A Columbia Journalism Review dá destaque ao mundo dos blogs num artigo da sua edição de Setembro/Outubro, analisando o peso crescente dos autores dos blogs, analisando o surgimento de um número crescente de jornalistas amadores. O artigo pode ser lido aqui. Um excerto que vale a pena reter: And these amateurs, especially the ones focusing on news and current events, are doing some fascinating things. Many are connecting intimately with readers in a way reminiscent of old-style metro columnists or the liveliest of the New Journalists. Others are staking the narrowest of editorial claims as their own — appellate court rulings, new media proliferation in Tehran, the intersection of hip-hop and libertarianism — and covering them like no one else. They are forever fact-checking the daylights out of truth-fudging ideologues like Ann Coulter and Michael Moore, and sifting through the biases of the BBC and Bill O'Reilly, often while cheerfully acknowledging and/or demonstrating their own lopsided political sympathies. At this instant, all over the world, bloggers are busy popularizing underappreciated print journalists (like Chicago Sun-Times columnist Mark Steyn), pumping up stories that should be getting more attention (like the Trent Lott debacle), and perhaps most excitingly of all, committing impressive, spontaneous acts of decentralized journalism..

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A Columbia Journalism Review dá destaque ao mundo dos blogs num artigo da sua edição de Setembro/Outubro, analisando o peso crescente dos autores dos blogs, analisando o surgimento de um número crescente de jornalistas amadores. O artigo pode ser lido aqui. Um excerto que vale a pena reter: And these amateurs, especially the ones focusing on news and current events, are doing some fascinating things. Many are connecting intimately with readers in a way reminiscent of old-style metro columnists or the liveliest of the New Journalists. Others are staking the narrowest of editorial claims as their own — appellate court rulings, new media proliferation in Tehran, the intersection of hip-hop and libertarianism — and covering them like no one else. They are forever fact-checking the daylights out of truth-fudging ideologues like Ann Coulter and Michael Moore, and sifting through the biases of the BBC and Bill O'Reilly, often while cheerfully acknowledging and/or demonstrating their own lopsided political sympathies. At this instant, all over the world, bloggers are busy popularizing underappreciated print journalists (like Chicago Sun-Times columnist Mark Steyn), pumping up stories that should be getting more attention (like the Trent Lott debacle), and perhaps most excitingly of all, committing impressive, spontaneous acts of decentralized journalism..

MICROSOFT FECHA CHAT ROOMS
A Microsoft anunciou ir fechar salas de chat em 28 países, no âmbito de um conjunto de medidas que se destinam a reduzir os riscos de a internet servir como instrumento de comunicação e aliciamento por parte de criminosos, nomeadamente em casos de pedofilia. Mais notícias na Wired.

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MICROSOFT FECHA CHAT ROOMS

A Microsoft anunciou ir fechar salas de chat em 28 países, no âmbito de um conjunto de medidas que se destinam a reduzir os riscos de a internet servir como instrumento de comunicação e aliciamento por parte de criminosos, nomeadamente em casos de pedofilia. Mais notícias na Wired.

A BBC
A Secretária de Estado da Cultura do Reino Unido, Tessa Jowell, fez um discurso sobre o futuro da BBC na era digital, o lugar do operador de serviço público de televisão e a sua relação com o mercado e a sociedade que é a todos os títulos exemplar. Aqui fica.

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A BBC

A Secretária de Estado da Cultura do Reino Unido, Tessa Jowell, fez um discurso sobre o futuro da BBC na era digital, o lugar do operador de serviço público de televisão e a sua relação com o mercado e a sociedade que é a todos os títulos exemplar. Aqui fica.

O GRANDE TUTTY VASQUES
(este post é dedicado a alguns personagens da sitcom «O VELHO HOTEL»)
Recomenda-se vivamente a leitura integral do texto de Tutty Vasques sobre uns pequenos problemas que se passam no jornalismo televisivo no Brasil, mas que aqui por Portugal também existem com fartura. Excerto: O assunto é velho, batido. “Às seis horas da tarde na televisão brasileira, é preciso mandar às favas o preceito jornalístico de valorizar o substantivo e soltar os bichos sobre os adjetivos”, já dizia Joaquim Ferreira dos Santos há seis meses em NoMínimo. Vale tudo contra o vale-tudo. Chamar bandido para o pau, por exemplo, rende três pontos no ibope. Parece concurso de super-heróis em Gothan City - se vivesse na Grande São Paulo, Batman seria apresentador de um Cidade Alerta desses da vida. Leitura integral em no mínimo.

