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February 28, 2005
沙砾
哪一些事物不会随风而去？
战争
海啸
泰姬陵匠人的手掌
还是
祢脚趾上的沙砾
Posted by Xiao at 11:01 AM
February 26, 2005
CCTE Distributed Research
CCTE Distributed Research is a social bookmarking portal.
Posted by Xiao at 10:18 PM
gre.gario.us
gre.gario.us is a tool to find people who have bookmarked the same links you have on del.icio.us. The purpose is to attempt to find people who may have similar interests as you do in a more direct way than using tags.
Posted by Xiao at 10:15 PM
The Emerging Economics of Open Source Software
Open Source developers have, perhaps without conscious intent, created a new and surprisingly successful economic paradigm for the production of software. Examining that paradigm can answer a number of important questions. It's not immediately obvious how Open Source[1] works economically. Probably the worst consequence of this lack of understanding is that many people don't understand how Open Source could be economically sustainable, and some may even feel that its potential negative effect upon the proprietary software industry is an overall economic detriment. Fortunately, if you look more deeply into the economic function of software in general, it's easy to establish that Open Source is both sustainable and of tremendous benefit to the overall economy. Open Source can be explained entirely within the context of conventional open-market economics. Indeed, it turns out that it has much stronger ties to the phenomenon of capitalism than you may have appreciated.
Posted by Xiao at 10:12 PM
Flickr for Video
From SearchViews:
Kottke.org reports on Vimeo, a folksonomy site that promises to do for video what Flickr has done for images.
It's still in closed beta, but eventually you'll be able to organize and share clips, check out your friends' clips, and assemble multiple clips into what they call "automatic movies."
Posted by Xiao at 09:56 PM
February 22, 2005
未来
“走那伟大的，梦想家的路
背着行囊，沿着海岸线
我要到我的家乡去，我的家乡在未来。”
"O say can you see, by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight
O'er the ramparts we watch'd were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bomb bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there,
O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?"
"Americans are united across the generations by grand and enduring ideals. The grandest of these ideals is an unfolding promise that everyone belongs, that everyone deserves a chance, and that no insignificant person was ever born. Our country has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by principles that move us beyond of our backgrounds, lift us above our interests, and teach us what it mean to be citizens. "
Posted by Xiao at 06:49 AM
February 20, 2005
Tagging Powerlaw
From Ascription is an Anathema to any Enthusiasm:
Following up on something Clay mentioned the following chart plots the distribution of tags for four popular URI at del.icio.us. Each line is the tags assigned to one URI. Each point is one tag, the vertical axis is how many times that tag was used to label that URI. The more popular tag for a URI is on the left; the least on the right. Note the power-law distributions.
Posted by Xiao at 11:23 PM
One-to-Many
Participatory creation of multidirectional links aided by the use of co-link technology
Discussions on democratic online participation, cooperation in digital communities and network openness have highlighted the communication processes through services such as chat rooms, forums and weblogs. We aim, however, to focus on the politics of hypertext. But, instead of solely focusing on the quantity of links offered for a multilinear reading, this research is dedicated to the possibility of participatory creation of links.
Until now, associative links on the Web were still unidirectional vectors, and link creation remained normally on the hands of who had access to the server, to the code and knew HTML. Facing these limitations, Alex Primo conceived and Ricardo Araújo programmed the technology of co-links (http://www.co-links.org), aiming to surpass that gap. This new service opens Web pages to the cooperative creation of multidirectional links. Co-links technology may then open hypertext to the participatory construction of a social memory on the Web, registering the mental associations made by the participants between that text and others read before. It is also suggested that this system could be of particular interest to educational projects: aiding cooperative processes, promoting group activity and collective writing.
Posted by Xiao at 11:20 PM
阿根廷吉他曲及其它
![Picture[2]05050](http://rockngo.org/images/Picture%5B2%5D05050.jpg)
Posted by Xiao at 12:03 PM
February 19, 2005
Italian for Beginners
不同色泽的孤独
于
威尼斯
汇舞
（久违了，哥本哈根。）
Posted by Xiao at 10:27 PM
February 17, 2005
From "The Success of Open Source"
"A great deal of human behavior is not motivated by narrow rationality concerns. The vast majority of human behavior is never monetized. Most art is not sold but simply given away. Only a tiny proportion of poetry is ever copyrighted or published. And most software code has never and will never see the inside of a shrink-wrapped box. "
You should thank Steve for the car conversation.
Posted by Xiao at 10:19 PM
February 13, 2005
Flickr Graph, Tagging
"Tagging and Flickr in particular are starting to break out." Check out John's post on his Searchblog.
Posted by Xiao at 10:30 PM
February 09, 2005
Google Maps
This is it.
Posted by Xiao at 04:05 PM
February 06, 2005
Pagerank Explained
Ian Rogers wrote a paper to explain the Google Pagerank Algorithm and How It Works.
Page Rank is a topic much discussed by Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) experts. At the heart of PageRank is a mathematical formula that seems scary to look at but is actually fairly simple to understand.
Posted by Xiao at 09:49 PM
February 05, 2005
分形的网络
从Smart Mob上看到这篇介绍，有新意的，是Steven Strogatz谨慎的评论：
"They've found something new here, but we don't know yet whether it is a Rosetta stone that will let us translate the mysteries of networks into something we understand."
Posted by Xiao at 04:21 PM
Theories of the sign
Dyad Theory of the sign: signifier (material)/signified(mental) This needs to combine with other signs to take part in the flow of meaning.
Triadic theory of the sign: SR/O/I or Representamen/Object/Interpretant. This has an in-built dynamism.
The Interpretant is NOT the "interpreter". Rather it is a "proper significate effect". Most often it is thought of as the sign in the mind that is the result of an encounter with a sign.
Firstness: it has no relations, it is not to be thought of in opposition to another thing and it is merely a "possibility" (music note, vague taste, a sense of a color)
Secondness: it is the realm of brute facts which arise from a relationship.
It is the sense that arises when, in the process of closing a door, it is found that the door is stuck as the result of an object being in its way. The relation is discovered and the world is revealed to be made up of things and their co-existence with other things.
Thirdness: Where Secondness amounts to brutal facts, Thirdness is the mental element, the realm of general laws. A Third brings a First relation with a Second. \
S/R is a First, O is a Second, I is a Third.
"But I admit that while individual instances of signs will reduce the "anarchic" tendency to endless meanings, the cultural diversity and constant change that makes up the realm of the connotative signified is global and diffuse." -- Roland Barthes
Posted by Xiao at 11:45 AM
February 03, 2005
远方的诗
重听“精神之光”
有诗
自
远
方
来
"紫金山—友谊关
寄情山水我亦狂，
浮名化作旧衣裳。
评点景观释造化，
留得画图胜文章。
秋风潇洒行南北，
大雪污痕闭书斋。
彩云飘随落霞去，
群山静穆证沧桑。
2005，1，19"
Posted by Xiao at 08:46 PM