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有幸第一时间读到龙应台先生的《大江大海·1949》，竟然比“全球发布会”还要早上一个星期，真是觉得幸运，甚至如同缘分一样，注定要在这个时期看到这样的隽书。刚翻开时，并没有过多在意其不同。等读过一半，忽然与书名有了共鸣，两个大词叠用，看了丝毫不显得夸张。什么是“大”呢，是远看宏伟，近看细致；绝不是残缺不全或者千疮百孔，而是绵密而且缩放有序。龙应台做到了这一点，因为书中的结构异常复杂，不仅是人名地名和事件的穿插，而且丝毫不滥用名人效用，反倒是对名人点到即止，对常人的命运入木三分，让人充满共鸣和慨叹：世事无常不说，个体对于命运多么无济。

因为深度和尺度，龙应台达到了新的高度，因为她把历史当作新闻来看。那么多人，他们用今天的时间尺去度量昨天的事情，也许显得更加宽容，却更容易让我们知道什么是真实，什么是人性。

如@lanwuyou所说: 看建國大業的愛國者，也最好聽一下龍應台的演講。（via @mranti) ，甚为同意。看历史，未必要所谓历史学家，更不可以被政治所任意打扮，如同小姑娘一样。如果龙先生的书能够插上网络的翅膀，中国社会的基础文化水准、人性程度和理性程度将大为改观。

In the keynote I conducted in Blogtalk 2009 at Jeju Island, Korea. I shared some personal experiences on blogging and the future ideas of cloud intelligence.  It’s quite an academic oriented meeting but with mixture ideas.

In my talks, I re-emphasized my radical understanding that all people are bloggers in some extent whether you are using blogging tools or not. We human being, inherently, are sharing animals. We share then we became social animals. We judge what we share to whom, then we have the credit system and reputation. Cooking culture, as professor Richard Wrangham suggested in his book “Catching Fire– How cooking makes up human“, enabled our society boosted ourselves in the past dozens of thousands of years. It dramatically changed the social structure and economical meanings.

Let’s move timeline back to 2002, the first year I started my blog in August then. It’s not so early to united states. However, it’s really very new to Chinese people. We counted about 1000 bloggers that year in China and I knew almost all of them via blog rolling. But just like I said to my first blog post on a group blogging I co-created after my personal blog. I said there must be millions of bloggers emerge in China. It became true after 2007, there’s now counting 40M bloggers and commercially boasting 200M.

So why people blog? It’s really pervasively interesting question but with millions of answers because nobody can really tell the real exact motivation to start their own blog and keep it as daily life. We can list some sounding reasons like these, someone says they blog because they just want to tell people their “cute cat”. Some anonymous blogs said they want to reveal the truth the same time keep safe. To myself, I started my personal blog just for remembering what I learnt today and reflect if I really understand them. From this angle, blog is really something I looked for years to help my poor memory. The same time keep learning going pace by pace.

But let me argue the real reason behind all these specific reasons. Actually it’s a kind of anxiety because of information loss.I want to divide this reason into two parts: the problem and the solution. The real problem is the worriment from human being on information loss. We human beings are highly intelligent animals trying to seek truth from since several thousands of years ago, or even longer. However, we have to face the lack of information to prove truth. Somethings, once it happened, the information entropy will lose dramatically to prevent from reproduction again. Like in Archeology, even those lots of fossils can’t prove a single truth about the reason why dinosaurs extincted just in very short time. We can only leave them presumptions, maybe foreever; How about human history, it’s much closer than dinosaur age. However, by checking those limited archives and relics, we can only see little truth of our history, with a lot of mysteries still in big controversal, e.g. like how Hitler died. How about what’s happening today in our world. It’s much more possible with a lot of tools to capture news and happenings everyday via thousands of TV channels and newspapers. So what, we still don’t know the truth of the world. The speed of information loss is still much faster than we capture them by only those minority of reporters.

That’s why we need new paradigm. Blogging, and later more UGC(user generated content) formats, followed, just fit for this anxiety. People found sharing more information profactively can largely help solving the problems in current age the traditional journalism can’t. Grassroots publishing, then emerged into citizen journalism, can best complement the loss of information from traditional media and adjust it’s bias into a continuous validation cycle.

Sharism plays very important role behind UGC. Information loss challenges people a lot to push them to share, initially from only pioneers from different areas. But furtherly, shariing becomes a challenge on it’s sustainability. I would say that it’s my high attention observing why people like sharing all the time and eventually become part of their blood. There are four incentives behind it.

So we need better ways to present such flood of information. We found RSS and new aggregators naturally. But it’s not enough, it only resolves the view of information, but can’t see the real knowledge from those shared information.

People are greedy enough because they found aggregator is not enough. We need not only something contains all content, we need an elevation view of information from different sources. Its a new kind of intelligence just like the drops of water form the beautiful cloud. That’s why we need defragment, to try to reorganize information into large granularity but squeeze out those redundant and false informations. This can be done by social filtering systems, e.g. like social bookmarking system. E.g. in Google Reader, a single click of “Shift+S” can help you sharing your favorite stuffs to all you gmail contacts in the same sphere. It’s stunning change to the information structure even 5 years ago.

But we see more exiting things like the Green Revolution in Iran. It’s emergent because no any individuals can realize what could happen next minute. It’s a kind of new intelligence emerged from the connected individuals with their continous sharing behaviors not only on content but also on functions. I call it Cloud Intelligence because the beautifulness of cloud came from water drops, but much more splendid beyond any single water drops.

