02 outubro 2005
30 setembro 2005
TECNOSFERA
Leitura para o fim de semana: Infidelidade virtual: um mito ou realidade com efeitos jurídicos: é difícil a prova da existência de um relacionamento virtual; mas, sendo difícil, não é impossível, existindo meios que o cônjuge, legitimamente, pode utilizar para provar o adultério virtual do consorte.
TECNOSFERA
Porque é que num país tão virado para a inovação, não se organizam este tipo de WorkShop - Images & Mobilité - Video, Movies, TV... new formats, new usages, new models (reparem nos patrocínios...)
ECOPOL
Depois não digam que não foram avisados:
Este é o país que vamos ter: É este o enquadramento da nossa dinâmica populacional. A baixa do índice sintético de fecundidade (que estima 2,1 crianças por mulher como limiar de substituição das gerações), associada ao aumento da esperança de vida da população (hoje, mais 14 anos do que em 1960 para os homens e mais 15 anos para as mulheres), especialmente o aumento da esperança de vida da população mais idosa, coloca ao país um conjunto de desafios não negligenciáveis. (via Marktest)
Este é o país que vamos ter: É este o enquadramento da nossa dinâmica populacional. A baixa do índice sintético de fecundidade (que estima 2,1 crianças por mulher como limiar de substituição das gerações), associada ao aumento da esperança de vida da população (hoje, mais 14 anos do que em 1960 para os homens e mais 15 anos para as mulheres), especialmente o aumento da esperança de vida da população mais idosa, coloca ao país um conjunto de desafios não negligenciáveis. (via Marktest)
VITAMEDIAS
E pronto: Times Reporter Free From Jail; She Will Testify: Judith Miller, the reporter for The New York Times who has been jailed since July 6 for refusing to testify in the C.I.A. leak case, was released Thursday from a Virginia detention center after she and her lawyers reached an agreement with a federal prosecutor in which she would testify before a grand jury investigating the case, the publisher and the executive editor of the paper said. [...]
Her decision to testify was made after she had obtained what she described as a waiver offered "voluntarily and personally" by a source who said she was no longer bound by any pledge of confidentiality she had made to him. Ms. Miller said the source had made clear that he genuinely wanted her to testify.
Her decision to testify was made after she had obtained what she described as a waiver offered "voluntarily and personally" by a source who said she was no longer bound by any pledge of confidentiality she had made to him. Ms. Miller said the source had made clear that he genuinely wanted her to testify.
29 setembro 2005
ECOPOL
Conselho de Ministros aprova sistema de videovigilância rodoviária: O Conselho de Ministros aprovou hoje o decreto que permite a instalação de sistemas de videovigilância rodoviária, com o objectivo de reforçar a prevenção de acidentes e a garantia de segurança nas estradas portuguesas.
E nem uma única alma questiona que, perante esta lei, somos todos vigiados e culpados até prova em contrário. Em democracia, não é precisamente o contrário?
Que imagens não admissíveis em tribunal (podem ser forjadas...) sirvam de prova para multar.
Que não se saiba quem controla a recolha dessas imagens (lembram-se das imagens com namorados registadas nos espaços dos multibancos que circularam pela Internet?)
Que não se investigue quem vai ganhar com este negócio. Serão as seguradoras? Será a polícia?
Que não se lembre que estudos anteriores (Reino Unido, Austrália e Canadá) demonstraram que a introdução de videocâmaras no controlo do tráfego não teve impacto discernível na diminuição da velocidade dos veículos ou no número das mortes (ver "Safe Roads, Safe Communities") ou pode mesmo contribuir para mais acidentes.
Que não se recordem os variados erros que esta técnica proporciona. Por exemplo, quando A motorist uses science to prove a speed camera issued him a bogus ticket for going 51MPH when he was driving only 13MPH.
Sabem quando é que os jornalistas se vão preocupar com o assunto? Quando ocorrer este tipo de casos:
Testimony Heard Regarding Edmonton Police Attempt to Arrest Journalist
New details emerged Tuesday in a Royal Canadian Mounted Police inquiry into an Edmonton Police Service attempt to arrest a newspaper columnist over articles that criticized the police. On November 18, 2004, several officers were involved in a stake-out of the Overtime Bar in a failed attempt to arrest Edmonton Sun writer Kerry Diotte and police oversight commission chairman Martin Ignasiak.
Yesterday's disciplinary hearing focused on the head of the traffic section, Sergeant Bill Newton, who is charged with abusing his authority. According to testimony heard yesterday, Newton had been angered by an April 4, 2004 column in which Diotte criticized the city's photo radar program. The column became a hot topic of discussion throughout the police force.
Diotte cited statistics that showed speed cameras raised a lot of money for police but led to an increase, not a decrease, in accidents. "In 2001 alone, city police issued 194,500 speeding tickets," Diotte wrote.
"Photo radar and red-light cameras raise about $14 million annually for police. Yet last year fatal collisions jumped to 32 from 20 in 2002."
Infelizmente, leram aqui em primeira mão ;(
E nem uma única alma questiona que, perante esta lei, somos todos vigiados e culpados até prova em contrário. Em democracia, não é precisamente o contrário?
Que imagens não admissíveis em tribunal (podem ser forjadas...) sirvam de prova para multar.
