Posted by Steve Mosko, President of Sony Pictures Television

One of the things that absolutely blew me away when I came on board last year as chairman of the Television Academy Foundation was the Archive of American Television, which is an unequaled collection of videotaped interviews with TV legends.

It's a fantastic resource, and so it drove me crazy that the Archive had over 450 interviews -- but no one could view them if they weren’t actually in Southern California. If a student at a school in Cincinnati or Bangkok wanted to learn more about the history of creative or business aspects of the American television industry, these interviews were just not accessible. So I made it a personal goal to find a way to get the Archive online.

And starting today, anyone in the world can go to Google Video and watch complete and uncut Archive interviews and learn directly from the legends and pioneers on how it all happened. How cool is that?

It’s been 30 years since I was in college, but I can honestly say that if I were just starting out in this business, I would be all over the Archive. I’m such a fan of television that I can’t wait to be able to watch some of the interviews on Google Video – with the men and women who inspired me, and continue to inspire me. One of the Archive legends now online is former NBC head Grant Tinker. Grant helped create “Must See TV” on Thursday nights! There’s also Norman Lear, Ted Turner, Steven Bochco, and so many more. The Archive was created to educate, entertain, and inspire future generations. I challenge you to look up your favorite TV show, learn about a favorite star, or discover more about some of the most important news events of the 20th century. I’m thrilled that the Foundation is finally able to introduce some of these interviews to the world, using the world’s most powerful delivery system – Google. Enjoy!

Update: added URL

終於Plaxo為Thunderbird推出為Thunderbird而設的Toolbar。雖然是Beta版，而且不支援Thunderbird 1.5 Beta，但已經很好的第一步。...

We have often criticized the way Chairman Mao has become the be-all and end-all of all China-related journalism, and the way every desperate hack relates every possible change and every potential disaster to a ruthless Hunanese heresiarch who died nearly 30 years ago. Still, bearing in mind the fact that we are clearly just as obsessed with him as the rest of the hacks, we may have to change our mind. In any case, any ban on Chairman Mao-related nonsense would mean that we could no longer have a joke at the old bugger's expense.

Anyway, our attention was drawn today to the bulletin board section of the Qianlong web portal, where a patriotic contributor listed 46 reasons why the nation should be proud of the Great Helmsman. The list is, naturally, a mixture of propaganda and preposterousness, of boilerplate and, well, bollocks. Okay, at a stretch, one could conceivably attribute to Chairman Mao the end of warlordism and the unification of a heretofore humiliated nation, but... zzzz. The point is that among the triumphant, exultant responses to the posting, among the tear-stained, lip-quivering references to "the one great man", "the one great man who made the world yearn" and "the one great father who is worth respect" is a little, as yet uncensored yell of dissent:

一个SB

The one Shabi, or stupid c**t, presumably.

Another contributor said that Mao was the leader who turned China into a lunatic asylum, a point proved - you might think - by China's online bulletin boards.

The Chinese version of Microsoft Spaces, along with most — probably all — other Chinese blog hosting services have automatic censorship programs which don't allow users to post "sensitive words".

"Sensitive words" are usually the names of political and religous movements and controversial things that might create instability in China if people say or write them too much. Dodgy things, words.

Below is a rough translation of a blog post called Sensitive Words. The original post is on Massage Milk (按摩乳), which is perhaps better translated as Massage Breast.

The author is Dai San Ge Biao (带三个表), which means 'Wears Three Watches' but is also a play on the words 'San Ge Dai Biao' (三个代表), which refer to Jiang Zemin's famously incomprehensible theory of the Three Represents.

Thanks to Comrade N for sending the link, and this explanation:

Dai San Ge Biao is the pen name of Wang Xiaofeng (王晓峰), a reporter for Life Week (三联生活周刊), and he writes a good blog.

The translation below is by your correspondent. If you spot any errors, please let me know (jeremy -at- danwei -dot- org).

Today I saw a very honest post on Qinglang's blog (that he had copied from somewhere else) called Why I will not build my blog on Sina.com.

