有不少人觉得真相对他的利益影响并不大，其实真相不只是影响你的物资收入，而且还影响你的大脑发育与创造力，包括你价值观的形成，以及对世界的看法。千万别小看真相对于你生活的重要性，因为政府垄断真相的后果相当严重。一切所谓的真相都由他们来发布，最后所导致的是误导、愚弄，以及由此而来的对你利益的掠夺。你的利益要能得到相应的保护，对真相不遗余力地探寻，绝对是重中之重。让真相为更多的人知晓，你才能获取博弈的资本，并且获得相应的博弈与谈判能力，从而达成对自身利益的保护。

Kai-Fu Lee, co-president for Google Greater China told us there will be no GMail in the foreseeable future, because Google would be unable to protect user data from the government.

杭州地铁工程湘湖段发生垮塌事故，在基坑作业的工人瞬间被埋，加上自来水和污水漫灌，生还已无希望。事故发生后，各利益相关者在台前幕后进行了一系列危机公关和舆论操控活动。为研究在这次突发事件中媒介传播和公共舆论的关系，一个在线非正式调查被发起。感谢313位网友参加本调查，现公布调查结果。

China seems to have lost its stomach for these tiffs lately.

当思想解放需要讨论，需要通过少数觉醒人士和媒体，甚至需要官员来大喊特喊的时候，这说明思想禁锢到了何种沉疴难起的地步。这说明，几十年来，我们的思想被骟得太厉害，有很多人已经不敢真正有自由的思想了，或者说根本没有自己的思想了，要么根本就不会思想了。

必须让年轻人感到希望，而不是感到愤怒。否则他们将释放他们的愤怒，用于破坏社会，而不是将潜力用于建设社会。如果你看到在巴勒斯坦，十几岁的孩子充当人体炸弹，不惜用自杀来抗议，你就知道这种愤怒的破坏力有多大。

Why does a society that, like America, impresses most people who spend time here project such a poor image and scare people as much as it attracts them? Why do China’s leaders, who survive partly by listening to their own people, develop such tin ears when dealing with the outside world?

Of course, most official voices of China now have the opposite effect. Their minor, provable lies—the sky is blue, no one wants to protest—inevitably build mistrust of larger claims that are closer to being true. And those are the claims the government most wants the world to listen to: that the country is moving forward and is less repressive and more open than official actions and explanations (or lack of them) make China seem. Many Chinese who have seen the world are very canny about it, and have just the skills government spokesmen lack—for instance, understanding the root of foreign concerns and addressing them not with special pleading (“This is China…”) but on their own terms. Worldly Chinese demonstrate this every day in the businesses, universities, and nongovernmental organizations where they generally work. But the closer Chinese officials are to centers of political power, the less they know what they don’t know about the world.

How can official China possibly do such a clumsy and self-defeating job of presenting itself to the world? China, like any big, complex country, is a mixture of goods and bads. But I have rarely seen a governing and “communications” structure as consistent in hiding the good sides and highlighting the bad.

第1楼 Jason Ng : 2008-09-06 23:03:59 先赞一下华哥虚拟的那张图，非常赞！ 我觉得中文网志年会不能以一种高姿态来看其它的网民，这种思想会让其陷入困局。 去年的网志年会就有赞助商上台做广告，无聊、无用、无耻。我觉得这对blog年会来说是一种侮辱，广告不应该这样去做。 也许说得有点过火，但你勾起了我不愉快的回忆。 如果时间可以倒流，我肯定不去。 [回复] 第2楼 Horse : 2008-09-07 18:27:11 今年在广州，不出意外的话我会去凑凑热闹，跟跟屁 如果还有可能的话，我还想去当志愿者 [回复] 第3楼 robaggio : 2008-09-09 11:20:36 去年不是有jiwai大屏幕吗？可以用手机发，不用笔记本，现场用大屏幕看，回来后或是不在现场的人用你上面画的图那样的页面看，应该都实现了阿。

@ GrazmanFu Ying is a woman.

