.
?They have decided ? ?if I don?t eat my children, somebody else will?,? he told executives from UK regional newspapers attending an industry conference, adding that he disapproved of giving away content for free. ?You should charge for it if the consumer values the content,? he said.
Sir Martin believes that the shortage in human capital would be one of the main challenges facing companies in the future, and successful companies were those that could ?find, retain, and incentivise good people?.

ECOPOL

Não est(áv)amos em crise?
Number of global millionaires grows: The increasing ease of becoming a millionaire became clear Tuesday, with the announcement that the ranks of world millionaires had swelled to 8.7 million last year

Les riches, toujours plus riches et plus nombreux (via): En dix ans, le nombre de millionnaires en dollars a plus que doublé dans le monde. Si les fortunes stagnent en Europe, d'autres se font en Asie et en Amérique latine.

ECOPOL

O futuro está aqui (e passa pelo futebol...)

ECOPOL

The ugly truth about everyday life in Baghdad (by the US ambassador)
CONFIDENTIAL MEMO
FROM: US Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, Baghdad
TO: Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State
SUBJECT: SNAPSHOTS FROM THE OFFICE
SENSITIVE
1. Iraqi staff in the Public Affairs sector have complained that Islamist and Militia groups have been negatively affecting daily routine. Harassment over proper dress and habits is increasingly persuasive. They also report power cuts and fuel prices have diminished their quality of life.

20 junho 2006

.DE!

Anún_cios...

VITAMEDIAS

Hackers take aim at media and technology firms: The global technology, media and telecoms (TMT) industry's growing reliance on digital information and technology is making it increasingly vulnerable to hack attacks, new research has claimed.
Deloitte's latest security survey claimed that over 50 per cent of TMT companies surveyed reported security breaches in the past 12 months, a third of which resulted in significant financial loss.

Exemplo? Maine Newspaper Web Sites Hacked: The Internet sites of three Maine newspapers were the targets of a weekend attack by hackers. The hackers broke into the sites of MaineToday.com early Saturday morning and replaced legitimate Web news pages with replacement pages that said, "You are owned."

Outro? Online newspaper hacked, editor smeared and subscribers threatened: Reporters Without Borders voiced outrage today at an attempt to smear exiled Gambian journalist Pa Nderry Mbai, the editor of the online Freedom Newspaper (http://www.freedomnewspaper.com), by hacking into his website and posting a false statement of allegiance to an associate of the president together with the names, addresses, phone numbers and e-mail addresses of all its subscribers, describing them as ?informers.?

VITAMEDIAS

Menace sur les médias français: Depuis plusieurs semaines, une série d?affaires secouent les médias français, tant privés que publics, soulevant la question de leur indépendance rédactionnelle.
Dans les médias privés, la baisse de diffusion de nombre de titres, certains parmi les plus prestigieux, accroît l?influence du propriétaire appelé à résorber les dettes. [...]
Face à une telle situation dans les médias privés, on pouvait espérer que l?audiovisuel public demeurerait, lui, à l?écart des pressions de ses « actionnaires », le pouvoir politique dans le cas d?espèce. Un an avant l?élection présidentielle, il n?en est rien, apparemment.

TECNOFERA

Eles andam aí:
Pentagon sets its sights on social networking websites: "I AM continually shocked and appalled at the details people voluntarily post online about themselves." So says Jon Callas, chief security officer at PGP, a Silicon Valley-based maker of encryption software. He is far from alone in noticing that fast-growing social networking websites such as MySpace and Friendster are a snoop's dream.
New Scientist has discovered that Pentagon's National Security Agency, which specialises in eavesdropping and code-breaking, is funding research into the mass harvesting of the information that people post about themselves on social networks. And it could harness advances in internet technology - specifically the forthcoming "semantic web" championed by the web standards organisation W3C - to combine data from social networking websites with details such as banking, retail and property records, allowing the NSA to build extensive, all-embracing personal profiles of individuals. [...]
"You should always assume anything you write online is stapled to your resumé. People don't realise you get Googled just to get a job interview these days," says Callas.

[exemplo: Blog gets job hunter into hot water: A university graduate from Qingdao, Shandong Province, failed to get a job after his prospective employer read the young man's blog]

19 junho 2006

VITAMEDIAS

Tendências:
Taking the paper out of newspapers: News companies need to come to terms with the fact that they are "in the business of writing news, not necessarily printing it on paper." That's the premise advocated by media mogul Rupert Murdoch -- who just added the popular myspace.com, a huge mainstream blogging/social networking site, to his portfolio, which includes TV and radio stations, and dozens of newspapers around the globe.
But English-speaking newspaper companies, in particular, may find this transition difficult to swallow, especially since, according to Columbia University media expert Eli Noam, English is one of the rare languages where the word "newspaper" actually has the word "paper" in it. In other languages, the linguistic concept itself is not so directly tied to a mass-market wood-based product.