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O GRANDE TUTTY VASQUES

(este post é dedicado a alguns personagens da sitcom «O VELHO HOTEL»)

Recomenda-se vivamente a leitura integral do texto de Tutty Vasques sobre uns pequenos problemas que se passam no jornalismo televisivo no Brasil, mas que aqui por Portugal também existem com fartura. Excerto: O assunto é velho, batido. “Às seis horas da tarde na televisão brasileira, é preciso mandar às favas o preceito jornalístico de valorizar o substantivo e soltar os bichos sobre os adjetivos”, já dizia Joaquim Ferreira dos Santos há seis meses em NoMínimo. Vale tudo contra o vale-tudo. Chamar bandido para o pau, por exemplo, rende três pontos no ibope. Parece concurso de super-heróis em Gothan City - se vivesse na Grande São Paulo, Batman seria apresentador de um Cidade Alerta desses da vida. Leitura integral em no mínimo.

CAMPANHA ELEITORAL
Magnífico o artigo sobre a campanha eleitoral de Arnold Schwarzenegger na edição desta semana da revista The New Yorker. Excerto: On October 8, 1993—a day short of exactly ten years before the originally scheduled date of California’s recall election—one of Sylvester Stallone’s better movies opened wide at area theatres. In “Demolition Man,” Stallone played a Los Angeles cop, cryogenically frozen around the turn of the century as punishment for a bum rap, who is thawed out in the year 2032 to give chase to his similarly thawed-out criminal nemesis. He teams up with Sandra Bullock, a new-style nicey-nice police officer. As she is showing him around the L.A. of the future—where everything is tidy, corporate, and bland—he does a double take when she mentions the “Schwarzenegger Presidential Library.” Decades before, Bullock explains perkily, Arnold Schwarzenegger became so popular that the American people waived the technicalities and made him their maximum leader.

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CAMPANHA ELEITORAL

Magnífico o artigo sobre a campanha eleitoral de Arnold Schwarzenegger na edição desta semana da revista The New Yorker. Excerto: On October 8, 1993—a day short of exactly ten years before the originally scheduled date of California’s recall election—one of Sylvester Stallone’s better movies opened wide at area theatres. In “Demolition Man,” Stallone played a Los Angeles cop, cryogenically frozen around the turn of the century as punishment for a bum rap, who is thawed out in the year 2032 to give chase to his similarly thawed-out criminal nemesis. He teams up with Sandra Bullock, a new-style nicey-nice police officer. As she is showing him around the L.A. of the future—where everything is tidy, corporate, and bland—he does a double take when she mentions the “Schwarzenegger Presidential Library.” Decades before, Bullock explains perkily, Arnold Schwarzenegger became so popular that the American people waived the technicalities and made him their maximum leader.

A BBC
A capa da edição desta semana da revista britânica «Spectator» é dedicada à crise na BBC. Para localizar o ponto da situação aqui vai um excerto: BBC bias is immensely subtle, almost never intentional and for the most part entirely unconscious. In its guidelines for producers, the BBC officially suggests that it is demeaning to call a woman a housewife, an opinion freighted with implications. But if you put this to BBC executives they are either unaware of it or they do not understand what the problem is. Most BBC people, challenged on the issue of impartiality, are not being dishonest when they reply that they themselves are impartial. A shining few actively strive to be so. Most are simply ignorant of the legitimate, defensible and respectable points of view outside the narrow consensus within which they move. At the Edinburgh Television Festival, a group of prominent news presenters, including the BBC’s Fiona Bruce, took part in a supposedly satirical version of what they imagined a right-wing television news bulletin would be like. The film, made up of crude, blatant editorialising, merely proved that those involved were clueless about conservative views or the nature of television bias. O artigo de Peter Hitchens defende uma profunda reforma da BBC.

