digits: iPad makes global debut
Apple's iPad debuted overseas on Friday, drawing long lines of eager consumers who were hoping to get their hands on the hot-selling tablet-style computer that is still in short supply in the U.S. Bruce Orwall has details from London.
Friday, May 28, 2010
Obama, BP and The Gulf Oil Spill – What Should Be Done?
President Barack Obama used the growing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico to renew his pitch for alternative energy Wednesday, arguing that the unfolding environmental disaster “gives you a sense of where we’re going” without comprehensive reform.
The federal government is “going to bring every resource necessary to put a stop” to the spill, the president said during a visit to a solar panel manufacturing facility in Fremont, California. “We will not rest until this well is shut, the environment is repaired, and the cleanup is complete.”
But, he added, “a lot of damage has been done already. The spill in the Gulf, which is just heartbreaking, only underscores the necessity” of seeking alternative fuel sources. A failure to enact comprehensive energy reform, he argued, would pose a threat to national security and the economy, as well as the environment.
And this:
The Obama administration, under pressure to act over the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, is expected to announce Thursday that it will suspend consideration of any applications for exploratory drilling for oil in the Arctic until 2011.
The decision is a major blow to Royal Dutch Shell PLC, which had planned an ambitious oil-drilling program in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas off Alaska this summer. Shell has been arguing to regulators that its operations in Alaska would face a lower risk of the kind of problems faced by BP PLC in its ill-fated Gulf of Mexico operation.
Is this enough? Not enough? Too much? Do you agree BP should be running the cleanup instead of the government? Given BP is the most knowledgeable on such things, despite never having tested some of their methods, is there a choice? What do you think about suspending drilling? Are you in the conspiracy camp that says the explosion was on purpose to further alternative energy? What other steps would you take?
Anne's Theme
The song "Anne's Theme" from the miniseries "Anne of Green Gables". I transcribed this piece about 20 years ago when I first watched the movie. I recently found this sheet music which was better than my original transcription so I thought I'd learn it. Hope it turned out okay.
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Disrupt 2010: Startup Battlefield Finale - Soluto
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Disrupt 2010: Awards
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CHINICT: China’s biggest tech conference, streaming right here on TechCrunch
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Disrupt 2010: Jack Dorsey, Founder & CEO, Square
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Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Disrupt 2010: Bill Gross, CEO idealab, debuts TweetUp
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Disrupt 2010: Yuri Milner, CEO & Founding Partner, Digital Sky Technologies
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Opening Remarks: Mike Arrington
Opening Remarks: Mike Arrington
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The Writer - Cameron
Smart Girls At The Party
Amy Poehler, Meredith Walker and Amy Miles celebrate girls who are changing the world by being themselves.
http://www.onnetworks.com/videos/smart-girls-at-the-party/cameron#
Cameron has been writing stories with a penchant for the paranormal for years now (and she's only ten). She tells Amy, Meredith, and Amy about how she comes up with ideas, beats writer’s block and even co-writes an original story with the Smart Girls crew!
Amy Poehler, Meredith Walker and Amy Miles celebrate girls who are changing the world by being themselves.
http://www.onnetworks.com/videos/smart-girls-at-the-party/cameron#
Cameron has been writing stories with a penchant for the paranormal for years now (and she's only ten). She tells Amy, Meredith, and Amy about how she comes up with ideas, beats writer’s block and even co-writes an original story with the Smart Girls crew!
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Carol Bartz To Michael Arrington: “F*ck Off!”
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Today at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York City, Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz took the stage for a fireside chat with our own Michael Arrington. It took about 15 minutes, but Mike got her to tell him to “fuck off.”
That’s not all she had to say. When Mike pressed her about Yahoo outsourcing the social graph to Facebook. Bartz admitted that if she could own it (as Facebook does), she’d love to. “Oh, I’d love to own it — shit, why not?,” she said. She said also that “I’d love to be Queen Poobah – but I’m not.”
I highly suggest you read the notes below. She had plenty of interesting things to say. Not just about the new Nokia and Match.com deals, but about Apple, Google, Facebook, and yes, even TechCrunch.
Just wow.
Update: And here’s the video (or it’s at the bottom).
Below find my live notes (paraphrased):
MA: So how the fuck are you?
CB: Is that all you got?
MA: So my last two posts were critical.
CB: Were they?
MA: You don’t read TechCrunch? I can show you how. It’s weird, I talked to you backstage, you’re a human being. You took the time to talk to us.
Okay let’s go. What is Yahoo?
CB: (her mic cuts off) What is Yahoo? Yahoo is a company that is very strong in content. It’s moving towards the web of one. We have 32,000 variations on our front page module. We serve a million of those a day. It’s all customized. Our click-through rate went up twice since we started customizing this. People come to check the things they like. “You can just get it together.” Yahoo is one site people always stop at.
MA: You had two pieces of news. One is a partnership with Match.com. Why abandon personals?
