Imagens fixas?

Uma década

que remetia então para a newsletter enviada pela primeira vez a 15 de Fevereiro de 2002 (e o Zite do download da Internet continua a funcionar!!). O primeiro post autónomo seria a 19 de Setembro. 10 anos, é muito tempo.

O nome de 13 videojogos clássicos

How 13 Classic Video Games Got Their Names

Realidade substitucional

Substitutional Reality Is the Acid Trip You Never Had

Devem os jornais aumentar o seu preço?

Why newspapers must raise their price: There is no elasticity in newspaper prices. In other words, a significant price hike won’t necessarily translate into a material drop in circulation. But the extra money raised in the process will provide welcomed help for investments in digital technologies.

Sessão da tarde: uma questão de equilíbrio (Kubrick)

Pub da boa: músculos

Gritos no The Newsroom

Questões para jornalistas

What is a publisher anymore, anyway? A blog is a magazine. A magazine a blog. A newspaper a WordPress install. A Twitter account a journalist.

The physical and experiential boundaries that defined mediums have dissolved, continue to dissolve. Differences in types of content are now largely semantic.

There was a time when “blog” was a word derided by journalists. There was a time when nytimes.com would not host a blog. Would not dare put bloggers beneath their banner. Not place them within their shrine. The Atlantic, too. Others, also. Now, many of their sections look like blogs. Feel like blogs. Are run atop blog software.

It’s not that blogs were bad and newspapers confused. It was that blogs were fast, are fast—really fast. Even faster than newspapers, which were the fastest printed thing. Blogs have gotten better at thinking slow while publishing fast. Newspapers have figured out how to tame and shape the wild essence of a blog.

And so what about Facebook pages? A Facebook page is a blog, which is a part of a newspaper, a piece of a magazine. You can post long articles, short articles, and image galleries. You can edit posts. You can remove posts. There are authors, a chronology. No, you don’t have much control over the look and feel, but is that strictly necessary in the beginning?
Our New Shrines

Democracia incandescente ou apenas lâmpadas com um pouco de mercúrio

Hoje, acabam-se as lâmpadas incandescentes na Europa.

"O que parece ser uma boa notícia", como aqui se alertava em Março de 2007, demonstra tão bem a democracia europeia: "Nowhere is the bureaucratic influence of European government agencies as powerful as in the delirium of energy efficiency.

"The EU has made a decision without consulting citizens and, in doing so, it has massively intervened in our quality of life," says [Rudolf] Hannot, the light-bulb activist. This paternalism and lack of transparency almost aggravates him more than doing without the stronger, warmer light of incandescent light bulbs. The makers of the documentary film "Bulb Fiction" even speculate that the European light-bulb lobby, including major companies like Philips and Osram, are behind the demise of the cheaper incandescent light bulb given the much larger profit margins associated with more expensive energy-saving light bulbs."

O documentário Bulb Fiction (aqui, em alemão) mereceu uma declaração de peritos da Comissão Europeia que, entre outras coisas, confirma a existência de (pouco) mercúrio nestas fantásticas lâmpadas: "the content of mercury in those lamps is very low and adverse health effects from exposure to mercury after accidental breakage of the lamps are not expected".

Mas, como cita a Der Spiegel, "for chemist Michael Braungart, the new products are "a crime" owing to the highly toxic mercury they contain. "In the name of protecting the environment, the EU is forcing its citizens to bring toxic waste into their homes," says Braungart, who calls the legislation "perverse."
In a 2010 study, the German Federal Environment Agency (BMU) concluded that if one of the bulbs is accidentally broken, it is sufficient to simply open the windows and air out the space. But even if the bulbs are not broken, disposal is problematic. Since the EU does not require retailers to take back the bulbs, 80 percent end up in household garbage, leaving the mercury to ultimately seep into the soil or groundwater."

E, assim, as tais lâmpadas ecológicas vão mercurizar os solos ou o lençol freático. Parabéns, eurodeputados. Brilhante, para usar uma linguagem mais iluminada.

(imagem daqui)