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[Daryl Cagle via CNN Blog Roundup][Ross Mayfield]

"Mass media" or "Mass' media"?

"Mass media" is common words to represent the broadcasting mechanism including TV, radio, newspaper, journals, etc. With the growing up of grassroots publishing, the terms seems in change too. All traditional mass media means "Media boradcasting to mass", instead of "Media collecting from mass". Thus in BlogOn event, there are many buzz on "Social Media", which is also an extension of social software. "Social Media" is real "Mass' media", coming from grassroots and serve for grassroots based on the trusted social network. and collective intelligence manner.

DNA hacker passed away

Francis Crick, who along with James Watson cracked the code for DNA, has died at Scripps Thornton Hospital after a long battle with colon cancer. He was 88.

via CNN, BBC, San Diego Union Tribune

Ex-president charged with genocide

SeattlePI.com, "A special prosecutor made history Friday by filing genocide charges against former Mexican President Luis Echeverria, who is linked to the military massacre of at least 30 students during a June 1971 free speech protest."

Joi commented on "Blog on blog":

You probably don't care, but in Japanese, "Boke" means stupid or spaced out.

Who is Fang? Has he written anything in English or is anything translated?

Dr. Jiang Yanyong released

NY Times: China Releases Surgeon Who Exposed SARS Coverup. The doctor, Jiang Yanyong, 72, returned home late Monday night after about 45 days in military custody....

Not well working with blogger.com in these days

I can't freely access blogger.com in these days, either broken links or timeout when I want to edit or new a post there. After trying proxy, I think it's not the Great Firewall plays tricks. But why? Should I write to Evan Williams?

This post is written in blogbuddy and post through Blogger API, seems this part is ok.

Jianshuo, "Blogging in China is at its turning point. I just feel it." He researched some individual bloggers who recently felt consfusion on blogging, including his wife, Wendy. And more Chinese bloggers "don't want to blog any more". Fons also compiled this phenomenon after Jianshuo and compiled his ideas along this meme.

It may sound frustrated at first to hear that since most of us hope that blogging can bring people learning, thinking, reflection and happiness, instead of boring. But if we think more, it's just free of choice to people in our diversified world. So don't worry about it, at least Jianshuo said he won't quit. As well to me, Haha.

I believe, eventually, the world will divide itself into two groups of people: bloggers and non-bloggers. I understand either Jianshuo or Wendy on their choices.

To me, blog is a lifelong learning tool. Since I will learning lifelong, I will blog lifelong, definitely.

BitTorrent beats Kazaa, accounts for 53% of P2P traffic

Also on AlwaysOn: Over six months of surveying, CacheLogic found that Kazaa use had slipped far behind rival BitTorrent, which accounted for 53% of actual peer-to-peer network traffic. It found also that overall traffic has not been falling, as some have suggested. By June, an average of 8 million users were online at any given time, sharing a petabyte (10 million gigabytes) of data. Network monitoring firm BayTSP said the average number of people on the FastTrack network, which is dominated by Kazaa,...

AOL, Yahoo, MSN to link IM systems

AlwaysOn: "America Online, Microsoft and Yahoo plan to announce Friday that they are teaming to link instant messaging services for workplace use, according to a published report. The alliance would be the first major step by the industry leaders to enable computer users to communicate with one another no matter which of the systems they use, the Washington Post reported on its Web site late Thursday night. The companies will announce a partnership intended to increase use... "

Messenger is popular in a corporation culture background, especially helpful to salesmen, however, will this generate furhter value in BAI?

Slowing down, Chinese blogosphere

From a recent research by cnblog(no publication yet), the blog number growth rate in China is about 34% in the 2nd quarter of 2004, comparing to 47% in 1st quarter. So cnblog has ajusted the counter of Chinese blogs to a lower speed. Now the statistic number of China's blogger is about 440,000, at a daily growth of 600 new weblogs.

Differnet from Technorati's method, we use more statistical method in counting Chinese blogs now. Grassland is still a small database, we need more donations from outside world to support it's further development.

I haven't met you but I like you
Counterintuitively, a number of academic studies have found that people like each other better when they first meet over the internet, versus first meeting face to face. In a 2002 paper, three New York University professors (John A. Bargh, Katelyn Y.A. McKenna, and Grainne M. Fitzsimons) explored this pattern. ... ----[Online Business Networks Blog]

I was thinking of the change of knowledge ontology with the social factors involved. The sychomotor domain have impacted learning theory a lot in past 40 years. Will it apply to social software and social learning in the same way?

What is social about "social tools"?
"When we free the creative potential of flexible constellations of communities of interest and practice, it will boost their members? identity, mutual care and professional pride. The emerging generation of social tools can be optimized for powering up that process. When that happens, blogs graduate from personal publishing tool and become a potent enabler of collective intelligence. "--- [Blog of Collective Intelligence]

As a meta tool between thinking and writing, weblog fills the gap of many memes, ideas that we lost everyday. Furtherly, with the random and chaotic connections between weblogs, the world is reforming itself into a social brain.

Blog wins Google contest

It's not surprising me at all:

The organizers of an international search engine placement contest crowned their champion Wednesday. In the end, the victor was a popular blogger who got his readers to do his work for him.

Anil Dash won the second, and final, round of the two-month SEO Challenge, which called on webmasters and site owners to use any method at their disposal to score the top Google ranking for a made-up term, "nigritude ultramarine."

Dash's strategy differed greatly from that of the first-round winner, named a month ago, who claimed his victory through the use of backlinking, a technique in which the required words on other people's sites were hyperlinked back to his site.

In contrast, Dash became the overall winner by virtue of a single post on his blog in which he asked his readers to link from their own sites. Countless numbers did and -- after his very late entry assumed the top Google spot shortly after the competition's first round ended -- Dash was never seriously challenged.

BlogTalks 2.0

Although there are no attractive bloggers in Europe like those big names in US, I think they are more serious to conduct acedamic research on this gift to our world(it's just 3-4 year-old plus 2-3 years of gestation). Seems so many collective intelligence from the ongoing BlogTalk 2.0.

"Comparing what's happening online now to what it was like just a year ago it seems that there's been an evolution-- not so much in terms of tehcnological innovation but rather evidenced by the degree to which the tools have been culturally assimilated." (by Seb Paquet, Many-to-Many) I agree with Seb, especially on the word "assimilated". We all understand this word since we are all learning technology researchers. I also blogged on this event(including del.icio.us bookmarks)

Also appreciate a lot on Lee's wrap-up about Mark Bernstein's opening keynotes, too. Seems all people around the world are disclosing the secret of blog step by step, in different manners and practices.

Template of Meta blog changed

Blog is easy to record one's meta ideas(memes), thus I got a meme to change my blog's skin, I did it immediately. Surprisingly, I found blogger.com provides inside comment functions without notification. Cool!

Electioneering?

Guardian:A rightwing US pressure group is calling for a ban on television advertising for Michael Moore's controversial film Fahrenheit 9/11, claiming it amounts to "electioneering".

People outside US all knows the content and links in the movie, except common people in US. So whether it's for electioneering or not, American should take a look at it.

Got Fahrenheit 9/11 via P2P

Yet to have a look. Seems Fons got a DVD edition, too. I could have a participation with his informal viewing of Michael Moore??s "Fahrenheit 9/11" this weekend if I were still in Shanghai then....