| "WAVE"
No.61
November 2011
Editorial
Topic of the Issue
Interview: Zoran Ricliev, online journalist and digital media consultant
Journalists
must overcome the fear of technology
We are witnesses of rapid acceleration of communication and interactivity. There
are far more changes in mass communication that happen in one year than in a whole
18th century, for example. This communication metamorphosis affects journalism
and journalists the most. Now they have to change rapidly also... >>
Copyright in the digital era
Steal
or share - that is the question
"Most of stolen information
on the Internet is taken because it is easy to do", said Igor Nobilo (Croatian
Photographers Association), in his speech to young journalists in the region,
during the "Young Journalists and Protection of Authors' Rights Online"
conference, recently held in Skopje, Macedonia. And indeed, few people could raise
their hands when asked if there was only purchased music on their mp3 players.
The same goes for general informative material, especially Creative Commons licenses
Copyright protection on the Internet
Danger
of online plagiarism
Copyrights
are valid 70 years after the authors death, explained the lawyer Jana Despotovska.
However, the bigger problem today is respecting them especially in the media who
are copying news from each other without any indication of where they were taken
from. It was concluded that this problem exists not only in Macedonia but also
in countries of the region, and to a lesser extent in the rest of the world
Politics
Italian Prime minister resigned
Adio,
Silvio!
Berlusconi was losing, for some time
now, the public support, but, on 8th of November 2011 he also lost the majority
of it in the Parliament, because of his failure to tackle Italy's debt crisis,
that is almost 1.9 trillion Euro. Of course, he might have still held on to power,
but the continuous trials he was involved in, either for corruption, sex offences
or fraud, got him to lose the people's support in such a way that they made their
voice heard louder and more visible than ever before... >>
Society
Project "Incubator 107"
"Make
your life into a dream, and your dream into a reality"
One of the reasons to stick around in the incubator is simply that the project
is a volcano of enthusiasm. It is motivational, educational, and representative
for how people can take responsibility for the dreams they cherish. It is an example
of social entrepreneurship transforming the people it touches... >>
Interesting socio-psychological tendencies
"Enlightened
people"
These are the people who claim to have understood the "sense of life",
"found the way to be truly happy/relaxed"... They often and openly talk
about how nice it is to be the way they are now, how simple and happy their life
became, how open their mind and heart are now and similar things. Wasn't there
always a group of people preaching for "love is everywhere around" etc?
Yes, but in the past years their number grew... >>
AIESEC conference "New Leaders"
Youth
- main generators of changes
Recognizing leaders in Serbia was marked as the biggest challenge, considering
that the term "leader" is not easily defined nowadays in Serbia. On
one side first correlation goes to politics, sometimes sports. It is also often
being abused in various political manipulations in media. That way, Serbia herself
is the leader in many areas, if we are to trust the popular headlines... >>
Economics
Interview: Charles Gould,
Secretary General of the International Cooperative Alliance
People
are hungry for a better world
The
end of 2011 approaches with a loud call for those willing to support social justice,
equality and sustainable growth. The launch of the International Year of Cooperatives
by UN and the International Cooperative Alliance sets the starting signal of a
long-distance race: 365 days to demonstrate this business model is the key to
build a better world... >>
The revolution in agricultural production
Farmeron
- agriculture in a modern way
Students
of the Faculty of Organizational Sciences in Zagreb, Croatia, have created a web
application for monitoring production and analysis of productivity and profitability
in agriculture. A program is monitoring the production of livestock farms and
perform analysis of their effects. The assumption is that this program will lead
to some kind of revolution in agriculture and increase the amount of food produced,
singling out only the most productive animals... >>
Culture & Arts
Belgrade Book Fair
Connecting
people
If books were bridges that connect people, then book fairs would be places with
thousands of bridges, and each one of them would lead to a new shore, a new knowledge,
new encounter... >>
Eko Fest
How
to feed the planet?
Within
these theme festival will address agriculture as a primary source of food, its
current challenges and future prospects. In particular, it will refer to industrial
and organic agriculture, with a desire to answer the question which of two approaches
is long-term solution... >>
Festival of international student theatre - FIST 07
Grand
Prix for Danish troop
Grand Prix was awarded to play "Easter", by the Danish National school
of theatre and contemporary dance. Lucie Koncokova won The Best Performer award,
for the role of Ophelia in the play of the same name. Special award of jury was
given to Uros Jakovljevic for the role in a play "Waiting for Godot".
Audience award went to play "Ophelia" by Theatre faculty Janacek of
Academy of Performing Arts in Brno... >>
Science & Tech
Multimedia
HTML5
taking the lead on mobile devices
HTML5 has won one more battle against Flash technology. Adobe has announced in
November that it will no longer continue to develop Flash Player for mobile devices
browsers. Instead, they will join forces with other major companies in the development
of HTML5 for mobile devices... >>
Facebook Timeline
Your
life as a catalogue
There
is a public concern that these new options are violation of privacy, and Timeline
is already being compared to George Orwell's Big Brother concept in "1984".
Well, that's only true if you allow it. Every life event you put in your timeline
is only your choice. By doing so, you allow Facebook to see it, your connections,
and any intruder that hacks your profile... >>
Entertainment
Debut album of OLA HORHE duo
It's
vinyl time!
Electroacoustic
duo Ola Horhe held a concert in Cultural centre Grad in Belgrade and presented
its' first project - first album, and on vinyl! Inspiration and support in pianistic
and vocal talents of guest artist Sonja Loncar, alongside gladly acknowledged
melodies of La Routine, Trans AM, Hotel Moscow, revealed to the audience
the true values of good mixture of synthesizer and drums shaped by the pure idea
that music is today's medium of power... >>
and
much more in all sections... explore!
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