2007年9月28日星期五
2007年9月24日星期一
中国历史上最牛的月饼
被誉为“史上最牛钉子户” 吴苹和杨武,半年前与开发商苦苦对峙,轰动了境内外,在重庆九龙坡区杨家坪,一个被挖成10米大坑的楼盘地基中央,孤零零地立着一栋二层小楼,犹如大海中的一叶孤舟,给人留下深刻印象。如今孤舟般的小楼早已灰飞烟灭,不过“史上最牛”一词却成了2007年最流行词之一。
云南省巧家县铅厂乡有个赌徒贺天贵,负债累累,竞争上岗,被任命为乡财政所长,上任后继续身陷赌博深渊,他挪用8万多元人民币公款再赌,最终输得精光。无奈之下,他竟然给省长写信,希望省长能借钱给他还赌债。他被称为“史上最牛公务员”。杭州湖滨区域的西子公寓,一套顶楼的全湖景公寓,以四百四十八平方米的建筑面积叫价5000万元人民币,单价为每平方米11.16万元,被称为杭州“史上最牛二手房”……
中秋来临,八月十五的圆月艳丽登场,月饼成了新闻。“史上最牛月饼”出现了。9月9日,沈阳举行“天下第一月——中华圆月分切仪式”,现场邀请两位沈阳市民在“史上最牛月饼”上切开第一刀。动用了100多人制成的这一月饼,被中国工业食品协会授为“特级国饼”,重22.5 吨,如果以1公斤月饼供5人食用计算,“中华圆月”可供11万人食用。据悉,这特大月饼分切后,一部分在沈阳现场销售,一部分送往中国各地。在现场品赏了这一月饼的辽宁电视台晓蕙在电话里对笔者说,月饼的味道太一般了。谁都不会否认,炒菜做饭,小灶总比大锅要精致味美。这巨无霸月饼同样如此,要求色香味俱佳,也免为其难。
一饼未尽又一饼?
一个月前曾听说也是在沈阳举办的首届中国烘焙食品节上,就出现过12.98吨“天下第一月——中华圆月”月饼,创下中国月饼之最,地点一样,月饼名称一样,重量却不一样。笔者不愿去电话沈阳核实两个“天下第一月——中华圆月”月饼是否同一月饼,以免涉嫌加入媒体炒作战团。如果不是同一月饼,那前面那个12.98吨的月饼尚未吃完,怎么又出现一个更大的22.5吨巨无霸。这样巨大月饼,制作难度大,尤其是月饼涂皮难度大,旁边皮要坚固,底层皮要热,上面表层要软,月饼被密封在一个由玻璃墙组成百平方米无菌房间内。无论从哪个角度看,制作这个“中国最大月饼”有何意义,如此劳命伤财,昂贵的烘焙月饼的专门设备,也只是偶尔用用,月饼的保鲜、分切、储藏、运送都不容易解决。
诗人苏东坡有诗云:小饼如嚼月,中有酥与饴。中秋节吃月饼赏月是中华民族的传统习俗。满月形的月饼与十五的圆月一样,象征着大团圆,反映了对家人团聚的美好愿望。人们在节日里,以它祭月,用它赠送亲友,是一种民族心理反映。目前能看到的记载是唐僖宗中秋吃月饼,味道极佳,他听说新科进士的曲江设开喜宴,便命御厨房用红绫包裹月饼赏赐给新科进士们。到了宋代,月饼有“荷叶”、“金花”、“芙蓉”等雅称,其制作方法也更为精致。
不过,当下的中国经济发展,社会转型而人心浮躁,什么东西都容易变味。在闹腾的月饼市场,红酒提子馅月饼、海鲜馅月饼、鲜花馅月饼、螺旋藻蓉月饼、芝士月饼、养颜月饼、熏衣草月饼等馅料新奇的月饼你争我夺而涌向市场,还有商家推出易拉罐装的月饼,彻底颠覆了以往月饼的传统。如果对这些月饼的上市尚能理解,那5880元人民币的“极品鱼翅鲍鱼月饼”、12888元人民币的“天下第一福”礼盒月饼、99999元人民币的“纯金至尊中华圆月”极品月饼,8000元人民币的由纯天然巴林玉石璧和纯银组成的天然宝石月饼……声称奥运与中秋文化结合的“奥运花形金玉、金银纪念章”,采用金镶玉、银镶金工艺,玉石和贵金属多重组合,全球限量发行3400套,含999纯金、纯银的奥运月饼同步上市,正如发行方所言,真是“一改千百年来中国人中秋礼仪的常规”了。
埋金藏银的天价月饼愈演愈烈,打开月饼礼盒,月饼旁置有高尔夫球杆、泰国燕窝、数码照相机、摄像机、五粮液酒、帕克金笔、名牌打火机、高级保健品、瓷瓶花茶……有的月饼不用面粉和馅料,干脆就用黄金打造,有的月饼附赠金卡、金刀叉。更离奇而令人惊叹的是,与一盒月饼“配套” 的100平方米的住房楼契。一块月饼,选料再考究,制作再精细,成本也就几元人民币,市场上普通月饼的销售毛利仅20%上下,豪华月饼的毛利却达百分之几百。该让民俗节庆重新回复清净本色。
2007年9月19日星期三
A GLOBAL OUTLOOK
来自:FT中文网。商业媒体转载请与原媒体联系。
Mostpeople think that if Alan Greenspan were still chairman of the Federal Reserve, the US central bank would have cut interest rates more quickly and aggressively in response to the turmoil in financial markets.
Not so, Mr Greenspan says. Over the course of three hours of interviews in his office on Washington, DC's Connecticut Avenue, the former Fed chairman argues that times have changed.
"We are in a period now when it is far more difficult than it was when I was chairman," Mr Greenspan says. "We were not worried about inflationary resurgence but now you have to be." He adds: "You have got to be a lot more careful in lowering rates in response to crises."
