从“平水韵”到《中华通韵》——许俊梁先生新作《中华通韵》读后

前些日子，临汾市诗词学会副会长许俊梁先生送给我一本他的新作《中华通韵》（上海文化出版社2012年出版，下称《通韵》）。这是“平水韵”发布790年后的今天，平水（临汾）人写的又一部韵书，我甚感惊喜。开卷展读，头脑里产生了一连串关于诗、韵的想法：诗文与音韵有什么关系？“平水韵”在诗词史上是什么地位？《中华通韵》好在哪里？诗词如何实现复兴之梦？等等。     

摩天大楼：欲与天公试比高

2010年1月4日，总高828米的中东迪拜塔（落成后改名为哈利发塔）正式对外开放，一下子比原先的世界第一高楼“台北一零一”高了320米之多，这是人类开始兴建摩天大楼以来，高度拔升最快最多的一次。     

做好国家财产的“看门狗”

2004年的第一场“审计风暴”,让中国的老百姓高兴了些时日。人们至今还记得掀起风暴的主角国家审计署长李金华的“豪言壮语”:“我们是国家财产的‘看门狗”’。科学勇士赫胥黎,为捍卫达尔文学说,高傲地宣称“我是达尔文的斗犬!”这两个以“犬”自喻的故事,有异曲同工之妙, 令人肃然起敬。     

“朱镕基热”：重启改革的期望

《南方都市报·评论周刊》日前发表王秀宁的文章说，9月8日，《朱镕基讲话实录》一书在全国各大书店统一上市。这是继2009年推出《朱镕基答记者问》一书之后，人民出版社所推出的又一本记录这位个性鲜明的前任总理执政言论的重磅之作。     

中国网游盛世背后的隐忧

有“互联网女王”之称的摩根士丹利董事总经理兼全球科技研究主管玛丽·米克（Mary Meeker）在2007年12月的北京之行中出言盛赞，称“中国的网络游戏全球领先”。     

贝塔咖啡：相逢何必曾相识？

欢迎来到“互联网咖啡时代”!IT人开咖啡店确实很潮，大家明知道这里没钱赚，却前赴后继愣是往里；中。2009年正月十五，白鸦及其“同僚们”经过多次密谋，为IT人做了个贡献——他们跨界开了一家咖啡厅，用来作IT人的公共客厅和厨房。最早大家想叫“奥巴牛咖啡吧”，后因一些众所周知的原因被驳回，于是起了BetaCafe（贝塔咖啡）这个名字。     

“贵州交通云”建设思考

当前，贵州省交通基础建设正在如火如荼地进行，联络境内备县和邻省主要出口的高速公路网络可望2015年基本建成，届时全省公路路网结构将呈现一个巨大的质变。为了在此基础上以信息化促进贵州I现代交通运输业的全面发展，贵州省提出了建设“贵州交通云”的重大任务，这是除高速公路、国省干线、县乡公路、水运发展等建设任务之外贵州交通运输行业要做的“第五件大事”。本文就“贵州交通云”建设的一些重要问题作了初步探讨。     

“公共委”：建设服务型政府的创新之举

“科学泰斗，晶体动力学，英名誉中外；学海宗师，半导体物理，师表惠后学。”这幅挽联是黄昆院士一生的高度凝缩。黄先生的一生，“科研育人双辉煌”，“治学为人堪为师表”，作学问坚持“从第一原理出发”，干事业着眼“放手培育新人”，生活中“一向淡泊名利”……一件小事让人终生难忘：1955年先生已是中科院院士，理应拿薪300多元，先生见一位同事只拿50多元，他说，“我要吸烟，比你多拿6元钱，其余都交党费。”     

综管系统:构建高速公路的ERP--"宁沪高速公路综合信息管理系统"规划及实施方案介绍(下)

今年第五期我们刊登了《综管系统：构建高速公路的ERP--“宁沪高速公路综合信息管理系统”规划及实施方案介绍（上）》，介绍了江苏宁沪高速公路股份有限公司“综合信息管理系统”（以下简称综管系统）”的建设背景建设目标，建设内容及系统框架等内容，这一期我们刊登下半部分，主要介绍这一系统的“技术路线，关键技术研究和环境建设”及“总体实施规划”。     

