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BBC推出针对中国大陆的网站

BBC针对中国大陆推出新网站 （BBC中国）

英国《金融时报》安德鲁•埃奇克利夫-约翰逊(Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson)、王明(Mure Dickie)报道
2006年2月7日 星期二

英国广播公司国际部(BBC World Service)推出针对中国大陆市场的中文网站，提供英语教学以及不会令中国互联网审查机构感到不安的新闻。

长期以来，中国一直禁止国人登陆英国广播公司的主要中文网站，即www.BBCChinese.com。

新的中文网站（BBC中国 www.BBCChina.com.cn）的推出，以及采用以.cn结尾的域名，标志着BBC在中国建树影响力的努力迈出一大步。中国是全球发展最快的传媒和教育市场之一。

BBC国际部英语教学部门主管安德鲁•汤普森(Andrew Thompson)表示，约有2亿中国人正在学习英语。

看了一下，感觉不错。说实在，我觉得BBC中文网（www.BBCChinese.com）里面部分内容确实比较过时，不知里面是不是由一些过时的人掌握着。不过，希望新的网站不要太过迎合政府。

Popularity bred popularity?

Found an interesting topic. Do you like smash hits?? How do you choose which album to buy?

So what makes a hit?

A new study reveals that we make our music purchases based partly on our perceived preferences of others.

….. continue to read The Science of Hit Songs

Basicly, researchers created an artificial music market of 14,341 participants split into two groups to pick music from unknown musicians. In one group, the individuals had only song titles and band names to go on. The individuals in the other group saw how others had rated the songs.

One reader remarks

(the experiment) turns out popularity bred popularity, which explains why there’s so much crap on the radio

Another interesting remark is

It’s the law of physics that states that if one girl screams for something, it will make other girls scream … until all girls within a five-mile radius are screaming. Once you get girls screamin’, you can’t stop ‘em! They’re crazy! –Chef, South Park

This is exactly how I see those pop songs. Not many pop songs stay popular for long, the possible reason is that their popularity was created mainly by marketing rather than quality.

I am not saying that this is actually good science. Actually, if you know a little bit science, you will find that this research had made too many assumptions.

Following Comments:

hum~~popularity stuff~~rather complex….I would say that there must some reason essentially lead to the popularity, not just the popularity itself, ‘cuz the base(very first) quantity of ‘popularity’ should be large enough to bred even bigger popularity….(felt i am saying the tongue twister~~hoho)whatsoever, nothing comes from nothing~ as regard to the pop song,
well…u know, lots of the classical music today were once the “pop music” in the time when they had been written~what makes the difference is their qualities….i agree with u upon this point. today’s pop song is just like MASS production, ‘cuz music-making is also a popular thing…………so, let’s just wait and see which pop song we know will remain after fifty years or more……hehe…

oh, forgot to say>元er - 10/02/2006 22:51

when people need to make a choice, given that nowadays there are so many choices, taking other ppl’s preferences into account seems to be good idea and an efficient way to be entertained.
also, when people are talking about a song, you will want to listen to it so that you can talk about it. we all live with other ppl, so being influenced by others is unavoidable.i feel sad that the increasing number of choices is now obstructing us from having our own tastes and make it a bit inefficient for quility works to emerge, maybe?

yuaner, i like your comments, “lots of the classical music today were once the ‘pop music’ ” may be true. but i can hardly imagine when i am 80 years old say, any of today’s hits become “classical”. 200 years later,perhaps?

Published By CY- 11/02/2006 01:22

yeah~~it’s inevitable for us to take other people’s preferences into account when we are making our choises, so that we can get ourselves be involved in most of the talking.^^just read the article link above~only to find out that’s sth called social influence~
hehe, and it indeed, has given some negative effects on the emergence of good quality work, i agree.Yet, i want to say that nothing will obstruct u from having ur own taste, (u’v been doing it well i think~)and there will always be someone who share the same taste as u…..^^hoho….
why u so pessimistic about the prospect of today’s music ?well… maybe in ur mind, classical music has to be performed seriously by orchestras, i think the definition of classical can be broader….to some extents, Beatle’s music have already become somehow ‘classical’ in many people’s minds…..right?

