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Budding authors publish own work online and in print. Self-publishing on the internet has given many budding writers a platform where their work can be shared with the world. It marks a departure from a bygone era when self-publishing was exclusively for self-indulgent aristocrats. "It's democratised the publishing world and allowed anyone to make a book," said Teresa Pereira from online publisher Blurb. The National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) website invites authors to write 50,000 words during the month of November - with an emphasis on output, that is, quantity rather than quality.

It is trying to encourage more people to put the novel in their head on to the page by challenging them to complete it in a month. But for authors determined to see their prose in print, technology has made it much easier and cheaper to turn this into reality. Beyond expectations The Espresso Book Machine at a Blackwell bookshop can print and bind a book in five minutes. "We knew there'd be a mix of self-publishing, of out of print and in-copyright books. Brasil, Web e crescimento. This week the BBC World Service's Digital Planet programme is in Brazil. Here the programme talks to a typical net user to get a sense of what Brazilians do online. There is no doubt that the web has caught on in Brazil as its web-using population has doubled in just three years.

In July 2008 more than 23.7 million Brazilians went online according to figures gathered by web statistics firm IBOPE/NetRatings. The figure is up 28% on the same time in 2007 and continues the trend of booming net use. Proof that it has caught on can be seen in statistics which suggest Brazilians spend the longest time surfing from home than any other nationality. IBOPE/NetRatings figures, based on sampling home net use habits, shows that Brazilians spend, on average, 24 hours 54 minutes online per month. By contrast, North Americans spend 20 hours 30 minutes and Germans 21 hours browsing the web every month. Surfing Japanese So popular that they are springing up in underground stations and fast food restaurants.

What is Digg? TI internet Web2.0 sociologia sociology. Explore this interactive graphic to find out which are the biggest sites on the internet, as measured by the Nielsen company. This feature is part of SuperPower, a season of programmes exploring the power of the internet. About this data The data used to generate the interactive treemap visualisation were collected by the Nielsen company and covers the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Brazil, US and Australia. The figures represent unique users for the month of January 2010. The categories - such as retail, social networks, search/portal - were defined by the BBC. Because some websites have more than one use, they could fall within more than one category (e.g. The maps were produced using the Prefuse Flare software, developed by the University of California Berkeley.

Did you find this graphic useful? Interessante ferramenta de liberdade. Wikileaks. 7 December 2010Last updated at 18:19 By Jonathan Fildes Technology reporter, BBC News Wikileaks has established a reputation for publishing sensitive materials Whistle-blowing website Wikileaks has dominated the news, both because of its steady drip feed of secret documents, but also because of the dealings of its enigmatic front man Julian Assange. The recent release of thousands of sensitive diplomatic cables is just the latest in a long list of "leaks" published by the secretive site, which has established a reputation for publishing sensitive material from governments and other high-profile organisations. In October the site released almost 400,000 secret US military logs detailing its operations in Iraq. They followed hot on the heels of nearly 90,000 classified military records, which gave an insight into the military strategy in Afghanistan.

A US military analyst is currently awaiting trial, on charges of leaking the material along with the cables and military documents. Legal wrangles. Google struggles with social skills | Digital Media. Google has decided that its social-networking strategy could use a few more followers. Perhaps no one did a better job of capturing the Internet from its inception until, say, 2007, than Google. But over the last several years, an explosion in Web content generated by social media has created a new dimension of the Web that Google doesn't control--and sometimes can't even see. Google CEO Eric Schmidt used to think that Google could index the Web by 2300, but he told CNET last year that with the advent of social media, "I'm not even sure it's possible" to capture everything.

Forces outside of Google are shaping the social-media landscape, and not because Google does not grasp the opportunity but because it has yet to articulate a winning strategy. Fed up with its progress, Google is pushing reset on its social-media efforts in 2010, hiring veterans such as social-media evangelists Chris Messina, Will Norris, and former Plaxo executive Joseph Smarr to lead the new "Social Web Team. " How internet-based music services make their money. Online music services generate revenue through a combination of download sales, advertising and subscription. Since the launch of Apple's iTunes in 2003, digital music has become big business. A number of new music services have sprung up on the internet, offering legitimate opportunities for people to listen to or buy tracks online.

With the government's digital economy bill threatening heavy action against persistent piracy, legal music services are hoping to increase their appeal. But digital music is still not the road to riches for musicians. "Bands should not be under the illusion that they can plan a tour of (say) North America based on digital revenues," says Will Page, Chief Economist at PRS for Music. "What digital can provide, though, is new information on where demand is, and more options on how you want to distribute your content. There is an element of irony here, in that digital monies won't pay for your tour, but digital data will tell you where your fans are. "