寄语艺术中关村

《中关村》办“艺术中关村”，好!于友先（中国出版工作者协会主席、国家新闻出版署原署长、全国政协教科文体委员会副主任）我与《中关村》杂志结缘有六个年头了。令我高兴的是创刊之初拟定的办刊宗旨“新经济、新技术、新文化”，至今仍然富有新意，成为时代的主旋律。这些年来，因为工作之需，     

诗歌壮志 书画寄情——海淀建区60周年诗书画展掠影

六十景黑白浓淡,海淀的艺术家们挥毫泼墨,诗歌壮志,书画寄情,衷心赞美海淀的灵山秀水,热情抒发海淀儿女拼搏进取敢为人先的豪迈壮志。     

“痴”与“才”：追怀周汝昌先生

周汝昌先生不光痴迷和专注,而且有磅礴的才情,＂痴＂与＂才＂就是周先生的灵魂。     

徐诚悦：80后新温商

近来,有关温州老板弃厂“跑路”的新闻,成了公众议论的焦点。在这场危机面前,“温州模式”是否还能维持其优势？这是摆在温州企业家尤其是80后新生代企业家面前的不可回避的问题。     

大唐电信：赢在平台

在金融与安全产业、移动互联网产业方面,大唐电信将在现有基础上,取得行业领先地位,并在细分领域成为主流供应商;在物联网和三网融合产业方面,大唐电信的业务将遍地开花,用＂大终端＋大服务＂的整体解决方案全面迎接智慧城市、智能商业中心等各种大规模行业应用时代的到来。     

A Statistical Analysis Between Consumer Behavior and a Social Network Service: A Case Study of Used-Car Demand Following the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami of 2011

When a large-scale disaster hits a community, especially a water-related disaster, there is a scarcity of automobiles and a sudden increase in the demand for used cars in the damaged areas. This paper conducts a case study of a recent massive natural disaster, the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami of 2011 to understand those car scarcities and demand in the aftermath of the catastrophe. We analyze the reasons for the increase in demand for used cars and how social media can predict people’s demand for used automobiles. In other words, this paper explores whether social media data can be used as a sensor of socio-economic recovery status in damaged areas during large-scale water-related disaster-recovery phases. For this purpose, we use social media communication as a proxy for estimating indicators of people’s activities in the real world. This study conducts both qualitative analysis and quantitative analysis. For the qualitative research, we carry out semi-structured interviews with used-car dealers in the tsunami-stricken area and unveil why people in the area demanded used cars. For the quantitative analysis, we collected Facebook page communication data and used-car market data before and after the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami of 2011. By combining and analyzing these two types of data, we find that social media communication correlates with people’s activities in the real world. Furthermore, this study suggests that different types of communication on social media have different types of correlations with people’s activities. More precisely, we find that social media communication related to people’s activities for rebuilding and for emotional support is positively correlated with the demand for used cars after the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami. On the other hand, communication about anxiety and information seeking correlates negatively with the demand for used cars.     

A New Type of Computer Premium and Its Correlation to Individual Wages

This paper examines statistical correlations between workers?? income levels or wages, and Information and Communication Technology (ICT). The analyzed data set is micro data collected through the Web in 2008 and 2010 by the Research Institute for Socionetwork Strategies. This micro data estimates the rank correlation of income classes with respect to three types of ICT labor service. Next, multiple linear regression functions are estimated for the wage levels with respect to age, sex, years of continuous employment, and three types of ICT labor service over all industries and in the manufacturing industry or service industry. Finally, a multiple regression analysis is conducted for individual utility levels with respect to income, leisure, and three types of ICT labor service. The results show that, first, the coefficients of rank correlation for all pooled data are positive and statistically significant. Second, individual ICT labor services have positive effects on workers?? wage levels, and the partial regression coefficients are statistically significant. Third, the partial regression coefficient of personal computer operation time decreased but the partial regression coefficient of mobile computer operation time related to work increased drastically from 2008 to 2010. Fourth, the use of the personal and mobile computer shifts the utility function upward with respect to income and leisure.     

