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China: Time to pray Friday, May 16th, 2008 @ 21:42 UTC by John Kennedy

‘Pray for the disaster victims, god bless China' has been the main motif on many main Chinese blogging websites as the country moves past the hundredth hour of mourning, fund-raising and blood donations.

The MeMedia collective has being doing in Chinese for total coverage of Earthquake discussions what the crew at Shanghaiist have been doing in English; among all the links MeMedia has been aggregating and sharing publicly on Diigo has been the last blog post from a teacher in Beichuan who didn't survive the earthquake, photos of a school sports activity from May 11.

In its Standards of Professional Practice the AIGA makes this unequivocal statement regarding authorship, “When not the sole author of a design, it is incumbent upon a professional designer to clearly identify his or her specific responsibilities or involvement with the design. Examples of such work may not be used for publicity, display or portfolio samples without clear identification of precise areas of authorship.” Unfortunately, this dictum has not led to consistency in the way graphic design is credited in magazines, books, websites, or contests and doesn't address the problem of unattributed work.

The AIGA's stance speaks to what has traditionally been the major issue in graphic design attribution — in such collaborative work why does a single designer end up getting the credit?

What about young designers who put work done at a well-known studio on their personal portfolio site? What about big studios that use a monolithic studio credit for the work done by individual employees? And (as in the Sundance Channel example) what about work that goes completely uncredited?

280Slides 是一款优秀的WebApp，在线办公也一定会是未来办公室自动化发展的趋势，这些都毋庸置疑，所以我并不太愿意继续臆想自己对于Office2.0的展望。下面简单的罗列了我所了解的若干在线幻灯片制作的服务：Google Docs，Zoho Show，Empressr，PreZentit，Preezo，Sliderocket ，Best4C等；在线幻灯片分享的服务：Slideshare，Slideboom，Scribd，MyPlick ，AuthorSTREAM等。

Social Computing Reading List I. Broad Marketing/Business Theory Focused The Cluetrain Manifesto Christopher Locke The Purple Cow Seth Godin The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More Chris Anderson The Age of Conversation Gavin Heaton and Drew McLellan Meatball Sundae: Is Your Marketing Out of Sync? Seth Godin The Open Brand Kelly Mooney and Nita Rollins II. Consumer Behavior/Case Study Focused Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die Chip Heath & Dan Heath Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers (Kindle Edition) Robert Scoble Join the Conversation: How to Engage Marketing Weary Consumers with the Power of Community, Dialogue and Partnership Joseph Jaffe Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution Howard Rheingold III. Tactical Focused Word of Mouth Marketing: How Smart Companies Get People Talking Andy Sernovitz Citizen Marketers: When People are the Message Ben McConnell and Jackie Huba   Posted by Brook Miller on April 8, 2008

In Twitter’s Scoble Problem, a Business Model

Anyway, to put Scoble and his Tweets in context, let’s assume for a minute that he always has 25,000 followers and he sent them 12,000 updates which are all 140 characters long, the maximum size allowed by Twitter. Again, hypothetically speaking, assuming each update is 100 bytes, then 12,000 updates generated used up 30 GB of data. (12000 updates * 100 bytes)* 25,000 = 30000000000 (30 GB) So here we come to the good part. This massive database of followers is what Twitter should turn into a business. Twitter should charge Scoble, Leo, me, Michael Arrington and anyone else who has more than 100 friends and followers. How about something simple? $10 a month for 1,000 subscribers. 25,000 subscribers means someone like Scoble should be paying them around $250 a month.

Let’s take it a step further. Twitter should limit people to 500 free messages a month. Any more should come in a bucket of, say, 1,000 messages for $10. Businesses like Comcast that want to use the service for commercial reasons should pay for the service, and so should startups like Summize, which want to build their businesses based on Twitter’s API. This would also fit the Freemium business model that Twitter investor Fred Wilson so loves. And at the same time, it would help Twitter overcome its abhorrence for adding advertising to the messages. I think many of us have a lot to gain from the service: My alerts about my posts on the system are a form of advertising for my work, and generate enough attention that paying for the service makes lot of sense.

