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January 31, 2005
来客
你带着最新的咳嗽
和所有的过去一起降落
（临试报佛脚
现在还来得及）
Posted by Xiao at 11:08 PM
Castells on Open Source
Open Source is not a fantasy or a marginal practice. Very large, and very important software development projects have resulted from an open source process of production. The best known are Linux and Apache, but there are many others, and this is an expanding practice in the research world, in the hackers world, in the education world, in the institutional world and in the business world, including some large corporations, such as IBM. As of 2004, Linux is the operating system for more than a third of active web servers in the world, and it is the operating system for about 14% of the large server market. Apache largely dominates the web server market – with 65% of all active web sites running Apache. Sendmail, and many other popular programs, are also produced and distributed as Open Source. Open source introduces a new, cooperative form of production that transcends the traditional limits of the social division of labor built on hierarchies. Indeed, open source works as an open network of voluntary cooperation.
Posted by Xiao at 12:51 PM
January 29, 2005
Tagging the Internet
On Wall Street Journal, Jeremy Wagstaff wrote:
Wouldn't it be great if you could actually find stuff on the Internet? Sure, Google is a wonderful tool for searching for some things -- say the home page of a company, or how to make Battenberg cake. But more often than not, you'll get way too many hits for what you're looking for, and end up frustrated.
It isn't surprising, really: Google is now indexing more than 8 billion Web pages, against 2 billion three years ago and 3 billion two years ago. That's a lot of pages. As David Weinberger of Harvard University's Berkman Center puts it: "We've been struggling for several years with the Internet's size and complexity." So is there a better way of finding stuff?
Posted by Xiao at 09:25 PM
January 25, 2005
Some reflections
Jay wrote his reflection here. What's also interesting is the power shift in this shared media space. There is new forms of power within networked communities, and the last weekend did help you to gain better understanding the interaction between networks and hiearchies.
Posted by Xiao at 08:51 AM
January 24, 2005
Day Ja Blue
8: 30，漫长的等待以后
飞机终于来了
登机门前
失踪的不是乘客
是全体机组人员
10:35 am
“亲爱的乘客
我们现在有了飞机
也有了全体乘务员
但是没有登机门
请继续耐心等待”
12:40
“亲爱的乘客，
航班xxxx, xxxx,xxxx....
今天已经取消
如果没有听到您的航班乘次
请继续等待。”
13: 01
“475航班的乘客
请到E4登机门准备登机。”
13: 07
（E4登机门)
“请问，去奥克兰在此登机吗?”
“可能吧。” 身穿制服者回答。
窗外，飞机真的可能是在那里了
13: 09
“亲爱的乘客
由于波士顿东部全面电力不足
以下航班未必今天能够起飞
请您有所准备”
14: 11
“亲爱的乘客
请听我们的好消息
475航班确实在E4门登机
......对不起
我现在还没有看到飞机
但被告知确实如此。”
14: 20
“亲爱的乘客
以下航班今天已经取消
xxxx, xxxx, xxxx
不过，475航班仍然从E4起飞”
（近处的掌声，欢呼声，远处的叹息声）
14:21
“哎呀朋友们
非常对不起
不是E4登机门
是E3登机门。”
15:15
“亲爱的乘客
请准备好
五分钟后开始登机
请您合作，越快越好
谢谢”
Posted by Xiao at 07:08 AM
January 23, 2005
西雅图的声音
游泳回来
找不到国家地理频道
C-SPAN上
西雅图很近很近。
Posted by Xiao at 06:35 PM
国学
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January 22, 2005
暴风雪
雪困于旅馆。
当每一组信息都有永久的网址，然后呢？
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Using Technorati Tags
"What's a tag?
Think of a tag as a simple category name. People can categorize their posts, photos, and links with any tag that makes sense."
Technorati is taking a very important step.
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Peace?
Jay Rosen: "I have been an observer and critic of the American press for 19 years. In that stretch there has never been a time so unsettled. More is up for grabs than has ever been up for grabs since I started my watch."
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The Importance of Being Permanent
From PressThink: The Importance of Being Permanent:
Without permanence you slip off the search engines. Without permanence, bold ideas like 'news as conversation' fall away, because you're shutting down the conversation before it has barely started. Without permanence, you might be on the web, but you're certainly not part of it.
Posted by Xiao at 08:53 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Citizen journalism
Naming is important. Would you satisfy with this one?