I myself was never planning to use Sina's blog platform, but after reading the post I am even more certain that I won't use it. 

Nowadays, there are a lot of blog hosts and online forums with something that is really a Chinese characteristic: sensitive words (敏感词).

You don't know whether you should laugh or cry about these sensitive words. Things that were originally not at all sensitive, become highly sensitive things because of these sensitive words. The sensitive words continually remind you: "You better watch what you fucking say: there are some things that you just can't say."

On the one hand we have been prasing Ba Jin [the recently deceased writer] for a consumate hundred year lifetime of telling the truth; on the other hand, we are creating these sensitive words that don't allow us to speak.

Is the speech of ordinary people that terrible? I always remember a sentence from the Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping: "A revolutionary party does not fear the voice of the the masses, it fears the reign of silence."

On the other hand, there are times when you can't just let Internet users do as they please. If there were no controls at all, there would be chaos. The problem is deciding what method to use to prevent the Internet becoming anarchic.

Using sensitive words is a really clumsy, ridiculous and retarded method that does not solve any problems at all. It is like the ears of a deaf person, or the response of an ostrich to danger. It is just self-deception.

Let's suppose you write the following sentence on any blog host that has senstive word controls: "The viewership rating of CCTV's (中央电视台) recent TV series Passing Scenes of Beijing has reached 6.4%". You would not be able to publish this sentence on Blogcn and other such blog hosts because it contains senstive words [i.e. 'central' 中央 which is an abbbreviation for the Central Government].

But has this sentence contravened the Fifth Clause of the Computer and Information Network International Internet Safety Protection Regulations? Of course not. Since it has not broken the rules, why the hell are you depriving me of my rights to free expression?

Furthermore, suppose I write a sentence like this: "We must see through to the essence of cults like Falungong" I imagine almost no blog host would allow this sentence to be published, because it contains sensitive words. You see, even my rights to criticize a cult have been taken away. Are computers fucking stupid, or are people?

If we accept that there must be some controls on Internet content, and we absolutely must use this sensitive words method, why can't they make the list of words public so that everyone knows what to look out for when they write? I think these lists would be very funny, but there is not even one blog host that is willing to make their list public, because if they did they would be spurned by users. Internet users would say: "So that is what you are fucking scared of!" But if they don't publish the lists, it is too troublesome to write because you never know which words will be considered sensitive.

It's like a girl whose whole body is highly sensitive from head to toe. Do you dare to touch her?

RSS Feed Autodiscovery，就是RSS Feed的自动发现机制。从技术角度来说，是一件简单到家的事情，不过是在HTML里的<HEAD>部分里加一行代码，类似：

<link REL="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Default RSS1.0 feed"  
href="http://www.zhangyining.net/weblog/rss/rss.pl"/>

这行代码的作用就是告诉访问该页面的客户端程序（浏览器，RSS Reader，或者是RSS聚合器）该页面提供RSS Feed以及该Feed的地址，这样，客户端程序可以直接反馈给用户提示用户可以订阅的内容（例子：桌面或者基于浏览器的RSS Reader），或者自动聚合内容（例子：RSS搜索引擎）。

这种机制要比用户自己去点击blog页面上的那个桔黄色的写有“RSS”或者“XML”或者“Atom”的小图标然后拷贝该图标指向的链接再填入RSS Reader里更快捷更方便，也就更友好。

可是，到写这篇文字为止，在我有限的调查中（到各个BSP主页然后随机挑几个blog查看），国内几个大的BSP们，除了blogbus提供RSS Feed Autodiscovery以外，Blogchina, Blogcn, Blogdriver，以及新浪Blog，都没有提供这种RSS Feed的自动发现机制。

绝对不会是技术问题，第一，如我上面所说，不是难，而是太容易，只要你提供了那个链接到RSS Feed的桔黄色图标，就能够写一个HTML Link而实现Autodiscovery；

