首先说明,这篇文章本不应该是现在读者看的这个样子。本来周六晚世纪沙龙要我去讨论超女,我不太喜欢这种大专辩论会的样子,因此就没去。今天早晨一看,许纪霖教授在那里大肆抨击超女,我立马气就不打一处来,打电话给数位朋友,激烈抨击许此文。“谁和超女过不去,谁就是和人民过不去。”本来要写成文章发布,可以想见言语会有多么激烈。
结果我要出去给猫女儿买猫砂和零食,回来后又在看伊拉克新宪全文,最后折腾下来,火气下来了。晚上看到孤云发了批评文章,很平和,我也就平和了下来。写不成檄文,那就静静地说出我的看法吧。许原文《戳穿“超女民主”的神话》在(http://211.157.100.62/viewthread.php?tid=20336),读者请参阅。
许纪霖虽然是著名教授,但这篇文章显示了许的政治学功底比较差,短短千字的反超女文章,竟然出现了匪夷所思的逻辑错误。一个常识就是:你不可以说一个男人性无能的同时又指责他强奸少女无数,因为逻辑必须周全。
许反超女一文,批评超女“民主”有三大缺点:大众评委是民主集中制、短信投票是多数人暴政、规则由电视台控制是商业控制全局。超女是有缺点,对大众评委、短信投票、商业控制的批评,也都是我们能看到的正常的对超女的批评,但把这三个完全不同标准、不同维度、互相矛盾的批评由一个人来说的,恐怕就是许纪霖教授一人而已。任何一个本科一年级的政治学系学生,都会知道,凡是民主集中制,就无法多数人暴政,多数人暴政就不可能商业控制全局,商业控制全局就不可能民主集中制,如果想不通这个道理的人就别学政治学了。我想问问许教授,你到底要超女怎么样呢?这种指控别人性无能又强奸少女无数的游戏到底要想干吗?
许文最后一段其实告诉我们很多东西。“所谓的超女民主,只是一种民粹式的民主。而历史已经证明,而且将继续证明,民粹民主正是威权意志的最好掩护。今日的娱乐,就是明日的政治。善良的人们,你们要警惕啊!”
恩,许教授让我们警惕民粹民主,因为它“正是威权意志的最好掩护”。不过我怎么觉得许在讲一个笑话?威权意志还他妈需要掩护?它不正在现在好好地存在当下吗?我们喜欢超女,就是因为她给了中国人民一个机会,知道了威权意志的可恶和自由选择的可爱,这种我们很少能获得的反对威权意志的机会,怎么在许教授的眼中,就成了威权意志最好的掩护?这不是黑白颠倒吗?难道反对威权意志的最好方式就是像许教授一样,对专制不说一个字的不,然后代表最先进的文化,坐在学院里面拿上海政府津贴随意臧否可怜的民众自由?到底谁是威权意志的最好掩护?是超女还是三个代表的教授您?
我们中国人民很可怜的,才有了一个模拟民主的超女,就有教授来说三道四。可当我们受到压迫的时候,当我们的利益被剥夺的时候,这些反对民粹民主的学院教授们全部装死,没有任何发言。许教授善良地提醒我们不要迎来未来的不幸,但是他根本不在乎我们当下的不幸。
我们活在当下。数千万人挣扎在当下。有人失地、有人饿死、有人被虐、有人遭受不公,巨大的苦难蔓延在中华大地上。学院教授当然也有自己安心做学问的自由,但是如果要摆出公共知识分子深入民间的样子,那必须了解这样常识:要想有资格讨论当下,必须首先反对当下苦难的源头。这个苦难源头不是超女,也不是民粹,而是众多学院教授也处在其中的既得利益者们,他们三个代表,我们却无人可以代表。这就是为什么我们追求民主、甚至连类似民主的东西也追捧的原因,因为除了民主,没有其他方法可以拯救我们。
This is an interesting post on a forum about how someone had his mobile phone stolen and the funny series of events that led to the capture of the thief. The thief had used the camera on the phone to take pictures of himself, his girlfriend and a amateur sex video. Unfortunately for the thief, the owner had set up an automatic posting routine on the phone.
Since we launched the Feed Awareness API, many publishers have taken advantage of this capbility in order to allow third party applications to promote popular feeds, feeds whose subscriber numbers are growing, and other interesting analytical trends.
Now that the API has been available for a while, it's worth clarifying a couple of items, both for ourselves and our publishers. First of all, if you enable the Awareness API for your feed, then the number of subscribers to your feed becomes a number that is accessible to third parties for inclusion in popular feed lists and other awareness and attention tracking directories. In the "Publicize" section of FeedBurner, you can toggle the Awareness capability on and off. Activating the awareness API makes your feed subscription numbers publicly available, as we put no restrictions on what services are allowed to leverage the API. It's an open API.
Secondly, although feeds with the Awareness API enabled are making their subscriber data publicly available, going forward we will not comment on any individual feed metrics, whether or not those metrics are already available on other websites, unless the publisher has requested that we mention the numbers in some context. Recently, in a couple of interviews, we have discussed publicly available Feed Awareness metrics, and it is clear that in some cases, misunderstandings about the public nature of the API has led to publisher and subscriber concern about our comments vis a vis a particular feed's popularity. The easy solution to this is to simply eliminate all public commentary about individual feed metrics, regardless of whether or not that data is already accessible.
We have always been very clear that we are here to serve publishers. We will make very clear on the "Publicize" page that activating the Awareness API makes your feed data available to third parties.
UPDATE: Kevin from HDBeat notes we should emphasize that the Awareness API is not activated by default. You must enable it and/or the FeedCount graphic in the "Publicize" section of FeedBurner. Good point, thanks Kevin.