Micro Space of Oliver Ding

Hurricane Ike hit towards Houston and Galveston last weekend, we went out to College Station on the morning of Sept 12, 2008.

College Station is a small town with 86,000 in 2006. College Station is home to the main campus of Texas A&M University, it was named by Money Magazine in 2006 as the most educated city in Texas, and the 11th most educated city in the United States.

We visit the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum on the afternoon of the day.

The holdings of this Library and Museum include 43,000,000 pages of official and personal papers, over 2,000,000 audiovisual images, and 90,000 original artifacts.These are primary sources that document George Bush’s long public career from Texas Congressman to President of The United States.

Museum patrons experience the unique influences and challenges that formed George Bush’s life and presidency. From Maine to Texas to Washington, the story of George Bush is a fascinating one of adventure, courage, and dedication.

Some of the larger museum features includes a World War II Avenger Torpedo Bomber, a 1947 Studebaker, a slab of the Berlin Wall, and precise replicas of President Bush’ Camp David and Oval Offices. The presidential exhibits document George Bush’s exceptional leadership during times of crisis - the reunification of Germany, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the Gulf War. The importance of family, friends, and politics are also part of the museum’s colorful story.

I just took photos outside the museum. Visit its website to know more information:
http://www.bushlibrary.tamu.edu

View the slideshow on Flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/swordi/sets/72157607298207351/show/

We came back to Houston from College Station this morning. We are really lucky that our apartment were not damaged.

I checked the storm damage out in my neighborhood in Houston’s Clear Lake afternoon.

A Houston Police officer helps to clear a huge pine tree that fell due to Hurricane Ike on Bay Area in Houston’s Clear Lake this afternoon.

View photos slideshow on Flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/swordi/sets/72157607317635815/show/

See more photos on Houston local newspaper’s website: www.Chron.com

Today I visit www.wired.com and found a great tool Wordle through a article The Democratic And Republican National Convention Speeches, As Seen Through Wordle.

Wordle is an online application created by IBM’s senior software engineer Jonathan Feinberg. Using text entered by its users, it creates visually alluring “word clouds” that show you the frequency at which words occur within that text. The more often a word occurs, the bigger it appears in the cloud.

I created some word clouds for Freesouls, it is great experience. Part I is comments on slideshow Freesouls.

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Attached original comments are below:

- After all what is a freesoul - a perfect human being as the Mother Nature wished it ti live and grow. All divisions are our creations….

- Hip Hip Hurrah for Joi Ito. I wish others would take the same stand to free their soul. I have always felt that anything made public is a free soul and should not be burdened by a string of legal concepts and exclusive rights.

- Congratulations on a wonderful initiative - I am 100% a believer in this philosophy, and as a
freematter of principle, try to conduct myself in this way too.

- Thank you for opening this up for participation!

- I just voted UP.

- This is a very interesting project, good spirit you show sharing it!! Thanks & greetings!!

- I love this slide,really great!!! Share this concept to China as well.

- Congratulation, excelent work.

- Thank you for sharing another great preso and for introducing me to this group.

- I like your idea and will try to submit a slide.

- Excellent initiative. I’ll take part asap.

- Good job !!!

- This is realy awesome, I am moved! I’ll contribute a slide as well.

- This is awesome!

- Thank you so much for your inspiring contributions and ideas. I am honored to be included in your groups.

- I love this concept. There is another aspect of sharing that I would like to highlight. Films for traditional cameras need chemicals to process while digital cameras need batteries. They can become hazard to the environment when discarded indiscriminately. Sharing means that less of these will be required.

- Great job!Let’s share the spirit.

- Nice show.

Original slideshow:

Lenze: Thanks for Votes ‘UP’

Avalok: The Voting Controversy on Slideshare

Interesting things It is about reputation system design on social media website.

Slideshow of the Day again! Yes! It is for the Day of the opening ceremonies of Beijing Olympic Games.

The slideshow is for the #080808 Twitter campaign, started by Chinese Twitter users. #080808 means 08/08/08, the opening day of Beijing Olympic Games 2008.The official weblog of this campaign:http://tag080808.com

If you want to know the whole story, then read a article from New York Times:

Chinese Tweeters Celebrate Olympics With #080808

Using “#080808″ (pronounced “tag 080808″), a symbol for the date of the Olympics opening day, August 8, 2008, is “just for fun, a way to ‘write down’ the day,” said Steven Lin, one of the movement’s co-founders, who works for official Olympic Web site Sohu.com as a project manager.

Founded by Lin and two other Internet industry managers, they conceived of the idea on Wednesday, and only began propagating it on Thursday. Lin, who tweets as “flypig,” said they chose #080808 for a number of reasons but for one above all others: it was easy to type, including on a cell phone.

Although the number of #080808 tweeters is not known, a new one is being added about every half-second, as of noon in Beijing local time. Applications are now being written for the movement, including an Adobe Photoshop overlay, allowing users to superimpose the slogan over their Twitter avatars.

read full article.

The twitter campaign expands to other web2.0 communities. Junyu who is working for Google China created an great mash-up page. (http://tag080808.appspot.com/)

Web 2.0 unites around #080808 campaign by Danwei

The campaign is not limited to Twitter. The #080808 tag can be used to tag any online content (Flickr pics, YouTube videos, text blog postings, Technorati / Google Blogsearch, etc.). Click here for a mash-up Web site created by Junyu Wang that aggregates all the latest multimedia postings tagged “#080808″ into a single, simple interface.

I am very happy that the slideshow ‘Freesouls’ I created for Joi Ito’s CC photography book Freesoulsis was the Slideshow of the Day on SlideShare.net homepage yesterday.

The book includes essays from Lawrence Lessig, Howard Rheingold, Yochai Benkler, Isaac Mao, Cory Doctorow, Lawrence Liang and Marko Ahtisaari. It’s not only a book, but also a photos commons project.

I am a fans of CC and have great interest on NPOs projects. Freesouls is a great idea, I am very exciting about it. So, I created this slideshow for it.

I love this concept. There is another aspect of sharing that I would like to highlight. Films for traditional cameras need chemicals to process while digital cameras need batteries. They can become hazard to the environment when discarded indiscriminately. Sharing means that less of these will be required.

read full post:Going green as Freesouls

This slideshow is not only a slideshow edition of the book, but also for a new group on Slideshare.net: Freesouls

Scottra submitted his answer:

Amit Ranjan submitted his answer:

Go to freesouls group on slideshare.com to see more answers from people.

That’s awesome! Many thanks to you guys.