Rock-n-Go 岩棋志

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From Center for Media and Democracy: SourceWatch, a wiki-based investigative journalism resource to which anyone, including you, can contribute.

Thanks, Jerry!

Dave said, THIS is interesting.

From E-Media Tidbits:

The net is abuzz today about Barry Diller’s $1.85 billion-dollar acquisition of Ask Jeeves, but the deal I find much more interesting is Yahoo’s takeover of Flickr. Yahoo already had a service called Yahoo Photos, but it’s essentially a tool for creating private albums open only to your closest friends (and ordering prints online). Flickr is very much about publishing your images. Yahoo is moving aggressively in the self-publishing area, and is preparing to launch a new service called Yahoo 360. If you watched Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson’s EPIC video (now updated to 2015) you’ll recall the “Google Grid” concept — “functionally limitless” online storage of all your content, where you decide what to share and what to keep private. We’re getting closer.

John wrote: “Google Code, a place where Google makes some of its code-innovations back to the open source community. The site went live today with four developer tools, which are way beyond my ability to grok. Chris told me that Google had been planning to do this for some time down, and that this is not a response to recent postings complaining that Google only takes from the OSS community. On the other hand, surely this move will be welcomed.”

Still remember what’s behind the Google Pagerank?

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（又见劳拉的微笑。）

已记不起那部电影说的，是阿根廷还是智利。

在太空仓会议室的黑板上，你写下了，歌词。

You noticed the CiteULike from here:

CiteULike is a free service to help academics to share, store, and organise the academic papers they are reading. When you see a paper on the web that interests you, you can click one button and have it added to your personal library. CiteULike automatically extracts the citation details, so there’s no need to type them in yourself. It all works from within your web browser. There’s no need to install any special software.

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Once again David talks about tags:

When does ontological organization work? When you don’t have a lot of stuff, it’s stable, things have clear edges, an authoritative source and trained users. I.e., the opposite of the Web.

People have assumed that tags that mean the same thing are actually the same, but (Clay says) “movie” people don’t want to hang out with “cinema” people, and “queer” people certainly don’t want to hang out with “homosexual” people. There is information in the differences that thesauruses and categorization schemes miss.

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见笑死神仙不偿命:

谢安替。

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From BBC NEWS:

From the earliest days of the net, pioneers championed its potential for shaking-up established orders. An early buzzword was “disintermediation” – the net’s promise to cut costs by wiping out middlemen and matching consumers with suppliers. So, today, travellers book flights directly with airlines rather than travel agents.

But with the likes of eBay and Zopa the internet is the middleman, a valuable go-between that matches millions of individual buyers and sellers.