When it all began back in the 90s, talking about websites meant talking about portals like UOL, Terra, AOL, and IG. Dial-up internet providers had portals, and there, ordinary users found everything they needed. One good email service, and I still believe this today, is Yahoo, but back then, the capacity was 15MB; no one talked about emails over 500KB (yesterday I received a video of 22,000,000KB). Personal websites belonged to Vila Bol and HPG; one account gave space for 3MB of HTML files. No one talked about PHP with MySQL. To chat, you used rooms; at the time, you could enter any room you wanted. A full room had 30 people, and when seven more entered, it was madness.
More advanced users used IRC, with programs like MIRC. There, Lis, Wil, and I stayed up all night in a room called #tabav.
At that time, the National Library applied the same requirements for internet publication registrations as for printed publications, meaning the institute of "averbação" (registration). Thus, a chronicle to be protected by law would need to be registered, paying the GRU fee, which today amounts to R$ 35.00. In other words: nobody registered anything.
Large portals already had columnists, like magazines and newspapers. They placed "All rights reserved" notices, but what did that actually mean?
In fact, if an article was good, a funny chronicle, people would forward it to as many emails as they could. In the beginning, it was 19 people, as at 20, the accounts would be "temporarily" blocked.
Having a chronicle, article, or post on another website was a sign of prestige.
Today, this prestige still happens on Blogs. However, there are some lunatics who, not content with the post being commented on their site in size 14 font and with an icon link, demand that you put the name in huge letters, which we used to call "FONTE ALTA" (BIG FONT), and that you put the link in full, with http, https, www, and all that.
It's absurd, but it's a legal absurdity.
I've had a website for a decade; it was on hpg, pop, even .com.br. I've invented the most different ways to cite. On the old site, I used to put citations inside a table; there was visual emphasis, as if I were saying that the part inside the square was not my responsibility.
Today, I use explanatory text. As I write, I say, 'João Silva from Folha Online said that,' or I put the excerpt and at the end, I put (João Silva, Folha Online). The original link is usually on the newspaper's name, so you would have to click on 'Folha Online' to access the link. Sometimes I slip up on this, and one reason is the lack of time; I don't mean the time to put the correct link, but I don't have time to update links that are commonly dynamic nowadays.
What are dynamic links?
Dynamic links are those that change over periods. Many sites that update every second have dynamic links, so if you access a link like http://noticiaexemplo.com.br/Noticia?=dia today, you get one news item. If you click tomorrow, you might get another news item or even a 404 error (page not found).
How will citations be from now on?
I will continue to put them literally in the text, meaning I will write, João Silva said in Newspaper X, on date Y. And I will add a banner. In the Example below, see how it would be for an article with a critique, analysis, or commentary on a report broadcast by Folha Online:
Are citations illegal?
No, they are legal. LAW NO. 9.610, of February 19, 1998. Amends, updates, and consolidates legislation on copyright and provides other measures.
Chapter IV
Limitations on Copyright
Article 46. The following do not constitute an infringement of copyright:
III - the citation in books, newspapers, magazines, or any other means of communication, of passages from any work, for purposes of study, criticism, or controversy, to the extent justified for the purpose to be achieved, indicating the name of the author and the origin of the work;
What silviolobo.com.br is NOT?
IT IS NOT A NEWS DISTRIBUTOR, and it does not relay news in real-time and in its entirety, as happens on sites like Yahoo Notícias, Terra Notícias, and other major portals. These sites/companies have multimillion-dollar contracts with large journalism companies, so they receive content every second, and they relay this content to their visitors. silviolobo.com.br is a personal site. I, Sílvio Lôbo, when I read a newspaper, watch a TV news program, listen to the radio, or even talk with colleagues, select things that interest me, and put them on my site, adding critique, analysis, or commentary.
How often do you post news on your site?
I've never thought about it. Sometimes weeks pass; sometimes, in one night, I post three, even four news items. I post what moves me the most. A crime here in the city, a controversial crime like Suzane von Richthofen's murder of her parents, Pollyana Arruda's case, a publicist from Goiás who was murdered on her way to the university I attend. Of course, these cases grab attention, and that's why I post them.
What do you intend to gain from this?
As Cecília Meireles well said,
I sing because the instant exists
and my life is complete.
I am neither happy nor sad:
I am a poet.
The truth is, I don't have a reason. Maybe I have a site because I can't be concise. Try to understand me; Twitter only accepts 140 characters and Orkut 1024. I need more!
And the illustrations on your site?
99% of the images I put on my site come from Google Images search. They are images found by the search engine, and I never alter anything in their content. So, on cartoons, the cartoonist's signature is visible. As for photographs, whenever I find them on a site, I include it.
What is the relevance of your site?
That's relative. When I created my first site, I received ten visits, and it was wonderful. Today, if I receive 1,000 visits, numerically it means nothing compared to the millions of accesses and billions of hits on portals. HOWEVER, MY VISITOR IS VERY SELECTIVE. I have people in the USA, Europe, and even Korea who correspond with me and always ask me about what's currently highlighted in Brazil.
