So this is the call.
Put down cellphone
Still puzzled
Traffic lights turn red
River is grey
Colorful, colorful leaves, afar
From the window
On the 33rd floor
“还没有到临界点吗？“
散步河边
她的问题
直接了当
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Mark took you to the campus
In front of the liberary
Here he is.
升阳电脑上
连开三局
你的涌现
将会是什么？
清华－加州－纽约
大漠同行
Power and the Great Firewall
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A smile
Softened a rock
Good night
Hangzhou
有些吃力的Volvo
顺利到达.
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Nancy A. Van House 教授的研究领域有两个：数位图书馆和网络信息环境的信任问题 (the practices of trust in networked environmental information.) 她同时在做关于“Weblogs as Knowledge Communities”的研究。她是这样定义问题的： The Internet gives people access to information from unfamiliar sources, from outside their own knowledge community, and in unfamiliar genres. Information is cut loose from the traditional practices and institutions by which it is warranted, and the context that helps users understand and evaluate it. This creates problems, not only for information users, but for producers, who fear having their work misunderstood or used inappropriately. ”
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One of her current projects is studying trust and credibility in networked information to blogs. Mary Hodder who is a creator of the Biplog blog is working with her.
Dr. Van Hous' concern is "not with the popular personal journal-type blogs, but with what are called topical blogs, which address one or a related group of topics." For topical blogs, " a typical entry might consist of a paragraph or so comment on a recent development, with links to other reports and commentaries, to related events, and other web pages that the author finds relevant. The result is a network of mutually-referencing blogs which function as an on-going online. Participants are generally a core group of mutually-referencing bloggers and larger group of more or less regular readers who don’t themselves blog. "
Here is more of how she thinks on this issue: "This is an opportune time to study blogging and its implications for both understanding and performing knowledge work. Despite its high profile, to date surprisingly little serious research about blogging has been published. What exists is mostly about the process of blogging. My interest is not in blogging but in knowledge work, for which blogging is one tool.
Bloggers claim that blogging is typefied by democracy, meritocracy, and personal voice. These (no doubt idealized) goals raise questions about how participants judge quality and competence. Blogging gives us a place to watch how participants cope with the decontextualized world of the internet, and how they evolving practices of knowledge creation and determination of competence and credibility. I am not interested in blogging itself but with how blogging reveals and transforms how knowledge communities do knowledge work, especially in relation to issues of authority and credibility. "
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This is an open question. Do we really want to use the J word at all? But let me just put some of these words out here. They certainly cover different pattern of activities.
Paticipatory Journalism （参与新闻学）
Open-Souce Journalism （开源新闻学）
P2P Journalism （P2P 新闻学）
Interactive Journalism （互动新闻学）
Citizen Journalism （公民新闻学）
Personal Media （自媒体）
Grassroots Reporting (草根报导）
What else?
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This is Pierre Levy's writing in the prologue of his book "Collective Intelligence":
"The fusion of telecommunications, informatics, the news media, publishing, television, film, and electronic gaming within a unified industry" is not the only aspect, nor perhaps the most important.
What is the most important then? Here is his thinking along this question:
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"We are moving from one humanity to another, a humanity that not only remains obscure and indeterminate, but that we refuse to interrogate, that we are still unwilling to acknowledge."
"Hominization, the process of the emergence of the human species, is not over. In fact it seems to be sharply accelerating."
"Bureaucratic hierarchies (based on static forms of writing), media monarchies (surfing the television and media systems), and international economic networks only partially mobilize and coordinate the intelligence, experience, skills, wisdom, and imagination of humanity. For this reason the development of new ways of thinking and negotiating engendered by the growth of genuine forms of collective intelligence becomes particularly urgent. Intellectual technologies are not just another branch of contemporary anthropological change, they are a potential critical zone, its political nexus. There is no reason to belabor this point, however, for we can't reinvent the instruments of communication and collective thought without reinventing democracy, a distributed, active, molecular democracy. "
(Italics are originally in Levy's book. )
Let's pause for a second. "Reinventing democracy", what does exactly Professor Levy mean here?
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DATE: 12/09/2003 11:01:18 AM
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十九岁的锋芒。开题已经说出了一切，结局有那么重要吗？
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中文翻译这样处理好些
Paticipatory Journalism “参与新闻”
Open-Souce Journalism “开源新闻”
P2P Journalism “P2P 新闻”
Interactive Journalism “互动新闻”
Citizen Journalism “公民新闻”
Personal Media 自媒体
Grassroots Reporting 草根报导
但是问题照旧，这些名词后面的内涵呢？
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DATE: 12/09/2003 12:45:25 PM
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记得Stuart 的问题是这样的：“如果选择过程一直在发生，那么我们怎样建立一个理论，能够同时包含自组织和选择过程？”据EDGE说，Brian Goodwin曾经提出过自然选择结合结构主义的想法，两者间有关系吗？
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Rebecca Blood wrote in her "The Weblog Handbook" , page 19: "weblogs and journalisms are simply different things. What weblogs do is impossible for traditional journalism to reproduce, and what journalism does is impractical to do with a weblog."
"To my mind, news reporting consists of interviewing eyewitnesses and experts, checking facts, writing a original representation of the subject, and editorial review: the reporter researches and writes a story, and his editor ensures that it meets her requirements. Each step is designed to produce a consistant product that is informed by the news agency's standards. Weblogs do none of these things. "
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ennn... "bloggers have no gatekeepers. "but you can have one. " they are generally produced in the maintainer's spare time. " this does not have to be the case. "Weblogs can perform a valuable function as critical disseminators of pertinent information. ....Webloggers come from all backgrounds and often provide their readers with highly informed explanations and analysis of news stories that are related to their fields of expertise. " True. And?
