又見 OhMyNews.com

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目前關於韓國 ohmynews.com 最完整的英文訪談報導：OhmyNews Makes Every Citizen a Reporter

When it first launched, “the conventional media did not understand it, and there was an atmosphere that treated OhmyNews as heresy, saying, ‘What the hell is that?,'" he said.

這個狀況聽起來是不是有點像人們常問的：「 blog 是什麼鬼玩意？」

另外 ohmynews 也不是慈善事業：

Q: How much is your revenue and what is the source?

A: Our income is about 2.6 billion won (about $2.2 million) a month and expenses are about 2.5 billion won (about $2.1 million), so 10 million won (about $8,525) in the black per month. Seventy percent of the overall income comes from advertisements.

有其他更詳細的中文資訊嗎？

延伸閱讀：號角月報〈網站新聞揭示 新世代新聞觀〉、查詢 “ohmynews" 關鍵字在 hanteng 的 blog
Bonus: NY Times 的 RSS

新聞彙整(20030918)

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以下為今日的新聞彙整：

* 路透社：英國廣播公司承認在伊拉克案中報導疏失
* 苦勞網：移民與女性─人權問題？政治問題？
* Frey: 我的手機簡史
* 中時電子報：市區郊區 統一速限50公里
* BoingBoing.net: Kid’s Moblogging from Paris
* Haaretz: Big Brother is watching you – and documenting
* Boston Globe: Taiwan deserves a UN seat
* Dave Winer: Blogroll for BloggerCon

焦點網站：歐亞交流網(中文)
網友推薦網站：椎名林檎『性』(日文)

Futuristic Nokia Phone Designs

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抱歉，我是 Nokia 的 loyal fan。:) 看起來如何？Hmm… 可是近來 Nokia 的設計似乎開始停滯不前，遠遠落後於韓系和日系的手機。Mobitopia 上的 Russell Beattie 給了我們一個方向：Has Nokia Phone Design Stalled?

Nokia_MR2.jpg Nokia_MR4.jpg Nokia_2.jpg

如果你也是使用 Nokia 3650，那麼不妨一讀：Using your Nokia 3650 as a Portable Office。內容中所提到的 tipic IM 和 Wireless IRC，之前都在 Schee.info 上介紹過。

圖片來源：AreaMobile.de

英國國家摩托車博物館毀於大火

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太可惜了，許多珍藏在伯明罕 National Motorcycle Museum 的無價之寶竟然毀於大火。

BBC: Fire destroys motorbike collection

Fire has destroyed much of the National Motorcycle Museum near Birmingham, ruining 650 vintage machines and leaving 60% of the building a blackened shell.

Investigators are at the scene on Wednesday to begin an inquiry into the cause of the fire.

The value of the destroyed bikes is put at £8m, but many of the machines are irreplacable.

IAM 最新會報(2003/09)

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英國 IAM 組織最新一期會內報。

IAM FLEET THROWS BUSINESS A LIFELINE AS HSE TACKLES WORK ROAD DEATHS (pdf)
Issued: 17 September 2003

摘要：
Small businesses considering the implications of the newly-published guidelines from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) are now being offered a no-cost audit from IAM Fleet.

HSE’s generic guidance for employers on work-related road safety has stopped short of recommending new legislation on corporate killing. Instead the guidance aims to alert employers to the driver safety issues when developing risk management policies.

全文請見附檔。

消防車「路測」 北市窄巷繪紅線

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中國時報：消防車「路測」 北市窄巷繪紅線

蘆洲大火燒出巷道救災問題，也讓各縣市積極檢討巷道停車標準。台北市救災困難巷道加繪紅線禁停行動正式展開，台北市交通管制工程處昨天在消防車「開道」下，會同消防、警政單位，前往台北市文山區，實際測試巷道停車對救災衝擊，並立即針對危險路段加繪紅線，宣示維護公共安全決心。

同日別刊的另一則新聞：竹市、基隆 先勸導狹巷禁停

行書的打包？

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行書 – 書的旅行

直接切入主題。書兒們一路行來，不若高躺在溫控的架上親戚們，必有折損。折損程只會更多，不會回春。要如何做到合理的損害管制並且顧及釋書者的方便(sorting out a viable solution)，這似乎是門藝術。正如撰寫 community wiki："seeding" 是個重要的步驟 – 我想，行書的打包會不會也是個有趣的子課題(reusability)？

eBay(US) Booksellers’ Discussion Board；來好好 survey 一下可行的方案。

行書之私(思)

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– Posted by Clay Shirky at 10:00 PM

The Distributed Library Project is an attempt to get individuals to register books they would be willing to lend out to one another, in the manner of a library.