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A BBC

A capa da edição desta semana da revista britânica «Spectator» é dedicada à crise na BBC. Para localizar o ponto da situação aqui vai um excerto: BBC bias is immensely subtle, almost never intentional and for the most part entirely unconscious. In its guidelines for producers, the BBC officially suggests that it is demeaning to call a woman a housewife, an opinion freighted with implications. But if you put this to BBC executives they are either unaware of it or they do not understand what the problem is. Most BBC people, challenged on the issue of impartiality, are not being dishonest when they reply that they themselves are impartial. A shining few actively strive to be so. Most are simply ignorant of the legitimate, defensible and respectable points of view outside the narrow consensus within which they move. At the Edinburgh Television Festival, a group of prominent news presenters, including the BBC’s Fiona Bruce, took part in a supposedly satirical version of what they imagined a right-wing television news bulletin would be like. The film, made up of crude, blatant editorialising, merely proved that those involved were clueless about conservative views or the nature of television bias. O artigo de Peter Hitchens defende uma profunda reforma da BBC.

ADEUS GALILEO
Para as cerca de 800 pessoas que trabalharam na missão da sonda Galileo a Jupiter, iniciada em meados dos anos 70, hoje é um dia triste: a Galileo vai despenhar-se na superfície de Jupiter. Alguns dos que trabalharam no projecto reunem-se hoje no Jet Propulsion Laboratory, em Pasadena, para um cerimonial espacial. A história vem contada na Wired e vale a pena lê-la. Excertos: On Friday, as Galileo's end neared, mission team members expressed a broad range of emotions.

Systems engineer Nagin Cox fought off tears. But Kathy Schimmels, 32, one of the youngest Galileans, conveyed an exuberant sense of celebration of the craft's long and storied life.

"I'm excited for the final hurrah," said Schimmels, who joined the team in 1996, fresh out of a master's program at the University of Colorado, Boulder. "I'm going to miss working on it, but we've got to celebrate the life it had."

Sunday's reunion of team members will include reminiscing about a mission that at times seemed cursed, but in the end went beyond NASA's expectations that it would be the first to explore the complex environment of the solar system's biggest planet.

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ADEUS GALILEO

Para as cerca de 800 pessoas que trabalharam na missão da sonda Galileo a Jupiter, iniciada em meados dos anos 70, hoje é um dia triste: a Galileo vai despenhar-se na superfície de Jupiter. Alguns dos que trabalharam no projecto reunem-se hoje no Jet Propulsion Laboratory, em Pasadena, para um cerimonial espacial. A história vem contada na Wired e vale a pena lê-la. Excertos: On Friday, as Galileo's end neared, mission team members expressed a broad range of emotions.



Systems engineer Nagin Cox fought off tears. But Kathy Schimmels, 32, one of the youngest Galileans, conveyed an exuberant sense of celebration of the craft's long and storied life.



"I'm excited for the final hurrah," said Schimmels, who joined the team in 1996, fresh out of a master's program at the University of Colorado, Boulder. "I'm going to miss working on it, but we've got to celebrate the life it had."



Sunday's reunion of team members will include reminiscing about a mission that at times seemed cursed, but in the end went beyond NASA's expectations that it would be the first to explore the complex environment of the solar system's biggest planet.

CHINA ESPACIAL
Os chineses vao lançar o seu primeiro vôo espacial pilotado. O Libération, referindo-se ao astronauta chinês, diz que «um filho do céu estará em breve nas estrelas».

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CHINA ESPACIAL

Os chineses vao lançar o seu primeiro vôo espacial pilotado. O Libération, referindo-se ao astronauta chinês, diz que «um filho do céu estará em breve nas estrelas».

A VIDA EM HOTÉIS
A «New Yorker» desta semana publica um divertido artigo sobre o que pode ser a vida passada em hotéis, relatando as recentes experiências do actor Bill Murray.

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A VIDA EM HOTÉIS

A «New Yorker» desta semana publica um divertido artigo sobre o que pode ser a vida passada em hotéis, relatando as recentes experiências do actor Bill Murray.

EMBRIAGADO PELO PODER
«My name is George W. and I am a recovering power addict. I guess I inherited my liking of power from my father. I first started using power heavily when I became governor of Texas. The fellows I hung out with were all power abusers. Some drank it, and others sniffed it.» O texto que começa assim, delicioso, é de Art Buchwald e foi publicado no Wasington Post sob a designação «Drunk With Power And Hitting Bottom» .

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EMBRIAGADO PELO PODER

«My name is George W. and I am a recovering power addict. I guess I inherited my liking of power from my father. I first started using power heavily when I became governor of Texas. The fellows I hung out with were all power abusers. Some drank it, and others sniffed it.» O texto que começa assim, delicioso, é de Art Buchwald e foi publicado no Wasington Post sob a designação «Drunk With Power And Hitting Bottom» .