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#011 Semanal week6

this one i enjoyed doing and for me is a sort of lumiere video.

UPDATE: this video had the wrong aspect ratio and was corrected. sorry!

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This is a small videobit that shows Jay Dedman talk on Video Vortex 2008 that happened in Amsterdam on 18/19 January.

[semanal.org | week 3 | vlog 08]

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Updated video file. sorry for the inconvenience.

NaVloPoMo07 #27

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my very late video is a very small excerpt of the recording I did on the day of the results of the referendum that we had in Portugal (February 2007) about the right for women to decide on abortion.

these people we see here were all watching the various tv channels at the same-time and as you can see are commenting between them.

NaVloPoMo #17

I went and fetched one and a “half” tapes of a visit I did to Fátima Sanctuary in Portugal, I have to say that I am not catholic and so I went to see what was the scene. It was on May 13th of 2000 and on those particular days the Pope John Paul II visited the place and told the third secret of Fátima.

I want to do some movies about this trip, but today is to late and so I leave you with just this, I recorded this minutes after getting there for the first time.

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NaVloPoMo07 #14

Finalmente vamos ter um esforço, espero eu, visível para devolver a cidade às pessoas e diminuir a alarvidade de carros que invadem, ou será infestam, os passeios e onde podem…

Para “libertar os passeios de carros”
Lisboa: “tolerância zero” ao estacionamento ilegal a partir de hoje
12.09.2007 - 11h06 Lusa

A Câmara Municipal de Lisboa inicia hoje uma campanha para “libertar os passeios de carros”, e “contrariar o estacionamento de carros em segunda fila”, tal como prometeu António Costa na campanha eleitoral.

Nas novas instalações de Benfica da PM, também irá funcionar um posto de atendimento policial, em simultâneo com o parque de viaturas rebocadas, seguindo o objectivo de “aproximar a segurança da polícia camarária aos munícipes”, esclareceu o comandante André Gomes.

[ do Público/Lusa, em Última hora ]

[ for the non-portuguese speakers: this is a article that talks about the excessive number of cars that exist in Lisbon... you can always try to translate with Google. ]

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This movie was shot in Amsterdam with my nokia e61i and I just stripped the sound in QT.

videoblogging & lumiere?

Mike Gravel, Democratic presidential campaign

[ via Beltway Confidential ]

Este é o meu primeiro vídeo para participar na Videoblogging Week deste ano. Como se nota a minha primeira entrada já vai atrasadíssima… Este vídeo é uma montagem da Arruada na Baixa de Lisboa do candidato Mário Soares na campanha das Presidenciais 2006.

— in english —

This is my first video for this year’s Videoblogging Week. As you see I am running very late… This video shows the walking in downtown Lisbon that a Presidential candidate – Mário Soares, did in the 2006 Presidential Election.

links: Biografia de Mário Soares (em português).

http://www.flickr.com/groups/sim_a_despenalizacao/

E o SIM da Ana.

Much of the concern over DRM systems has arisen in European countries. Perhaps those unhappy with the current situation should redirect their energies towards persuading the music companies to sell their music DRM-free. For Europeans, two and a half of the big four music companies are located right in their backyard. The largest, Universal, is 100% owned by Vivendi, a French company. EMI is a British company, and Sony BMG is 50% owned by Bertelsmann, a German company. Convincing them to license their music to Apple and others DRM-free will create a truly interoperable music marketplace. Apple will embrace this wholeheartedly.

excerpt from: http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughtsonmusic/

I would say…. Kill DRM now! Let’s go ahead and do it!!!

Minha Querida Mariana,

sem mais,
Zé Nuno.

[ the show with zefrank: 11-21-06 ]

This zefrank show is very good!

the video from Jamie Walker from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, got to the semi-finalists of the 2006 FYI FILM YOUR ISSUE project.

SHiFT will be all about emerging technologies, whether they’re the latest internet trend or the latest social or psychological development. SHiFT will evolve around five major areas, and the idea is to have contributions about them from all sections of society:

People and Technology
Knowledge Management
Civic Participation
Rights, Liberties and Privacy for the Digital Age
New forms of Economics

Apart from the Conference (program and speakers), there are going to be four workshops on September 26 to 27th:
Designing the Next Generation of Web Applications with Peter Merholz
Creativity with Dannie Jost & Henriette Weber Andersen

This event wasn’t possible without the perseverance of Pedro Custódio (organization), and I personally thank him for trying to do some shifting in Portugal, unfortunately I couldn’t visit him and this great event.

I wish all the best for this event and for the lucky ones that are going.

