Inicio, abaixo, a republicação de três ensaios, ou quase isto, que apareceram n’O Pensador Selvagem antes da inauguração deste blog. Revisados estilisticamente, preservam a essência da ideia original. Quanto à atualidade da temática, os textos falam por si próprios. * * * O poder legislativo seria tão mais eficiente e confiável quanto menor fosse o [...]
Posts from ‘February, 2011’
Week in review: minding grammies at the dawn of the gramophone parenthesis: worth reads and watches
At least to those attending Harvey Goldsmith’s talk at last MIDEM conference, Grammy winners, challenging most predictions (some, indeed, founded on some well accredited socialmedia research), may not have been a blasting surprise. On his lecture, Goldsmith clearly indicated, amidst fastly droping revenues from record sales and agony cries from potentially resigning executives, music industry’s [...]
Eu sigo #5: Howard’s latest: move to YouTube & one man university
Howard’s latest No wonder following @hrheingold always leading to excellence in digital media education. A long time defender of openness in academics, the creator of the expression virtual community raised his voice, years ago, against Stanford requiring students to restrict their researches to proprietary content confined within the limits of the university’s servers – his [...]
Upside down film criticism; why do I follow movie bloggers; on psychiatric behavioral labeling
To @literariamente, @leandrocalbente & @camilofabiano, for the inspiration Amidst the strong relief felt after overcoming from an almost weekend long (and delightful) period of online abstinence, I’ve been gladly surprised by the fact that, when most social networkers temporarily took their attention from leaderless twitter revolutions in Egypt and the Middle East last night just [...]
The week in review: top videos and reads
I love crowdsourced wisdom. Maybe that’s why, more often than not, I spend much more online time curating and tagging rather than blogging. A most obvious drawback from this compulsive behavior – and one that has already sparked complaints from at least one readers – is my mandatory adherence to the writing practice commonly designated [...]
Are we facing the death of film criticism ?
To @liliansta and @literariamente, who promptly volunteered to board this ship, and those yet to come Yes and no, indeed. Absolutely, if regarding the most known sort of professional film criticism, in form of periodic reviews of new film releases, by far the mostly read at mainstream media. Definitely not, when considering the blasting expansion [...]
