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July 31, 2006
晚餐后，驱车向海
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July 29, 2006
Heat Waves Everywhere
Peace and cool
in the music.
Unlike them
no such colorful memory
in your childhood
She has left memories behind
(so did you.)
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July 26, 2006
在南洋 (2)
"The last remaining myth of our age is the myth of the intellectual's integrity and independence. The true enemy continues to be...... the innocent bystander. Or, more precisely, the antagonist has always been the individual conscience."
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July 24, 2006
缆车昏沉
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July 21, 2006
在南洋 (1)
前面讨论
IP in China
赤道的星空下
时差依然
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July 19, 2006
Waiting time
Heathrow
BA7310
Lousy WIFI
Interesting report
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老城热浪
"战略性愤怒"以后
安闲泛舟
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July 17, 2006
Defining Collaborative News Models
What made Google rise to power was its ability to make sense out of the vast information pit on the Web. Similarly, individual blogs can be viewed as the beta version of Web 2.0 We Media. The next generation is stepping up to pick out the relevant gems and organize the growing clutter of voices. Harnessing the voices of bloggers (and others netizens) along with new technologies, emerging collaborative news websites are moving beyond the beta version and mashing together alternative sources of content. In various degrees they are allowing the public to define and create what is news while simultaneously establishing a mechanism to organize, interact with, and sort through the noise.
Outside of blogs, in the new media ecology there are numerous ways for citizen’s to engage in the production, distribution, and discussion of news and information. Bowman and Willis provide a useful taxonomy of platforms for participatory media including discussion groups, user-generated content (via web-based forms, emails, feedback systems), peer-to-peer applications, weblogs, XML syndication, and collaborative publishing.[16] This paper narrows in on this last group (which increasingly encapsulates the others).
Defining Collaborative News Models
Axel Bruns provides a short and sweet definition of collaborative news websites as “news sites which largely rely on their users as information gatherers, editors, or commenters.”[17] He further notices that collaborative online news production falls on a continuum including meta-blogs, blog network channels, group blogs, and individual blogs.
All of this terminology is dizzying, however to avoid confusion, I will further specify. The collaborative news sites I follow in this study have the following characteristics:
* Allows the public to contribute in content sourcing, production, distribution, and/or discussion (this includes writing/posting, commenting, flag/tag/rating, and/or editing).
* Is a central place where content is aggregated, managed, published, and/or supplemented (regardless of whether all content is hosted on the site server or not.)
* As opposed to algorithm based meta-blogs and aggregators, the filtering is driven by human decisions (perhaps aided by programming.)
This is a narrowed yet still broad sub-category. More significantly, this corner of the news media ecology has implications for both offline and online, purely human and purely technology-driven models. These websites create what Howard Rheingold called virtual communities and provide rich material for discussion on the implications of group engagement with the news.
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July 16, 2006
"Sea-Fever"
I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by,
And the wheel's kick and the wind's song and the white sail's shaking,
And a grey mist on the sea's face, and a grey dawn breaking.
I must down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide
Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;
And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying,
And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying.
I must down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life,
To the gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's like a whetted knife;
And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover
And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over.
By John Masefield (1878-1967).
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July 11, 2006
临行
要上路了
旧电话号码
早已不灵
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July 05, 2006
Campaign Wikia
He picked the date for this open letter:
For more than 50 years now, we have been living in the era of television politics. In the 1950s television first began to have a major impact on politics, and the results were overwhelming.
Broadcast media brought us broadcast politics. And let's be simple and bluntly honest about it, left or right, conservative or liberal, broadcast politics are dumb, dumb, dumb.
...... Together, we will start to work on educating and engaging the political campaigns about how to stop being broadcast politicians, and how to start being community and participatory politicians.
Posted by Xiao at 04:08 PM | Comments (0)
July 04, 2006
等待
读书，新生命将要诞生：
有生命的系统就像机器，这很对，然而生命体这台机器却具有与一般意义上的机器全然不同的组织形式。有生命的系统似乎总是自下而上地。从大量极其简单的系统群中涌现出来，而不是工程师自上而下设计的那种机器。一个细胞包含了许多蛋白、DNA和其它生物分子；一个大脑包含了许多神经元；一个胚胎包含了许多相互作用的细胞；一个蚂蚁王国包含了许多蚂蚁。从这个意义上来说，一种经济包含了许多公司和个人。
......获得类似生命行为的方法，就是模拟简单的单位，而不是去模拟巨大而复杂的单位。是运用局部控制，而不是运用全局控制。让行为从底层涌现出来，而不是自上而下地做出规定。做这种实验时，要把重点放在正在产生的行为上，而不是放在最终结果上。正如荷兰德喜欢指出的那样，有生命的系统永远不会安顿下来。
......从生命的特点在于组织，而不在于分子这一点上来说，生命有可能不仅只是类似计算机，生命根本就是一种计算法。
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July 03, 2006
Myspace Nation
Is this a cultural and technological phenomenon, or just a new way to goldbrick?
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July 01, 2006
Planet Survival
How can one make a difference?
How can we rise up to the challenge?
(And, you have to thank his audience.)
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