Source favicon20:14 Super Girls oral sex condoms and penis biters » Danwei RSS 1.0
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Oral sex: a little like
Super Girls?

Remember Mu Zimei condoms? Bill Clinton condoms? Eventually it had to happen to Super Girls. This news is from the Beijing Times:

Yesterday at the Third Family Planning and Reproductive Health Technology Exhibition in Beijing's Agricultural Center, "condoms named 'Super Girls' (超级女声) and 'Female Music Troupe' (女子乐坊) aroused great interest".

According to the Beijing Times, the companies that own Super Voice Girls (the televised singing contest) and 12 Girls Group (a group of young Chinese women who play traditional instruments) "have expressed that they cannot accept such usage".

The condoms, produced by Guilin Latex Factory, are especially designed for oral sex. Factory director Tao Ran said that oral sex condoms are one of their newest products. Apparently the condoms are not yet available on the market.

Mr Tao went on to explain the reason behind the names: the images of a Super Girls contestant singing into the microphone and a female musician playing the flute are "highly reminiscent of the act that this condom is intended for."

Another new product introduced by the enthusiastic Mr Tao was a condom specially for homosexuals, named 'Comrade' (同志 — Chinese slang for gay). Other news from the Third Family Planning and Reproductive Health Technology Exhibition: sex toys are selling very well, with most purchases being made by women.

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Super Biting Boy

In unrelated news, Chongqing Times reports from Sichuan that a teenage boy lured a 5 year old boy back to his room by promising to give him a Super Girls sticker.

The older boy then bit the younger boy's penis so hard that blood gushed out. The language of the report is a little vague on certain details, but its seems that it was nearly bitten off completely.

Apparently, doctors managed to save the penis, but could not say whether its function would be affected in the boy's later life.

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Source favicon19:36 lilina缓存加速II:加入MAGPIE_LOAD_CACHE_ONLY模式 » 车东[Blog^2]

订阅的Feed越来越多,即使基于简单的配置缓存有时候也经常速度跟不上:网站经常出现只剩下右边半边的情况,就是由于缓存期间抓取远程的网页超时导致的。其实PlanetGregarius一样,都是在用户访问的时候避免对FEED的动态更新。Planet和Gregarius都是使用后台脚本定时同步FEED,在MagpieRSS外面包了一层存储(数据库),我直接在MagpieRSS中增加了一个只读本地缓存模式。修改了一下MagpieRSS的缓存逻辑:加入一个MAGPIE_LOAD_CACHE_ONLY 模式,只从本地的缓存中取feed,避免更新期间向远程发送FEED同步请求。

然后在lilina前台这样调用即可:
// cache expire in 3 hours
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// load cache only
define('MAGPIE_LOAD_CACHE_ONLY', true);

require_once('./lib.php');

Source favicon19:17 Plug for Insider's Guide to Beijing » Danwei RSS 1.0
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Big book of Beijing

Danwei recently commented on a story in the San Francisco Chronicle in which the reporter ignorantly said that the Great Hall of the People was a difficult place to gain admission to.

People who want to avoid mistakes like that are advised to buy a copy of the Insider's Guide to Beijing: a comprehensive guide to living in Beijing. It's got all the phone numbers you need to avoid sounding like an ignoramus when trying to reserve events in supposedly top secret commie hide-outs.

You can buy the book online, for delivery both in and outside of China (link below).

Disclosure: your correspondent contributed to the business chapter of the book.



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Source favicon18:49 Judging Book Search by its cover » Official Google Blog




What's in a name? Quite a bit, actually; what you call yourself says a lot about what you think you are. And we've been thinking lately that Google Print should really be called Google Book Search.



Why the change? Well, one factor was all the comments we got about how excited people were that Google Print would help them print out their documents, or web pages they visit -- which of course it won't.



More important, the change reflects our product's evolution. When we launched Google Print, our goal was to make it easier for users to discover books. Now that we're starting to achieve that, we think a more descriptive name will help clarify what our users can do with it: namely, search the full text of books to find ones that interest them and learn where to buy or borrow them.



