Rock-n-Go 岩棋志

你们只是九三年六月见过一面，计程表狂转的的士，青年旅社，查尔斯桥，卡夫卡旧居，还有黑光剧院。你还没有见过，冬夜飞雪的布拉格。

博客引出的公共领域和隐私领域的重新划界问题，在中国已经成为讨论的话题。这一篇就是。

昨天是Ocean Beach，太平洋滚滚无尽的波涛。
（“我们都是在长长的沙滩上行走，留下的没有脚印，只有歌声。”－－－纪伯伦）

今天是Cafe Roma, 和John Gage谈开源软件，微软和中国。摄影师在为他拍特写，因为这里也是John的工作室。

摄影师：“John, 微笑，像银行家想到钱一样微笑。”
X:“你想到了什么？”
J:“用了开源软件，(中国)人的创造力将在网络上充分发挥出来。”
(John 的公司是升阳，当然。）

Rheingold on blogging:
Blogging grows collective intelligence.

Every blog is, in a sense, a group map of a particular segment of human experience.

Consider the size of the “blogosphere”: expected exceed 10 million by the end of 2004. (This is 2002′s writing. the real number you already had in the class. What was it again? )

While individual blogs may come and go, blogging is likely to become a staple format for online publishing, providing an ever evolving map of human knowledge – from bottom up.

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Howard Reingold:
A commons (C) is a shared resource that anyone can use. … The question for the coming decade is whether these domains will retain a strong commons.
Commons foster innovation. Consider the Internet: at its core, its a public good.
The literature of science is also a commons.

Today, the advent of technologies that enable global, mobil, many-to-many, multimedia communication and computation among billions of people — together with new understanding about collective action — have brought us to the threshold of a new “cornucopia of the commons,” similar to the wealth and knowledge that became available in the wake of the printing press.

(?) I cannot exactly formulate my question on this, yet. But “new understanding” sounds little bit unclear to me.

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J. D. Lasica talking to Dan Gillmor, Doc Searls, David Winer, Deborah Branscum, Paul Andrews and Glenn Fleishman
weblogs offer a vital, creative outlet for alternative voices.
weblogs: a new source of news.

weblogging – amateur journalism?
not everyone who keeps a journal is a journlaist
institutional media – gatekeepers
journalism: quality control, objectivity, credibility, etc…

what about blogging?

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这是几个月前的旧文章了。不过Matt Welch的一些观察还是没有过时。比如他对博客贡献的四种分类。因此博过来再读一遍。

楼下Shirky不是针对社区网志讲的，而Rebecca的那段话也是一样。社区网志就可能保持会话风格，有人“把关”，用技术甚至有时间和人力资源这样做。当然，他们更没有考虑混血儿如Ohmynews。

“What matters is this: Diversity plus freedom of choice creates inequality, and the greater the diversity, the more extreme the inequality. ”

“At the head will be webloggers who join the mainstream media (a phrase which seems to mean “media we’ve gotten used to.”) The transformation here is simple – as a blogger’s audience grows large, more people read her work than she can possibly read, she can’t link to everyone who wants her attention, and she can’t answer all her incoming mail or follow up to the comments on her site. The result of these pressures is that she becomes a broadcast outlet, distributing material without participating in conversations about it.

Well, does it have to broadcast? What is Slashdot then?

Meanwhile, the long tail of weblogs with few readers will become conversational ”

How about Weblog Journalism? OK, some will say this is oxymoron. (like, Human Rights in China ) Others may say, what do you know about the J word?
They both got their points. So it’s a NO.

What if you do not take this “No” as the answer? What’s the next step? Where to start, really? Not from the B word either, since you just started blogging two weeks ago.

Back to physics. Why not to start from the Power Law? Even back to Notre Dame, since all things are “inevitably” Linked.