Mr Greenspan's analysis puts him at odds with those - including Martin Feldstein, the influential president of the National Bureau of Economic Research - who argue that the Fed should cut rates aggressively on the grounds that making a mistake on inflation (as opposed to growth) would be the "lesser of two evils" at this juncture.
The former Fed chairman does not share this assessment of the balance of risks. "I weigh them differently," he says.
Mr Greenspan - who is revered in the market for his aggressive handling of past market crises - praises his successor Ben Bernanke's so-far cautious response to this one. "I would be hard-pressed to see what I would have done differently," he says.
The former Fed chairman is at once candid and slightly uncomfortable about commenting on current monetary policy debates. "I figured that there is no way to maintain what I have been doing and not comment on monetary policy, because I did so effectively - implicitly - in the book."
Mr Greenspan says: "I am basically saying that the trade-off between unemployment and inflation has shifted."
There are two planks to his argument. The less controversial one is that the US is entering a period of more subdued productivity growth. The former Fed chairman says companies would not be returning vast amounts of cash to their shareholders if they saw good opportunities for productivity-enhancing investment. "Innovation opportunities are, for the time being, somewhatsaturated, whereas they were extraordinary in the 1990s," he says.
The more controversial one is that the disinflationary effect of globalisation will soon start to ebb. "The rate of change of prices - or the degree of disinflation - is related to the rate of change of globalisation," he argues.
The integration of a billion workers from the once centrally-planned economies of China and the former Soviet bloc into the global market system had a profoundly disinflationary effect on prices worldwide. But once all these workers are connected to the world economy, he says, "the rate of change goes to zero."
"In the intermediate period, the disinflationary pressures I was fortunate to operate under are gradually disappearing."
Mr Greenspan is unimpressed by the rejoinder that inflation expectations look to be quite firmly anchored at low rates. "It is going to change," he says, fixing the interviewer through his trademark thick black-rimmed glasses.
