Latest posts by Paula Góes from November, 2007
Brazil: First decade of ‘O Indivíduo’
Pedro Sette Câmera celebrates 10 years of blogging at O Indivíduo [pt] writing up a balance of the blog and thinking about the future. “If I were to wish anything for the future, I would only hope to renew this kind of real professional found in the first printed ‘O...
Macau: Back to the middle age when it comes to AIDS
Leocardo [pt] is disgusted at decision by a Portuguese court to back a hotel chain that sacked a HIV-infected cook. “We are back to the middle age when it comes to AIDS. We are back to the times when we thought that AIDS was transmitted by shaking hands or mosquitoes...
Brazil: Buy a car, pay in 60 months and never get out of debt
There seem to be more and more adverts trying to convince customers that it is a good idea to buy a car and pay for it in 60 monthly instalments. Chico [pt] takes a look at one ad that offers a laptop, a palm or a DVD player and concludes...
The Transborder Immigrant Project
Andre Lemos [pt] talks about Ricardo Dominguez's The Transborder Immigrant Project which has just won the Transnational Communities Award.”It is a mix of art and activism. Using mobile phones equiped wirh GPS, the project aims to help immigrants who try to cross the border between Mexico and US to find...
Brazil: Extreme poverty is halved
Edson Lima [pt] comments on a good piece of news: “Brazil has accomplished, ten years before the deadline set by the UN, the target of halving the percentage of the population that live in extreme poverty”. According to a report by the Institute of Applied Economic Research (IPEA), beteween 1990...
Brazil/UK: Justice for Jean Charles de Menezes
Joty reports that the Metropolitan Police Authority in the UK is meeting this Thursday, November 22, to decide whether or not to sack Ian Blair over the death of innocent Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes, in 2005. “So – politely and gently – they need a little bit of lobbying...
Mozambique: Remembering Carlos Cardoso
ForEver PEMBA [pt] reminds a loss for the democratic press in Mozambique: “The next November 22 marks the anniversary of Mozambican journalist CARLOS CARDOSO‘s violent death”. Cardoso was murdered in 2000, after having denounced many corruption cases and crimes.
Brazil: Meeting Vint Cerf
Guilherme Felitti [pt] reports on the interview he has done with Vint Cerf, “the man who is responsible for you reading this text now. Cerf, together with Bob Kahn, came up with TCP/IP, which allows each PC to have an IP and get authenticated on the web”. Read his impressions...
Macau: Radio Silence
Leocardo [pt] listened to the annual official balance of the last 8 years of Macau's government on the radio, for about 40 minutes: “And that was all I could listen to. The same happened last year, Rádio Macau's Portuguese channel thought it was better not to broadcast the entire section...
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...
Cape Verde: Learn English while helping to reduce famine
Obikuelu Pedra comments [pt] on the Free Rice website, a game to help people to improve their English vocabulary at the same time that they help to minimize hunger in the world: “Everyone wins, you improve your vocabulary, FREE RICE gets funding and donates food with help from UN and...
Mozambique: Congratulations to Tas – BOBs2007
A runner up for the the same category, Diário de um Sociólogo congratulates [pt] Marcelo Tas for winning the Best Weblog Portuguese prize and invites other blogs from Mozambique to make themselves known: “Finally, I would like to make again this invitation: sign up for BOBs2008, I make an special...
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).