What about collaborative sites? Are Slashdot, Kuro5hin and MetaFilter examples of peer-to-peer journalism? These sites," at their best, discussions on these sites vastly clarify the linked articles by offering pointers to additional online material and expert information and analysis by qualified members."
According to Rebecca: "these sites are fascinating examples of information sharing, analysis, and dissemination, and I believe that they may represent a genuinely new way for news to be collected, analyzed, and distributed. It is important to note, however, that the collaborative community structure of these sites is the key to this phenomenon; the weblog format has nothing to do with it. " Are you sure of this? The structure of these sites, including rules certainly has something to do with the dynamics of the community, has it not?
"The weblogs strength is fundamentally tied to its position outside of mainstream media: observing, commenting, and honestly reacting to both current events and the media coverage they generate." Why so? " Weblogs can function as superb digests of online material. " Agreed. No more questions :-)
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"This Dean campaign is modeled by the Internet." You did not realize what this mean until you went to his homepage. Just blog the link here and will come back to this later.
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It's all started from the article, Dean Connection on NYT Sunday Magazine last weekend, when you saw Howard Rheingold's name on it. This leads me to the DeanSpace. It stated its goal as following:
"Howard Dean's online grassroots campaigners are more savvy, nimble and numerous than those of any other candidate - our wired ranks now number in the hundreds of thousands and continue to grow. We want to keep that growth accelerating and allow the energy generated online to erupt into real-world campaigning.
We don't think it's too brazen to say we are experimenting with the future of the democratic process. So far Howard Dean's grassroots campaign has exhibited decentralized participation working on a true "town hall" model, yet also operating in a nationally connected and coordinated fashion. We are having surprising and extraordinary results.
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How about Weblog Journalism? OK, some will say this is oxymoron. (like, Human Rights in China ;-)) Others may say, what do you know about the J word?
They both got their points. So it's a NO.
What if you do not take this "No" as the answer? What's the next step? Where to start, really? Not from the B word either, since you just started blogging two weeks ago.
Back to physics. Why not to start from the Power Law? Even back to Notre Dame, since all things are "inevitably" Linked.
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"What matters is this: Diversity plus freedom of choice creates inequality, and the greater the diversity, the more extreme the inequality. "
"At the head will be webloggers who join the mainstream media (a phrase which seems to mean "media we've gotten used to.") The transformation here is simple - as a blogger's audience grows large, more people read her work than she can possibly read, she can't link to everyone who wants her attention, and she can't answer all her incoming mail or follow up to the comments on her site. The result of these pressures is that she becomes a broadcast outlet, distributing material without participating in conversations about it.
Well, does it have to broadcast? What is Slashdot then?
Meanwhile, the long tail of weblogs with few readers will become conversational "
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楼下Shirky不是针对社区网志讲的，而Rebecca的那段话也是一样。社区网志就可能保持会话风格，有人“把关”，用技术甚至有时间和人力资源这样做。当然，他们更没有考虑混血儿如Ohmynews。
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这是几个月前的旧文章了。不过Matt Welch的一些观察还是没有过时。比如他对博客贡献的四种分类。因此博过来再读一遍。
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J. D. Lasica talking to Dan Gillmor, Doc Searls, David Winer, Deborah Branscum, Paul Andrews and Glenn Fleishman
weblogs offer a vital, creative outlet for alternative voices.
weblogs: a new source of news.
weblogging - amateur journalism?
not everyone who keeps a journal is a journlaist
institutional media - gatekeepers
journalism: quality control, objectivity, credibility, etc...
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Blogging: addictive, creative and fun.
1, Personality: part of a blod's allure is its unmediated quality. ANTI-EDITING.
"repersonalizing journalism?" or weblogs are "personal journalism"?
2, Instantaneity ANTI-EDITING.
3, Interactivity
(blogging) lets people share opinions in a less judgmental way than when you interact with people in the real world.
weblogs have a self-informing and self correcting system built into it.
writing as part of a conversation. conversations don't have audiences. (markets are a conversation, everything was negotiated.)
4, new structure and format
One overriding appeal: here's a media form that let's you write at any length about any issue you care deeply about.
What about if the tools become more sophisticated, will it be a new kind of journalism?
multi-media, moblogging, stream audio, video etc...
5, Lack of marketing constraints. (Only for people who wants to read, maybe only for yourself.)
and no income!
(but here one can think of the Power Law. )
Collective Blogging vs Journalism
1, collective filtering
2, multiple perspectives.
3, information sharing, exchanging and disseminating
what's interesting here is: not the publication of a first-person journal but the chain of interaction it often ignites.
3, experts knowledge:
indespensable source of niche expertise. The weblog community is basically a whole bunch of expert witnesses who increase their expertise constantly through a sort of reputation engine.
4. reputation engine
no less quality and integrity in being a amateur journalist. there there is more integrity because blogger's writing does not depend on a paycheck.
5, unique architecture (such as slashdot)
the Web gives voices to a lot of alternative points of view. Journlist is to ensure that the voice of the people should be exposed.
'soft journalism": the any-to-any system of talking and sharing rather than the traditional "hard journalism" model of writing that is distributed to the masses. (Doc Searls. )
a weblog can be an authoritative source of information based on community endorsement.
Salon: "farm system for essayists?"
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Howard Reingold:
A commons (C) is a shared resource that anyone can use. ... The question for the coming decade is whether these domains will retain a strong commons.
Commons foster innovation. Consider the Internet: at its core, its a public good.
The literature of science is also a commons.
Today, the advent of technologies that enable global, mobil, many-to-many, multimedia communication and computation among billions of people -- together with new understanding about collective action -- have brought us to the threshold of a new "cornucopia of the commons," similar to the wealth and knowledge that became available in the wake of the printing press.
(?) I cannot exactly formulate my question on this, yet. But "new understanding" sounds little bit unclear to me.
