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Posted: 10 Nov 2009 01:04 AM PST Para além de filtros e de factores de autoridade, as listas do Twitter têm implícita uma outra função, a de “etiquetar” ou atribuir rótulos a cada um dos utilizadores. Dito de outra forma: como é que os utilizadores me vêem, me “catalogam”? Pela amostra junta, a minha conta surge associada: a blogues / blogosfera; a Portugal; aos twitters portugueses; autor; “mundo digital”; às “letras”; e, ainda, como “power user” e “power lister”!  |
Posted: 09 Nov 2009 10:05 AM PST  . CLAMOR IN THE EAST; EAST GERMANY OPENS FRONTIER TO THE WEST FOR MIGRATION OR TRAVEL; THOUSANDS CROSS East Germany on Thursday lifted restrictions on emigration or travel to the West, and within hours tens of thousands of East and West Berliners swarmed across the infamous Berlin Wall for a boisterous celebration. Border guards at Bornholmer Strasse crossing, Checkpoint Charlie and several other crossings abandoned all efforts to check credentials, even though the new regulations said East Germans would still need passports and permission to get across. Some guards smiled and took snapshots, assuring passers-by that they were just recording a historic event. Politburo Announcement The mass crossing began about two hours after Gunter Schabowski, a member of the Politburo, had announced at a press conference that permission to travel or emigrate would be granted quickly and without preconditions, and that East Germans would be allowed to cross at any crossing into West Germany or West Berlin. ”We know this need of citizens to travel or leave the country,” Mr. Schabowski said. ”Today the decision was taken that makes it possible for all citizens to leave the country through East German crossing points.” (The New York Times – edição de 10.11.1989) . A ler, também no New York Times: E, ainda, uma compilação de artigos publicados em diversos media a nível internacional (que fui agregando na minha conta no delicious). De forma a facilitar a sua consulta, os 10 artigos hoje publicados no Memória Virtual, evocando esta data crucial da História, encontram-se reunidos aqui. |
Posted: 09 Nov 2009 08:50 AM PST      Gorbachev: The Unlikely Patron of Change . The 1980s came to an end in what seemed like a magic act, performed on a world-historical stage. Trapdoors flew open, and whole regimes vanished. The shell of an old world cracked, its black iron fragments dropping away, and something new, alive, exploded into the air in a flurry of white wings. Revolution took on a sort of electronic lightness of being. A crowd of half a million Czechoslovaks in Wenceslas Square would powder into electrons, stream into space at the speed of light, bounce off a satellite and shoot down to recombine in millions of television images around the planet. The transformation had a giddy, hallucinatory quality, its surprises tumbling out night after night. The wall that divided Berlin and sealed an international order crumbled into souvenirs. The cold war, which seemed for so long part of the permanent order of things, was peacefully deconstructing before the world’s eyes. After years of numb changelessness, the communist world has come alive with an energy and turmoil that have taken on a bracing, potentially anarchic life of their own. Not even Stalinist Rumania was immune. The magician who set loose these forces is a career party functionary, faithful communist, charismatic politician, international celebrity and impresario of calculated disorder named Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev. |
Posted: 09 Nov 2009 07:35 AM PST     Life in The Golden Ghetto . As the East German regime collapses before its anti-Communist opponents, it is yielding up enough evidence of corruption to provide yet another cause of bitter popular resentment against the discredited hierarchy. The allegations of illegal nest feathering have shocked and outraged ordinary citizens, party members and nonmembers alike. Disgrace knows no limits for Erich Honecker, less than two months ago the most powerful man in East Germany: last week the former party chief and eight of his erstwhile top lieutenants were formally charged by the state prosecutor’s office with “enriching themselves through abuse of office.” Seven of the ex-Politburo members were packed off to jail pending trial. Illness spared the other two, including Honecker, from suffering the same fate — at least for the time being. (Time – edição datada de 18.12.1989 – publicada a 12.12.1989) . |
Posted: 09 Nov 2009 06:20 AM PST East-West: Turning Visions Into Reality . By the time George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev arrived in Malta, there was no longer any pretense that this was to be a meeting where they simply sat back and talked. How do you put your feet up when the deck beneath you is trembling and the winds are howling, in Marsaxlokk Bay and throughout the tattered Soviet empire? This first Bush-Gorbachev summit, which the American President initially proposed as a way to restart the becalmed U.S.-Soviet relationship, was now also the first to take place in the uncertain new world ushered in by the upheavals shaking Eastern Europe. And if this meeting was to be a step in shaping the future, there could be no more appropriate setting than at sea, even a sea as wild as the one last weekend around Malta. In a world that seemed to be dissolving, where better to meet than in a place with no boundary lines, no familiar landmarks — and no firm footing? (Time – edição datada de 11.12.1989 – publicada a 05.12.1989) . . |
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