The way I see it, Rocketboom was a much more young cable tv type of program with the difference in the budget and the way it was broadcasted and received… And I am not saying that it wasn’t very important, it really made a turn-point in the way last mile broadcast can be done.

But now with this new Amanda Across America, you will have a lot more, because now the content and form is much more creative, different and experimental. I could say that also it is much more of a vlog than rocketboom ever was.

I hope to write more on this later…

for now I leave you with her new vlog / project!

about | and so, it begins | Josh Wolf Behind Bars Again | the wiki | the map.

ah ah, someone wrote about Amsterdam, Netherlands in the wiki already…

You will find out that you can sugar them and puff they are lost! (found via gizmodo)

(from Gizmodo | translated news from Beijing news )

SPIT KIT

the first one is from UK and talks about people spitting in bus drivers face and DNA kits, or ’spit kits’ as they call it!?!? got it in from boing boing – “London bus-drivers carrying DNA kits for catching face-spitters London bus-drivers are being equipped with DNA sample kits with which to capture spittle when irate passengers spit on them.”.

SAVED PEOPLE vs USING BOAT W/ PERMISSION

the second story is from USA and Hurricane Katrina… it seems that the guy, named Marc Morice, who saved same people with a boat, is being sued for using it without permission…
old story here and this story here (nola.com).

From The Times Picayune, august 26, 2006, by Steve Ritea (nola.com):

“I don’t know where we would be today if it weren’t for him,” Molly Gordon, Gordon’s wife of 65 years, said Friday.

Lyons’ boat, an 18-foot, 1998-model 180 Sea Sport, was one of three Morice said he commandeered after water started rising in the neighborhood. Morice said one of the other boat owners told him he was glad Morice had been able to hot-wire his boat — Morice said he actually got instructions on how to do it from Yamaha customer service — and the other boat owner apparently has not complained.

JON STEWART

And the last story is a old video from Jon Stewart Daily show (with Stephen Colbert) about some talking about the Prince Charles and whatever tabu sexual experience he had when was younger. video in youtube.com. just pure fun!

MISSED BIKE

and also in my small local life some lowlife took my bike. argh!

I don’t get it why supposedly normal people still buys those ten euro stolen bicycles, do they really think they’re smarter than the rest of us?

If it’s about price, why don’t you buy them recycled 2nd hand as I do? I leave the site here for you – www.recycledbicycles.org , I do think that 30-50 euros for a bike is a nice and honest price, don’t you?

the first one is from MSNBC and the title is “Is bush an idiot?”

the part I feel is funny and strange / different is that I can not imagine this kind of talk in Europe…

the second one has the title “CNN reporter talk dirt on others at Bush katrina speech”

I found those two in a friends blog (first, second), thanks Daniel!

I saw it on ironic1.com…

George W. Bush singing U2’s Sunday Bloody Sunday. It doesn’t get much more ironic than that. Thanks thepartyparty.com!

It’s a fine viral-video example…

a vida é bela! e em breve este blog ficará mais actualizado e funcional de novo.

or in english:

YES! At Adam and with 20/1 Mbps Internet!

now we are much better, I just have to change the “binnenband met blitzventiel” on my dear bicycle…

life is beautiful! and very soon we will have this blog in full motion and with lots of links and even videos.

três notícias, três leituras (chocantes) e por fim a desilusão pela falta de interessa pela causa / coisa pública.

Lisboa: vigília contra demolição da casa de Garrett juntou 25 pessoas (06.01.2006 – 18h00)

Lisboa: casa onde viveu Almeida Garrett começou a ser demolida (06.01.2006 – 14h41)

Moradores reagem com indignação e tristeza à demolição da casa de Garrett (05.01.2006 – 10h30)

[notícias na Última Hora do Público]

nesta última notícia podemos ler:

…
Moradores de Campo de Ourique, em Lisboa, reagiram hoje com indignação e tristeza ao início da demolição da casa onde morreu o escritor Almeida Garrett.

Em comunicado, a plataforma de lisboetas reitera o seu pedido ao primeiro-ministro para que intervenha neste “processo repugnante e totalmente ignóbil”.