第二，举例：新浪的blog页面就在RSS图标下，提供了一个“推荐订阅：订阅到RSS阅读器”的Javascript链接，点击该链接会启动用户机器上安装的新浪的桌面RSS阅读器，并将当前页面的Feed提交给阅读器。也就是说，新浪blog的页面只让自己的桌面阅读器来自动发现新浪blog页面上的Feed（有趣的是，新浪RSSReader并不支持Autodiscovery，必须提交RSS的实际URL才能够订阅。好奇的可以看看新浪blog页面上的这段javascript（我调整了显示格式），基本上是启动阅读器提交Feed的URL，如果当前机器上没有安装，那么跳转到下载页面（当然，这段代码只能在IE里正确执行）。

function rsstry(_sUrl)
{
 try{
     new ActiveXObject("SinaRss.RssObject");
     window.open(_sUrl, "_self");
    } catch(e) { 
       window.open("http://rss.sina.com.cn/rss_noreader.html");
    }
}

为什么技术上更先进，对用户更友好（嘿，Web2.0不是以用户为主么？），Feed的自动发现机制没有得到各个BSP们足够的重视和使用上的推广呢？真的是因为他们的技术开发人员几乎一致地忽略了么，还是管理层为了提高页面的访问量，点击率，“眼球数”，和页面上广告的click-through量，这些Web1.0的旧指标而故意不支持呢？

也许可以在几天后的网志年会上讨论一下吧。

今天对Blog模板作了两项微调: 1、以前在Blog中也使用过QuickSub提供的js来提供便捷的RSS订阅方式，但QuickSub的代码修改较多，换了新模板后就没有再添加这个Quicksub的功能，今天看到一个更为方便的解决办法，于是就在Blog上加上了这个功能，大家可以点击我的Blog侧边栏中的订阅信息按钮，或者直接点这里看效果（在RSS阅读器中无效，只能到blog中看效果）。具体的安装方法，可以看这里。 2、在Blog的侧边栏添加几个公益项目的推广链接，包括微笑图书馆，捐献时间分享快乐以及多背一公斤，不过多背一公斤没有找到宣传推广的图标，原来的那个似乎失效了，所以只好加文字链接感谢scavin，添加了多背一公斤项目的图标。公益项目通过千千万万个Blogger进行推广的确是一种很不错的方式，可以利用Blog长尾的广告价值，相信很多Blogger也愿意在自己的blog上添加这些公益项目的推广链接。所以每个公益项目都应该设计好各种尺寸的推广图标，甚至准备好html代码，方便blogger们的链接推广，就像捐献时间项目这样。 如果还有其他的公益项目希望我加链接进行宣传的话，也可以在后面留言给我。 另外，请Bolaa.com将我的Blog内容从你的站上删掉，我讨厌这种frame的方式。也曾经留言让曾雄杰将我的Blog从博粹中删除，不知道删了没有。

Che Dong posted a photo:

上图是使用Carrot2将Pink Floyd的搜索结果进行类聚的效果。

Carrot(胡萝卜)2项目： www.cs.put.poznan.pl/dweiss/carrot/
SourceForge主页： sourceforge.net/projects/carrot2/
Nutch项目中的Clusty引擎用的也是Carrot。

It often seems like China's fashion magazines all collude to put a single model on that month's covers. Sometimes it'll be a wall of broad Hsu Chi smiles, or cover after cover of glamorous photos of Maggie Cheung. True, it's probably just random coincidence. This month's coincidence is Li Bingbing, who appears here on the cover of Digital Fan magazine. Her interview with the magazine reveals she likes shooting DV, and that her favorite piece of music equipment is the iPod Mini.

Li was all over the gossip papers earlier this year after a hotel security camera caught her in an elevator with one of the members of F4. To the dismay of scandal-mongers, however, the situation died down without erupting into a fight between Li and the F's former girlfriend. Of course, what the reading public enjoys only slightly less than scandal is a heartwarming story of a woman standing tall against naysayers who would tear her down; Li made the cover of BQ last month with the headline, "I'm stronger than I imagined."