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Understanding Cooperation: how to structure commons, how to protect them, and how to use them for enhancing our collective human intelligence.
In the case of Dean, the new medium is really smart mobs applied to electoral politics.
Our present level of knowledge about the role of cooperation and collective action in human enterprise is scarcely higher than knowledge about disease before the discovery of microorganisms.
Before we can approach the solutions of problems of conflict, cooperation, and governance of an interconnected global world - the "medicine" for social ills, if you will - we need new fundamental knowledge. We need the equivalent of a "biology" of collective action. And for this interdisciplinary understanding to emerge, a new way of thinking across disciplinary boundaries is required.
The technology of collective action provides the infrastructure for its own future evolution. Whether or not the deep understanding of cooperation can be catalyzed to knit together the separate strands of inquiry remains, however, a critical uncertainty. Success likely leads to a scenario of peer-to-peer abundance. failure - which emphasizes control over cooperation - likely leads to political stalemate and stagnant technology.
What is he really talking about? This is where getting more interesting. (1) open source software development, (2) Blogging.
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Rheingold on blogging:
Blogging grows collective intelligence.
Every blog is, in a sense, a group map of a particular segment of human experience.
Consider the size of the "blogosphere": expected exceed 10 million by the end of 2004. (This is 2002's writing. the real number you already had in the class. What was it again? )
While individual blogs may come and go, blogging is likely to become a staple format for online publishing, providing an ever evolving map of human knowledge - from bottom up.
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More about cooperation examples:
(3) Socialware,
Meetup, moveon, Socializer, Tribe, Ryze, Friendster.
(4) Webcrawling.
Technorati, Google.
(5) The Vocabulary of Friends
FOAF (Whatever this is, put it aside for a moment. Theater time on Friday. The 2nd part of the Continental Divide).
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TITLE: 太平洋-开源软件
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PRIMARY CATEGORY: Star B 波茜
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DATE: 12/15/2003 11:39:18 AM
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昨天是Ocean Beach，太平洋滚滚无尽的波涛。
（“我们都是在长长的沙滩上行走，留下的没有脚印，只有歌声。”－－－纪伯伦）
今天是Cafe Roma, 和John Gage谈开源软件，微软和中国。摄影师在为他拍特写，因为这里也是John的工作室。
摄影师：“John, 微笑，像银行家想到钱一样微笑。”
X:“你想到了什么？”
J:“用了开源软件，(中国)人的创造力将在网络上充分发挥出来。”
(John 的公司是升阳，当然。）
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TITLE: 看与被看
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CATEGORY: Paticipatory Media 参与媒体
DATE: 12/17/2003 03:00:58 PM
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博客引出的公共领域和隐私领域的重新划界问题，在中国已经成为讨论的话题。这一篇就是。
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CATEGORY: My Nation 我的国度
DATE: 12/18/2003 09:34:39 AM
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贺卡引起的记忆：你们只是九三年六月见过一面，计程表狂转的的士，青年旅社，查尔斯桥，卡夫卡旧居，还有黑光剧院。你还没有见过，冬夜飞雪的布拉格。
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TITLE: 开源的市场机制
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DATE: 12/18/2003 05:19:11 PM
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《区域的优势》是SIMS Analee Saxenian 教授写的一本和亚洲高科技经济发展有关的书。她对硅谷，那里中国和印度移民技术人才的贡献都有相当的了解，同时也参与了未来研究所。另一位 John Zysman 教授的领域是国际经济学。两位都是政治学背景出身的，一定和午餐由T.J 做东有关。主宾是社科院的 J 教授。
JZ关于政府决定使用开源软件的疑问是：开源运动在服务器领域的成功，一个重要之处是用户和参与者都是同样一群人。而开源软件在应用市场，就失去了这样的机制和动力基础。没有这一点，无论政府怎样行政决定，投资支持，只要用户仅仅是选择最便宜和最实用的软件，这时的市场机制会在开源这一边吗？
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PRIMARY CATEGORY: Connected Age 网络时代
CATEGORY: Connected Age 网络时代
DATE: 12/19/2003 08:39:35 AM
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????The Matrix???????????
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TITLE: 从汪丁丁的观察想起
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PRIMARY CATEGORY: RocknGo Meme 岩道与棋道
CATEGORY: Emergence 涌现
CATEGORY: RocknGo Meme 岩道与棋道
DATE: 12/19/2003 08:56:32 AM
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经济学家汪丁丁在博客中国上发出新书《在市场里交谈》的前言，一些观察很准。
比如：“网络社会，与真实（即每一个人都有明确身份的）社会一样，必须解决“自由”与“秩序”的关系问题，才可能获得广阔的发展。而网络社会成员的身份缺失，无疑加剧了自由与秩序的冲突。所以，研究网络社会的发展，特别具有指导我们在真实社会里解决自由与秩序的冲突的意义。”
其实，博客有可能是解决这一“身份”问题，使得网络社会(CAS)有可能形成的一个关键。博客可能是稳定的（信任，信用）节点，而且似乎有聚合、标识、多元、流动和相互作用非线性等特点，那么这里的内在机制究竟是什么呢？建造基砖又怎样得来？（还没有考虑这里系统是开放的，与环境是共演的。）更复杂的系统能否？怎样？涌现出来？说到这里，是不是要先回到 Joi Ito 和 John Holland 呢？
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汪教授还说到：“在市场里交谈，如果能够营造比较满意的“均衡”，那么与茶馆里的交谈相比，有一项意味深远的后果，是私人场合的交谈营造不出来的。那就是：交谈者之外的所谓“不在场”者的参与。
既然是“不在场”者，就是说，他们的在场，是在场者无法注意到的。由于网上身份的不确定甚至完全消失，任何发言者，在米德（George Herbert Mead）、布鲁默（Herbert Blumer）和高夫曼（Erving Goffman）所论的意义上，都肯定知道自己是在“表演”。面对着我们完全不知道的观众——可以是座无虚席也可以是空无一人的剧场，我们的“帖子”，对于我们自己和观众而言，是表演，是主格的“我”和受格的“我”之间的对话，是作为“行为者”的我和作为“评价者”的我之间的对话。这样，我们的个性居然能够通过网上聊天而获得升华！ ”
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CATEGORY: Paticipatory Media 参与媒体
DATE: 12/19/2003 10:57:57 AM
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""Chinameme " was the name you originally thought of for the CDN weblog, but soon realized it is too much a copy of Lawmeme. In the class Keasha suggested another name "China Digital Fire," she also tried to catch the character that digital information can spread rapidly as wildfire in cyberspace. This Regional Briefings on China from Winds of Change is yet another illustration of how information travels and is filtered and reorganized among bloggers. The weblog trackback function enables and facilitates this process. But there is certainly more to it than just information dissemination. Comments, analysis, additional information and expert knowledge are often being added during this process. If new insights, information, and understanding emerge from this process, can we call it "weblog journalism?"