第一次来UCDChina工作坊，第一次见到了白鸦，Angela ，TONY，结识了很多新朋友 第一次写BLOG，主要谈谈此次培训的收获。

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1. 用户需求是产品设计的根本：

找翻译到网络上？看上去是个可笑的事情，不过对于我这样的新手编辑来说，寻找潜在的选题，译者，网络是个不容错过的工具。译言听说过吗？创始人之一张雷到草根接受了访谈，畅谈他对人生理想的实践，他也被问到了一个同样具有“公益”属性的译索网，据称相对更商业感吧，对于数不尽的翻译网站来说，这两个网站属于比较另类的，我今天看到草根推荐的一篇新文章，三联生活周刊：互联网翻译大军，一方面看到报道中的哈利波特迷组建的相当系统的网络翻译团队介绍，还有如此惊人的提示世人——目前，全球最大的在线翻译站WorldPoint，汇聚了大约6000名来自世界各地的网络自由翻译家，号称能提供75种不同语言之间的互译。”，我首先是赞叹，赞赏网络时代给人的极大启发与活力释放，然后是在思索着同样文章中的这句话“《维基经济学》的作者唐·塔普斯科特(Don Tapscott)对这个网站的评价是，“网络正在从一个社交网络平台转变成一个社会生产平台。这样一个自我组织和共同创造知识的模式用于翻译，再自然不过了””，网络的确不是简单的一个搜索工具，交流工具，视听工具，知识平台，它越来越发挥着教育，媒体的作用，对于文字翻译来说，网络的巨大价值更加显露无疑，如果我的出版界偶像，已故兰登书屋创始人贝内特·瑟夫知道这个情况，他极具幽默感的回应是什么呢？我不知道，不过我估计他一定是非常的慨叹，当年他不远万里去英国见萧伯纳等大文豪的劳顿要是有网络这个东东一定会免除不少了

我們，是一群大學時代同窗的好友，在我們的時代，部落格只是一個尚未流行的概念。畢業數年後，我們也各自踏上了截然不同的旅程，在網路走入了Web 2.0的同時，有的人深入了資訊界，有的人到了矽谷，有的人到了紐約，也有的人在世界各地不斷奔走，我們的腳步，踏遍了半個地球。今天，透過網路和部落格，我們再度相聚，在廣大的網路世界，開闢這樣一個小小的天地，以Mr./Ms. Days為名，希望每天都能夠跟大家分享我們的所見所聞。 謝謝您的造訪，希望您喜歡我們的文章，更期待能夠看到您對於文章的迴響與指教。 Mr. Monday 主要文章內容 : 生活勵志, 網路科技新奇事物 Mr. Tuesday 主要文章內容 : 電影評析 Mr. Wednesday 主要文章內容 : 網路搜尋引擎, 社交網路 Mr. Thursday 主要文章內容 : 生物資訊科技, 機器學習 Mr. Friday 主要文章內容 : 網路生活, P2P技術相關 Mr. Saturday 主要文章內容 : 網路企業, 人工智慧相關 Mr. Sunday 主要文章內容 : 資訊新知分析

How did I do that? Well, I was watching Twitter on Google Talk. Several people in China reported to me they felt the quake WHILE IT WAS GOING ON!!! Over the next two hours I pointed at anyone who had info about the quake on my Twitter account. It’s amazing the kind of news you can learn by being on Twitter and the connections you can make among people across the world. I fear a large casualty loss. The epicenter was 50 miles from Chengdu, which has about 10.5 million residents. Already reports are coming across of buildings that have been knocked down.

UPDATE: Online Journalism Blog has a lot more details about what happened on Twitter tonight. From the Frontline blog has even more. UPDATE2: Global Voices Online has links to videos and other Twitter and blog reports. UPDATE3: here’s a timeline of what first Tweets looked like.

