End of the news romantics (mais 2 links) // by @PauloQuerido 

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End of the news romantics
fonte: www.bbc.co.uk
For those brought up in the pre-digital era it's easy to lament the switch from prized paper to touchscreen ubiquity. But, in the first of a series about innovation, Andrew Marr says the future will be truly liberating for those who want to keep up with events.

An unwieldy, arthritic and entirely unlikely hummingbird, I have been hovering on the cusp – on the luscious cusp, that is, of leaving the old news system and joining the new.

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We live in fast-changing times but we are, most of us, more Velcro than silk”

Andrew Marr
I am on the edge of replacing paper newspapers with electronic versions for my iPad and phone; of accepting that I hardly ever wait for a conventional news bulletin; and of actually reading full-length books, with pleasure, as downloads.

Why transparency and privacy should go hand in hand
fonte: dontapscott.com
É essencial ler este artigo de Don Tapscott acerca do binómio transparência<=>privacidade. Excerto:

The growing tsunami of data generated daily by digital interactions isn’t restricted to corporations. A lot of this data pertains to individuals, and much of it is controlled by third parties. Practical obscurity – the basis for privacy norms throughout history – is fast disappearing. More and more aspects of our lives are becoming observable, linkable and identifiable. Thanks to networked computing technologies, this personal data is archived online and will be forever searchable.

But this availability of personal information isn’t just something that is being done to the public, it is being done by the public. Many of us are willing accomplices in dissolving our own privacy rights, in exchange for new services, conveniences, and efficiencies.

Políticas erradas há trinta anos
fonte: jugular.blogs.sapo.pt
sic notícias, e perante o olhar deslumbrado de Mário Crespo, o professor de economia Cantiga Esteves disse que precisamos de mudar o nosso modelo de desenvolvimento. Não sei se concorda com Cavaco que a nossa situação é insustentável, mas aposto que é adepto da recente reformulação avançada por Passos Coelho: 'estamos à beira da insustentabilidade'. É preciso mudar.. Não interessa que, apesar da situação dramática do país (o que não é o mesmo que 'insustentável' ou 'à beira da insustentabilidade'), Portugal esteja de facto a mudar; não interessa que modernizar Portugal não seja algo que suceda de um dia para o outro. Para estes novos-revolucionários há uma fórmula mágica para a mudança, uma bala de prata.