Fri, 27 October 2006 Getting ready for tonight's climactic debate on the Globo network between the PT incumbent and the PSDB-PFL challenger in the Brazilian elections, we leave you with a musical interlude to get you in the mood ... including the Anglospherean debut of Brazil's hottest new band, O Cordel do Fogo Encantado. I may just give up working and become a wandering Fogohead ... Comments[0] |
Thu, 19 October 2006 Dateline: The largest city in Latin America. Live on tape from the lobby of the World Federation of Exchange's annual meeting in the wasteland that is Morumbi, São Paulo; in governance vote, KQED exec wants a Bush-like state of exception; Richard Florida peddles the same old snake oil; plus the latest from Caetano Veloso: "Odeio você!" Comments[0] |
Sun, 8 October 2006  On strike for better working conditions after assassination of Russian journo. Comments[6] |
Fri, 6 October 2006 The Brazilian political scenario; big bank strike busts out; FEBAN and Microcode; racial democracy and other myths; the open-source e-government that never came to be; corruption rules my soul; plus Robert Lefkowitz on Orwell and Open Source(TM), in a nod to the pods. Comments[0] |
Sun, 1 October 2006 Brazil votes; plus, from the news desk, mondo global market machines stories with an Act III yet to be written, from India, Russia, Mexico, China and, of course, Brazil; Man overboard; Bob vs. Chico; Globo talking heads warm up the blinking lights, though failure to schedule democracy for primetime continues to irk; and the best country song ever about the generals and their Economic Miracle ... Comments[0] |
Fri, 29 September 2006 Out of alpha and sticking to a schedule, it's the New Market Machines Week in Review from São Paulo, Brazil: BRIC-centric coverage of global media and finance with a pandeiro beat in the background. This week, more tainment than info, but still: Brazil overhauls IT tax incentives; new pools of dark liquidity; pig****er media politics in Mexico leave risk managers jobless; Citi scandal No. 1,001(a); Cardosonomics dissed; Red Hat routed; and more. Plus the other city that smells not so nice they named it twice channels the 1970s Lower East Side. Now with extra animal noises. Confiram! Aproveitem! Comments[0] |
Tue, 26 September 2006 The week ahead in the emerging markets: morning headlines; Shanghai corruption scandal; M$FT in Rio; the yellow press goes whole hog ahead of Sunday's election in Brazil. Plus monkeys bite me! Comments[0] |
Mon, 25 September 2006 Indymedia Brazil and the CC mailing lists boil with protest over the June launch of the iCommons project in Brazil. I translate. Redmond controls the media moment; barring dissenters; Red Zone & Green Zone assumptions; portraits of the CC user; participatory culture in a five-star hotel? Musical interludes: Lenine, "O Dia Que Faremos Contato"; Hermeto Pascoal, "Fica Mal Com Deus." Special guest appearance by the ghost of D. Boon. Comments[2] |
Fri, 22 September 2006 I lost five minutes out of this podcast somehow, right in the middle, where the musical interlude cuts in suddenly. Oh, well. Today: Initiating regular coverage of top headlines from the principal national and regional business pubs in Brazil; Ambulance mobster lies his ass off, and the press prints every word; why cultural minister Gil has to moonlight as a rock star; and a shoutout to my bro in law in Chile ... Comments[0] |
Thu, 21 September 2006 The dossier scandal: media mudwrestling at its most fascinatingly repulsive; Thai coup deals Brazilian bourses a blow; Carrefour beats Wal-Mart to the church of the consumer credit; BNDES shifts gears; Central banks notes big gringobuck inflows and progress in the war on the Cayman Island bank account; Petrobras will open plants in Venezuela, but Chavez's "devil" crack goes unreported; plus the newsdesk idolizes Macunaíma, and Los Tigrrrres del Norrrte ... Comments[0] |
