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[Uma diferença entre jornalistas e "bloggers:]
'Off the Record' Gates/Jobs Comments Posted Online: The organizers of the Wall Street Journal's D - All Things Digital conference made reporters promise that all sessions were off the record unless the speakers specifically agreed to put the comments on the record. Regular conference attendees were under no such restraint, and as a result we have coverage from the audience, not the journalists.
Denise Howell has posted Bill Gates' and Steve Jobs' remarks on her weblog. Should I post my own coverage soon, now that Denise (and others in the audience) are filing their own stories? Why shouldn't I? (I won't because I said I wouldn't.)
Denise Howell: So, I've been noticing a little chatter about this press/blogger distinction as I continue to post my notes from D. No one has asked me not to do this (a fact that is utterly unsurprising to me given the overall insignificance of this weblog and its authoress). Moreover, nothing on the conference Web site, in the related materials I received or in the comments from the stage led me to believe the remarks of the speakers were not an appropriate subject for public discussion.
[act.: Gag Rules? Bloggers Report Anyway: The Wall Street Journal is thinking of changing the reporting rules for its high-profile technology conference after a couple of webloggers inadvertently broke a gag order. [...]
Saul Wurman, organizer of the long-running TED conference (which is now TedMed), said reporting restrictions are meaningless, a smoke screen to make attendees think they will be party to confidential information.
"It gives a certain panache to things," Wurman said. "It gives people the impression they are hearing things no one has heard before. I don't think it affects what (the speakers) say. They play their cards too close. These aren't the kind of people who spill the beans. It's an artificial restriction."]

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Sources of Accuracy [via PontoMedia]
Let's end the old taboo against showing stories to sources before publication.
There is no written version of this prohibition on any newsroom bulletin board that I know of. But it remains an important part of American newspaper culture. I know this because I have been violating the taboo for 18 years and know how uncomfortable it makes other journalists to hear about it. [...]
The more I have done this, the more I've realized that the unwritten rule against checking stories this way is an unfortunate byproduct of that sense of entitlement that animated the stories I heard during my intern summer. We journalists feel that the First Amendment makes us arbiters of fact and that outsiders have no legitimate role after we've finished interviewing them. [...]
There is much confusion about the rules governing the issue. When I switched assignments six years ago, one of my new bosses told me that it was against Post policy to show stories to sources but that he would overlook my bad habit in consideration of my advancing years.
Actually, The Post does not prohibit this method, although it doesn't encourage it either. If you ask them, most editors, like mine, say it is okay, although a Wall Street Journal editor told me it is a no-no in his newsroom. I don't want to require that all reporters do this. That might mean that an otherwise conscientious reporter could be sued if she did not have the time or opportunity to get back to her sources before deadline. But I would like editors at least to announce to all reporters that they may do it, and see if that might help serve our disenchanted readers better than we have been doing lately.
[Nada como uma crise nos media para se colocar tudo em questão! Esta é interessante. No entanto, se é para dissipar dúvidas, não é preciso mostrar o texto todo aos entrevistados, basta telefonar e confirmar os dados - ou não?...]

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If you really want to know, ask a blogger: On 18 May, for example, one Geoffrey Nunberg fulminated in the New York Times about the fact that whenever one does a Google search on any topical issue, the top page rankings often go to blogs rather than established media sources (such as the New York Times ). [...]
The moral is: if you want to score with Google, be on the web. Otherwise, go whistle.

ZITE
Domino Artwork

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Mas eles não aprendem?... Depois de a Provedora do DN alertar para que "informar não é, apenas, divulgar um facto. É explicá-lo, interpretá-lo e reduzir, sobre ele, o grau de incerteza", o jornal insiste hoje na primeira página que "Herman processa grupo Balsemão" para lá dentro referir que Herman pode processar SIC, salientando no primeiro parágrafo que Herman "ameaçou processar quase toda a comunicação social do fim-de-semana que se referiu ao seu alegado envolvimento na rede de pedofilia da Casa Pia". Em que ficamos?

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FCC lifts limits on ownership of outlets: The Federal Communications Commission has dismissed concerns about media diversity in approving new ownership rules that increase the ability of large media corporations to increase their holdings of local media outlets.
F.C.C. Votes to Relax Rules Limiting Media Ownership: Federal regulators relaxed decades-old rules restricting media ownership Monday, permitting companies to buy more television stations and own a newspaper and a broadcast outlet in the same city.

ZITE
Insanidade Mentol:
- Nós, aqui no blog, defendemos que o Luís Delgado merece ser sepultado no Panteão Nacional. Tem é de ser já. [...]
A história da blogosfera desta nossa província espanhola ficou abruptamente marcada por um acontecimento: a descida ao underground de JPP.
No futuro, falar-se-á do pré-Abrupto e pós-Abrupto:
-E quando foi preso Paulo Pedroso?
-Mês dois depois de Abrupto.

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Dois blogs portugueses que fecham as portas: o Mar Portuguêz por "falta de interesse em continuar..." e o Blogalizador porque "NAO AH PACIENCIA PA NET NEM HOJE NEM MAIS NENHUMA VEZ DESISTO....."
Quantos se vão seguir? "Just asking"...

.DE!
Don't lose the snooze, Portugal nap activists say: Portugal's tradition of the after-lunch siesta is under threat and needs to be upheld, according to an association of nap defenders formed on Monday. [Mas eles julgam que somos os espanhóis?!?!?!...]

CONTAMINANTES
Scientists study rising seas: Two scientists at a Scottish university are examining the effect of rising sea levels on a Fife estuary as part of a 1m euro project.
The Eden Estuary near St Andrews is one of five sites across Europe being assessed for the study into the impact of global warming. [...]
The other four sites are the Westerschelde estuary in the Netherlands, the Waterford estuary in Ireland, the Tagus estuary in Portugal and the Sylt estuary in Germany.