Scientist who testified in IBM trial withdraws article: A scientist who testified at the IBM toxics trial has withdrawn a scholarly article about cancer rates at the computer company after it warned that publication would violate a court order.
Boston University epidemiologist Richard Clapp co-wrote an article for a medical journal analyzing IBM's employee mortality records. A judge prohibited Clapp's analysis of that data from being introduced at the company's recent trial in Silicon Valley. Two former employees who worked at IBM's San Jose plant sued the computer giant, contending that they developed cancer from their exposure to toxic chemicals. Although a Santa Clara County jury in February found in favor of IBM, the company still faces about 200 similar lawsuits.
18 maio 2004
VITAMEDIAS
A revista de um homem só: La charte du Nouvel Observateur: Selon les principes fixés par ses fondateurs, Jean Daniel et Claude Perdriel, le Nouvel Observateur est un hebdomadaire culturel et politique dont l?orientation s?inscrit dans la mouvance sociale-démocrate. [...]
Le Nouvel Observateur exprime ses principes dans des éditoriaux et des chroniques. Ceux-ci sont vus par la direction de la rédaction et acceptés ou non par elle, sous l?autorité du comité éditorial. Dans ce cadre, éditorialistes et chroniqueurs bénéficient d?une grande liberté d?expression. Mais seul Jean Daniel ou la personne désignée par lui peut engager le journal. [...]
Aucun responsable du Nouvel Observateur ne peut appartenir à un parti politique ou jouer un rôle politique. [...]
Dans leurs prestations extérieures, les journalistes ne doivent pas oublier qu?ils représentent l?ensemble du Nouvel Observateur et qu?ils sont tenus d?exprimer leurs opinions en se référant à la ligne éditoriale. [E isto é constitucional ou admissível numa democracia?]
[via Jornalismo e Comunicação]
Le Nouvel Observateur exprime ses principes dans des éditoriaux et des chroniques. Ceux-ci sont vus par la direction de la rédaction et acceptés ou non par elle, sous l?autorité du comité éditorial. Dans ce cadre, éditorialistes et chroniqueurs bénéficient d?une grande liberté d?expression. Mais seul Jean Daniel ou la personne désignée par lui peut engager le journal. [...]
Aucun responsable du Nouvel Observateur ne peut appartenir à un parti politique ou jouer un rôle politique. [...]
Dans leurs prestations extérieures, les journalistes ne doivent pas oublier qu?ils représentent l?ensemble du Nouvel Observateur et qu?ils sont tenus d?exprimer leurs opinions en se référant à la ligne éditoriale. [E isto é constitucional ou admissível numa democracia?]
[via Jornalismo e Comunicação]
VITAMEDIAS
Media Overload on the Rise: It's projected that by 2007 the average American will spend 3,874 hours per year with the major consumer media, according to "Investment Considerations for the Communications Industry," a report released last week by investment banker Veronis Suhler Stevenson. That would mark an increase of 792 hours per year, or 21 percent, from the 3,082 hours per year that the average person spent using consumer media in 1977, the year that VSS first began tracking such behavior.
ECOPOL
A lógica do serviço público: Museu junta presidentes da democracia e ditadura: O actual inquilino do Palácio de Belém aproveitou a cerimónia para anunciar a intenção de "entregar ao Museu os presentes de Estado" que recebeu, bem como parte do seu arquivo pessoal e político. Apenas Ramalho Eanes fez uma opção semelhante, sendo por isso dele que vem uma boa parte do espólio da instituição.
Dos restantes ex-Presidentes a modalidade de cedência de documentos e bens, passou pelo depósito ou pelo empréstimo.
Dos restantes ex-Presidentes a modalidade de cedência de documentos e bens, passou pelo depósito ou pelo empréstimo.
.DE!
Peixe fora de água: Uma empresa de automóveis enviou 7 convites pessoais a outras tantas pessoas da SIC. Sete sacos com sete peixes vivos. [...]
Eu disse que os peixes não tinham manual de instruções. É que na pressa de melhorar as suas parcas condições de vida juntaram três dos animais num só recipiente. Para quem não saiba aqueles lindos animais de farta cauda são sempre machos, a fêmea da mesma espécie é por comparação uma pobreza, esteticamente falando.
Ora estes machos são extremamente agressivos para com os outros animais da mesma espécie. Conta-se que basta colocar um espelho na frente de um deles para que o animal tente eternamente aniquilar o seu próprio reflexo.
Não sei se a história do espelho é verdadeira.
Mas sei o que aconteceu ao tal recipiente como os três machos. Mesmo enfraquecidos começaram autenticamente a arrancar bocados uns aos outros para ver qual deles conseguia sobreviver à carnificina.
Eu disse que os peixes não tinham manual de instruções. É que na pressa de melhorar as suas parcas condições de vida juntaram três dos animais num só recipiente. Para quem não saiba aqueles lindos animais de farta cauda são sempre machos, a fêmea da mesma espécie é por comparação uma pobreza, esteticamente falando.
Ora estes machos são extremamente agressivos para com os outros animais da mesma espécie. Conta-se que basta colocar um espelho na frente de um deles para que o animal tente eternamente aniquilar o seu próprio reflexo.
Não sei se a história do espelho é verdadeira.
Mas sei o que aconteceu ao tal recipiente como os três machos. Mesmo enfraquecidos começaram autenticamente a arrancar bocados uns aos outros para ver qual deles conseguia sobreviver à carnificina.
CONTAMINANTES
Como bom exemplo da separação entre o Estado e a(s) Igreja(s), a Assinatura da Nova Concordata contou com uma "comitiva" de 50 portugueses.
A nova Concordata, que substitui a de 1940 e que é para regular mais tarde, tem uma nota sobre "Bens patrimoniais" para "nos planos de ordenamento do território municipal se preverem espaços para edificação de locais de culto".
Porquê?
A nova Concordata, que substitui a de 1940 e que é para regular mais tarde, tem uma nota sobre "Bens patrimoniais" para "nos planos de ordenamento do território municipal se preverem espaços para edificação de locais de culto".
Porquê?
17 maio 2004
TECNOSFERA
A lei do comércio electrónico: Vai quente o debate sobre se a ANACOM pode remover blogs (pode!). (Ou Sim, é possível remover blogs por decisão administrativa)
TECNOSFERA
Getting Naked for Big Brother: Americans are willing to "get naked" for their government if they feel it will make them more secure. That's the conclusion Jeffrey Rosen reached in his new book The Naked Crowd, which explores the willingness of Americans to abandon privacy for perceived security.
Wired News: When is it OK to give up privacy?
Rosen: Individuals strike a balance in very different ways, and societies strike the balance in different ways. Unlike Americans, Europeans tend to be much more concerned about private and corporate misuse (of data) and less concerned about government. (In the case of government use,) when surrendering privacy actually brings more security, it may well be defended. But I want to insist on some degree of empirical benefit. In other words, what are we getting in response for the surrender of privacy?
Wired News: When is it OK to give up privacy?
Rosen: Individuals strike a balance in very different ways, and societies strike the balance in different ways. Unlike Americans, Europeans tend to be much more concerned about private and corporate misuse (of data) and less concerned about government. (In the case of government use,) when surrendering privacy actually brings more security, it may well be defended. But I want to insist on some degree of empirical benefit. In other words, what are we getting in response for the surrender of privacy?
VITAMEDIAS
Americans Playing More Games, Watching Less Movies and Television: 52 percent of gamers who are spending more time playing games report watching less television as a result, 47 percent go to movies less, and 41 percent watch movies at home less often.
VITAMEDIAS
Popular press and weblogs: the maximum value for occurences of the term [blog or weblog] occured in October, 1999 at 31, and the maximum number of articles published in April 2004 at 296.
The exponential growth of attention to the topic is striking, although it appears in the last month to have taper off. Comparing this trend with the average number of uses of the term per article, it appears that the more frequently the concept is cited, the fewer times the word is used per article. The obvious interpretation is that the term is slowly becoming part of our vernacular, and when journalists write about weblogs today, much less context is necessary than in 1999. Also, the number of articles exclusively about weblogs is probably on the decline, while stories only tangentially related to weblogs are on the rise.
Scholars Discover Weblogs Pass Test as Mode of Communication: "Blogologists" assemble at our virtual roundtable to discuss how blogs are changing academia, politics and traditional journalism. They see them as being important, but school is still out on whether they are journalism.
The Twilight of the Information Middlemen: If blogs represent the uncoordinated efforts of countless volunteer writers, another information explosion shows the institutional might of the state. Taxpayer money still is behind a surprising amount of crucial data: nearly all weather observations and the supercomputer-based models that create forecasts; most basic scientific research; most research into disease causes and cures. In principle, this publicly financed knowledge has always been the public's property, but until a few years ago there was no easy way to get it from research centers to a wide audience. Thus various middlemen arose - notably scientific journals, which did the expensive work of printing and distributing research papers in return for steep subscription costs.
The exponential growth of attention to the topic is striking, although it appears in the last month to have taper off. Comparing this trend with the average number of uses of the term per article, it appears that the more frequently the concept is cited, the fewer times the word is used per article. The obvious interpretation is that the term is slowly becoming part of our vernacular, and when journalists write about weblogs today, much less context is necessary than in 1999. Also, the number of articles exclusively about weblogs is probably on the decline, while stories only tangentially related to weblogs are on the rise.
Scholars Discover Weblogs Pass Test as Mode of Communication: "Blogologists" assemble at our virtual roundtable to discuss how blogs are changing academia, politics and traditional journalism. They see them as being important, but school is still out on whether they are journalism.
The Twilight of the Information Middlemen: If blogs represent the uncoordinated efforts of countless volunteer writers, another information explosion shows the institutional might of the state. Taxpayer money still is behind a surprising amount of crucial data: nearly all weather observations and the supercomputer-based models that create forecasts; most basic scientific research; most research into disease causes and cures. In principle, this publicly financed knowledge has always been the public's property, but until a few years ago there was no easy way to get it from research centers to a wide audience. Thus various middlemen arose - notably scientific journals, which did the expensive work of printing and distributing research papers in return for steep subscription costs.