這名發起人在發起這個 Facebook 群組之前有沒有找好戲量的人談過阻街的問題？不知道。這名發起人在發起這個 Facebook 群組之後有沒有找好戲量的人談過阻街的問題？不知道。這個群組的支持者有多認真或多理性也很成疑問。萬多人參加這個群組，想來他們受了好戲量很多氣吧。既然如此，為甚麼 8 月 24 日的討論會，只得一百人左右參加呢？難道超過 99% 的參加者都是那麼忙？

Now that the Olympics has been handed on to London, should Britain in turn make visas difficult for Chinese nationals? Allow 15 days only. Apply at Shanghai British Consulate/Embassy between the hours of 9.00 – 10.00 am in person, Mondays only. No agents. The possibilities are infinite. They might even ban all foreigners from the Olympics and give Britain a chance for more gold medals.

Jinmen Island bridge to link Taiwan, China

If you are a long-time follower of the Turkish blogosphere you will have undoubtedly heard about the Turkish ban on Wordpress….and the periodic bans on YouTube, and on the social-networking widget site Slide, oh..and now on Dailymotion as well.

It is hard to keep track now-a-days and frustrating. Turkish bloggers feel the same way too, and are protesting the constant banning of sites by voluntarily banning their own. So how are Turkish bloggers protesting these periodic bans on the internet? By putting the following up on their website: Bu siteye erişim kendi kararıyla engellenmiştir which translates roughly into “This site is blocked by [the author's] own choice”.

Q: Is China an ally or an adversary?A: They're neither. The fact of the matter is, though, they hold the mortgage on our house. This administration, in order to fund a war that shouldn't be being fought and tax cuts that weren't needed for the wealthy--we're now in debt almost a trillion dollars to China. We better end that war, cut those taxes, reduce the deficit and make sure that they no longer own the mortgage on our home.

How would you balance human rights and trade with China? A: I've been pushing, on the Foreign Relations Committee for the last seven years, that we hold China accountable at the United Nations. At the UN, we won't even designate China as a violator of human rights. Now, what's the deal there? We talk about competition in terms of trade. It's capitulation, not competition. Name me another country in the world that we would allow to conduct themselves the way China has, and not call them on the carpet at the UNQ: So you would call them on th carpet?A: Absolutely. Q: You would appoint a UN ambassador who would press for this?A: It's the one way to get China to reform. You can't close your eyes. You can't pretend. It is self-defeating. It's a Hobson's choice we're giving people here.

The Candidates on U.S. Policy toward China

They announced: "We have immediately asked relevant government departments to investigate those that started the rumour." Relevant government departments? But how enchanting to find Nike speaking like the foreign office of an independent republic, almost as if the sportswear firm has an extradition treaty with the Chinese government. It hasn't, of course, so the rather more salient question is whether Nike has any qualms about getting the famously gossamer-touched Chinese government to leave no stone unturned in the hunt for - and let's keep stressing it - an anonymous internet poster."We want to act to protect our brand reputation in the same way as any corporation would want to if people were posting or writing false accusations," the Nike spokesman Charlie Brooks told the Guardian yesterday. "This isn't about a debate on freedom of speech. It's simply helping us to identify the person who posted it."

As a key element of the revival of Chairman Mao Zedong's "people's warfare," Beijing and a number of other cities have revived the vigilante and spying functions of neighborhood committees. Municipal administrations along the coast -- and in the autonomous regions of Tibet and Xinjiang -- have recently earmarked additional budget to maintain the "spying" functions of neighborhood committees and similar vigilante outfits after the Olympics. Moreover, the Politburo's Central Political and Legal Commission, China's highest law-enforcement agency, has urged the courts and prosecutors to do more in fulfilling the party's priority task of thwarting anti-Beijing conspiracies and upholding sociopolitical stability. That the courts will comply in this is evident from a just-released article by the President of the Supreme People's Court, Wang Shengjun. Writing in this week's edition of the official Seeking Truth journal, Mr. Wang said: "We must pay more attention to maintaining state security and social stability. . . We must boost our consciousness of [safeguarding] the power of the regime . . . and fully develop our functions as a department for [proletarian] dictatorship."