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Welcome to my virtual home. This is a little private space for me to put my thoughts and share my feelings since 2005. Due to my wide range of interests, there are perhaps too many tags. I would explain some of the less obvious tags:

"About Life" is really about how I have been pondering about life and what enlightenments and paradigm shifts I had experienced.

"About Psi" contains most topics about happiness, optimism vs pessimism,
confidence, comparison, pride and prejudice and other psychological aspects.

"About Logical Thinking" is about my own way of interpretating and explaining
certain issues, aiming to debunk (or create?) superficialness of them.

"About Ideology" is about my thoughts on big concepts like freedom, justice,
fairness in society and religion.

"About Society" is more about my observations about the society, often through interactions with different peoples.

"My Country" reveals my frustration, critics and hope
on my homeland - Malaysia.

"My Little Pieces" has more short posts though mostly are written in Mandarin.

While I do have some posts on book reviews and business, I am planning to
separate them into author-specific and content-specific blogs. Stay tuned.

Enjoy your reading!

Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Blog

Blog,继电邮、聊天信使后另一个网络的关键应用(killer application),音译为博客或部落格。博客,一个电脑白痴看了必会望文生义,以为是博取客人;实际上“客”是英文后缀 -er的音译,如其他泛滥成灾的后缀:性度化者,是翻译如雨后春笋般涌现的新词的万能符。博客似与骇客黑客闪客等一脉相承,而且把人(blogger)和物(blog)混为一谈,确实译得有些莫名其妙。部落格,一个社会学天才必会自以为是某个原始社会的风俗,画格围地,扎营为寨。一个如此时髦的东西居然被译得这么土,也让人不禁喷饭。更妙的是,有些人居然为两个音译孰优孰劣吵个不停。既然是音译,就难免失准,若嫌太怪太土,何必争吵,用意译就行,网络日志(网志)或个人空间都可以,若要不那么土的名字,大可用网舍。

开网舍、写网志、看网志可真是蔚然成风。免费供应空间的除了Google、Yahoo、MSN等环球大公司,各地博客/部落客各用所好,中国有新浪和博联、台湾有无名和天空、香港有Xanga、韩国有Cyworld、马新有blogspot和friendster。再看看博客群,可真是阵容强盛声势浩大。开博,有日本首相夫人为挽救丈夫名声、有泰国公主为呼吁国民提升英文水准、有马来西亚在野党强人为揭发弊端、有明星为透露难以通过传媒传达的心声、有你我为纪录和分享生活平凡的点滴、有公司为宣传、有人为赚钱,政客、名人、学者、卖脑力的、卖劳力的、卖产品的甚至卖肉体的,三教九流,莫不争先恐后加入潮流,让原已有五光十色的网络世界更多姿多彩。

此风如此强劲,并非空穴来风。大多数人致力于写网志的主要原因不外乎三个:抒发在现实世界中被压抑的情感或难以启齿的心事,与朋友交流联系,以及加强写作技巧。这些都是人类永恒的精神需求,不过现在换个新颖的方式追求而已。如果不计较形式,追溯起来,其实网志早已存在,几乎与网络同生,叫个人网站。在虚拟空间拥有个人网站,是每个刚接触网络的人的梦想。只不过那时候要创立个人网站,要付钱买网域,需要懂复杂的程序语言,要么花时间学,要么请资讯专才设计,可真让人打退堂鼓。现在可好啦,钱又不用付(有人还可以赚!),程序又不用懂,只要不是电脑白痴,张三李四都可以建网舍,只要按一下就可以写文章换背景加音乐,实在简单。如果我们只生活在这虚拟空间,杜工部泉下有知,大可放声长叹心愿终了。此种方便,不但圆了所有人的愿望,更进一步加速了资讯的传播,解除了某些资讯的封锁。只是这风要是吹得太盛,可真会把官帽给吹掉,让在比较多雾的地方当官的不安,怕掉了看不清怎么捡回来。

撇开谩骂造谣等因素不谈,开博,最好不要用真名实姓,一来不是名人,不需要让人知道真实世界里的身份,二来世人总是好奇八卦。据闻有人特意去查公司里同事的网志,结果探知许多荒谬事。据闻美国有公司在聘请职员前会去搜查当事人的网志,观其言察其行,以决定是否聘请他。如果这真的成为不成文的规则,尔虞我诈恐难免,网志可能沦为另一张虚假的面具。当然,如果你正直光明,不在人背后说人坏话,你自然不怕用真名;只是如果你只想有个空间发泄愤怒抒发情绪,只想让身边朋友而不是全世界知道你现实的身份,那倒不如用个优雅的笔名。当局如果真得怕造谣的负面影响,就让网民把真名提供给提供空间的服务公司,犯罪了才按名索人罢。

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