No, we don't think that this new name will change what some folks think about this program. But we do believe it will help a lot of people understand better what we're doing. We want to make all the world's books discoverable and searchable online, and we hope this new name will help keep everyone focused on that important goal.
Source favicon15:03 Del.icio.us:社会性书签现象 » blog中文翻译
原文地址 原文标题:Del.icio.us: Social bookmarking phenomenon(Del.icio.us:社会性书签现象) 原作者:Juan Carlos Perez, IDG News Service 到了2001年,Joshua Schachter决定开发一种软件程序,以协助自己组织和管理前几年中收集的网页链接。对Schachter来说,在浏览器上收藏从来不是追踪连接的有用方法。Schachter说,你的书签不能超过40或50个,否则组织它们将变得非常痛苦,我有超过2万个链接。 在那个时候,Schachter已经运营了一个叫做Memepool的网站3年时间,这是一个让人们在上面列出链接的群体blog,还有一些简短的注释。Schachter在业余时间与合作合办一起运营Memepool,这时他有了网站链接的想法。他愿意将链接复制成一个文本文件。 当2001年链接超过2万个时,他开发了一种单用户的应用程序,可以自动收集和管理书签。这种程序工作的很好。于是在2003年,他重新从零开始编写多用户系统程序,并发布到网上让其他人使用,他称之为del.icio.us。 我得到了一些帮助,但大部分是我自己编写的,31岁的Schachter说。 他希望别人也像他一样发现这个系统有用。他是对的。在没有正式的市场的情况下,今天的del.icio.us已经有大约20万注册用户。 增长是巨大的、难以置信的,他说。同时,del.icio.us也造就了一种被称之为社会性书签的现象。 “很多人说,我们进入了一个新的网络:web2.0。他们相信下一代网络的关键组成部分将是社会性书签,你可以称之为人格化的网络”,Gartner公司分析家Allen Weiner 说。 基本上,每个del.icio.us用户在网站上都有一个页面,他们可以在那里保存自己喜欢的网站书签。因此很快地,这种服务很方便,因为用户可以从任何一台联网电脑访问自己的书签。 用户被要求为每个书签增加描述性的标签(tag)。例如,用户可能给一个有关西班牙足球联盟的页面加上“西班牙”和“足球”等标签,这使得链接列表导航更加容易。Del.icio.us还让用户通过关键词搜索其列表,同时当增加链接时,以时间为顺序组织列表。 但是,del.icio.us真正的吸引力超出了一种个人化的书签管理器。这主要体现在其社会性方面:Del.icio.us让用户可以看到其他人的链接收藏。 如果一个用户发现其他人的列表引人注目,可以进行订阅,这样当书签增加时,还会得到通知。正如每个用户在del.icio.us上都有个人页面,每个tag也都有自己的页面,上面是其描述的所有书签。用户还可以订阅tag页面,例如政治或音乐,当条目增加时,就会得到通知。用户可以通过RSS订阅,传递到外部的新闻阅读器或del.icio.us的内部系统,主要是向用户的个人收件箱内发送通知。 此外,每个链接还包括其他订阅它的用户列表,因此用户可以知道谁订阅了某一个链接。 Del.icio.us的设计原则强迫用户浏览其他人的列表,除此之外,他们无法发现页面。简而言之,Del.icio.us用户是一个在线社区,通过分享自己喜欢和认为有用的链接聚到一起, [...]
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Source favicon10:30 Business briefs: fake chips and fake bird flu vaccines » Danwei RSS 1.0
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Intel's remarked chips.

Business Briefs is a new weekly Danwei feature, sponsored by The China Perspective, a news service offering China market intelligence.

The pages of the business press last week were abuzz with stinging indictments of Intel and its "faked chips" - rebranded Pentium M were found in notebook computers on the mainland. Other news of the week included Microsoft outfoxing the domestic owner of the "live.cn" domain, and the Ministry of Agriculture yanking Jinyu's pharmaceutical license after it produced a fake bird flu vaccine. And a CASS report says that private companies are more competitive before they go public.


