31 março 2004
VITAMEDIAS
Sabe de quem é este "pequeno canal de televisão por cabo" Newsworld International? Descubra aqui...
.DE!
Magazine Says Recipe May Be Dangerous: Attention cooks -- a recipe for rolls in the current issue of Southern Living magazine could be hazardous.
ECOPOL
International Air Carrier Association (IACA) consider Euro boycott because it disagrees with airline security measures planned for the event. [...]
IACA objects to a requirement by Portugal's civil aviation authority, that all airlines flying to the country during the tournament supply a complete list of passengers to Portuguese officials 48 hours before their planes land.
The list must provide the passenger's full name, as well as age, nationality and passport or identity card number.
IACA is also concerned over plans by Lisbon to use three military airports during the June 12 to July 4 championship to cope with the expected surge in arrivals
IACA objects to a requirement by Portugal's civil aviation authority, that all airlines flying to the country during the tournament supply a complete list of passengers to Portuguese officials 48 hours before their planes land.
The list must provide the passenger's full name, as well as age, nationality and passport or identity card number.
IACA is also concerned over plans by Lisbon to use three military airports during the June 12 to July 4 championship to cope with the expected surge in arrivals
VITAMEDIAS
24horas tem maior subida e CM reforça liderança dos diários (em 2003):
Entre os jornais considerados de referência (Diário de Notícias e Público) o comportamento também foi marcado pela descida dos índices de circulação. O diário do grupo Sonae sofreu uma alteração negativa de 3,4%, vendendo menos 1.903 exemplares em relação a 2002, ou seja, passou de 56.212 para 54.306 unidades vendidas. A descida foi mais acentuada para o jornal do universo Lusomundo (Global Notícias). O Diário de Notícias teve um decréscimo de 8,6% em comparação com 2002. Durante o ano passado, o diário conseguiu vendas médias diárias de 47.131 exemplares, enquanto que em 2002 ultrapassava uma circulação paga de 51 mil unidades vendidas.
Entre os jornais considerados de referência (Diário de Notícias e Público) o comportamento também foi marcado pela descida dos índices de circulação. O diário do grupo Sonae sofreu uma alteração negativa de 3,4%, vendendo menos 1.903 exemplares em relação a 2002, ou seja, passou de 56.212 para 54.306 unidades vendidas. A descida foi mais acentuada para o jornal do universo Lusomundo (Global Notícias). O Diário de Notícias teve um decréscimo de 8,6% em comparação com 2002. Durante o ano passado, o diário conseguiu vendas médias diárias de 47.131 exemplares, enquanto que em 2002 ultrapassava uma circulação paga de 51 mil unidades vendidas.
ECOPOL
Dictatorship.com: the Internet's inherent flaws as a political medium are only part of the reason for its failure to spread liberty. More significant has been the ease with which authoritarian regimes have controlled and, in some cases, subverted it.
VITAMEDIAS
Polemique in the french blogosphere: A researcher (hypermedia stuff) published a paper about bloggers insisting on their ego-trip [...]. Few french bloggers (like bingirl) commented on it (laughing at this researcher). Some others also set up a website to make fun of it. I do share the feeling that this person does not really understand what a blog but I have mixed feelings concerning all this polemique. There is a growing gap between two different kind of bloggers in france (I think it's the same elsewhere): those who describe their life (with humor or without) and the ones who deals with specific issue (tech, politics... a specific topic). The latter are called "blogs chiant" (boring blogs) by the former.
La diffamation et les blogs et ce que nous devrions savoir pour l'expression sur les blogs.
(via mediaTIC blog)
La diffamation et les blogs et ce que nous devrions savoir pour l'expression sur les blogs.
(via mediaTIC blog)
VITAMEDIAS
Seinfeld, Superman at Super Speed: Comedian joins an animated super hero in a five-minute spot for American Express; film seen as niche market for high-speed Net users
30 março 2004
ECOPOL
The World's 2000 Leading Companies (Portugal):
442 - Portugal Telecom
449 - EDP
483 - BCP
1109 - BPI
1318 - Brisa
1350 - Sonae SGPS
1571 - Cimpor
442 - Portugal Telecom
449 - EDP
483 - BCP
1109 - BPI
1318 - Brisa
1350 - Sonae SGPS
1571 - Cimpor
TECNOSFERA
Flash mob to attempt supercomputing feat: On Saturday 3 April, over 1000 laptop owners will converge on the [University of San Francisco] gym in an attempt to build a "flash mob" supercomputer. The project's organisers hope that FlashMob will run fast enough to beat supercomputers in the list of the world's top 500 supercomputers.
29 março 2004
VITAMEDIAS
Microsoft to create search site for Weblogs: Microsoft became the first big Internet company Friday to say that it would create a special search Web site just for Weblogs.
Google Personalized Search of your interests
Google Personalized Search of your interests
VITAMEDIAS
O fim (triste? desiludido?...) dos Três anos de provedora do leitor no DN:
"Mas a sensação que mais permanentemente acompanhou a provedora ao longo destes três anos foi a de que, apesar das sofisticadas técnicas de conhecimento das audiências, os jornalistas ou não conhecem os seus públicos (que não se confundem com as audiências) ou os ignoram. A ideia de que os jornalistas escrevem, sobretudo, para as suas fontes, para os seus pares e para as suas hierarquias continua a revelar-se pertinente."