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TITLE: 蚂蚁和博客
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DATE: 12/19/2003 05:42:56 PM
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接着“从汪丁丁的观察想起”想下去，这里算是个旁注。类比可以是肤浅的也是危险的，但是由此得来Starlogo的人工蚁群模拟编码，有意思!
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TITLE: Blogger's meeting at Berkman Center
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CATEGORY: Digital Galaxy 数位星系
DATE: 12/26/2003 09:21:29 PM
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A blogger named Jake recorded the webcast of the weekly blogger meeting at Berkman on December 4. At the dinner meeting with Dave Winer last month, you asked him about these meetings and half joked to him that organizing these meetings is like "spreading a religion." Dave nodded. He linked to Mu Zimei. And you are listening to his "preaching" now.
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TITLE: From Tragedy of the Commons to Information Cascade
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PRIMARY CATEGORY: Emergence 涌现
CATEGORY: Emergence 涌现
DATE: 12/30/2003 09:57:18 AM
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According to the tragedy of the commons, we can NOT be trusted to do even those things that are obviously in our collective best interests, such as taxation. The utopian balance of public and private interests in this situation is inherently unstable. This dilemma "expresses the inescapable conundrum of individuals who have their own interests at heart and who can control only their own decisions, but who have to live with the consequences of everyone else's decisions as well." ("Six Degrees" by Duncan J. Watts, 2003, p 204 - 219)
But not every dilemma has to end in tears. So Duncan's question is "what are the origins and preconditions of cooperation?"
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This leads to the problem of information cascade. During such an event, individuals in a population essentially stop behaving like individuals and start to act more like a coherent mass. It can happen slowly or rapidly. However, what's in common for all information cascades is that once one commences, it becomes self-perpetuating; that is, it picks up new adherents largely on the strength of having attracted previous ones. Hence an initial shock can propagate throughout a very large system, even when the shock itself is small.
And here is its connection to news: " because they (information cascades) are often of a spectacular or consequential nature, cascades of one sort or another tend to make newsworthy events."
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TITLE: 《六度》
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DATE: 12/30/2003 10:23:34 AM
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继续读邓肯的《六度》。去年在桑塔费，马克介绍的是《链接》。现在接着上次（十二月十一号）的思路，似乎重要的不是Power Law，而是网路的阈值模型，因为博客网路的高联接度，更接近本质地说明信息在其中发生、传播和增殖的过程。
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DATE: 12/30/2003 11:08:02 AM
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Jill Walker in Norway wrote this definition on her blog.
"Weblogs are serial and cumulative, and readers tend to read small amounts at a time, returning hours, days, or weeks later to read entries written since their last visit. This serial or episodic structure is similar to that found in epistolary novels or diaries, but unlike these a weblog is open-ended, finishing only when the writer tires of writing (see narrative structure). "
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TITLE: 游戏高手初听关联论
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DATE: 01/05/2004 02:05:15 PM
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《复杂》节选 ：“他记得这项研究始于1952年春季，当时他正在听麻省理工学院心理学家利克莱德（J．C．R．Licklider）的演讲。利克莱德前来访问普夫吉普斯实验室，同意就当时该领域最热门的话题，蒙特利尔麦克吉尔大学的神经生理学家唐纳德·希伯（Donald O．Hebb）关于学习和记忆的新理论，做这个演讲。”
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”利克莱德解释说，问题是，在显微镜下，大脑的大部分都呈现出一片混沌，每一个细胞都随意发出数千条纤维，与数千计其他神经细胞随意相连。然而，这些稠密相连的网络又显然不是随意组成的。一个健康的大脑能够前后连贯地形成感觉、思想和行动。更重要的是，大脑显然不是静止不变的。它可以通过吸取经验来改善和调整自己的行为。它可以学习。但问题是，它是怎样学习的？
在三年前的1949年，希伯在他出版的《行为组织》（The Organization of Behavior）一书中作出了他的回答。他的基本思想是，假设大脑经常在“突触”上做些微妙的变化。突触是神经冲动从这个细胞跳到那个细胞的连接点。这个假设对希伯来说是非常大胆的，因为当时他对此还没有任何证据。但希伯为这一假设阐述说，这些突触上的变化正是所有学习和记忆的基础。比如说，通过眼睛视觉的感官冲动会通过加强沿途所有突触的方式在它的神经网络上留下痕迹。差不多的情形同样会发生在由耳进入的听觉神经系统、或大脑内其它脑际活动。结果是，随意启动的网络会迅速将自己组织起来。通过某种正反馈，经验被积累了起来：强健的、经常被使用的突触会变得更强健，而弱小、不经常使用的突触会萎缩。被经常使用的突触最后强健到一定程度以后，记忆就被锁定了。这些记忆反过来又会布满整个大脑，每一个突触都与一个复杂的突触形态相对应，这些突触形态包含了成千上万个神经元。（希伯是最先描述这种分布记忆的人之一，这种描述后来被称为“关联论”（connectionist）。）
但希伯的思想还不止这些。利克莱德在演讲中还解释了希伯的第二个假设：有选择的突触强化会导致大脑自组成“细胞集合”——几千个神经元的子结合，其中循环神经冲动会自我强化，继续循环。希伯认为这些细胞集合就是大脑基本的信息建设砖块。每一个细胞集合都与一种声调、一束光线或某种思想的一闪念相对应。但这种细胞集合在生理上并没有特别之处。确实，它们相互重叠，任何一个神经元同属于好几个细胞集合。而且因为如此，一个细胞集合的行动势必带动其他细胞集合的动作，这样，这些基本的建设砖块就会迅速自组成为更大规模的概念和更复杂的行为。总之，细胞集合就是思想的基本量子。
荷兰德坐在听众席上听得呆若木鸡。 “
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DATE: 01/05/2004 08:59:20 PM
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Electronic Literature Organization has been there for a while. You just heard this project from tonight's dinner.