What are your news sources?
The first is my mother. When I get home from college, she tells me something she saw on the news while I was at university. Then I go online and search on Google, G1, Terra Notícias, Folha Online, O Estadão, Diário da Manhã, sometimes a printed O Popular, often a printed Daqui newspaper (it only costs R$ 0.50 and it's always good to read!). I also use Yahoo Notícias; it's a hub for Journalism Agencies like EFE, AFP, Reuters. In addition to magazines like Istoé and Veja. I even read articles from the New York Times. There are so many; forgive me if I forget any.
Do you cite blogs?
I have a hundred friends who have blogs. If I cite one, I'll have to cite everyone. So, I prefer to go to the blog and leave my comment and especially my affection.
Once, I had a dispute with my bank and searched online for complaints about it. I found a personal post on a WordPress blog site where the user complained about the bank. I posted this complaint on my site, naturally referencing the name, explaining that I had posted it because something similar had happened to me. (Which wasn't entirely true, as it had happened to a colleague from college). But anyway... I got very frustrated. I read a message posted in the early morning, written late at night, complaining about the title "Plagiarism of my text on your site." The demand was for CAPITAL Letters and a real link, including the protocol http, www, the colons, the slashes, in short. I removed the post and created the "3 million, 552 thousand, 157" rule from my list of things to live by in this world, which says, "blog posts, no!!!"
What if I have content on your site with MY NAME, the ORIGIN LINK, the DATE, and everything else the Brazilian Standard requires, and I still don't want it there?
Well, if I make the full citation, with all the requirements of LAW NO. 9.610, of February 19, 1998, then I will be within my rights to keep it. HOWEVER, far be it from me to frustrate another frustrated person, hurt another hurt person, or despair another desperate person. FRIENDS FOREVER!!!! Be assured! Just write to my email, and I will delete it as soon as I receive it, have no doubt.
Why reference texts?
Because we are part of a large body called humanity. I didn't know that an elderly Portuguese woman was found dead after nine years in her apartment; as far as I know, even her neighbors didn't see her. I know this because I read it in a newspaper, so I pass it on, and I take the opportunity to talk about what I think about it, about the loneliness and abandonment of the elderly, or even about the loneliness I myself feel.
When I cite you, I am honoring you, honoring your work. Whenever possible, I will include my reading recommendations in the text, both of the original and for further exploration of the discussed topic.
And if I have more questions?
If you have any questions, please write to me. The email is on the site; your opinion is truly important to me. Thank you for your kindness and for reading this far.
Sílvio de Souza Lôbo Júnior
When it all began back in the 90s, talking about websites meant talking about portals like UOL, Terra, AOL, and IG. Dial-up internet providers had portals, and there, ordinary users found everything they needed. One good email service, and I still believe this today, is Yahoo, but back then, the capacity was 15MB; no one talked about emails over 500KB (yesterday I received a video of 22,000,000KB). Personal websites belonged to Vila Bol and HPG; one account gave space for 3MB of HTML files. No one talked about PHP with MySQL. To chat, you used rooms; at the time, you could enter any room you wanted. A full room had 30 people, and when seven more entered, it was madness.
More advanced users used IRC, with programs like MIRC. There, Lis, Wil, and I stayed up all night in a room called #tabav.
At that time, the National Library applied the same requirements for internet publication registrations as for printed publications, meaning the institute of "averbação" (registration). Thus, a chronicle to be protected by law would need to be registered, paying the GRU fee, which today amounts to R$ 35.00. In other words: nobody registered anything.
Large portals already had columnists, like magazines and newspapers. They placed "All rights reserved" notices, but what did that actually mean?
In fact, if an article was good, a funny chronicle, people would forward it to as many emails as they could. In the beginning, it was 19 people, as at 20, the accounts would be "temporarily" blocked.
Having a chronicle, article, or post on another website was a sign of prestige.
Today, this prestige still happens on Blogs. However, there are some lunatics who, not content with the post being commented on their site in size 14 font and with an icon link, demand that you put the name in huge letters, which we used to call "FONTE ALTA" (BIG FONT), and that you put the link in full, with http, https, www, and all that.
It's absurd, but it's a legal absurdity.
I've had a website for a decade; it was on hpg, pop, even .com.br. I've invented the most different ways to cite. On the old site, I used to put citations inside a table; there was visual emphasis, as if I were saying that the part inside the square was not my responsibility.
Today, I use explanatory text. As I write, I say, 'João Silva from Folha Online said that,' or I put the excerpt and at the end, I put (João Silva, Folha Online). The original link is usually on the newspaper's name, so you would have to click on 'Folha Online' to access the link. Sometimes I slip up on this, and one reason is the lack of time; I don't mean the time to put the correct link, but I don't have time to update links that are commonly dynamic nowadays.
What are dynamic links?
Dynamic links are those that change over periods. Many sites that update every second have dynamic links, so if you access a link like http://noticiaexemplo.com.br/Noticia?=dia today, you get one news item. If you click tomorrow, you might get another news item or even a 404 error (page not found).
How will citations be from now on?