Hundreds of magazines launch, but few survive
: More than 1,000 new titles were launched last year, including Men?s Vogue, Hollywood Dog and Poker Life.
By May of this year, nearly 300 more had hit the bookstore shelves, testing the waters of fickle consumerism, with Fertility Today, Real Fighter and Wine Adventure among them.
So many promising glossy pages. So little time.
More than half of them won?t survive their first year ? in fact, 63 percent will die a public death, predicts Samir Husni, chair of the journalism department at the University of Mississippi.

On The Sunny Side Of The Street
: Because believe it or not, in 2006 Wall Street likes Big Media. Year to date, the Bloomberg Media Index [...] has far outperformed the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index -- 7.7% to 1.2%, as of June 9.

All Web sites are alike
. Regardless of their owners, they can all do the same set of things. In that fact lies the profound crisis facing all aspects of the media industry. [...]
Coke can release music; ABC can publish articles; and Forbes or The New York Times can broadcast video.

In Media, Rex: So meet the SOMSM -- State-Owned Mainstream Media. You know, like PBS, only more so. Now wait just a second, you might be thinking -- the same governments that gave us the Post Office are going to give us the news? How could that be? [...]
Every country with ambitions on the international stage will soon have its own state-supported media.
If war is too important to be left to generals, then news is too important to be left to reporters. Governments, including ours, have their own ideas, and they want to share them with us, the people -- like it or not.
In addition, around the world, states will want to "help" their media. Not satisfied with what the free market is bringing about, politicians will offer to help out the invisible hand -- help it, that is, with their own iron fist.

TECNOSFERA

Web Ads Present New Front in Hacker Wars: Hackers are using increasingly sophisticated computer programs to automate phony clicks on Internet ads and then hide the click fraud from detection. This threat, though still small, poses a challenge for Google, Yahoo and other Internet companies that sell pay-per-click ads and need to assure advertisers that they are paying for legitimate clicks from potential customers.

.DE!

Coisas no futebol:
Dutch World Cup fans had to shed pants: FIFA confirmed to the Australian Broadcasting Corp. that the fans were told they had to shed their pants if they wanted to get into the stadium to cheer their team to victory Friday.
The problem was a Dutch brewery logo on the orange team-colored pants, the broadcaster said.
Budweiser beer had exclusive advertising and promotional rights to the stadium, so stadium officials made the Dutch fans shed their logos before they were allowed entry.

Children miss match in World Cup scam: The 350 children and 31 teachers from ten schools paid £399 for a ?World Cup Experience? weekend, which included tickets to the Portugal-Iran game in Frankfurt. But they were told on arrival at their youth hostels in Germany that their travel agents had been defrauded by an internet ticketing agency and they would not be attending the game.

ECOPOL

Só agora?!?
Brussels in move to publish data on EU fund recipients: national governments will be asked to publish detailed data on the recipients, projects and amounts of structural aid cash they receive from Brussels' coffers.

VITAMEDIAS

50 Best Magazines:
1. The Economist
2. Dwell
3. Wired
4. The New Yorker
5. ESPN the magazine

TECNOSFERA

The Lenovo Tapes: I?ve watched the material myself and I?ve got to agree with him ? it?s pretty amazing stuff. [mas verdadeiro?...]

09 junho 2006

VITAMEDIAS

Younger, cheaper journalists being hired worldwide, study shows: A new report by the International Federation of Journalists highlights a worldwide trend of experienced senior staff being replaced by younger graduates who are often employed on a casual or freelance basis and on less pay.
The report, entitled The Changing Nature of Work: A Global Survey, polled 41 journalists' organisations in 38 countries that are affiliated to the IFJ, which includes the National Union of Journalists in the UK.

VITAMEDIAS

Audiovisual media services directive: the right instrument to provide legal certainty for Europe?s media businesses in the next decade: The overwhelming majority of blogs would not be covered by the Directive because they would not respond to the six cumulative criteria recalled above: in particular, the following would not be covered: private websites or blogs of a non-commercial nature; Blogs that do not have as their ?principal purpose the delivery of moving images?. This would exclude for example, a blog put up by the local village football team, even if it is sponsored, for example, by the local building firm.
The Directive only covers audiovisual media services the principal purpose of which is to deliver audiovisual content.

.DE!

