Tuesday, April 20, 2004
Jeff |
MovableType's Beta Testing
Movable Type is the dominant weblog application on the Internet. It has been called the Windows of blogging apps. And naturally, MT's new edition, Movable Type 3.0 is widely anticipated.
One of the hottest new functions of MT 3.0 is called TypeKey. It's an authentication plug-in for MT that makes comment spam much more difficult. Let's wait and see if the new MT is much better than the current edition.
Related links:
Movable Type --- MT homepage;
Six Apart --- MT's company;
Joi Ito --- MT's investors;
TypePad --- MT's paid blogging service;
Mena Trott --- one of MT's founders.
One of the hottest new functions of MT 3.0 is called TypeKey. It's an authentication plug-in for MT that makes comment spam much more difficult. Let's wait and see if the new MT is much better than the current edition.
Related links:
Movable Type --- MT homepage;
Six Apart --- MT's company;
Joi Ito --- MT's investors;
TypePad --- MT's paid blogging service;
Mena Trott --- one of MT's founders.
Monday, April 19, 2004
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Jeff |
Chinese need new ideas and applications for the Internet
I have been a member of Orkut for a couple of months now. When I logged into Orkut this morning, I got a message from a website called Liring.com, a Chinese website. It introduces itself as a SNS, a social network service, similar to Orkut. I find this to be quite funny: these entrepreneurs are using Orkut to promote a Chinese version of Orkut. Let's see if they will succeed.
I hope Liring.com will succeed. But at the same time, I hope that Chinese entrepreneurs will come up with new ideas and turn these new ideas into useful applications for the Internet, instead of only following other people's(mainly Americans') old ideas. We will never catch up with the West this way.
I hope Liring.com will succeed. But at the same time, I hope that Chinese entrepreneurs will come up with new ideas and turn these new ideas into useful applications for the Internet, instead of only following other people's(mainly Americans') old ideas. We will never catch up with the West this way.
Sunday, April 18, 2004
Isaac |
BloggerCon Shanghai(Some Photos)
ls |
International session of BloggerConII
I am very interesting in the international session of BloggerConII. First at all, blogosphere does not just happen in the US. It has been extending all over the world. Second, some American bloggers have started to read other part of the world by study un-native English blog or un-English blog. Those American bloggers are like Rebecca MacKinnon, who is the moderator of the international session, has a online aggregator list with some of the blogs around the world; Fons Tuinstra, he had organized the BloggerCon Shanghai meeting; and etc.
The begining of the session, MacKinnon encouraged Ethan Zuckerman to talk about his study--"Mapping International News in the Blogosphere", which major media American websites have mention to other countries. Jim Moore had talked about his "second power" theory.
During the session, there are two countries blogs have mentioned a lot, one is Iraq, another is China. The war of Iraq is the hot topic in the U.S. And the China gov censorship is the interested topic for some of the American bloggers. They want to know the true behind the main stem media. Beside the polity, there are also other international issue with the blog. Someone had pointed out a religion blog (site) that has been edited by global editors.
And the challenge for the global blogger is the language. In the discussion, participants request better resolvents to translate languages on the internet. Therefore, people can understand the foreign culture by translate the language to their own. For the topic: communication between different societies, Jeff Jarvis suggest that the bloggers can blog about other countries--"blogger adopts other country". And I think that IME is a difficult for the multi-languages blogger who want to use the public online service to blog in the US.
The whole session (include IRC, even the webcast did not got so well) was intense. When people in the close session of the BloggerCon, MacKinnon said that international session has not end yet, it is just the begining.
If there are other people have participated in the session, please feel free to fill out the thing I am missing in this session.
The begining of the session, MacKinnon encouraged Ethan Zuckerman to talk about his study--"Mapping International News in the Blogosphere", which major media American websites have mention to other countries. Jim Moore had talked about his "second power" theory.
During the session, there are two countries blogs have mentioned a lot, one is Iraq, another is China. The war of Iraq is the hot topic in the U.S. And the China gov censorship is the interested topic for some of the American bloggers. They want to know the true behind the main stem media. Beside the polity, there are also other international issue with the blog. Someone had pointed out a religion blog (site) that has been edited by global editors.
And the challenge for the global blogger is the language. In the discussion, participants request better resolvents to translate languages on the internet. Therefore, people can understand the foreign culture by translate the language to their own. For the topic: communication between different societies, Jeff Jarvis suggest that the bloggers can blog about other countries--"blogger adopts other country". And I think that IME is a difficult for the multi-languages blogger who want to use the public online service to blog in the US.
The whole session (include IRC, even the webcast did not got so well) was intense. When people in the close session of the BloggerCon, MacKinnon said that international session has not end yet, it is just the begining.
If there are other people have participated in the session, please feel free to fill out the thing I am missing in this session.
