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Global Voices Online » China: Time to pray - 0 views

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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.
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  • Blogger Oliver Ding has set up a community space on SlideShare for those affected by and working against the damage done by the earthquake, one of the many ways to help the earthquake victims that in turn is being shown support on Digg.
  • Support for relief efforts from English-language bloggers has been equally swift and thorough. Overall support for Red Cross China has been so strong that accessing the Red Cross website for the past several days has been difficult due to the high volumes of traffic it has been receiving. In no particular order, here are just a few of the many blog posts foreign and English-language bloggers in China have given us in just a few hectic days: http://www.ifgogo.com/80/how-to-donate/ http://cnreviews.com/uncategorized/china_earthquake_relief_and_donation_guide_-_will_update_20080514.html http://cupofcha.com/2008/05/16/ways-to-donate-to-earthquake-relief.html http://www.chinavortex.com/2008/05/how-chinese-websites-are-helping-donations-for-sichuan-earthquake-victims/ http://shanghaiist.com/2008/05/13/red_cross_society_earthquake_sichuan.php http://beijingbookworm.com/whatsnew.htm http://www.pandapassport.com/chinese-internet/donate-for-adspace/ http://www.lostlaowai.com/commentary/blog/2008/05/15/add-a-quake-relief-donation-badge-to-your-blogsite/ http://rconversation.blogs.com/rconversation/2008/05/help-chinas-qua.html http://chinesepod.com/earthquake_relief http://shanghaiist.com/2008/05/16/green_scene_how.php
Oliver Ding

Design Observer - 0 views

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credit thegroups

shared by Oliver Ding on 10 Jun 08 - Cached
  • 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?
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  • On the other hand designers now have seemingly limitless opportunities to promote themselves. On a portfolio site, a blog post or a Facebook page, designers are free to make their own assertions about their contribution to a given project. This was not the case when the only opportunities for recognition were only a handful of contests and publications each year. Now every designer has their own "catalog" site and design work circulates in a fairly unregulated way even within the design press.
  • In films, for example, credit is acknowledged once and for all and in detail at the end of a film. There is a great deal of horse-trading, arguing, and appeasement regarding the credits for any film project, but by opening night everything’s printed on film, the modern equivalent of being set in stone.
  • Film credits have been instrumental in codifying the labor hierarchy in the film industry, institutionalizing a shared vocabulary of job titles and responsibilities. No such standard has evolved in design — for example the term Art Director means something vastly different in an in-house design department than it does at an advertising agency.
  • Rather than wade into such ambiguous waters, it is easier to simply not credit anyone. Many large design studios have reached a similar conclusion and simply credit any work done at the studio to the studio entity. Frequently the mainstream press simply leaves works of design unattributed as if they were produced out of thin air.
  • Part of the problem is that attribution only becomes an issue after a work has become enduring or “important” and by that time it’s hard to recreate exactly how it came about.
  • In fact, the vast majority of graphic design is still done by unknown designers for unknown clients. It is a testament to the increasing influence of design that people care at all who animated a network interstitial or laid out a signage system. Perhaps this enhanced profile has made an unrealistic expectation that designers should get credit at all in a field with a blurry notion of authorship. Or perhaps the proliferation of design media channels simply offers more opportunities for half-truths and situational ethics when it comes to giving credit (and taking it).
  • Great post. It is a never ending battle to try to make sure that everyone who had some influence on a project be name-checked, and it is the right thing to do to give credit where credit is due, and we try very hard to do so. I recently scoured my records to try to credit a photographer for a project we worked on over 10 years ago. It was the one and only time our office ever worked with this person, and for the life of me I can not remember her name. I feel terrible about it, but there it is, I tried but came up short. If and when I come up with the photographers name I will certainly try to rectify the situation.As for work you're not especially proud of, I love the Alan Smithee idea. Posted by: Mark Kaufman on 05.20.08 at 01:20
Oliver Ding