Published By 元er - 11/02/2006 23:45

well, yuan’er evidently we share some interests and i am glad to say so. is that the reason you *..^^hoo…* ? hehe
i was not saying that something will prevent me from having my own tastes but in a rather general terms. you see, i am not a person with peculiar tastes i must thank the people i was connected to for it.
i am not pessimistic about today’s music that much, but i do not believe those hits will become “classical music” in future. In my point of view, rather narrow, classical music is refined and produced in the traditions of art which is contrasted with pop hits, and certainly must be concert music. beatles music are good and may become classical in many people’s mind as you said, but i don’t believe it will be universally recognized. on the other hand, i see the potentials of new-ages. like yanni’s

Published By CY- 12/02/2006 00:31

阮籍诗两首

咏怀诗 阮籍

其三十三

一日复一夕，一夕复一朝。颜色改平常，精神自损消。
胸中怀汤火，变化故相招。万事无穷极，知谋苦不饶。
但恐须臾间，魂气随风飘。终身履薄冰，谁知我心焦！

其三十八

炎光延万里。洪川荡湍濑。弯弓挂扶桑。长剑倚天外。
泰山成砥砺。黄河为裳带。视彼庄周子。荣枯何足赖。
捐身弃中野。乌鸢作患害。岂若雄杰士。功名从此大。

阮籍是中国三国时期魏的诗人，所谓“竹林七贤”之一。而他父亲，阮瑀曾任曹魏丞相,是“建安七子”之一。

阮籍在政治上本有济世之志，曾登广武城，观楚、汉古战场，慨叹“时无英雄，使竖子成名！”当时明帝曹叡已亡，由曹爽、司马懿夹辅曹芳，二人明争暗斗，政局十分险恶。曹爽曾召阮籍为参军，他托病辞官归里。

正始十年(249)，曹爽被司马懿所杀,司马氏独专朝政。司马氏杀戮异己，被株连者很多。阮籍本来在政治上倾向于曹魏皇室，对司马氏集团怀有不满，但同时又感到世事已不可为，于是他采取不涉是非、明哲保身的态度，或者闭门读书，或者登山临水，或者酣醉不醒，或者缄口不言。

司马昭想让阮籍的女儿作为司马炎的王妃，阮籍为了避免这场婚事，醉六十天，别人无法与他通话，最后司马昭取消了这个打算。司马昭派钟会问阮籍对世事的看法，来试探他，但阮籍总是大醉，无法发表任何看法。司马昭想进为晋王，但假意推脱，他的士僚们就让阮籍写一篇《劝进文》，阮籍不愿，又采取了喝酒大醉的手段来推脱，但最后被逼迫得没有办法，立地写了一篇《劝进文》，连改都没有改，而且文辞清壮，当时被非常看重。即使他往往冲撞其他官僚，他因此受到司马昭的保护，最后得以终其天年。

想呻吟，写现代诗

以前我认为写“现代诗”的人大多是没什么古典文学修养且精神都有些恍惚。

这个观点现在仍没有大的改变，其一是我没有进一步去了解他们及他们的作品，其二是这一年来，我发现自己精神恍惚的时候也会去写一些现代诗，现在已经存有二十几首，不过羞于拿出来现世。除了那首三岁时脱口而出的”诗”：”蝴蝶飞呀飞，飞到东，飞到西，采花忙”.

鉴于现在blog的兴起，越来越多的同龄人郁闷来郁闷去，制造大量毫无意义，冗长拖沓的文字，浪费自己和他人宝贵的时间，浪费地球有限的资源

我郑重建议：（包括对我自己）

如果各位哥哥姐姐，弟弟妹妹本身没什么文学修养且哪天有如下任意症状：

心情苦闷
感情问题
有心病
纯粹是想呻吟一下

可以考虑写现代诗。
如果自认有一定文学水平的，可以考虑写古体。

好处：既能发泄，又能省下码字的时间。而且可以装深沉！

面对一些十分情绪化的文字，说实在，我绝对不会一个字一个字的去看的，眼睛停留时间绝对不会超过10秒，相信大部分人也这样。因为这种东西对读者来说实在没意义，并且我相信，即使是作者本人也不会回头仔细去看的。

