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Wikipedia Item "Isaac Mao"

Ha, Andrew made it during Berkeley's conference, "China's Digital Future". I guess it's been removed if it's Encyclop?dia Britannica, or Encarta. So anyone could be included in Wikipedia in the future if he/she has a lifelong blog as achive?

Communist Part Brach Website in China Supports RSS

Xiaoqiang's post on Many-2-Many:

This is number of computers in China. What about social software? CNblog.org is a very active group weblog in Chinese cyberspace, discussing weblogs, wiki, social networking services etc... According to bloggers on CNblog, China now has more than 300,000 active bloggers. I also noticed an interesting news about a local Communist Party branch website just added on RSS function. These technologies are spreading fast in Chinese cyberspace today. ----- [Many-2-Many]

Xiaoqiang guested in "Many-to-Many" blog

Seems good sign that Chinese blogsphere is ggeting more attentions by outside world, this is the best window:

Help us welcome guestblogger Xiao Qiang. I met Xiao when were panelists on social software at an IFTF event. He has been a political activist since Tiananmen, is the founding executive director of Human Rights in China, is a MacArthur and Santa Fe Institute fellow and now directs Berkeley??s China Internet Project. Besides his personal blog, he blogs with John Battelle and others at China Digital News.

Xiao can help us understand more than the state of blogging in China and all those links you wish Google can translate. Social Software in China faces issues of control even if not applied to activism or media. Its a place where the digital divide could result in another revolution and the greatest country least understood.[[Many-to-Man]

Bush Falls, again

"President Bush fell off his bicycle Saturday while riding on his ranch, according to White House spokesman Trent Duffy."---[CNN]

It's not the first time that Bush falls, do you remember that he falls from Segway last time?

Then what's his next fall?

Gender use of blogs: more alike than different
From David Huffaker's M.A. thesis, Gender Similarities and Differences in Online Identity and Language Use among Teenage Bloggers:

Contrary to prediction, the results indicate that there are more gender similarities than differences in blog use.

via misbehaving.net

I will collect interviews on some female bloggers in the future on this topic, too.

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Blog: Your Social Portal

Many talks recently on blog's social functions in blogshpere, e.g. Ton talks about the Blog as a Personal Presence Portal, Elmine's "The strength of blogging", as well Ming's reflection on them.

Actually, I'm thinking of blog's social functions for a long time, too. The Wego(codename) can be designed to target this comprehesive objective. Anyway, Dave ever released RSS Publish-subscribe spec before, we can imagine from that for such tech innovations.

Proba seems the Great Wall of China from space
"When Yang Liwei, the first taikonaut, orbited 14 times around Earth in October 2003, he didn't see the Great Wall of China from his Shenzhou V capsule. He was disappointed, and so were his countrymen. China said for decades that the Great Wall was the only manmade object visible from space. So, the Chinese government was tempted to modify the schoolbooks to remove this reference.

But now, Proba, the polyvalent satellite launched in 2001 by the European Space Agency (ESA), was able to capture images of the Great Wall from space taken at an altitude of 600 km."

Here it is.

(source:Source: European Space Agency news release, May 11, 2004)

WeaLink.com, the real SNS in China?

A team of a whole new social networking service in China is under construction. Wealink.com, could be the final name of the service. "We are link", "We all link", "Via link", or "Weak link?"......

Till now, almost all "SNS" in China are becoming dating service just like those portals invented themselves into half-porn sms dating service. It's, whatever, non-evitable change to those short-vision business men. Hopefully, WeaLink.com's new model chould change the situation.

The Biggest Computer

I like those ideas about ubiquitous computing and big computing, so i'm interseted in this story:

Seth Lloyd, a physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, has estimated how much information the Universe can contain, and how many calculations it has performed since the Big Bang.

Lloyd views every process, every change that takes place in the Universe, as a kind of computation. One way of looking at the exercise is to imagine setting up a simulation of the Universe, particle for particle, on a hypothetical super-duper computer.

To simulate the Universe in every detail since time began, the computer would have to have 10⁹⁰ bits - binary digits, or devices capable of storing a 1 or a 0 - and it would have to perform 10¹²⁰ manipulations of those bits. Unfortunately there are probably only around 10⁸⁰ elementary particles in the Universe.

Source: Philip Ball, Nature, June 3, 2002

Blogger face changed

Blogger.com has changed it's interface elements, actually, it's not mere a interface change. It seems that blogger is reinventing itself to personal knowledge management portal, or name "Your Dashboard".

Thanks for zheng's report on cnblog, many memes could resonate in blogsphere in these 2 days about this change, definitely.

Disruptive Innovations

Roland Tanglao on some internet things in emergent and could be disruptive: "The next brew is simmering. What are the ingredients? Some are familiar: wireless, XML, GPS, mobile devices. Others are less well known, or still struggling to get out of the lab. Smart dust, cubic-centimeter sized computers. MEMS, which gives computers the ability to sense and react to their surroundings. IPv6, which will allow everything to have an IP address. RFID (radio frequency identification) tags, which attach data to objects. Flexible LEDs, printed onto plastic sheets and foldable into origami shapes." ---- [Roland Tanglao]

In a dinner receipt of China's Digital Future Conference at Berkeley , John Gage, Chief Researcher
Sun Microsystems, Inc., demoed a facinate global information system, that could roam in a 3D globe to reach any point and show any information related. The information could be scaled down and up from nano to km level. I will try to put a spectrum figure on my book draft to show this relationship. Anyway, blog can show it's position, in this spectrum, too.

Joi: software patents are a bad American idea

"I think software patents are a bad American idea. Japan has followed the US and now Europe is planning to pass one of the worst versions software patent law discarding many of the amendments to limit its power without discussion. Although I'm for many types of patents, I think that software patents are generally bad and in particular hurt small companies and innovation." --- [Joi Ito]

Burden on reading
Many guys enjoy the meta-writing via blogging, however, it's also easy to fall into meta-reading dilema. Seems all information jam, no time to think it over and then lead to real action. It's not a good learning process. Learning could happen only by doing. If learning happens, all the information even in jam could be transferred into your own knowledge.

So reading-writing-doing could be a best composition to a real lifelong learner. Remeber, we are not a mere input-output machine, we are intelligent container and processor.

Picasso Sold for $104.2 Mln Is World's Most Expensive Painting

Bloomberg, "Pablo Picasso's 1905 ``Garcon a la Pipe'' became the world's most expensive artwork ever sold at auction last night when an anonymous bidder paid $104.2 million for the painting at Sotheby's Holdings Inc. in New York."

Picasso's Boy with a Pipe(Reuters)

Mary Hodder's blog
Mary is so kind to arrange a good meeting with Technorati guys and drive me to SFO yesterday. I'm now reading her words on "China's Digital Future" conference. Thanks, Mary, looking forward to see you again somewhere.

I'm adding her blog to my blogrolling....

Some photos shared on fotopages
Fotopages is cool to share either thumbnail photos or wallpaper-sized photos, so i pick up some of the photos in this trip to Berkeley there.

Over talking
It's so overtalked in these days that my throat gets pain and husky in voice.