Qin dynasty Southern Metropolis Weekly.

Here is the cover of the "Qin Dynasty Life" issue. The big draw on the cover runs: "72 hours buried alive: returning from the book burning and burying of Confucians, a survivor tells his story." Another teaser asks "Calling black white: is it really incorrect?"

In a second edition, an entertainment supplement from the Zhou dynasty, the magazine accuses famous beauty Xi Shi and her "manager" Fan Li of conspiring to spread scandal rumors in order to increase her value as a celebrity.

They're little bits of sly commentary on contemporary topics couched in the events of ancient dynasties. Tax-reform, international trade, boy bands & girl groups, and the of "drama in real life" sorts of stories that sell magazines today apparently were quite successful centuries ago as well.

Southern Metropolis Weekly: Ming Dynasty Life
"Life is attitude"

- Zhu Youjian's final three days in the Forbidden City
- Was spending so much money to sail the western seas worth it?

- "One-whip rule" and reasonable tax evasion
- A rational look at anti-piracy measures on the coast
- The body writing of Lanling Xiaoxiaosheng
- Liu Jin: How a transsexual made his dirty money

Southern Metropolis Weekly: Ming Dynasty Entertainment
"Entertainment is nowhere else"

- Tang Bohu dissolves contract for 5 million taels of silver
- Huafu Entertainment claims that Loving-Lucky 4 (爱福4 - "F-4") won't break up

- New entertainment darlings: Qinhuaihe Eight women's band
- Eastern Studios plans to shoot "Brocade policeman"

Back in the present, the first pre-launch issue of SMW carries as its cover story "How wonderful were the 80s, really?" with a drawing of a man who has apparently left his heart back in that decade.

Our crack design team has emerged from their cave with a sweeping set of enhancements to our core statistics offering. There are some new concepts, more detailed visibilty into specific item statistics, and a simpler means of navigating between feed-level and item-level metrics. Here's the brief rundown before you sign in and see the new look for yourself:

StandardStats

• Uncommon Uses: This is a new concept we're introducing that really begins to leverage the critical mass of feed readers, bots, search engines, news filters, and other common feed sources that we observe. Uncommon Uses identifies and highlights places where your feed content is referenced or clicked that FeedBurner does not recognize as a common feed service. Uncommon uses includes contact with your feed by non-subscribers.
• Podcasts: We've (finally) added the ability to track the number of downloads of rich media enclosures within a feed, including audio and video, in addition to the number of subscriptions.

TotalStats (Premium Service)

• Reach (TotalStats): Another new concept and metric that tells you what percentage of your total subscriber base is actively reading and clicking on individual items within a feed. Like newspapers or magazines, some number of people subscribe and another number actively open and act on content. Reach begins to provide some insight into this second metric.
• Item popularity (TotalStats): More thorough drill-down on the popularity of individual items in a feed, giving you insight about specific posts on specific days as well as a history of activity.

You can read more about today's announcement in the press release. And, drop into our Support Forums with any service-related questions. The design team is going to gather some nuts and berries and head back into the cave soon, so get those bug reports in now, while they're still milling about out here with the rest of us.

從schee的Blog上得知：

総務省は28日、日本ブログ協会が設立されたと発表した。事務局は財団法人マルチメディア振興センターが務め、ブログの普及促進に取り組んでいく。

不知道台灣何時也會成立一個部落格協會？我也想聽聽看大家的想法呢！

財団法人マルチメディア振興センターは、コミュニケーション手法として注目を集めている「ブログ」の更なる利活用支援を行っていくため、「日本ブログ協会」を発足しました。