The Future of Socionetwork Strategies

In the first stage of creating technological improvements for a democratic society, the leaders of the Society of Socionetwork Strategies have conducted statistical research on the effect of information and communication technology on the global economy. In the second stage, younger professors, based on their Positive Studies, have leapt into a multi-agent simulation of Grid Computing. In the third stage, a terra-bite scale of social data-collecting and the mining of large-scale data in our real world will be next. The next generation of scientists will share knowledge and intellectual inquiry in the fields of statistics, mathematics, and the social sciences with the help of computers connecting such scholars from all over the world.     

A Pricing Strategy with Consumption Externality when the Reference Group is Large

This paper provides an analysis of firms’ optimal prices when individual utility exhibits both material and other consumer effects. We construct a model and conduct an analysis in the following four steps: (1) By using a conjoint analysis of data, we set up a hierarchical Bayesian model and estimate its parameters, which are composed of individual utility functions. (2) We calculate the number of sales in each time period and derive the total sales throughout the given period. (3) We estimate the demand functions in the presence and absence of consumption externalities. (4) Finally, we calculate the profit functions and derive the optimal prices taking into account various product attributes. By applying our analysis to the book market of Japan, we find that the optimal price is lower when an externality is present than when absent. The intuition behind this result is that pricing low and selling a large number of books from an early stage increases the externality effect, yielding a higher profit for firms.     

Facebook Content Strategies and Citizens’ Online Engagement: The Case of Greek Local Governments

This paper analyzes the communication strategies used by Greek local governments through the utilization of Web 2.0 technologies, specifically Facebook, and the effectiveness of these strategies in relation to citizens’ online engagement. More specifically, it examines Facebook communication strategies and levels of citizens’ engagement. For this purpose, we conducted a content analysis on the active and official Facebook pages of local municipalities in Greece from January 2017 until the end of September 2017. Our results suggest a rise in the percentage of active Facebook pages maintained by local governments in comparison to our 2014 study. Our results also show that local governments in Greece are using Facebook in a predominantly top-down manner to promote events organized by the municipality and to push one-way information to citizens about their services and actions. Local authorities have, however, made significant progress in relation to posts that support transparency and accountability and that enhance or mobilize citizens’ participation. Our evaluation of local government Facebook strategies indicates that marketing the municipality to external public, such as tourists, and providing information about services are effective strategies that drive citizens’ online attitude expression (liking), engagement (commenting), and advocacy behavior (sharing). According to our analysis, local governments in Greece prefer the strategies that we found to be the least engaging. In addition, our study provides interesting details of how specific characteristics and modes of Facebook messages (photos, videos, URLs, hashtags, and mentions) impact on citizens’ engagement. Finally, our results provide valuable insights for social media managers in local government who aim to increase the impact of their municipal Facebook pages.     

The Role of Cross-Border Networks of Skilled Labor in Offshore Outsourcing: Empirical Evidence Based on the Network Theory

This study investigates the determinant role of the cross-border movement of skilled labor in the expansion of service trade between the US, and both developed and developing countries. For this purpose, we employ the key concepts of network theory as an analytical framework and conduct panel data analysis and graphical modeling analysis for 31 countries from 1999 to 2008. In this decade, offshore outsourcing in the service trade took off worldwide. We use data for each country’s service exports to the US, number of H-1B visas issued, GNI per-capita, network readiness index, and an English dummy for the official language. We illustrate the trajectory and interactions between these factors. These analyses yield three observations. First, service trade with the US is more intensive among higher income countries. Second, the number of H-1B visas issued has a positive effect on service exports to the US. Third, individuals in lower income countries tend to desire H-1B visas and create intensive skilled labor networks with the US, the path through which developing countries such as India expanded their service exports to the US.