CB: It wasn’t in the sweet spot of what we do. It was the same with HotJobs. It’s just not about in line with we do anymore. I was trying to think about if I should fly with the volcano cloud, I checked the AP, it was 17 hours old info. We need live content feeds.
MA: Are there any other of the big Yahoo properties you’re killing?
CB: No. We’re focused now.
MA: What was the other one?
CB: We had an announcement with Nokia. Co-branded.
MA: How important is mobile to Yahoo going forward?
CB: We’re on 37 million of the 82 million mobile devices in the US. We have half the US market. People don’t think that’s true, but it is. And we’re huge in the emerging world. It was important to get to the dominant partner outside the market.
MA: So is the focus not on the smartphones?
CB: We still do them too. We have an iPhone app, for example. We have alliances with 100 OEMs. We’re on 2,300 different handsets. I have a BlackBerry and an iPhone.
MA: No Android?
CB: No.
MA: Let’s talk about the product perspective. You’ve made some changes and there have been departures. The new blood is Blake Irving. Does he run product at Yahoo now?
CB: Absolutely.
MA: Is there a product Czar? Does he answer to you? Think about how Steve Jobs acts, he’s in charge. Is that Blake?
CB: You can’t find anyone like a VP that compares to Steve Jobs so that’s not fair. Blake reports to me — under him there are three segments. We have one of the largest private clouds in the world. We serve 10 billion ads a day — that’s a huge technical effort. There’s no one strategy at Yahoo. We do a lot of things.
CB: We know that men have banner blindness but will look at them in certain areas. Women will look at them in other areas. Men are odd.
MA: What about the iPad?
CB: With the iPad, Apple is a hardware and software company. It’s an evolution — not revolution. These days if you’re not coming out with some device, you’re not innovating, apparently. But that’s not true. There’s a soul to our product. Absent Steve Jobs, who’s the product soul in big companies? It’s a lot of people who have to do it.
MA: You ever hear the saying, “a camel is a horse designed by committee”?
CB: That’s true but you implement with several people. I can imagine that a lot of concepts are brought to Jobs too — there are people involved. It’s naive to think there’s not.
MA: Why Blake? He was a professor at Pepperdine. Before that he was at Microsoft.
CB: Well he was taking a two year break from Microsoft.
MA: Fair enough. How important is social to Yahoo?
CB: Back when social had a broad definition, you could almost say that Yahoo Finance chat was the first social product. We have a million comments a day now. We had 85,000 comments on day one at Yahoo News. And we’re merging in some of the big products like Twitter, etc. We’re doing some new cool things with Mail next month too. It’s about finding out the new things about people.
MA: Facebook would say the social graph is key. Is that important to you? Are you comfortable not owning that?
CB: I don’t know if anyone really owns it. They share it with partners. It’s just about getting the information. Building a better user experience.
“Oh, I’d love to own it — shit, why not?” “I’d love to be Queen Poobah — but I’m not.” (reference to Grand Poo-Bah from Gilbert & Sullivan’s “The Mikado“?)
MA: In 2008 you said Jerry Yang first approached you about the job. You said you weren’t the right person for the job. Are you now?
CB: I’m one of many. Many people could do this job. There’s no one special person for any job. That’s the beauty of it.
MA: You’ve asked bloggers to tone down some of the critiques and advice. But you made a statement earlier this year that Google has some problems.
CB: Did you see the interview? I said Google needs to grow a Yahoo every year — just go into a lot of businesses. They have to be a 20% grower. It’s not so bad to say.
MA: You said they were so reliant on search advertising.
CB: Is that wrong?
MA: No but you said it’s not a good trick to have.
CB: I would love to have that! Like the social graph. What I said has to be true. I’m just saying they need to grow a company the size of us every year. They have to do other things.
MA: Are you being a hypocrite by giving them advice when you say you don’t want advice?
CB: I gave them my opinion. You do that all the time. “I’ve never had a bong in my life if that means anything to you.”
MA: Is your pitch kind of BS though?
CB: Steve Jobs came back to Apple in 1997 — the iPod came out 4 years later. 3 years after that is the first time his market cap grew. It took 7 years. I’ve been here a few months. Give me a break. You are involved in a very tiny company.
MA: Very tiny.
CB: It probably takes you a long time just to convince yourself what to do. “So fuck off!”
MA: Are you a search company or not?
CB: Half of our revenue is from search. The fact that you can crawl the web is a commodity. We’re about search, but we’re not a search company. We do a lot of things.
Read more: http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/24/carol-bartz-talkes-with-michael-arrington-at-techcrunch-disrupt/#ixzz0p0vQVepe
Disrupt 2010: Startup Battlefield–Session 4: Finalists
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Today at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York, we had a panel entitled “Does The iPad Change Everything For News, Or Is It Still All About The Web?” The New York Times’ David Carrmoderated the panel which included angel investor Ron Conway, Huffington Post CEO Eric Hippeau, and Bloomberg chief content officer Norm Pearlstine. The common theme? The only thing that can stop the iPad is Apple.
