Isaac Mao

We history
T-salon:
Not sure whether it was Marc Bloch who said that everyone is a historian; however there are some qualities that made “professional” or at least a trained historian different from those who weren’t trained in the craft of history.
I have the similar discussion with Tian months ago. Grassroots historian and archivest(?) [...]

我在找一些不错的Flash RIA应用，看到了GE的这个绘图白板很酷，随手画了几笔，可惜不能保存成为JPG之类的文件（只能邮寄链接），也不能输出为“毕加索”那样的贴片放在网页上。其实我想找的是一个多人可以同时绘图的白板，似乎Macromedia Communication Server 支持这样的应用，还没有试验过。DigitalBoy在Communication Server上尝试很多，他的Video Blog不知道是否会有人爱玩（似乎儿童不宜，链接删除）。
RIA更适合于放在网页之中作为一个点缀，这一点Flickr发挥恰到好处，无论是图片显示、管理组织，还是图片秀，Flash的作用都是画龙点睛，没有强加给用户的感觉。而把RIA当作应用的容器，则似乎并不惹人爱，微软的实验室作品Wallop和Macromedia的Central都差不多如此，虽然Fans不少，可是不实用。

Xiao Qiang: Chinese Whispers
Another good piece on China’s blogosphere from Xiao Qiang, published on “New Scientist”(Cover date 27 November 04):
“Blog services are now sprouting all over China. By the end of October 2004, China had more than 45 large blog-hosting services. A Google search for bo ke will return more than 2 million results, from [...]