Que não se saiba quem controla a recolha dessas imagens (lembram-se das imagens com namorados registadas nos espaços dos multibancos que circularam pela Internet?)
Que não se investigue quem vai ganhar com este negócio. Serão as seguradoras? Será a polícia?
Que não se lembre que estudos anteriores (Reino Unido, Austrália e Canadá) demonstraram que a introdução de videocâmaras no controlo do tráfego não teve impacto discernível na diminuição da velocidade dos veículos ou no número das mortes (ver "Safe Roads, Safe Communities") ou pode mesmo contribuir para mais acidentes.
Que não se recordem os variados erros que esta técnica proporciona. Por exemplo, quando A motorist uses science to prove a speed camera issued him a bogus ticket for going 51MPH when he was driving only 13MPH.
Sabem quando é que os jornalistas se vão preocupar com o assunto? Quando ocorrer este tipo de casos:
Testimony Heard Regarding Edmonton Police Attempt to Arrest Journalist
New details emerged Tuesday in a Royal Canadian Mounted Police inquiry into an Edmonton Police Service attempt to arrest a newspaper columnist over articles that criticized the police. On November 18, 2004, several officers were involved in a stake-out of the Overtime Bar in a failed attempt to arrest Edmonton Sun writer Kerry Diotte and police oversight commission chairman Martin Ignasiak.
Yesterday's disciplinary hearing focused on the head of the traffic section, Sergeant Bill Newton, who is charged with abusing his authority. According to testimony heard yesterday, Newton had been angered by an April 4, 2004 column in which Diotte criticized the city's photo radar program. The column became a hot topic of discussion throughout the police force.
Diotte cited statistics that showed speed cameras raised a lot of money for police but led to an increase, not a decrease, in accidents. "In 2001 alone, city police issued 194,500 speeding tickets," Diotte wrote.
"Photo radar and red-light cameras raise about $14 million annually for police. Yet last year fatal collisions jumped to 32 from 20 in 2002."
Infelizmente, leram aqui em primeira mão ;(
VITAMEDIAS
Ainda a propósito do azul que invadiu os diários de ontem (parece que o Diário Económico resistiu, alguém confirma?): Product placement pushes into print: Revenue from product placements in magazine editorial copy - the stories and photographs - is expected to rise 17.5 percent to $160.9 million this year, and in newspapers by 16.9 percent to $65 million, says a report from PQ Media in Stamford, Conn., released in July.
The study measured all placements of products, whether paid for, exchanged in a barter arrangement, or included without compensation to the publication. It also counted such things as product reviews and photos of products provided by companies without charge.
Product placements, if done in exchange for payment, would violate the operating guidelines of most publications, which usually insist on a clear division between stories or "editorial copy" and advertising as a mark of responsible journalism.
An executive summary of the PQ Media report, titled "Product Placement Spending in Media 2005," did not specify any specific instances where products had been placed in a particular newspaper or magazine in return for payment.
The study measured all placements of products, whether paid for, exchanged in a barter arrangement, or included without compensation to the publication. It also counted such things as product reviews and photos of products provided by companies without charge.
Product placements, if done in exchange for payment, would violate the operating guidelines of most publications, which usually insist on a clear division between stories or "editorial copy" and advertising as a mark of responsible journalism.
An executive summary of the PQ Media report, titled "Product Placement Spending in Media 2005," did not specify any specific instances where products had been placed in a particular newspaper or magazine in return for payment.
VITAMEDIAS
Media Capital vai ser ponte para o Brasil e não só: Prisa eyeing Portugal as 'stepping stone' to Brazil, Mozambique: Cebrian said: 'We would like to use Portugal as a stepping-stone to countries where Spain has not traditionally had a presence,' citing Brazil and Mozambique as possible expansion opportunities.
TECNOSFERA
What is Web 2.0? a ?collection of technologies - be it VoIP, Digital Media, XML, RSS, Google Maps? whatever ?. that leverage the power of always on, high speed connections and treat broadband as a platform, and not just a pipe to connect.?
CONTAMINANTES
Societies worse off 'when they have God on their side': Religious belief can cause damage to a society, contributing towards high murder rates, abortion, sexual promiscuity and suicide, according to research published today.
According to the study, belief in and worship of God are not only unnecessary for a healthy society but may actually contribute to social problems.
The study counters the view of believers that religion is necessary to provide the moral and ethical foundations of a healthy society.
[Do estudo:] Despite a significant decline from a recent peak in the 1980s (Rosenfeld), the U.S. is the only prosperous democracy that retains high homicide rates, making it a strong outlier in this regard (Beeghley; Doyle, 2000). Similarly, theistic Portugal also has rates of homicides well above the secular developing democracy norm.
According to the study, belief in and worship of God are not only unnecessary for a healthy society but may actually contribute to social problems.
The study counters the view of believers that religion is necessary to provide the moral and ethical foundations of a healthy society.
[Do estudo:] Despite a significant decline from a recent peak in the 1980s (Rosenfeld), the U.S. is the only prosperous democracy that retains high homicide rates, making it a strong outlier in this regard (Beeghley; Doyle, 2000). Similarly, theistic Portugal also has rates of homicides well above the secular developing democracy norm.
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