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30 Sep 09

Review of Guobin Yang's "Power of the Internet in China"

  • In short, BBSes were the most advanced social networking tools
    available when people started going online in large numbers, and the
    forums filled such a hunger that they became the dominant mode of
    online communication and stayed that way. (Bandwidth may also be a
    consideration.)



    • The degree of contact between Chinese civic associations and people
      outside China is also surprisingly high. Some of this is strategic, as
      evidenced by the following:





      • The first sites in Chinese were started by Chinese people in the
        Diaspora, and they created a thriving (sometimes dissident) culture
        before the Internet was in wide use inside China.



      • People in China who can’t get their articles published inside the
        country routinely send them to web sites outside for publication, in
        Chinese or other languages.



      • Protests that have an international reach tend to be more radical than
        those focused inside China.

アゴラ : 価値破壊的な活動は抑止されなければならない−−池尾和人

  • 要するに、前者（production）は価値創造的で、後者（conflict）は価値破壊的な活動なわけです。ハーシュライファーは、多くの経済学者は経済活動というと前者のようなものしか想定せず、後者の存在を無視してきたと批判しています。しかし、既述のように、個別的には後者の方が有利で後者を選んでしまうということがあり得ます。それゆえ、後者のような経済活動を抑止するようなルールの導入などの制度設計が必要になります。後者のような活動をどれだけ封じ込められるかは、効率性の観点から決定的に重要です。なお、ハーシュライファーは、前者の活動を支える技術を technology of production と呼び、後者の活動を支える技術を technology of conflict（あるいは、technology of struggle）と呼んでいます。

Netflix Prizeに見るOpen Innovationの可能性 | JOURNAL | FERMAT

  • いずれにしても、このコンテストを通じて、Best of the Bestの開発メンバーが、期間限定で自発的に形成されていったわけで、こうした「最高の知恵の抽出」部分が、crowdsourcing推進の側に経つ学者や経営者から関心が集まったところだ。
  • もっといえば、Netflixが提供する100万件のデータを利用できること自体に価値を見いだす人びとも多数いて、それは単純に「この難問に立ち向かう」ことを通じて得ることができる経験や知見という、副産物の方に関心を持った人たちもいたということだ。
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29 Sep 09

THE LAST DAYS OF THE POLYMATH | More Intelligent Life

  • Carl Djerassi is a polymath. Strictly speaking that means he is someone who knows a lot about a lot. But Djerassi also passes a sterner test: he can do a lot, too. As a chemist (synthesising cortisone and helping invent the Pill); an art collector (he assembled one of the world’s largest collections of works by Paul Klee); and an author (19 books and plays), he has accomplished more than enough for one lifetime.
  • “To me, promiscuity is a way of flitting around. Polygamy, serious polygamy, is where you have various marriages and each of them is important. And in the ideal polygamy I suspect there’s no number one wife and no number six wife. You have a deep connection with each person.”
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28 Sep 09

Worldwide Lexicon: matching up technologies and culture to end the language barrier - O'Reilly Radar

  • As attractive as the Firefox plug-in can be, it's only the first stage
    in four that Brian plans toward a computing environment that
    encourages and leverages human translation. On the browser side, the
    next logical project is to reproduce the Firefox experience for IE
    users. Ultimately, he hopes the functionality becomes a standard part of every
    browser. Even better, he's working on a way to include the functionality
    on the server side so that it's browser-independent (although that
    technology would require support in the server software, of course).

IEEE Spectrum: Million Dollar Netflix Prize Won

  • Bellkor and Ensemble were both coalitions formed by teams that had to join forces to stay in the race. BellKor's own core, though, had always been the team to beat. Lead members Robert M. Bell, Chris Volinsky, and Yehuda Koren began their work at Bell Laboratories, where the first two still work; Koren has since joined Yahoo Research, in Israel. They snagged the competition's first, $50 000 milestone by achieving the best improvement, short of 10 percent, by a certain date. The three scientists, together with Jim Bennett, then a vice-president at Netflix, described their work for IEEE Spectrum, in “The Million-Dollar Programming Prize” (May 2009). 

Museum 2.0: Frameworks and Lessons from the Public Participation in Science Research Report

  • Earlier this year, a group of informal science researchers, led by Rick Bonney of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, published an extremely useful report on public participation in science research (PPSR). In this report, the authors describe three specific models for public participation: contribution, collaboration, and co-creation. They provide detailed case studies of projects in each area, including project descriptions, informal science education goals, participant training techniques, and evaluation outcomes. While the evaluation component of the report is focused on the extent to which these various projects promote science learning and behavior change among participants, the rubric of participatory models introduces a language that can be useful to many kinds of institutions and projects.
    • In the contributory model, visitors are solicited to provide limited and specified objects, actions, or ideas to an institutionally-controlled process.
    • In the collaborative model, visitors are invited to serve as active partners in the creation of an institutional project which is originated and ultimately controlled by the institution.
    • In the co-creation model, visitors and the institution work together from the beginning to define the project's goals and to generate the program or exhibit based on community interests.
    • I would add a fourth model, tentatively called co-option. In the co-option model, the institution turns over a portion of its facilities and resources to support programs developed and implemented by external public groups.
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Op-Ed Columnist - The New Sputnik - NYTimes.com

  • What do we know about necessity? It is the mother of invention. And when China decides it has to go green out of necessity, watch out. You will not just be buying your toys from China. You will buy your next electric car, solar panels, batteries and energy-efficiency software from China.
  • Well, folks. Sputnik just went up again: China’s going clean-tech. The view of China in the U.S. Congress — that China is going to try to leapfrog us by out-polluting us — is out of date. It’s going to try to out-green us. Right now, China is focused on low-cost manufacturing of solar, wind and batteries and building the world’s biggest market for these products. It still badly lags U.S. innovation. But research will follow the market. America’s premier solar equipment maker, Applied Materials, is about to open the world’s largest privately funded solar research facility — in Xian, China.
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Ping - How Sharing Links Has Become Big Business - NYTimes.com

  • THE blog WebDesignBooth.com is emblematic of Web sites these days in one respect: it seems to desperately want readers to share its insights with their friends.
  • In the last century, traditional media organizations hustled to get their product in front of the chatty elites; news magazines, for example, hand-delivered copies over the weekend to politicians and to other media. In the age of Twitter and Facebook, anyone can become a chatty elite, the social director of his or her own private admiration society. The hand-delivered copy has morphed into a Web article’s “share to Facebook” button.
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