在報導選舉時，媒體常用以縣市的行政區域來說明『北藍南綠』(藍指國民黨親民黨，綠指民進黨台聯黨)的政治支持版塊，個人覺得常會有不良的誤導之嫌，……讓我們在報導及討論選情及選舉結果時，回歸基本民主的數人頭而不是封建插旗子的打天下。 Continue reading →

Though I have argued elsewhere that geo-linguistic analysis matters to understand the inter-linking dynamics of the World-wide Web, it is often overlooked by skeptics who believe that the World-Wide Web will be eventually dominated either by English and Chinese language. The recent news events that Google plans its very first Asian data centers in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore, and Baidu just got Beijing’s approval to test the overseas market in Thai-speaking and Arabic-speaking worlds, should provide some indications that geo-linguistic factors matter. Geo-linguistic factors matter not only to understand the dynamics of Internet, but also shift the dynamics of Internet. Continue reading →

Data is data. Period?   Both of the maps above visualize the 2008 US presidential election results by coloring each county with different colors: red for the Republican candidate John McCain, and blue for the Democratic candidate Barack Obama. Which … Continue reading →