Brazil – Insight Sciences

The Amazon will message authorities when loggers strike

January 16, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Security & Privacy

The Amazon will message authorities when loggers strike
By Liat Clark, wired.co.uk

Technology

Brazilian authorities hope to combat deforestation in the Amazon by fitting trees with wireless location devices that send out alerts if their host tree is cut down.

Invisible Tracck is a device about the size of a…

RT @WiredUK: The Amazon will message authorities when loggers strike: http://flip.it/gHXl1 by @liatclark http://flip.it/7gcpJ

Amazon: One of World’s Most Endangered Tribe Threatened by Illegal Settlers (counselheal.com)
Illegal loggers continue to threaten Amazonian tribe. (zedie.wordpress.com)
Illegal Loggers Threaten Fate of Brazilian Tribe in Amazon Rainforest (scienceworldreport.com)
Brazil ignores deadline to save Earth’s most threatened tribe – Survival International (aboriginalpress.wordpress.com)

gringoes.com: great site for South American, Brazilian nomads

August 22, 2010 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Knowledge Management

gringoes.com – Brazil Travel, Brazil Guide, Brazil News.

RANDOM NOMAD: Andy Martin, UK-qualified Social Worker, Football Geek & Now a São Paulo Resident (thedisplacednation.com)
My South America Trip #17 – Brazilian Food and Beverages – Caipirinha, Charrascaria, Brazilian Coffee and Coconut Water (msamba.wordpress.com)
Think Nemo’s Bad? In Brazil It’s Raining Spiders (gawker.com)
Will Brazil Overtake Twitter Like It Did Orkut? (forbes.com)
TLC would have loved it here… – Iguazu Falls, Argentina (travelpod.com)
Building Startups in Rio: An Interview with 21212’s Benjamin White (riogringa.com)
Law Firm Grows its US – Brazil Practice with Partner Hire (prweb.com)

The politics of the internet: orkutificação or becoming “orkutised”

May 22, 2010 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search

Image representing Orkut as depicted in CrunchBase — Image via CrunchBase

In contrast to utopian ideals of some, the Internet like most other domains of social conduct is rapidly being divided into closed networks, haves and have nots. MySpace has been branded “lower class” and in Brazil wealthier citizens are migrating to Facebook from Orkut (Google’s social network) and branding those who still use the older network as orkutificação, or becoming “orkutised”. The word in fact has been expanded into other areas of social life: A place undergoing orkutificação is full of strangers, open to anyone.

E-communication and society: A cyber-house divided | The Economist.