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March 31, 2005
Through the first overhang
Well, you did this indoor.
It is about time.
Posted by Xiao at 06:48 PM
March 30, 2005
From "Memoirs of a Revolutionist"
"Having been brought up in a serf-owner's family, I entered active life, like all young men of my time, with a great deal of confidence in the necessity of commanding, ordering, scolding, punishing and the like. But when, at an early stage, I had to manage serious enterprises and to deal with [free] men, and when each mistake would lead at once to heavy consequences, I began to appreciate the difference between acting on the principle of command and discipline and acting on the principle of common understanding. The former works admirably in a military parade, but it is worth noting where real life is concerned, and the aim can be achieved only through the severe effort of many converging wills."
--- Pyotr Alexeyvich Kropotkin
Posted by Xiao at 10:39 PM
O'Hare
Hi again, Chicago.
Posted by Xiao at 10:29 PM
El Chorro
第一次攀岩，是在El Chorro。
三年了，小站依旧
桥仍然在
目标尚未企及
Posted by Xiao at 09:06 AM
March 29, 2005
O Brave New World!
Bernardo Huberman wrote: "As more and more people rely on the Internet, more creativity is bound to be unleashed, which will in turn provide new challenges to institutions and governments, who will then react only to be challenged again. "
Posted by Xiao at 09:36 PM
A Sense of Self, and Outrage
This is sad.
A man who was so intent on generating a remarkable voice that he retyped Hemingway's novels just to understand how it was done, gave a final bit of dramatic tribute in turning a gun on himself.
And he wrote:
Gonzo journalism is a style of reporting based on William Faulkner's idea that the best fiction is far more true than any kind of journalism - and the best journalists have always known this. Which is not to say that fiction is necessarily 'more true' than journalism - or vice versa - but that both 'fiction' and 'journalism' are artificial categories; and that both forms, at their best, are only two different means to the same end.
Posted by Xiao at 01:54 PM
History Flow
IBM's history flow project: visualizing dynamic, evolving documents and
the interactions of multiple collaborating authors.
Most documents are the product of continual evolution. An essay may undergo dozens of revisions; source code for a computer program may undergo thousands. And as online collaboration becomes increasingly common, we see more and more ever-evolving group-authored texts. This site is a preliminary report on a simple visual technique, history flow, that provides a clear view of complex records of contributions and collaboration.
Posted by Xiao at 11:25 AM
March 28, 2005
Goddess and Writing
Leonard Shlain proposes that the invention of writing, particularly alphabetic writing, rewired the brains of the people who learned how to communicate using this culture-changing tool. Great benefits to society followed. However, a precipitous decline in feminine values manifested by women's status, goddess veneration, nature, and representative art occurred in tandem. For example, the European witchhunts followed closely in the heels of the printing press. The return of the image in the modern age through the medium of photography, film, television, and the internet have brought about a sharp rise in the values denigrated during the 5000 year reign of patriarchy and literacy.
(Flickr goddess and Wikipedia goddess)
Posted by Xiao at 06:17 PM
March 27, 2005
恐龙时代
星期天的早晨
回到
恐龙时代。
Posted by Xiao at 09:34 AM
March 26, 2005
海水为什么是灰色的？
是因为你吗，俄罗斯河？
Posted by Xiao at 06:06 PM
小年不及大年
“朝菌不知晦朔，蟪蛄不知春秋，此小年也。楚之南有冥灵者，以五百岁为春，五百岁为秋，上古有大椿者，以八千岁为春，八千岁为秋；而彭祖乃今以久，众人匹之，不亦悲乎？”
Posted by Xiao at 05:41 PM
March 23, 2005
Wikipedia Inspiration
From Center for Media and Democracy: SourceWatch, a wiki-based investigative journalism resource to which anyone, including you, can contribute.
Thanks, Jerry!
Posted by Xiao at 08:02 PM
March 22, 2005
The News is NowPublic
Dave said, THIS is interesting.
