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HUMN306-Week2

Reading:

Tapscott & Wiliams, “The Peer Pioneers” 65-96.
Tapscott and Williams, “The Prosumers” 124-150

Reading Questions and discussion points:

The following are questions to guide your reading and get you started thinking and writing. Feel free to ignore these questions and explore issues that matter to you.

• How should we rethink issues of hierarchy and control when faced with something like open source software or Wikipedia?
• What is open source software and what are its advantages over proprietary software? (Linux vs. Windows & OSX)
• What kinds of conceptual models and social organization define this “new mode of production?”
• What is radical trust?
• What are the advantages and downsides to social media like Wikipedia?
• How can profit be generated in open source, collaborative enterprises?
• How do we rethink the notion of consumer?
  • Of producer?
• What holds such possibilities back?

HUMN306-Week1

Reading:

Tapscott & Williams “Introduction” & “Wikinomics” 1-33.
Tapscott & Williams “The Perfect Storm” 34-64.
Cory Doctorow, “How Copyright Broke”

Reading Questions and discussion points:

The following are questions to guide your reading and get you started thinking and writing. Feel free to ignore these questions and explore issues that matter to you.

• How do Tapscott and Williams set up the dichotomy between older (corporate) economic models and those of mass collaboration?
• How can industry and business take advantage of Web 2.0?
• What prevents organizations from taking advantage of the web and mass collaboration?
• How do we redefine or refine the processes of production?
• Tapscott and Wiliams begin the “Perfect Storm” chaper with the challenges to copyright posed by digital reproduction; what are the implications for design art and media and its producers?
• How does creating, sharing and collaborating on the web change our notions of art, artists and artistic work?
• What role does trust play in this new cultural environment?
• Much of what we do on the web is socializing. Socializing becomes collaboration. Collaboration becomes peer production. You are part of this networked generation Tapscott and Wiliams talk about; what examples do you have of this kind of social collaboration?
• What are the implications of tagging and folksonomies? How does this practice create “collective intelligence.” How is this realized in delicious.com?

Lesson 45 – COLD FEET / JUMP IN AND GET ONE’S FEET WET

cold feet

jump in and get your feet wet

一个人在充满信心的时候往往就会无所畏惧，勇往直前。但是，当一个人对某件事感到胆怯的时候，他就会畏缩不前。我们经常可以看到一种情况：有的人对 一件事开始的时候很有信心，很有把握。可是，事到临头就变得没有勇气了。在英文里有一个俗语是用来形容类似情况的，那就是cold feet。 Cold 是冷的意思， feet就是两只脚。 Cold feet 并不是在雪地里走而使你的脚很冷。Cold feet是指临时上场感到胆怯。例如：

例句-1: Peter told his wife that this time he was really going to walk in and demand a pay raise from the boss. But when he arrived at the office, he got cold feet.

这句话翻成中文的意思是：”这个名字叫皮特的丈夫对自己的妻子说，这次他可一定要到他老板的办公室去要求增加工资了。可是，他一到了办公室就感到胆怯，不敢去见他的老板。”

这种临阵脱逃的现象是很经常的。下面我们要举的例子恐怕会引起许多听众的共鸣：

例句-2: I really need to get my teeth fixed, but every time I start to phone the dentist, I think about the sound of that drill and right away I get cold feet.

这个人说：”我实在应该去牙大夫那儿看牙了。但是，每当我拿起电话想和大夫预约的时候，我就好像听到那钻牙的声音，一下子，我就害怕起来了。”

事到临头打退堂鼓，出现cold feet的现象也许是一个弱点，但是在美国成语里，把脚弄湿倒是一件好事。比如说，好些听众都在学英语。这是一种外语，许多初学的人都怕难为情不敢用英语来对话。可是，老师很可能就会劝这些学生: “Jump in and get your feet wet. ” Jump in and get your feet wet这个俗语的意思是：到实践中去学，也可以说是跳到游泳池里学游泳。我们来举一个老师对学生说的话：

例句-3: I know most of you are afraid to embarrass yourselves by trying to speak English after these first few lessons. But that’s the best way to learn: when you meet an American, try a few words — jump in and get your feet wet.

这位老师说：”我知道你们大多数人感到，刚上了几课英语，就用英语来说话很不好意思。不过，当你见到美国人时，你不妨试着说一点。到实践中去学是最好的办法。”

到实践中去学对于任何事来说都是很重要的。下面说话的人就认识到例句 jump in and get your feet wet 的重要性：

例句-4:I want to get into politics so I’m volunteering to put up signs for one of the people running for mayor. I don’t get paid for it but it’s a chance to jump in and get my feet wet.

这个人说：”我希望将来能够到政界去工作，所以我现在在帮一个竞选市长的候选人张贴宣传标语。我帮他做这些事是完全义务的，是没有工资的。但是，这是到实践中去得到一些经验的好机会。”

I am sick =’(

Hey guys

I have been sick since Monday morning

went to see my family doctor on Monday afternoon

and found out I had a fever about 38.8 degree.

I have been staying at home and trying my best to recover

then, I can go school as soon as I can.

I will try my best to the class today

but I will make sure to wear a mask for prevent spreading the flu

How is everyone this week??

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