TECNOSFERA
Blog Software Breakdown: This chart displays attributes of different user-installed blog software packages side-by-side for comparison.
ECOPOL
The Gray Zone: According to interviews with several past and present American intelligence officials, the Pentagon?s operation, known inside the intelligence community by several code words, including Copper Green, encouraged physical coercion and sexual humiliation of Iraqi prisoners in an effort to generate more intelligence about the growing insurgency in Iraq.
The Roots of Torture: The road to Abu Ghraib began after 9/11, when Washington wrote new rules to fight a new kind of war.
The Roots of Torture: The road to Abu Ghraib began after 9/11, when Washington wrote new rules to fight a new kind of war.
VITAMEDIAS
Pseudo-Journalists Betray the Public Trust: All across America, there are offices that resemble newsrooms, and in those offices there are people who resemble journalists, but they are not engaged in journalism. What they do is not journalism because it does not regard the reader ? or, in the case of broadcasting, the listener or the viewer ? as a master to be served.
In this realm of pseudo-journalism, the audience is regarded as something to be manipulated. And when the audience is misled, no one in the pseudo-newsroom ever offers a peep of protest. [...]
Every fact a newspaper publishes goes into a database. So do the errors. A good newspaper corrects those errors and appends the corrections to the original stories, so that the errors are not repeated. Thus we keep the river clean. Last year at the Los Angeles Times, we published 2,759 corrections. Some of you may be shocked that a newspaper could make so many mistakes. Others may be impressed that the paper is so assiduous in correcting itself.
In this realm of pseudo-journalism, the audience is regarded as something to be manipulated. And when the audience is misled, no one in the pseudo-newsroom ever offers a peep of protest. [...]
Every fact a newspaper publishes goes into a database. So do the errors. A good newspaper corrects those errors and appends the corrections to the original stories, so that the errors are not repeated. Thus we keep the river clean. Last year at the Los Angeles Times, we published 2,759 corrections. Some of you may be shocked that a newspaper could make so many mistakes. Others may be impressed that the paper is so assiduous in correcting itself.
VITAMEDIAS
Film deal for 'Baghdad blogger': The Baghdad Blog, a book based on an online diary written by an Iraqi man about life during the conflict there, is to be made into a film.
Media group Intermedia is searching for a scriptwriter to adapt the book by the man, who calls himself Salam Pax.
Media group Intermedia is searching for a scriptwriter to adapt the book by the man, who calls himself Salam Pax.
TECNOSFERA
Censored words unmasked: US intelligence exposed as student decodes Iraq memo.
Armed with little more than an electronic dictionary and text-analysis software, Claire Whelan, a graduate student in computer science at Dublin City University in Ireland, has managed to decrypt words that had been blotted out from declassified documents to protect intelligence sources. [...]
"the most important conclusion of this work is that censoring text by blotting out words and re-scanning is not a secure practice".
Armed with little more than an electronic dictionary and text-analysis software, Claire Whelan, a graduate student in computer science at Dublin City University in Ireland, has managed to decrypt words that had been blotted out from declassified documents to protect intelligence sources. [...]
"the most important conclusion of this work is that censoring text by blotting out words and re-scanning is not a secure practice".
ECOPOL
Commission will not exempt public services from competition: Proponents of competition-free management of services like health and education suffered a defeat on Tuesday (12 May) as the European Commission presented its approach to public services in the near future.
The Commission's so-called "White paper" on public services, such as energy, postal services, health, education and social services, sets out the Commission's ideas on the issue following a broad public consultation with different groups ranging from business to trade unions.
The Commission's so-called "White paper" on public services, such as energy, postal services, health, education and social services, sets out the Commission's ideas on the issue following a broad public consultation with different groups ranging from business to trade unions.
VITAMEDIAS
Da ignorância e da humilhação: A notícia da sondagem RTP/PÚBLICO/Renascença sobre as eleições europeias apresentada pela RTP1 (13.05) dava menos importância aos resultados (o PS à frente da coligação governamental) do que à ignorância dos inquiridos: mais de metade dos entrevistados (53%) não sabia quando se realizam as eleições de 13 de Junho, nem por aproximação ao mês. Ora as pessoas não sabem porque a televisão não lhes diz! Raramente a televisão fala das eleições europeias!
Um trabalho universitário recente ajudou a estabelecer uma relação entre a ignorância e a oferta televisiva. O Glasgow University Media Group fez um trabalho de análise de conteúdo de todas as notícias da BBC e da ITN entre Setembro e Outubro de 2000 sobre o levantamento palestino nos territórios ocupados por Israel. O estudo revelava que a quase totalidade das notícias se centrava em mostrar actos de violência e conflitos sem dar a mínima explicação contextual. Nas 3536 linhas de texto das 87 notícias analisadas apenas 17 explicavam o conflito (menos de 0,5 por cento!) [...]
As perguntas sobre ignorância às pessoas da rua não revelam esta verdadeira origem da ignorância: a própria televisão. É preciso que os cidadãos e os espectadores pareçam ignorantes para que a televisão pareça não o ser.
Um trabalho universitário recente ajudou a estabelecer uma relação entre a ignorância e a oferta televisiva. O Glasgow University Media Group fez um trabalho de análise de conteúdo de todas as notícias da BBC e da ITN entre Setembro e Outubro de 2000 sobre o levantamento palestino nos territórios ocupados por Israel. O estudo revelava que a quase totalidade das notícias se centrava em mostrar actos de violência e conflitos sem dar a mínima explicação contextual. Nas 3536 linhas de texto das 87 notícias analisadas apenas 17 explicavam o conflito (menos de 0,5 por cento!) [...]
As perguntas sobre ignorância às pessoas da rua não revelam esta verdadeira origem da ignorância: a própria televisão. É preciso que os cidadãos e os espectadores pareçam ignorantes para que a televisão pareça não o ser.
15 maio 2004
.DE!
The basic idea in chessboxing is to combine the no.1 thinking sport and the no.1 fighting sport into a hybrid that demands the most of its competitors ? both mentally and physically.
ECOPOL
Diz a Aljazeera, sem citar nenhum: Bloggers doubt Berg execution video: Revolting millions around the world, the video footage of an American citizen's execution has also raised numerous questions concerning its authenticity.
CONTAMINANTES
In Capital Venture, Rocket Reaches the Edge of Space: A piloted rocket released from a spider-like mother plane shot straight up into the desert sky here Thursday, climbing to 211,400 feet and becoming the first privately funded vehicle to reach the edge of space.
The SpaceShipOne rocket carried 62-year-old test pilot Mike Melvill to heights usually reached only by astronauts and military pilots.
The SpaceShipOne rocket carried 62-year-old test pilot Mike Melvill to heights usually reached only by astronauts and military pilots.
TECNOSFERA
O Sistema de blogs da Assembleia da República já conta, além de José Magalhães, com as intenções de Guilherme d'Oliveira Martins e José Leitão...
VITAMEDIAS
Vanity Fair Editor Got $100,000 for Suggesting a Movie: Graydon Carter, editor in chief of Vanity Fair, received a $100,000 payment from Universal Studios in 2003 for suggesting years earlier that the book "A Beautiful Mind'' be made into a film, executives involved with the film said. The payment was confirmed by a spokeswoman for the magazine. [...]
But the payment of consulting fees to a magazine editor who controls coverage of industry subjects has no precedent, according to executives in the publishing and film industry as well as journalism scholars.
But the payment of consulting fees to a magazine editor who controls coverage of industry subjects has no precedent, according to executives in the publishing and film industry as well as journalism scholars.
TECNOSFERA
Browser to Deliver New Blog Entries: A new Web browser from Opera Software ASA this week is the first major browser to incorporate an emerging technology that automatically delivers new blog entries and news articles.
Visitors can subscribe to feeds using Really Simple Syndication, or RSS, and have new items come in regularly as individual messages in Opera's mail client, which is packaged with the browser.
Because RSS is integrated into Opera, visitors can easily e-mail items or open links from the same application.
Visitors can subscribe to feeds using Really Simple Syndication, or RSS, and have new items come in regularly as individual messages in Opera's mail client, which is packaged with the browser.
Because RSS is integrated into Opera, visitors can easily e-mail items or open links from the same application.
ECOPOL
Também não é preciso exagerar: Iraq debacle creates crisis in Portugal: Durão Barroso represents a section of the Portuguese ruling elite that sees its interest best served by placing themselves under the wing of US imperialism. According to Mario de Queiroz of the Inter Press Service English News Wire, these layers ?are nostalgic for Portugal?s imperial past and the epic deeds of the country?s great navigators and wants to paint a rosy reconstruction of the past while highlighting the supposed errors committed by...granting the colonies independence overnight [after the 1974 revolution].?
TECNOSFERA
E-money Directive and mobile phones: Commission consults: The European Commission has published a consultation paper on the applicability of the E-Money Directive to the use of mobile phones. It principally considers whether and how prepaid mobile phone cards should be regulated as electronic money.
VITAMEDIAS
Lembram-se do Nutícias? Ainda não acabou: Naked News goes wireless it has just signed a contract with Icemobile BV in the Netherlands, to provide the Naked News content to wireless cell phones and handheld devices.
13 maio 2004
VITAMEDIAS
Um problema do mau jornalismo?
Publisher's story ends: New Millennium Entertainment, which published the ex-reporter's New York Times memoir and many show-business books, will be liquidated under an order signed this week by a bankruptcy court judge in Los Angeles.
Publisher's story ends: New Millennium Entertainment, which published the ex-reporter's New York Times memoir and many show-business books, will be liquidated under an order signed this week by a bankruptcy court judge in Los Angeles.
VITAMEDIAS
More News Served on Mobile Menu: PDAs and souped-up mobile phones are already outstripping newspapers, TV and even the Web as a primary news source, a local analyst says.
