Archive for April, 2006
An ambitious title
Thursday, April 27th, 2006The Future of Information
Wednesday, April 26th, 2006Specific concrete actions
Tuesday, April 25th, 2006Shanthi and Taylor wrote: “The issue of the Internet’s impact on authoritarian regimes is a subset of the larger question of ICT use in developing country politics.
In reality, specific concrete actions are most important for the promotion of democracy, in both the technological and nontechnological sphere. ”
The power of rules
Tuesday, April 18th, 2006Rules are, first of all, constitutive expressions. They (often implicitly) tell us what exists, in what measure, and in what relation.
Also there are regulative rules. Often more formal and explicit, they regulate social behavior inside the structured, prescribed (constituted) reality by specifying guiding and sanctioning human activity in particular ways.
Of course, he takes a critical stance.
Saturday, April 15th, 2006From SignandSight: (Thanks Howard!)
“Use of the Internet has both broadened and fragmented the contexts of communication. This is why the Internet can have a subversive effect on intellectual life in authoritarian regimes. But at the same time, the less formal, horizontal cross-linking of communication channels weakens the achievements of traditional media. This focuses the attention of an anonymous and dispersed public on select topics and information, allowing citizens to concentrate on the same critically filtered issues and journalistic pieces at any given time. The price we pay for the growth in egalitarianism offered by the Internet is the decentralised access to unedited stories. In this medium, contributions by intellectuals lose their power to create a focus.”
夜 – 屈子
Friday, April 14th, 2006……
出不入兮往不反
平原忽兮路超远
带长剑兮挟秦弓
首身离兮心不惩
诚既勇兮又以武
终刚强兮不可陵
身既死兮神以灵
魂魄毅兮为鬼雄
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More is different
Friday, April 14th, 2006How does individual opinion aggregate to collective public opinion on the Net?