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April 27, 2005
说起智利
"我只不过是个诗人，爱着你们每一个人，
我在这深爱着的世界上漂泊流浪，因为
在我的祖国，矿工们被监禁在狱中，
军人任意对法官发号施令。
但是，我却深深眷恋着
我那寒冷的小小国家。
如果必须死一千次，
我只愿意死在那里；
如果必须生一千次，
我只愿意生在那里：
依傍着野性的南美杉，
沐浴着南极吹来的风，
倾听着刚刚购置的钟的奏鸣。
但愿没有人会把我思念。
让我们把爱心摊在桌子上面，
一起来关心整个世界。
我不希望鲜血
再来浸染面包、赤豆、音乐，
我只愿
矿工、女孩、律师、水手、
生产玩具的厂商
全都跟我走，
咱们先去看电影，
然后再痛饮最红最红的葡萄酒。
我不是为解决问题而来的。
我来到这里只是为了歌唱，
而且还要让你跟我一起引吭 。"
Posted by Xiao at 02:10 PM | Comments (0)
April 25, 2005
Community-Building on the Web
This book is about building online communities:
How is a Web community different than one in the real world? In terms of their social dynamics, physical and virtual communities are much the same. Both involve developing a web of relationships among people who have something meaningful in common, such as a beloved hobby, a life-altering illness, a political cause, a religious conviction, a professional relationship, or even simply a neighborhood or town. So in one sense, a Web community is simply a community that happens to exist online, rather than in the physical world.
But being online offers special opportunities and challenges that give Web communities a unique flavor. The Net erases boundaries created by time and distance, and makes it dramatically easier for people to maintain connections, deepen relationships, and meet like-minded souls that they would otherwise never have met. It also offers a strange and compelling combination of anonymity and intimacy that brings out the best and worst in people's behavior. It can be near impossible to impose lasting consequences on troublemakers, and yet relatively easy to track an individual's behavior and purchase patterns—which makes Web communities notoriously difficult to manage. To complicate matters further, the legal issues involving privacy, liability and intellectual property on the Web are just beginning to be addressed, and will evolve rapidly over the next few years.
Posted by Xiao at 12:35 AM
Social Bookmarking Tools
"the Web is old, the Web is new, the Web is all, the Web is you"
With the introduction of new social software applications such as blogs, wikis, newsfeeds, social networks, and bookmarking tools (the subject of this paper), "This is the user's web now, which means it's my web and I can make the rules."
Reinvention is revolution – it brings us always back to beginnings.
Just as long as those hyperlinks (or let's call them plain old links) are managed, tagged, commented upon, and published onto the Web, they represent a user's own personal library placed on public record, which – when aggregated with other personal libraries – allows for rich, social networking opportunities. Why spill any ink (digital or not) in rewriting what someone else has already written about instead of just pointing at the original story and adding the merest of titles, descriptions and tags for future reference? More importantly, why not make these personal 'link playlists' available to oneself and to others from whatever browser or computer one happens to be using at the time?
Posted by Xiao at 12:30 AM
April 21, 2005
O'Reilly Radar
Futurcasting, how does O'Reilly do it:
Our methodology is simple: we draw from the wisdom of the alpha geeks in our midst, paying attention to what's interesting to them, amplifying these weak signals, and seeing where they fit into the innovation ecology. Add to that the original research conducted by the O'Reilly Research group, and you start to get a good picture of what the technology world is thinking about. What books are people just now starting to buy, and which are falling off in interest? Which tech-related Google AdWords are rising or falling in price? What can we learn from predictive markets tracking tech trends? Which open source contributors look to be on the track of an interesting project -- or set of projects?
Posted by Xiao at 10:53 PM
April 20, 2005
nw more thn evr
From MIT Media Lab, (Thanks, Howard!):
TXTmob is a free service that lets you quickly and easily broadcast txt messages to friends, comrades, and total strangers. The format is similar to an email b-board system. You can sign up to send and receive up-to-the-minute messages from groups of people organized around a range of different topics. TXTmob was first used by activists protesting the 2004 Democratic and Republican National Conventions. It was also deployed during the Ukranian Orange Revolution and by demonstrators at the 2005 inaugration of George W. Bush.
And Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, etc.....
Posted by Xiao at 09:49 AM
April 18, 2005
Self-construction of Meaning
MC wrote:
How is common meaning, and therefore society, reconstituted under the conditions of a distributed, personalized hypertext? The most obvious process is through shared experience. Our minds are not single, isolated worlds; they are wired in their social environment, so we process signals, and we look for meaning, according to what we perceive through the experience of everyday life.