While that may sound confusing (since, of course, Apple makes the iPad), everyone seemed to agree that Apple’s restrictions could end up hurting the device in the long run. Apple is in control right now because they’re the first to market with a killer product, but others will emulate them, reasons Pearlstine. He believes a lot of the content on these type of tablets will eventually be web-based rather than app-based (similar to an argument Google co-founder Sergey Brin made last week).
Carr extended on that question, asking if maybe the iPad itself would just be a device where you consume content on the web rather than through apps?Hippeau says that’s up to Apple. Clearly they want to push people towards apps, behind their wall, he believes. The problem with this is that Apple doesn’t give back nearly as much data as having your own website would, Hippeau says. He thinks Apple will have to learn that media organizations live off of this data. “They’ll have to open it up more,” he says.
Pearlstine agrees, saying that the key for traditional publishers is their lists of subscribers. More importantly, they have their payment information. With iPad apps, Apple has that information, and that will be a problem for a lot of media companies. “There will be other providers that won’t do it the Apple way,” he says. That, again, is implying that while Apple may have jump-started the industry, if they don’t open up a bit more, a competitor will beat them.
Of course, that hasn’t happened with the iPhone yet. But Android is charging fast.
Conway believes that Apple has a good lead for now though thanks to its “fantastic user interface.” He sees publishers flocking to it just like the music business did to the iPod/iTunes combo. “It’s a better model than free,” he says.
Review: Verizon HTC Incredible
The HTC Incredible brings some powerful hardware to America's largest network, Verizon, and should help Android continue its campaign of rampant growth.
The phone packs a 1 GHz Snapdragon processor from Qualcomm and is powered by Google's multi-touch and multitasking capable Android 2.1 OS. The phone will have an 8-megapixel camera with autofocus and dual LED flash. It offers 8 GB of internal memory, but one-ups the iPhone by offering up to 32 GB of swappable microSD storage.
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Projections on buildings
Impressive and stylish projections on buildings, a renewing way of communicating. For those who want to carry out a message in a striking and visually attractive way with guaranteed exposure: 3D Projection on buildings is the communication tool of 2009, and what an impact!
NuFormer Digital Media develops high-skill 3D video mapping projections. These 3D projections will be custom-made to fit any specific building and will be exposed by a battery of powerful projectors.
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Monday, May 24, 2010
Good Vibrations by Jérémy Clapin
Good Vibrations by Jérémy Clapin
I can’t get enough of mid-century educational and safety-related animated shorts so I’m delighted to see a contemporary take on those films with The Responsibility Project from Liberty Mutual, which is a series of entertainment shorts intended to “create a forum for people to discuss personal acts of responsibility.” The most impressive animated short created for the program thus far is Good Vibrations by French animator Jérémy Clapin, the director ofSkhizein. The four-minute film, which is directed, designed and written by Clapin, manages to be funny and entertaining while slyly slipping in its message about the necessity of individuals taking initiative instead of rubbernecking. With his strong graphic concepts and effortless visual storytelling, Clapin’s work continually impresses, and he’s proving himself to be one of the more exciting new voices in animation. Watch Good Vibrations on the Liberty Mutual website.
Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution!
About this talk
In this poignant, funny follow-up to his fabled 2006 talk, Sir Ken Robinson makes the case for a radical shift from standardized schools to personalized learning -- creating conditions where kids' natural talents can flourish.
Catholic communities fear collapse
Deutsche Welle: The continuing discussion about cases of sexual abuse and allegations concerning Bishop Walter Mixa have led to widespread mistrust of the Catholic Church in Germany. Catholics are leaving the church in growing numbers, and congregations fear collapse. Here is DW's report from a Bavarian Catholic community.
'But my Mom doesn't have papers'
'But my Mom doesn't have papers'
Second-grader joins national movement that's declaring 'immigrant rights are civil rights'
With legislation popping up all over the country targeting immigrant groups, a national movement is forming to fight back. In one example in the video, Arizona bans ethnic studies, in spite of the fact that the state's own superintendent is clueless on Chicano history. In response, students of a popular Mexican-American Studies program in Tucson organize and blockade their high school to stop superintendent from entering.
Produced by Jesse Freeston.
Second-grader joins national movement that's declaring 'immigrant rights are civil rights'
With legislation popping up all over the country targeting immigrant groups, a national movement is forming to fight back. In one example in the video, Arizona bans ethnic studies, in spite of the fact that the state's own superintendent is clueless on Chicano history. In response, students of a popular Mexican-American Studies program in Tucson organize and blockade their high school to stop superintendent from entering.
Produced by Jesse Freeston.
