CBS shows on youtube: a road toward universalization of content?

via YouTube Begins Streaming Full-Length Shows from CBS – Mashable
It’s this the 1st step towards allowing people from all over the world to access almost simultaneous new content legally?
Doubt that, with the big hammer from authorship laws lingering everywhere, in which local needs to be local, while the internet is not local at all.
The problem [...]

Companies need to learn new moves.

It’s been a common subject in my blog, even more than I inteded to, about how new medias changed the way creators and audiences interact, and how most companies seems so far behind on the pace. Companies need to start to find new ways to do business,because just trying to apply old rules in new [...]

Twitter, MSN and other resources are blocked in public schools in São Paulo.

Twitter, MSN and other resources are blocked in public schools in São Paulo.

Remember the Internet Freedom Law, I mentioned back in July, which was approved by the Brazilian Senate. If the limitations it created weren’t enough, the backlash has even worse, and will stop students to access some really useful resources for digital literacy.
Prof. [...]

Brazilian Senate Approves anti freedom law for Internet

I’d like to share the the following Press Release from the Brazilian Senate, it concerns some issues I’ve discussed last week. The Release was found through estadao.com.
The means are definitely justifiable, but the way is too limited. As I said before, people have to realize that there’s a need for new solution.
Won’t have time for [...]

Hoist the Colors… Part 3

I’d like to start this hopefully conclusion part of this really long topic post, by fowarding you to two articles that just arrived to me merely minutes ago through Twitter.
Judge Orders YouTube to Give All User Histories to Viacom.
Elite Torrents admin Dove faces 10 years.
This is such a complicated matter, that you can’t completely blame [...]

Hoist the Colors… Part 2

Won’t be providing the content I promised at the of yesterday’s post, instead I’ll do it tomorrow, and point to the same discussion elsewhere.
Basically, I’m switching the gears a bit here, I’d like to point the few readers here, to follow me to a certain Whedonesque thread, where important issues about this are being discussed. [...]

Hoist the Colors…

From the words of Elizabeth Swann from “PIrates of the Caribeen: At World’s End”: You will listen to me! LISTEN! The other ships will still be looking to us, to the Black Pearl, to lead, and what will they see? Frightened bilgerats aboard a derelict ship? No, no they will see free men and freedom! [...]