20 Janeiro 2012
19 Janeiro 2012
Internet vs Hollywood #pl119
Google Protest of Piracy Bills Upends Traditional Lobbying: An online protest led by Google Inc. and Facebook Inc. against U.S. anti-piracy bills illustrates how Internet companies are changing legislative debate in Washington.
Fingerboarding, por Vitùc
A short film inspired by the passion of my son Ivan for fingerboarding (skating with two fingers).
A sport that requires a lot of practice.
18 Janeiro 2012
TED e SOPA
Why it Would Create a "Consumption-Only Internet": TED has posted an “emergency” TED Talk called “Defend Our Freedom To Share (Or Why SOPA is a Bad Idea)” by Internet writer and NYU professor Clay Shirky.
Veoh vs Universal
This Horror Story Shows How SOPA Would Be Bad News For Startups: the costs of the suit, and the tactics used by Universal Music Group, had already forced Veoh to shut its doors.
Lá como cá?
Six-Billion-Euro Gap: Commerzbank Shortfall "Bigger Than First Thought": Commerzbank, Germany's second-largest bank, needs even more capital than previously believed [...]
The major German lender needs around €6 billion ($7.7 billion), daily Die Welt reported on Wednesday. Until now, the European Banking Authority (EBA) regulatory body had estimated the shortfall at €5.3 billion.
The major German lender needs around €6 billion ($7.7 billion), daily Die Welt reported on Wednesday. Until now, the European Banking Authority (EBA) regulatory body had estimated the shortfall at €5.3 billion.
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17 Janeiro 2012
Ideias :))
Most outrageous reasons people give for being late to work:
9. Employee was late because of a job interview with another firm.
10. Employee had to take a personal call from the state governor (turned out to be true).
9. Employee was late because of a job interview with another firm.
10. Employee had to take a personal call from the state governor (turned out to be true).
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Surprise! Surprise!
Surprise! The news shows up in the least expected places: More consumers are getting news incidentally — that is, in the middle of other, non-news activities. And, according to new research, readers often find joy in the serendipity. [...]
[Borchuluun Yadamsuren] identified four types of consumers: avid news readers, news avoiders, news encounterers, and crowd surfers.
[Borchuluun Yadamsuren] identified four types of consumers: avid news readers, news avoiders, news encounterers, and crowd surfers.
16 Janeiro 2012
15 Janeiro 2012
Percentagens à atenção dos jornais
Trying a Simple Model:
In the print world, costs break down as follows:
Newsroom........................25%
Production, printing.........25%
Distribution......................20%
Marketing promotion.......20%
Administration.................10%
Now let’s move to a fully digital operation derived from a traditional one in terms of journalistic firepower and standards [quadro alterado para apresentar só as percentagens]:
Newsroom...................40%
Production, technical..15%
Marketing promotion..30%
Administration............15%
[...] And I also set aside many things I firmly believe in, like keeping some print operation in the form of a compact, high-end weekly for instance (with a staff of 200, it sounds feasible), developing ancillary products such as digital book publishing, etc. Once again, while I feel my numbers are well-grounded, others will find this little model simplistic and questionable. The simulation is aimed at showing there is a life after the death of the daily print edition. Success is a “mere matter” of persistence.
Newsroom........................25%
Production, printing.........25%
Distribution......................20%
Marketing promotion.......20%
Administration.................10%
Now let’s move to a fully digital operation derived from a traditional one in terms of journalistic firepower and standards [quadro alterado para apresentar só as percentagens]:
Newsroom...................40%
Production, technical..15%
Marketing promotion..30%
Administration............15%
[...] And I also set aside many things I firmly believe in, like keeping some print operation in the form of a compact, high-end weekly for instance (with a staff of 200, it sounds feasible), developing ancillary products such as digital book publishing, etc. Once again, while I feel my numbers are well-grounded, others will find this little model simplistic and questionable. The simulation is aimed at showing there is a life after the death of the daily print edition. Success is a “mere matter” of persistence.
