Resoluções de ano novo (2009)

Sem ordem pq na verdade eu não sei priorizar as coisas:

• Meditar e fazer Yoga. Esses eu devo até aos meus antepassados, de tanto que falo e não começo.

• Inscrever em tantos editais quantos me forem apresentados, desde que viáveis. Vamos aproveitar o ano do leão pra sair da toca, produzir e publicar, senão nem produz!

• Ilustrar mais. Tô num ritmo em que “ilustrar” já é mais.

• Atentar melhor ao meus horários e prazos. De longe o item mais difícil, mas se é pra se disciplinar esse ano que seja de verdade, nada de última hora, último minuto ou “deixa pra depois”.

• Tocar os blogs. Ah, os tantos blogs… da série, “tô num ritmo que..”

• Aprender a tocar quaisquer instrumentos que sejam. PQ eu cansei de ficar só nas palminhas e dedinhos pro ar. Vou montar minha trupe de circo. Dançar? Hum…

Online “Public” Spaces Don’t Guarantee Rights

clipped from yro.slashdot.org mikesd81 recommends an AP piece covering a lot of examples of the ways free speech and other rights don’t exist on the private Web. One case featured was that of Dutch photographer Maarten Dors, who had this picture deleted by flickr. Without prior notice, Yahoo deleted the photo on grounds it violated an unwritten ban on depicting children smoking. While Dors eventually got the photo restored, after the second time it was deleted, the case highlights the consequence of having online commons controlled by private corporations. his isn’t a case of someone sullying flickr’s personal space with their own, unwelcome content. This is flickr providing a place to publish, then censoring that publication without informed consent. You absolutely CAN have free speech in someone else’s home. They also have the right to ask you to leave, but you absolutely, most certainly are FREE to hold and express whatever opinions you want.

The Google Ogle Defense: A Search for America’s Psyche

clipped from www.washingtonpost.com Question: Do you think your Google habits — your random, untethered wisps of thoughts manifested as search terms like “unexplained hives” and “Kate Beckinsale single?” — can be bundled together to paint an accurate representation of your morality? Theoretically, it’s a direct line to our innermost thoughts and desires, and those of friends and neighbors. Enter Google Trends. It’s a Google tool that graphically displays the day’s most popular search terms, or lets users compare multiple terms’ popularity over time. A few days ago in the District, for example, “Brad Pitt” was kicking the butt of “George Clooney,” and everyone suddenly wanted to know about “air conditioning.”

Drilling Down: Phones’ Texting Feature Often Unused

clipped from www.nytimes.com In a recent survey of people from 11 countries, South Koreans were the second most likely to own cellphones with e-mail capabilities. Sixty-nine percent of the South Korean respondents had such phones, compared with 89 percent of Japanese respondents, who came in first. But South Koreans were among the least likely to use the e-mail function if they had it: only 10 percent of them did, compared with 56 percent of the Japanese. Across all countries surveyed, the study found that people used text messaging a lot, or not at all. In the United States, for example, 82 percent of cellphone owners said that they never used text messaging, 3 percent said that they used it monthly or less, and 15 percent said that they used it every week or even more. South Korean cellphone owners were also less likely to use text messaging than Japanese owners, so it did not appear that they were texting instead of e-mailing.

Nokia buys social networking site Plazes

clipped from www.reuters.com Nokia buys social networking site Plazes HELSINKI (Reuters) – The world’s top cellphone maker Nokia said on Monday it has agreed to buy social networking start-up Plazes as part of its major push into offering Internet services. Plazes (http://www.plazes.com/) provides location-aware services that people can use to plan, record, and share their social activities. To achieve new growth as the cellphone business is set to mature in coming years Nokia started to invest heavily in building up its presence in Internet service. It has offered $8.1 billion for U.S. digital maps firm Navteq — a cornerstone of its services push — and has said it would invest millions more this year and next.