A Web como ferramenta para o embaraço: How NOT to steal a SideKick II [via] (à semelhança deste)

VITAMEDIAS

PSP acusada de "arruinar" vida a um suspeito inocente [com a ajuda do Correio da Manhã, se não se importam... (via)]

PHOTO-GRAFIA

Art of Science Competition/2006 Gallery: The practices of science and art both involve the single-minded pursuit of those moments of discovery when what one perceives suddenly becomes more than the sum of its parts. Each piece in this exhibition is, in its own way, a record of such a moment.

08 junho 2006

CONTAMINANTES

A propósito disto, a ler:
The Commission details its plan for a European Institute of Technology
Frequently Asked Questions : new steps towards a European Institute of Technology

VITAMEDIAS

Carrilho em blogue (Bloco de Notas): pequeno pacote de ideias que ajudem a combater com eficácia a opacidade e a impunidade mediáticas, e que favoreçam a transparência nas diversas actividades da comunicação social.
Esse pacote é constituido por quatro propostas e um voto.
As propostas são as seguintes:
1ª - Que os jornalistas , para lá das incompatibilidades já estabelecidas na lei, passem a ser sujeitos a um registo público de interesses.
(Este passo é, no actual contexto, absolutamente necessário. E é preciso colocar já no horizonte um outro, caso a auto-regulação deontológica se continue a deteriorar e a mercenarização se continue a agravar -: o da sua declaração de património e de rendimentos.)
2ª - Que esta obrigatoriedade se alargue também aos comentadores regulares e remunerados da comunicação social, na imprensa, na rádio e na televisão.
3ª - Que se criem mecanismos sancionatórios efectivos das más práticas do jornalismo, que punam, com eficácia, as violações do seu Código Deontológico.
4ª - Quanto às ?agências de comunicação?, devem regulamentar-se as suas actividades, em particular na sua vertente informativa, com o estabelecimento de um «código de conduta» muito claro, bem como das sanções da sua transgressão.

VITAMEDIAS

Sobre este "Não lhe dei um estalo, bati-lhe com a mão": O padre Acílio Fernandes, que também foi director da Casa do Gaiato de Setúbal até Julho de 2001, quando foi substituído pelo actual director, Júlio Pereira, deu a bofetada ao menino porque este teimava em aproximar-se do local onde o responsável prestava declarações à agência Lusa.
Curioso que a Antena 1 afirma que o padre bateu numa criança quando falava com... a Antena 1. Afinal houve uma conferência de imprensa ou aquele padre bate numa criança de cinco anos de cada vez que está presente um jornalista?

07 junho 2006

VITAMEDIAS

Why we are all journalists now: The implications of the California decision are profound as they may change more than just journalism.
The premise of press-specific legal protections is that journalists do more than just inform - they keep our leaders and institutions accountable to the public. In order to persuade sources to reveal information hidden from view, they depend upon assurances of absolute confidentiality.
The California court examined the state of online journalism and found that it too deserves the legal protections crafted for the press.
In doing so, it has extended those protections to everyone, effectively stating that we can all play a role in keeping our leaders accountable. We are all journalists now.

VITAMEDIAS

A propósito dos tesouros nacionais, uma visão sobre o jornalismo australiano (e não só): I was Russell Crowe's stooge
(Repare-se no início: He asked me if I could be trusted. The last thing he wanted to see in the papers, he said, was some story about my lunch with Russell Crowe. I told him not to worry. I wouldn't want to read that story either.)

TECNOSFERA

Old School Europe: A timely political scandal may provide an unexpected boost to an idea that has so far attracted little enthusiasm: a European version of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [...]
The EIT sounds like a great idea but it's really just another half-hearted rip-off. Whether or not Strasbourg is still Strasbourg, by the time Europe gets around to approving Barroso's plan, MIT -- and the rest of the world, for that matter -- will have moved on to something else.

06 junho 2006

VITAMEDIAS

À atenção dos jornalistas: Press Releases Are More Popular Than Reported News, Says Study: [Outsell VP and analyst Roger] Strouse posits several possible explanations for the rising popularity of press releases. "It may be that press releases are easier for people to get their hands on," he says. "It may be that press releases are shorter and pithier. It may be that they're oftentimes free and come right into an RSS reader." [...]
Other interesting findings include that the number of bloggers will soon double. Some 5% of respondents said they currently blogged while another 5% said they planned to begin blogging soon. The average respondent claimed to read nine blogs regularly.

.DE!