I will continue to put them literally in the text, meaning I will write, João Silva said in Newspaper X, on date Y. And I will add a banner. In the Example below, see how it would be for an article with a critique, analysis, or commentary on a report broadcast by Folha Online:
Are citations illegal?
No, they are legal. LAW NO. 9.610, of February 19, 1998. Amends, updates, and consolidates legislation on copyright and provides other measures.
Chapter IV
Limitations on Copyright
Article 46. The following do not constitute an infringement of copyright:
III - the citation in books, newspapers, magazines, or any other means of communication, of passages from any work, for purposes of study, criticism, or controversy, to the extent justified for the purpose to be achieved, indicating the name of the author and the origin of the work;
What silviolobo.com.br is NOT?
IT IS NOT A NEWS DISTRIBUTOR, and it does not relay news in real-time and in its entirety, as happens on sites like Yahoo Notícias, Terra Notícias, and other major portals. These sites/companies have multimillion-dollar contracts with large journalism companies, so they receive content every second, and they relay this content to their visitors. silviolobo.com.br is a personal site. I, Sílvio Lôbo, when I read a newspaper, watch a TV news program, listen to the radio, or even talk with colleagues, select things that interest me, and put them on my site, adding critique, analysis, or commentary.
How often do you post news on your site?
I've never thought about it. Sometimes weeks pass; sometimes, in one night, I post three, even four news items. I post what moves me the most. A crime here in the city, a controversial crime like Suzane von Richthofen's murder of her parents, Pollyana Arruda's case, a publicist from Goiás who was murdered on her way to the university I attend. Of course, these cases grab attention, and that's why I post them.
What do you intend to gain from this?
As Cecília Meireles well said,
I sing because the instant exists
and my life is complete.
I am neither happy nor sad:
I am a poet.
The truth is, I don't have a reason. Maybe I have a site because I can't be concise. Try to understand me; Twitter only accepts 140 characters and Orkut 1024. I need more!
And the illustrations on your site?
99% of the images I put on my site come from Google Images search. They are images found by the search engine, and I never alter anything in their content. So, on cartoons, the cartoonist's signature is visible. As for photographs, whenever I find them on a site, I include it.
What is the relevance of your site?
That's relative. When I created my first site, I received ten visits, and it was wonderful. Today, if I receive 1,000 visits, numerically it means nothing compared to the millions of accesses and billions of hits on portals. HOWEVER, MY VISITOR IS VERY SELECTIVE. I have people in the USA, Europe, and even Korea who correspond with me and always ask me about what's currently highlighted in Brazil.
What are your news sources?
The first is my mother. When I get home from college, she tells me something she saw on the news while I was at university. Then I go online and search on Google, G1, Terra Notícias, Folha Online, O Estadão, Diário da Manhã, sometimes a printed O Popular, often a printed Daqui newspaper (it only costs R$ 0.50 and it's always good to read!). I also use Yahoo Notícias; it's a hub for Journalism Agencies like EFE, AFP, Reuters. In addition to magazines like Istoé and Veja. I even read articles from the New York Times. There are so many; forgive me if I forget any.
Do you cite blogs?
I have a hundred friends who have blogs. If I cite one, I'll have to cite everyone. So, I prefer to go to the blog and leave my comment and especially my affection.
Once, I had a dispute with my bank and searched online for complaints about it. I found a personal post on a WordPress blog site where the user complained about the bank. I posted this complaint on my site, naturally referencing the name, explaining that I had posted it because something similar had happened to me. (Which wasn't entirely true, as it had happened to a colleague from college). But anyway... I got very frustrated. I read a message posted in the early morning, written late at night, complaining about the title "Plagiarism of my text on your site." The demand was for CAPITAL Letters and a real link, including the protocol http, www, the colons, the slashes, in short. I removed the post and created the "3 million, 552 thousand, 157" rule from my list of things to live by in this world, which says, "blog posts, no!!!"
What if I have content on your site with MY NAME, the ORIGIN LINK, the DATE, and everything else the Brazilian Standard requires, and I still don't want it there?
Well, if I make the full citation, with all the requirements of LAW NO. 9.610, of February 19, 1998, then I will be within my rights to keep it. HOWEVER, far be it from me to frustrate another frustrated person, hurt another hurt person, or despair another desperate person. FRIENDS FOREVER!!!! Be assured! Just write to my email, and I will delete it as soon as I receive it, have no doubt.
Why reference texts?
Because we are part of a large body called humanity. I didn't know that an elderly Portuguese woman was found dead after nine years in her apartment; as far as I know, even her neighbors didn't see her. I know this because I read it in a newspaper, so I pass it on, and I take the opportunity to talk about what I think about it, about the loneliness and abandonment of the elderly, or even about the loneliness I myself feel.
When I cite you, I am honoring you, honoring your work. Whenever possible, I will include my reading recommendations in the text, both of the original and for further exploration of the discussed topic.
And if I have more questions?
If you have any questions, please write to me. The email is on the site; your opinion is truly important to me. Thank you for your kindness and for reading this far.
Sílvio de Souza Lôbo Júnior