5000年來華人第一次首長直選在台灣 1949-2009
民主，向來是台灣在華人世界中最引以為傲的貢獻，而地方首長選舉更是老百姓當家作主的第一步。但很多人不知道，5000年來第一次的縣長普選是從哪裡開始？ 答案是台灣美麗的後山－花蓮。
第一次選舉，選出了誰？ 第一次選舉，又發生了哪些歷史性的影響？
[影音] 亞洲最溫柔細緻的社會運動，在台灣
台灣的社會運動，曾經與抗爭、暴力、示威劃上等號，用激烈手段突破僵硬的體制。鄰近的韓國、中國、泰國，到今天仍然上演流血抗爭、武裝鎮壓。但是，新一代的台灣年輕人同樣從事社會運動，卻出現了溫柔而細緻的方式。
他們為何不再暴力抗爭？ 他們用什麼和平而細緻的方式？ 他們發動了什麼改變？ 年輕人要為改變社會注入新思維與活水。
桂綸鎂—幸福就是走難走的路
《天下雜誌》384期教育特刊，以青少年的獨立為主題，專訪桂綸鎂談自我成長的過程。
桂綸鎂在電影中，總以甜美纖細的形象出現，但現實生活裡，他卻頑強而反叛，像一只渴求獨立、想望自由的風箏，希望脫離父母的層層保護。
銀光幕裡纖細動人的桂綸鎂，在成長路上，他卻始終堅持走難走的路；努力在生命中尋求存在感。鎂光燈之外，桂綸鎂試圖在顛簸的人生旅途中，讓自己更豐富。
如果...你的敵人，是你最好的朋友......
求職必勝！如何讓Google把你當成人才？
景氣低迷，工作難找，畢業即失業的悲觀氣氛更籠罩在大學校園裡。在這個時候，Cheers雜誌特別邀請了Google台灣區總經理簡立峰，與巨匠電腦總經理黃志聰到校園對談，分享大學生如何在艱困的就業環境中脫穎而出，成為職場的明日之星。
Facebook: The Scrooge of 2007?
He also offers advice on which tools to use. Check out all the helpful information Reporter Abby Prince, right here on WebProNews.Facebook recently launched a new advertising network called Facebook Beacon. MoveOn.org and many users see it as a violation of privacy. "I saw my gf bought an item i had been saying i wanted... so now part of my Christmas gift has been ruined." Matthew Helfgott posted this comment on the MoveOn.org Facebook group called, "Facebook: Stop Invading my Privacy!"
MoveOn.org filed a petition against Facebook and is asking users to support their cause. WebProNews spoke with Adam Green, MoveOn's Spokesperson for Civic Action and Matthew Helfgott, a student and Facebook user, about the privacy issues. Check out all the details Reporter Abby Prince, right here on WebProNews.
Facebook Hates You, OKC Bombshell, Synthia - Sunday Update
Sunday Update is a public service of The Corbett Report.
Zuckerberg calls Facebook users "dumb fucks"
http://ur1.ca/00rx7
Facebook gave advertisers personal info of users who clicked on ads
http://ur1.ca/02vce
Zuckerberg used Facebook data to hack users' private email accounts
http://ur1.ca/02vcg
Do You Have Facebook?
http://ur1.ca/a9bk
David Paul Hammer on the Alex Jones show
http://ur1.ca/012kp
Terry Nichols affidavit reveals high-level FBI help in OKC bombing
http://ur1.ca/02vcs
OKC Bombing Survivor Jane Graham Reveals Prior Knowledge
http://ur1.ca/02vcv
Brig. Gen. Ben Partin Delivers Lecture on OKC bombing
http://ur1.ca/t743
McVeigh reveals Special Forces role to sister
http://ur1.ca/02vd8
David Paul Hammer blogs about being placed in solitary confinement
http://www.deadly-secrets.com/blog.html
Venter creates Synthis a "synthetic cell"
http://ur1.ca/02vdq
Craig Venter BBC Newsnight Interview
http://ur1.ca/02vdw
The UK gov was running a foot-and-mouth "drill" just months before the virus decimated British livestock in 2001
http://ur1.ca/02vet
The US anthrax scare of 2001 was a false flag operation
http://ur1.ca/02vf1
Information on the 2007 foot-and-mouth outbreak in the UK (traced to government lab)
http://ur1.ca/02ve4
What is the Lizard Brain?
A fun video animation describing the symptoms of the "Lizard Brain." The concept is based on Seth Godin's best-selling book, Linchpin. You can pick up a copy of Linchpin at Amazon: http://amzn.to/a8wone Illustration by Martin Whitmore Animation by Paul Durban Produced by Blazonfire.com
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Android 2.2
Android 2.2 小結：
Android 2.2 OS 果然跟預期的一樣，更新了先前大家預言的強大功能，除了速度上的提升，還新增 20 幾項細部功能，另外 Android Market 的應用也做得更加完整。呼呼，如果各位手上的 Android 手機不能升級到 2.2 的話，斑比真心覺得，你會想要摔手機。
Tribal Leadership Explained
Bnet created this video to explain the concepts in Tribal Leadership (Harper Collins, 2008). Let us know what you think!
