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Só agora vi: Secret DHS Agreement to Share Passenger Data in Violation of Agreements Is Confirmed: The text of a secret agreement that the Department of Homeland Security executed with the Centers for Disease Control to share airline passenger data confirms what the American Civil Liberties Union had feared, which is that the U.S. government is distributing information that it explicitly promised it would not share. This is very troubling for several reasons. [...]
In 2003, the United States and the European Union reached an agreement under which the EU would share Passenger Name Record (PNR) data with the U.S., despite the lack of privacy laws in the United States adequate to ensure Europeans? privacy. In return, DHS agreed that the passenger data would not be used for any purpose other than preventing acts of terrorism or other serious crimes. It is now clear that DHS did not abide by that agreement.
How can the American people, much less foreign nations, trust our government on privacy (or any other matter) when it does not abide by its own agreements?

VITAMEDIAS

Blogs making their impact felt: Why has the issue of consumers' increased ability to create and publish their own content suddenly come under the spotlight?
Put simply, it is because the internet, enabled by a rapid switch to broadband, has recently reached a tipping point in its evolutionary path.
It has moved, relatively quickly, from a predominantly one-way, read-only medium to a more two-way, participatory, collaborative and interconnected medium.

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Usual Suspects Dominate Webbys: Webby Awards judges have spoken. In a list made public Tuesday, panelists overseeing the annual ceremony honoring outstanding websites named Google Earth, National Public Radio, BBC and more than 50 other sites as winners.

CONTAMINANTES

Civic science: It is easy to say Americans, even those graduating from elite universities, lack scientific knowledge. But it is hard to define what science literacy consists of-and harder still to know how universities can impart it to, say, English majors. Does science literacy mean knowing a roster of facts or concepts? Having a sense of the scientific method? Appreciating the history and philosophy of science? Being competent in math, the lingua franca of the sciences? All of the above?

CULTURAS IN VITRO

Writers bid on eBay to create new book: So far, eight pages of the unique book, Novel Twists, have been written by eight different people from Scotland, Canada, Ireland, the US, and England.
Nobody knows who is going to write the ninth page, never mind the following 241. Each author has to contribute between 250 and 450 words, making for a book of 62,000 to 112,000 words.
As for the plot, it's anybody's guess.
Writers have staked their place in the literary canon by going online to eBay and bidding one cent for the page they want to write.

CULTURAS IN VITRO

The Da Vinci pitch: How do you create anticipation for a movie when 50 million readers already know the plot? [...]
The plagiarism trial brought against Dan Brown by a pair of religious conspiracy historians provided kilometres of coverage for all things DVC only six weeks before the film's May 18 release. Historians Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh, two of three authors of Holy Blood, Holy Grail, started their suit back in 2004, but the trial only began this February and wound up only a month ago.
Brown and Leigh and Baigent shared the same publisher - effectively Random House was suing itself. During the trial, online booksellers Amazon reported sales of Holy Blood, Holy Grail rocketing by 3500 per cent. Sales of The Da Vinci Code, already a worldwide bestseller, rose 187 per cent. While the judge deliberated, Baigent's new book The Jesus Papers was released on the same day as the US paperback edition of The Da Vinci Code. In The Guardian, Baigent said of the dual release date, "total coincidence, at least from our side". But even Baigent agreed there had been a lot of coincidences, adding, "at least I assume they are coincidences".

VITAMEDIAS

Talkin' bout a media revolution: Forty years ago, music was leading a social revolution, disrupting the establishment and empowering a new generation.
Today's web technology and social media, known as Web 2.0, or the second wave of the internet, are leading a similar challenge and the long-term effects are likely to be greater.
Once again we are divided into those who get it and those who don't. There is hyperventilating on the blog barricades about the end of the old order and the birth of the new counter-culture, information anarchy.

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Mais uma para captar leitores, quando a imaginação não falta:
Get ready for Bono, the editor...: On Tuesday 16 May the paper will be edited by Bono and The Independent will be donating half its revenues to RED.

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