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Meta ideas, Memes, and Mind morphing...
2003-11-30
The Global Brain ConceptIn 1983 Russell proposed a Global Brain that might emerge from a worldwide network of humans who were highly connected through communications. He based his argument on the observation that throughout evolution qualitative transitions to a new level of organization have been observed to occur in several instances where a system attains approximately 10 billion (ten to the tenth power) units that are tightly but flexibly coupled. Examples include the number of atoms in a bio-molecule, the number of molecules in a cell, and the number of cells in the cortex of the human brain. Since the world population (5.7 billion, 1994) is within an order of magnitude of ten to the tenth and growing, the threshold for a new level of organization, by his arguments, could be reached soon. Thus Russell saw the network of interconnected humans forming a Global Brain; we expand the concept to include computers -- not only as communication links between humans, as Russell used them, but as active information-processors alongside humans. Simulations in this environment will have to include life-like, agent based elements. ------- [
Santa Fe Institution]
Great minds, great vision. Putting blog, neural networks and social software together, we can imagine a real Global Brain is emerging. However, what's the mind in this brain? It's a "God" or "Evil"? Who can forsee the future of human beings? Is it green or grey? ......
Add Haloscan comment to this blog, not well tested yet. Thanks for
Topku's complaining. ;-)
"I like eating full-text/html RSS!", A
fable(In Chinese) writing about "Shark"(My SharpReader's name), to call on bloggers' using FULL-TEXT even FULL HTML RSS to support better aggregation experience. To Movabletype users, they can apply the full text/html
template to support this.
Christopher M. Johnson has published a beautiful
diagrammatic overview of communities of practice(CoP). Well worth a look. [Thanks to John D. Smith.]
[
Column Two]
Sam Ruby's
thought on XAML, will MS win more with this new generation of technolgy?
Parminder prefers Coke, so much so that if a restaurant only offers Pepsi, he??ll go with water. One day, in a blind taste test, he chooses Pepsi, and is swept by a feeling of dislocation. Will he switch colas? "Of course not," Parminder snaps. "I prefer Coke." ---- [
Meme Warefare]
Applying Meme theory to analyze SS will be helpful, especially on trust myth. Truse me-me. ;)
"You've been thiner than before", it's from comments by some friends recenlty met me. It's a good sign or not? Yes, I'm working hard. However, I'm always running a stable time table instead of breaking up schedule randomly. I think it can do good to my health, safety and mood. So thinker could be better, unless it's some potential diseases, such as Diabetes.
Hi all friends, are you ok now? Be kind to your body, and it can generate value for you longer. Trust me.
Software Development - The Truth !
via
HawkEyeWindix translated it in to Chinese,
here.
Modeling the Internet, analyzing wasted IP space, IP space distribution, detecting the result of natural disasters, weather, war, and esthetics/art. This project is free and represents a lot of donated time, please enjoy. ---[
Opte Project]
2003-11-29
eSchool NewsOnline, "
Students have a say in national ed-tech plan": More than 210,000 students from 1,535 schools in all 50 states and the District of Columbia responded to a recent call by the nonprofit group NetDay to share their ideas about how technology should be used in schools. The results will help shape the nation's third National Educational Technology Plan now in development, federal officials say.
so many people in CHina are now busy taking different kinds of examinations, i guess China is one of the biggest exam market in this world. However, I don't think so many exams could do any good to improve the low-quality educational system in this country. Instead, it's harmful to pay more attention on real learning achievement .
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2003-11-28
Will meet some bloggers group by group in Shanghai tomorrow at Metro Starbucks. From morning to afternoon.
Implementation of Web-supported Music Instruction - Alan Anderson, Allan Ellis, NAWEB 2003 Abstract: The advent of multimedia computers has led to some innovative approaches to teaching music theory via the Web, and recent advances in desktop video technologies have made it possible to teach elements of practical performance skills online. Together these technologies may have the potential to drive a transformation in the way music education is delivered. However, the effectiveness of such transformation is dependent upon the ability and willingness of music teachers to make a conceptual leap in their approach to the teaching of music. Online course developers and consultants need to keep this in mind and work collaboratively with music teachers and students to determine their specific needs in terms of Web-based music teaching and learning resources. This paper reports on how such an approach led to the implementation of Web-supported learning for several groups of music students, in Southern Cross University??s (SCU) Bachelor of Contemporary Music Program and the local community.
topku complained this META Blog is too difficult to read. No category, no tiltes, no comments.... So original! I'm too lazy to put those things on, it's only MEME/META Ideas, isn't it?