Hackathon
Over 300 hundred hackers attended the kickoff of TechCrunch Disrupt at 2 p.m. today.
The die-hard techies will spend 20 hours, many without sleep, to come up with the next big idea. The participants will compete in a rapid fire pitch in front of a panel of judges tomorrow before noon.
Zappos Hack-a-thon
While these projects are mostly in concept-form only, it should give you some visibility into potential future advances that we could build for our customers and employees.
We are going to ask you to vote for your favorite project, which we will then get ready to go live.
Inside Disrupt Hackathon [Video]
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by Evelyn Rusli on May 22, 2010
Just a quick update for those tracking the Disrupt Hackathon. Pizza has been delivered, the Red Bull girls have made their rounds, and the group seems to be in high spirits. TechCrunch developer Andy Brett and I made the rounds this afternoon, chatting with developers (who came from places as close as New York and as far as Israel) to discuss their projects and their strategy for the evening. Many expected to use a combination of potent caffeine and quick naps to power through the session. Some offered quirkier solutions: one team toyed with the idea of napping in the beginning and working during the late hours (to sleep through the noisiest part of the day) and another set a hard deadline of 2 am so that they could be the most refreshed team during the presentation round. We’ll find out who makes it and what they’ve made tomorrow at 11am— and for those who can’t be here, we plan to Livestream the event as well. Until then, enjoy our brief video of Hackathon (Andy doesn’t make frequent video appearances so this is a real treat, bonus points if you find his 2 cameos). This was all shot on a flip cam.
Because you could never be too educated, Zappos offers classes (some mandatory, some not) to it's employees. One class that helps keep our Zappos culture alive and well is the Zappos Culture Course. This class births a lot of the fun and weird events that go on inside the office.
Saturday, May 22, 2010
The other debt crisis: Climate debt
The other debt crisis: Climate debt
Fault Lines from Bolivia explores how underdeveloped countries can develop in the era of climate change
Friday, May 21, 2010
國家賠不賠
國道三號走山的意外，交通部允諾給予受難者家屬國家賠償
那為什麼之前類似的案件申請國賠卻屢遭拒絕？
政府單位互踢皮球，小老百姓該向誰求助？