......a new, reader-influenced way of story-reading......Often thought of as a mere resource for fact-finding, the Web is fast becoming a place where cutting-edge authors and poets can create literature using hypertext as a whole new set of tools -- with a whole new set of problems.
According to Robert Coover, "......hypertext, in its most simple way, is a multi-linear set of images or texts navigated by links. And it's the link that's the key to hypertext. A link is also that very peculiar element of the computer itself. "
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DATE: 01/06/2004 08:51:10 AM
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在东五十七街的星巴克，为什么记起十年前雪中的修道院？
因为那句话吗？
“那谦卑的有福了。”
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DATE: 01/06/2004 02:29:34 PM
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You cannot say you like the sound of this word but curious about what it means. From another Norweigian blogger Joe Hoem you have found this old article in 1995 Wired and this relatively new book by Lev Manovich.
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Twenty-seven years ago, French radical theoretician Régis Debray was sentenced by a Bolivian military tribunal to 30 years in jail. He had been captured with the guerrilla band led by Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Fidel Castro's legendary lieutenant. Released after three years, largely because of the intervention of compatriots such as President Charles de Gaulle, André Malraux, and Jean-Paul Sartre, Debray returned to writing. (His 1967 Revolution in the Revolution is considered a primer for guerrilla insurrection.) He spent five years in the early '80s as a special advisor on Latin American relations to French President François Mitterrand.
Creating a discipline he calls "mediology," Debray has investigated how it is that abstract ideas can end up as world-changing ideologies. Today, he is developing a new theory of the transmission of ideas through history, to grasp how words become flesh, ideas ideologies.
(X: Coming back to Six Degree again. Ring a bell?)
Régis Debray: "I would make an analogy between what I call mediology and the strategy of the neurosciences. While the neurosciences are dedicated to overcoming the inherited duality between mind and brain, mediology tries to view history by hybridizing technology and culture. It focuses on the intersections between technology and intellectual life."
"As Thomas Edison said a century ago, "whoever controls the film industry will control the most powerful influence over people." And today that means everyone on the planet. Images govern our dreams, and our dreams drive our actions. "
"The machine offered Descartes a model for thinking about the human body. It later provided British mathematician Alan Turing with a model for intelligent behavior. But machines will never be able to give the thinking process a model of thought itself, since machines are not mortal. What gives humans access to the symbolic domain of value and meaning is the fact that we die. "
(X: Freeman Dyson had a same point about beauty in his Disturbing the Universe.)
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DATE: 01/06/2004 09:39:25 PM
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This is the image gallery of Self-Organized networks.
And this is from
Physics Department, University of Notre Dame.
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From Resnick: "Relationships with people in the world are internalized as agents or objects within the mind. ......the self emerges from the interactions among the internalized objects."
"Current models of the mind differ significantly from one another. For example, neural networks are based on an architecture of simple, homogeneous, highly connected components, while the Society of Mind is based on an architecture of complex, specialized, semi-insulated subsystems."
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Still Mitchel Resnick: "....move away from the notion of a single, absolute, unifying conception of knowledge, arguing instead that knowledge is constantly constructed and reconstructed in a more decentralized way."
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Example: Literary Criticism
"Traditional theory of literature assumed that meaning was created by an author and conveyed through the author's writings. According to this view, reading is a search for inherent meaning in a document, an attempt to decipher the intention of the author. But modern school of literary criticism -- such as poststructuralism, reader-response theory, and deconstructionism - adopt a very different stance. These movements all focus on readers (not authors) as the main constructors of meaning. In this new view, text have little or no inherent meaning. Rather, meaning are constantly reconstructed by communities of readers through their interactions with the text. Meaning itself has become decentralized."
Another example: feminist studies
"Since different voices are often valued differently in our society, the idea of multiple voices takes on a political edge. Formal, logical, abstract, and analytical ways of thinking, typically associated with men, have been privileged in our society -- viewed as superior, more advanced, more likely to lead to "truth." On the other hand, relational and contextual ways of thinking, typically associated with women, have been undervalued and discouraged. "
" the "dominant epistemology" that grants privileged status to abstract, formal, and logical ways of thinking" are now being challenged. The idea of "alternative epistemology" is that there are multiple ways of thinking and knowing. "People are recognizing that knowledge speaks not with a single voice but with many."
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Joi Ito has been blogging about "blog justice" in last two days.
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DATE: 01/07/2004 08:32:55 PM
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布鲁伦，泠冽夜，听“高山流水”
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"If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing.
If nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living." Henri Poincare
"Beauty is the internal conformation of the various items of experience with each other, for the production of maximum effectiveness…. Thus the parts contribute to the massive feeling of the whole, and the whole contributes to the intensity of feeling of the parts…. The teleology of the Universe is directed to the production of beauty.