Cloud intelligence is the hope of solutions to our human problem, however, it’s yet to evolve and improving. Will Blog format like todays blogging tools mingling of good and evils? or will twitter the ending format of information sharing? I don’t think so. I believe cloud intelligence evolved from blogging the simple molecule, will be changed by a lot of new trends and innovations to be created.

I have 10 predictions about blogging that you can check from the slide. Maybe not all included, or maybe overlapped to each other. But I believe they are all significant signals to us. To either technical guys, entrepreneurs and users.

电子艺术节上的所有的录像片段都已经整理完毕，@ilya 兄来询问探讨“云智能”之后是否还有更进一步的的群体智慧（Collective Intelligence)的构想，我还要仔细思考一下。

按照时间倒序：

星期六下午在“新单位”空间将有一次Scratch 项目说明会，David Lee 会做主持。可惜届时我已经在欧洲主持Ars Electronica中，只能远程参与。因为今年的电子艺术节我也邀请了Scratch 团队的Andre 来讲Scratch，所以算是精神上的支持。这次活动将主要请大学生志愿者来讲解Scratch，并希望能够倾听发掘小朋友们对游戏化编程设计的好奇心。教育中最大的难题是如何激发好奇心，好奇心都被抹杀了，教育也就褪变成为了绞肉机 ，只有摧残式的制造，而失去了璀璨的绽放。

近期在做评委的一个全球竞赛，Digital Open，我就叫做“数字绽放”。其中还真的很少见中国孩子们的作品。语言问题当然是其中之一，但是从其他国家的提交作品来看，很多非英语内容也并不少见。问题在哪里呢？ 我的感觉是他们根本没有机会去了解数字时代的工具，除了大量的课业。除了教育部长让学生被听歌，以及解决孩子们重书包的拉杆箱问题，再就是总理解决一名民工子弟的入学问题，等等。在纷繁复杂的世界中，靠这样一个个粗简地解决下去，确实很难绽放。 Scratch 虽然不是万灵药，但是它具备了设计、创作、交流和分享的基本要素，如果辅助以真实环境中的问题，以及大哥哥大姐姐的辅导，小朋友们也许真的会爱用它来描绘自己心目中的世界。

另一个可以引导小朋友们的工具其实并非专门为小朋友们设计，但是我觉得也非常合适。那就是Google的Sketchup，这个3D建筑设计工具，可以帮助小朋友把自己想象中的宫殿、城堡还有乐园搭建起来。如Scratch 所包含的分享精神，Sketchup也提供社区的零件分享，让每个人都能够利用现有的模型去丰富自己的作品。 这种累进方式的创造就是鼓励孩子成为社会创造体系的一个部分，而不是被切割开。

一直以为果敢是一个非常褒义的词，一般形容人的果断和勇敢。所以汉语词典中解释为：当机立断,敢作敢为；可是到了血淋淋的当代现实中，“果敢”却变成了悲剧。每天听到那么多关于果敢人为了自己的生存，在一个强干的祖国为后盾下惨烈地与一个小小的独裁军阀政权抗争。

于是从此了解了这个族群，了解了鲜为人知的历史，也看到了政府昌盛下的对人民的盲点如何漂移，甚至如何把“果敢”从汉语中消除掉。也不得不去想象其中的阴谋论，至少他们的无助是事实。人们拿清王朝灭亡前对海外侨民处境的态度来做对比，虽然未必恰当，因为那时国民的待遇也好不到哪里去，但是却不无凄凉。

果敢（英文：Kokang，缅甸文），全名缅甸掸邦第一特区，是缅甸联邦边境的果敢族自治区，首府老街市。1989年脱离缅共成立特区政府，全区面积约2,700平方公里。通行果敢语（汉语）^[3]。— [维基百科：果敢]

时至今日，抗争已经变成了尸骨血泪，家破人亡，可是果敢人还能向哪里去诉说呢。看看侨民在呼救时，那个祖国的态度，以及眼下他们的悲凉境地，还能够说什么。他们祖国的的教育部长叫做周济，他深情朗诵《我爱你中国》 要求中小学生开学收看，不过无论他如何努力也进不了快女的前三名了。 还有一部精心制作的爱国主义电影叫做《建国大业》正准备献给全国人民评说，如果奥斯卡根据社会性过滤的标签丰富程度评奖，那它一定实至名归，因为那业字还映射到了佛教的Karma中，不知道最后的因果会是什么。

I’m re-designing my personal web site these days after a period of boring time in China this summer. But just like Hu Jintao said, “No Zhengteng“(which means “Let’s Zheteng” in China context), we need more time slices to Zheteng out a better personal life log. Now, I have a new implementation from a long term idea: a personal encyclopedia called Isaaclopedia.

It’s more like a personal collection of knowledge instead of a professional reference. But, nobodys thought Wikipedia is such a reference even 5 years ago. Now it proves that social collective intelligence can overtake personal limitations on perceiving the world. Wikipedia has three dimensions showing it’s power: 1. Collaboration, it’s a social work by millions users. Some pages were edited by thousands ever; 2. Duration, collective works after a duration can help overcome the flaws of working memory for individuals; 3. Just-in-time, the immediate editing can help fixed capability of traditional publications, which largely rely on physical media production periodically.

Soon there will be several pages to be created to collect my old works like Sharism, Brain theory,  Cloud Intelligence, etc. For Cloud Intelligence, I’m flying to Linz the coming week with uncertainty because of the situation in China is not so sure.  Let’s see what could be happening.  Good lucks to me.