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April 29, 2006
Fresh fish service
Customers (most of them) from China
Workers (some of them) from Mexico
Fish (all of them) from the ocean
At this branch
Of Ranch 99.
Posted by Xiao at 12:13 PM | Comments (0)
April 27, 2006
An ambitious title
and an inspiring talk:
How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom
In this comprehensive social theory of the Internet and the networked information economy, Benkler describes how patterns of information, knowledge, and cultural production are changing - and shows that the way information and knowledge are made available can either limit or enlarge the ways people can create and express themselves. He describes the range of legal and policy choices that confront us and maintains that there is much to be gained or lost by the decisions we make today.
Listen to an audio recording (MP3) of Yochai Benkler's lecture.
Posted by Xiao at 09:02 PM | Comments (0)
April 26, 2006
The Future of Information
Signal?-Data?-Information?-Knowledge?
Whatever, it is the I School now.
Listen to the kick off penal here.
Posted by Xiao at 08:03 PM | Comments (0)
April 25, 2006
Specific concrete actions
Shanthi and Taylor wrote: "The issue of the Internet's impact on authoritarian regimes is a subset of the larger question of ICT use in developing country politics.
In reality, specific concrete actions are most important for the promotion of democracy, in both the technological and nontechnological sphere. "
Posted by Xiao at 11:37 AM | Comments (0)
April 18, 2006
The power of rules
Rules are, first of all, constitutive expressions. They (often implicitly) tell us what exists, in what measure, and in what relation.
Also there are regulative rules. Often more formal and explicit, they regulate social behavior inside the structured, prescribed (constituted) reality by specifying guiding and sanctioning human activity in particular ways.
Rules shape and facilitate dominant ideologies by linking ideological and hegemony with various forms of authority in symbolic representation and social practice.
Posted by Xiao at 04:35 PM | Comments (0)
April 15, 2006
Of course, he takes a critical stance.
From SignandSight: (Thanks Howard!)
"Use of the Internet has both broadened and fragmented the contexts of communication. This is why the Internet can have a subversive effect on intellectual life in authoritarian regimes. But at the same time, the less formal, horizontal cross-linking of communication channels weakens the achievements of traditional media. This focuses the attention of an anonymous and dispersed public on select topics and information, allowing citizens to concentrate on the same critically filtered issues and journalistic pieces at any given time. The price we pay for the growth in egalitarianism offered by the Internet is the decentralised access to unedited stories. In this medium, contributions by intellectuals lose their power to create a focus."
Posted by Xiao at 09:39 PM | Comments (0)
April 14, 2006
夜-屈子
......
出不入兮往不反
平原忽兮路超远
带长剑兮挟秦弓
首身离兮心不惩
诚既勇兮又以武
终刚强兮不可陵
身既死兮神以灵
魂魄毅兮为鬼雄
........
Posted by Xiao at 11:37 PM | Comments (0)
More is different
How does individual opinion aggregate to collective public opinion on the Net?
"I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often I end up somewhere I needed to be. " - Douglas Adams
Posted by Xiao at 09:34 PM | Comments (0)
April 12, 2006
Rain in Berkeley
Sunshine on Harvard Square.
(Another link, between bloggers. )
Posted by Xiao at 03:09 PM | Comments (0)
April 05, 2006
读雪
土尔其咖啡
四周散落着陌生的语言
你感到安全
舒适
(昨夜过去
早晨开始)
那片寂静
又悄然升起
再纷纷落下
如雪
Posted by Xiao at 03:11 AM | Comments (0)
April 01, 2006
美丽的伊斯坦布尔正在醒来
依然是
你的城市
***
十三年后
记忆更加清晰
("So, Cairo!")
Posted by Xiao at 01:01 AM | Comments (0)