「成為媒體…意味著與大眾無緣」

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讀和菜頭（hecaitou）的《槽邊往事》：〈门外汉放谈互联网〉。

「…我不认为中国有广泛意义上的 Blog ，中国只有名人博客和草根日志。鉴于可以理解的原因，中国互联网的内容部分发育得相当畸形。只要有内容，一定会被做成媒体。做成媒体意味着它和大众根本无缘，媒体的属性就是专业人士遴选、制造、传播，大众负责消费。所谓 Blog，本质含义是全民写作，以及在其上的全民表达。感谢中国互联网，感谢互联网公司，Blog 在中国很快变成了名人博客。名人博客的意思是名人负责写，大众负责看。于是，大众认为写 Blog 这件事情和自己无关，那是名人或者意见领袖的事情。」

週末與上週香港行，讀了很多中國的文字。這些一定都跟網際網路的發展有某種程度的關聯，只是還沒有跟 blog 走到一塊兒。那該怎麼走呢？下一版的《中國農民調查》有可能在網路上發行嗎？這又跟 blog 會有什麼樣的關聯呢？最近火紅的 Wikileaks 又是什麼樣的新內容/新服務/新想法呢？我還在想。

作者：ilya，時間：December 5, 2010 11:53 pm 足跡 (0)

The Price of Pioneering

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Reading Harald Welte’s blog on “OpenMoko” experience back in 2007 (yes, in the archive). It’s really sad for certain innovative project couldn’t blossom, from a local FOSS participant’s view.

“…Now I could continue and name dozens of examples like this. If this project was just about _developing_ hardware and software, I would be a happy man, and we could look ahead to complete one device after the other. But it’s all the other issues, administrative, political, cultural, sales, finance, accounting, shipping, … which make people like Sean and me run at something like 20-25% of their usual efficiency, despite putting in at least 180% of regular working hours. And there is nobody who can help this, because nobody non-technical really understands what we’re doing here, and why we need to do it different than whatever they might have done it before.”
作者：ilya，時間：December 5, 2010 9:16 pm 足跡 (0)