Nothing But Net

看到這篇 Top 10 Ways to Provoke a Geek Argument，想到自己周遭的某些人、以及 The Big Bang Theory 裡的 Penny VS. Sheldon，還真是準確。這篇文章回應破百，技客們紛紛提供自己被激怒的各種情境...

10. “No real programmer would ever use PHP.”
9. “Comic books are just for kids!”
8. “Role-playing games are just for people who can’t deal with real life.”
7. “The Pirates of the Caribbean movies are so realistic!”
6. “Yeah, I got an Xbox 360 so my daughter could play Hello Kitty games. Is it really good for anything else?”
5. “Mac, Windows, or Linux? Does it really make a difference?”
4. “The Ewoks were the best thing about the original Star Wars trilogy.”
3. “Tolkien? Ehhh, I prefer Terry Brooks!”
2. “Joss Whedon is a hack!”
1. “I don’t see what’s so bad about DRM!”

另一方面，想到之前從 GVO 群組裡瞄到的 草根翻譯「全民知識生產運動」在線中 這篇文章裡，中國網友的翻譯運動竟然能獲得國際媒體的授權許可，真是不可思議。

好久沒有買 Wired 了。為了這一期的封面/故事，該買本來收藏一下。

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Wired - Get Naked and Rule the World

Smart companies are sharing secrets with rivals, blogging about products in their pipeline, even admitting to their failures. The name of this new game is RADICAL TRANSPARENCY, and it's sweeping boardrooms across the nation. Even those Office drones at Dunder Mifflin get it. So strip down and learn how to have it all by baring it all.

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Chris Anderson - What would radical transparency mean for Wired? (Part 2)：

Six tactics of transparent media -
1) Show who we are.
2) Show what we're working on.
3) "Process as Content".
4) Privilege the crowd.
5) Let readers decide what's best.
6) Wikifiy everything.

上週的新聞：
Wired News - Condé Nast Buys Wired News：

Lycos is selling its Wired News unit to Conde Nast Publications for $25 million, Lycos parent Daum Communications announced in Korea late Tuesday, a deal that brings Wired.com and Wired magazine under the same owner after an eight-year separation.

Wired News - AT&T: Wired News Is a 'Scofflaw' (2006/06/13)：

Wired News is a "scofflaw" full of "hot air" and should not be heard in a class-action lawsuit accusing AT&T of violating customers' privacy by cooperating with the National Security Agency in a warrantless internet wiretap operation, the telecommunications company said in a court filing Monday.

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2006年四月的Wired有一篇報導 - You Play World of Warcraft? You're Hired! ，主角Stephen Gillett曾在CNET工作，在魔獸世界這線上遊戲裡，是一個大型公會的管理者。他在虛擬世界裡的管理/領導技巧，幫助他在Yahoo找到一個好工作。

Socialtext的CEO - Ross Mayfield - 也針對這篇報導，提出他招募員工的條件。  read more »

Wired - The Trend Spotter：

Tim O'Reilly built an empire on computer- manuals and conferences that make sense of new technologies. Along the way he became the guru of the participation age.

Tim O'Reilly's three words? Harnessing collective- intelligence.

Wired News - Nintendogs Teach Us New Tricks：

If we love Nintendogs, it's not merely because they're so adorable. It's that they're so needy.

前陣子數位時代出了個Blog專刊，一時之間好不熱鬧，但我感覺有點一頭熱，數位時代後來的編者言，似乎並沒有bloggers對的舉動做出回應...隨便，我不是要講這件事。  read more »