[W]ireless phones - which already allow photography, instant messaging, live video and other features - will be expanded in the next few years to become powerful, multimedia devices that could replace traditional personal computers.
[W]ireless phones - which already allow photography, instant messaging, live video and other features - will be expanded in the next few years to become powerful, multimedia devices that could replace traditional personal computers.
TECNOSFERA
New video games push the sexual envelope: Animated sex? Naked women? Streakers? They're all in this year's crop of upcoming titles.
VITAMEDIAS
Leaking self-doubt: over the past four months the media have been slack on the Abu Ghraib story, allowing it to slip through their hands on more than one occasion. The driving force for the torture scandal was not in Washington's or New York's newsrooms. This story, it seems, did not come about as a result of journalists chasing it; rather, it was effectively handed to the media by disgruntled military men.
TECNOSFERA
Intelliseek launches new blog-tracker: "Bloggers are a progressive, influential and opinionated group, and their important insights can serve as harbingers of what's on the minds of the public, consumers, voters -- any individual or group that's active on the Internet," said Intelliseek CEO Mahendra Vora
VITAMEDIAS
Is blog a masculine noun? Political blogs by women are very rare indeed [...]
Women do blog. According to a BlogCensus survey last August, just under 40% of English-language weblogs were owned by men and 36.3% by women (the rest belonged to groups, or were of unknown origin). But BlogCensus also found that nearly half the weblogs surveyed were personal diaries - and in that category, women outnumbered men by about two to one. Fewer than one in 20 of the political blogs was written by a woman.
Women do blog. According to a BlogCensus survey last August, just under 40% of English-language weblogs were owned by men and 36.3% by women (the rest belonged to groups, or were of unknown origin). But BlogCensus also found that nearly half the weblogs surveyed were personal diaries - and in that category, women outnumbered men by about two to one. Fewer than one in 20 of the political blogs was written by a woman.
TECNOSFERA
FBI Investigating Cyber-extortion: Jay Broder, the owner of CSI Mid-South, also known as Card Solutions International, claimed his company's Web site (authorizeit.com) went down for about a week after he refused to pay $10,000 to the sender of the email extortion threat. The email threatened to cripple the site if the money was not sent.
TECNOSFERA
Search engines take the stand: Fifteen years after his trial, a convicted drug dealer in New York state belatedly got a chance to clear his name--thanks in part to an Internet search.
A federal judge last November threw out Manuel Rodriguez's conviction and granted him a new trial after discovering evidence of potential jury tampering in a review of court records and queries on Web search engine Google.
A federal judge last November threw out Manuel Rodriguez's conviction and granted him a new trial after discovering evidence of potential jury tampering in a review of court records and queries on Web search engine Google.
TECNOSFERA
Congress moves on camera-phone porn: The bill, which passed the Senate last September, would prohibit taking covert pictures in locker rooms, bedrooms and other places where people have a reasonable expectation of privacy.
TECNOSFERA
How Info-Overload Experts Unwind: Ah, that constant stream of information from the PDA, the wireless laptop connection, cable TV. Sure, you can work from wherever, whenever, be entertained around the clock.
But how to manage it? How to pull back and gain time for personal pursuits, reflection and sanity?
Those were questions tackled in a novel Seattle conference this week devoted to technology overload and its impact on our lives.
But how to manage it? How to pull back and gain time for personal pursuits, reflection and sanity?
Those were questions tackled in a novel Seattle conference this week devoted to technology overload and its impact on our lives.
CONTAMINANTES
Portugal envelhecido: Portugal está a envelhecer e o fenómeno estende-se praticamente a todo o país. Apenas as ilhas e alguns concelhos do Norte do Continente registam uma estrutura etária relativamente rejuvenescida.
A crescente diminuição da natalidade, associada ao aumento da esperança de vida, tem provocado em Portugal um envelhecimento da população. Embora o fenómeno não seja novo, ele é sempre actual pelas dificuldades que pode colocar às gerações futuras (em termos de força de trabalho, encargos com a saúde e com a segurança social, entre outros) ? questões que devem preocupar as gerações actuais.
A crescente diminuição da natalidade, associada ao aumento da esperança de vida, tem provocado em Portugal um envelhecimento da população. Embora o fenómeno não seja novo, ele é sempre actual pelas dificuldades que pode colocar às gerações futuras (em termos de força de trabalho, encargos com a saúde e com a segurança social, entre outros) ? questões que devem preocupar as gerações actuais.
12 maio 2004
ECOPOL
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION AND ACCESS TO GOVERNMENT RECORD LAWS AROUND THE WORLD: Access to information ebbs and flows in any country but the transformation has begun and it is no longer possible to tell citizens that they have no right to know.
VITAMEDIAS
Scholars Discover Weblogs Pass Test as Mode of Communication: how blogs are changing academia, politics and traditional journalism. They see them as being important, but school is still out on whether they are journalism.
VITAMEDIAS
Reuters picks up Web syndication technology: the provider of news and financial information began using RSS (Really Simple Syndication), a format for syndicating and aggregating Web content, based on the Extensible Markup Language. The technology allows Web sites and Web loggers, or bloggers, to receive free feeds of Reuters.com news headlines and republish a one-line description of stories. Topics include politics, international news, entertainment and sports.
VITAMEDIAS
Blair: Mirror photos 'almost certainly faked': Tony Blair said today the Daily Mirror's photographs purporting to show Iraqi prisoners being tortured by British troops were "almost certainly fake" as army investigators prepared to expose them as a hoax.
VITAMEDIAS
A blognovela continua e os Verdes esclarecem:
Tendo surgido dúvidas sobre o motivo pelo qual foi divulgado o comunicado - ?Os Verdes? consideram eventual proibição de blogs um acto de censura inaceitável ? ?Os Verdes? esclarecem o seguinte:
· O comunicado foi divulgado na manhã do dia de 12 de Maio, tendo em conta as informações existentes no momento.
· O requerimento divulgado coloca a dúvida sobre se confirmam as afirmações proferidas e questiona o Governo sobre as acções que pretende implementar para impedir a concretização desta situação - na eventualidade de ser verdadeira a informação.
· As dúvidas expressas pelos ?Verdes? são perfeitamente pertinentes na medida em que, caso se verificasse, esta acção constituiria um acto inaceitável de censura sobre os cidadãos.
Entretanto, o Paulo Querido lançou uma secção no Jornal sobre o assunto.
Tendo surgido dúvidas sobre o motivo pelo qual foi divulgado o comunicado - ?Os Verdes? consideram eventual proibição de blogs um acto de censura inaceitável ? ?Os Verdes? esclarecem o seguinte:
· O comunicado foi divulgado na manhã do dia de 12 de Maio, tendo em conta as informações existentes no momento.
· O requerimento divulgado coloca a dúvida sobre se confirmam as afirmações proferidas e questiona o Governo sobre as acções que pretende implementar para impedir a concretização desta situação - na eventualidade de ser verdadeira a informação.
· As dúvidas expressas pelos ?Verdes? são perfeitamente pertinentes na medida em que, caso se verificasse, esta acção constituiria um acto inaceitável de censura sobre os cidadãos.
Entretanto, o Paulo Querido lançou uma secção no Jornal sobre o assunto.
NOTA
Estou sem comentários mas calmamente a tentar resolver o assunto.
Queiram usar o endereço de email (está à direita) para réplicas ou acrescentos. São obviamente bemvindos.
Queiram usar o endereço de email (está à direita) para réplicas ou acrescentos. São obviamente bemvindos.
VITAMEDIAS
Realmente, é de ficar estupefacto com a política em Portugal!
Perante um comunicado à imprensa do Partido "Os Verdes" sobre a proibição de blogues em Portugal, confirmei que foi enviado por eles e que a deputada Isabel Castro pretende mesmo "interpelar o Governo" sobre o assunto, desconhecendo que Pedro Amorim não trabalha para a Anacom (garantido pelo próprio, por telefone) e sabendo que o referido comunicado foi emitido tendo o PEV já conhecimento do desmentido de Pedro Amorim no Expresso!!!!
Eis o comunicado e requerimento de interpelação:
Aos órgãos de Comunicação Social
?OS VERDES? CONSIDERAM EVENTUAL PROIBIÇÃO DE ?BLOGS? UM ACTO DE CENSURA INACEITÁVEL
O Partido Ecologista ?Os Verdes? considera que a intenção da ANACOM de acabar com os BLOGS, a concretizar-se, seria o regresso à velha censura.
?Os Verdes?, que defendem a importância dos BLOGS, enquanto fenómeno emergente no mundo digital que corporiza um novo espaço de cidadania e de liberdade de opinião, repudiam totalmente a atitude da ANACOM, que traduz o desejo de por fim à ?incómoda? liberdade de expressão, aparentemente tão ao gosto de certos sectores do governo e da maioria.
Por último, ?Os Verdes?, que através do Grupo Parlamentar na Assembleia da República já exigiram explicações ao Governo, com a entrega de um requerimento pela deputada Isabel Castro, sublinham entretanto, o contraste entre este pendor autoritarista da Autoridade Nacional das Comunicações e o seu laxismo quando se trata de interferir em matérias que lhe competem, como são as que respeitam aos direitos dos utilizadores dos vários serviços informáticos.
O Gabinete de Imprensa
Lisboa, 12 de Maio de 2004
REQUERIMENTO Nº /IX (12 de Maio de 2004)
Assunto: Encerramento de Blogs
Apresentado por: Deputada Isabel Castro
Considerando as afirmações públicas feitas, ontem, em nome da ANACOM por um jurista que manifestou ser intenção daquela Autoridade acabar com a criação de blogs e pôr fim aos existentes;
Considerando serem totalmente inaceitáveis tais propósitos ? ainda que sob o pretexto evocado ? os quais configurariam, a ser concretizados, uma forma de censura, naquele que representa hoje, um interessante espaço de intervenção cívica e de liberdade de expressão de milhares de cidadãos;
Considerando, por último, que o Governo não pode manter o silêncio, perante a gravidade destas afirmações, que comprometem a ANACOM, mas acima de tudo, o Executivo a quem cabe a defesa de direitos fundamentais e da liberdade de expressão postos em causa por uma instituição pública, a Autoridade Nacional de Comunicação.
