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November 29, 2006
Asia Blogging
Asia's blogosphere is surging forward with nearly half, 46%, of those online actively blogging, according to research released today by Microsoft's MSN and Windows Live Online Services Business. The research showed that blogging is a social phenomenon with Asians primarily blogging as a means to maintain and build their social connections and to express themselves.
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November 28, 2006
Archive.org Founder Criticizes Google Book Scanning
He has a good point:
Google, for instance, is digitizing some great libraries. But their contracts (which were actually secret contracts with libraries – which is bizarre, but anyway, they were secret until they got sued out of them by some governments) are under such restrictions that they’re pretty useless... the copies that go back to the libraries. Pretty much Google is trying to set themselves up as the only place to get to these materials; the only library; the only access. The idea of having only one company control the library of human knowledge is a nightmare. I mean this is 1984 – a book about how bad the world would be if this really came about, if a few governments’ control and corporations’ control on information goes too far.
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November 26, 2006
The birthday party is over
The study begins here.
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November 22, 2006
Web 3.0?
Actually
it's might be
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November 20, 2006
Green Fog
Following these questions:
What does it mean to be part of a network?
How might we consider networks represent a distinct way of looking at new media (as opposed to mass media or interpersonal media)?
How can we think about power in networks?
Where do the boundaries come from, and what does the boundary of a network or a system mean?
and more.
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November 18, 2006
Water World
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November 17, 2006
礼
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November 16, 2006
Making sense from hype
Not his label, but his observation:
The Wikipedia is far from being the only online fetish site for foolish collectivism. There's a frantic race taking place online to become the most "Meta" site, to be the highest level aggregator, subsuming the identity of all other sites.
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November 14, 2006
逐步到达
太晚的晚餐
明亮的猎户座
仍在天顶偏南
到达
由内向外
至今天
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Cyber bullying control?
From BBC, via Smart Mobs:
......while the vast majority do not stir up trouble online, cyber violence is leading many to support greater restrictions on these freedoms.
Next year a new law will come into force which will force Koreans to reveal their name and ID number before they share their opinions online.
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November 13, 2006
Will this work?
We Are Smarter Than Me
Really?
Posted by Xiao at 09:26 PM | Comments (0)
SNS definition
A “social network site” is a category of websites with profiles, semi-persistent public commentary on the profile, and a traversable publicly articulated social network displayed in relation to the profile.
Posted by Xiao at 09:11 PM | Comments (0)
tagging vs folksonomy?
Is this a reasonable statement to make?
Tagging is the process of adding descriptive terms to an item, without the constraint of a controlled vocabulary
Folksonomy is the aggregation of tags from one or more users
Yes? No?
Posted by Xiao at 09:09 PM | Comments (0)
天上的水
雨
杭州
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November 11, 2006
Waiting
She wrote:
I have been waiting, although I could not, until he appeared, have given earthly shape to what I waited for. "By pining, we are already there; we have already cast our hope, like an anchor, on that coast. I sing of somewhere else, not of here: for I sing with my heart, not my flesh."
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November 05, 2006
Aladdin
“1001 Arabian Nights”
At Oakland's Fairyland.
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November 04, 2006
120 Day Wonder
A blogger
wrote about
How to Evangelize a Blog
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