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November 29, 2005
摇摇谣
摇摇椅
轻轻地摇
小承承
不哭也不闹
月亮还没落
星星也没少
月亮和星星说
承承快睡觉
妈妈要睡觉
爸爸要睡觉
摇啊摇啊
承承也睡觉
摇摇椅
慢慢地摇
小承承
眼睛合上了
大狗还没咬
公鸡也没叫
大狗和公鸡说
承承睡觉觉
妈妈要睡觉
爸爸要睡觉
摇啊摇啊
承承也睡觉
摇摇椅
前后地摇
小承承
快打呼噜了
飞机还没飞
卡车也没跑
飞机和卡车说
承承睡觉觉
妈妈要睡觉
爸爸要睡觉
摇啊摇啊
承承也睡觉
摇摇椅
缓缓地摇
小承承
梦里微微笑
秋天过去了
冬天又来了
一天又一天
承承长大了
妈妈要睡觉
爸爸要睡觉
摇啊摇啊
承承也睡觉
Posted by Xiao at 08:26 PM | Comments (0)
November 20, 2005
Egalitarian engines
Will search engines make popular sites more so?
Not so, according to a controversial new paper that has recently appeared on arXiv, an online collection of physics and related papers. In it, Santo Fortunato and his colleagues at Indiana University in America and Bielefeld University in Germany claim that search engines actually have an egalitarian effect that increases traffic to less popular sites.
The researchers developed a model that described two extreme cases. In the first, people browsed the web only by surfing random links. In the second, people only visited pages that were returned by search engines. The researchers then turned to the real world. They plotted the traffic to a website—measured as the fraction of all page views made in a three-month period—against the number of incoming links made to that website. To their surprise, they found that the relationship between the two did not lie between the extremes suggested by their model but somewhere completely different. It appears to show that the supposed bias in favour of popular pages is actually mitigated by the combination of search engines and people following random links.
From an interesting article on the Economist : （Thanks, John!)
Posted by Xiao at 09:57 PM | Comments (0)
November 15, 2005
网络战－里昂
“为什么参加抵抗？”
”因为我们年青。”
Howard问起
明年是否继续合作？
为什么不呢？
我们仍年青。
Posted by Xiao at 10:08 PM | Comments (0)
November 14, 2005
Brother Antonio
After hearing a question about Gramsci and Three-Represents, you could not help but thinking of the word "Hegemony."
Here is what's on Wikipedia under "Gramsci" about Hegemony:
Capitalism, Gramsci suggested, maintained control not just through violence and political and economic coercion, but also ideologically, through a hegemonic culture in which the values of the bourgeoisie became the 'common sense' values of all. Thus a consensus culture developed in which people in the working class identified their own good with the good of the bourgeoisie, and helped to maintain the status quo rather than revolting.
Now replacing "Capitalism" with "Socialism with Chinese Characteractics" and "bourgeosie" with "CCP ruling elites", it is all clear that "Hegemony = Three Represents."
What would you have had to say, brother Antonio?
Posted by Xiao at 04:20 PM | Comments (0)
November 13, 2005
Lessig on Google Print
From the Wired: (Thanks, Dave!)
A decision will be made this November that may well change the Internet as we know it. Not in a technical sense - the threats there are many and are yet to be resolved. I'm talking about change in a business sense - meaning what business models will work on the Internet.
Google must decide how it will handle the battle over its latest great idea: Google Print. Last December the company announced it would Googlize 15 million books. For works under copyright, a search would produce snippets around the search term used. But for books in the public domain, a search would also yield access to the full text of the works. Almost 90 percent of the books Google might scan are out of print. The project promises to radically enhance our access to the past - to remind us of forgotten information. It is the greatest gift to knowledge since, well, Google
Posted by Xiao at 10:22 PM | Comments (0)
November 09, 2005
Pledgbank
"I will mentor a minimum of two people in the developing world in the area of my skills base and expertise (media, communications, broadcasting , democratic media building, participatory media, community video). I will do this for free for a minimum of six months (in my free time). The mentoring will be in person or via email/skype and the mentoring connections will be established by a website and database that I am willing to take responsibility for creating but only if 250 other people will mentor a minimum of two people in their skills."
Posted by Xiao at 10:07 PM | Comments (0)
November 08, 2005
书写
当他们用黏土压模
或者以木炭作画的时候，
清晰的“外部记忆”
正成为语言涌现的基砖
几千年过去了
Cuneiform, Hieroglyph, Pictogram, Alphabet......
（在那些食物生产过剩的农业地区，国家和帝国，都奠基在由正式科层组织所管理的系统性税收上，并形成了繁荣的贸易。书写作为一种传播技术，正是在这些权力中心－正式的科层组织中被创造出来，并且传遍各地。）
Posted by Xiao at 10:32 AM | Comments (0)
November 07, 2005
Different Perspectives on Civil Society
For Gramnsci, civil society is formed by a series of "apparatuses," such as the Churches, unions, parties, cooperatives, civic associations, and so on, which, on the one hand, prolong the dynamics of the state, but on the other hand, are deeply rooted among people. It is precisely this dual character of civil society that making it possible to seize the state without launching a direct, violent assault.
Where Gramsci and de Tocqueville see democracy and civility, Foucault and Sennett, and before them Horkheimer and Marcus, see internalized domination and legitimation of an over-imposed, undifferentiated, normalizing identity.
Posted by Xiao at 05:52 PM | Comments (0)
November 06, 2005
《茶馆》之后
“那些为鼠疫所惊吓并因此滞留在城市里的旅客，既远离了他们所难以团聚的亲人，又远离了他们自己的故土...... 在所有在流放当中，他们是最为痛苦在流放者。
在那堵将失落的故乡与鼠患之地分割开来在墙上，他们在不断撞击。”
—— Albert Camus
Posted by Xiao at 08:36 PM | Comments (0)