Requeiro, nos termos das disposições constitucionais e regimentais aplicáveis, com carácter e urgência ao Governo através do Ministério das Obras Públicas,Transportes e Habitação, as seguintes informações:
? Que medidas tomou já o Senhor Ministro para apurar a veracidade das graves afirmações proferidas por um representante da ANACOM?
? Caso se confirmem, o que pretende fazer junto da Autoridade Nacional de Comunicação para impedir a concretização de um acto, o encerramento de blogues ou inviabilização de novos, que constituiria um retorno à velha censura e um atentado a direitos fundamentais?
E, finalmente, a Anacom veio reagir à "notícia" do Expresso:
Carece de fundamento a notícia ontem publicada no Expresso Online sob o título ?Autoridade quer acabar com ?blogs??.
Não foi feita por qualquer responsável da Autoridade Nacional de Comunicações (ANACOM), em momento algum, no contexto da conferência citada ou noutro, qualquer declaração ou comentário que pudesse indiciar sequer essa posição. A matéria não se inscreve no elenco de atribuições da ANACOM.
Os comentários que alegadamente teriam estado na origem desta notícia foram já desmentidos pelo seu autor, em exercício do direito de resposta ao abrigo da Lei de Imprensa.
Lisboa, 12 de Maio de 2004.
P.S.: Pedro Amorim explicitou-me que refere a jornalista do Expresso Online como estagiária porque foi exactamente assim que ela se identificou.
Perante um comunicado à imprensa do Partido "Os Verdes" sobre a proibição de blogues em Portugal, confirmei que foi enviado por eles e que a deputada Isabel Castro pretende mesmo "interpelar o Governo" sobre o assunto, desconhecendo que Pedro Amorim não trabalha para a Anacom (garantido pelo próprio, por telefone) e sabendo que o referido comunicado foi emitido tendo o PEV já conhecimento do desmentido de Pedro Amorim no Expresso!!!!
Eis o comunicado e requerimento de interpelação:
Aos órgãos de Comunicação Social
?OS VERDES? CONSIDERAM EVENTUAL PROIBIÇÃO DE ?BLOGS? UM ACTO DE CENSURA INACEITÁVEL
O Partido Ecologista ?Os Verdes? considera que a intenção da ANACOM de acabar com os BLOGS, a concretizar-se, seria o regresso à velha censura.
?Os Verdes?, que defendem a importância dos BLOGS, enquanto fenómeno emergente no mundo digital que corporiza um novo espaço de cidadania e de liberdade de opinião, repudiam totalmente a atitude da ANACOM, que traduz o desejo de por fim à ?incómoda? liberdade de expressão, aparentemente tão ao gosto de certos sectores do governo e da maioria.
Por último, ?Os Verdes?, que através do Grupo Parlamentar na Assembleia da República já exigiram explicações ao Governo, com a entrega de um requerimento pela deputada Isabel Castro, sublinham entretanto, o contraste entre este pendor autoritarista da Autoridade Nacional das Comunicações e o seu laxismo quando se trata de interferir em matérias que lhe competem, como são as que respeitam aos direitos dos utilizadores dos vários serviços informáticos.
O Gabinete de Imprensa
Lisboa, 12 de Maio de 2004
REQUERIMENTO Nº /IX (12 de Maio de 2004)
Assunto: Encerramento de Blogs
Apresentado por: Deputada Isabel Castro
Considerando as afirmações públicas feitas, ontem, em nome da ANACOM por um jurista que manifestou ser intenção daquela Autoridade acabar com a criação de blogs e pôr fim aos existentes;
Considerando serem totalmente inaceitáveis tais propósitos ? ainda que sob o pretexto evocado ? os quais configurariam, a ser concretizados, uma forma de censura, naquele que representa hoje, um interessante espaço de intervenção cívica e de liberdade de expressão de milhares de cidadãos;
Considerando, por último, que o Governo não pode manter o silêncio, perante a gravidade destas afirmações, que comprometem a ANACOM, mas acima de tudo, o Executivo a quem cabe a defesa de direitos fundamentais e da liberdade de expressão postos em causa por uma instituição pública, a Autoridade Nacional de Comunicação.
Requeiro, nos termos das disposições constitucionais e regimentais aplicáveis, com carácter e urgência ao Governo através do Ministério das Obras Públicas,Transportes e Habitação, as seguintes informações:
? Que medidas tomou já o Senhor Ministro para apurar a veracidade das graves afirmações proferidas por um representante da ANACOM?
? Caso se confirmem, o que pretende fazer junto da Autoridade Nacional de Comunicação para impedir a concretização de um acto, o encerramento de blogues ou inviabilização de novos, que constituiria um retorno à velha censura e um atentado a direitos fundamentais?
E, finalmente, a Anacom veio reagir à "notícia" do Expresso:
Carece de fundamento a notícia ontem publicada no Expresso Online sob o título ?Autoridade quer acabar com ?blogs??.
Não foi feita por qualquer responsável da Autoridade Nacional de Comunicações (ANACOM), em momento algum, no contexto da conferência citada ou noutro, qualquer declaração ou comentário que pudesse indiciar sequer essa posição. A matéria não se inscreve no elenco de atribuições da ANACOM.
Os comentários que alegadamente teriam estado na origem desta notícia foram já desmentidos pelo seu autor, em exercício do direito de resposta ao abrigo da Lei de Imprensa.
Lisboa, 12 de Maio de 2004.
P.S.: Pedro Amorim explicitou-me que refere a jornalista do Expresso Online como estagiária porque foi exactamente assim que ela se identificou.
ECOPOL
Military Personnel: Don't Read This! It's not exactly every day that the Pentagon warns military personnel to stay away from Fox News. But that's exactly what some hopeful soul at the Department of Defense instructed, in a memo intended to forbid Pentagon staff reading a copy of the Taguba report detailing abuse of detainees at prisons in Iraq that had been posted at the Fox News web site.
An email to Pentagon staff marked "URGENT IT (Information Technology) BULLETIN: Taguba Report" orders employees not to read or download the Taguba report at Fox News, on the grounds that the document is classified.
An email to Pentagon staff marked "URGENT IT (Information Technology) BULLETIN: Taguba Report" orders employees not to read or download the Taguba report at Fox News, on the grounds that the document is classified.
ECOPOL
CACI Careers: Job Openings: Interrogator/Intel Analyst Team Lead Asst. BAGHDAD, Iraq (Requisition #BZSG308) Clearance: TS
Description:
Assists the interrogation support program team lead to increase the effectiveness of dealing with Detainees, Persons of Interest, and Prisoners of War (POWs) that are in the custody of US/Coalition Forces in the CJTF 7 AOR, in terms of screening, interrogation, and debriefing of persons of intelligence value. Under minimal CACI supervision, will assist the government team lead in managing a multifaceted interrogation support cell consisting of database entry/intelligence research clerks, screeners, tactical/strategic interrogators, and intelligence analyst.
[via Rebecca Blood]
Description:
Assists the interrogation support program team lead to increase the effectiveness of dealing with Detainees, Persons of Interest, and Prisoners of War (POWs) that are in the custody of US/Coalition Forces in the CJTF 7 AOR, in terms of screening, interrogation, and debriefing of persons of intelligence value. Under minimal CACI supervision, will assist the government team lead in managing a multifaceted interrogation support cell consisting of database entry/intelligence research clerks, screeners, tactical/strategic interrogators, and intelligence analyst.
[via Rebecca Blood]
TECNOSFERA
Colleges Offering Video Game Studies: Thanks to the growing place of games in mainstream entertainment, universities across the nation are now offering classes in video game design, hoping to teach students skills for a career in a business that now generates roughly as much revenue as Hollywood's domestic box office receipts.
TECNOSFERA
Speed Limits Could Slow Viruses: Researchers from the University of New Mexico, the Santa Fe Institute, the University of Michigan, and Hewlett-Packard's HP Laboratories in England to have found a new way to slow viruses and worms. The method, dubbed throttling, involves limiting the number of new connections a computer can make in a given period of time. This promises to slow the spread of viruses and worms enough to make them easier to control and eliminate.
TECNOSFERA
Summary of National Broadband Strategies and country data: Broadband penetration in Portugal was 4.9% of the population in January 2004. Portugal is one of the very few countries in the EU where the number of cable modem subscribers is greater than the number of DSL subscribers. However, Portugal Telecom, the incumbent, is the dominant provider of both DSL and cable modem services. Portugal Telecom has 87% of the DSL market while few independent ISPs provide DSL services mainly through bitstream access.
TECNOSFERA
Online intrusions more than criminal: You should never put any personal information on the Internet that you wouldn't want to see in the newspapers.
VITAMEDIAS
Várias horas depois de ter publicado Autoridade quer acabar «blogs», o Expresso veio finalmente reconhecer: O EXPRESSO Online errou. A notícia não corresponde efectivamente ao que foi debatido sobre os «blogs» no seminário «Ciberlaw'2004» , tendo o jurista Pedro Amorim razão no seu esclarecimento. Pelo lamentável equívoco, as desculpas ao jurista e aos leitores do Online.
Mário de Carvalho
O Atrium e José Magalhães já contribuíram para a explicação de Pedro Amorim mas fiquei com as seguintes dúvidas:
- porque demorou o Expresso tanto tempo a emendar um texto errado?
- porque é que a Nota do Editor refere que a notícia não corresponde ao que foi debatido no seminário quendo a jornalista diz que falou com Pedro Amorim APÓS o evento?
- deve(ria) o Expresso ter eliminado o texto ou, como o faz, mantê-lo "online"?
