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June 30, 2004
Habermas' theory and a blogger from Holland
Via CSR in China, you have noticed Elmine Wijnia‘ blog . She lives in the Netherlands, and blogged Habermas' theory of communicative action, and blogging and more.
（哈贝玛斯不会阐明，为什么运河上总有深浅不一的雾，浆声里是另一个阿姆斯特丹。）
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Rusty's wiki paper
This "work in progress" is about knowledge management and acculturated memory. It is on wikifish.
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June 29, 2004
Chris on Wiki
Christopher Allen (from Supernova2004) had a good overview on wiki. (You liked his card.)
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June 28, 2004
通讯网路和组织
Ruzena桌上的书甚为眼熟，回来先找到的却是另一篇比较旧的教案，仍然有意义。然后是Howard两年前的一篇文章，是关于在线社会网路的。
via Howard:
"Thoughtfully planned and knowledgeably implemented online social networks can enable an organization to:
* Create an early warning system.
* Make sure knowledge gets to people who can act on it in time.
* Connect people and build relationships across boundaries of geography or discipline.
* Provide an ongoing context for knowledge exchange that can be far more effective than memoranda.
* Attune everyone in the organization to each other's needs – more people will know who knows who knows what, and will know it faster.
* Multiply intellectual capital by the power of social capital, reducing social friction and encouraging social cohesion.
* Create an ongoing, shared social space for people who are geographically dispersed.
* Amplify innovation – when groups get turned on by what they can do online, they go beyond problem-solving and start inventing together.
* Create a community memory for group deliberation and brainstorming that stimulates the capture of ideas and facilitates finding information when it is needed.
* Improve the way individuals think collectively – moving from knowledge-sharing to collective knowing.
* Turn training into a continuous process, not divorced from normal business processes.
* Attract and retain the best employees by providing access to social capital that is only available within the organization.
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Spirtuality and community
"A community can represent many things and be directed toward a definite goal, but community itself is the focus of a spiritual science that inspires universality. Day-to-day living in a community fosters a very practical concept of existence. Community life represents the frontier between the macro and micro in terms of human organization, making it possible to experience all levels of human existence. The community is, therefore, a vast landscape for a material realization whenever each person enters into contract with the gifts, virtues, and shortcomings of its members. It is also the immense spiritual and psychic laboratory that enables our spirits to develop."
-Alex Polari de Alverga
in Forest of Vision
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June 27, 2004
桉树林，水鸟
还有没飞起的风筝。
远方是露营者的身影。
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June 25, 2004
博客与媒体
这一篇不算有新意，但还是可以一读。
Blogs act like a lens, focusing attention on an issue until it catches fire, but they can also break stories.
What makes blogs so effective? They're free. They catch people at work, at their desks, when they're alert and thinking and making decisions. Blogs are fresh and often seem to be miles ahead of the mainstream news. Bloggers put up new stuff every day, all day, and there are thousands of them. How are you going to keep anything secret from a thousand Russ Kicks? Blogs have voice and personality. They're human. They come to us not from some mediagenic anchorbot on an air-conditioned sound stage, but from an individual. They represent — no, they are — the voice of the little guy.
In a way, blogs represent everything the Web was always supposed to be: a mass medium controlled by the masses, in which getting heard depends solely on having something to say and the moxie to say it.
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June 24, 2004
Research on blogs
Elizabeth Lawley just posted a comment on M2M about this.
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June 23, 2004
Brain
红松树与茶，Jerry的Brain原来是这么会事，“局域结构”和“简明”很重要。
Andrius: Another goal though, is to have your Brain up there all the time, :: and I suppose we'd want people to be able to interact with you somehow.
Jerry: imagine a Brain performance piece, with an outbound audiocast, brain "projection" and some back channel for interaction :: yes :: many different settings :: A) Brain file online for anyone to browse :: B) enhanced conference call, with me able to "tour" the Brain for others :: C) Brain performance piece, with some people local and others remote, all following and influencing the path of the piece :: (I've wanted to do that one for a long time)
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June 22, 2004
黄昏
一 周以前。
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June 21, 2004
IT, sixties and global civil society
"The information technology revolution has important roots in the sixties' counterculture. It was triggered by a dramatic technological development — a shift from data storage and processing in large, isolated machines to the interactive use of microcomputers and the sharing of computer power in electronic networks. This shift was spearheaded by young technology enthusiasts who embraced many aspects of the counterculture, which was still very much alive at that time. "
Fritjof wrote down these words with quite remarkable confidence.