Sportugal: Estamos online desde 8 de Junho de 2006

CULTURAS IN VITRO

Content industry continues to push aggressive copyright laws: The content industry needs to ask itself one serious question: if it wishes to remain the spiritual (and economic) heir to Johannes Gutenberg, why is it acting so much like monasteries and scribes?

TECNOSFERA

Las diferencias entre los blogs españoles y latinoamericanos: los autores virtuales españoles están ?centrados en sí mismos? mientras que en Latinoamérica ?se unen en comunidades nacionales.

TECNOFERA

The NSA Phone Call Database: The European Perspective: Had a European government, instead of the Bush administration, created the NSA?s call database, would that government be in violation of European privacy law? I think so

CULTURAS IN VITRO

Star power: Celebrities have a legal right to prevent the commercial use of their images without permission. But are they silencing artists and satirists as well? [...]
"Our culture values celebrity, that's just a commercial reality. The question is who should be able to make money off of that celebrity. Should it be the individual or his or her family? Or should it be a stranger, whether it's a small entrepreneur selling T-shirts or multimillion-dollar media conglomerate? It ought to be the individual."
Still, several First Amendment scholars see this shift as troubling.

CULTURAS IN VITRO

Tickets? Oh, that's so last year: Guns N' Roses' show at the Hammersmith Apollo on June 7 is being touted as the world's first ticketless gig. Unless they specifically ask for a small piece of card, fans will be expected to arrive bearing barcodes sent to their mobile phones as text messages.

VITAMEDIAS

Debate sobre redefinição da notícia acelera a "grande conversa" na imprensa
as novas características da notícia no universo jornalístico:
1) Uma notícia será o resultado de uma conversa sobre o que faz sentido no mundo atual e não a consequência de um sermão;
2) A notícia será produzida por pessoas escolhidas pela comunidade e não por uma casta de eleitos;
3) A notícia será baseada na sabedoria de muitos e não nas idéias de uns poucos;
4) As notícias serão compostas por múltiplas percepções, variando desde posições individuais até interpretações ultra-sofisticadas de profissionais respeitados;
5) As notícias serão produzidas initerruptamente e disponíveis em sistemas eletronicos como telefones celulares, computadores e outros euipamentos altamente sofisticados;
6) As noticias serão tratadas segundo as perspectivas das redes sociais, da idade e grupos étnicos.

VITAMEDIAS

Bloggers Not Liable for Anonymous Posts: The Eastern District of Pennsylvania last month ruled that Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act protects blog owners from libel lawsuits resulting from anonymous posts. Judge Dalzell concluded that bloggers are Internet providers under this law.

TECNOSFERA

Supposing ... There's only one thing worth debating online: There's no point debating anything online. You might as well hurl shoes in the air to knock clouds from the sky. The internet's perfect for all manner of things, but productive discussion ain't one of them. It provides scant room for debate and infinite opportunities for fruitless point-scoring: the heady combination of perceived anonymity, gestated responses, random heckling and a notional "live audience" quickly conspire to create a "perfect storm" of perpetual bickering.

05 junho 2006

.DE!

A propagação dos mitos urbanos: Da imperfeição bíblica aos receios milenaristas: É já na terça-feira, 6 de Junho de 2006, ou seja, 6/6/6 e, pelos vistos, todos os cuidados são poucos...

Isto quando no ano passado já houve esta Revelation! 666 is not the number of the beast (it's a devilish 616): A newly discovered fragment of the oldest surviving copy of the New Testament indicates that, as far as the Antichrist goes, theologians, scholars, heavy metal groups, and television evangelists have got the wrong number. Instead of 666, it's actually the far less ominous 616.

CONTAMINANTES

Fibonacci's Missing Flowers
Play Petals Around the Rose

02 junho 2006

PHOTO-GRAFIAS

The City of Galvez
Jacek Yerka

ECOPOL

Para o debate do nuclear - um exemplo inglês: Waste matters: Plans for a waste repository are needed before new nuclear power stations are built

TECNOSFERA

I Congreso Iberoamericano Bitácoras y Derecho (4-6 Junio de 2006 - Zaragoza)

VITAMEDIAS

Ainda o jornalismo online ou o problema da reprodução não assistida...

TECNOFERA

Atenção imigrantes, fixem os contactos da Linha Privacidade porque eles andam aí:
Proposal to Implant Tracking Chips in Immigrants: Scott Silverman, Chairman of the Board of VeriChip Corporation, has proposed implanting the company's RFID tracking tags in immigrant and guest workers. He made the statement on national television earlier this week.
A tracking device for immigrants: Not satisfied with building a wall along the Mexican border, politicians in D.C. are discussing the idea of implanting immigrants with radio frequency ID chips.