Intel in "fake chip" scandal

Intel's reputation was hit hard this past week when remarked Pentium M chips were found in circulation in domestic notebook computers. Remarking chips is an "open secret" within the industry, according to reports carried in the Chinese media as well as papers overseas, but what really hurt Intel wasn't the existence of the chips themselves. Intel reacted by dismissal, then denial, then grudging recognition of the possibility it may have been the source of the problem chips, a process that many in the tech media sector saw as lack of respect for Chinese consumers. This comes shortly after Intel insulted Chinese technological development by calling AMD's x86 deal with the Chinese government "ten-year-old technology."

Intel is currently preparing an official statement for release in the near future. As the media investigates further it is uncovering evidence of widespread resale of engineering samples, especially in low-low-end notebooks, so Intel may not suffer too much.

Microsoft gets Live.cn for a steal

Microsoft launched its "Windows Live" service across the globe on 1 November. In China, the domains it used were "live.cn" and "live.com.cn," which had originally been owned by the Chinese company Cinet. It lost out on the chance to profit like cyber-squatters had done to Google earlier in the year since Microsoft acquired the domains through a third party, Melbourne IT. The Australian company paid five figures for the two names in a purchase that only last week was revealed to be done for MS.


Fake flu vaccines hurt Jinyu Pharma

Earlier this year, the Inner Mongolia BioPharmaceutical Factory manufactured fake bird flu vaccine and sold it in Liaoning Province. The Ministry of Agriculture, never one to let things slip by, reacted last week by pulling the license to manufacture drugs for livestock from IMBF's parent company, the Jinyu Group. This punishment could be serious for Jinyu, since its medical arm generates more than half of the Group's operating income. On the other hand, the suspension is only so that the Ministry of Agriculture can perform a further investigation before determining the Group's ultimate punishment, so it's hard to tell what the final effect will be.


Competition and small-scale companies

Private companies out-compete public ones, according to a report on the competitiveness of Chinese business released by the Institute of Industrial Economics of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. When companies operating in sectors where there are no clear economies of scale go public, their competitiveness drops. Jin Bei, vice director of the institute and editor of the weekly China Business, ascribes the gap to a view that financing received from an IPO is basically free money, tallied up under revenue, so the companies don't feel as pressed to improve their operations. The report also noted that public companies operating with clear economies of scale outcompete private ones; the top five public companies named - Sinopec, China Unicom, CIMC, Conch Cement, and Baosteel - bear this out.


These summaries were collected from the The China Perspective, which covers major business news and trends in the China marketplace.