In Twitter's Scoble Problem, a Business Model - GigaOM - 0 views

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shared by Oliver Ding on 27 May 08 - Cached
  • 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.
Oliver Ding

Flickr: The Help Forum: [Official Topic] Find Your Friends! - 0 views

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findyourfriends flickr

shared by Oliver Ding on 02 Apr 08 - Cached
  • I didn't find any of my friends using this, but I did find an old account of my own that I had completely forgotten about. For a split second I was like, "how did this person find all those photos of me???" Lol.
  • Any thoughts on the privacy issue I raised above? Revealing information about users shouldn't be something a user has to opt out of. For example some people may not want their co-workers or potential employers to know that they have a flickr account. They should have to opt in instead of opt out. I think this could get ugly for some people who don't want to be found. Also the setting for opting out should be changed. I may want to be found by my flickr buddy name, but just not by the new email address way. There should be a way to leave things the same way they were before. Now I can only opt out of everything or opt in for everything.
  • Proggie: Privacy is something we take very seriously at Flickr. People have actually always been searchable by email address on Flickr (via "People Search"), and we chose to respect our member's existing people search preference settings (as well as make that preference page easier to find). On the opt-out versus opt-in issue, this is something where we carefully weighed the options, and chose the default option based on what we feel would have the greatest benefit for the majority of our members. Just as we chose to make "public" the default for uploaded photos, we chose to preserve opt-out as the default for people search on Flickr.
  • Oliver Ding on 02 Apr 08
     
    This is case of you are one of your friends on web :)
randie lee

Fiber Optic Spy Scope with Lights - 0 views

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camera device fiber gadget lights optics scope security spy

shared by randie lee on 13 Sep 08 - Cached
  • randie lee on 13 Sep 08
     
    Fiber Optic Spy Scope with lights is a tool that allows the user to view inaccessible cavities without costly demolition & disassembly. Designed for home inspectors, automotive & diesel mechanics, HVAC repair, plumbers, electricians, law enforcement, instrument repair, welders, carpenters and home owners. The ideal tool for viewing tight or hard to reach areas. Integrated light source the light guide provides up to 15 hours of continuous light on 1 AA battery. Check for hidden cameras in vents. Use it to see inside small areas where hidden spy cameras may have been placed.
Oliver Ding

Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits - 0 views

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shared by Oliver Ding on 03 May 08 - Cached
  • High-impact nonprofits build social movements and fields; they transform business, government, other nonprofits, and individuals; and they change the world around them. In the end, six patterns crystallized into the form presented here—the six practices that high-impact nonprofits use to achieve extraordinary impact. These nonprofits: Work with government and advocate for policy change Harness market forces and see business as a powerful partner Convert individual supporters into evangelists for the cause Build and nurture nonprofit networks, treating other groups as allies Adapt to the changing environment Share leadership, empowering others to be forces for good
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      Oliver Ding on 03 May 08
       
      Findings from Forces for Good
Oliver Ding

OAuth: Introduction - 0 views

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oauth openid

shared by Oliver Ding on 14 Aug 08 - Cached
  • OAuth and OpenID OAuth is not an OpenID extension and at the specification level, shares only few things with OpenID – some common authors and the fact both are open specification in the realm of authentication and access control. ‘Why OAuth is not an OpenID extension?’ is probably the most frequently asked question in the group. The answer is simple, OAuth attempts to provide a standard way for developers to offer their services via an API without forcing their users to expose their passwords (and other credentials). If OAuth depended on OpenID, only OpenID services would be able to use it, and while OpenID is great, there are many applications where it is not suitable or desired. Which doesn’t mean to say you cannot use the two together. OAuth talks about getting users to grant access while OpenID talks about making sure the users are really who they say they are. They should work great together.
  • Is OAuth a New Concept? No. OAuth is the standardization and combined wisdom of many well established industry protocols. It is similar to other protocols currently in use (Google AuthSub, AOL OpenAuth, Yahoo BBAuth, Upcoming API, Flickr API, Amazon Web Services API, etc). Each protocol provides a proprietary method for exchanging user credentials for an access token or ticker. OAuth was created by carefully studying each of these protocols and extracting the best practices and commonality that will allow new implementations as well as a smooth transition for existing services to support OAuth. An area where OAuth is more evolved than some of the other protocols and services is its direct handling of non-website services. OAuth has built in support for desktop applications, mobile devices, set-top boxes, and of course websites. Many of the protocols today use a shared secret hardcoded into your software to communicate, something which pose an issue when the service trying to access your private data is open source.
Oliver Ding

