O APAGÃO NOS MEDIA
O site Poynteronline tem um belo artigo sobre a cobertura do apagão nos Estados Unidos. Vale a pena ler. Excertos:Of course, at one point, I was wondering who, exactly, was watching, seeing as no one had power. We considered simulcasting on radio, but didn't get much initial interest from stations and didn't pursue it too vigorously.
. Podem ler mais aqui.

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O APAGÃO NOS MEDIA

O site Poynteronline tem um belo artigo sobre a cobertura do apagão nos Estados Unidos. Vale a pena ler. Excertos:Of course, at one point, I was wondering who, exactly, was watching, seeing as no one had power. We considered simulcasting on radio, but didn't get much initial interest from stations and didn't pursue it too vigorously.

. Podem ler mais aqui.

JOGOS DE LETRAS
Art Buchwald é um dos melhores colunistas da imprensa americana e a sua forma de escrita é verdadeiramente exemplar. Ao visitar algumas das suas colunas recentes, dei com esta, intitulada «Starts With S, Ends with EX» que é verdadeiramente brilhante. Foi publicada dia 14 de Agosto no
Washington Post. Excerto:I was looking at the magazine stand and I noticed almost every magazine had the word "SEX" on the cover. It wasn't just Playboy and Penthouse -- every periodical from Cosmopolitan to House & Garden was using it so that I'd buy their magazine.
When I got home I turned on the television and darned if "Sex and the City" wasn't on the air. "That does it," I said to myself. "It is time to research the word."

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JOGOS DE LETRAS

Art Buchwald é um dos melhores colunistas da imprensa americana e a sua forma de escrita é verdadeiramente exemplar. Ao visitar algumas das suas colunas recentes, dei com esta, intitulada «Starts With S, Ends with EX» que é verdadeiramente brilhante. Foi publicada dia 14 de Agosto no

Washington Post. Excerto:I was looking at the magazine stand and I noticed almost every magazine had the word "SEX" on the cover. It wasn't just Playboy and Penthouse -- every periodical from Cosmopolitan to House & Garden was using it so that I'd buy their magazine.

When I got home I turned on the television and darned if "Sex and the City" wasn't on the air. "That does it," I said to myself. "It is time to research the word."

O HOMEM E A ARTE
Como nasceu a arte a partir do ser humano? A pergunta aflige muita gente. Num excelente artigo do Japan Times traça-se um paralelo entre a arte pré-histórica e nós próprios. Excerto: Picasso, on visiting Lascaux, reportedly remarked that "we have discovered nothing new in art in 17,000 years." As White comments in his book, "all of the major representational techniques were known at least by the Magdalenian [Period, beginning about 18,000 years ago]; oil- and water-based polychrome painting, engraving, bas-relief sculpture, sculpture in the round, charcoal and manganese crayon drawing, molded clay, fired ceramic figurines, shading, perspective drawing, false relief, brush painting, stamping and stenciling." The Grotte Chauvet even contains the image of a bison colored by dots of paint applied by hand, a technique that White describes as "pointillism -- 300 centuries before Seurat."

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O HOMEM E A ARTE

Como nasceu a arte a partir do ser humano? A pergunta aflige muita gente. Num excelente artigo do Japan Times traça-se um paralelo entre a arte pré-histórica e nós próprios. Excerto: Picasso, on visiting Lascaux, reportedly remarked that "we have discovered nothing new in art in 17,000 years." As White comments in his book, "all of the major representational techniques were known at least by the Magdalenian [Period, beginning about 18,000 years ago]; oil- and water-based polychrome painting, engraving, bas-relief sculpture, sculpture in the round, charcoal and manganese crayon drawing, molded clay, fired ceramic figurines, shading, perspective drawing, false relief, brush painting, stamping and stenciling." The Grotte Chauvet even contains the image of a bison colored by dots of paint applied by hand, a technique that White describes as "pointillism -- 300 centuries before Seurat."

GOVERNO ELECTRÓNICO
Dias 7 e 8 de Outubro, em Duesseldorf, Alemanha, vai decorrer a eGo2003, exclusivamente dedicada a mostrar as evoluções registadas na área do governo electrónico, com especial incidência nos municípios e num melhor realcionamento e harmonização entre os estados membros da União Europeia. Mais informações aqui.

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GOVERNO ELECTRÓNICO

Dias 7 e 8 de Outubro, em Duesseldorf, Alemanha, vai decorrer a eGo2003, exclusivamente dedicada a mostrar as evoluções registadas na área do governo electrónico, com especial incidência nos municípios e num melhor realcionamento e harmonização entre os estados membros da União Europeia. Mais informações aqui.

ASSIM
Ele há dias que se ganham apenas por cinco minutos serem bons.

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Ele há dias que se ganham apenas por cinco minutos serem bons.

O CIRCO DO SOL
A mais recente produção do célebre «Cirque Du Soleil» chama-se «Varekay» e a «The Economist» relata-a assim: Cirque de Soleil, a unique blend of theatre, circus acts and sparkle, returns to Chicago with its latest extravaganza: “Varekai”. Expect a kaleidoscope of audacious costumes and colourful acts, including stupendous acrobatics, a triple trapeze and unconventional clowning. The troupe’s original take on the circus—ground zero of populist entertainment—has garnered a following large enough to fill the cavernous United Center, home of the Chicago Bulls basketball team.

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O CIRCO DO SOL

A mais recente produção do célebre «Cirque Du Soleil» chama-se «Varekay» e a «The Economist» relata-a assim: Cirque de Soleil, a unique blend of theatre, circus acts and sparkle, returns to Chicago with its latest extravaganza: “Varekai”. Expect a kaleidoscope of audacious costumes and colourful acts, including stupendous acrobatics, a triple trapeze and unconventional clowning. The troupe’s original take on the circus—ground zero of populist entertainment—has garnered a following large enough to fill the cavernous United Center, home of the Chicago Bulls basketball team.