However, I suggest all kind readers can syndicate this RSS instead of reading the ugly page. :) I promise, promise to improve it step by step in spare time.
WashingtonPost, "
New China, Old Threat": CHINA'S NEW Communist leadership would like to be seen as pragmatic, modernizing and cooperatively engaged with the world, and to some extent, it has succeeded in earning this reputation in its first months. Outsiders have been impressed with its open handling of the SARS health crisis, its willingness to join a multilateral effort to curb North Korea's nuclear program and its success in sustaining explosive economic growth that has helped prop up a sluggish global economy. In an interview with The Post last week, Premier Wen Jiabao, who will soon become the first senior Chinese official to visit the United States since Hu Jintao took over as president, sketched a progressive, if cautious, political agenda, pledging to develop democracy and the rule of law. "We should make sure that government is placed under the supervision of the people," he said.
Is that the media interviewed Mr. Wen last week reported in China's media?
Re-read "
Kurzweil's on Self": Here's Ray Kurzweil on the nature of the self, in his generous and excellent article on Wolfram's A New Kind of Science:
If I ask the question, 'Who am I?' I could conclude that, perhaps I am this stuff here, i.e., the ordered and chaotic collection of molecules that comprise my body and brain.
However, the specific set of particles that comprise my body and brain are completely different from the atoms and molecules than comprised me only a short while (on the order of weeks) ago. We know that most of our cells are turned over in a matter of weeks. Even those that persist longer (e.g., neurons) nonetheless change their component molecules in a matter of weeks.
So I am a completely different set of stuff than I was a month ago. All that persists is the pattern of organization of that stuff. The pattern changes also, but slowly and in a continuum from my past self. From this perspective I am rather like the pattern that water makes in a stream as it rushes past the rocks in its path. The actual molecules (of water) change every millisecond, but the pattern persists for hours or even years.
From this Kurzweil seems to conclude -fallaciously -that the self is merely formal. That is, the substance is irrelevant. Therefore, other stuff with the same form is just as much the self. Thus, strong AI is possible.
Thanks David, you provide me new perspectives from Kurzweil. I've printed all His "K-Reader" articles as bed reading materials.
Popup Meme: Mobile Phone is NOT Social Software(Hardware).
1. SMS+No. is not trustworthy
without complementary activities
2. Difficult to expand Social Networking
3. No memory/log
4. It's just for Communication, not for connections(Nokia's connecting hype)?? even PDA+MP can't be more rich in Social functions
5. Manufacturers is falling into Fashion traps instead of extending it's social ability
Open Access News: The PLoS story is discussed in the latest online edition of
Al Jazeera , one of the most popular newspaper in the arab world .The article also discusses the different perspectives of the open access publication and also includes a short note about the criticisms against this model.
Hopefully, our scientists(including those
new CAS Members) know what's "Open Access"...
Ask teachers two questions: 1. Do you really love your job? 2. Do you really know how to improve your performance? I want to know not only the answers but also the what means in different answers.
In China, we have more than 11M variety of teachers around the country(Not including Hongkong, Taiwan, Macau regions). However, there is never a survey on such questions. We pay a lot in hardward construction. However, we dare not to face problems in software, we can't resolve problems. It's the real situation in China's education system.
2003-11-27
Eventually, Lycos host recovered their FTP account by simple restarting the server, what a service!
Popup Memes: Two problems of
Yoyonet: 1. What's for, just for making friends? How can be more sticky? 2. There is also a language wall in front of it, someday friendster loalized, it can generate more value than a single language community.
Jianshuo's message in my box: "
Do you have any interest to plan a short meet up for bloggers in Shanghai? That may be interesting. Just a splash of thought in my mind. Any comment? Starbucks may be a good place. " Wow, Jianshuo+Starbucks!! haha.
2003-11-26
Christian Science Monitor-----"
Thanks, but no thanks":A Connecticut district rejected federal dollars and walked away from the No Child Left Behind law. Interesting, keeping from TOO MUCH BUREAUCRACY!!
Finished lecture in SJTU this afternoon, which is the first session"How to learn" series. good responds from audience. I like students with open ideas..... Try to refine my slides in some points fullfillment for further lectures.
Will add such header in this blog template, to help aggregators easily find and syndicate:
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS" href="http://subscribe.feedster.com/meta" />
I can't FTP update my server due to "a database failure from Lycos", from their service team. So my English and Chinese blog can't publish from last afternoon on. Fortunetly, I can still blog on either local server and blogger.com. I love decentralization!
Topku, told me this link,
iLearn from MIT. Yes, I know this project, but thanks anyway for the updates.