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When I logged on to my desktop Twitter application (sad, I know) it was alive with Tweets about the earthquake in China. Most of them were from the celebrated technology blogger Robert Scoble, who is famous, perhaps notorious, for receiving a Twitter message every second of the day. He is based in California, but thousands of miles away from the quake he was providing breaking news about it, linking to sites like the BBC and the New York Times, even providing a first picture - though how authentic that is remains to be seen. He now claims that Twitter had the breaking news even before the United States Geological Survey, which provides early warnings of seismic events.

But just like blogs made two-way conversations on the Web relatively cheap, easy, and quick for the masses compared to previous methods (such as personal Web sites), conversational models on the Web have continued to evolve.  Recently, microblogging and social aggregation platforms like Twitter and Friendfeed have emerged to offer alternative models that are compelling for a number of significant reasons. 

Users of the latest social media tools are far more likely to post several times a day, more likely dozens of times, each one forming a new conversational beachhead.  This can be overwhelming, but it can also be enormously stimulating and rewarding, as a form of collaboration, cross-pollination, brainstorming, serendipity, news gathering, and countless other activities provide one with a continuous connection to the broader world.

One of our Chinese users, Oliver Ding has uploaded this slideshow , which is a call for people to help out the victims of the tragic earthquake that rocked central China’s Wenchuan County on the 12th of May, leaving behind thousands of dead. We deeply mourn the tragedy and would request our users to do their little bit in this regard. Please head over to these two sites - PledgeBank & CnReviews.com to learn how you could help out in contributing. We also request everyone to join the China EarthQuake Group that Oliver has created. We have featured his pledge as the Slideshow of the Day.

游戏化的sns能这么快传播开来，颠覆过去的认为的中国人不像美国用户那样爱搞party的说法，facebook的成功是有人性基本需求支撑的。 做SNS还是三步走是没错，开始是靠基本需求的满足迅速聚集人气，然后是鼓励互动和制造内容，使网络逐渐趋于真实，实现帮助用户筛选信息，管理关系，最后更厉害的企业级服务都可能在上面展开。SNS的前景还是很看好的。 发言: 成 远 | May 10, 2008, 2:04 am

杜晨 周末午夜，名人们都上来了。。。诡异啊！！！2008-05-10 00:46 杜晨 与 胡锦涛 毛润之 马化腾 刘德华 赵薇 蒋中正 本拉登 成为好友2008-05-10 00:39

我邀请了成远来开心网，这样他就为我赚了500元利润。 成远一上线，我就把他买成了我的奴隶。这样别人买他或者他自己赎回自己，我都又赚了650-500块钱的利润 也就是说成远已经给我创造了650元的纯利润了

I'm sorry to say that I had previously received an approach from two charities - one via Facebook and the other by email - but hadn't yet made a donation.  However, Jeremiah's Twitter message changed that. Charities, take note...

There are at least 30 people who have indicated they’ve given through Jeremiah’s updates on Twitter, and more – no doubt – who have given privately.

我是从王兴的校内、海内，麦田的蚂蚁，谢文的一起一路注册过来的，现在又多了一个娱乐社交新秀开心网。貌似我真的是SNS狂热的追随者，其实不然，除了豆瓣的小组，真正能够黏住我的几乎没有一个。我经常告知自己在每一个社交网站中的体验热情尽可能的维持在三天以内，而在这在三天时间里，我所付出的成本不过是了解一下站点功能的设置，网站的运营模式以及SNS背后的用户价值等，如果发现了一两处亮点我会写一篇日志同大伙一起分享；仅此而已。

中国年轻人同样乐于向互联网发布自创内容。尽管这些内容中有很多仅仅是复制粘贴甚至抄袭，尽管这些内容中绝大部分的价值被许多人怀疑和嘲笑。

和菜头有一段尖刻的描绘，说的是普通中国网民都在忙些什么： 我很忙，我要看新浪的社会新闻，看Sohu博客的光屁股美眉，玩QQ游戏给小人穿上衣服，打网游抢一套极品装备，找BT站点下一套AV新片。在中国的互联网上，可以做的事情很多，这些事情的价值加起来比零稍稍多那么一点点。