Unfortunately, the traditional library system doesn’t do much to foster community. Patrons come and go, but there is very little opportunity to establish relationships with people or groups of people. In fact, if you try to talk with someone holding a book you like – you’ll probably get shushed. The Distributed Library Project works in exactly the opposite way, where the very function of the library depends on interaction.

What’s interesting to me is that if it recapitulates a regular library, where users simply have access to the book lists, it will fail in exactly the manner the famous white bicycles of Amsterdam did, where white bicycles would be left in the street for “the community” to use. The problem is that communities don’t ride bicycles, people do.

The white bicycle idea was tried in the late 60’s and again in the late 90s, and failed both times because of the collective action problem (w00t Mancur Olson w00t!) — it would be to everyone’s benefit to have community-owned bicycles freely available, but it would be of much more benefit to each individual to own their own bike, so the bikes were (duh) stolen.

The books in the DLP will be stolen too, even if through inertia, e.g. I forgot to return the copy of 1984 I borrowed, and the owner rightly figured that the hassle of getting it back would have a higher opportunity cost than the value of having it back.

The one potential saving grace will be the DLP’s attempt not to recreate a standard library, but to include a repuation system and book recommendations as a way to punish defectors:

While this is a community site based on good will, we have an ebay-style feedback system for managing trust. Lenders have the opportunity to leave positive or negative feedback for borrowers when an item is returned. These positive or negative points contribute to an overall “score” which lenders can use to gauge the trustworthiness or responsibility of a borrower. Lenders can also leave comments along with the points to be more specific.

We know that humans will punish defectors even when it is costly to do so [PDF], but we don’t know if book-borrowing creates enough value to trigger that altruistic behavior. With the DLP, however, we may find out.

國家級統計單位的網站(tw, cn, jp)

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因為 bitflux 上的一則 entry(Mobile Phones in France)，讓我跑到日本總務省統計局去找資料，同時間比對台灣行政院主計處和中華人民共和國國家統計局的網站(excellent example)看了一下。主計處的網頁，無論是在 information depth 和 navigational structure 的表現上，都只有小學生用 frontpage 作網頁的水準。天啊，這是我看過最沒有用的國家級統計網站。

延伸閱讀：網路無障礙與網頁親和力、障礙重重的「無障礙網路空間服務網」

後記：中華郵政網頁的左側選單，終於可以使用了(under mozilla)

國際間的少數域名

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(1).al Albania 阿爾巴尼亞 (2).eh Western Sahara (3).ki Kiribati (4).km Comoros (5).lb 黎巴嫩 (6).pa 巴勒斯坦 (7).va 梵地岡 (8).sd 蘇丹共和國 (9).su 前蘇聯 (10).tp 東帝汶 (11).so 索馬利亞(as Somalia has no internationally recognized government, this domain is not currently used) (12)北韓？

網路無遠弗屆，可是通常我們會點選的網站只囿限於自己的語言圈子內，這實在是相當可惜。或許可以多拜訪這些或其他第三世界國家域名內的網站(or help them a bit with few clicks and visits)。東帝汶域名申請須知內提到：

These rules, therefore, gratefully acknowledge their heroic and continuing struggle to regain the rightful independence of their Country.

古斯毛(Xanana Gusmao)的影像突然浮現。

資源：African DNS, Norid

Technical Documentation Weirdness

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維修或技術手冊上令人不知該笑或是該哭的圖示(也有好些非常棒的 pictograms) – 來自 Darren：

On this page, I list wacky, bizarre, surreal and otherwise strange examples of technical documentation, particularly illustration…

家電用品中，似乎日系和歐系的說明書都特別有閱讀的樂趣。幾年前買的一雙 AXO 越野手套詳細標示出 abrasion(摩擦抵抗)、punctuation(穿刺抵禦)，還有 impact(衝擊忍受) 三方面的測試等級。手套的袋子裡，也會放上一張多語言的使用說明書。身為物品的購買者，我會因為看到這些詳細的技術手冊而感到備受尊敬。可是反觀在國內的購物經驗呢？是我們太會想辦法自己DIY了還是？或者 documentation 總會算是沒有經濟效益的土功夫？

資源：EdwardTufte.com

再度更新版面

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每季一改版，希望能提供更為舒服和能夠快速找到所需資訊的美妙閱讀經驗。Opera 7.11 以上收視還有一些小問題。持續努力。如果你認為「哪裡」很礙眼，或是瀏覽動線過於詭異，請告訴我。:)