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Source favicon07:58 社会网络和社交网络 » blog中文翻译
Social Networks and Social Networking Elizabeth F. Churchill : 帕洛阿尔托研究中心 Christine A. Halverson : IBM 社交网络建立在这样的想法上:有一个可决定的结构使得人们无论直接地或间接地都可以彼此认识。譬如“六度分割”这种通俗化的概念——“在地球上的每个人最多通过六个私人关系就可以被联系在一起”,人们可以(但可能并不知道)通过普通的同事就相互联系起来。 这个问题的主题在研究中包括了三篇短文,涉及了从社交网络到驾驭创新设计的理念。焦点紧紧围绕着我们知识分子自己的“家园”——在个体、小组和组织的层面上的社会技术设计、发展、研究——虽然我们会在简短的介绍中会提到商业事务、社区和社会冲击这些更加宽广的问题。 起源 社交网络的大多数实时讨论看起来都似乎围绕着这些方面:通过互联网的在线相互交流和聚焦在与其他人“相互联络”来获得工作、获得约会的机会、与其他人分享故事(比如说交流养狗的经验)。然而,行为科学研究员历经数十年研究了所有种类的社会网络——“离线” (面对面,信件,电话等等) 以及在线的交流方式,从而确定社会网络怎样被开发和被维护着的,以及社会网络怎样影响着我们的生活。 John Scott所写的序文表明,当代社会网络分析系统(简称SNA)提出了三条需求的脉络: 美国20世纪30年代的社会计量分析人员(他们的工作以形态心理学为根基) 打算调查幸福的感觉与人的社会生活结构如何相关联。这场运动紧密同Jacob Moreno联系在一起,他构想了社交图,这是一张把个人作为点、把与其他人的联系作为线的关系网络视觉图。在这场研究运动其他主要成员还有Kurt Lewin, 他最伟大的功绩是改进了团体关系的数学模型;还有Fritz Heider,集中于研究人们与其他人关系的感受。 同样在30 年代, 哈佛大学研究员开始集中于研究在社会团体中的派系问题,来辨别在社会系统之内有凝聚力的小团体(譬如工作、教会、家庭、协会和俱乐部)。这个小组受到考古学家Alfred Radcliffe-Brown的影响,他工作的着眼点是美国的工厂和社区生活。 英国曼彻斯特的一个考古学家小组,借鉴了50 年代Radcliffe-Brown的成果。 这个小组的成员之一John Barnes,在1954年创造了“社会网络”这一特别术语。他与Elizabeth Bott在社会测量(sociometric)方法上共同合作,但着眼于人的非常规社会关系,而不是那些与机关和协会的联系。另外, 他们的工作集中于这些网络中的冲突和变化。Clyde Mitchell利用了从图表理论数学到改进观察的方式,扩展了传统的社会测量方法。 通过这些调查的影响, Harrison White领导哈佛研究员在60 年代和70 年代进一步探索了社会结构的数学依据。他们融合了团体代数模型集合理论和多维结构理论,从而建立了譬如连接强度和连接距离等概念。它通过Mark Granovetter在刊物上的分析文章——“信息怎样以非常规的社会联络应用于美国社区的求职”——赢得了合法的地位和声望。这些成果为研究模式打下了基础,现在被使用在系统网络体系的分析中。 定义 系统网络体系数据根本上是基于关系的,而非基于属性(attribute-based)。因而, 分析的单位不是个体, 而是在他们两者(通常更多)之间的结构(网络)和链路。举例来说,数据集包括了亲属关系(例如兄弟)、社会角色(上司、朋友等等), 社会活动(譬如出席晚宴、与他人跳舞、或与别人战斗)、感受(爱、恨等等)、信息交换(譬如经济业务)、普遍的行为(例如穿着同样的牛仔裤或者来到同一家纹身店)。 图1 是描述在个体A至G间联系结构的社交图,A-G分别是简单网络中的节点。 在图中,小圆圈是结点,他们之间的连线是链接(也叫做弧、边缘、或束缚)。个体A 被连接到二个小团体中,并和G保持单独联系。其中A和B、C、D组成了一个小团体,和E、F组成了另一个。箭头则描述了流程是单向或双向的: • A被连接到B、C、E、F和G上,或者说,A向他们发送了电子邮件 。 • A从B 、C 、F和G那里接收到了电子邮件。 • E和F之间相互传送电子邮件。 • B、C、D之间互通电子邮件。 • A从没收到从E发送的电子邮件。 图1.在一个简单的社交图中描述了社会网络的元素。在这个网络中,小圆圈代表节点,箭头线代表链接或联系。