Michael Sinneck, who was recruited from IBM last year to head Microsoft's services unit, is leaving the Redmond, Washington, software maker. ----[
Infoworld]
Many guys recently left Microsoft China, too. There is also such rumors in these days about Jun Tang, former MS China President. However, Tang has denied such rumor on media days ago. Seems
Jianshuo is always loyal employee of MS, who knows?
Seems that South Korea may continue to be the most wired country:
South Korea plans to build a nationwide Internet access infrastructure capable of speeds between 50M bps (bits per second) and 100M bps by 2010, the online edition of the Chosun Ilbo daily newspaper reported Tuesday.
From
InfoWorld.
2003-11-25
Will visit STCMU soon. Today is the last session, with a performance activity. Will our students perform out of my experience? // Both my hosting service and blogger.com are not very well today. :(
Can we select annual A-list Chinese bloggers? What's the criteria? Frequency, Technology Savvy(RSS, template redesign, plugins), Visitors, Design, Quoting, Rings, Outside ranking, etc.
Headshift:
The weblog news aggregator k-collector released in version 1.0 Also, Paolovalde's ideas on "
Weblogs for knowledge management". Vector thinking! "Weblogs and rss aggregators help companies and organisations to improve their focus and effectiveness." What helps aligning efforts in any organisation? Yes, it's "K" force.
Wangjianshuo toured and blogged all Starbucks in Shanghai(
I,
II). What an interesting but drag job! ;-)
BTW, how about
Chinese Tea blog? Seems the ever hottest blog has submerged into mass bloggers in China.
Blogger.com down for hours, now back.
CNet, "
Intel halves chip size":Intel said it has produced chips with the 65-nanometre manufacturing process, a strong sign the company will continue to keep pace with Moore's Law.
CNBlog.org's Google rank jumps to 6/10, too. I guess this weight increasement comes from Creative Commons's project link.
Ray Kurzweil's tips to inventors:
Watch for"false pretenders": an upstart threatens to eclipse older technology but the new technology misses key elements, so its failure reinforces belief by technology conservatives that the old technology will live forever. But new versions of upstart technology can disrupt the old technology. Case in point: electronic books, which failed for now, but will succeed: "books will be obsolete before the decade is out."
Fantasize that you're giving a speech years from now and you're explaining how you solved the problem.
Create devoted passionate teams and encourage open and wide communication.
Organize project milestones around demos.
Write the Advertising Brochure first (forces you to articulate features and benefits) and recruit the beneficiaries (users) to help invent the technology.
Invent while you sleep, using lucid dreaming.
2003-11-24
Roger Eaton
introduced in detail on
Chandler. Seems it has more fascinated future than I knew before. Download latest build now..... It's also an important Social Software I forgot to put into
CNBlog's Wiki.
"
Retooling Slashdot with Web Standards", by Daniel M. Frommelt: "Slashdot is a very prominent site, but underneath the hood you will find an old jalopy that could benefit from a web standards mechanic."
Maybe we should use the criterias in this article to redesign most of our web sites.
ZDNet: The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant recently indicated that it will add pop-up blocking features to Internet Explorer (IE) next year, as part of an update for Windows XP. Others have offered similar tools before, but because IE so thoroughly dominates the browser market, ad executives and Internet watchers believe the changes could finally burst the bubble for pop-ups.
My Google toolbar has successfully blocked over 1500 popups since last upgrade(at about early July). "
Now only some inferior web designers use popup". Many lessons to domestic web sites.
MIT Technoloyg Review:
Big-Picture Biotech Systems biology aims to provide a clearer picture of how diseases work??and how to prevent them. Pity that I didn't subscribe to this magazine. Will MIT join Open Access soon?
i'm now talking with James Wang, on a Flash-based learning project, now take a break, :)
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Open Source LCMS:
ATutor"Tutor is a Standards Compliant Open Source Web-based Learning Content Management System (LCMS) designed with accessibility and adaptability in mind. Administrators can install or update ATutor in minutes. Educators can quickly assemble, package, and redistribute Web-based instructional content, and conduct their courses online. Students learn in an adaptive learning environment." ----[
elearningpost ]
a Chinese version of
Friendster mock,
Yoyonet(In Chinese, "friend's friend"). I've registered an account there, just for testdrive. :)
Jay Cross's "
EdBlogger reflections", blogging on eBN's EdBlogger Conference in SF. Many scenarios applying blog/wiki to learning/teaching context.
2 GI's, Throats Slashed, Found Dead in IraqNew York Times: BAGHDAD, Iraq, Nov. 23 Three American soldiers were killed in Iraq on Sunday, including two whose throats were slashed after they came under attack in the northern city of Mosul with rocks and gunfire, a military official said.
