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August 30, 2006
Supernova
Supernova captured in 'real time.'
Naguib Mahfouz died at age 94.
“时间来不及了，我不能再做比喻了。“
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August 29, 2006
Defining standards for bloggers?
Robert Cox, founder and president of the Media Bloggers Association:
“Anytime I can get in front of people who work in journalism, I want them aware of what (the Media Bloggers Association) is working to do,” Cox said. “I’d like them to understand that while there are plenty of folks who are out there not acting by a set of standards, there are some people out there who are trying to make a difference.”
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近山与远云
自友人。
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August 27, 2006
延长刑期
“狱内人士有足够的耐心和时间把一个台灯，小钥匙扣做得十分精致，这很符合艺术是奴隶创造的原理。
只有无期徒刑的人在想一桩非常耗时的工程。那么，有期徒刑的人如果也想做这件事，就得设法延长刑期。“
“这样，就有了如何延长刑期的行动，有的时候，这种行动总是不能如愿以偿。因而，在这个行动完结之前，人就谈不上有什么创造，在那个行动中，我们发现，人的创造行动尚未开始。“
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August 24, 2006
致广州
书收到了，谢谢。
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August 20, 2006
Quantum Poetics and Power
Olson wrote:
"our reality is no longer things,
but what happens between things. "
In his theory, power is a relation, not a possession. Power is constituted in tactics that insinuate everyday life and that create an overall strategy, but for which there is n overall guiding will, either individual or organizational. Power must not be understood as a battle between two sides or as merely repressive - power is multiple and productive.
power applies to immediate everyday life which categorizes the individual marks him by his own individuality, attaches him to his own identity, impose a law of truth on him which he must recognize and which others have to recognize in him. It is a form of power which makes individuals subjects. There are two meanings of the word subject: subject to someone else by control and dependence, and tied to his own identity by a conscience or self-knowledge. Both meanings suggest a form of power which subjugates and makes subject to.
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An old term
For Westerners. it is a central consequence of concepts of gender difference that a person may be turned by another person into an object and robbed of her or his status as subject. The proper state for a Western person is to have ownership of the self, to have and hold a core identity as if it were a possession. That possession may be made from various raw materials over time, that is, it may be a cultural production, or one may be born with it. Gender identity is such a possession. Not to have property in the self is not to be a subject, and so not to have agency. ["Cyborg Manifesto," 135]
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August 16, 2006
New course
Cross Listed
The Graduate School of Journalism
The School of Information
Participatory Media/Collective Action
Power, communication and politics in the network age
This fall.
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August 15, 2006
Class Wiki is ready
Flipping though these pages
Decided to go to his home.
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. "
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放下话筒上网
没劲的话题
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August 14, 2006
Collective Identity: An angel
Linking ICT to Social Movements:
- The emergence of the self as a reflexive project. an ongoing process of the shaping and reshaping of identity, in response to heterogeneous social forces, cultural currents and personal contexts encountered by individuals.
Ａ collective identity is not something static; rather it is "the process through which a collective become a collective".
* individuals share a sense of 'we" or solidarity when they define some shared characteristics as salient and important.
* individuals harbor a consciousness comprising shared interpretative frameworks that include political consciousness, relational networks and the goals, means, and environment of action of the movement.
* a culture of direct opposition to the dominant order exists.
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August 11, 2006
Twenty and Three
The Volvo is sold today.
Chanpagne
for anniversaries.
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Training Time
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“Citizens and Media”
UNESCO Guide “Citizens and Media” just published in French:
The new publication, that is alos online available (French version), is an important contribution to UNESCO’s action to foster citizens’ media and dialogue between media, particularly broadcasters and civil society groups and to facilitate the creation of associations of citizens.
The Guide describes the context of French-speaking African and Maghreb countries and proposes some good practices correlated with their identities and specific conditions including several approaches, guidance and possible models based on experiences of other regions. “These are useful models for citizens and civil societies to improve their participation in the electronic media”, says Abdul Waheed Khan, UNESCO's Assistant Director-General for Communication and Information.
Posted by Xiao at 09:28 AM | Comments (0)
August 10, 2006
FutureActive
"First we were told we could all make a difference.
Then we were told we could all make a killing."
Going to Milk Valley
Crossing a meaningful page
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August 09, 2006
Four years later
You just found out this.
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August 04, 2006
From Pound Hall
In this world:
everything is published information
by collective writing.
She asked:
what type of information gets published?
He also spoke
same passion
enhanced style
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August 03, 2006
Ten Questions with David Sifry
From Signum sine tinnitu--by Guy Kawasaki:
Here is an interview with David Sifry, the founder and CEO of Technorati. In this interview he explains what Technorati does as well as the practices of good blogging.
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