Internet - QuébecLeaks attend les révélations Les internautes peuvent soumettre leurs premiers documents sensibles sur le site de dénonciation QuébecLeaks depuis hier, même s'ils ignorent toujours exactement à qui ils ont affaire. L'organisation prie ses potentiels collaborateurs de lui soumettre des documents «non disponibles» qui ne sont pas encore passés entre les mains des journalistes d'enquête. Québec-Leaks demande également de ne pas fournir d'opinions ou d'allégations sans preuve formelle à l'appui. QuébecLeaks est un site inspiré de WikiLeaks, «fait par des Québécois pour des Québécois», qui se veut une plateforme plus locale où les individus disposant d'un accès privilégié à des documents sensibles pourront les rendre publics anonymement. Un processus simple QuébecLeaks propose deux mécanismes de soumission. À partir de la connexion sécurisée HTTPS, n'importe quel internaute le moindrement habile peut soumettre des fichiers Microsoft Word et PDF. Des questions Noam Chomsky
"Queremos recuperar los cadáveres del periodismo en España" “Queremos recuperar los cadáveres del periodismo en España” BáRBARA YUSTE | 10/8/2011 Alba Muñoz y Carme Riera son las coordinadoras de este nuevo medio digital Foto: Reset Bajo el término “Reset”, que significa “reiniciar” o “reponer”, un grupo de jóvenes periodistas y fotoperiodistas está trabajando en el lanzamiento de un nuevo medio con el que pretenden reformular el periodismo actual “a su manera”. Así reza en el manifiesto que han elegido que sea su seña de identidad. Conscientes de la crisis por la que atraviesan los medios, entienden que el único camino que queda es tomar el toro por los cuernos y actuar desde el convencimiento de que a esta profesión solo la salvan los principios que la vieron nacer. ¿Qué es Reset? Reset es un medio de comunicación digital, independiente y participativo. Así pues, Reset nos parece una de las últimas alternativas de supervivencia. ¿Qué pretende aportar de diferente a la ya abundante oferta informativa de la Web? Ambas cosas quizás.
Do artists need to be accurate to recreate history? | Jonathan Jones | Art and design The royal film in the news is The King's Speech, and so – as ever the first with film – I have been catching up with the 2008 version of the novel The Other Boleyn Girl. Tom Hooper's award-winner has been accused of playing fast and loose with historical fact. But the earlier film, starring Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson, manages to virtually edit out a rather large historical fact: the Reformation. Henry VIII is not characterised as Henry VIII at all; he has no Henry VIII-like qualities. He is just a fairytale king in a fairytale story. But historical fiction is not historical fact, as any glance at a bookshop would reveal. If you do not find history interesting, it does not matter – the historical fantasy does not have to mean anything or depict anything true about the past. I was surprised that critics were so hard on the supposed inaccuracy of Ridley Scott's Robin Hood. For me, that is the kind of insight that history should be about.
Global Warming and Climate Change skepticism examined Building a Greener World through Marketplace Economics and Radical Transparency Consumers now have little information about the true ecological impacts of what they buy. But that may be about to change, as new technologies that track supply chains are emerging and companies as diverse as Unilever and Google look to make their products more sustainable. by Daniel Goleman With climate legislation dead in Congress and the fizzled hopes for a breakthrough in Copenhagen fading into distant memory, the time seems ripe for fresh strategies — especially ones that do not depend on government action. Here’s a modest proposal: radical transparency, the laying bare of a product’s ecological impacts for all to see. Economic theory applied to ecological metrics offers a novel way to ameliorate our collective assault on the global systems that sustain life. First transparency. This seems about to change. WalMart is by no means the only player in taking steps to become more ecologically transparent. That’s where the action is: making crucial data easy to get.
Federación Internacional de Periodistas The indefinable charm of satirical dictionaries Samuel Johnson's Twitter feed The success of the Twitter feed purporting to be the 140-character updates of none other than Dr Samuel Johnson, in which wry, satirical definitions are given to common words, would seem to be a very 21st-century phenomenon. The real Dr Johnson died in 1784 – but it was his devotion to lexicography that paved the way for Tom Morton, the man behing the tweets, to offer gems such as "Valentine (n.) Patron-Saint of avaricious Florists & the MAWKISH: his Feast mark'd by Consumption of pinkish Victuals" on the social networking site. Last year the tweets made the leap to a proper book, Dr Johnson's Dictionary of Modern Life, subtitled a "Survey, Definition & justify'd Lampoonery of divers contemporary Phenomena, from Top Gear unto Twitter", published by Random House imprint Square Peg. Such satirical observations in dictionary-style format are, though, nothing new. The good Prof was the creation of Norman Hunter, a stage magician turned children's author. and:
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