earthquakechildren Home - Save the Children - 0 views

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china earthquake wetpaint wiki

shared by Oliver Ding on 16 May 08 - Cached
  • The Chinese students and scholars associations at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia and at Oklahoma Christian University in Edmond, OK and the local Chinese communities here have just started a campaign to raise money to build a safe school for children in the Wenchuan area where the quake hit hardest (many children here are now orphans). We are calling for monetary donations. Let's show our love by building a school for the children.Our target is to raise US$50,000 or more through the effort of each of YOU! If everyone contributes $25.00, it will take 2,000 people to reach our target. We have started in various states in the United States and around the world to collect funds for such an effort. In each state there is going to be a group of coordinators (You can volunteer to be one) to manage the collection of the monetary donations
Qien Kuen

Charity For Debt:: Main Page - 0 views

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community debt help student

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  • Charity For Debt is a new non profit dedicated to helping students and alumni pay off their student loan debt by providing paid (up to $20/hour) volunteer opportunities at local charitable organizations. Charity For Debt establishes unique partnerships between local businesses and giving individuals to sponsor students to contribute their energy for local charitable needs in the community.
Oliver Ding

Guest Post: How the Chinese Internet Becomes a Platform for Earthquake Grief (A local p... - 0 views

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  • Jeremiah: Paul Denlinger of Beijing is an internet expert on China, and I’ve offered him the opportunity to help share from an insiders perspective. Keeping in the theme of internet strategy and how the web impacts business, (and in this case the world) Paul, a resident of China, shares his perspective. Although a long post, please show him the same respect that you do for me.
  • Chinese Internet Becomes Platform for Earthquake Grief -A guest post by Paul Denlinger
Oliver Ding

YouTube - BerkmanCenter's Channel - 0 views

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2sub berkmancenter harvard video

shared by Oliver Ding on 03 Apr 08 - Cached
  • The Berkman Center for Internet & Society's Official channel on YouTube. You'll find a collection of some of our best work produced over ten years of cyber research. Name: Berkman The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School Hometown: Cambridge, MA Country: United States Website: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu
  • Oliver Ding on 03 Apr 08
     
    The Berkman Center for Internet & Society Offical on Youtube.
Oliver Ding

Online identity research - 0 views

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anthropology identity internet online psychology research sociology web

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  • Oliver Ding on 14 Jul 08
     
    Collection of resources for my research on online identity for the fall 2007 semester
Oliver Ding

ASIS Education Programs: Education for Information Architecture Poject - 0 views

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  • Education Programs Information Science Education Committee Education for Information Architecture Project Introduction The ASIS&T Information Science Education Committee is conducting a project on education for information architecture. The first phase of the project, in which the committee is currently engaged, is to gather information about existing courses and programs and to make this information available at the committee web site. The information gathered thus far is below.  Information architecture programs and courses  This listing is based on a search of the Web in March 2003 and on responses to an email survey posted on asis-l and JESSE listservs. The initial goal of the project is to identify programs and courses rather than to evaluate them or gather in-depth information.  At this point, the listing is limited to U.S. and Canadian institutions. We invite any institutions with either IA degree programs and/or courses in IA or with significant IA components to send information to the ASIS&T Information Science Education Committee for inclusion in this listing. Please send responses (and any corrections of additions) to Dietmar Wolfram (dwolfram@uwm.edu).
Oliver Ding