Creation is the intensification of beauty"
Whitehead, "Adventure of Ideas." (pgs. 341, 324)
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又见白色的群山。
你坐在餐车车厢里，听一位越战护士谈沙门。火车驶过一九九零年科罗拉多的青山绿水，到丹佛时夜色已深，只记得是个大站。
初次来到机场是九七年的落矶山之行。两年以后又在这里租车，作为西南之旅的起点，（第一站：阿斯本）。
回望群山，那是开始的终结，还是终结的开始？
前天你们在纽约重见，一切依然。
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DATE: 01/12/2004 12:54:13 PM
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What's up? South.
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DATE: 01/12/2004 04:36:09 PM
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只有在新世界壮丽的怀抱里
你的灵魂才能安息
（《波茜星咏叹调》1986)
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Just came back from the Commonwealth Club, where words such as "agents for social change", "absence of power", "critical service that really can change the equation", "tipping point" etc. floating in the air for entire morning. Here is the eworld again.
Mary Hodder has followed the issue of Napsterization of political activism, including Move On for a while, in her napterization.org. Today she blogged not only the Move On "Bush in 30 Seconds" contest, but also a theoretical paper entitled Shifting the Lens, written by Hermann Maiba in U of IL/Chicago.
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Why our universe is hospitable to life? Freeman Dyson talked on this subject on March 9, 2000 in MyTown. You only knew this during the dinner with Fang in New York Chinatown last Friday. You talked about Six Degrees, Biocosm, Slashdot, SFI and Dyson's Disturbing the Universe. He smiled and sent you this link two days later.
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From Freeman Dyson's speech in MyTown:
"The best popular account of the science that explains how the universe can be friendly to life is a book, "Creation of the Universe", by the Chinese astronomers Fang Li Zhi and Li Shu Xian. The book was translated into English and published by World Scientific Publishing Company of Singapore in 1989. Fang Li Zhi is the famous dissident astronomer now living in exile in the United States. I particularly recommend Chapter 6, with the title "How Order was born of Chaos". This tells the same story that I am telling you today, but with more detail and more depth. "
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DATE: 01/14/2004 04:08:28 PM
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索绪尔（Saussure）关于语言的比喻很多，代数，交响乐章，川流不息的长河，还有“一件袍子，历尽岁月，缝满了补丁，补丁所用的布是从衣服本身剪下来的。”等等。最妙的一个是：下棋。
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许国璋先生在《论语言和语言学》中如下介绍了索绪尔的观念：
做模子的材料可以比做是语言的外部研究，棋法可以比做是内部研究。
全局棋的走法可比历时态（diachronie)，静止的棋阵可比共时态（synchronie）；所谓历时态，就是一个共时态进入又一个新的共时态。
语言里每一个单位（例如：词）看起来是实体，其实不是。如国际象棋缺少一个“车“，只要再找一块小方木代替即可。是否是“车”的样子不要紧，只要按“车”和其他棋子的关系去走，就是“车”，就具有“车”的价值。只有具有价值的车，才是实体，孤立的单位不是实体。
“有资格称做"实体"的东西来自价值，价值来自关系，关系构成系统。”
这是结构主义的精华吗？
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DATE: 01/15/2004 09:57:15 AM
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梅罗－庞帝：“我们是命中注定为意义而生存的。”
萨特：“我们是命中注定为自由而生存的。”
前年在农场，伴随你的除了Kauffman，还有列维－斯特劳斯和加缪。
今天在伯克莱，二十年后重读《结构主义》。
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DATE: 01/15/2004 05:43:47 PM
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Listening to Ouverture-Allegro from Bach's Partita No. 4 in D Major.
Reflecting upon today's conversation.
It's getting dark outside.
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Mary:
"....from implicit to explicit."
"...all about more connections, deeper meaning for life, right?"
What is "right" ? A feeling of "connected'? Can we escape from 'structure"? Maybe not, since existence itself is within time which is constantly changing. But there are all kinds of different system/network/structure at different level. "deeper meaning"? At which level? "from implicit to explicit" means transform structure from one level to another. Right?
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DATE: 01/16/2004 10:03:28 AM
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读索绪尔，理解二项对立：共时与历时，语言与言语，连锁与选择（也称组合与聚合），（符号）能指与所指，加上价值与关系。
对任何符号体系，确定基元，分析其对立、联系和转换，是建立文化的模式和其系统的结构主义方式。
比如建筑学中，门，内室，走道，后墙等构成连锁关系，不同式样的门，走道构成选择关系。音乐亦是如此，还记得友友试图探索表现的巴赫和Piranesi的联系吗？
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You joined the Tribe through Arthur. Another experiment.
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DATE: 01/18/2004 08:03:32 AM
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Yesterday. moss on the rocks, sounds of flowing water, light in the trees, mountains and ocean afar, and the rock up close.
On the way back, driving on the Skyline Boulevard, you saw the Black Mountain floating in the sea of clouds.
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First time belaying from the top. Remenber: always double security, always!
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Theory does not express, translate or serve to apply practice: it is practice. But it is local and regional...not totalizing...it is not to "awaken consciousness" that we struggle, but to sap power... it is an activity conducted along side those who struggle for power and not their illumination from a safe distance.
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He was here in the Fall term of 1983, giving six lectures on "Discourse and truth: the problematization of parrhesia."
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The Institute for the Future has a weblog called Future Now. A brief visit found this link: Whale Culture?
