Paulo Rebêlo 20 February 2004 Source: SciDev.Net [RECIFE] Brazilian scientists are campaigning to reduce the bureaucracy involved in bringing scientific equipment into the country. In a declaration to be presented shortly to the ministry of science and technology, more than 300 Brazilian researchers state that “countless scientists have been waiting for years to receive equipment…. Continue reading
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Top bloggers become top photo exhibitionists By Paulo Rebêlo in Brazil The Inquirer, Tuesday 17 February 2004, 10:15 ALL YOU NEED TO DO is open Fotolog’s web site in order to notice a mass domain of fotologs from Brazil. No one knows exactly why this happens. As for number of fotologs (flogs), Brazil stands in… Continue reading
Brazil secures cheaper access to scientific journals
Paulo Rebêlo and Katie Mantell 30 January 2004 Source: SciDev.Net [RECIFE] The Brazilian government has negotiated a US$5 million reduction in the fees it pays to allow many of the country’s researchers to gain free access to electronic versions of a large number of scientific journals. The government’s ‘journal website’ (Portal de Periódicos), allows researchers… Continue reading
Brazil’s young scientists face job shortages
Paulo Rebêlo 14 January 2004 Source: SciDev.Net [RECIFE] A failure by the Brazilian government to provide much-needed new teaching and research posts in universities is preventing many researchers with doctoral degrees from finding suitable employment. This is the conclusion of a report published last month by the Brazilian Society for the Advancement of Science (SBPC),… Continue reading
Brazil opts for anti-spam ethics code
Action not inaction, as government dithers By Paulo Rebêlo in Brazil The Inquirer, Monday 01 December 2003, 10:54 MANY INTERNATIONAL servers block IPs from Brazilian ISPs because of a heavy load of spam coming from this country. Brazil has been trying to fix the spam problem for some time and legislation has been on the… Continue reading
Brazil may create its own digital TV system
[RECIFE] Brazil may develop its own system of digital television technology rather than importing such a system from abroad (as several of its Latin American neighbours have already done), if a proposal by the country’s minister of communications, Miro Teixeira, is accepted. Digital television has not yet been introduced into Brazil, the country with the… Continue reading
No-Touch Typing for Disabled
Paulo Rebêlo Wired News December 2002 In Brazil, physically disabled individuals may no longer need to buy expensive software to operate computers and surf the Web, thanks to a free application developed by programmers at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. By downloading a program called Motrix, disabled people can read, write and interact… Continue reading
In Brazil, Blog Is Beautiful
Paulo Rebêlo Wired News September, 2002 Weblogs certainly have a worldwide audience. Still, no one’s quite sure what makes them so hot in Brazil. One of the leading countries in registered blogs at Blogger, Brazil has recently gotten its own local version of Pyra Labs’ creation — translated into Portuguese and complete with additional features,… Continue reading
Emoting in a Cold Digital World
Paulo Rebêlo Wired News August, 2002 Imagine a celebration of digital art that bans works focusing on anything related to computers and technology. This is the idea behind Art.Ficial Emotion, an international exposition featuring digitally produced art created at some of the leading media centers worldwide. The main objective of Art.Ficial Emotion is to provide… Continue reading
Brazilians’ Spin: Remix Music Biz
Paulo Rebêlo Wired News July, 2002 In the eyes of many musicians and artists in Brazil, popular music as a form of pleasure and art ended in the Western world long ago. The mixing of music with commerce isn’t a new concept, but the introduction of file-sharing on the Web has turned attention to the… Continue reading