- a nota do Expresso titula "Pedro Amorim esclarece" mas não devia ser "O Expresso Online esclarece"?...
- porque foram escritos tantos comentários contra Pedro Amorim (no Expresso ou em vários blogues) e poucos a explicar a dificuldade técnica em abolir os blogues?
- a Anacom tem um gabinete de imprensa mas porque não emitiu um comunicado a esclarecer a sua posição? Ou está a pensar no assunto e tinha interesse em ver as reacções?!?
Mário de Carvalho
O Atrium e José Magalhães já contribuíram para a explicação de Pedro Amorim mas fiquei com as seguintes dúvidas:
- porque demorou o Expresso tanto tempo a emendar um texto errado?
- porque é que a Nota do Editor refere que a notícia não corresponde ao que foi debatido no seminário quendo a jornalista diz que falou com Pedro Amorim APÓS o evento?
- deve(ria) o Expresso ter eliminado o texto ou, como o faz, mantê-lo "online"?
- a nota do Expresso titula "Pedro Amorim esclarece" mas não devia ser "O Expresso Online esclarece"?...
- porque foram escritos tantos comentários contra Pedro Amorim (no Expresso ou em vários blogues) e poucos a explicar a dificuldade técnica em abolir os blogues?
- a Anacom tem um gabinete de imprensa mas porque não emitiu um comunicado a esclarecer a sua posição? Ou está a pensar no assunto e tinha interesse em ver as reacções?!?
11 maio 2004
VITAMEDIAS
Media Consumption Underestimated: "people spend more than double ... the time with the media than they think they do."
The total time spent with the media by the average person each day was a whopping 11.7 hours. The study understood "media" to include things like watching television, video tapes or DVDs; listening to the radio, CDs, cassettes or MP3 players; spending time on the computer, Internet, or sending and receiving e-mail; talking on the telephone or cell phone; and reading books, magazines or newspapers.
The report said the "least media-active person" observed by researchers spent 5.25 hours a day with the media, while the most active spent over 17 hours.
The total time spent with the media by the average person each day was a whopping 11.7 hours. The study understood "media" to include things like watching television, video tapes or DVDs; listening to the radio, CDs, cassettes or MP3 players; spending time on the computer, Internet, or sending and receiving e-mail; talking on the telephone or cell phone; and reading books, magazines or newspapers.
The report said the "least media-active person" observed by researchers spent 5.25 hours a day with the media, while the most active spent over 17 hours.
VITAMEDIAS
U.S. Accused of Restricting Foreign Press: An international journalists' rights watchdog group has accused U.S. officials of trying to restrict press freedoms by hindering the entry of foreign reporters into the United States.
The charge follows the recent detention and deportation of a British freelance journalist in what representatives of Reporters Without Borders said was part of a disturbing pattern of restrictions against foreign journalists trying to enter the country on assignment.
The charge follows the recent detention and deportation of a British freelance journalist in what representatives of Reporters Without Borders said was part of a disturbing pattern of restrictions against foreign journalists trying to enter the country on assignment.
VITAMEDIAS
Journalist fights to protect sources: A freelance journalist who has spent 30 years investigating the tragic sinking of a fishing trawler has vowed to resist an order to identify his sources to a government inquiry.
10 maio 2004
CULTURAS IN VITRO
UK fears over film ratings idea: The EU is examining the prospect of applying the same film classifications across all its member states.
VITAMEDIAS
Science and the Mass Media: A Clash of Cultures: mass media content is "a socially created product, not a reflection of an objective reality." In contrast, science is as close to an objective reality as we can muster. How the two interact is fascinating, and it's not without tension: Researchers get frustrated when the media sensationalize science, and they often lack respect for journalists, while reporters regularly find scientists to be incomprehensible and opaque, poor communicators who wrap their message within layers of caveats. [...]
science coverage in the media is growing. For example, a recent analysis of Danish newspapers concluded that there was a "dramatic and accelerating sevenfold increase in the number of articles referring to researchers" between 1961 and 2001.
What rules apply to news selection? According to Pamela J. Shoemaker and Stephen D. Reese,1 news values fall into six categories: prominence/importance, human interest, conflict/controversy, the unusual, timeliness, and proximity. [...]
A recent analysis of coverage by newspapers on research published in four elite journals concluded: "Journalists depict themselves as keen - at times even ruthless - competitors with one another, but this finding suggests a different view: When it comes to breaking news about scientific research, newspapers try to make sure that they cover the stories that other newspapers cover. The goal is not to be different, but to be the same."
science coverage in the media is growing. For example, a recent analysis of Danish newspapers concluded that there was a "dramatic and accelerating sevenfold increase in the number of articles referring to researchers" between 1961 and 2001.
What rules apply to news selection? According to Pamela J. Shoemaker and Stephen D. Reese,1 news values fall into six categories: prominence/importance, human interest, conflict/controversy, the unusual, timeliness, and proximity. [...]
A recent analysis of coverage by newspapers on research published in four elite journals concluded: "Journalists depict themselves as keen - at times even ruthless - competitors with one another, but this finding suggests a different view: When it comes to breaking news about scientific research, newspapers try to make sure that they cover the stories that other newspapers cover. The goal is not to be different, but to be the same."
TECNOSFERA
Coke sneaks phones, GPS chips into cans: About 120 Coke cans are being covertly converted into a combination global positioning satellite receiver and cell phone. [...]
The technology tracks cans to within about 50 feet anywhere in America, and winners must carry the cans at all times until one of five prize teams around the country shows up to exchange the prize for the can.
VITAMEDIAS
An Astonishing New Magazine - Sábado: Come ON... this is 2004. In Britain/France/Germany/Spain would a magazine of this standard be seen on the newstands? I hope you know the answer. Yes, this is a small country, but for such a small population it has a strong publishing industry, and this magazine just doesn't cut it.
VITAMEDIAS
A transparência no jornalismo: O advento dos bloggers permitiu que alguns se tenham tornado autores, criadores de informação, pessoas que se exprimem nas mais diversas áreas e num novo espaço público. Também a função do jornalista se está a alterar, pois a procura de informação com os motores de busca tornou-se mais rápida e eficiente, permitindo, em segundos, uma pesquisa de eficiência elevada.
Newspapers See Danger in Text Messaging: International editors and publishers warned Friday that nontraditional communications - such as cell phone text messages - are rapidly outflanking radio, television, and print media because of their immediacy and proximity to the public.
Blogs colliding with traditional media: Among the media credential applications for this summer's Democratic National Convention - from the TV networks, newspapers, and radio stations - is the one from 21-year-old Jesse Taylor, a pundit of the self-declared variety.
He may not be a traditional journalist, but the recent college graduate does have a blog, a website called pandagon.net, where his opinions on current events and the press draw 12,000 readers per day. And from the standpoint of Democratic National Convention organizers, that could be good enough.
Newspapers See Danger in Text Messaging: International editors and publishers warned Friday that nontraditional communications - such as cell phone text messages - are rapidly outflanking radio, television, and print media because of their immediacy and proximity to the public.
Blogs colliding with traditional media: Among the media credential applications for this summer's Democratic National Convention - from the TV networks, newspapers, and radio stations - is the one from 21-year-old Jesse Taylor, a pundit of the self-declared variety.
He may not be a traditional journalist, but the recent college graduate does have a blog, a website called pandagon.net, where his opinions on current events and the press draw 12,000 readers per day. And from the standpoint of Democratic National Convention organizers, that could be good enough.
ECOPOL
EU countries slip in global competitiveness ranks: The World Competitiveness Yearbook - published by leading business school IMD in Switzerland - ranks 60 countries and regions according to 323 categories that contribute to a competitive economy.
And the ranking makes disappointing reading for Europe. According to the report, the top six countries are the US, Singapore, Canada, Australia, Iceland and Hong Kong.
The top EU country - Denmark - comes in seventh. [...]
Portugal was in the same place [39º] and this report will undoubtedly cause ripples in Brussels where a high-level group is currently putting together proposals to invigorate the so-called "Lisbon strategy", which is the EU's ambitious goal to be the most competitive, knowledge-based economy in the world by 2010.
And the ranking makes disappointing reading for Europe. According to the report, the top six countries are the US, Singapore, Canada, Australia, Iceland and Hong Kong.
The top EU country - Denmark - comes in seventh. [...]
Portugal was in the same place [39º] and this report will undoubtedly cause ripples in Brussels where a high-level group is currently putting together proposals to invigorate the so-called "Lisbon strategy", which is the EU's ambitious goal to be the most competitive, knowledge-based economy in the world by 2010.
VITAMEDIAS
Esteemed journalist lectures on ethics: The media industry has been infested by the rise of pseudo-journalists who go against journalism's long tradition to serve the public with accurate information, Los Angeles Times Editor John S. Carroll told [...]
"All over the country there are offices that look like newsrooms and there are people in those offices that look for all the world just like journalists, but they are not practicing journalism," he said. "They regard the audience with a cold cynicism. They are practicing something I call a pseudo-journalism, and they view their audience as something to be manipulated."
"All over the country there are offices that look like newsrooms and there are people in those offices that look for all the world just like journalists, but they are not practicing journalism," he said. "They regard the audience with a cold cynicism. They are practicing something I call a pseudo-journalism, and they view their audience as something to be manipulated."
VITAMEDIAS
Iraq bloggers ceases publishing: An interrogator at Abu Ghraib, the prison outside of Baghdad, has been writing a Weblog for the Web site of KSTP-AM, a St. Paul, Minn., radio station, but has stopped writing it since the allegations of prisoner abuse have surfaced.
07 maio 2004
TECNOSFERA
Google's Orkut Personal Information Offered Outside Orkut: Bear in mind that the data is apparently fairly old. But Orkut, cracked once, leaves fears that it could be cracked again.
VITAMEDIAS
Iraq prison abuse images shake the Net: Revelations last week of U.S. troops abusing Iraqi prisoners offer the latest example of how digital technologies from cameras to the Internet are changing the rules for news gathering.