"Scientists who study whales are starting to notice signs that these giant creatures may be exhibiting signs of what we humans would call culture. As this ScienCentral News video reports, it's the latest research into a question that has puzzled scientists for years. "
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DATE: 01/19/2004 04:24:55 PM
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“如此数月，他便在荒谷中与神雕为伴。这日闲着无事，漫步来到独孤求败埋剑的山崖
之前。纵跃上崖，看到朽烂木剑下的石刻："四十岁后，不滞于物，草木竹石，均可
为剑。自此精修，渐而进于无剑胜有剑之境。"心想："我持玄铁重剑，几可无敌于天
下，但瞧独孤前辈遗言，显是木剑可胜玄铁重剑，而最后无剑却又胜于木剑。龙儿既
说须十六年后方得相见，这漫漫十余年中，我就来钻研这木剑胜铁剑、无剑胜有剑之
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DATE: 01/20/2004 08:45:00 AM
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Imagine, there is a perfect snowfield.
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She fascinates with herself and the revolution, while turning life's pain into her paintings.
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"I have suffered two accidents in my life, One in which a streetcar ran over me [at age 18]. The other is Diego."
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“民族国家的出现，正是集权崩溃的征兆。当神圣罗马帝国的一统宗教瓦解的时候，民族国家主义于焉兴起，众人瞩目。但是东方，我们仍然只见集权存在。”
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This article is called The Social Networking Industry Analyzed via the Value Framework. It is from VMS3.info.
"Human networking has been around since the dawn of civilization, but new technology promises to bring it into the Internet age. New companies are quickly forming around the idea that networks can be created, traversed, searched, and analyzed for the benefit of social and business users. The new breed of companies may help you find the right Saturday night date or a trusted partner for your next business venture. "
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"The Interactive Social Networking Industry comprises companies seeking to navigate, analyze, or display social connections of friends, colleagues, and acquaintances. The more advanced features allow weak links and friend-of-a-friend links to be exploited for social or business networking purposes. A user may use these applications to find contacts, or to understand what relationships exist.
This analysis examines nine firms in the industry, exploring their similarities and differences. Each firm brings a new perspective or feature to the mix. The users, members, and customers decide which are valuable and which are not. "
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明天是新学期的第一课。关于教案的准备，可以看这里。
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The second European blog conference will be in Vienna in July.
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From Mary's blog, you noticed this discussion. Siva Vaidhyanathan and Miriam Rainsford wrote three months ago on Opendemocracy.net about p2p networks and its social and cultural impact.
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No firecracks here in New Year's eve, but a familiar voice from South Asia.
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Ruzena的关心源自她的成长背景，Steve概括目前这方面的研究大概有两类，一是关于政府对信息架构的控制比如对知识产权，软件，信息安全等方面的标准制订和管理。二是对简单技术决定论乐观预言的反驳。前者有些内容，后者流于肤浅。其实，重要的应当是关注使用者，因为他们是使用技术进行通讯和表达的个人，并且面对日益增长的选择。比如博客，他们是谁，为什么博，怎样博，博些什么？这些应是更有意义的问题。
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You have never been Death Valley before. But now you knew the Dancing Rocks. Thanks, Jane.
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Saw Diane Anbus' Exhibition at SFMOMA last Friday.
"A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know. "
－－－－Quotes from Diane
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This is about social/cultural approaches to information and information systems. Nacy's current research is on camera phones, blogs and issues of trust and credibility on the Net. Today's reading is here. It is also on the class website.
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Notes from Class:
(Political) decision and choices are made each time when technology designed. (e.g. Microsoft Windows.)
There are values embedded in technology.
How do we ask questions? How do we approach these issues?
Technology and human behavior are mutually constituting.
Social sciences ask questions such as how people create and recreate regularities in individual and in societies. They are more about process than outcome, more descriptive than explainary. But we can look at problems from multiple perspectives.
For example:
People clip things and give it to people. Why people do that? Information sharing, establishing commonality, self-expression etc…
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Read this carefully. This should give you some ideas for CDN.
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Clay Shirky is commenting on Dean's dismal, this time essentially questioning the role of social software in this campaign. He wonder "whether Dean has accidentally created a movement (where what counts is believing) instead of a campaign (where what counts is voting.) "
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"There are many reasons for this, but the main one seems to be that the pleasures of life online are precisely the way they provide a respite from the vagaries of the real world. Both the way the online environment flattens interaction and the way everything gets arranged for the convenience of the user makes the threshold between talking about changing the world and changing the world even steeper than usual.
We also know from usability testing that the difference between “would you” and “will you” is enormous — when “would you use this product?” changes to “will you use it?”, user behavior frequently changes dramatically. Apple’s eWorld imploded after the beta testers all dropped the service once it started charging, despite enthusiastically declaring that they would pay for such a service. "
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How does the structure of language, or of any signifying system, operates? Everything in the system is based on the RELATIONS that can occur between the units in the system. These relations consist mainly of relations of DIFFERENCE 对立或歧异.
(在语言体系成分中存在两种关系：Paradigmatic （选择关系） & Syntagmatic （连锁关系）. 前者是词形变化，基于对立或歧异，而后者则是基于体系所能允许的组合类目。
要了解语言体系结构，就必须了解体系中的要素是如何不同，及统治这些组合的规则为何。）
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The most important kind of relation between units in a signifying system, according to Saussure, is a SYNTAGMATIC relation. This means, basically, a LINEAR relation. In spoken or written language, words come out one by one. Because language is linear, it forms a chain, by which one unit is linked to the next.
An example of this is the fact that, in English, word order governs meaning. "The cat sat on the mat" means something different than "The mat sat on the cat" because word order--the position of a word in a chain of signification--contributes to meaning. (The sentences also differ in meaning because "mat" and "cat" are not the same words within the system).
English word order has a particular structure: subject-verb-object. Think of this sentence: "The adjectival noun verbed the direct object adverbially." Other languages have other structures; in German, that sentence might be "The adjective noun auxiliary verbed the direct object adverbially main verb." In French it might be "The noun adjective verbed adverbially the direct object ." In Latin, word order doesn't matter, since the meaning of the word is determined, not by its place in the sentence, but by its cases (nominative, ablative, etc.)