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num país com uma diferente relação com a história e menos hipócrita teríamos concerteza a demissão de um ministro envolvido em tamanho escândalo. aqui ministro ou pato bravo é tudo igual e assim se constroí mais um condomínio para mais especulação imobiliária.

o mercado da construção em Portugal e a sua desregulação (apesar dos PDM’s e não só) é demasiado incrível para um país tão pequeno e uma cidade tão bonita (Lisboa – o caso que conheco melhor por lá viver desde que nasci).

e comentário de pessoa aparentemente tão façanhuda, pois é… não há?!? tristeza. tristeza.
haverá esperança de um dia haver alguma justificação para tamanha barbaridade? infelizmente, não creio…

saliento da notícia a frase de Ana Palma: “É incrível que comecem a partir as paredes logo quando os andaimes são colocados. Há uma intenção de levar a cabo isto tudo durante o fim-de-semana”

Um documentário de Catarina Alves Costa com Álvaro Siza, Helena Albuquerque e os habitantes da cidade velha.

O documentário “O Arquitecto e a Cidade Velha” é de 2003 e foi produzido pela produtora Laranja Azul.

O dvd foi produzido pela Ordem dos Arquitectos e está à venda na sede.

A personal chronicle of what hurricane Katrina has done to my poor proud people.

from the author:

clayton james cubitt’s mom was a teenage runaway, go-go dancing at a club on bourbon street in new orleans. his dad was a canadian national running pot over the border from mexico. they met, married, and moved to los angeles, conceiving him on the trip in the back of a vw bus at dinosaur national park in utah. now he takes pictures and lives in brooklyn. he grew up in new orleans and the gulf coast, where his family still lives. He is also known as siege, and all of these images originally appeared on his photo journal for Nerve.com

you must see this for yourself.

this article / discussion at the Slashdot is interesting reading.

Music Industry Threatens to Pull Plug on Apple

Or like oil companies asking automobile manufacturers to share their profits.
…
According to Apple, the original goal of the iTunes Music Store (ITMS) was to sell more iPods. In fact, they didn’t expect it to be profitable at all – but now it commands a sizable share of Apple’s quarterly revenue.
…
Having observed their behavior in the past, I fully believe that the music industry really believes that they are doing Apple a favor and that they can cut Apple off.
If they close iTunes, iPod users will just rip their own music (and share it) leaving 0 revenue.
…
It’s probably just a bluff, but if the Music Industry does go through with this it would be incredibly stupid of them. I know it would be contrary to their agreements with Apple Records, but if the music execs do go ahead with this, I think Apple should start selling music directly from the musicians rather than going through the labels. They could simultaneously reduce the prices and give the musicians much more than they get under their current contracts.
…
Ford and GM announced today that unless Exxon and Shell start sharing gasoline revenues, future SUVs will run on ethanol.
…
The recording industry never saw a cash cow they didn’t want to kill.

iTunes is a very interesting solution for distributing music in a digital and network world.

the dream is if we could bypass this greedy companies altogether… at list Apple proposes something that we could even in some sense describe as fair trade.

i hope people see who is right and who is wrong in all this story.

the other day i read that a band edited by Sony, had to publish in their site an help text explaining how to do if you wanted to rip theirs audio cd for the computer… it was fun to read about that!

this was my seccond post but it become my first thanks to ourmedia confusion…

this video is from the WesterPark here in Amsterdam
it’s a lovely park!

…
By now, you’ll have probably guessed the club members are all women being brutally victimized by EMI, Universal, Warner and Sony BMG, the huge, multi-billion-dollar record label cartel that’s using its immense financial and political weight and deep, dark connections to law enforcement agencies in a bizarre marketing scheme.

Rather, they stand out because they’re standing up, defying the Mafia-like labels and their teams of hired legal thugs who work through ‘Settlement Centers’ which aim to terrorize people into paying ‘fees’ which usually start out at $7,500 to be ‘negotiated’ down to around $3,500.
…
[ text from an article: "The 'We're Not Taking Any More' club" ]

the link was first seen in slashdot, where you can read a great first post / phrase:
Now that the women are taking care of business, crap will get done.

and at present what i am seeing in the end of the discussion is also interesting ( i have included the signature because it made sense of course):
“Why does the Motherhood of these women matter?”

Nobody cares about the rights of college students.
–
“Liberté, egalité, fraternité” also makes for an interesting order of priorities.

and because if you really think about it, it represents a lot of things…

the global market is the most obvious, but as most of the ikea furniture, including beds, are still on wood (or based on), you can assume people still prefers sleeping on wood and in more natural “environments”…

maybe we should start an inquiry about that…

[ i found it in a slashdot discussion ]

Dolores Park Movie Night

MobMov: A mobile movie guerilla drive-in in Berkeley, CA
What is the MobileMovie?
We are a grassroots movement aimed at bringing back the forgotten joy of the great American drive-in. Thanks to the wonders of modern technology, what used to be a dark and decrepit warehouse wall springs to life with the sublime sights and sounds of a big screen movie. Best of all, the MobMov is free.

