20 Questions A Journalist Should Ask About Poll Results:
# Who did the poll?
# Who paid for the poll and why was it done?
# How many people were interviewed for the survey?
# How were those people chosen?
# What area (nation, state, or region) or what group (teachers,lawyers, Democratic voters, etc.) were these people chosen from?
# Are the results based on the answers of all the people interviewed?
# Who should have been interviewed and was not? Or do response rates matter?
# When was the poll done?
# How were the interviews conducted?
# What about polls on the Internet or World Wide Web?
# What is the sampling error for the poll results?
# Who’s on first?
# What other kinds of factors can skew poll results?
# What questions were asked?
# In what order were the questions asked?
# What about "push polls?"
# What other polls have been done on this topic? Do they say the same thing? If they are different, why are they different?
# What about exit polls?
# What else needs to be included in the report of the poll?
# So I've asked all the questions. The answers sound good. Should we report the results?
07 novembro 2007
Diário da Monarquia
The UK's top [3] most ridiculous British laws were listed as:
# 1. It is illegal to die in the Houses of Parliament (27%)
# 2. It is an act of treason to place a postage stamp bearing the British king or queen's image upside-down (7%)
# 3. It is illegal for a woman to be topless in Liverpool except as a clerk in a tropical fish store (6%)
# 1. It is illegal to die in the Houses of Parliament (27%)
# 2. It is an act of treason to place a postage stamp bearing the British king or queen's image upside-down (7%)
# 3. It is illegal for a woman to be topless in Liverpool except as a clerk in a tropical fish store (6%)
06 novembro 2007
Da Web
Web 2.0 Is On The Ropes: For example, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Silicon Valley's leading VC firm, has stopped investing in Web 2.0 startups.
Technorati Drops Content Older Than 6 Months Old: We’re in the midst of some economization, performance fixes and retooling that have required taking some data offline. The data is not lost but our priorities are to prefer keeping recent data online. Most people don’t notice :) We’ll probably be bringing that data back online but I don’t have an ETA yet.
Google is hugely dangerous – claims Times Online editor: The editor of Timesonline today told the Society of Editors conference that Google was 'hugely dangerous' to the newspaper industry.
Poll finds nearly 80 percent of U.S. adults go online: The survey, which polled 2,062 adults in July and October, found that 79 percent of adults -- about 178 million -- go online, spending an average 11 hours a week on the Internet.
Technorati Drops Content Older Than 6 Months Old: We’re in the midst of some economization, performance fixes and retooling that have required taking some data offline. The data is not lost but our priorities are to prefer keeping recent data online. Most people don’t notice :) We’ll probably be bringing that data back online but I don’t have an ETA yet.
Google is hugely dangerous – claims Times Online editor: The editor of Timesonline today told the Society of Editors conference that Google was 'hugely dangerous' to the newspaper industry.
Poll finds nearly 80 percent of U.S. adults go online: The survey, which polled 2,062 adults in July and October, found that 79 percent of adults -- about 178 million -- go online, spending an average 11 hours a week on the Internet.
Um bom exemplo
de como os jornais "de referência" são cada vez mais idênticos (ou "clónicos"):
Welcome to the clonic journalism club!
Welcome to the clonic journalism club!
Por falar em estupidez
Man angry with son-in-law fingers him as terrorist to FBI: A man in Sweden who was angry with his daughter's husband has been charged with libel for telling the FBI that the son-in-law had links to al-Qaeda, Swedish media reported on Friday.
The man, who admitted sending the email, said he did not think the US authorities would stupid enough to believe him.
The man, who admitted sending the email, said he did not think the US authorities would stupid enough to believe him.
04 novembro 2007
Dito por outros
Os portugueses têm muito pouco amor à liberdade
A PRIVACIDADE E O USO DOS SENTIMENTOS NA PROPAGANDA POLÍTICA: É verdade que, nesta matéria, como em muitas outras, há uma história social que nem sempre vemos com clareza. De facto, os mais pobres nunca valorizaram a privacidade porque nunca a tiveram. Vivendo em condições de promiscuidade num mundo da "aldeia", ou atirados para as "ilhas", para as "vilas" e depois para as várias versões dos HLM franceses, dos bairros sociais, dos subúrbios, a parte de "baixo" da sociedade não tinha "espaço" para essas delícias da riqueza que era ter quartos individuais. O luxo e o dinheiro protegiam, como ainda protegem, a privacidade limitando o "acesso", mas nem por isso se pode considerar a privacidade como um privilégio dos de "cima". A privacidade é, no seu melhor sentido, um dos adquiridos do mundo burguês, da casa, do espaço familiar ou reservado, da liberdade de mostrar ou esconder o que nos parece ser a última propriedade: o mundo próprio do ser.
A PRIVACIDADE E O USO DOS SENTIMENTOS NA PROPAGANDA POLÍTICA: É verdade que, nesta matéria, como em muitas outras, há uma história social que nem sempre vemos com clareza. De facto, os mais pobres nunca valorizaram a privacidade porque nunca a tiveram. Vivendo em condições de promiscuidade num mundo da "aldeia", ou atirados para as "ilhas", para as "vilas" e depois para as várias versões dos HLM franceses, dos bairros sociais, dos subúrbios, a parte de "baixo" da sociedade não tinha "espaço" para essas delícias da riqueza que era ter quartos individuais. O luxo e o dinheiro protegiam, como ainda protegem, a privacidade limitando o "acesso", mas nem por isso se pode considerar a privacidade como um privilégio dos de "cima". A privacidade é, no seu melhor sentido, um dos adquiridos do mundo burguês, da casa, do espaço familiar ou reservado, da liberdade de mostrar ou esconder o que nos parece ser a última propriedade: o mundo próprio do ser.
03 novembro 2007
O novo livro de Rudy Rucker
Postsingular: Today I’ll give you some specific examples of science fiction affecting science fact.
(1) First I’m going to talk about a particular idea that fueled the cyberpunk literary movement in the 1980s.
(2) Second I’m going to talk about how this idea has affected technology over the last twenty-five years.
(3) Third I’m going to talk about some ideas that I’m using in my new series of psipunk novels.
(4) Fourth I’ll say a bit about how I think my new ideas might play out in the technology of the coming twenty-five years.
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