1．日本ブログ協会の概要

(1)目的 ブログに関する啓蒙、表彰、研究、調査、交流、支援、提言等を行うことを通じて、我が国におけるブログの普及促進を図る。

(2)活動内容

1)啓蒙活動 　会員を対象としたブログに関する講演会やシンポジウムの開催等

2)表彰活動 　会員投票によるビジネスブログの優秀事例の表彰等

3)研究活動 　会員有志によるブログの役割・市場動向・将来予測等の理論的分析等

4)調査活動 　会員の協力による意識・利用動向アンケートの実施・集計・公表等

5)交流活動 　各ブログ関連団体との総合リンクサイトの構築等 6)支援活動 　会員を対象としたブログに関する相談や情報提供の実施等

7)提言活動 　ブログの利用者やブログサービス提供事業者に対する提言等

(3)活動予定期間

　平成1８年２月２８日～平成1９年３月３０日

(4)詳細

以下のサイトをご覧下さい。 http://www.fmmc.or.jp/japan-blog

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1. 更多的功能并不好；
   
2. 增加功能不会让事情更容易；
   
3. 让用户迷惑是毁掉业务的终级手段；
   
4. 风格很关键；
   
5. 只有在一项功能可以提升用户体验时才加上它；
   
6. 任何需要学习的功能都只会吸引一小部分用户；
   
7. 无用的功能不止是无用，它会破坏易用性；
   
8. 用户不会关心技术，他们只想知道产品能做什么；
   
9. 忘掉关键功能，关注最重要的用户体验；
   
10. 简洁很难，因此少就是多。

是的，我又被點到名了，而且還是從對岸北京傳來的。 好朋友車東傳來的這三個問題滿有趣的，我來試著回答一下！

我的题目： 1 你小时候的理想是什么？ 2 你现在的理想是什么？ 3 如果你的生命只有3天时间，你最希望完成的3件事情是什么？

第一個問題，小時候體弱多病又有難解之症，所以兒時的理想是希望長大能當醫生。倒不見得是想到什麼懸壺濟世，而是想研究一下自己的病徵。

當然，醫生的夢想離我太遙遠了，如今的我不過是個平凡的上班族。現在的理想是希望家人平安健康、我的工作順利；嗯，還有夢裡的那個她快點出現。哈哈！

最後一個問題有點嚴肅，如果生命走到了盡頭，那想做的三件事肯定是陪伴家人、見見朋友，然後再把心愛的書看過一遍吧！ 按照慣例，串聯之後應該要來個點名。不過基於大家可能都被點過了，所以就開放給朋友們自行認領吧！

a display of a musical score without any measures or clefs, in which information about the music's structure is conveyed with bars of color representing the notes. these bars scroll across the screen as the music plays. their position on the screen conveys the pitch & the timing in relation to each other. different colors denote different instruments or voices, thematic material, or tonality, lighting up at the exact moment it sounds. [musanim.com/ & musanim.com/(pdf)]

本周搜索引擎沙龙的主题：文本信息的分类算法

主讲人：卢亮
时间：本周四晚上，３月２号
地点：博客吧
关键词：消噪

摘要：文本信息的分类是依靠对现有的样本进行训练的基础上，对每一类的文本信息进行信号的提取和噪音的消除。在得到每一类别对应的信息矢量的基础上，对待检验的文本信息进行点乘运算或者进行最大似然的计算，得到最佳的和次佳的分类别。

实践证明，在１５大类的基础上，本方法快速和有效。

According to a story on the website Shuimu Wang, part of the Yantai Newspaper Group, the Minsitry of Culture has decided that Internet cafés will no longer be classified as 'entertainment businesses'.

This means that not only will Internet Cafés not be bound by the new regulations in Beijing forbidding karaokes and night clubs from opening between 2am and 6am, but their tax burden will also be reduced from the current 20% rate. The report aslo says that other types of restrictions on Internet Cafés will gradually be relaxed.

This good news comes on the same day that the Financial Times reports on the infuential anti-market economy rants of Marxist economist Liu Guoguang and debates on the role of the Party and state in the economy that don't sound good to free marketeers.

Somehow I don't think Mr Liu would be a big fan of unregulated Internet cafés.

China 2006: Two steps forward, one step back. Two steps back and one step forward.

an aesthetic data visualization for a leaning 18' x 24' concrete wall above a staircase & escalator unit at the entrance of a subway station. the image aims to engage the kinetic experience of the downward move on both escalator & staircase & escalator, one smooth, the other sequential. the algorithmically generated abstract visual rendition uses statistical data sampled from LA metro traffic circulation to seed the image generating equation. [ucsb.edu]