Santa Cruz Guerilla Drive-In

http://www.thespoon.com/drivein/start-your-own.html

Start Your Own Guerilla Drive-In
Guerilla Drive-Ins are springing up everywhere from LA to NY, in big cities and little towns. People are rejecting the idea of the $10 movie (twenty with popcorn and a soda) and embracing the idea of the do-it-yourself movie free to the community.

Guerilla Drive-Ins – Gizmodo

the movie: Current TV // Blog // Citizen Rescue

[ i saw it first in Citizen Rescue - Movie of the Week, and it was first published in 2005/09/01 ]

Participatory Culture: News and Ideas » Blog Archive » Hurricane

Things have been absolutely insane. Watch this video.

one of them is this blog of a IT team and his business DirectNIC (old address: The Interdictor) – This journal has become the Survival of New Orleans blog. In less perilous times it was simply a blog for me to talk smack and chat with friends. Now this journal exists to share firsthand experience of the disaster and its aftermath with anyone interested.. from them i show some photos: Katrina Aftermath – September 6, 2005, Helicopters vs. Fire and Katrina Aftermath – Stench, Stragglers, and Stagnant Water.

i found this link originally in Slashdot, but then i see that is also on the register: Heroic New Orleans hosting outfit battles on | The Register and What kind of moron are you? | The Register.

and in the meantine we have more links:

New Orleans to enjoy free Wi-Fi access | The Register – While we’re not entirely convinced that the company has actually been watching the TV footage of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina – and let’s be honest, swimming to the nearest Starbucks to enjoy a double mocha chocka latte decaf while, ahem, surfing the web as the Louisiana National Guard battle gamely to protect the store’s blueberry muffins from looters – the company can at least be applauded for the gesture.

Drone aircraft to search for Big Easy survivors | The Register – Five unmanned, remote-controlled drone aircraft, intended to seek out survivors of Hurricane Katrina, are on their way to Baton Rouge after a US congressman took it upon himself to “obtain” the vehicles from a private company.

on slashdot they talk about a wired article: Too Many People in Nature’s Way – “The bottom line is we have a very unsafe planet.”.

Slashdot | PayPal Freezes Hurricane Relief Account

Slashdot | Katrina Hits the Gaming World – With a tee-shirt you can purchase from Bungie’s store: ‘Just so that we’re clear, of the $19.95 the shirt costs, about $15 in cleared funds will go straight to the Red Cross and directly to the disaster relief. Nobody, not Bungie, the Bungie store, or the distributor will clear a penny profit.’

Wired News: Sonic ‘Lasers’ Head to Flood Zone (from slashdot) – Representatives of both companies say that within days, they will ship some units of their respective products to areas hit by Hurricane Katrina, so authorities can use the tools for crowd control, aid distribution and rescue operations..

Slashdot | Technology In Katrina’s Wake – in here you will find the project: Katrina public web kiosk project wants volunteers.

Slashdot | Post-Katrina Images on Google Maps – “Satellite imagery of New Orleans taken on Wednesday, August 31st is now available on Google Maps. Enter ‘New Orleans’ in the search field at the top of the page, or drag and zoom the map to the area. A red ‘Katrina’ button will appear at the top right of the map, next to the existing map buttons. Older images for the area are still available too – click the “Satellite” button to switch to those.”.

we are seeing lots of people trying to help, trying to inform, trying to put people in contact, also collecting money, and unfortunately there is also people trying to get advantage of this all situation… let’s hope the good guys win.

one thing i see that for me is somehow interesting is that the ham people still is typically a good bunch of people, because we start to look in a group that works in telecommunication and helping others and you see them everywhere and in good numbers. a very good example is the VoIP team from Part-15.org, in that list you have, and just to give some names / cases, the Mark from Asterisk / Digium (the open source PBX VoIP that everyone is talking about), the Jeremy from Nufone and Mark Cohen from the Jhai project deploying Pedal Powered PCs and VoIP in Laos as well…

i end with one more quote from Luís Costa Ribas “blog”: Já agora, vinha mesmo a calhar um banho de chuveiro, mas para não variar vou dormir no carro.

and last but not list, i am very proud to have a link in glória facil blog (automatic translation to english by babelfish).

Go and read it. i never saw this things in first hand because i am from many time a self-employed person, but this real is a thing someone should pay attention to.

