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郭中实先生的文章思路清晰，提出了一个有趣的问题：什么样的隐藏话语通过什么形式在什么时候以什么名义为什么可以进入公众话语？

This is a report written by William Davies who works on the iSociety programme at The Work Foundation. Thank to Liz for the link.

Social capital analysts have debated the implications of the Internet for some years now. But this debate has recently been joined from the opposite side, as software experts and developers are showing an increased desire to understand and improve social networks, both offline and online.This report introduces some of the core ideas of this new unified debate, and outlines possible directions for the future.

This article is from ongoing blog.

“The Wikipedia’s process is profoundly different in that it has no end. Once you get past that, it has strong points of similarity with conventional reference publishing; the articles are written by external contributors, then they are reviewed by one or more of the contingent of people who make it their business to do this, checking for style, basic adherence to facts, and so on. This is process is repeated—not with 100% reliability—every time an entry is updated. Put another way, entries are cooked, but neither killed nor frozen.

One really interesting part of the Wikipedia process is the person/place/thing naming issue. It’s handled cheaply and reliably by means of hyperlinks. No matter how many spellings there are for Mr. Qadhaffi’s name, there’s only one entry for the man himself, and an excellent level of consistency is achieved simply by getting the pointers right.”

“Explosive growth means Web logs are suddenly in Madison Avenue’s sights.”

As the author said, the business of blogs is in its infancy. But it is rising rapidly.

This essay is a good introduction to such topic.

“the world of journalism is being transformed by blogging, and that – similarly – the blogosphere is evolving and being transformed in the process. There can be no question that the phenomenon of blogging, especially blogs focused on politics and public affairs, has changed the way information becomes front page news. ”

Here is the conference blog.

Ralph Waldo Emerson once said: “Every burned book enlightens the world.”

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Here is Howard’s new course.

From the egadget: “Flickr is quickly becoming one of the most popular “moblog” and photo sharing site, is it the interface? The APIs? Caterina talks about this and more! ”

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不是新文章。但是和上星期“信息的经典物理学’讨论有相合之处。也许”动量“的比喻，还不如下面的的算法。

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