TECNOSFERA
China shuts 8,600 cybercafes over the last couple of months because of fears that the Net could corrupt the minds of youngsters.
Parents worried about 3G phones: half of all parents "strongly agree" that the phones are a "cause for concern", with eight in ten fearful that the phones will "make it more or less impossible to supervise and support children who use the Internet".
Parents worried about 3G phones: half of all parents "strongly agree" that the phones are a "cause for concern", with eight in ten fearful that the phones will "make it more or less impossible to supervise and support children who use the Internet".
VITAMEDIAS
TiVo: How digital video recorders like TiVo let viewers watch what they want, when they want.
06 maio 2004
VITAMEDIAS
3-D TV Is Closer Than You Think: "The ability to do 3-D TV is here," says Stereographics Director of Marketing Michael Longerbeam. "I would say that in ten years it will easily be a reality."
CULTURAS IN VITRO
When One Man's Video Art Is Another's Copyright Crime: A 34-year-old video artist living in Baltimore, Mr. Routson has a very particular method of art-making, which will soon be illegal in Maryland, as it already is in the District of Columbia and five other states, including New York and California. Like the appropriation artists of the early 1980's, who rephotographed existing photographs as a way of commenting on society, Mr. Routson makes movies of other people's movies.
VITAMEDIAS
News filed on the spot - thumbs permitting: The possibilities of reporting by mobile phone are being fully explored by Norwegian journalist Øyvind Woie, who is planning his second MMS reporting project later this year.
Mr Woie writes for Oslo-based newspaper Vårt Land and is keen to promote the possibilities of reporting by MMS - multimedia messaging - because it allows journalists to publish online instantly and unobtrusively.
Mr Woie writes for Oslo-based newspaper Vårt Land and is keen to promote the possibilities of reporting by MMS - multimedia messaging - because it allows journalists to publish online instantly and unobtrusively.
VITAMEDIAS
Honey, They Shrunk the Newspaper - Reading the electronic versions of the New York Times and Washington Post
Online newspaper readers more politically active than the general online population
Online newspaper readers more politically active than the general online population
VITAMEDIAS
F*cked by the F*CC: I asked Robert Corn-Revere--the First Amendment attorney who recently got Lenny Bruce pardoned and who litigated against the Communications Decency Act--about the constitutionality of current regulations and new legislation. He replied: "What constitutionality?... The FCC has done its best to prolong the longevity of this doctrine by keeping it out of court."
In compelling testimony before Congress, Corn-Revere pleaded for a long-overdue constitutional review of indecency policy. He complained that the FCC's indecency (and now profanity) standards evade the tests that courts grant for obscenity: The FCC judges a work not as a whole but by just one word; it judges not by the standard of an "average person" but by that of a child; and it short-circuits due process (Stern complains that his company settled $1.71 million in fines in 1995 only because the FCC was using it to hold licenses hostage). Finally, Corn-Revere says, the enforcement is inconsistent. No one knows where the line is.
In compelling testimony before Congress, Corn-Revere pleaded for a long-overdue constitutional review of indecency policy. He complained that the FCC's indecency (and now profanity) standards evade the tests that courts grant for obscenity: The FCC judges a work not as a whole but by just one word; it judges not by the standard of an "average person" but by that of a child; and it short-circuits due process (Stern complains that his company settled $1.71 million in fines in 1995 only because the FCC was using it to hold licenses hostage). Finally, Corn-Revere says, the enforcement is inconsistent. No one knows where the line is.
ECOPOL
Afinal, depois de o Expresso o revelar sem ainda estar activo, existe ou não o digaomanel.com, o sítio Web de Manuel Monteiro (Nova Democracia)?
Sim e está registado desta forma:
Registrant: Lourenço Lucena
Lg. Adelino Amaro da Costa, #8 – 3. Esq.
Lisboa, 1100 - Portugal
Administrative Contact (& Technical Contact & Billing Contact): Ricardo Ribeiro
Rua Marquesa de Alorna, 6 RC Dto
Lisboa, 1700 - Portugal
Phone: (351) 289395819
Fax: (351) 289395819
Record last updated on 2004-05-03
Record created on 2004-04-15
Record expires on 2005-04-15
Sim e está registado desta forma:
Registrant: Lourenço Lucena
Lg. Adelino Amaro da Costa, #8 – 3. Esq.
Lisboa, 1100 - Portugal
Administrative Contact (& Technical Contact & Billing Contact): Ricardo Ribeiro
Rua Marquesa de Alorna, 6 RC Dto
Lisboa, 1700 - Portugal
Phone: (351) 289395819
Fax: (351) 289395819
Record last updated on 2004-05-03
Record created on 2004-04-15
Record expires on 2005-04-15
VITAMEDIAS
Atenção, jornalistas, se querem "controlar ou imobilizar um indivíduo; desobstruir caminho entre outros; defender murro ou pontapé; defender e libertar-se de agarre ou estrangulamento; defender-se de ataque com pau ou faca; defender-se de um cão; defender-se de mais do que um indivíduo; sacar gravador, máquina de fotografar ou de filmar das mãos de indivíduo; reter indivíduo até à chegada das autoridades", não percam este curso.
Sem comentários porque são tantos a uma proposta destas vinda do Sindicato... dos Jornalistas!
Sem comentários porque são tantos a uma proposta destas vinda do Sindicato... dos Jornalistas!
05 maio 2004
VITAMEDIAS
Creation of the Media: one of the things, I think, that's good about the American pattern is that we generally haven't let the company or companies that dominate our prior technology from also controlling a new technology. So if you think about it, the Post Office didn't get control of the telegraph as happened in Europe, and then Western Union didn't get control of the telephone; and then Bell Telephone didn't get control of broadcasting. So we had competition across the different means of communication. Now, today, one of the things, again, that's worrying is that of course the media conglomerates span different media. We don't have that degree of separation which I think was a very healthy influence in the past.
ECOPOL
Battle of the Photographs: Although the main purpose of the abuse was to soften up the prisoners for interrogation, the precise forms of humiliation appear to have been shaped by the insecurities and prejudices of the reservists, who had been given no training in the Geneva Conventions.
The reaction to the photographs in the Arab world was, predictably, fury and humiliation.
[Geneva Convention:
Article 12 - Les prisonniers de guerre sont au pouvoir de la Puissance ennemie, mais non des individus ou des corps de troupe qui les ont fait prisonniers. Indépendamment des responsabilités individuelles qui peuvent exister, la Puissance détentrice est responsable du traitement qui leur est appliqué. (...)
Article 13 - (...) Les prisonniers de guerre doivent de même être protégés en tout temps, notamment contre tout acte de violence ou d'intimidation, contre les insultes et la curiosité publique. (...)
Article 14 - Les prisonniers de guerre ont doit en toutes circonstances au respect de leur personne et de leur honneur.]
Army Discloses Criminal Inquiry on Prison Abuse: In the last 16 months, the Army has conducted more than 30 criminal investigations into misconduct by American captors in Iraq and Afghanistan, including 10 cases of suspicious death, 10 cases of abuse, and two deaths already determined to have been criminal homicides, the Army's vice chief of staff said Tuesday.
To date, the most severe penalties in any of the cases were less-than-honorable discharges for five Army soldiers, military officials said. No one has been sentenced to prison, they said.
The coalition’s reputation takes another hit: The scandal over abuses of Iraqi prisoners by coalition forces continues to grow. Despite promises of punishment for those found guilty of such abuse—and doubts over the veracity of photographs showing abuse by British soldiers—the damage to the coalition’s reputation may prove irreparable
Alguém sabe quem foi a fonte original que divulgou as imagens à CBS?
INVESTIGATION OF THE 800th MILITARY POLICE BRIGADE (SECRET/NO FOREIGN DISSEMINATION): CONCLUSION
1. (U) Several US Army Soldiers have committed egregious acts and grave breaches of international law at Abu Ghraib/BCCF and Camp Bucca, Iraq. Furthermore, key senior leaders in both the 800th MP Brigade and the 205th MI Brigade failed to comply with established regulations, policies, and command directives in preventing detainee abuses at Abu Ghraib (BCCF) and at Camp Bucca during the period August 2003 to February 2004.
2. (U) Approval and implementation of the recommendations of this AR 15-6 Investigation and those highlighted in previous assessments are essential to establish the conditions with the resources and personnel required to prevent future occurrences of detainee abuse.
Classification of Taguba Torture Report: Remarks of Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld
Defense Department Operational Update Briefing (Also participating; Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Peter Pace) [excerpt on classification of Taguba torture report] [...]
Q: General, a quick follow-up on that, please. Could you explain to us why the Taguba report was classified secret, no foreign distribution? Those of us who have read the report, there's clearly nothing in there that's inherently secret, such as intelligence sources and methods or troop movements. Was this kept secret because it would be embarrassing to the world, particularly the Arab world?
GEN. PACE: First of all, I do not know specifically why it was labeled secret. Potentially there are parts of the hundreds and hundreds of pages of documentation that are classified. I do not know that to be a fact, but normally we will classify a document at the highest level of anything that's in that document.
But as the secretary pointed out, immediately we told the world that we thought we had a problem. So there has been no attempt to hide this. What we've been trying to do is find out the truth of the matter so we can get on about correcting; finding out who did what, and then taking a proper action.
Q: Mr. Secretary, can you say why it was classified secret? Do you know?
SEC. RUMSFELD: No, you'd have to ask the classifier.
The reaction to the photographs in the Arab world was, predictably, fury and humiliation.
[Geneva Convention:
Article 12 - Les prisonniers de guerre sont au pouvoir de la Puissance ennemie, mais non des individus ou des corps de troupe qui les ont fait prisonniers. Indépendamment des responsabilités individuelles qui peuvent exister, la Puissance détentrice est responsable du traitement qui leur est appliqué. (...)