The Potted Plant Test

And I tend to have a problem with the latter.
Not real “conflicts”, I don’t usually have them. But I’ve been in several places (and, indeed, am in one now) where everything would be almost perfect – colleagues, environment, the work itself – except for one imbecile who ruins everything – and who happens to be my boss.
…

PART-15.ORG Archives Emergency-Relief List (PART-15.ORG Hurricane Katrina Relief Efforts)

VoIP team (from Part-15.org Archives Message) – “We have about 10 people in the team currently. We`re looking for anyone who`s got some VoIP knowledge and isn`t otherwise committed to P15`s efforts. Please don`t sign up if you`re already on another team! I don`t want to suck talent away from WiFi/RF stuff or anything else.” (The P15-voip archive). by curiosity: one of the persons on this list, Mark Cohen, has also been on the Jhai project deploying Pedal Powered PCs and VoIP in Laos.

The Air Care Alliance – “The Air Care Alliance is a nationwide league of humanitarian flying organizations whose volunteer pilots are dedicated to community service.”

Hurricane Katrina Resources – “Responding to the devastation in the Gulf Coast region of the U.S. as a result of Hurricane Katrina, the National Air Transportation Association (NATA) is making every effort to assist in recovery efforts. Our heartfelt and deepest sympathies are extended to those who have lost loved ones as a result of the hurricane.”

KatrinaHousing.net | Helping people find housing information

some local blogs (from Glória Fácil, that saw the links in Blasfémias):
– Metroblogs
– DeadlyKatrina
– Kaye’s Hurricane
– The Times-Picayune blog
– John’s

a “blog” on fox news: FOXNews.com – FOX Fan – Harrigan on the Hunt – Alone and Afraid

the impressions by Luís Costa Ribas, reporter that SIC sent to New Orleans and that said that was sleeping in his car, because there were no other place to go (in portuguese). it seems to be a blog – “Domingo, 4 de Setembro

Sinto-me pouco à vontade, tal como os restantes jornalistas. Olhamo-nos por cima do ombro, a passar os toalhetes no tronco e a mudar de t-shirt junto ao carro, na rua, transformando rituais privados em relutantes espectáculos públicos. ”

# update on 2005/09/06 15:40h
how could i forgot the indymedia link:
New Orleans Independent Media Center

the links i am publishing here are influenced by my attraction to follow one theme that i think is very very important nowadays: the use you can give to the new technologies in places that suffered some natural or not so natural devastation. i am talking about reestablishing communications, give tools to the various organizations that are trying to work side by side. all that coordination and also the talking to the base has to go trough some new channels, and for that you can use Wi-Fi, long distance Wi-Fi, Mesh networks, VoIP, satellite IP communications, and of course all the natural group-ware (web) software you can get to put all those people talking to each-other and to theirs mother-ships…

Furacão “Katrina”: Fidel Castro oferece ajuda de 1100 médicos
Sabado, 3 de Setembro de 2005

O Presidente cubano Fidel Castro propôs ontem aos Estados Unidos o envio de 1100 médicos e 26,4 toneladas de medicamentos para ajudar as vítimas do furacão “Katrina” que na segunda-feira devastou os estados do Luisiana e do Mississipi.
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não dá para acreditar…

It’s not a good site to see if you are somehow down. it’s very real and quite appalling in fact.

I really like it, practicality and good sense doesn’t describe all of it.

I saw it in Expat Forums, but the news story is in ananova.

Couple had sex on police car

“But the policemen have to be available for duty. If the two lovers had left when they were told, nothing would have happened.”

for now I am just publishing some links:

– ascii moves to the javastraat — Ascii

– ASCII site (in english)

ASCII has a interesting translation “Amsterdam Subversive Center for Information Interchange”.

The project involves a place (in a squat), where you can use the internet, get to learn things about it, and there is lots of recycling, use and abuse of open source.

It’s a very nice project and I intend to learn much more and maybe try to help wherever I can.

I will listen to talk at the WTH – “Community wireless NL”, Wireless networks in Amsterdam and Leiden (Rudi Van Drunen, Jaap and Rop Gonggrijp), where there will be some talk about another very interesting project… – Amsterdam Network Collective – een draadloos (internet) netwerk in Amsterdam.

We will see.

eraumavezumarrastao@yahoo.com
http://www.eraumavezumarrastao.net

vídeos disponíveis em banda larga – 256KB e em banda estreita – 64KB (ambos alojados no archive.org).

Parabéns ao grupo da Andringa por este vídeo.

desta vez cheguei à organização mouse.org que é uma iniciativa que põe os próprios miúdos com as suas capacidades informáticas a cuidar e com responsabilidades na manutenção dos equipamentos informáticos das suas escolas… é uma ideia que inclui solidariedade, responsabilidade.

em suma parece-me bonito!

