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From Technical Code to Virtue Ethics: Table or Div? — Starting from the Ministry of Railways Ticketing Website

AI & the Future of Technology2012.01.05
From Technical Code to Virtue Ethics: Table or Div? — Starting from the Ministry of Railways Ticketing Website
The Ministry of Railways has finally rolled out an online ticketing system, and that alone is worth encouraging. Of course, it is debatable whether moving the advance-sale period for online tickets up by two days is a good idea; for migrant workers and other vulnerable groups who lack access to the internet, this is not very fair. I have already booked train tickets on this website three times (the first two times were round trips to the Winter Solstice conference), and each time I ran into one problem or another. Even when the Winter Solstice conference was still very much in the off-season for train tickets, I still encountered network…
China technology media commentary
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2012年1月5日
A Portal for the History of Science and Philosophy? A Library? — On the Future Fate of keshizhe.net

Site Matters2011.12.08
A Portal for the History of Science and Philosophy? A Library? — On the Future Fate of keshizhe.net
After wrapping up the Beijing History of Science, Technology, and Philosophy Student Forum, more than half a month had slipped by before I even realized it. The keshizhe.net I had worked so hard to put together died, with no suspense whatsoever. Although I had never had much confidence that it would ever become active in the first place, I still hadn’t expected it to die so quickly, so cleanly, and so decisively. Not only did almost no one post again after the meeting ended, but traffic also plunged rapidly, and in less than a week it was already lying on the bottom: The 5 or 6 visits per day at…
philosophy of science blog Peking University internet
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2011年12月8日
Exchange First, Scholarship Second—A Summary of the Forum on the History and Philosophy of Science

Life & Notes2011.11.23
Exchange First, Scholarship Second—A Summary of the Forum on the History and Philosophy of Science
The 2nd Beijing Graduate Student Academic Forum on the History and Philosophy of Science was finally wrapped up last weekend~ After the forum, I caught up on sleep + spent two days tinkering with the blog as a change of pace, and only now have I begun to write the summary.I was the main person in charge of organizing this forum, and my chief work was contacting students from various schools, calling for paper submissions, and moderating the review process, and so on. At the beginning, everyone’s enthusiasm was not high; it was not until the last moment that submissions started flooding in, which in the final half-month almost drove…
everyday life scholarship media blog
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2011年11月23日
What Is an “Eduroam-Free Address”?

Site Matters2011.11.01
What Is an “Eduroam-Free Address”?
Since the readers of my blog are mainly university teachers and students, I wanted to buy a domestic host. A host on a dedicated Education Network line is hard to find and not really necessary, but at the very least it must be a “free Education Network IP”; otherwise it’s no different from a foreign host. But based on my experience over this past year communicating with various IDC service providers, whether before-sales consultation or after-sales service, whether front-desk support or back-end technicians, whether IDC customer service or Taobao shop owners—after contacting maybe twenty or thirty people all told—not a single one actually knew what a free Education Network address…
technology education internet website
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2011年11月1日
Huaxia Mingwang’s hosting failure rate is too high…

Site Matters2011.10.31
Huaxia Mingwang’s hosting failure rate is too high…
Today Suixuan and the Forum on the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology were down again for most of the day, and the quality of customer service was also quite worrisome. After submitting a support ticket, the customer service staff who solve technical problems always respond only after the issue has been fixed, so I can hardly find out what exactly went wrong; as for the front-desk customer service on the web interface, they are often totally clueless, and even when I inquire about purchasing services, they respond slowly, with a poor attitude, and still know nothing about anything. What should one do if the host failure rate is…
China blog education internet
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2011年10月31日
The Internet Needs Scholarship; Scholarship Needs the Internet

Site Matters2011.07.22
The Internet Needs Scholarship; Scholarship Needs the Internet
The previous article mentioned that scholarship should actively confront the web; on the other hand, the web also needs scholarship. Through scholars’ active intervention in network media, on the one hand the possibilities for the development of scholarship will be expanded; on the other hand, distinctive elements will also be brought into the development of network technology. In an even earlier essay on the web, I cited Newell Castells’s historical review—“Internet culture” contains four layers: a technical elite culture that pursues knowledge and esteems excellence; a hacker culture that yearns for “freedom” and play; “virtual communists” who advocate sharing and practicality; and entrepreneurs in search of business opportunities. Of course,…
China technology scholarship value
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2011年7月22日
Why Create Such a Forum?

Site Matters2011.07.18
Why Create Such a Forum?
This newly launched “Forum for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology” is part of the “Beijing Graduate Academic Forum on the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology,” which will be held this coming November. This graduate forum was founded last year; Tsinghua took charge of it last year, and this year it is our turn. So the heavy responsibility of overall coordination has landed on my shoulders. As a shut-in, I have never been good at organizing affairs, nor am I good at socializing. Of course, under Professor Wu, people who are particularly good at organizing social activities have always been rather scarce, so I could only…
scholarship media internet website
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2011年7月18日
Call for Papers, Meeting Summary, and BBS Homepage for the 2nd Beijing Graduate Academic Forum on the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science

Life & Notes2011.07.14
Call for Papers, Meeting Summary, and BBS Homepage for the 2nd Beijing Graduate Academic Forum on the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science
The first organizing meeting had already been held at the very end of June, but we never put out any promotional material, because we ran into a bit of trouble with the website construction. We have now decided to first set up a BBS platform using my own personal space, and then, once it matures later on, we can always migrate it somewhere else. The BBS is here: http://bbs.yilinhut.com The minutes of the first meeting are here: http://bbs.yilinhut.com/read.php?tid=2 Call for papers: http://bbs.yilinhut.com/read.php?tid=1 In addition to the annual conference, what we hope even more is to build a lasting and lively academic social platform for students of history of science, philosophy…
everyday life blog internet conference review
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2011年7月14日
On Smartphones and Tablets: The Advanced Nature of Technology

AI & the Future of Technology2011.05.19
On Smartphones and Tablets: The Advanced Nature of Technology
During last winter break I got a new smartphone, HTC Desire（A8180/G7）. After buying it, I meant to jot something down, and somehow kept thinking I already had…… Today it occurred to me again, so I’ll just toss off a few casual remarks while I’m at it. I hadn’t actually planned to change phones. It started because my mother wanted a new one, and I helped her choose. At first I wanted to pick something like the classic Nokia 5230, but after seeing my parents buy themselves a brand-new 64-bit laptop, I changed my mind. I asked them why they had bought a 64-bit machine, and they said they had been…
technology Web3 internet innovation
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2011年5月19日
A Few Words on the “Salt Rumor”

Culture & Public Commentary2011.03.22
A Few Words on the “Salt Rumor”
After the earthquake, all kinds of rumors, big and small, were flying everywhere. The existence of the internet seems to have greatly strengthened the spread of rumors. Of course, we can also use the internet to conveniently search for more information and thereby dispel some shallow rumors, but most people probably do not use the internet that way. Compared with BBS forums and search engines, today’s SNS and microblogs seem more conducive to the spread of rumors, because BBS forums and search engines require a certain kind of active participation. Although posts on BBS forums can be reposted without restraint, browsing a BBS is after all an active act, and…
commentary internet sociology trust
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2011年3月22日