Citizen journalism, also known as "participatory journalism" is the act of citizens "playing an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing and disseminating news and information," according to the seminal report, We Media: How Audiences are Shaping the Future of News and Information, by Shayne Bowman and Chris Willis. They say, "The intent of this participation is to provide independent, reliable, accurate, wide-ranging and relevant information that a democracy requires."
"Public journalism" can refer to this journalism work by ordinary people, or it can mean certain work or aspects or work by professional journalists. The latter meaning is also often called "civic journalism".
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January 19, 2005
What is The Message?
From What is The Message?:
If you would like a rare view of someone experiencing the McLuhan Vortex - McLuhan, of course, having been strongly influenced by the "Vorticists," Eliot, Yeats, Joyce - you simply must see the course weblog for this semester's Mind, Media and Society II. On the blog so far, class members are asked to reflect, react and respond to both selected readings and the class seminars. "Bad" Bruce has certainly been caught in the McLuhan vortex, as you can tell from his response to this passage from Understanding Media:
Thus the age of anxiety and of electric media is also the age of the unconscious and of apathy. But it is strikingly the age of consciousness of the unconscious, in addition. With our central nervous system strategically numbed, the tasks of conscious aware ness and order are transferred to the physical life of man, so that for the first time he has become aware of technology as an extension of his physical body. Apparently this could not have happened before the electric age gave us the means of instant, total field-awareness. With such awareness, the subliminal life, private and social, has been hoicked up into full view, with the result that we have "social consciousness" presented to us as a cause of guilt-feelings. Existentialism offers a philosophy of structures, rather than categories, and of total social involvement instead of the bourgeois spirit of individual separateness or points of view. In the electric age we wear all mankind as our skin. (Understanding Media, p. 47)
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January 16, 2005
日落
红帆一叶驭风行
已闻瀚海潮声声
默向残阳道日晚
再凝剑气铸晨星
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Keso on RSS
关于RSS, Keso在这里讲的很到位: "未来，你可能需要通过RSS来阅读某些感兴趣的blog的最新帖子，监控eBay上某个物品的拍卖出价，Flickr上某张图片的用户评论，Google News的某个新闻关键字的订阅，UUZone上的某个朋友联系方式或某个约会的变动，等等，你不可能每天把所有这些网站全都浏览几遍。"
"RSS不是为了让Google来使用，而是为了让每一个个人来使用。当所有的信息都以元数据的方式被轻松地聚合在一起，无论何时何地何种设备，都可以很方便地获取这些信息，一个真正的个人信息门户就浮现出来了。这时候，你将会发现RSS的真正价值。"
Posted by Xiao at 09:58 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack
January 14, 2005
Complexity, Identity, Society
This class is about E-Culture. Thanks, Andrea.
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六四之卦
未济 （离上，坎下）
“未济”：亨；小狐汔济，濡其尾；无攸利。
《彖》曰：“未济，亨”，柔得中也。
“小狐汔济”，未出中也。“濡其尾，无攸利”，不续终也。
虽不当位，刚柔应也。
《象》曰：火在水上，“未济”；君子以慎辨物居方。
初六：濡其尾，吝。
《象》曰：“濡其尾”，亦不知极也。
九二：曳其轮，贞吉。
《象》曰：九二“贞吉”，中以行正也。
六三：未济，征凶，利涉大川。
《象》曰：“未济征凶”，位不当也。
九四：贞吉，悔亡。震用伐鬼方，三年有赏于大国。
《象》曰：“贞吉悔亡志行也。
六五：贞吉，无悔。君子之光，有孚；吉。
《象》曰：“君子之光”，其晖“吉”也。
上九：有孚于饮酒，无咎。濡其首，有孚，失是。
《象》曰：“饮酒”濡首，亦不知节也。
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January 13, 2005
Open-sourcing the news
CNET News: Can Internet volunteers improve journalism? Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales is out to find out.
Wikipedia is a very successful online encyclopedia written and edited by thousands of volunteers. Now they are trying the collaborative wiki process on news.
The project, called Wikinews, is in its early stages and faces clear challenges, from the difficulty of doing original reporting to delivering news quickly in a peer review model.
Then why do it? Wales and others think that the mainstream media have let slip their pledges of objectivity and commitments to high-quality journalism. The goal of Wikinews is to give the straight story, neutral and unbiased. And to get the facts right--an area where mainstream media has lost some credibility.