所以写诗是最好的选择，一眼看去，哦，了解了，你在呻吟。而写的人呢？现代诗很好写的嘛，其他时间留着干些正事！

或者去读一些有意义的东西吧

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下面，为了表达我今天很郁闷，特次献上诗一（四）首

昨天
天气阴霾
今天
天气很好

昨天
心情很好
今天
实在郁闷

往事不再回首
专注于现在
慢慢等待自己的未来

啊
面朝大海
春暖花开
从明天起
要去上课
又要乘火车
去卧轨
像海子一样

丹麦穆罕默德漫画事件有感

最近挺热门的一个新闻就是“丹麦穆罕默德漫画事件”。

谁都知道回教是不好惹的，美英都吃过苦头。偏偏丹麦人，可能过于安乐了，就不信这个邪，硬要去充分利用他们的“言论自由”来那回教人的老大先知穆罕默德开涮！

我看过这组漫画，BBC新闻也播过。其实说起来也很有“创意”，比如一个穆罕默德的炸弹脑袋，比如穆罕默德站在天堂的门口对新来的自杀袭击者说，我们没有处女库存了 etc 不过很明显地，这组漫画对虔诚回教人来说绝对是莫大的侮辱。如果请一个日本人漫画家来画一本以Jesus等一干人等为主角的H漫画，不知道那些欧洲人会怎么想，或许不会有这么大的反应。

前天听广播，记者采访一个与此事件有联系老几，他不断强调言论自由，并且说：“虽然我现在很害怕，但是我没做错，这是我们的自由。可是，为什么我们在自己国家的土地上还要害怕他们呢？” 我听着都想笑，因为听着这位老兄的语气，感觉他吓得想哭了。

回教徒骂声一片，极端分子又开始扬言要炸这儿炸那儿，杀人放火什么的。欧洲一些看热闹的兄弟姐妹们，声援丹麦，一些报纸甚至重新发表那些漫画，还说回教徒应该成熟一点，不要为这点“小事”神经过敏。

西方社会的自由使得西方人习惯了只站在自己的角度上考虑。只有当丹麦几乎失去全部中东市场，多少人面临失业危险的时候，丹麦首相终于才出来道歉，尽管如此，看起来还是不那么爽快。

教训：千万不要惹回教人！ 事实上，千万不要招惹有宗教背景的人，当他们把既然自己献给了“神”，就会为信仰做出任何事情，这可以是好的，但也可以很恶劣。

我在想，如果想要小犬不去拜鬼，那么是不是可以借鉴一下回教徒的做法。当然不是去搞恐怖袭击，而是抵制日本货。打个比方说，拜鬼一次，就禁止日货通关一周。只是中国人没有了信仰，或者信仰的是实用主义，那么这个方式恐怕就行不通了。

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下面又给一个西方媒体自以为是的例子, 不过老实说，我其实是无所谓的西方民间是不是把西藏、台湾当作国家，只要我们实际上控制了局面就行了。 碰到这种情况，如果有时间或者无聊的骚扰他们一下也未尝不可。到处在论坛上广泛散布，并标题之”是中国人就进来看看 等等，提升到国家荣誉高度，我是不赞同的”。

弱智BBC

前天偶然进到：http://www.bbc.co.uk/holiday/travel_tools/world_map/

下面是我写的一封投诉信，还没有收到回复，有兴趣的人可以声援一下。

Dear BBC:

I saw the “world map” on the page I will refere to below. This “world map” is so poorly made. Many countries were not shown.

Ok perhaps the information of some countries were not available hence you didn’t want to include them or you wanted to save the troubles to make a better detailed map.

But at least you shoud not make Mongolia part of Russia or make up some new countries such as Tibet, Taiwan. This could be an insult to people of relevant countries and regions. And it is extremely misleading to many people especially children.

I pay more than 120 pounds license fee every year, such poor qulity content is not what I would expect from a media with sort of authority.