Then there's Trends Health, in which Li posed nude with Christy Chung and Wu Junmei as part of the "Love our breasts, love ourselves" Pink Ribbon Breast Cancer Prevention Campaign. Celebrity gossip magazine Big Star ran its own cover story on the minor flap stirred up online by this "daring" cover, including a surprisingly substantial interview with the actress, who denied that she was paid big bucks as part of a ploy by Trends to sell more magazines in the name of health awareness.

Li Bingbing shows up on the cover of another Trends magazine, Autostyle, and poses inside in a "Driving is psychological warfare" pictorial. She's also on WomenFriend: Love's November issue, and several other digest magazines that reprint celebrity news stories.

博客搜索一共收录了200多万的博客，一共索引600多万条记录。
博客联播是您随时发现新文章的一个来源，平均每天收录8万条记录，并且滚动播出（过滤程序将一些字数少于200，色情等的先过滤掉了），是中文博客的即时风向标。

Booso.com 最早是我在博客动力的时候业余时间利用refer 服务的数据制作的搜索引擎，今年年初因为事物繁忙，就逐渐荒废了开发，直到这次回国后才又有精力带领团队进行完善。Booso 从诞生到现在，一直是一个试验田，一共进行过如下的尝试：1] Referral 的服务 2] refer 和 关键词搜索的服务 3] 自动分类引擎的测试 4] 贴吧 5] 新闻搜索服务 6] 新闻聚类服务 7] 博客搜索服务 8] 博客联播服务。虽然前前后后历经一年之久，很多服务也是中途夭折，但是基本上正是这些尝试，我和我们的团队得到了很多锻炼和经验，这些财富才是最值得收藏的。

对于这两个服务，我和我的团队还在完善中，如果有好的建议或者砖头请不要吝啬。

前2天读到了? RSS阅读中潜在的安全问题 | 未完成 - Incomplete，讲的是混杂在Rich Text的RSS中的js会在RSS阅读客户端执行从而导致潜在的漏洞问题。正巧我在上个周末的时候也遇到了类似的一个问题：不过更严重的是在RSS聚合的服务器端。 我的首页是用require_once('lilina.html') 的方式包含一个lilina.php生成的静态页面组合生成的，源代码如下。其中也包含了跨服务器PHP脚本执行的安全漏洞。如果我订阅的RSS中有黑客将其中混入 <?php >这样的代码，这样一包含：不就可以直接在我的服务器上直接运行php脚本了吗？这个潜在漏洞的发现还是从MSN的Search blog的一篇FEED中引出的。

本来不想写。但是topku问是谁抄谁的时候，意识到需要澄清了。 所以, for the record: 是别人抄我们。抄袭者不是什么三流小网站, 这些我们见多了。是我一直心怀敬重的一个网站。失望之极。 能够成为UI和功能设计某种意义上的样板，豆瓣很自豪。 但是逐字逐句地copy, 连about-us都抄, 有点太... 懒惰了吧? 豆瓣help: 不同于供浏览的门户网站，豆瓣是一个鼓励你参与的社会性工具。你参与的越多，收获也就越多。 大众点评网“改版”之后的help: 大众点评网不是一个仅供浏览的传统门户网站。 大众点评网是一个需要你参与的社会性网站。参与越多，收获就越多。 再比方说，“站务论坛“。 还有整体的功能、UI设计和几十处细节。熟悉豆瓣的人可以自己去对比，评判。我们自己看得最清楚，因为豆瓣每一个像素的摆放，每一个“的”字放还是不放，都是许多根熬白的头发换来的。 英语有句话，“模仿是最真诚的赞赏”。说的是模仿，不是抄袭。所以，不受此礼。

這兩天因有人發現了base.google.com的Domain，所以很多人對Google Base的服務熱熾期待。終於Google揭終，Google Base其實是一個Free Database的服務，讓我們使用他們來存放Database Content。...