Posted by Xiao at 03:43 PM
Yahoo, Flickr and Google Grid
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.
Posted by Xiao at 02:36 PM
March 20, 2005
Google Code and Open Source
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?
Reading at the Claremont Cafe, Steve asked these questions about the open source process:
* Who are the people who write open source code?
* What do these people do exactly?
* How do they collaborate with each other?
* How do they resolve disagreements and deal with conflict?
Open Source is "about property and how it underpins the social organization of cooperation and production in a digital era," he said.
Posted by Xiao at 06:05 PM
重新打字
（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。
Posted by Xiao at 02:49 PM | Comments (0)
March 19, 2005
CiteULike
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.Wikipedia Tag: Blog
Posted by Xiao at 09:58 PM
Folksonomies, Ontologies and Tags
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.
And Clay moderates a panel on folksonomies here.
Posted by Xiao at 04:40 PM
March 15, 2005
大圣的命运
谢安替。
(创造力总是来自网络的边缘，此言不虚。）
Posted by Xiao at 09:14 AM
BBC: If the world was run like eBay
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.
Posted by Xiao at 08:21 AM | Comments (1)
March 14, 2005
Bandwidth and Echo
None of these concepts are that new: trust, information, and social network...... Why now they are so "in fashion?"
Ronald S. Burt's article is here (PDF). Path-breaking work, you thought, it is just so - Chicago!
The bandwidth hypothesis - presumed in closure models of social capital and in related work such as models of reputation in economics - says that network closure enhances informations flow. The echo hypothesis - based on the social psychology of selective disclosure in informal conversations -- says that closed networks do not enhance information flow so much as they create an echo that reinforces predispositions.
Bandwidth and echo represent a fundamental choice for theoretical models of trust and its correlates. Down the bandwidth path of network closure improving information flow lies theory in which people are better off when strongly connected to each other. Here lies stories about closed networks providing social capital and reputation.
Alternatively, the path assuming echo leads to theory in which perception drift away from empirical reality, and what closed network produce is ignorant certainty. Here lies stories about scapegoating, groupthink, and distorted reputations defined by polarized trust and distrust in closed networks.
Network closure does not facilitate trust so much as it amplifies predispositions, creating a structural arthritis in which people cannot learn what they do not already know.
Posted by Xiao at 09:51 PM
March 10, 2005
International Symposium on Wikis
From Many-to-Many:
......first international symposium on wikis......will be held in San Diego in October. Ward Cunningham, the inventor and host of the original WikiWikiWeb, will present the opening keynote.
Anyone who is involved in using, researching, or developing wikis is invited to participate.
Posted by Xiao at 09:48 PM
What's this? TheWeblogProject
From TheWeblogProject:
The first open source, FREE, grassroots movie to support and promote the blogosphere
where featured stars, producers, fundraisers and actors are the bloggers themselves.
Posted by Xiao at 09:46 PM
Jimmy Wales on Wikipedia
From Smart Mobs:
Gary Lerhaupt, one of the students in our now-completed Stanford course on "Literacy of Cooperation," has provided a transcript that someone did of the audio recording of Jimmy Wales' lecture on Wikipedia as a "technology of cooperation."
Posted by Xiao at 09:43 PM
Autonomy and Creativity
The social and cultural movement that underlies cyberspace -- a powerful and increasingly broad movement -- is covering not toward any particular content but toward a form of communication that is unmediated, interactive, community based, nonhierarchical, and rhizomatic. Generalized interconnection, the hunger for virtual communities, the exaltation of collective intelligence -- none of those constitute the elements of a political or cultural program in the classical sense of the term. Yet all three are secretly driven by two essential "values": autonomy and an openness toward alterity.
-- Pierre Levy "Cyberculture"
"autonomy and an openness toward alterity" = “人的自主和创造”？
Posted by Xiao at 07:42 PM
March 09, 2005
Shinkuro: Tools for Collaboration
From Shinkuro:
Use the Shinkuro software to share files across enterprise boundaries - securely. Just install the software on each machine, create a group and designate a folder you would like to share with the group. Any files you put in that folder will be shared with the other members automatically.