Article 13 - (...) Les prisonniers de guerre doivent de même être protégés en tout temps, notamment contre tout acte de violence ou d'intimidation, contre les insultes et la curiosité publique. (...)
Article 14 - Les prisonniers de guerre ont doit en toutes circonstances au respect de leur personne et de leur honneur.]
Army Discloses Criminal Inquiry on Prison Abuse: In the last 16 months, the Army has conducted more than 30 criminal investigations into misconduct by American captors in Iraq and Afghanistan, including 10 cases of suspicious death, 10 cases of abuse, and two deaths already determined to have been criminal homicides, the Army's vice chief of staff said Tuesday.
To date, the most severe penalties in any of the cases were less-than-honorable discharges for five Army soldiers, military officials said. No one has been sentenced to prison, they said.
The coalition’s reputation takes another hit: The scandal over abuses of Iraqi prisoners by coalition forces continues to grow. Despite promises of punishment for those found guilty of such abuse—and doubts over the veracity of photographs showing abuse by British soldiers—the damage to the coalition’s reputation may prove irreparable
Alguém sabe quem foi a fonte original que divulgou as imagens à CBS?
INVESTIGATION OF THE 800th MILITARY POLICE BRIGADE (SECRET/NO FOREIGN DISSEMINATION): CONCLUSION
1. (U) Several US Army Soldiers have committed egregious acts and grave breaches of international law at Abu Ghraib/BCCF and Camp Bucca, Iraq. Furthermore, key senior leaders in both the 800th MP Brigade and the 205th MI Brigade failed to comply with established regulations, policies, and command directives in preventing detainee abuses at Abu Ghraib (BCCF) and at Camp Bucca during the period August 2003 to February 2004.
2. (U) Approval and implementation of the recommendations of this AR 15-6 Investigation and those highlighted in previous assessments are essential to establish the conditions with the resources and personnel required to prevent future occurrences of detainee abuse.
Classification of Taguba Torture Report: Remarks of Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld
Defense Department Operational Update Briefing (Also participating; Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Peter Pace) [excerpt on classification of Taguba torture report] [...]
Q: General, a quick follow-up on that, please. Could you explain to us why the Taguba report was classified secret, no foreign distribution? Those of us who have read the report, there's clearly nothing in there that's inherently secret, such as intelligence sources and methods or troop movements. Was this kept secret because it would be embarrassing to the world, particularly the Arab world?
GEN. PACE: First of all, I do not know specifically why it was labeled secret. Potentially there are parts of the hundreds and hundreds of pages of documentation that are classified. I do not know that to be a fact, but normally we will classify a document at the highest level of anything that's in that document.
But as the secretary pointed out, immediately we told the world that we thought we had a problem. So there has been no attempt to hide this. What we've been trying to do is find out the truth of the matter so we can get on about correcting; finding out who did what, and then taking a proper action.
Q: Mr. Secretary, can you say why it was classified secret? Do you know?
SEC. RUMSFELD: No, you'd have to ask the classifier.
ECOPOL
Sobre esta questão, o que a Economist diz é o seguinte:
"Nothing, so far, has been proved, certainly not as far as the UN is concerned. [Claude Hankes-Drielsma, a British financial adviser on the Iraqi Governing Council (GC)] evidence and nearly all the other allegations against the UN have so far been based on documents found in Iraqi government archives. But no one, other than he and the GC's 25 members, has seen or authenticated the documents".
"Nothing, so far, has been proved, certainly not as far as the UN is concerned. [Claude Hankes-Drielsma, a British financial adviser on the Iraqi Governing Council (GC)] evidence and nearly all the other allegations against the UN have so far been based on documents found in Iraqi government archives. But no one, other than he and the GC's 25 members, has seen or authenticated the documents".
04 maio 2004
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Total Lunar Eclipse of 2004 May 04
A Lua Esconde-se na Sombra da Terra Esta Noite: [A Lua] surgirá a Este (às 20h26) já parcialmente eclipsada, elevando-se progressivamente enquanto mergulha cada vez mais na sombra até - oito minutos antes das 21h00 - ficar completamente "escondida" na sombra.
ECOPOL
The Oil-for-Food Scam: What Did Kofi Annan Know, and When Did He Know It? Suddenly, Oil-for-Food is with us again, this time splashed all over the news as the subject of scandal at the UN: bribes, kickbacks, fraud, smuggling; stories of graft involving tens of billions of dollars and countless barrels of oil, and implicating big business and high officials in dozens of countries; allegations that the head of the program himself was on the take. [...]
Unlike most of its relief programs, in which both the cost of the relief itself and UN overhead were paid for by contributions from member states, Oil-for-Food would in every respect be funded entirely out of Saddam?s oil revenues. The UN Secretariat would collect a 2.2-percent commission on every barrel of Iraqi oil sold, plus 0.8 percent to pay for UN weapons inspections in Iraq.
If the aim of this provision was to make Saddam bear the cost of his own obstinacy, the effect was to create a situation in which the UN Secretariat was paid handsomely, on commission, by Saddam?to supervise Saddam. And the bigger Oil-for-Food got, the bigger the fees collected by Annan?s office.
Oil-for-food inquiry says 'key' is $1bn UN paid itself in fees: A senior UN official who is closely involved in uncovering evidence of the scandal admitted: "The UN was not doing this work just for the good of Iraq. Cash from Saddam's government was keeping the UN going for a few years.
... But the Economist notes that, though some American congressmen are calling it "the biggest scandal ever," there's "little hard evidence" implicating anyone in wrongdoing. While seven different entities are carrying out investigations, so far most of the evidence comes from Iraqi government documents that haven't been authenticated.
Outros documentos:
- SOURCES OF REVENUE FOR SADDAM & SONS
- The Beneficiaries of Saddam's Oil Vouchers: The List of 270
Unlike most of its relief programs, in which both the cost of the relief itself and UN overhead were paid for by contributions from member states, Oil-for-Food would in every respect be funded entirely out of Saddam?s oil revenues. The UN Secretariat would collect a 2.2-percent commission on every barrel of Iraqi oil sold, plus 0.8 percent to pay for UN weapons inspections in Iraq.
If the aim of this provision was to make Saddam bear the cost of his own obstinacy, the effect was to create a situation in which the UN Secretariat was paid handsomely, on commission, by Saddam?to supervise Saddam. And the bigger Oil-for-Food got, the bigger the fees collected by Annan?s office.
Oil-for-food inquiry says 'key' is $1bn UN paid itself in fees: A senior UN official who is closely involved in uncovering evidence of the scandal admitted: "The UN was not doing this work just for the good of Iraq. Cash from Saddam's government was keeping the UN going for a few years.
... But the Economist notes that, though some American congressmen are calling it "the biggest scandal ever," there's "little hard evidence" implicating anyone in wrongdoing. While seven different entities are carrying out investigations, so far most of the evidence comes from Iraqi government documents that haven't been authenticated.
Outros documentos:
- SOURCES OF REVENUE FOR SADDAM & SONS
- The Beneficiaries of Saddam's Oil Vouchers: The List of 270
ECOPOL
Gabriel Silva explica o alcance disto: "A Constituição da República Portuguesa passou a ter uma cláusula aberta, pela qual se aceita a vigência das normais jurídicas europeias, sendo que a sua aplicabilidade interna (em Portugal), passa a ser definida pelo direito da União Europeia e não já pela CRP"
VITAMEDIAS
In Improving Economy, Papers Can't Shake Circ Doldrums: Even as advertisers return with gusto to newspapers, circulation continues to be a lagging economic indicator.
Fully half of the nation's largest 38 newspapers reported weekday circulation declines [...] for the six-month period ending March 2004.
Fully half of the nation's largest 38 newspapers reported weekday circulation declines [...] for the six-month period ending March 2004.
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U.S. Is Losing Its Dominance in the Sciences: Foreign advances in basic science now often rival or even exceed America's, apparently with little public awareness of the trend or its implications for jobs, industry, national security or the vigor of the nation's intellectual and cultural life.
"The rest of the world is catching up," said John E. Jankowski, a senior analyst at the National Science Foundation, the federal agency that tracks science trends. "Science excellence is no longer the domain of just the U.S." [...]
One area of international competition involves patents. Americans still win large numbers of them, but the percentage is falling as foreigners, especially Asians, have become more active and in some fields have seized the innovation lead. The United States' share of its own industrial patents has fallen steadily over the decades and now stands at 52 percent.
A more concrete decline can be seen in published research. Physical Review, a series of top physics journals, recently tracked a reversal in which American papers, in two decades, fell from the most to a minority. Last year the total was just 29 percent, down from 61 percent in 1983.
Another downturn centers on the Nobel Prizes, an icon of scientific excellence. Traditionally, the United States, powered by heavy federal investments in basic research, the kind that pursues fundamental questions of nature, dominated the awards.
But the American share, after peaking from the 1960's through the 1990's, has fallen in the 2000's to about half, 51 percent. The rest went to Britain, Japan, Russia, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland and New Zealand.
China, said Martin Blume, the journals' editor, has surged ahead by submitting more than 1,000 papers a year. "Other scientific publishers are seeing the same kind of thing," he added.
Another downturn centers on the Nobel Prizes, an icon of scientific excellence. Traditionally, the United States, powered by heavy federal investments in basic research, the kind that pursues fundamental questions of nature, dominated the awards.
But the American share, after peaking from the 1960's through the 1990's, has fallen in the 2000's to about half, 51 percent. The rest went to Britain, Japan, Russia, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland and New Zealand.
"The rest of the world is catching up," said John E. Jankowski, a senior analyst at the National Science Foundation, the federal agency that tracks science trends. "Science excellence is no longer the domain of just the U.S." [...]
One area of international competition involves patents. Americans still win large numbers of them, but the percentage is falling as foreigners, especially Asians, have become more active and in some fields have seized the innovation lead. The United States' share of its own industrial patents has fallen steadily over the decades and now stands at 52 percent.
