Dúvidas

- Será que se esta análise (PSD é sub-representado e PS "apagado" na informação da RTP, diz ERC) fosse efectuada apenas para os canais em aberto (RTP1 e RTP2) daria os mesmos resultados?
A resposta: "O Governo, juntamente com o PS, soma, no conjunto dos três blocos informativos, 1439 presenças, número superior à soma da presença dos partidos com e sem representação parlamentar, que é de 1120".

- Porque razão ficou a RTP Internacional de fora, quando, "o Conselho Regulador considerou que “o facto de RTPN ser um canal para a televisão por cabo não afasta, por si só, a possibilidade de desempenhar uma missão de serviço público”"? Como a RTPI ou a RTP África por satélite, ou não?

- Se "Na informação diária, foram analisadas 3.229 peças, das quais:
466 emitidas no Jornal da Tarde da RTP1 (122 edições);
842 emitidas no Telejornal da RTP1 (122 edições);
637 emitidas no Jornal 2 da RTP2 (122 edições);
380 emitidas no bloco informativo das 24h00 da RTPN (61 edições);
368 emitidas no Telejornal Regional da RTP Açores (91 edições);
536 emitidas no Telejornal Regional da RTP Madeira (88 edições)",
porque razão a RTPN (canal noticioso no cabo, com informação praticamente horária) só foi analisada no jornal das 24 horas e em apenas metade do número de peças dos canais generalistas? Por "ser aquele que, segundo dados da Marketest, possui maior audiência média" e só entre Setembro e Outubro por "Dificuldades na obtenção das peças a tempo"?

- Nesse período, "Os partidos sem representação parlamentar não possuem qualquer presença no bloco informativo das 24h00 da RTPN"?!?! Isto não merece uma recomendação da ERC?

[act.: algumas "pequenas notas" no Indústrias Culturais]

Em defesa das "offshores"

Why Tax Havens Are a Blessing: First, if you live in a developed country, your taxes are probably much lower today than they were 30 years ago, thanks in part to tax havens. [...]
Second, European duchies and Caribbean isles aren’t the only places that welcome tax refugees. The United States, for instance, could be considered the world’s largest tax haven. [...]
Finally, there is even a moral case for tax havens: They play a critical role in protecting people who are subject to religious, ethnic, sexual, political, or racial persecution.

Dos media

Newspaper advertising revenue fell 7.9 percent in 2007, the second-worst year in more than half a century, the Newspaper Association of America said on Friday. Those figures include continued growth in online advertising.
Newspaper Print Ad Sales Fall 9.4%, Most on Record: U.S. newspapers suffered their worst drop in print advertising sales since industry record- keeping began 57 years ago, hammered by the housing-market slump and competition from the Internet.

Print More Trusted Source of Information Than Internet: The MediaVest study also found:
* There remains very low duplication between the audiences for print publications and their online companions. Duplication ranged from 1% to 6% for every category except entertainment, where some titles reached duplication rates of 10%.
* Print titles should deliver something different with their online extensions, according to 79% of respondents who were dual magazine and digital users. But only 44% said they strongly believed that publishers' sites really offer something unique.

Six Months In, And 600 Posts Later . . . The Worlds Of Blogging and Journalism Collide (In My Brain): Just as more and more blogs are building up professional writing staffs, more and more newspapers and magazines are requiring that their writers start blogging.

AdweekMedia has selected The Economist’s Micklethwait and publisher Paul Rossi as Executive Team of the Year, and the title comes in at No. 1 on this year’s Hot List.

Shoot'em'up (mais ou menos)

BoomsticK

A proposta dos 960 pixéis

The 960 Grid System is an effort to streamline web development workflow by providing commonly used dimensions, based on a width of 960 pixels. There are two variants: 12 and 16 columns, which can be used separately or in tandem.

Design pessoal

MYBrain. The table lamp: A replica of the designer's brain, originated from an MR scan at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. The image was processed through a 3D-printer, and became this unusual lamp shade design. Yes, it is bright.
Design Alexander Lervik 2007

Muitas fotografias

aqui

Coisas que é bom saber: a água não é um direito humano essencial...

UN rejects water as basic human right: a special resolution proposed by Germany and Spain at the UN human rights council was stripped of references that recognized access to water as a human right. The countries also chose to scrap the idea of creating an international watchdog to investigate the issue, choosing instead to appoint a new consultant that would make recommendations over the next three years.

Water and war: Problems of water scarcity and water pollution affect human and ecosystem health, and hinder economic and agricultural development. Local and regional problems, in turn, may affect the rest of the world by threatening food supplies and global economic development. The United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development concludes that these problems could result in a series of local and regional water crises, with serious global implications.

Is there likely to be violent conflict over water in the future? Past experience suggests that this is unlikely. However, many claim that the probability of conflict is increasing.

O terrorismo actual

How Terrorism Works: An insightful analyst of modern terrorism is Scott Atran [...] Here are ten conclusions I've selected from it:
* Global Al-Qaeda is now a viral, social movement and political ideology, not a well organized operation with command and control. [...]
* The new wave of terrorism is about "youth culture", not the Koran.[...]
* Prison radicalization in the USA vs. Europe differs significantly: Foreign-born Muslims, like Jews, are underrepresented in US prisons. [...]
* Social welfare is not a solution, adding only to alienation and boredom and to a hole in one's life more readily filled by radicalized dreams of justice and glory. [...]
* Publicity is the oxygen of terrorism. [...]
* Non-Muslims should never preach to Muslims about what is true Islam. [...]
* Stop trying to impose ethnocentric values of Freedom and Democracy on people. [...]
* PEW surveys show that in the Muslim world support of "Freedom and Democracy" has declined since the onset of the Iraq War. Both radical and traditional Islam value Justice and Fairness, not Freedom and Democracy. [...]
* Stop wasting millions of dollars studying the Koran and trying to figure out what terrorists think from studies of Islam. [...]
* Stop trying to generate a catch-all approach to terrorist profiling, radicalization processes, etc. [...]

A testar

Adobe Photoshop Express beta: You shot it. Now do something to it. Crop, rotate, tweak, twirl, correct, and show off photos on Photoshop Express or Facebook. For free.