Combinations or relations formed by position within a chain (like where a word is in a sentence) are called SYNTAGMS. Examples of SYNTAGMS can be any phrase or sentence that makes a linear relation between two or more units: under-achiever; by the way; lend me your ears; when in the course of human events.
The terms within a syntagm acquire VALUE only because they stand in opposition to everything before or after them. Each term IS something because it is NOT something else in the sequence. Again, think of coins: a dime is a dime because it's not a quarter or a nickel or a penny or a $100 bill.
SYNTAGMATIC relations are most crucial in written and spoken language, in DISCOURSE, where the ideas of time, linearity, and syntactical meaning are important. There are other kinds of relations that exist outside of discourse.
Signs are stored in your memory, for example, not in syntagmatic links or sentences, but in ASSOCIATIVE groups. The word "education", for example, may get linked, not to verbs and adjectives, but to other words that end in "-tion":education, relation, association, deification. You may store the word education" with other words that have similar associations: education, teacher, textbook, college, expensive. Or you may store words in what looks like a completely random set of linkages: education, baseball, computer games, psychoanalysis (things I like). The idea of ASSOCIATIVE groups or linkages makes me think of pigeonholes, and what pigeonholes I put certain words or ideas in; when I pull out that word or idea, all the other things in that pigeonhole come tumbling out with it.
ASSOCIATIVE relations are only in your head, not in the structure of language itself, whereas SYNTAGMATIC relations are a product of linguistic structure.
Think of the columns of a building (or the rods in a Tinker-Toy "building"). The columns form syntagmatic, or structural, relation when you think about where in the building the columns are, what they support, what they're connected to. The columns form associative relations when you think of what else the columns make you think of: phallic symbols, rockets, popsicles, or whatever.
syntagmatic relations are important because they allow for new words--neologisms--to arise and be recognized and accepted into a linguistic community. "To office," for example (now used in a Kinko's commercial) has meaning because the noun "office" can be moved to the position of verb, and take on a new syntagmatic position and relation to other words. Associative relations are important because they break patterns established in strictly grammatical/linear (syntagmatic) relations and allow for metaphoric expressions.
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TITLE: 符号
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DATE: 01/28/2004 05:18:07 PM
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结构主义理论认为：符号就是能指和所指之间的一种关系。能指和所指如一张纸的两面，是不可分割的存在，每一面都是另一面存在的充要条件。而这关系既是任意的，又必须倚赖社会成员对符号意义及使用的共同契约而存在。
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TITLE: 又见台北
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PRIMARY CATEGORY: My Nation 我的国度
CATEGORY: My Nation 我的国度
DATE: 01/29/2004 09:29:30 AM
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王丰告诉我这家新闻博客网点，上面也有他音像文字俱全的网志。于是又见台北。
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一转又转到了GARND，大概是昨天读《宇宙的创生》的缘故。
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DATE: 01/29/2004 11:42:37 AM
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曾经有投入或介入（Engagement)到存在中去的热情，还有一种热情是关于系统、形式或者结构的。
“抵抗就是对邪恶说不。”
“那种深深浸透我们，那种在我们之前就已存在，那种把我们在时空中凝成一体的东西，的确就是系统。
‘我’被消灭了。我们现在关心的是发现‘有’（there is)。”
“语言是一种形式而非一个实体。”
而新的热情，是存在与结构、自由与意义在数位时代新的综合。
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TITLE: 市场是会话
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DATE: 01/29/2004 05:05:31 PM
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Paul讲博客史，谈到当年网络热忱者们的宣言：“市场是会话。”
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DATE: 02/02/2004 09:57:35 AM
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"If I had to describe what I write about, it would be “Systems where vested interests lose out to innovation.”
Or maybe “Systems where having good participants produces better results than having good planners.”
I now recognize in my writings an interest in any systems undergoing an influx of new participants -- the need to avoid mandated design standards on the web ; the tremendous increase in internet use outside the US ; the new voice of previously mute consumers ."
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"More than once, new technologies have held out the promise of wider participation by citizens, only to be corralled by a new set of legal or economic realities, and the net, which threatens many vested interests all at once, will be no exception.
Nevertheless, despite a ‘two steps forward, one step back’ progression, we are living through a potentially enormous shift in the amount of leverage the many have over the few. It is my aim to chronicle these changes as they happen, and to provide a framework, built from observation, which aids both interpretation and prediction. "
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DATE: 02/02/2004 04:09:55 PM
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Danah told me this conference is in San Diego next week.
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What is ethnographic research? Case studies.
Traditional positivist view of research: objectivity -assumption of “the view from nowhere”
In social sciences, we are more talking about “Situated knowledge”, there is no “the view from nowhere.”
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To be insider is to be corrupted”?
White male anthropologists are “objective”?
Insider vs outsider. Observer vs Participant. Embodied knowledge vs Intellectual knowledge.
“To make the familiar strange. “
“Recording your fresh impression, because things will disappear.”
etc.
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DATE: 02/02/2004 07:02:31 PM
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"The new kind of social settings enabled through mobil communication that differ fundamentally from prior settings such as workplace, restaurant, face-to-face interaction, or landline telephony." Mazuko Ito called "technosocial situations and settings" in her paper.
Social identity and practice are embedded in and contingent on particular social situations, including technosocial situations.
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More and more, social orders are built through the hybrid relation between physically co-located and electronically mediated information systems.
Social order is continually being created and recreated. Why is important to concern about construction of social order? Identity is constructed and varies in situations.
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DATE: 02/02/2004 07:06:35 PM
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Being two places at once, having two conversation at once is disruptive. Does this break social order? But new norms of behavior are also being developed.
How about this “continues partial attention “?
“If my continues partial attention is too partial to you, then you are too old.” :-)
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