"Mas a sensação que mais permanentemente acompanhou a provedora ao longo destes três anos foi a de que, apesar das sofisticadas técnicas de conhecimento das audiências, os jornalistas ou não conhecem os seus públicos (que não se confundem com as audiências) ou os ignoram. A ideia de que os jornalistas escrevem, sobretudo, para as suas fontes, para os seus pares e para as suas hierarquias continua a revelar-se pertinente."
VITAMEDIAS
Excerto da entrevista a Howard Rheingold referida no post anterior:
Q: Blogs have given voice to once-marginal, sometimes extreme views. Is there any danger moderate voices might get drowned out?
A: You got a million or 10 million bloggers out there. A bunch of them are nutcases. A lot of them are at the extreme ends. Many of them are totally uninformed. Some of them are going to be decent journalists. Some of them are going to be better than the pros.
I think there's a Darwinian process when you have a large number of people doing it. If 10 million people are publishing their own opinions instead of sitting slack-jawed in front of the tube, that's got to be healthier for the public sphere. The mass media have disempowered people from the process and made them feel disempowered.
Q: What could make blogging more useful to the masses?
A: What's lacking is grounding in good journalism. It's a learned skill that requires some tutelage by people who understand it. I wish that the people in the news business, instead of fearing the bloggers, would help educate them. [...]
Q: Blogs have given voice to once-marginal, sometimes extreme views. Is there any danger moderate voices might get drowned out?
A: You got a million or 10 million bloggers out there. A bunch of them are nutcases. A lot of them are at the extreme ends. Many of them are totally uninformed. Some of them are going to be decent journalists. Some of them are going to be better than the pros.
I think there's a Darwinian process when you have a large number of people doing it. If 10 million people are publishing their own opinions instead of sitting slack-jawed in front of the tube, that's got to be healthier for the public sphere. The mass media have disempowered people from the process and made them feel disempowered.
Q: What could make blogging more useful to the masses?
A: What's lacking is grounding in good journalism. It's a learned skill that requires some tutelage by people who understand it. I wish that the people in the news business, instead of fearing the bloggers, would help educate them. [...]
ECOPOL
Click The Vote: In the age of Internet politics, the Web can make or break a candidate
"A Major Change in the Political Equation": Howard Rheingold predicted the rise of online advocacy groups. Now, he talks about how they're affecting Election 2004
"A Major Change in the Political Equation": Howard Rheingold predicted the rise of online advocacy groups. Now, he talks about how they're affecting Election 2004
TECNOSFERA
Online Security: Who's Liable? Hackers, viruses, and other online threats don't just create headaches for Internet users -- they could also create prison sentences for corporate executives
Extra headaches of securing XML: Extensible Markup Language and XML-based protocols, called Web services, are rapidly becoming a common way for businesses to format and exchange corporate information. But even as those technologies are becoming widespread, companies are not fully aware of the associated security vulnerabilities
On the Web, vengeance is mine (and mine): the appeal of online vigilantism stems from the persistent sense that the Internet remains a very Wild West kind of place.
Extra headaches of securing XML: Extensible Markup Language and XML-based protocols, called Web services, are rapidly becoming a common way for businesses to format and exchange corporate information. But even as those technologies are becoming widespread, companies are not fully aware of the associated security vulnerabilities
On the Web, vengeance is mine (and mine): the appeal of online vigilantism stems from the persistent sense that the Internet remains a very Wild West kind of place.
CONTAMINANTES
Quanto vale uma vida humana? Entre 3 milhões e 6,1 milhões de dólares...
The Human Factor: human life is priceless.
But the government set a price for it four years ago: $6.1 million. That's the figure the Environmental Protection Agency came up with when it was trying to decide how far to go in removing arsenic from drinking water. [...]
The Department of Transportation also puts a price tag on a human life when deciding which road improvements are worth making, although it's the rather more modest one of $3 million. [...]
How, exactly, did the E.P.A. arrive at its figure of $6.1 million?
Economists looked at the salaries paid to workers in riskier jobs like mining. They figured out that such workers received, on average, an additional $61 a year for facing an extra 1-in-100,000 risk of accidental death. Evidently, these workers valued their own lives at 100,000 times $61, or $6.1 million. (In 2002, the E.P.A. revised the price of a life downward, to $3.7 million -- or if you're older than 70, $2.3 million.)
The Human Factor: human life is priceless.
But the government set a price for it four years ago: $6.1 million. That's the figure the Environmental Protection Agency came up with when it was trying to decide how far to go in removing arsenic from drinking water. [...]
The Department of Transportation also puts a price tag on a human life when deciding which road improvements are worth making, although it's the rather more modest one of $3 million. [...]
How, exactly, did the E.P.A. arrive at its figure of $6.1 million?
Economists looked at the salaries paid to workers in riskier jobs like mining. They figured out that such workers received, on average, an additional $61 a year for facing an extra 1-in-100,000 risk of accidental death. Evidently, these workers valued their own lives at 100,000 times $61, or $6.1 million. (In 2002, the E.P.A. revised the price of a life downward, to $3.7 million -- or if you're older than 70, $2.3 million.)
28 março 2004
VITAMEDIAS
60% des Français sont mécontents des programmes télé Alors que de 1999 à 2002, le baromètre indiquait une amélioration de la satisfaction
TECNOSFERA
Já viram a diferença qualitativa dos "Top 25" do Weblog em Portugal e dos Blogs do Sapo?...
26 março 2004
ECOPOL
Rwanda, remembered: Ten years after Rwanda's genocide, what has the world learned?
The U.S. and the Genocide in Rwanda 1994: Information, Intelligence and the U.S. Response
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