But in a social structure- the network society- that induces structural individualism, and increasingly distinct social experiences, some of this shared meaning through practice is lost, so that areas of cognitive dissonance may grow proportionally to the extent of self-construction of meaning. The more we select our personal hypertext, under the conditions of a networked social structure and individualized cultural expressions, the greater the obstacles to finding a common language, thus common meaning.
Posted by Xiao at 11:08 PM
April 14, 2005
国会山
又见樱花飘落。
...... ......
樱花飘落的时候
是我们的时候
是相逢的时候
也是分手的时候
是欣喜的时候
也是流泪的时候
是感激的时候
也是沉思的时候
是短暂的时候
也是永恒的时候
Posted by Xiao at 11:23 PM
April 10, 2005
Point Reyes
沙石
潮水
早晨
Posted by Xiao at 10:22 AM
April 08, 2005
Beijing, Taipei and Chicago
"一个想要忆起往事的人不该在原地不动，往事散落于辽阔的世界，他必须到各处旅行，把往事从某个隐秘之处，一一找回来。"
an email -- a book- it was Martha who showed you his words.
Posted by Xiao at 01:22 PM
April 07, 2005
Introduction to Collective Action
The economic theory of collective action is concerned with the provision of public goods (and other collective consumption) through the collaboration of two or more individuals, and the impact of externalities on group behavior.
Posted by Xiao at 10:33 PM
April 05, 2005
Keyhole Google Maps
This is cool - and much anticipated. Google has incorporated Keyhole into its mapping application.
You wonder what his presentation will be now. ("What privacy? Get over with it!")
Posted by Xiao at 10:37 PM
P2P again: 'Podcasting'
The phenomenal success of the iPod, of peer-to-peer systems like Napster and its descendants, and of social networking site like Friendster that let users communicate with each other and with small like-minded communities offers hope that such a model could prove popular, experts say.
Podcasting will shift much of our time away from an old medium where we wait for what we might want to hear to a new medium where we choose what we want to hear, when we want to hear it.
As Susan would say: this is deeply subversive.
Posted by Xiao at 05:05 PM
April 03, 2005
SMS－新加坡
他没去刁曼岛
Posted by Xiao at 10:28 AM
Flocking and Swarming
From Smart Mobs:
Blogs of War reports on adavnces in the field of 'Flocking & Swarming technologies'.
"...For the first time in history, autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have flown using flocking and swarming algorithms,” reports Daniel Preston, chief executive and lead engineer for Atair Aerospace, Inc. (Atair AS).
“Flocking and Swarming” are two words used interchangeably to refer to modeled flight that is biologically inspired by the flight of flocking birds and swarming insects. The capability of biological systems to autonomously maneuver, track and pursue evasive targets in a cluttered environment is vastly superior to any engineered system..."
Still remember this book?
(And a hacker once said: "specialization is for insects.")
Posted by Xiao at 12:29 AM
April 02, 2005
Agreed left and right
Micah reviewed Hugh Hewitt's book, the interesting part is not where he disagree, but where he thought what Hewitt did get right.
--“The information delivery systems in the United States have just experienced a revolution….Everyone is potentially a journalist, including your executive assistant and the messenger bike boy. Everyone could have a blog and a cell phone that can snap a picture of you to put on it.”
--“People’s attentions are up for grabs. Trust is being transferred.”
--“There is a better way to gain information than watching the tube; quicker, more specific, more emotionally satisfying.”
--“Since the consumers of news and information are hungry for reliable, unfiltered information on which to base decisions, they are open to new trustworthy sources of that information.”
--“Bloggers [perform] a cueing function, prompting people’s actions in hundreds of thousands of ways.”
--“[Mainstream media] can no longer control the battlefield, dictate who gets to participate, when stories are released and who has the final say. The public has the final say. There is no going back, only an endless effort to capture and keep audience based on credibility.”
Posted by Xiao at 08:55 PM
April 01, 2005
T-Salon on Tag
Andrea's points on Tag:
This whole new approach to aggregating distributed content across the internet, enabled by a new generation of tools that were built with folksonomy in mind, has significantly lowered the barrier of entry for broad-base participation in a common internet publishing cause.
Any internet users with very little knowledge of html can participate by including special html tags in their blog post or by adding tags to their photos inside Flickr.com. Advanced technical expertise such as software installation on a server and computer programming are not required. There is no need for a website administrator to setup user accounts for new users. Nor is there any need to worry about the logistics of setting up a domain name and securing sufficient web storage space.
This approach to content production is especially useful in case of a topic that needs to be dealt with in a very timely matter with input from a large variety of sources across the internet. Natural disasters, such as the recent tsunami and earthquake in South East Asia are good examples. (See: http://www.technorati.com/tag/tsunami and http://www.technorati.com/tag/earthquake )
Posted by Xiao at 05:19 AM