Sometimes a picture really is worth 1,000 words. Or laughs. This image was passed around at work but is legit. It comes from the FEMA web site. However, without the surrounding context, it appears to say the following: Disaster leads to a Response Response leads to Recovery Recovery leads to Mitigation Mitigation leads to Risk Reduction Risk Reduction leads to Prevention Prevention leads to Preparedness Preparedness lead to DISASTER! I wonder if that graphic artist was trying to be...

好久没有更新blog，是因为有很多想法，还没来得及坐到我的电脑前，更没有时间把思路整理清楚，却已经抓起行囊在路上了。Wendy从侧面描述了我最近的生活，蛮真实的。

秋夜的北京

现在晚上两点，总算在北京国贸附近的一个宾馆里面有机会打开电脑，用CDMA上网，写点东西。好在明天不用西服笔挺的赶早出发。北京的秋夜并不静。在我住的宾馆，三环路上飞驰的汽车在巨大的国贸桥上朝无数的方向飞奔。天呢，这可是凌晨两点呀。

写blog的时间

有人说写blog的必然是空闲的不得了的，实干家从来不写blog。说得虽不能说错，但不够全面。

有人问我：你三年每天都花时间写blog，不觉得是在浪费时间吗？我说：三年，它让我每天至少有半个小时在思考，三年后可以有一个访问量每月超过百万的blog，而如果三年每天都在忙碌12个小时，还得到的呢？

我听到过的对于传统时间管理方法中时间的紧迫感的假象最尖刻和直白的质问就是：你已经浪费了整整20年的时间，还在乎这10分钟干吗？这是个好问题。当自己做的事情偏离了个人使命的时候，大量的时间在浪费了。至少英文blog向世界介绍上海的使命，三年没有变过。

我希望通过blog来提醒自己，并不断积累些东西。我真的不想在老的时候才后悔，这一生花费最多精力的事情，比如对传统认为重要的名誉和金钱的追求，却不是我想要的东西。

时间的记号

翻看以前的blog，在《旅行的邀约》摄影展闭展的时候，我发现我居然还留着这样一段话：

记住些什么

我经常问我的朋友：在2004年，你还记得你做了哪几年事情？在2003年呢？那么2002年呢？答案常常需要n长时间，并且，很少有人能够列出超过五条。这让人觉得尴尬。

2004年，整整的365天呀。我们每天都很忙，忙得没有时间去想一想，自己要的究竟是什么。我们在忙什么呢？

几乎每一次，在考虑这个问题的时候，大家才发现，能给人留下记忆的东西，并不是我们每天都在追逐的东西；让我们忘得最快的，反而是我们说很忙时所用来推托的那些事情。

我在2004年，有印象的就几件事情：我徒步访问了所有上海的星巴克(EN)；我骑车去了太湖 (EN)，以及（几乎）到达了东经119度，北纬30度 (EN) 的那个整数的经纬度点。其他的，常规的事情，记得不是那么清楚了。。。

关于2005年，在年初的时候，我就设想，今年我要记住的三件事情：办一个基金会，办一个个人画展，和在青岛办一个高中同学毕业十周年聚会。这前两件都已经完成了，让我很有成就感。画展，就是我在2005年的一个标记，让我在今后的十年中，记得些东西。庆胜说：我参加摄影展的目的，就是在展室里拍张照片，以后给自己的孙子看，告诉他他的爷爷在30岁之前就办过摄影展。我大笑不止，因为，骨子里，我也有这种想法。

我真庆幸那时候把这些想法记录了下来，让我重新审视自己要的东西，而不是自己要做的东西。

公益的情节

“你的生活目标是什么？”这是常常被问到的问题。我好像从一年前开始到现在的答案是：财务自由。就是说我不必每天工作，就可以干我想干的事情。这“想干的事情”，当然包括“工作”（但不是迫于生计的），更包括对这个世界做些改变。