Shinkuro also includes secure instant messaging and secure screen sharing, to give you a complete collaboration environment. Shinkuro's lightweight technology works easily with all of your applications.
Shinkuro runs on Windows 2000 and XP, Mac OS X "Panther", Linux, and FreeBSD.
Posted by Xiao at 09:19 PM
What? A New Media Ecosystem Flowchart?
You have not slept well in last 24 hours. Looking at this flowchart certainly will not help.
Posted by Xiao at 09:16 PM
Technorati and related tags
From Joho the Blog:
At the beginning of next week, Technorati will launch a new tag aggregation feature: When you search on a tag, you'll be shown a list of "related" tags. The relationships are automatically discerned by the software, analyzing the other tags used by people tagging the same set of pages and photos. Dave Sifry let me play with a beta of it, and the suggested tags were generally quite relevant.
Posted by Xiao at 09:12 PM
Visual tag map
On Seb's Open Research, here is what he called "Social software programming challenge #2:"
The del.icio.us linklogging system lets people use labels called "tags" to describe the links they capture. The rich collective dataset of tags and the links they're associated to enables the construction of something resembling a topic map, with tags as topics and links as occurrences.
Now, del.icio.us uses the right-hand column of tag-specific pages to list tags that are related to the current tag. The details of how relatedness is computed are not entirely clear, but it is probably derived from tag co-occurence in individual bookmarks. Browsing the tag landscape by clicking around tag-specific pages is interesting, but how much more fun would it be to be able to navigate a graphical, two-dimensional map of tags, à la musicplasma or audioscrobbler browser?
Posted by Xiao at 09:10 PM
March 07, 2005
啊，海军
那些胸章闪闪的
陆军将军们
不会懂得
什么是将士的
存亡与共
什么是
海军
Posted by Xiao at 11:10 AM
From Cafe Strada
没有修辞学女教授
没有中国博客
也没有歌手
星期一上午十点
阳光，钟声，卡帕其诺
优美的法语让你感到亲切
"Any democracy is better than any dictatorship" "True. however, self-proclaimed democracies can be dictatorships in disguise. Disguise? Our seductive commercial culture with the promise of perpetual excitement and unlimited freedom is masking our submission/dominance belief system" ......"Register to vote now"......"Just love, the rest will follow"
－－Graffiti in the man's room.
Posted by Xiao at 09:59 AM
March 05, 2005
blog改变传统读写模式
我们在使用以往的网络沟通工具时，更多地是把网络仅仅作为工具来看待。由于bbs、msn、email客观上丧失了人的整体性，使得很多人在不同的工具上表达的内容和方式完全不同，但却无力整合。
个人blog实现了这种整合。正是由于这种整合，使得个人blog上展示了一个活生生的人，原先人在bbs、email、msn上分别割裂存在的不同侧面终于可以在个人blog上实现了统一。这种统一对于书写者可能仅仅是个整合，感觉只是其它工具功能的综合罢了，但对阅读者的感觉就完全不同。
阅读者从个人blog中似乎可以触摸到书写者的内心世界，感到书写者在面前跟他讲述自己的所思所想、所作所为，亲切感和真实感是阅读以往任何形式的网络记录和沟通工具所根本不具有的。因而，从阅读者角度完全可以感到书写者就是“活”在网络中的，他就是在聆听“活”在网络中的书写者谈话，并把自己的评论写在上面和书写者进行交流。这种感觉的可以从格式塔心理学强调人们认知的完形特点得到解释。