"This new form of alternative global community, sharing core values and making extensive use of electronic networks in addition to frequent human contacts, is one of the most important legacies of the sixties. If it succeeds in reshaping economic globalization so as to make it compatible with the values of human dignity and ecological sustainability, the dreams of the "sixties revolution" will have been realized:
Imagine no possessions,
I wonder if you can,
no need for greed or hunger,
a brotherhood of man.
Imagine all the people
sharing all the world...
You may say I'm a dreamer,
but I'm not the only one.
I hope some day you'll join us
and the world will live as one. "
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Business model for blogging
Gayle sent this to you a while ago.
"Technorati, a San Francisco research company, says there are about 2.5 million blogs, with 10,000 being created each day.
The Pew Research Center estimates that between 2 and 7 percent of adult Internet users write a blog, and 11 percent visit blogs. "
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June 20, 2004
Right place to live
When your Real Estate agent not only read the same book you did and also knows the author who lives in the same area, you know you are in the right place to live.
Here is what the author, Fritjof Capra wrote about this :
the system of shared values and beliefs creates an identity among the members of the social network, based on a sense of belonging.
Cultural identity also reinforces the closure of the network by creating a boundary of meaning and expectations that limits the access of people and information to the network. Thus the social network is engaged in communication within a cultural boundary which its members continually re-create and renegotiate.
--The Hidden Connections
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Power to the Edge
This is a new book by David Alberts and Richard Hayes. It is called "Power to the Edge : Command and Control in the Information Age "
A efriend pointed it to your way. Doug Simpson has bloged it a while ago.
From Doug's blog
The Introduction continues to assert that the DOD is focused on developing Network Centric Warfare and/or Network Centric Operations (NCW/NCO). The authors make the point that disruptive , rather than adaptative changes are necessary:
"The path to NCO is forked. One road, often called “modernization,” is the straightest and most clearly signed. Traveling this road is clearly within the comfort zone of the institution (DoD) and most of its members. Unfortunately, this road will lead us only to incremental improvements and, ultimately, to a dead end. The improvements attained, however impressive, will fall short, not only of the potential of network-centricity, but more importantly, they will not enable us to meet the mission challenges of the 21st century. This is the road that many seem to have embarked upon, despite a high-level commitment to transformation. The other, less traveled road (actually it may appear more as a path) leads to a disruptive transformation of command and control (C2) that is central to all military organizations and processes, the first since the early to mid-19th century.( fn 10) This transformation must focus on C2, where information is translated into actionable knowledge. Without a transformation of C2, it is far less likely that we will be able to meet the challenges that lie ahead. A transformation of C2 provides us with the best opportunity to achieve the one organizational characteristic that is sure to stand us in good stead for the foreseeable future–agility."
The authors see an essential element of this transformation to be moving "power to the edge," the central theme of this book.
From page 5: "Power to the edge is about changing the way individuals, organizations, and systems relate to one another and work. Power to the edge involves the empowerment of individuals at the edge of an organization (where the organization interacts with its operating environment to have an impact or effect on that environment) or, in the case of systems, edge devices. Empowerment involves expanding access to information and the elimination of unnecessary constraints. For example, empowerment involves providing access to available information and expertise and the elimination of procedural constraints previously needed to deconflict elements of the force in the absence of quality information."
"Moving power to the edge implies adoption of an edge organization, with greatly enhanced peer-to-peer interactions. Edge organizations also move senior personnel into roles that place them at the edge. They often reduce the need for middle managers whose role is to manage constraints and control measures. Command and control become unbundled."
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June 19, 2004
Social Media List
Mary had a "social media" list. It is a useful starting point.
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网络的特性
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June 17, 2004
Cooperation lingual
This is just some keywords from IFTF's conference last time:
synchrony, symbiosis, group selection, catalysis, collective action, collective intelligence, and the maintenance of a commons.
structure, rules, resources, thresholds, feedback, memory, and identity.