Princípios
Shifting the discussion to principles:
I. We have the right to connect.
II. We have the right to speak.
III. We have the right to assemble and to act.
IV. Privacy is an ethic of knowing.
V. Publicness is an ethic of sharing.
VI. Our institutions’ information should be public by default, secret by necessity.
VII. What is public is a public good.
VIII. All bits are created equal.
IX. The internet must stay open and distributed.
I. We have the right to connect.
II. We have the right to speak.
III. We have the right to assemble and to act.
IV. Privacy is an ethic of knowing.
V. Publicness is an ethic of sharing.
VI. Our institutions’ information should be public by default, secret by necessity.
VII. What is public is a public good.
VIII. All bits are created equal.
IX. The internet must stay open and distributed.
#pl118, CDs, DVDs e PSs
Para aqueles opositores à #pl118 que não entendem a proposta “visionária” de Gabriela Canavilhas, deixo aqui outro exemplo que demonstra como o PS quer baixar – e não aumentar!! – o preço dos suportes de cópia privada.
Na lei de 2004 (aprovada a 24 de Agosto - o Verão é óptimo para estas leis... - e que julgo ser a que está em vigor), a cobrança era a seguinte:
Com a proposta de lei do PS, passaria a ser:
a) Suportes materiais analógicos, como cassetes áudio ou similares – €0,06 /hora de gravação;
b) Suportes materiais analógicos, como cassetes vídeo ou similares – €0,08 /hora de gravação;
a) Discos compactos (CD) não regraváveis – €0,03 por cada GB de capacidade de armazenamento;
b) Discos compactos regraváveis (CD-RW) – € 0,05 por cada GB de capacidade de armazenamento;
c) Discos versáteis não regraváveis - € 0,03 por cada GB de capacidade de armazenamento;
d) Discos versáteis regraváveis - € 0,05 por cada GB de capacidade de armazenamento.
Façam as contas, ingratos! Afinal, o PS queria retirar verbas aos autores com uma menor taxação no preço dos CDs e DVDs. Às armas, autores!
Na lei de 2004 (aprovada a 24 de Agosto - o Verão é óptimo para estas leis... - e que julgo ser a que está em vigor), a cobrança era a seguinte:
a) Suportes materiais analógicos, como cassetes áudio ou similares – €0,06 /hora de gravação;
b) Suportes materiais analógicos, como cassetes vídeo ou similares – €0,08 /hora de gravação;
a) Discos compactos (CD) não regraváveis – €0,03 por cada GB de capacidade de armazenamento;
b) Discos compactos regraváveis (CD-RW) – € 0,05 por cada GB de capacidade de armazenamento;
c) Discos versáteis não regraváveis - € 0,03 por cada GB de capacidade de armazenamento;
d) Discos versáteis regraváveis - € 0,05 por cada GB de capacidade de armazenamento.
Façam as contas, ingratos! Afinal, o PS queria retirar verbas aos autores com uma menor taxação no preço dos CDs e DVDs. Às armas, autores!
Anonimatos
People using pseudonyms post the highest-quality comments: commenters using pseudonyms are “the most important contributors to online communities”.
Em Guarda
Entre ficar ou partir - As Expectativas dos Jovens do Interior e o Desenho das Políticas : as políticas para os jovens [são] ineficazes quanto à sua fixação. O retrato traçado sobre os jovens transparece contudo algumas ambiguidades, resultado da composição invariável desta categoria e das mudanças económicas e sociais que atravessam o território em que vivem. Desde logo se confirmou o significativo peso das políticas de emprego no desenho das trajectórias pessoais e profissionais dos jovens. A existência de laços fortes estabelecidas com a família e a comunidade revelaram-se como factores que inclinam a balança pela permanência, enquanto a escassez de ofertas de emprego combinada com uma orientação profissional desenquadrada do panorama laboral local indicam uma resposta desajustada às expectativas e aspirações dos jovens, o que contribui para saída destes do Interior.
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Mais nem sempre é melhor
Rethinking Growth: What is growth? Is it a temporary process to arrive at a state that we will then want to maintain? Or is growth a process which is itself desirable and is supposed to go on forever? Right now nobody defines a state of sufficiency. [...] The idea of steady-state economics is that growth really should be a temporary process to arrive at some level of sufficiency. [...]
our GDP, our national accounting system, does not separate costs and benefits of growth. Pollution, for instance, is not subtracted as a cost of growth. In fact, the expenditures and efforts to clean up pollution are added as a benefit. This is a strange, asymmetric entry into the accounts, because if you’re not going to count the cost of pollution, then you shouldn’t count its cleanup as a benefit.
our GDP, our national accounting system, does not separate costs and benefits of growth. Pollution, for instance, is not subtracted as a cost of growth. In fact, the expenditures and efforts to clean up pollution are added as a benefit. This is a strange, asymmetric entry into the accounts, because if you’re not going to count the cost of pollution, then you shouldn’t count its cleanup as a benefit.
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14 Janeiro 2012
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