[ cheguei aqui pelo vlog da Ryanne's Video Blog e especificamente uma entrada dela - What I did Yesterday. aí ficamos a conhecer um pouco o candidato Rasiej - Advocates for Rasiej » VideoBlog... ]

discussão no Slashdot | Marketers Scan Blogs For Brand Insights (artigo original do WSJ.com – Marketers Scan Blogs
For Brand Insights).

numa entrada do slash podemos ler:

It’s been a maxim in customer service for a very long time that a single angry customer cancels out the effect of twenty (or insert some 10 thousands of happy customers, simply because so many people are using the Internet for research now. We had an issue with Acer lately, started a campaign, got some great positions on general Acer related keywords on Google (thanks to a blog), and even ran some Adwords slating them. Hopefully it lost them quite a few sales.

But, yes, blogs really amplify opinion, especially if it gets picked up by Google nicely (There was also the case of the lock company whose locks could be picked with a biro pen, they failed to rectify the situation, and the blogosphere hit them hard.)
(Peter Cooper).

We unofficially reported this in our previous Newsflash, but it is now as official as it can get: signature and all. We have the permit! It’s always great to have more people recognize that, ehm, well, we’re really not that dangerous.

Please inform everybody in your world that “What The Hack is going on!”. As a result of the WTH-ban-coverage quite some people might still assume that WTH is not taking place. Don’t leave them behind! Forward this newsflash, link to our News-page on http://www.whatthehack.org/news/ , blog, post on your favourite boards and newsgroups, call your friends, do whatever it takes, because camping with all your friends is more fun.

Wiki, field trip to WTH-campsite, volunteers

Anyone interested in volunteering and/or seeing the campsite in advance is welcome to join the gathering at the campsite in Liempde this Saturday, 25th June at 15:00. If you need further information or are looking for a ride, take a look at our new What-The-Wiki on http://wiki.whatthehack.org/WTW/index.php/Current_events

The wiki http://wiki.whatthehack.org/WTW/index.php/Main_Page is buzzing with activity – every volunteer is welcome to contribute, share ideas, help making What The Hack legendary and unforgettable.

You want to offer a helping hand? Send a mail to volunteer (at) whatthehhack (.) org!

What a Program!

The list of speeches and workshops grows steadily and gets regularily updated on http://program.whatthehack.org/events.en.html. Most of the lectures will take place in three large tents, the largest one with a seating capacity of 1500 seats.

gosto de ver picnics e barbecues com grelhador e tudo quer seja nos parques públicos, ou mesmo no passeio à frente da casa… esta “apropriação” do espaço público torna a cidade muito mais vibrante.

adorável!

está a ser bom.

segundo o autor já dará para passar umas boas férias de verão.

estória no K5: GPL Programming: A Lucrative Hobby || kuro5hin.org.

“A Scottish company, Ocean Power Delivery (OPD) and it’s Norwegian backer, Norsk hydro are set install three wave powered generators 3.5 miles off the north coast of Portugal for the Portuguese renewable energy group Enersis. This will be the world’s first commercial wave powered generating system. Providing the initial three generators perform as expected, an additional thirty wave powered generators will be installed by the end of 2006. It’s estimated the wave powered generator farm will displace 6000 tonnes of carbon dioxide that would otherwise be emitted from conventional electrical generating plants.”

“The fuel economy of the average new vehicle sold fell to 20.7 miles a gallon in 2003 models from 22.1 miles a gallon in 1988 models. Regulations permit light trucks to consume significantly more gas than cars; the most recent Congressional effort to tighten the regulatory system was defeated in the Senate this week.”

é de facto triste que tenham aceite poluir mais com carros maiores, foi (ou é) uma moda triste.

nas palavras do próprio Casey Halverson membro da SeattleWireless:

TacomaTrainNode – SeattleWireless

Please note that this WiFi access point follows me wherever I go. I happen to ride the train to and from work, and while you may use it, it is not officially provided by SoundTransit? and not connected in any way. It is fully contained in this very mobile backpack.

artigo na SeattleWireless: Seattlest: Homebrew WiFi on Sounder Train

[ visto em Boing Boing: Free open WiFi on Tacoma-Washington train, courtesy WiFi hacker ]

este novo projecto pode ser visto em: BBC Backstage :: Front Page ::

e está descrito assim nessa página:

Build what you want using BBC content

backstage.bbc.co.uk is currently in beta as we add new feeds and APIs and develop the service further over the coming weeks and months. Join the email discussion list to tell us how we could improve the service and converse with others about BBC Backstage.