國道三號走山造成四人罹難，而後交通部允諾給予受難者國家賠償，後續效應之一是，其他之前遭到駁回的國賠案，都出現了「敗部復活」的機會。這些案子可能也將首開先例，創下國賠史上，政府「先以天災拒絕，後以新事證認賠」的作法。然而真的有機會，重啟國賠程序嗎？一起重回豐丘明隧道及雙園斷橋事故現場，看看家屬們爭取國賠的心路歷程。
民國63年9月28日，基隆的八堵交流道發生山崩奪走36條人命
36年後，國道三號走山是不是歷史的重演？而政府學到教訓了嗎？
八堵交流道事件，是台灣高速公路開發史上第一個災害事件，當年中山高都還沒有通車，八西里就先付出36條人命的代價，一個輕度颱風造成的山崩，沖垮了山腳下的一排民宅。同樣震驚全國的走山意外，36年前發生一次，36年後再次重演，當年到現場調查的學者如何看這兩次事件？而當年的生還者對於當時的走山，還存有什麼樣的印象？
2012：當科學遇上預言
全球的自然災難發生頻率越來越高，馬雅人2012的預言難道會成真？
科學家是如何看待這個預言？到底2012年會發生什麼事？
隨著全球自然災難的頻率的升高，許多人不禁開始想像馬雅人所預言：2012是本次文明的終點，這到底是不是真的？2012真的像電影所說的是世界末日嗎？科學家們各抱持著不同的看法，當科學遇上預言，究竟會產生什麼樣的火花？
小事用心 - 和台灣同樣位於東亞的韓國，近年積極推動觀光
和台灣同樣位於東亞的韓國，近年積極推動觀光
如何同時提升效率和品質，一起看看韓國在小事上如何用心？
從漢城奧運開始，再歷經主辦世界杯足球賽，一次次大型國際活動為韓國帶來更多蛻變的自覺、魄力和創意。台灣也耗費鉅資辦了好幾次大型國際盛會，除了政治操作和短期商機，生活品質和生活價值能不能也同時做提昇？韓國對觀光的用心，有哪些值得台灣學習的地方？
哈日六十系列報導：體驗東京庶民文化
哈日方式千百種，由三件事開始體驗日本的庶民文化：買張東京 Metro 二日券，在九條地下鐵線趴趴走；吃一碗有人排隊的拉麵；看一場東京巨蛋的職棒賽。
東京 Metro 二日券
沾麵
火車便當
(公民記者抓地文俠哈日特派員東京報導) 日本一向是台灣客觀光的首選之一，雖然日幣升值，但是其治安與環境衛生在東亞稱得上數一數二，就是不懂日文，也還是自由行與背包客的最愛，特別是簡體字當道以來，日本的繁體字多少給台灣一點溫暖。
哈日方式千百種，由三件事開始體驗日本的庶民文化：
· 買張東京 Metro 二日券，在九條地下鐵線趴趴走：搭乘過程中隨意下車「重見天日」一番，體會一下不按牌理出牌的旅行驚奇。東京一共有13條地下鐵，另外四條為都營系統，但是地下四通八達，許多地方相通。重點在於東京 Metro 二日券只在機場出關的櫃台買得到，又便宜： 980 日元。乘坐地下鐵還能欣賞免費的音景（soundscape)，每一條地下鐵開車的音樂都不一樣，集中起來還出了CD， 只在東京火車站內的書店販售。
· 吃一碗有人排隊的拉麵：依拉麵史記載，日本拉麵始自北海道大學附近，由中國引進，改良後百花齊放，有醬油、鹽味、Miso（味噌）、大骨等湯麵口味，還有沾麵。日本人是一個愛排隊的民族，跟著排隊吃一碗 （通常招牌都是最簡單的拉麵）絕對錯不了。想要一次吃個夠，一定要跑一趟拉麵博物館（新橫濱），該館每年由全日本挑8-12 家入館，是拉麵迷的聖地，此地也出現的幾位拉麵電視冠軍。最近幾年有一家名為「一蘭」的拉麵店很受歡迎，一人一個小格子，每一種配料、口味、麵的粗細都可以自選。當然吃幾個火車便當是一定要的啦。
· 看一場東京巨蛋的職棒賽：這應該是讓人終生難忘的經驗，特別當巨人隊比賽時。有座位的票通常很快就賣光，還好有站票(1000日元)，站著體驗更是難忘。不要忘記下午先去參觀野球博物館，接著吃一碗就在附近「一蘭」的拉麵。比賽下午四時進場，六時開賽，看了之後才了解棒球產業為何物。台灣職棒自毀前程，迫使不少球迷轉往日本，巨人隊上至少有三位台灣的育成選手：林羿豪、黃志龍、李昱鴻。日本棒球賽，結果固然重要，但過程中兩邊啦啦隊的加油陣仗令人大開眼界，在紐約洋基球場的比賽就缺少此項對決。
東京 Metro 二日券
沾麵
火車便當
(公民記者抓地文俠哈日特派員東京報導) 日本一向是台灣客觀光的首選之一，雖然日幣升值，但是其治安與環境衛生在東亞稱得上數一數二，就是不懂日文，也還是自由行與背包客的最愛，特別是簡體字當道以來，日本的繁體字多少給台灣一點溫暖。
哈日方式千百種，由三件事開始體驗日本的庶民文化：
· 買張東京 Metro 二日券，在九條地下鐵線趴趴走：搭乘過程中隨意下車「重見天日」一番，體會一下不按牌理出牌的旅行驚奇。東京一共有13條地下鐵，另外四條為都營系統，但是地下四通八達，許多地方相通。重點在於東京 Metro 二日券只在機場出關的櫃台買得到，又便宜： 980 日元。乘坐地下鐵還能欣賞免費的音景（soundscape)，每一條地下鐵開車的音樂都不一樣，集中起來還出了CD， 只在東京火車站內的書店販售。
· 吃一碗有人排隊的拉麵：依拉麵史記載，日本拉麵始自北海道大學附近，由中國引進，改良後百花齊放，有醬油、鹽味、Miso（味噌）、大骨等湯麵口味，還有沾麵。日本人是一個愛排隊的民族，跟著排隊吃一碗 （通常招牌都是最簡單的拉麵）絕對錯不了。想要一次吃個夠，一定要跑一趟拉麵博物館（新橫濱），該館每年由全日本挑8-12 家入館，是拉麵迷的聖地，此地也出現的幾位拉麵電視冠軍。最近幾年有一家名為「一蘭」的拉麵店很受歡迎，一人一個小格子，每一種配料、口味、麵的粗細都可以自選。當然吃幾個火車便當是一定要的啦。
· 看一場東京巨蛋的職棒賽：這應該是讓人終生難忘的經驗，特別當巨人隊比賽時。有座位的票通常很快就賣光，還好有站票(1000日元)，站著體驗更是難忘。不要忘記下午先去參觀野球博物館，接著吃一碗就在附近「一蘭」的拉麵。比賽下午四時進場，六時開賽，看了之後才了解棒球產業為何物。台灣職棒自毀前程，迫使不少球迷轉往日本，巨人隊上至少有三位台灣的育成選手：林羿豪、黃志龍、李昱鴻。日本棒球賽，結果固然重要，但過程中兩邊啦啦隊的加油陣仗令人大開眼界，在紐約洋基球場的比賽就缺少此項對決。