Isto quando La tecnología biométrica seduce a los europeos: El 71% de los encuestados se sentiría más seguro si empleara la huella dactilar o una tarjeta de identidad biométrica para pagar bienes y servicios en el extranjero. Portugal encabeza esta tendencia -85%., mientras que en Holanda la aceptación cae al 46%.
Brew explica las razones de algunas de estas diferencias nacionales. "Portugal tiene cinco documentos de identidad nacionales, por lo que los portugueses tienen claro por qué su gobierno quiere integrarles en un único documento y qué beneficios tendrá esa iniciativa".

01 junho 2006

VITAMEDIAS

Newspapers woo bloggers with mixed results: Blogs written by so-called citizen journalists are increasingly challenging newspapers for readers. According to a recent study by Forrester Research, blogs and newspaper Web sites now have the same audience share--about 17 percent--among Internet users between the ages of 18 and 24.
"Newspapers still have a larger overall audience," says Charlene Li, a Forrester analyst. "But blogs are catching up quickly."

Internet Ads Rise 38 Percent in First Quarter: In the first quarter, online advertising soared 38 percent as advertisers devoted a record US$3.9 billion to target consumers on the Web, according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers. [Ex.: Internet ads have close shave]

La publicidad se prepara para aterrizar a lo grande en Internet: la publicidad en Internet sólo supone entre el 2 y el 3 % del total de la inversión publicitaria. [...]
La mayoría de los participantes han insistido en que no hay un modelo definido de publicidad en Internet, que se sigue haciendo lo mismo que en los medios tradicionales, que hay que innovar y ser creativos e investigar cuál es la ruta que sigue el consumidor para adquirir los productos. Pese a todo hay mucho optimismo y algunos incluso se han atrevido a sugerir que en cinco años toda la publicidad podrá ser digital.

CULTURAS IN VITRO

A Resolução do Conselho de Ministros que aprova o Plano Nacional de Leitura e nomeia a respectiva Comissária garante "O apoio a blogs e chat-rooms sobre livros e leitura para crianças, jovens e adultos".
Será curioso ver reciclagens ou o aparecimento de blogues para aproveitar o "apoio".

[Ah, e também foi aprovado o Estatuto do Jornalista mas isso é outra história.]

ECOPOL

USSR posters: Russian and/or Soviet propaganda & advert posters [dedicado ao Estudos sobre o comunismo]
[act.: Art and genocide]

ECOPOL

Lembram-se de como os Portugueses deviam estar "envergonhados" pela forma como são vistos no estrangeiro? Os esforços continuam para não sermos esquecidos. Eis como nos vêm, da Índia ao Canadá:
The parliament can wait ("Lawmakers in Portugal's parliament have accepted the inevitable.")
Portugal reschedules parliamentary debate

VITAMEDIAS

E agora, para algo completamente diferente:
1) vejam esta imagem e passem com o rato sobre ela. Viram? Pub no Flickr? A explicação está aqui.
2) Cosmonaut Aims to Hit Golf Ball in Space [e não é o primeiro. [via]]
3) Para ajudar o plano nacional de leitura, recomendo esta vista de Instambul...
4) Para ajudar à leitura de jornais, recomendo este Dinheiro Fácil?...

VITAMEDIAS

Não faz sentido convidar o público a participar: O que me parece é que não é o multimédia a característica dos meios de informação online que mais deve ser explorada. Numa altura em que a Web é cada vez mais social, em que o paradigma de uma comunicação horizontal se vai impondo, em que muitos estão já embrenhados numa cultura read/write, é na interactividade que o jornalismo online deve apostar para cativar audiências.
[Com as redacções no estado em que estão, será muito difícil. Aliás, o Sol explicou o que é uma visão de futuro para os jornais portugueses. Pensei estar a ver uma cassete de vídeo com uma gravação do passado...]

Clube dos Jornalistas: O essencial que se retira é que as empresas portuguesas e as agências (de publicidade) andam a dormir ou temerosas ainda com o rebentamento da bolha, no virar do século. Mas há que ter também em consideração que a web tuga é ainda muito beta, quando a web de que se fala quando se fala de um novo boom é a web 2.0. E as webs ali representadas são beta.
[Totalmente de acordo com todo o texto.
Este parágrafo e o programa lembraram-me um congresso de publicitários realizado em Portugal em que um guru francês explicou como a publicidade online seria o futuro, como jornais e anunciantes iam evoluir, como os jovens iam aderir, tudo demonstrado com previsões numéricas avassaladoras. Foi há 10 anos e foi o que se viu...]