TECNOSFERA
Online Surveillance Among Spouses Grows: Suspicious husbands and wives who once might have hired a private eye to find out if their spouses were cheating are now using do-it-yourself technology to check on an increasingly popular hideaway for trysts the Internet.
Divorce lawyers and marriage counselors say Internet-abetted infidelity, romance originating in chat rooms and fueled by e-mails, is now one of the leading factors in marital breakdowns.
31 julho 2003
TECNOSFERA
Cyborg Liberation Front by Erik Baard: Inside the Movement for Posthuman Rights
[I]f, in the future, the technology of human enhancement is forbidden by bio-Luddites through government legislation, or if they terrorize people into having no access to those technologies, that becomes a fundamental civil rights struggle. Then there might come a time for the legitimate use of violence in self-defense
Cyborg Liberation Front by Erik Baard: Inside the Movement for Posthuman Rights
[I]f, in the future, the technology of human enhancement is forbidden by bio-Luddites through government legislation, or if they terrorize people into having no access to those technologies, that becomes a fundamental civil rights struggle. Then there might come a time for the legitimate use of violence in self-defense
VITAMEDIAS
Newspaper Web Sites Struggle to Attract Younger Readers: Online editors who have managed to attract the elusive younger set make it sound so simple: Give them content they'll want to read and forums online where they can meet and discuss things that matter to them [...]
"The younger audience is not subscribing to the newspapers. This is a major concern for us," said [Mike Noe, Rocky Mountain News paper’s Internet news editor]. "But we also know where they are - they’re on the Internet. We’re just trying to get them to look at our site."
Newspaper Web Sites Struggle to Attract Younger Readers: Online editors who have managed to attract the elusive younger set make it sound so simple: Give them content they'll want to read and forums online where they can meet and discuss things that matter to them [...]
"The younger audience is not subscribing to the newspapers. This is a major concern for us," said [Mike Noe, Rocky Mountain News paper’s Internet news editor]. "But we also know where they are - they’re on the Internet. We’re just trying to get them to look at our site."
VITAMEDIAS
US journo salaries rise: Salaries for US journalists - particularly reporters - increased substantially from 2002 to 2003.
Results from the 16th annual Newspaper Industry Compensation Survey (NICS) identified the largest ever increase in a single year. Surveying 455 daily newspapers across the US and Canada, the results showed an increase in base pay of 7.1 per cent in 2003 - nearly double the previous annual average.
Wages for entry level reporters also rose, jumping 6.8 per cent from 2002. Reporters' salaries increased more than of any of the 83 job titles questionned for the report.
Online editors' pay increased by around 6 per cent, ranging from $21,424 to $156,104 per year. Most reported a salary in the region of $56,000.
Recent research on salaries among UK journalists was compiled by Ruskin College for the National Union of Journalists (NUJ). The report surveyed around 5,600 union members and estimated a median salary of £26,000.
Results from the 2002 survey, which is carried out bi-annually by the union, found that just under ten per cent of UK journalists earn less than £10,000 per year.
US journo salaries rise: Salaries for US journalists - particularly reporters - increased substantially from 2002 to 2003.
Results from the 16th annual Newspaper Industry Compensation Survey (NICS) identified the largest ever increase in a single year. Surveying 455 daily newspapers across the US and Canada, the results showed an increase in base pay of 7.1 per cent in 2003 - nearly double the previous annual average.
Wages for entry level reporters also rose, jumping 6.8 per cent from 2002. Reporters' salaries increased more than of any of the 83 job titles questionned for the report.
Online editors' pay increased by around 6 per cent, ranging from $21,424 to $156,104 per year. Most reported a salary in the region of $56,000.
Recent research on salaries among UK journalists was compiled by Ruskin College for the National Union of Journalists (NUJ). The report surveyed around 5,600 union members and estimated a median salary of £26,000.
Results from the 2002 survey, which is carried out bi-annually by the union, found that just under ten per cent of UK journalists earn less than £10,000 per year.
VITAMEDIAS
Be trained by the BBC - for free: The BBC now offers a range of free online training courses for journalists.
Introduced at the end of June 2003, the online courses have been hugely popular. The BBC style guide, compiled by seasoned BBC journalist John Allen, has been the biggest success with more than 8800 downloads so far.
Be trained by the BBC - for free: The BBC now offers a range of free online training courses for journalists.
Introduced at the end of June 2003, the online courses have been hugely popular. The BBC style guide, compiled by seasoned BBC journalist John Allen, has been the biggest success with more than 8800 downloads so far.
VITAMEDIAS
Ainda Sobre o "depósito" da Internet...: O melhor que a [Biblioteca Nacional (BN)] conseguiu até ao momento foi a apresentação do caso em 2001 aos então ministro da Ciência e Tecnologia e gestor do Programa Operacional da Sociedade da Informação (POSI). O possível de conseguir nessas condições foi um projecto de apoio à iniciativa Biblioteca Nacional Digital, com uma componente importante na área do depósito digital a financiar parcialmente pelo POSI (o desejável teria sido um programa nacional, mais abrangente e consequente, mas "mais vale um pássaro na mão..."). Este projecto arrancou apenas em 2003, depois de ultrapassadas dificuldades formais inesperadas por a BN não dispor de autonomia financeira, numa mostra das dificuldades extra para uma instituição deste género que se proponha enfrentar estes problemas de forma voluntarista, sem o devido enquadramento específico.
[Voltamos todos a falar sobre o assunto em 2005?...]