[ vi em Boing Boing: BBC Backstage: tools for remixing the Beeb to your spec ]

nota: ainda nesta linha do remix culture, encontrei e ainda estou a ler uma outra entrada muito interessante: ORG COMM: Documentary Remix Proposal: A Citizens Media Initiative.

The U.S. Marine Corps announced that it won’t prosecute that Marine corporal, who was not identified, for his actions. Sites was on assignment for NBC on Nov. 13, 2004, and was following a squad into a mosque that the day before insurgents were using to fire on U.S. troops. The Marines were part of a U.S.-led offensive to clear Fallujah of its insurgent strongholds. Sites’ video shows five men wounded from the previous day’s fighting lying on the floor of the mosque. One Marine can be heard shouting to others that a man was only “playing dead.” The Marine corporal in question appears to fire a round from his weapon into the Iraqi’s head, and another Marine says, “Dead now.”

a estória completa e incluindo o vídeo desse momento está em:
Boing Boing: Fallujah mosque shooting video — unedited, for first time.

podem ver no flickr: Flickr: Photos from [c21de] Vintage Images.

[ visto no boingboing ]

o resultado parece ter sido verdadeiramente original…

This half-hour long version of She Be She Strike contains all the great excerpts I posted earlier, from the Rolling Stones cover to the inexplicable Eskimo Marijuana segment. There’s more talking and singing over records, live in-studio music on the jews harp and guitar, a cover of Oh Susannah, an Eskimo skiffle number, Christian sprituals (!), and an incredible audio collage (which starts at the 25:40 mark) mixing Inuit throat singing games with a male Anglo singer whose voice I recognize but whose name eludes me.

a versão de 30 mins tem 28.4 MB mas parece valer a pena. as cassetes com esta emissão começaram a circular nos anos oitenta…, fico sem perceber bem, quando isto terá exactamente acontecido.

podem ver aqui.

[ visto no boingboing ]

“I hope this posts. Am blogging from my blackberry in the House where I have just voted for our non-confidence motion. The Libs are trying hard to play this down. They have two cabinet ministers out, Efford and Cotler. We’ll win, but they’ll claim it’s non confidence.

Pretty unhappy campers over there! They can’t believe that their iron-grip on power and pocketnooks might be loosed. Kilgour just voted with the Libs. Hmmm. 153 to 150. We win!“.

cá em portugal apesar do WiFi na Assembleia da República, de terem distribuído PDA’s, portáteis e até terem disponível um sistema para blogar…, ainda não dei porque ninguém publicasse no seu blog em directo da bancada.

bah!

[ visto no boingboing ]

With the cost of gasoline so high and passengers so scarce, many drivers prefer to bide their time at the airport rather than cruise city streets in frustration.

cool!

vi no boing boing.

aliás pode ser confirmado o seu nome no registo:

vi no boing boing.

há coisas que só mesmo as mães conseguem pensar e dizer. em NPR : Amy’s Answering Machine.

incrível!

nota: há mais mensagens de gravador “famosas”… podem consultar o artigo na boingboing: Boing Boing: The Greatest Phone Message in the World.

Boing Boing: Iraq: melting pot of blood

e ainda mais dois blogs: It’s complicated | Kevin Sites Blog.

triste.

Grafedia is a new form of multimedia graffiti developed by John Geraci, a student at New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, that transforms graffiti tags into hyperlinked tags for the real world. Grafedia is a word written on any physical surface that is linked to rich media content online. If you see a grafedia tag, you send an email message to that word “@grafedia.net” and the related content is emailed to your mobile device, or anywhere else you receive mail.

saiu um artigo no NY Times :: “The Web Behind the Scrawl”, By ETHAN TODRAS-WHITEHILL (Published: May 4, 2005).

giro!

Boing Boing: Indy client now available for Macs, says Ian Clarke

Ian Clarke’s blog said:

Indy is a music discovery tool that was mentioned on BoingBoing recently (Boing Boing: Indy TV). As a result of that and other attention, one of the most common requests we received was for a Mac version of the Indy client. As a result we stepped up our development effort and are now pleased to release the first version of the Indy for Macs. We hope Mac users like it

muito muito giro.

simplesmente horrível.