在结点之间是一个单向和八个双向的链接。A是连接B、C、D和E、F两个小团体的中心。A还与G相连接。A连接到E,但E不连接到A。 我们能描述A 是二个小团体的跨越边界, 因此在每个个体之间,它是作为一个潜在的连接源存在着。图2形象地表示了图1的连通性矩阵。 图2.显示了图1中个体A-G之间的连通性矩阵。在矩阵中,1代表有联系,0代表没有联系。A和D之间在两个格子中都显示0,这代表它们之间缺乏联系。A通过单向的连接到达E:因为E不连接到A。 在节点中信息的传递就像流水——在牛群之中的疾病、在音乐家风格之间的联系、信件、金钱、电子邮件、blog文章、闲话、爱情或者任何真实的东西。 在分析链路间节点的运动时,我们能用这样的词汇描述节点:无力的、活跃的、固定不变的、瞬息万变的或永久的。链接可能很强也可能很弱、可能私有或开放、可能单向或多向、可能独特或重复、也可能是平行或相交。在结点之间的运动可能是丰富或稀落、恒定或断续、单向或双向、意味深长或毫无意义的。 使用结点、束缚和流水这样简单的概念,分析人员能为任何存在联系的事物绘制关系矩阵和社交图。网络分析还能显示在网络内部的下层结构——例如,在一个大的团体中的派系。通常一些网络特性是象下面这样描述的: • 集中,分权(多个中心),或分布的(无中心); • 存在等级或无等级的; • 有边界或无边界的; • 有限的(在结点和束缚的数量上有固定限制); • 可访问或不可访问的; • 开放或封闭性的 • 密集(少量结点密集的强连接)、扩展(许多结点相互多向流动)或非交互式的(只能唯一单向的流动) 。 网络的模式随着时间的流动变化,显示了网络是怎样形成、增长和减少的。通过了解不同网络类型中的这些模式,我们能了解到潜在变化的起因和后果,并能通过指定的不同干预,来预言网络的演变。 为什么计算机工作在网络上很重要? 近年来互联网通信的出现极大地增进了系统网络体系的大众化。概括说来,互联网激发了求知欲(人们为什么和怎样联系其他人?)、机会(我们能通过计算机日志高效率地跟踪通信流)和商务(什么样的服务能激起人们的购买欲望?)。 那些对人们交际的动态感兴趣的研究员, 在互联网的诞生之前,他们从未想过人们越来越多地利用在线交流的方式结交他人。联系不再由于相似而遇到隔阂;相反,人们能从全世界寻找或“碰到”其他人。进一步说,网络密度和社会软件的增加潜力更强调了团体的通信。因此,人与人之间的通信驱动力更加明显了——有证据表明,如果不维护它, 至少在初始期,通过网站产生的联系很短暂。随着在朋友和陌生人之间交际这场浪潮,基于计算机的网络使得研究人员在方法和测量上发生了革新,并动摇了社会网络。当交互式网络上的人数不断增加时, 分析人员注重于观察和描绘何时、何地并且怎么建立起来联系,它们会维持多长时间,用怎样的方式,还有这些联系的服务会产生怎样的功能。在人际交流、团体利益、参与者等层面上,研究人员研究了在互联网传播和网上空间上社会信息流的强弱束缚、网上交往怎样影响人的心理健康、网上交往怎样影响了交际中面对面的交流。 不少研究还探索了印象管理——即人们怎样通过建构的网上身份表达自我。在社会层面上,Manuel Castells把基于计算机的通信放在全球性社会经济中心地位上考虑。他不是唯一对逐渐显露的不公平表示关心的人,这种不公平表现在对技术、网络甚至是社会的进入门槛上。 社会网络概念激起了很多的兴趣,尽管特别赚钱的商业模式仍未出现,但Ryze、LinkedIn、MySpace、Tribe、Orkut和Friendster都在过去几年中建立起来了。 在相互和内部组织层面上,分析人员使用系统网络体系来绘制人们通信和合作的方式,即辨别知识流:人们会从谁那里寻找信息和知识?他们会与谁分享信息和知识? 作为商业应用,系统网络体系经常是关于揭示存在于组织中的非常规通讯网络——正式流程和关系之间信息实际上是怎样流动的,以及如何在组织阶层图上绘制。几个咨询公司提供基于系统网络体系的服务,承诺优化信息流,从而作为提升效率、减少费用、改进生产力的一种方式。在研究文本中,会了解到这些非常规的网络是怎样运动的,并且开辟了单独的研究领域,叫组织网络分析(ONA)。 有关这个问题的文章 以上三篇文章都是有关个体之间的关系(而不是在组织、社区或社会层面的) 。另外, 一起分享我们的爱好也有助于社会技术的设计——系统网络体系可以促进创新,帮助人们利用通讯技术来更加有效地了解和处理他们的社会网络。 Danyel [...]
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