Iraqi teens savage bodies of US soldiers Independent Online
Ouch! Is that another
Somalia again? Hey, Bush, please rethink your future in IRAQ war. I know it's dilema to you now. (Chinese proverb: Once on a tiger's back, it is hard to alight)
There is a burst word on "
Dvorak" in my sharpreader today. Oops, he
comments on BLOG again after one year. Let me read it through after finishing the jobs in hand and introduce different points/reflections on
CNBlog.
Great resource for teachers, well categorized and acting as a clearing house for sharing experience within grassroots. How we need such sites in China. There is BBC's backing, but no CCTV. :( --- via [
eBN]
Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities:"
The Internet has fundamentally changed the practical and economic realities of distributing scientific knowledge and cultural heritage. For the first time ever, the Internet now offers the chance to constitute a global and interactive representation of human knowledge, including cultural heritage and the guarantee of worldwide access. We, the undersigned, feel obliged to address the challenges of the Internet as an emerging functional medium for distributing knowledge. Obviously, these developments will be able to significantly modify the nature of scientific publishing as well as the existing system of quality assurance."
You can't hide yourself in blogsphere any longer, unless it's not a blog.
Grossfinch found my blog just in one day I created it(via
blo.gs). As well
owen (via referrer links)and then
zheng(via aggregator).....
So interesting.
Zheng ever quoted the story "
Mom finds out son's blog" on
cnblog, it's a more interesting topic to redefine privacy/publicty border.
Many annual reports is emerging by the end of year. Shall we compose a Chinese annual blog report, too? ;-)
xmlrpc program succeeded on my pocket pc! eventually, i have to rewrite such code by myself...:(
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2003-11-23
Robin Goods: pdfCompressor Desktop Edition compresses PDF files to one-tenth their regular size. As an example, the software can compress a typical 10-page 300 dpi PDF image file, from 1MB to just 95K bytes.
Popup Meme: "
Google is the brain of the world". After reading many medical research articles this morning and afternoon, a meme suddenly popup when I just want to leave desktop. Yes, it's "Google is simulating the brain of the world". It's not new idea, isn't it. However, after mapping all neuro network features with Googles algorithm and ranking methodogies, I believe it's not just a metaphor, but a real thing. Google's SearchBot is just like the
MRI/PET, scanning the body of real world and map to it's artifical neuro system(
update: thousands of man-made "soma"). That's also why Google won't believe Semantic Web, wow! With buying blogger.com early this year, He(or "She", or my God!) now has a new sense orgnic just like a real-time eyes/nose to get more immediate stimuli from real world.
Blogging memes: it's better to have an editing feature to automatically help list similiar posts in my blog along the timeline when I'm blogging new items. Thus I won't overlook some annual events and reports, as well any important days. It's a long awaiting feature to me from the first day on. Maybe I should do it by myself. :(
A meme list is also helpful to blog editing.
Neural Java ---Neural Networks Tutorial with Java Applets. So inspiring!
Also the book, "
Spiking Neuron Models ", could be
ordered next time.
Zheng commented that his feed on that RSS builder tool worked eventually. It means it's a cache synchronized with the runtime link in a period of latency. So what I should do now is, waiting.
Seem Meta RSS works with this link(
http://feedster.com/makerss.php?url=http://www.isaacmao.com/meta), not the fake link(http://subscribe.feedster.com/meta ) provided by Feedster.
What's wrong with it? (Zheng also asked the same question), let me check it again.....
BTW, will this build tool work with Blogger.com's new "Title" Macro? Though I won't always put a title with this blog(Interesting work to name a post, isn't it? However, it's also time cost)
From Zheng's Klogs, "
Feedster Builder :: Create a Feed". This Meta Blog testdrives it and take the
http://subscribe.feedster.com/meta link as RSS feed.
As a matter of fact, Feedster Builder provides almost the same function of my homeborn RSSBlogger with ASP(also RSStify by someone else in PHP). Unfortunetely, RSSBlogger can't work on my current hosting(Scripting Engine problem). Hopefully, CNBlog's upcoming Grassland service can integrate such functions, too, in the near future.
Start learning "Acupuncture"(The Medical Classic of the Yellow Emperor, a bad translation on "Huang2 Di4 Nei4 Jing1"). It's my 2-hour homework on such Sunday morning.
Finished reading
Ray Kurzeweil's all Future Cast column. A great job, isn't it? Will print all his remarks/articles in recent years (assebled and named
Kurzweil Reader). It's so helpful to understand the frontier of neuroscience. Thanks, Ray!