我和很多朋友有深深的公益情结。或许觉得自己过于幸运，接受过那么多人的帮助，包括听到的讲座，比我年长的朋友的建议，以及免费的学习的机会，所以想回馈回去，希望能做些事情，来产生些影响。无论是间接的启发，还是直接的帮助。

最近到交大，复旦和同济的讲座，这个季度客齐集计划的其他40场上海的高校讲座，以及以个人或者公司的名义参与到微笑图书室的计划里，就是公益活动的一部分。这些尝试也是想在公益和商业直接找到一个平衡，看看“充分尊重捐赠者以及商业化运作公益项目”的理念是不是行得通。这比想象的难得多，受到质疑也多，否则就不用专门来写“子路受人以劝德，子贡谦让而止善”的道理了。

随然还是土人一个，也并没有多少钱，但正所谓“待有余而后济人，必无济人之日”，只要念及自己的工资已经比刚毕业或者没毕业的时候多了很多，就足够觉得自己是个富翁，有能力来做些事情了。

捐献时间项目

不知道是年龄到了，还是时间到了，公益的活动如雨后春笋一样子在身边的朋友圈子里面涌现，看得我满心欢喜，深为他们所作的努力叫好。10月23号，刘润和志愿者们创建的“捐献时间”网站正式开通了。它是一个公益的需求和供给的一个平台，让志愿者可以在上面做交流。这又是一件“听从自己心灵”而作的事情，对此深表祝贺。

刘润说：

“捐献时间计划”的理想是，将来任何真正需要帮助的组织、机构都可以在这个网站平台上发布需求，而所有的志愿者可以尽情的捐献自己的时间和爱心，而不必因为不知道哪里需要自己而着急。事实上，“捐献时间”也想到了将新一代志愿者培育的计划纳入整个计划当中，今天的需求者也可以是明天的志愿者。上海商学院计算机与电子工程学院的胡副院长在得到了志愿者们的帮助之后，也表示非常希望能够通过“捐献时间计划”找到能够让学生们也能够参与的需求来献爱心。

刘润是在公益活动中倾注的时间和精力是惊人的。以前在南京大学的义务的演讲，以及最近一系列的大学演讲，都有他的参与。一堂从入学开始准备毕业让南京洛阳纸贵。在上海，我们也一起到过很多高校，他是我非常要好的搭档。客齐集已经把在大学的活动记录全部放在捐献时间的网站上，作为对捐献时间项目的支持，希望有更多的人和组织能够参与进来，让“捐献时间”的火烧得更旺些。

注：本应在网站发布之日提及，有所延误，算是迟到的祝福。
注二：横戈的和老冒的招聘条目里面已经把公益作为一项了，我深知这不是作秀，而是新型的一批公司的对回馈社会自觉的认同。
注三：最近看到icebin推荐的两个网站，一个是关于PDA的，一个是关于汽车的，非常有趣。

Feeds and feed promotion have become a critical part of content distribution. Along with the growing awareness of syndication importance, more and more bloggers, podcasters, commercial publishers and marketers want to make sure their domain names are associated with their content, and that includes syndicated content within the feed.

Earlier this summer, we introduced a service for customers running their own servers who also have access to their domain name tables. We are relaunching this premium service with a new name, "MyBrand", along with self-signup instructions accessible through the My Account area of the application. MyBrand allows publishers to run their feeds through FeedBurner while retaining their domain names. It's the ultimate in transparency!

As we said about the service when we first launched it: "We now support the ability for partners to point their own domain at FeedBurner, so that the feed and all the related resources (stats tracking, ad spaces, XSL style sheets, everything) will have the partner's URL. This allows all FeedBurner partners to completely control their feeds, making FeedBurner as transparent as possible."

Despite not featuring this service on the site, it has been enormously popular. A number of publishers with highly subscribed feeds are already taking advantage of the service including Daily Kos and Search Engine Watch.

If you are interested in this service AND you run your own servers or have control of your domain name pointers (you'll need to ask your domain registrar about this), you can now sign up for MyBrand. The cost of this premium or "Pro" service is based on number of feeds you have:

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