当然，如果书写者自身也认识到了自己的个人blog对阅读者的意义，他也就会调整自己书写的方式和内容，更好地呈现和整饰自己的所思所想，让“活”在网络中的自己与别人进行更好的交流。
如果每个blog书写者都有了这样的意识，并努力扮演自己的角色，这样就可以真正地组成以人为节点，而非以字节或知识为节点的一个“活”的网络社会，这个网络社会有别于游戏世界和匿名网络社群的特点，它是真正意义上现实社会在网络上的映像。这也就为人们整合网络和现实提供了基础。
从这个意义上讲，以blog为代表的真实化、公开化使用网络的趋势，将真正地为开拓网络积极的现实意义提供了广阔的可能性。
众多Blog之间逐渐建立起庞大的阅读与沟通网络，并将更多过去定义的「读者」变成「作者」(周易正，2003)。在blog的书写内容的同时，除了写入自己的观点与想法之外，也常有引用其它blog作者的说法，所以在自己书写文章的同时并也连结到其它的网页，连结到的第二个网页内容时，此网页又连结到第三个网页，这样的超文本的书写方式，创造出另一种阅读的模式，与传统的书写创作产生迥异的差别。
超文本能提供读者多重路径选择的事实，也催生了新型的多向阅读行为，同时给传统读者和作者的身分定义带来冲击。电子多向文本的面貌是经由读者的路径挑选动作而产生，每次阅读所得的面貌仅是众多可能之一，未必与作者的原初安排相同。简言之，「读者的选择构成文本目前的状态」，因此读者也同书写者一样，享有生产文本意义的权利。或者干脆说「读者即书写者」(“reader as writer”)。允许读者输入书写是比较特殊的网络功能，这类互动书写作品对传统文本以及作者定义的冲击，更甚于仅提供互动阅读设计的文本。这类作品的出现也同时宣告一种「新文学人」的诞生：参与者既具读与写的身分，大可以「读写者」谓之。这个新读者并非凭空创造出来，而是和超文本科技的进展习习相关。「读者书写」(“Readers write”)正是当今网络的流行现象，留言板、讨论区中读者的参与自是不在话下，新颖例子如亚马逊书店，每一本书的专属网页都提供使用者评论空间，参考使用者输入的正负面书评，读者可能做出比较好的购买选择。一言以蔽之，超文本含书写开放的成分，是由读者参与书写而共同形成的，因此，信息提供者与使用者共同建构起来的超文本，已不归属单一方，而是读写者的公物。
Posted by Xiao at 07:21 PM
March 03, 2005
The Autumn of Knowledge
Dave wrote about Taxonomies and Tags: "The idea that knowledge is shaped like a tree is perhaps our oldest knowledge about knowledge.
Now autumn has come to the forest of knowledge, thanks to the digital revolution. The leaves are falling and the trees are looking bare. We are discovering that traditional knowledge hierarchies that have served us so well are unnecessarily restricted when it comes to organizing information in the digital world. The principles of organization themselves are changing now that they are being freed from the constraints of the physical world."
Posted by Xiao at 08:28 AM
March 02, 2005
伯克曼中心的新花样
层出不穷
这一个却也值得一看。
Posted by Xiao at 12:24 PM
Starting in the middle
Let's starting in the middle:
When facing down the British Empire, Mohandas Gandhi led mobs of hundreds of thousands of people to face violent attack, without dealing it back. The common experience of being beaten, even shot at or shot, eventually formed a common ethic of determination, a common bodily experience, and a common, silent, aesthetic of care. It, along with the pressure of worse alternatives, more violent mobs that would likely grow more powerful, eventually pushed the British from India.
This exercise in street democracy created what is still the world's largest democratic state, a billion people. Can its lessons be ignored in the quest to democratize other oppressed states?
Posted by Xiao at 12:17 PM
并非隐喻的声音
听听别人怎样谈Podcast:
把声音作为观点的隐喻，往往是有力度和深度的观点，已经过于常见成为俗语。然而在大多数时间里，这些观点却总是以文字的方式呈现，试图引起一直以来都懒惰和脆弱的我们的注意。长久以来，关于声音，我们需要一场革命。
Posted by Xiao at 12:08 PM
March 01, 2005
Cyberspace to Outer Space
This IS what she does best.
identify, promote and capitalize on the spirit of the age.
Posted by Xiao at 01:07 PM