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今年第一次參加Blog Day的活動。好像有點遲，畢竟人家已經是第三年舉辦。但遲到總比冇到好。閒話休提，開始！

我比較喜歡閱讀tech blog，所以打頭炮的亦是以科技新聞分析見稱的Ars Technica。與一般tech blog不同，Ars Technica往往以多角度分析新聞背後的問題，評論中肯，立場堅定。另外，此BLOG對科技題材的覆蓋大得誇張，由遊戲評論、到法律問題、到人體研究等。

另一個我經常前往的blog是Boing Boing。這個blog只可以用“古靈精怪”來形容，題材包羅萬有。內容因寫手而異，如記者Xeni Jardin多以時事和怪異物事為主。新進科幻作家Cory Doctorow主力寫科技、文學（科幻及其他種類），反對DRM等限制自由的科技。Mark Frauenfelder為Make雜誌總編輯，為文主攻自製工具「手作仔」、藝術等。

43 Folders學會不少增加工作效率的小技巧。Blog主Merlin Mann近日產量回升，可喜可賀！附加一句，Merlin早前曾往Google主持一個有關有效處理電郵的講座，如果你對處理電郵感到吃力，可以到這裏看看，可能會有所得著。

Ikea Hacker是一個有關如何活用及改裝宜家傢俬的blog。未到過這blog，難以想象宜家的產品可以如此改造！

最後要介紹的是Garr Reynolds的Presentation Zen。如果你對做presentation有如見洪水猛獸，請你到此blog一遊，保證令你大開眼界。順便一提，Garr有關Steve Jobs與Bill Gates presentation技巧分別的分析，是我在網上所見最一針見血的。
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希望大家喜歡我介紹的blog~

Posted under Blog, blogday2007, 網摘

人權/自由/私隱
Don’t like ID cards? Hand over your passport
唔想用身份證？唔好出國啦(英國政府話)！奇就奇在英國竟然未有全國性身份證呢件事…

Big Brother State
有關各國無所不用其極侵犯人權手段的動畫，發人深省。

Girls suspended over ‘Vagina Monologues’
本來，美國人外表開放，內在保守已不是新聞，但和香港逼令「陰道獨白」改名般一般見識，便叫人搖頭歎息。

電腦
Google’s Buses Help Its Workers Beat the Rush
做廠車做到好似Google咁都算係唔話得，不過冇咁o既福利都未必留得住人…

SXSW Panel: How to bluff your way in Web 2.0
雖然話係吹水用，但作為web 2.0入門都唔錯，可以一讀。

German armored vehicles and Apple Mac OS X
Mac OS X各版本原來與二戰的德軍坦克有不少共通之處…

How to move an iTunes library from a PC to Mac (and back)
Switcher/iTunes用家必讀!

小工具
笑い男
用笑面男遮掩照片上的面孔吧！

Twitter
5 Ways to Use Twitter for Good
The Several Habits of Wildly Successful Twitter Users
兩個不錯的Twitter教學，這小服務看來還有一番作為。

Random stuff
Cat parasite rules our lives
咁係唔係代表為o左健康，我唔可以同貓玩呢？

Posted under Blog, Web 2.0, 社會事務, 網摘, 腦工具

一直想做網摘,但又怕和Jacky/天佑/思考的網摘重複,所以並未成事。然而,看見Jacky引方潤再引李天命的「間中發光」,便明白又是自己無膽嘗試。做了再打算吧,我跟自己說。

在閞始前,先介紹一下我所摘的網頁來源。Tech news我主要從Digg、SlashDot、Engadget和Gizmodo找來,但這兩個服務的覆蓋已不止於tech news,故此亦有不少其他新聞。另外,Ars Technica亦是一個不可多得的來源,因為除了tech news之外,這網站亦會分析美國本土以至其他國家有關科技、環保、私隱權、版權等話題,分析精到而有見地。

環保和可持續發展方面的文章,我會從Treehugger和WorldChanging上找。Treehugger是環保新聞的Digg,而WorldChanging則以NGO(non-government organizations,)有關環保和可持續發展的新聞為主(WorldChanging本身便是一個環保NGO)。

報紙新聞方面,我以RSS訂閱的報章有以下的幾份:
New York Times
Washington Post
LA Times
International Herald Tribute
Spiegel Online
Guardian Unlimited
BBC
本來希望訂閱Al Jazeera(即阿拉伯半島電視台)的報導,但其網頁沒有RSS,我亦沒有時間自己找文章,所以還是作罷。

我閱讀的blog以香港和美國的為主，內地的反而較少。

目的嘛…一天到晚都在讀這讀那的，吸收太多，總要發揮一下，當作分享亦可。有沒有人看、欣賞，並不太重要。

Posted under Blog, 網摘

Checking out a “person”?

This is amazing…. I guess if anyone can provide such service, it has to be liberal enough like the Swedes. Or the Kiwis, for that matter.

Such a service, in theroy can promote communication and understanding between different social groups in a society. Or is it? That really depends on which society such service is applied to. In a liberal country like Sweden, you got people that should appreciate the chance to get to know members of the society, which are not always in the “mainstream”. In Asia (especially in China and Hong Kong), whether people would want such a chance at all is a question to reckon. Whether people will actually take part in sharing their experiences and views, and not to consider themselves (or being considered as) zoo exhibits, is also something that Asians will have to think about.

It all comes down to how developed a society is, how well their people handles different ideas, preferences, and viewpoints. I am green with envy that the Swedes has already gone so far up the pyramid, when we are still struggling with a society that does not even know how to tolerate differences among people yet.

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