里山大學竹筍學系！
日本共有729所大學，如果以校園內有森林（里山）做為指標，那麼全日本只有七所大學出列。這七所大學自2005年起組成大學里山聯盟，企圖將此特色彰顯出來。聯盟成員包括：龍谷大學、中部大學、京都女子大學、金沢大學、宇都宮大學、兵庫縣立大學、信州大學、長野大學。
(公民記者抓地文俠哈日特派員金沢報導) 日本共有729所大學，大分為國立、公立（包括縣立、市立、都立、府立等）與私立三大類，其中私立大學約有530所之多。大學五花八門，校名與內容各有特色，例如國際教養大學、島取環境大學、七所大學院大學（沒有大學部）、東北公益文科大學、相愛大學、敬愛大學等。如果以校園內有森林（里山）做為指標，那麼全日本只有七所大學出列。這七所大學自2005年起組成大學里山聯盟，企圖將此特色彰顯出來。聯盟成員包括：龍谷大學、中部大學、京都女子大學、金沢大學、宇都宮大學、兵庫縣立大學、信州大學、長野大學。
龍谷大學在1639年由京都名寺西本願寺設學寮開始，至今370年，本部在京都，1984年在滋賀縣大津市開設新校區(瀬田學舍)，擁有38公頃的龍谷之森。並率先推動里山學，成立里山學研究中心。 1928年時，龍谷大學開始招收女大學生，號稱日本第一次，因此西本願寺後來於1949年再設立京都女子大學，在左京區大原校園有24公頃的自然林「京女之森」，自1992年起開始推動里山的生命環境教育課程，例如從免洗筷與森林的體驗學習。
位於愛知縣的中部大學恵那校園有著生物多様性高的里山地區。2009年7月宇都宮大學成立「里山科學中心」，由校園里山研究起，再探討流域圏的里山科學，並推出「里山野生動物管理技術者養成學程」。另外，近畿大學推出里山實習教育課程；位於多摩市與町田市的恵泉女学園大學，校園里山設有「教育農場」與「自然觀察林」；金城學院大學打出「校園里山化」的規劃理念。
民間也有呼應的行動，例如在京都由社區居民成立的NPO「綾部里山交流大學」；新潟県小千谷市成立的NPO「里山再生之道大学」等。
金沢大學的角間校園內有74公頃的里山，1999年成立「角間之里山自然學校」，推動體驗學習、里山同學會與里山駐村研究員制度、里山論壇、市民會議等項目。特別是體驗學習，隨著四季的脈動，號召學生與在地居民，一起來種稻、收割。這個季節，鄭是採竹筍與香菇的季節，地區居民也一起來整理山林，企圖恢復過去傳統燒耕的農法，於是公民記者一起去里山採訪：里山大學竹筍學系。 陸續採收的竹筍已於4/26起在學生食堂販售，並有說明採自大學的里山，常被搶購一空，所售之款項回到學生社團。
(公民記者抓地文俠哈日特派員金沢報導) 日本共有729所大學，大分為國立、公立（包括縣立、市立、都立、府立等）與私立三大類，其中私立大學約有530所之多。大學五花八門，校名與內容各有特色，例如國際教養大學、島取環境大學、七所大學院大學（沒有大學部）、東北公益文科大學、相愛大學、敬愛大學等。如果以校園內有森林（里山）做為指標，那麼全日本只有七所大學出列。這七所大學自2005年起組成大學里山聯盟，企圖將此特色彰顯出來。聯盟成員包括：龍谷大學、中部大學、京都女子大學、金沢大學、宇都宮大學、兵庫縣立大學、信州大學、長野大學。
龍谷大學在1639年由京都名寺西本願寺設學寮開始，至今370年，本部在京都，1984年在滋賀縣大津市開設新校區(瀬田學舍)，擁有38公頃的龍谷之森。並率先推動里山學，成立里山學研究中心。 1928年時，龍谷大學開始招收女大學生，號稱日本第一次，因此西本願寺後來於1949年再設立京都女子大學，在左京區大原校園有24公頃的自然林「京女之森」，自1992年起開始推動里山的生命環境教育課程，例如從免洗筷與森林的體驗學習。
位於愛知縣的中部大學恵那校園有著生物多様性高的里山地區。2009年7月宇都宮大學成立「里山科學中心」，由校園里山研究起，再探討流域圏的里山科學，並推出「里山野生動物管理技術者養成學程」。另外，近畿大學推出里山實習教育課程；位於多摩市與町田市的恵泉女学園大學，校園里山設有「教育農場」與「自然觀察林」；金城學院大學打出「校園里山化」的規劃理念。
民間也有呼應的行動，例如在京都由社區居民成立的NPO「綾部里山交流大學」；新潟県小千谷市成立的NPO「里山再生之道大学」等。
金沢大學的角間校園內有74公頃的里山，1999年成立「角間之里山自然學校」，推動體驗學習、里山同學會與里山駐村研究員制度、里山論壇、市民會議等項目。特別是體驗學習，隨著四季的脈動，號召學生與在地居民，一起來種稻、收割。這個季節，鄭是採竹筍與香菇的季節，地區居民也一起來整理山林，企圖恢復過去傳統燒耕的農法，於是公民記者一起去里山採訪：里山大學竹筍學系。 陸續採收的竹筍已於4/26起在學生食堂販售，並有說明採自大學的里山，常被搶購一空，所售之款項回到學生社團。
Sprint Leads 4G Race With 'HTC EVO 4G'
Sprint Leads 4G Race With 'HTC EVO 4G'
WSJ's Personal Technology columnist Walt Mossberg tests Sprint's HTC EVO 4G -- the first phone in the U.S. that works on the new, faster 4G network. He says while the phone is noticeably faster on the 4G network, it does have its downsides.