Introduction | The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web - 0 views

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book design typography

shared by Oliver Ding on 22 May 08 - Cached
  • Robert Bringhurst’s book The Elements of Typographic Style is on many a designer’s bookshelf and is considered to be a classic in the field. Indeed the renowned typographer Hermann Zapf proclaims the book to be a must for everybody in the graphic arts, and especially for our new friends entering the field. In order to allay some of the myths surrounding typography on the web, I have structured this website to step through Bringhurst’s working principles, explaining how to accomplish each using techniques available in HTML and CSS. The future is considered with coverage of CSS3, and practicality is ever present with workarounds, alternatives and compromises for less able browsers. At the time of writing, this is a work in progress. I am adding to the site in the order presented in Bringhurst’s book, one principle at a time. You can subscribe to an RSS feed for notification of new additions.
randie lee

Travel For a Cause, Charitable Travel - 0 views

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a cause charitable for travel

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  • randie lee on 13 Sep 08
     
    The Ladakh trekking expedition in the Indian Himalayas ($2,995 per person) runs from June 24-July 9. Trekking the Tibetan Plateau, an area similar to ancient Tibet where you can experience the religious rituals and monastic lifestyle that can no longer be found in Chinese-occupied Tibet.
Oliver Ding

Endless Conversation: The Unfolding Saga of Blogs, Twitter, Friendfeed, and Social Site... - 0 views

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conversation socialmedia socialnetworks

shared by Oliver Ding on 21 May 08 - Cached
  • 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.
randie lee

Budget - WikiWeddings - 0 views

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budget expenses preparation wedding

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  • randie lee on 13 Sep 08
     
    Setting a budget for a wedding is a little like putting together a puzzle. The wedding budget is affected by the size of the wedding, the style of the wedding and whether the wedding is formal or informal. The budget may also dictate what type of wedding a bride may have. If a bride has a strict budget it's a good idea to do some homework to determine how to best stretch the wedding budget
Oliver Ding

24+ ways to give » SlideShare - 0 views

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china donation earthquake slideshare

shared by Oliver Ding on 18 May 08 - Cached
  • This slideshow was modified from a post provides a guide to how you can donate toward China earthquake relief efforts. The original post was written by Elliott Ng of CN Reviews.(http://cnreviews.com)
  • Oliver, this is incredible!! Thanks for getting this info out to people in such an easy to browse way. Thanks for all your awareness building about the Sichuan Earthquake to the English speaking world.
Oliver Ding

A website's name and URL: two different things - 0 views

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chinese_internet naming

shared by Oliver Ding on 26 May 08 - Cached
  • if you’re planning to set up a website to appeal to Chinese consumers, don’t assume that the URL and the “name” of the website are the same.  I’d suggest first focusing on the Chinese name of the website, and then picking a URL that is somehow related to the Chinese name, or failing that, a URL that is short and simple to remember.  Also, don’t be afraid to use URLs that are based on numbers.  This approach is quite popular.
  • Hi, Tom, that’s a great post on online branding of Chinese website. I still don’t like use URLs that are based on numbers. Smart people could find the idea for same URLs (by Pin Ying) and Chinese website Name. For example: 豆瓣douban.com is great name.
Oliver Ding

Mainstream imminent? Twitter traffic almost doubled from February to April » ... - 0 views

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american china earthquake egypt student twitter

shared by Oliver Ding on 16 May 08 - Cached
  • For U.S. visitors, traffic has almost doubled from February to April alone. The service is now pulling in nearly 1.2 million people per month. Twitter is growing very fast, and just as we’ve noted, Compete believes Twitter’s recent coverage in the mainstream press (for events like helping the American student get out of jail in Egypt and coverage of the China earthquake) is helping to fuel this growth.
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