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深圳－丹麦？
五月的这期《书城》里有一篇《通往天堂的最后那一段路程》。作者虚托的白求恩大夫在回忆他的父亲：
“他带领着我们庞大的家族从一个国家走到另一个国家，他总是在寻找一种新的语言、一种他听不懂的语言。生活在使用那种语言的人们的周围，他才有活下去的兴致。”
““陌生”是他激情的向导，而“祖国”只是一个令人厌倦的情人。
我们只有躯体的出生地，而我们的灵魂总是在飘荡。
你知道，我也同样不愿意承认局限人的“时代”。是想象力解放了我们。通过想象，我们成为我们的祖先，我们的后代，我们的敌人，我们的奴隶。也只有通过想象，我们才能够成为我们自己。想象力激起了欲望和虚构的狂热。这是生活的基础。生活是想象力虚构出来的真实。
只有“爱”是超越真实的，因为它就是想象本身。
在汉语中人们为什么可以将“回”与“归”连在一起用？——“归”是一种心理的嬗变，而“回”只是物理的迁移。“归”指向未来，而“回”纠缠着过去。
革命本身就是一种艺术，因为它发现了怨恨，又虚构了未来。
语言！语言是人类最卑鄙的发明。它总是可以用敌对的说法解释一切。它貌似任人宰割的奴仆，其实却是可以肆意蹂躏我们的暴君。用一个简单的系动词，它就可以羞辱理智的尊严和情感的纯洁。
后来我总是想，如果语言总是能够为任何情感和态度找到敌对的解释，背叛就是一切事物的本性，也是基本的“人性”。后来我总是想，人类的一切错误都根源于语言的错误。我们是语言的受害者又是它死心塌地的同谋。
‘啊，多么悲惨！我们的生命如此虚飘，它不过是记忆的幻影。’（夏多布里昂）”
你第一次读到薛忆沩，曾在深大教书，还有更多作品，包括《深圳的阴谋》。
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June 15, 2004
Dreyer's Cafe
德国妈妈和女儿又出现了。
粉红色的帽子
跳动在六月的阳光里
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June 14, 2004
List of socialwares
How many social sofeware are there? Here is a list to start with:
1,Instant Messaging
2,Online Social Networks
3,Reputation Brokers
4,WIKIs
5,Online tex-based chat
6,MUDs and MOOs
7,Web Conferencing
8,Blogs
9,Community Discussion
10,QuickTopic - social annotation
11,Expertise Location
12,Shared white boards or similar
13,Social Network Analysis
14,Recommender Systems
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June 13, 2004
Howard's speech
Here is Howard's speech to the graduating class of Stanford Communication Department. He pointed to two positive examples: wikipedia and Ohmynews.
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June 12, 2004
止的含义
知止而后有定，定而后能静，静而后能安，安而后能虑，虑而后能得。
－－《大学》
止是目标，或者是
限度。
(接下去是：“物有本末，事有始终，知所先后，则近道矣。”）
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Marina
Kites in the Sky
归来的船
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June 11, 2004
Spernova2004
"What's the connection between Wi-Fi wireless networks, Weblogs and Web services? They are among the few technologies thriving amid the industrywide downturn. What's more, they are examples of the trend toward decentralization "
This is an old article by Kevin Werbach, but reintroduced on Supernova 2004 page.
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Over the epistemological divide
Geogre Lakeoff‘s book Philosophy in the Flesh makes the following points: "The mind is inherently embodied. Thought is mostly unconscious. Abstract concepts are largely metaphorical."
According to Lakoff, metaphor appears to be a neural mechanism that allows us to adapt the neural systems used in sensory-motor activity to create forms of abstract reason. "If this is correct, as it seems to be," he says, "our sensory-motor systems thus limit the abstract reasoning that we can perform. Anything we can think or understand is shaped by, made possible by, and limited by our bodies, brains, and our embodied interactions in the world. This is what we have to theorize with."
He then raises the interesting question: "Is it adequate to understand the world scientifically?
More on this, go to the Edge.
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June 10, 2004
将来你会成为博客
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June 09, 2004
Closer look on power law and weblogs
Cameron Marlow's research on this subject is here (PDF).
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部落.格
"我們今天要談的是部落格（Blog），這是網誌（Weblog）的別名。
......
作者本身所進行的「格」，以及作者間形成的「部落」，正是「部落格」這隻當紅炸子雞背後的強大力量。" -- Jedi, 2003.9.5
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About wiki
Zheng had some thoughtful comments about wiki on his Klog. This goes together with yesterday's conversation with Jerry.