每个人应该有权利自由选择做什么、说什么，不论这些事情在旁人看来多么无聊。这种自由选择的权利，就像自由言说的权利一样，在中国人现实生活的传统中一直是稀缺物品；而互联网带来了更多可能，不论这一可能有多少泡沫和虚幻，至少它已是对线下人生的补充，对日常压力的逃避或对抗渠道。

2 Responses to “好讀推薦：隨意搜尋 Ambient Findability” on 14 May 2008 at 12:00 pm1Oliver Ding 小容 感谢链接我的blog的贴子：）最近在和一些朋友交流关于社交网络的问题，其中谈到了关于人的可寻性。我的粗浅体会是现在社交网络设计的联系人确认的功能，实际上是在解决在线人际交互的可寻性问题，而不是真正的关系确立。没有可寻性，就没有可用性，这一点也同样适用于在线人际交互，而不仅仅是人和信息。 on 14 May 2008 at 1:49 pm2Mr. Wednesday To 小容： 謝謝你的回應，你點出了一個好問題，人的可尋性。這本書，還有過去的焦點都是關注在物體或是資訊的可尋性，直到社交網路的興起人的可尋性才開始受到注意。Web是在匿名的基礎上建立，或許，就是因為人的可尋性在Web上是無法完全被滿足的，所以才把焦點轉向到人際關係上。 “沒有可尋性，就沒有可用性”，講的真好，可用性才是激發這些進步的最大動力。

我想，从媒体平台的归属角度，可以大概把企业实施社会化媒体营销划分为下面几个模式：完全自属：比如戴尔，自建企业博客、论坛、视频等。比较适合能长期投入，将SMM置之于战略层面的企业部分自属：建立自己的“social media hub”，比如企业博客，然后结合其他现存的媒体平台。我想，这可能会是将来大部分企业的模式（实际上严格来说戴尔也应划入此类）完全他属：没有自建媒体平台，完全依赖现有的社会化媒体平台由于借用现存社会化媒体平台会出现上述周期长的问题，我想，以后可能会出现第四种模式：完全他属II：由agency建立的媒体平台，根据需要，植入企业，与受众进行交流

 re: 企业是否需要自建社会化媒体平台？ 4/19/2008 12:01 PM by Oliver Ding(小容) IV这种可能是以后垂直类社会化媒体网站的发展模式，前提是社区要做到足够好，企业才有可能参与进来。从这个角度来说，agency建立这样的平台，就相当于投资创建一个新的start up了。 或许，有agency背景的人结合适当技术能力的人，创办的垂直类社会化媒体网站，取得成功的可能性比较大。

But if you go back a few thousand years, the site was home to the Mayans, a highly advanced civilization whose ruins still dot the region. Among their many accomplishments, the Mayans developed one of the most sophisticated writing systems in Mezo-America, with over 800 glyphs and symbols. And that’s where the New York-based design and branding firm Carbone Smolan began its brainstorming to create a symbol that would capture the essence of the resort’s history and culture. “We understood that Punta Nizuc was Mayan for “nose of the dog” “ says co-founder Leslie Smolan. “After researching the Mayan culture, and noting visual cues like anthropomorphic creatures with softly rounded, wave like forms, our sketch process and final logo incorporates both, evoking both dog and sea.” Smolan shared her Nizuc mood board to show us the earlier incarnations of their ideas. The logo also reflects the Mayan belief in the circular nature of the continuum of life – birth, death, rebirth. So, Smolan says, the logo is designed to keep your eye moving around the mark. It’s a cool little bit of cultural conscription, and looks surprisingly authentic, even if its pedigree is more Manhattan than Mayan. Of course, a strictly New York interpretation of what “nose of the dog” would look like would probably be something cold and wet – not the pictogram you’d want to represent a luxury a beach resort.