Rock-n-Go 岩棋志

Paul讲博客史，谈到当年网络热忱者们的宣言：“市场是会话。”

曾经有投入或介入（Engagement)到存在中去的热情，还有一种热情是关于系统、形式或者结构的。

“抵抗就是对邪恶说不。”

“那种深深浸透我们，那种在我们之前就已存在，那种把我们在时空中凝成一体的东西，的确就是系统。

‘我’被消灭了。我们现在关心的是发现‘有’（there is)。”

“语言是一种形式而非一个实体。”

而新的热情，是存在与结构、自由与意义在数位时代新的综合。

一转又转到了GARND，大概是昨天读《宇宙的创生》的缘故。

王丰告诉我这家新闻博客网点，上面也有他音像文字俱全的网志。于是又见台北。

结构主义理论认为：符号就是能指和所指之间的一种关系。能指和所指如一张纸的两面，是不可分割的存在，每一面都是另一面存在的充要条件。而这关系既是任意的，又必须倚赖社会成员对符号意义及使用的共同契约而存在。

How does the structure of language, or of any signifying system, operates? Everything in the system is based on the RELATIONS that can occur between the units in the system. These relations consist mainly of relations of DIFFERENCE 对立或歧异.

(在语言体系成分中存在两种关系：Paradigmatic （选择关系） & Syntagmatic （连锁关系）. 前者是词形变化，基于对立或歧异，而后者则是基于体系所能允许的组合类目。

要了解语言体系结构，就必须了解体系中的要素是如何不同，及统治这些组合的规则为何。）

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Clay Shirky is commenting on Dean’s dismal, this time essentially questioning the role of social software in this campaign. He wonder “whether Dean has accidentally created a movement (where what counts is believing) instead of a campaign (where what counts is voting.) ”

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Read this carefully. This should give you some ideas for CDN.

This is about social/cultural approaches to information and information systems. Nacy’s current research is on camera phones, blogs and issues of trust and credibility on the Net. Today’s reading is here. It is also on the class website.

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Saw Diane Anbus‘ Exhibition at SFMOMA last Friday.

“A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know. ”
－－－－Quotes from Diane