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January 08, 2005
A Theory of Power
From A Theory of Power, Jeff Vail's Critique of Hierarchy & Empire: Swarming, Open-Source Warfare and the Black Block
Swarming is an ancient military tactic—in fact, Alexander the Great pioneered the first effective counter-swarming maneuver over 2,000 years ago. However, it is also one of the most contemporary of military topics: how to defeat asymmetrical swarming tactics in counter-insurgency operations, how to effectively employ swarming in a modern military, etc. In the 1999 World Trade Organization protests in Seattle, the anarchist “Black Block” pioneered a new form of swarming technique by using text-messaging and cell phones. Swarming has been at the cutting edge of military theory of millennia, but what is it? I hope to answer that question, and explain why it is the most compatible tactic for rhizome and open-source warfare. I will also examine how swarming works, what factors are critical to its success, and how it may be employed in the future by non-hierarchal forces to effectively confront the modern, hierarchal military.
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January 07, 2005
菜谱
进厨房做晚饭
昨天还剩下三个西红柿
你上网寻菜谱
好生动的菜谱啊
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January 05, 2005
Tsunami Blogs
From Smart Mobs: Tsunami Blogs: "Yahoo offers this roundup of tsunami blogs from around the Web covering the topics of emergency relief and aid, finding the missing and/or identifying the dead, and reconstruction and renewal.
Internet web logs - blogs - are offering a different view into the greatest natural disaster of our times. The immediacy with which blogs can deliver and disseminate personal accounts, information, and news about the tsunami disaster is an essential component to Yahoo! News' in-depth coverage of this historic event."
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Technorati keyword search watchlists
You can now query Technorati for advanced search terms such as tsunami AND ("red cross" OR "red crescent") and it will give you all of the blog posts in order by how long ago they were posted that include the word "tsunami" and either "red cross" or "red crescent". You can then click "Make this a Watchlist" and create an RSS feed so you can track all new posts that match that query in your news reader.
via Smart Mobs
Posted by Xiao at 11:28 PM | Comments (0)
January 04, 2005
Pew on Blogosphere
From Pew Internet & American Life Project: Blogosphere:
By the end of 2004 blogs had established themselves as a key part of online culture. Two surveys by the Pew Internet & American Life Project in November established new contours for the blogosphere: 8 million American adults say they have created blogs; blog readership jumped 58% in 2004 and now stands at 27% of internet users; 5% of internet users say they use RSS aggregators or XML readers to get the news and other information delivered from blogs and content-rich Web sites as it is posted online; and 12% of internet users have posted comments or other material on blogs. Still, 62% of internet users do not know what a blog is.
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January 03, 2005
失踪者
亲友将你们的相片放在这里
只有记忆
海啸也不能抹去
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Literacy of Cooperation Course Starts Wed, Jan 5
Toward a Literacy of Cooperation: Jan 5-Mar 16 begins in person at Stanford, or online via our groupblog, this Wednesday. Guest lecturers include Peter Corning, Paul Hartzog, Bernardo Huberman, Peter Kollock, Ross Mayfield, Howard Rheingold, Zack Rosen, Andrea Saveri, Jimmy Wales, and Steve Weber. Video archives of lectures will be available, we're working on providing podcasts of lectures, and registered participants can post their notes on the course wiki.
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Barthes' words
为今晚做阅读准备，遭遇Barthes' words:
Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion -- and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the mino rity is the stronger) assumes its opinion, which then becomes that of the majority, i.e., becomes nonsense...while Truth again reverts to a new minority.
更多的在这里，他是维基的先知吗？
而Francis的问题是：“如何使可写的文本成为可读？（导航问题）”
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Tag Search?
Via John Battelle's Searchblog: "if more and more services in 2005 add user-generated tagging, will "federated tagging" be far behind? And if someone were to index all the tags from these various sites.... would the result be Taggle? Imagine: a service where you type in a keyword, and you get back all the hits that have that word as a tag. If Flickr, del.icio.us, and umpteen other sites cooperated, then an uber-tag-search service might just work . . ."
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January 02, 2005
雨天的罗马
穿紫红色衬衫的中年人
面前放着一杯Espresso
目光专注
笔尖在厚厚的笔记本上游走
“对不起，您写的是什么文字？”
“波斯文。”
“您是伊朗人？”
“是。昨天我参加一个苏菲学习组，就是一种冥想练习。今天把学到的记下来，免得忘记了。”
“学习组在这里吗？”
“是的。”
微笑
临街的窗子上
罩满了雾气
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