A more concrete decline can be seen in published research. Physical Review, a series of top physics journals, recently tracked a reversal in which American papers, in two decades, fell from the most to a minority. Last year the total was just 29 percent, down from 61 percent in 1983.
Another downturn centers on the Nobel Prizes, an icon of scientific excellence. Traditionally, the United States, powered by heavy federal investments in basic research, the kind that pursues fundamental questions of nature, dominated the awards.
But the American share, after peaking from the 1960's through the 1990's, has fallen in the 2000's to about half, 51 percent. The rest went to Britain, Japan, Russia, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland and New Zealand.
China, said Martin Blume, the journals' editor, has surged ahead by submitting more than 1,000 papers a year. "Other scientific publishers are seeing the same kind of thing," he added.
Another downturn centers on the Nobel Prizes, an icon of scientific excellence. Traditionally, the United States, powered by heavy federal investments in basic research, the kind that pursues fundamental questions of nature, dominated the awards.
But the American share, after peaking from the 1960's through the 1990's, has fallen in the 2000's to about half, 51 percent. The rest went to Britain, Japan, Russia, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland and New Zealand.
TECNOSFERA
U.S. blunders with keyword blacklist: The U.S. government concocted a brilliant plan a few years ago: Why not give Internet surfers in China and Iran the ability to bypass their nations' notoriously restrictive blocks on Web sites?
Soon afterward, the U.S. International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB) invented a way to let people in China and Iran easily route around censorship by using a U.S.-based service to view banned sites such as BBC News, MIT and Amnesty International.
But an independent report released Monday reveals that the U.S. government also censors what Chinese and Iranian citizens can see online. Technology used by the IBB, which puts out the Voice of America broadcasts, prevents them from visiting Web addresses that include a peculiar list of verboten keywords.
Soon afterward, the U.S. International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB) invented a way to let people in China and Iran easily route around censorship by using a U.S.-based service to view banned sites such as BBC News, MIT and Amnesty International.
But an independent report released Monday reveals that the U.S. government also censors what Chinese and Iranian citizens can see online. Technology used by the IBB, which puts out the Voice of America broadcasts, prevents them from visiting Web addresses that include a peculiar list of verboten keywords.
03 maio 2004
VITAMEDIAS
Dia Mundial da Liberdade de Imprensa:
Pedro J. Ramírez [?]
- Defende como principais ameaças à imprensa independente a concentração, as interferências dos poderes político e económico e a deterioração dos critérios jornalísticos. Qual é a pior?
A ameaça mais grave é a do Estado e dos poderes públicos. A interferência do governo.
- A concentração é inevitável?
Não é inevitável se os governos democráticos tomarem medidas. Sou defensor da economia liberal, mas também da protecção do mercado. Têm que ser os cidadãos a decidir qual é o seu jornal, rádio e televisão. Sem público, o resto é teoria.
Governo admite maior concentração nos media: O ministro da Presidência, Morais Sarmento, admitiu que, em alguns casos, é preferível aumentar a concentração da propriedade dos media a deixar entrar grupos estrangeiros, referindo-se concretamente à televisão.
Processados por Difamação: autores de Diário de um Jornalista afirmam que vão ser processados por difamação e não receberam vencimentos de Abril.
Os insultos da Cabrita: Ao longo deste ano recebi ameaças, insultos, pressões, processos e censuras.
Former New York Times managing editor discusses media problems, future: The nation's media is under assault from internal and external forces and must evolve in order to recapture a public that views it with increasing skepticism, according to Gerald Boyd, who resigned as managing editor of The New York Times after the Jayson Blair scandal.
New Internet Site Turns Critical Eyes and Ears to the Right: With more than $2 million in donations from wealthy liberals, Mr. Brock will start a new Internet site this week that he says will monitor the conservative media and correct erroneous assertions in real time.
Links to Terrorism: Build a Web site, go to jail
53 names added to Journalists Memorial: The names of 20 journalists who died during the war in Iraq last year and an Associated Press Television News cameraman killed while filming violence in the West Bank were among 53 names added Monday to a memorial to those who died covering the news.
Pedro J. Ramírez [?]
- Defende como principais ameaças à imprensa independente a concentração, as interferências dos poderes político e económico e a deterioração dos critérios jornalísticos. Qual é a pior?
A ameaça mais grave é a do Estado e dos poderes públicos. A interferência do governo.
- A concentração é inevitável?
Não é inevitável se os governos democráticos tomarem medidas. Sou defensor da economia liberal, mas também da protecção do mercado. Têm que ser os cidadãos a decidir qual é o seu jornal, rádio e televisão. Sem público, o resto é teoria.
Governo admite maior concentração nos media: O ministro da Presidência, Morais Sarmento, admitiu que, em alguns casos, é preferível aumentar a concentração da propriedade dos media a deixar entrar grupos estrangeiros, referindo-se concretamente à televisão.
Processados por Difamação: autores de Diário de um Jornalista afirmam que vão ser processados por difamação e não receberam vencimentos de Abril.
Os insultos da Cabrita: Ao longo deste ano recebi ameaças, insultos, pressões, processos e censuras.
Former New York Times managing editor discusses media problems, future: The nation's media is under assault from internal and external forces and must evolve in order to recapture a public that views it with increasing skepticism, according to Gerald Boyd, who resigned as managing editor of The New York Times after the Jayson Blair scandal.
New Internet Site Turns Critical Eyes and Ears to the Right: With more than $2 million in donations from wealthy liberals, Mr. Brock will start a new Internet site this week that he says will monitor the conservative media and correct erroneous assertions in real time.
Links to Terrorism: Build a Web site, go to jail
53 names added to Journalists Memorial: The names of 20 journalists who died during the war in Iraq last year and an Associated Press Television News cameraman killed while filming violence in the West Bank were among 53 names added Monday to a memorial to those who died covering the news.
TECNOSFERA
La mitad de los ciudadanos europeos ya utiliza Internet: En 2003 la mitad de la población de la UE ya utilizaba Internet, 10 puntos más que un año antes. Los países del Norte de Europa presentan los mayores índices de penetración de Internet, encabezados por Suecia (77%), que ha crecido seis puntos en el último año.
A continuación aparecen Dinamarca (71%), Finlandia (66%), Reino Unido (61%), Alemania (54%), Luxemburgo (53%) y Austria (41%), que ya se encuentra por debajo de la media comunitaria.
En el siguiente puesto figura España, que cerró 2003 con un 37% de usuarios de Internet, 17 puntos más que un año antes. Por detrás sólo aparecen Irlanda (31%), Italia (29%), Portugal (26%) y Grecia (16%). El índice no incluye datos de Bélgica, Francia y Holanda, aunque estos países están habitualmente por encima de nuestro país.
A continuación aparecen Dinamarca (71%), Finlandia (66%), Reino Unido (61%), Alemania (54%), Luxemburgo (53%) y Austria (41%), que ya se encuentra por debajo de la media comunitaria.
En el siguiente puesto figura España, que cerró 2003 con un 37% de usuarios de Internet, 17 puntos más que un año antes. Por detrás sólo aparecen Irlanda (31%), Italia (29%), Portugal (26%) y Grecia (16%). El índice no incluye datos de Bélgica, Francia y Holanda, aunque estos países están habitualmente por encima de nuestro país.
TECNOSFERA
Phishing Scams Get Savvier: A new breed of sophisticated e-mail attack that is difficult to detect and defend against is further proof that cyber-criminals and scam artists are getting more serious about their efforts to steal information.
The new attack is an enhanced form of phishing, scams that are defined as attempts to steal credit card data and other sensitive information through social-engineering efforts. Phishing scams typically employ phony e-mail messages that purport to come from banks or popular Web sites such as eBay or PayPal. The messages try to lure recipients into entering account information and passwords into bogus forms hosted on malicious Web sites.
Sasser worm could hit hard today: The worm's impact is expected to peak today as millions of workers bring their laptops back to their offices after using them over the weekend to access the Internet from relatively unsecured home locations.
Microsoft rated the vulnerability exploited by the W32/Sasser A and Sasser B worms as critical, and security experts urged all users of vulnerable system to apply patches immediately.
The new attack is an enhanced form of phishing, scams that are defined as attempts to steal credit card data and other sensitive information through social-engineering efforts. Phishing scams typically employ phony e-mail messages that purport to come from banks or popular Web sites such as eBay or PayPal. The messages try to lure recipients into entering account information and passwords into bogus forms hosted on malicious Web sites.
Sasser worm could hit hard today: The worm's impact is expected to peak today as millions of workers bring their laptops back to their offices after using them over the weekend to access the Internet from relatively unsecured home locations.
Microsoft rated the vulnerability exploited by the W32/Sasser A and Sasser B worms as critical, and security experts urged all users of vulnerable system to apply patches immediately.
TECNOSFERA
Basic hits 40: Forty years ago, at 4 a.m. on May 1, 1964, two Dartmouth College professors - with the help of two of their undergraduate students - made computing history.
VITAMEDIAS
O Indústrias Culturais fez um "mini-inquérito" aos 36 "bloguistas" do recente encontro em Vila Nova de Gaia sobre "a data de início do blogue, o tema, a idade do bloguista, a profissão e a média de mensagens semanais".
CONTAMINANTES
a formiga de langton lembra que o Dilema do Prisioneiro comemora 20 anos... É um dos "dilemas" sociais mais interessantes:
Essentially the deal is this.
- If you confess and your partner denies taking part in the crime, you go free and your partner goes to prison for five years.
- If your partner confesses and you deny participating in the crime, you go to prison for five years and yor partner goes free.
- If you both confess you will serve four years each.
- If you both deny taking part in the crime, you both go to prison for two years.
What do you do?
Essentially the deal is this.
- If you confess and your partner denies taking part in the crime, you go free and your partner goes to prison for five years.
- If your partner confesses and you deny participating in the crime, you go to prison for five years and yor partner goes free.
- If you both confess you will serve four years each.
- If you both deny taking part in the crime, you both go to prison for two years.
What do you do?
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