Ainda Sobre o "depósito" da Internet...: O melhor que a [Biblioteca Nacional (BN)] conseguiu até ao momento foi a apresentação do caso em 2001 aos então ministro da Ciência e Tecnologia e gestor do Programa Operacional da Sociedade da Informação (POSI). O possível de conseguir nessas condições foi um projecto de apoio à iniciativa Biblioteca Nacional Digital, com uma componente importante na área do depósito digital a financiar parcialmente pelo POSI (o desejável teria sido um programa nacional, mais abrangente e consequente, mas "mais vale um pássaro na mão..."). Este projecto arrancou apenas em 2003, depois de ultrapassadas dificuldades formais inesperadas por a BN não dispor de autonomia financeira, numa mostra das dificuldades extra para uma instituição deste género que se proponha enfrentar estes problemas de forma voluntarista, sem o devido enquadramento específico.
[Voltamos todos a falar sobre o assunto em 2005?...]
30 julho 2003
CONTAMINANTES
Can You See Me Now? Will the cellcam make phone sex even better than the real thing?
Teachers call for webcams in class: Cameras linked to the internet should be installed in every classroom so parents can see whether their children are misbehaving in school.
Can You See Me Now? Will the cellcam make phone sex even better than the real thing?
Teachers call for webcams in class: Cameras linked to the internet should be installed in every classroom so parents can see whether their children are misbehaving in school.
.DE!
Fifteen ways to leave your lover: Following an Islamic court decision last week that allowed a Malaysian man to serve a divorce on his wife by text message, we review some of the strangest - and cruellest - ways to get shot of that special someone:
4. Daniel Day Lewis
Informed his then-pregnant partner, Isabelle Adjani, by fax that he was leaving her. [...]
13. Matt Damon
The US actor dumped Minnie Driver [...] live to the American nation on the Oprah Winfrey chat show.
Fifteen ways to leave your lover: Following an Islamic court decision last week that allowed a Malaysian man to serve a divorce on his wife by text message, we review some of the strangest - and cruellest - ways to get shot of that special someone:
4. Daniel Day Lewis
Informed his then-pregnant partner, Isabelle Adjani, by fax that he was leaving her. [...]
13. Matt Damon
The US actor dumped Minnie Driver [...] live to the American nation on the Oprah Winfrey chat show.
ECO-TERROR
Pentagon Prepares a Futures Market on Terror Attacks: Washington, July 28 — The Pentagon office that proposed spying electronically on Americans to monitor potential terrorists has a new experiment. It is an online futures trading market, disclosed today by critics, in which anonymous speculators would bet on forecasting terrorist attacks, assassinations and coups.
Traders bullish on a biological attack on Israel or bearish on the chances of a North Korean missile strike would have the opportunity to bet on the likelihood of such events on a new Internet site established by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
The Pentagon called its latest idea a new way of predicting events and part of its search for the "broadest possible set of new ways to prevent terrorist attacks." Two Democratic senators who reported the plan called it morally repugnant and grotesque. The senators said the program fell under the control of Adm. John M. Poindexter, President Ronald Reagan's national security adviser.
Pentagon Abandons Plan for Futures Market on Terror: Washington, July 29 — The Pentagon office that proposed spying electronically on Americans to monitor potential terrorists has quickly abandoned an idea in which anonymous speculators would have bet on forecasting terrorist attacks, assassinations and coups in an online futures market.
Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz said today that the program would be dropped.
Senators say Pentagon plan would allow betting on terrorism, assassinations: According to its Web site, the Policy Analysis Market would be a joint program of the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, known as DARPA, and two private companies: Net Exchange, a market technologies company, and the Economist Intelligence Unit, the business information arm of the publisher of The Economist magazine.
[Algumas partes do site que foi entretanto desactivado: PAM Concept Overview, Becoming a PAM Trader, Organizations Behind PAM]
[act.: No future for Poindexter?: Irony of ironies - traders can now speculate on John Poindexter's chances of keeping his job.
act. II: Is a Futures Market on Terror Outlandish? Maybe not. There is strong evidence that futures exchanges can predict events better than other forms of analysis.
act. III: American Action Market]
Pentagon Prepares a Futures Market on Terror Attacks: Washington, July 28 — The Pentagon office that proposed spying electronically on Americans to monitor potential terrorists has a new experiment. It is an online futures trading market, disclosed today by critics, in which anonymous speculators would bet on forecasting terrorist attacks, assassinations and coups.
Traders bullish on a biological attack on Israel or bearish on the chances of a North Korean missile strike would have the opportunity to bet on the likelihood of such events on a new Internet site established by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
The Pentagon called its latest idea a new way of predicting events and part of its search for the "broadest possible set of new ways to prevent terrorist attacks." Two Democratic senators who reported the plan called it morally repugnant and grotesque. The senators said the program fell under the control of Adm. John M. Poindexter, President Ronald Reagan's national security adviser.
Pentagon Abandons Plan for Futures Market on Terror: Washington, July 29 — The Pentagon office that proposed spying electronically on Americans to monitor potential terrorists has quickly abandoned an idea in which anonymous speculators would have bet on forecasting terrorist attacks, assassinations and coups in an online futures market.
Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz said today that the program would be dropped.
Senators say Pentagon plan would allow betting on terrorism, assassinations: According to its Web site, the Policy Analysis Market would be a joint program of the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, known as DARPA, and two private companies: Net Exchange, a market technologies company, and the Economist Intelligence Unit, the business information arm of the publisher of The Economist magazine.
[Algumas partes do site que foi entretanto desactivado: PAM Concept Overview, Becoming a PAM Trader, Organizations Behind PAM]
[act.: No future for Poindexter?: Irony of ironies - traders can now speculate on John Poindexter's chances of keeping his job.
act. II: Is a Futures Market on Terror Outlandish? Maybe not. There is strong evidence that futures exchanges can predict events better than other forms of analysis.
act. III: American Action Market]
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