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Oil leak may be 19 times larger than BP and US government say
One month after the fatal explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig, McClatchy journalists provide us with an update on the situation.
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Service Cloud 2: Salesforce Knowledge Demo with Kraig Swensrud
小妹大之雲端運算
Salesforce Knowledge Demo
Salesforce Answers Demo
Salesforce for Twitter Demo
What's next for the Service Cloud and Force.com?
Cloud Futures: Marc Benioff CEO Salesforce.com (Google Atmosphere Session 8)
Using Google Apps with Salesforce.com
How Salesforce.com uses Google Custom Search
什麼是「雲端運算」？ (What is Cloud Computing - Traditional Chinese version)
張明正談雲端運算(Slides only)
文茜週報談雲端運算
What is cloud computing?
Salesforce Knowledge Demo
Salesforce Answers Demo
Salesforce for Twitter Demo
What's next for the Service Cloud and Force.com?
Cloud Futures: Marc Benioff CEO Salesforce.com (Google Atmosphere Session 8)
Using Google Apps with Salesforce.com
How Salesforce.com uses Google Custom Search
什麼是「雲端運算」？ (What is Cloud Computing - Traditional Chinese version)
張明正談雲端運算(Slides only)
文茜週報談雲端運算
What is cloud computing?
Introducing Service Cloud 2
Marc Benioff shares salesforce.com's market momentum and corporate strategy to start the day at the Service Cloud 2 launch.
www.salesforce.com/servicecloud2
友訊科技廖志誠：培養國際競爭力
擔任友訊科技歐洲總部總經理長達7年的廖志誠，如何發揮國際管理經驗，成功擴展市場？他又如何帶動D-Link躍升為歐洲網路產品第一品牌？一日良師─廖志誠為學員分享他的外派經驗，以及他如何運用外派經驗，管理全球103個據點的關鍵。
Cheers勇往職前，贏在未來講座：豐富生命的旅行
年輕的生命，是一場美麗的旅行，最適合勇敢作夢。作夢，可以天馬行空。往夢想道路邁進，卻需要仔細規劃，按部就班執行。 17歲就展開大旅行的公益旅行家褚士瑩，以及巨匠電腦董事長鐘梁權，在中台灣的亞洲大學展開對話，暢談大膽作夢，實踐夢想的生命故事。
南台灣的天空陽光燦爛，但是面對嚴峻的就業市場，即將步出校園的準新鮮人，心情卻格外沉重。Cheers雜誌邀請了明基台灣區總經理姚鴻洲，以及巨匠電腦董事長鍾梁權，在南台科大和準新鮮人，展開面對面對話，告訴你職場勝出的關鍵是在於<企圖心>和<三心二意>。
求職必勝！如何讓Google把你當成人才？
景氣低迷，工作難找，畢業即失業的悲觀氣氛更籠罩在大學校園裡。在這個時候，Cheers雜誌特別邀請了Google台灣區總經理簡立峰，與巨匠電腦總經理黃志聰到校園對談，分享大學生如何在艱困的就業環境中脫穎而出，成為職場的明日之星。
微軟總經理蔡恩全：新時代工作人，贏在軟實力（勇往職前，贏在未來講座）
領先世界的新科技，講究的是體貼人性的操控介面。重視硬實力的工作人，決戰職場最重要的關鍵，其實也是貼近人心的「軟實力」。《Cheers》雜誌邀請微軟台灣區總經理蔡恩全，以及巨匠電腦總經理黃志聰，在中原大學展開精彩對談，暢談新時代工作人，必須具備的軟實力。
求職容易犯的錯誤
投完履歷表自傳之後，你該怎麼做下一步，才能從千百位的面試者中脫穎而出，得到面試機會？【天下講堂】求職系列，教你求職必勝關鍵。
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找新工作的你，應該從何下手？你是不是每次投遞了履歷自傳之後，沒有任何公司通知你面試？你究竟犯了什麼求職錯誤呢？【天下講堂】求職系列，幫你解決找工作的困擾！
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