Stories about Brazil from November, 2007
Brazil: Recycling the idea of recycling
“If there is anything that should be recycled in Brazil, it is the concept that Brazilians have of recycling itself”. Starting by this idea, Nivaldo Simões shows in a detailed post [pt] how the model of recycling adopted by Brazil and by other developing countries – of not reducing the...
Brazil: Black Pride and the racism debate
From 1550 to 1888 at least 3 million Africans were brutally shipped to Brazil by the slave trade, making nearly half of all the slaves brought to South America. Most of them came from Angola and Mozambique, then Portuguese colonies in Africa, and were subjected to forced labor in the...
Brazil: Updates from the BlogCamp BH
Superfície Reflexiva has live updates [pt] from BlogCamp BH, a bloggers meeting in Minas Gerais taking place this weekend. Ronaldo Ferraz is experimenting reporting also through a new tool, Twitter. The first day left him disappointed: “The subject that I feared most, blog monetization, was the dominating topic in the...
Brazil: Without internet for 95 hours, 43 min, 17 sec, and couting…
Surviving since Tuesday night with no internet connection and blogging from an Internet cafe, Gabriela Zago [pt] describes the Brasil Telecom service as the worst ever: “They informed us by phone that the connexion cables had been stolen, but that the problem was to be sorted out the following day...
Brazil: First student radio celebrates gold anniversary
Milton Ribeiro celebrates [pt] Radio Universidade's 50th anniversary. This radio run by students at the University of Rio Grande do Sul was the very first station he tuned into. “I started to listen to it daily when I was 15 and I had no idea that the station had been...
Brazil: Internet Governance Forum, the final balance
“The most significant development of the Rio IGF meeting was the dawning acknowledgement, particularly evident during the session on Taking Stock and the Way Foward, that the conference format of the annual plenary meetings is increasingly irrelevant to the work of the IGF”. Read a balance of the Internet Governance...
Brazil: Christiania No Borders Campaign
Cyrano explains a little bit more about his project: “Christiania is like several projects that are popping out around the world, at the same time, without knowing the existence of each other. We don't have to understand why people get to think same ideas in different places at the same...
Brazil: Festival Arte.Mov and the mobility era
Andre Lemos invites [pt] whoever happens to be in Belo Horizonte to take part in the Arte.Mov Festival, starting today. It brings together artists that perform new technologies such as RFID, mobile phones, GPS videos. “The event has the tradition of bringing to Brazil the most interesting debates available about...
Brazil: Why Brazilians do not complain?
Yeltsin Lima & Amigos [pt] puts together a very good piece on violence in Brazil, with links for those who want to complain about it. He concludes: “The reason why Brazilians don't complain, as I have already said, is surely shame or fear. If they knew that getting together would...
Brazil: Manual for the online journalist
Manuel Pinto announces [pt] a book launch on journalism for the Internet by Marcos Palacios and Beatriz Ribas, both teachers at the Federal University of Bahia and members of its Research Group in Online Journalism (GJOL).
Brazil: Oasis orphanage
Wendy publishes some pictures and leaves her toughts on a visit to to an orphanage in Anapolis, which left her really impressed. “I am not trying to say that this is a paradise but many of these kids came from awful abusive situations and I am thankful that they are...
Brazil: Updates from the Internet Governance Forum
IGFWatch brings the latest updates from the third day of the Internet Governance Forum, where he heard Mr H Chengquing (from the Internet Society of China) explaining that “the view that government should keep the hands off the Internet is wrong”; a sure indication, if you didn't know already, that...
Brazil: A river in its last years
“I took this picture of Madeira River a few hours ago, when the airplane flew over Porto Velho city (RO). This landscape will have disappeared in a few years, to make room for a huge dam that will feed two hydroelectric plants.” Altino Machado also reports [pt] on the FestCine...
Brazil: Gender equality is still a dream
Cynthia Semírami [pt] comments on the latest Global Gender Gap Report by the World Economic Forum covering a total of 128 countries, representing over 90% of the world’s population. Brazil is 74th position in the ranking: “It is interesting to note that women are the expressive force behind social movements,...
Brazil: Police, a tough nut to crack
The song theme of the popular Brazilian film Tropa de Elite [Elite Squad], about police corruption in Rio, has become background music for the Pernambuco's Police Forces. They sang the lyrics by Tihuana when were called to calm down a rebellion in a prison, as reports PE Body Count [pt]:...
Brazil: Day 1 of Rio IGF
IGFWatch brings an update of the Internet Governance Forum‘s first day. “The most provocative speaker though was Bob Boorstin from Google, who defended the company's role in determining how its search results should be filtered”.
Brazil: First Brazilian netcitizen is revealed
Sergio Amadeu's blogue [pt] reveals the identity of the first ever Brazilian netcitizen, who he has met in a conference. “So, the great Marcelo Tas [pt] is to Brazil what Yuri Gagarin was for the former URSS. I knew we had had a first netcitizen, but I didn't know who...
Brazil: Fireworks over narcobattalion case
Colin Brayton translated the colorful details of a piece of news on the latest developments of the case of police troopers charged with drug trafficking in Rio de Janeiro. Disappointed that this information had been given little attention, he decides: “I am going to stop reading the G1 [the Globo]...
Brasil: Blogging from the classroom
Pollyana Ferrari, from Remix Narrativo [pt], publishes a link for one of five blogs written by her students of journalism. “It was a huge work to make corrections, to help them with stories and try, together with these youngsters who were born in 1989/1990, to find the best journalist practice...
Brazil: 40 years of Tropicalia
The most revolutionary movement in Brazilian music and culture has been celebrating its 40 years since October. Sancho's Panza has a brief background of Tropicalia e publishes some videos. He says: “The tropicália movement was to produce some of the most memorable careers in the pantheon of world music, and...
Brazil: The oil discovery and the biased media
Mr. Trend from Alterdestiny analyzes the biased media responses to the announcement that Brazil had discovered a major deep-sea oil field off its coast. “Randy does a great job condemning the idiotic “journalistic” treatment that the Wall Street Journal gave. However, idiotic responses did not exist just in the U.S”.
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