The Free Culture Chinese Translation Project: A New and Innovative Form of Organization
Andrea summarized the innovative model of Free Culture translation project in Chinese community. The project is almost done, or never done(it’s always open to edit). As we review the short history of this project, we can find many sparkles within it. Tian even piointed that it’s a revolutionary structure to Chinese people. From diversity-orderly structure to grouping structure. (Fei Xiaotong, 1947)
The summary is valuable as the project is a showcase to grassroots movement and CoP collaboration. And more importantly, it harnessed the power of Social Software, a new genre of enabler to future grassroots superpower. Thanks, Andrea.
Gmail as a disucssion list and meta ideas collector
I’m finding that Gmail is becoming more useful to me in these days. The well organized email hierachy can help me to initiate a disucssion with many guys(especially those also has gmail accounts). It’s easy to compose and reply, thus more like a discussion list or BBS. I guess it’ll be more helpful in the future. Gmail does a good job on HCI.
The same feature is also employed by me to write some memes down from my desktop outlook or other email clients. I won’t worry about the space limitation now. I just write to gmail and collect all those memes and ideas at night, to see if there are any valuable thoughts today.
Does the gmail team think ever think of such possibilities before? Maybe, 
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E-commerce sales reached $15.7 bln in the United States during Q2 2004, a 23% increase YTY. E-commerce made up approximately 1.7% of the nation’s $919 bln in total retail sales, which rose nearly 8% from a year ago. QTQ e-commerce sales increased nearly 1%, from $15.5 bln in Q1 2004. More on this topic at ITFacts.biz.
via AlwaysOn Network
Steal wireless connection?
AKMA writes a must-read post about the police preventing him from using the public library’s free wifi while sitting outside the library:
I closed the computer in order not to constitute a threat to established order, but engaged this peace officer in a discussion of the complexities of the topic. “I did notice several other open signals in the area – am I allowed to connect to them?”
“Maybe if you had permission it would be all right, but it’s a new law, sir; `theft of signal.’ It would be like if you stole someone’s cable TV connection.”
I responded, “But this is a radio signal thing – it’s not like a cable connection, it’s like someone has a porch light on and I’m sitting on the bench, reading a book by their light. I’m not stealing their light.”
via Joho the blog
In China, many children know well about the story of Afanti, who was a legend hero that helps poors. He ever hoaxed one richman who wantd to charge a poor sitting outside his restaurant to smell. Afanti shaked his money bag to the richman, “Did you hear the sound of coins?”, “Yes”, “Then paid”, haha.