Eric Nash also said it here: "web是一个通过Link连起来的杂乱无章的世界，wiki的无非是人们在无序中寻求次序的本能需要，一个理想的web应该是杂乱无章无序世界加上一个有序的庞大的wiki的有序世界，这两个相反的世界在web上又是共生共容，就相当与太极图上的黑白两个半园－－到最好总是那么简单和谐。"
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June 08, 2004
师
那用中文说出的
就是
你的中国
师：
和友人 (如梦令)
敢忘玉泉朝暮，常忆真情险处。
君问今如何，大漠狂烟如柱。
如柱，如柱，
踏花归去是路。
-- 1999 春
你：飞翔之歌
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PlaNetwork 2004 Conference
Greg's notes on last weekend meeting: "This gathering reminded me of USENET newsgroups in the good old days. Lots of fantastic people and really worthwhile exchanges set amidst a background of what might be charitably called white noise.
The best part was discovering very promising connections with many great individuals ...... who's knowledge, values, and skills both align with and complement my own."
Ben and his national budget chart. (Thanks to Greg for the photo.)
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June 07, 2004
Summer class
New technologies have profoundly transformed contemporary social movements, favoring the emergence of flexible, decentralized organizational forms, innovative networking practices, and independent media activism
What is the relationship between new technologies and globalization? How have new technologies transformed community, identity and contemporary social movement activity?
This one is also interesting: Global Media, Power and Resistance
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纽约故事
这里，克雷讲了他的纽约故事。
自我的，又是慷慨的，博客。
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June 06, 2004
尚在期待的使命
十五年前的今天，是你芝加哥机场登机之时。而了结一段人生的此刻，你仍然听到了那个声音。
“利剑的作用是用来刺向铠甲后面的胸膛
在护心镜破碎之前
利剑永远活着的使命尚在期待“
“你可以试想
墓室主人为什么要把一柄利剑殉葬在身边
不，利剑并不具有殉葬的使命
它埋葬在地下也在梦想着杀机
一柄没有喋血的剑
大概不能叫做“剑”
剑的真实饱满需要被杀者与它共同完成
现在这个任务仍没有完成
我们所看到的所有的剑
均洋溢着一种僵持的风度。
从什么角度可以证明
剑的使命尚未完成呢?
我们从现在生活中的紧张心态中得到佐证
活在这个世界上的剑
什么时候达到了目的，它才愿意静卧其间
剑刃眯缝眼睛
剑刃上的血，比刀刃的光亮和剑柄上的
流苏更为重要
真正意义上的剑
应当磨损得消失殆尽，化为一团云烟
我们应从刀痕上大致猜测
世界上曾经存在过一柄剑
它是什么模样
我们只能依据猜测画出
如同对龙的刻画那样。
所以，一个我们可以看得见的剑
一个以“出土文物”自居，而又自称尚已生锈的剑
还没有真正体现出它的幻影特质
因为它能触手可摸
反倒证明它不是由幻影而来
我，活在许多貌似出土文物
但并不是出土文物的剑的周围
至此，你说，
怎样才能结束一个剑的时代“
（梁小斌 ：《说“剑”》）
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June 05, 2004
太平洋高地
比利时餐馆外，他们欢呼不已。
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June 03, 2004
Long Beach Airport
Jack新奥尔良开会回来，交换有意思的想法。
（民族主义有很多种吗？草根的？企业的？前者和政府渐近而后者渐远？）
后来是Long Beach, 老朋友，新谈机。
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June 02, 2004
Swarming citizen reporters?
Francis spotted this:
"Each political scholar has his own definition of power. I would say power comes from established standards. Those who have power set the standards, and it is through those standards that they are able to maintain their power.
Yes, in the media market there has been a media power which says "this is standard, follow me". The standards of 20th century journalism have been created and controlled by professional newspaper journalists.
But these standards are challenged by the Internet: challenged by new journalists of the new space, they are called netizens or citizen reporters.
They challenged the traditional media logic of who is a reporter, what is news, what is the best news style, and what is newsworthy"
It is from Ohmynews.
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June 01, 2004
将要出版的新书
书名是“The Wisdom of Crowds." 书还没出 ，已经谈论纷纷了，包括在CI圈子内。
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距离
上月两次遇到Jerry Michalski。你们在地理上相距不远，网上距离就更近了。