My Google rank sways between 5 and 6 in these days. Is that means 5.5? :)
There's been some discussion in the blog world about using a Bayesian categorizer to enable a person to discriminate along various interest/non-interest axes. I took a run at this recently and, although my experiments haven't been wildly successful, I want to report them because I think the idea may have merit. [Jon's Radio][Full story: O'Reilly Network: Working with Bayesian Categorizers]
Some but not enough
talks on Bayes classification algorithm in blogshpere. The results of test are exiting to researchers, but could not be qulifiied to satisfy end users(Why end user is so tough? haha). Hopefully, I can have time to implement such a module in C#.
My Sharpreader can't catch Dave Winner's RSS becuase his update frequency is too high, as well it's RSS feed is too short in items. Many people likes to use News Aggregator to collect all content from some favorite blogs. Thus Dave's RSS feed could cause missing items in occassionally opened aggregators, just like me.
Or, maybe I should let my aggregator "Always On" as today's internet connection. Dave Sifry of
Technorati writes:
Right now, we're adding 8,000-9,000 new weblogs every day, not counting the 1.2 Million weblogs we already are tracking. That means that on average, a brand new weblog is created every 11 seconds. We're also seeing about 100,000 weblogs update every day as well, which means that on average, a weblog is updated every 0.86 seconds.
Every 0.86 seconds?? Man, I'm really going to have to step up my pace!
2003-11-22
Will add RSS feed soon here.
Now this blog has been posted from Blogger.com, Pocket Blog, Desktop web site, as well a C# program. I will try more "writing" possibilities on my road.
Yunshen mentioned this blog in his
K-logs. hehe, it's not my intention to publish this blog so soon. Now, I have to do more things to make it better. You know, publicity means pressure. ;)
2003-11-21
Website allows students to critique different aspects of college: "Choosing a college or university can be a tough task, especially when advice is coming from books written by people who graduated long ago or by a tour guide who only talks about the positives of the school.
Prospective students will soon be able to visit a new website that features feedback from students who attend different colleges.
The website, www.rateyourcampus.com, also informs its visitors about recently graduated individuals and how they are faring in the working world in terms of salary and job placement."
----- Really good idea, let grassroots take actions to tell out the real comparations.
Joi Ito's
position on the US, I stand with him.
COUGAAR is an "Open Source Cognitive Agent Architecture for Large-Scale Distributed Multi-Agent Systems". Wow, that sounds neat. ----[
Ming the mechanic]
Hopefully, it can help us to do some intelligent things with open source base. OS can really do helps to developing countries. Unfortunetely, government is the last one who knows that.
China's Ministry of Education and IBM recently announced they have begun using grid technology to enable universities across the country to collaborate on research, scientific and education projects. This is one of the world's largest implementations----[
Techno News]
Huh, huh, a big hype again.
Taiwan, China Play Chicken Again ----[
Christian Science Monitor]
From Lisbeth Klastrup Miss Digital World. CNN article here.
Plans for the BBC Digital Curriculum
The Digital Curriculum will be a free online service, delivered through broadband and narrowband connections, providing high quality interactive resources which can be accessed at school, at home or in the community
It will cover key elements of the school curricula of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland for children aged four to 16. It will be an innovative service offering a variety of different resources and allowing teachers to adapt the material to the differing needs of their pupils. ----[BBCi]
Bravo BBC, better job than CNN, Fox, etc.
Undoubtly, that girl was fired. Sorry, no sympathy at all. ---[
owen] [
danwei]
I promsised to acer won't link to her new private blog, but I sincerely hope she can endure this hard time as a freshman.
So sad Pock Blog can't work on my PPC, I can't debug more due to tight free time. However, I believe there are sth wrong with any DLL controls in fuzzzzzzz names. I WILL BE BACK, bugs! :D
Jirong found my Meta blog, how can he find it? ;-)
I may put RSS, as well other stuffs/gadgets on this blog step by step. No hurry, doen't it?
"
Bill Joy: 'Open source doesn't assist the initial creative act.' "
Jim McGee links to
Digital IQ. If you score 110 or higher, you're a geek.
Alex Wright on Paul Otlet, the forgotten forefather of hypertext ---[
Many2Many]
Seems more earlier than
Vannevar Bush.... a great visioner
REUTERS,
NOV. 22, 1963: The president and first lady at Love Field. Increasingly, those who mark the anniversary of JFK's assasination, are not old enough to remember it.
--[
Chritian Science Monitor]
Taking to the Streets
Against the backdrop of a massive security operation, tens of thousands of protestors marched against George W. Bush in London
Demonstrators march across London's Westminster Bridge on Thursday
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