Esse blogue tem também fotografias e entrevistas em vídeo (sobre licencas CC).

vale a pena ver.

o pequeno filme – demandmedia || How Software Patents Work, pode ser visto aqui (13MB QT mov).

contra as patentes de software marchar marchar!

este tema está cada vez mais interessante, penso que se torna realmente a questão mais fundamental de todas. o direito de citação e recriação das ideias é basilar para uma sociedade mais criativa e evolutiva, em oposição a uma sociedade em que as ideias são geridas por grandes empresas e aglomerados delas impedindo-nos formalmente / legalmente de criarmos algo de novo, pois no entender legal eventualmente tudo terá um nexo.

ou como disse Sérgio Godinho (wikipedia) numa música: “isto anda tudo ligado…”

algumas páginas essenciais dentro do tema:
– Lessig blog
– Free Culture (free culture blog :: Free Culture Blog: It’s our birthday!)
– Creative Commons
– YMDi (Youth Media Distribution) (about YMDi)
– archive.org

algumas iniciativas:
– Video: movies, animations, footage… | Creative Commons
– Media with Creative Commons Licenses
– software de publicação com licença CC em archive.org (aprender mais sobre CC)
– Free Culture Tour (disponível no archive.org)
– active free media
– demandmedia || Collaborative Video Blog
– Yahoo! Search blog: Larry Lessig on Searching Creative Commons
– e na educação: Education: lesson plans, course packets, textbooks… | Creative Commons

publica os teus próprios vídeos ou audio no archive.org em regime Creative Commons.

tanta criatividade à solta nunca caberá neste post…

ao ler estas duas entradas confirmamos que há muitas possibilidades para a educação e que provavelmente ainda há muitos modelos longe de esgotados.

Interessante!

E pensar que tantos lisboetas que tiveram e desejaram galinhas estão a ser copiados, por quem tem jardim e entra na moda… que belo animal de estimação que dá omeletes!!

estória no cnet :: Weird News :: ‘Doofus’ travellers carrying saws,mines.

notícia transcrita em baixo da cnews :: Weird News…

http://www.newsisfree.com/iclick/i,62380156,1717,f/

British cop accused of speeding by motorist he booked for same offence

LONDON (AP) – Motorist Neil Saunders was outraged when the police officer who had just booked him for speeding pulled away in his official car at well over the speed limit.

So he gave chase and administered a reproach of his own. Saunders admitted travelling at 122 kilometres an hour when the police officer pulled him over on the M-20 highway in Kent county, southeast England on Wednesday. The speed limit on freeways is 110 km/h.

But afterward, he said, the policeman accelerated to around 130 kilometres an hour when both vehicles rejoined the traffic.

“There were no flashing lights. He wasn’t on an emergency call,” said Saunders, who caught up with the police car near the town of Maidstone and flashed his emergency lights, causing the officer to pull over.

“He denied speeding, but I told him that I had just phoned Ashford police station to complain.”

A spokesman for Kent Police confirmed that a complaint had been received about the behaviour or an officer and said the matter was being investigated.

O que me despertou foi uma entrada na NewsLetter do Instituto das Artes que apresentava uma página – TransArtists.nl, sobre o assunto.

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http://www.air-luxor.com
http://www.basiqair.com
http://www.bmibaby.com
http://www.easyjet.com
http://www.germanwings.com
http://www.gexx.de
http://www.monarch-airlines.com
http://www.mytravellite.com
http://www.norwegian.no
http://www.ryanair.com
http://www.virgin-express.com

nos últimos anos em frança têm sido levantadas questões nas escolas bem complexas e que em tudo se transformam em caixinhas de pandora…

o que a Internet torna acessível é podermos ver sem sair de casa o tal filme “Submission”. Ele está disponível no projecto demand media. Assim podemos ter acesso ao filme tal como passou no canal nacional dos países baixos. ainda sobre o filme podemos ver a sua entrada no wikipedia.org.

Estão associados ao projecto New Voters Project Presidential Youth Debate.

noutro artigo ficamos a saber da reacção de uns quantos jovens à ausência de ligação à internet durante duas semanas.

a discussão no Slashdot é muito interessante pelos comentários gerados… artigos de vida real, especialmente ilustrados pela hora a que são escritos ou submetidos.

interessante leitura… especialmente realista se lida pelas 3h ou 4h da matina.

Espero que não seja uma experiência do tipo do sistema de voto electrónico proprietário usado nos EUA.

Uma estória que nos envergonha sem dúvida. E está em funcionamento uma linha (hotline) para mais informações e pedidos de ajuda – tlf. 91 4477774 (das 10h às 22h). Nesta página temos acesso às mensagens SMS enviadas para essa linha.

E o detalhe incrível do barco se denominar da marinha, Batista de Andrade, F 486, e a pílula abortiva e designada: RU 486.

E há notícias sobre o assunto no IndyMedia dos Países Baixos – http://www.indymedia.nl/. Por curiosidade o Indy Media Português também publicou alguns artigos.

Adicionados posteriormente:

Em 7 Setembro encontrei este artigo com links e discussão no Kuro5hin.