Here is another new study on blogs. Tommy Xie, a Ph.D. student at Southern Illinois University, aims to "focus on different uses of weblogs in mainland China and the United States and is a first step to investigating the increasing... Read more >>

If I just throw it into bookmarks, I might never finish reading it. You know I haven't finished Free Culture yet... About the book "Digital History" by Daniel J. Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig This book provides a plainspoken and thorough... Read more >>

She refused to stand up on the bus, so the whole nation stood up. Everyone can make a history. Read Rosa Parks's story here, here and here.... Read more >>

Via Born on June 6 Things other people accomplished when they were my age. No time to procrastinate. The future mythologist Joseph Campbell decided to move to Woodstock to read the classics for five years, nine hours a day. Living... Read more >>

Just a quick post. Still 300 pages of reading to go and haven't started on my lit review assignment yet. Stanford University just launched Stanford on Itunes, which offers free access to faculty lectures, interviews, music and sports news. So... Read more >>

In my master's thesis I explored the motivations for blogging. The findings include self-documentation and self-expression, partially confirming the long-held notion of blogs as a venue for narcissist. Yet, Howard W. French's story for The Washington Post suggests a brighter... Read more >>

Hopefully I'm not making a fuss. Just now I noticed the following lines on my bloglines homepage: You can now navigate through Bloglines with hotkeys! You will find this legend at the bottom of each feed display page. Hotkeys: j... Read more >>

Something to bring up: 1. My class was dismissed one hour earlier than usual for those who observe Yom Kippur. 2. My newly ordered Lee Oskar 10 Hole Diatonic Harmonicas arrived today. One for myself and one for Oscar [... Read more >>

China's second manned space mission. Timeline of China's space history [ source: The Associated Press ] September 1955: Chinese-born Tsien Hsue-sen, an American-trained rocketry expert and co-founder of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, leaves the United States for China. His departure... Read more >>

Eat to lose weight? The statement sounds self-contradictory but it is true. At least in some cases. Celery is one of the vegetables I hate most, along with carrot, pumpkin, broccoli, chive, caraway, bell pepper... But celery is the so-called... Read more >>

Finally we are here: the last day of summer 2005. The past few days were amazingly summer that I almost forget it's Oct already. For the very first time I cycled with Ningzi on campus [ last time we didn't... Read more >>