A SEMANA
Mr Charles Taylor resigned as President of Liberia and flew to Nigeria; ‘History will be kind to me,’ he said. ‘I have accepted this role as the sacrificial lamb.’ Mr Taylor had won elections in 1997 with the unusual slogan ‘You killed my ma, you killed my pa. I’ll vote for you.’ A lorry bomb killed 12 and wounded 50 at the Jordanian embassy in Baghdad. Men rioted in the streets of Basra, southern Iraq, in temperatures of 122?F (50?C); they demanded electricity supplies. Zimbabwe laboured under gross inflation, with banks running out of banknotes and the 30 per cent of the workforce who are employed being left without wages. Hezbollah shelled a northern Israeli town from southern Lebanon, killing a 16-year-old boy. Mr Nick Warner, head of the Australian intervention force in the Solomon Islands, held talks with Mr Harold Keke, a gang leader, who admitted that six Anglican missionaries his men had taken hostage four months ago had been killed. In Brazil 84 men escaped from Silvio Porto prison through a 50-yard tunnel. The suicide rate in Russia reached 38.4 per 100,000 last year, with more than one in a thousand men between the ages of 45 and 57 killing themselves; only Lithuania is more suicidal. Lady Mosley, the widow of Sir Oswald Mosley, died in Paris, aged 93. In early opinion polls Arnold Schwarzenegger was the leading candidate for the governorship of California, for which elections will be held on 7 October. - excerto de «Portrait Of The Week», publicado pela revista Spectator

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A SEMANA

Mr Charles Taylor resigned as President of Liberia and flew to Nigeria; ‘History will be kind to me,’ he said. ‘I have accepted this role as the sacrificial lamb.’ Mr Taylor had won elections in 1997 with the unusual slogan ‘You killed my ma, you killed my pa. I’ll vote for you.’ A lorry bomb killed 12 and wounded 50 at the Jordanian embassy in Baghdad. Men rioted in the streets of Basra, southern Iraq, in temperatures of 122?F (50?C); they demanded electricity supplies. Zimbabwe laboured under gross inflation, with banks running out of banknotes and the 30 per cent of the workforce who are employed being left without wages. Hezbollah shelled a northern Israeli town from southern Lebanon, killing a 16-year-old boy. Mr Nick Warner, head of the Australian intervention force in the Solomon Islands, held talks with Mr Harold Keke, a gang leader, who admitted that six Anglican missionaries his men had taken hostage four months ago had been killed. In Brazil 84 men escaped from Silvio Porto prison through a 50-yard tunnel. The suicide rate in Russia reached 38.4 per 100,000 last year, with more than one in a thousand men between the ages of 45 and 57 killing themselves; only Lithuania is more suicidal. Lady Mosley, the widow of Sir Oswald Mosley, died in Paris, aged 93. In early opinion polls Arnold Schwarzenegger was the leading candidate for the governorship of California, for which elections will be held on 7 October. - excerto de «Portrait Of The Week», publicado pela revista Spectator

OS GRANDES DOS MEDIA
Quais são as maiores empresas de Media do mundo? A estrela do firmamento nos Estados Unidos reside nas companhias de TV por cabo, o negócio está a crescer apesar da recessão e as companhias de televisão de língua espanhola são as que registam melhores evoluções no mercado americnao. Podem ler mais.

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OS GRANDES DOS MEDIA

Quais são as maiores empresas de Media do mundo? A estrela do firmamento nos Estados Unidos reside nas companhias de TV por cabo, o negócio está a crescer apesar da recessão e as companhias de televisão de língua espanhola são as que registam melhores evoluções no mercado americnao. Podem ler mais.

O PANTEÃO DO JORNALISMO
O debate é interessante: Journalism — unlike literature, theater, art, music, film, or situation comedy — has never had much of a canon, a reasonably well-accepted collection of great works. This is lamentable. It leaves us, as we read the latest dispatch from Washington or a war zone, without models that might help us understand what such a dispatch might be. It allows us to mistake an interesting feature in the Times this week or some particularly persuasive piece of reporting in the current New Yorker for the best that journalism has to offer. Para ler mais sobre o assunto basta ir aqui.

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O PANTEÃO DO JORNALISMO

O debate é interessante: Journalism — unlike literature, theater, art, music, film, or situation comedy — has never had much of a canon, a reasonably well-accepted collection of great works. This is lamentable. It leaves us, as we read the latest dispatch from Washington or a war zone, without models that might help us understand what such a dispatch might be. It allows us to mistake an interesting feature in the Times this week or some particularly persuasive piece of reporting in the current New Yorker for the best that journalism has to offer. Para ler mais sobre o assunto basta ir aqui.

A MESMA CANÇÃO

A ave canta o mesmo canto
sem errar na melodia,
o mesmo que há tempo tanto
a gente ouvia.

Que maravilha é notar
como tão extrema canção
tem durado sem mudar
de fabordão.

Mas outra ave canta agora -
ah sim, a outra é já pó,
como os que ouviam outrora
comigo só.

(Poema de Thomas Hardy, traduzido por Jorge de Sena e extraído do Poesia Universal em Português.)

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A MESMA CANÇÃO



A ave canta o mesmo canto

sem errar na melodia,

o mesmo que há tempo tanto

a gente ouvia.



Que maravilha é notar

como tão extrema canção

tem durado sem mudar

de fabordão.



Mas outra ave canta agora -

ah sim, a outra é já pó,

como os que ouviam outrora

comigo só.



(Poema de Thomas Hardy, traduzido por Jorge de Sena e extraído do Poesia Universal em Português.)