Underlying cost pressures are beginning to increase. He also sees oil going to $100 a barrel and worries about rising deficits driven by entitlement spending as America and the rest of the rich world ages. "In that environment, inflation expectations will rise," he says, without the need for the Fed to make a policy mistake first.
Many economists contest Mr Greenspan's version of the relationship between globalisation and inflation. But in some respects his precise formulation of this relationship is less important than his deep conviction that it is no longer possible to understand how the US economy operates without seeing it as part of a global economic system that is undergoing profound transformation. "The issue is that the global forces are profoundly overwhelming," he says. "We cannot make a forecast for the US economy the way we used to."
This global analysis lies at the heart of his explanation of what caused the housing bubble that emerged during his watch as Fed chief. Mr Greenspan says the housing bubble was "fundamentally engendered by the decline in real long-term interest rates" caused by a cascade of surplus savings from fast-growing emerging market economies such as China. The fall in long-term rates provided the initial gain in house prices that unleashed later speculative activity. He blames human nature - though he talks about "euphoria" rather than "greed".
To his critics, who argue that the Fed fuelled the bubble by keeping interest rates too low for too long in the early 2000s, this is an exercise in passing the buck. But to Mr Greenspan, theirs is a parochial explanation that greatly exaggerates the Fed's power in a world of globally integrated capital markets.
When the Fed raised rates in 2004 and 2005, he points out, long-term rates went down rather than up. "We were pushing against something we could not control," he says. Long-term rates were "being determined external to monetary policy" by shifts in the global balance of desired savings and investment.
Critics say the Fed should have tried harder, raising rates sooner and faster. Mr Greenspan counters that that would not have been acceptable "to the political establishment" given the very low rate of inflation. He says "the presumption that we were fully independent and have full discretion was false."
But he says that even if the Fed had moved to raise rates more aggressively "we would have failed as miserably in trying to get the long-term rate up or the mortgage rate up as we failed in 2004."
2007年9月18日星期二
Beijing plays down Olympic smog fears
且让我们拭目以待。
Beijing plays down Olympic smog fears
from:FT中文网 ,版权原媒体所有,商业媒体请勿转载。Chinahas no plans to order factories in and around Beijing to suspend operations during next year's Olympic Games, despite widespread concerns about the effect of air pollution on athletes.
In an interview with the Financial Times, Liu Qi, Beijing Communist party chief and head of the Olympic organising committee, waved aside worries that bad air could mar a sporting event in which the government has invested enormous political capital.
“We are completely confident that Olympic athletes will be able to take part in their competitions normally next August,” Mr Liu said.
With analysts reporting that concentrations of fine particulates and ozone often hit unsafe levels in Beijing in summer, it had been widely assumed that China would order some companies in the city and nearby provinces to close or cut back production during the event.
However, Mr Liu said while regional governments were co-operating with efforts to combat air pollution, the focus was on implementing existing environmental rules rather than on temporary measures.
“The main thing is to strengthen factories' management of gases and reduce emissions of pollutants,” said Mr Liu, one of 23 members of the Chinese Communist party's politburo. “We have not made any demand for suspensions of operations.”
His comments are Beijing's most direct response yet to speculation about how it will handle an issue that has threatened to overshadow its otherwise smooth Olympic preparations.
Last month, celebrations to mark one year to go to the August 8 2008 opening of the Games were clouded by warnings from Jacques Rogge, president of the International Olympic Committee, that bad air could force changes to the timing of some outdoor events.
But Mr Liu said trials last month of measures to reduce emissions had gone well, with air pollution falling about 20 per cent in the city. The measures have included removing 1.3m cars from the streets, the suspension of earth-moving work and bans on some types of heavily polluting vehicles.
2007年9月17日星期一
反正也不能登陆了,那就猖狂吧!
包括blogspot。
我在这里建站不是很久,但是却被告知不能登录首页。
真是TNND!
但是要知道,中国人民的智力水平是很高很高的,是很伟大的,是不会被困难打到的。中国人民忍受了太久的屈辱和无奈,遭遇了太多的不幸与悲哀,承受中众多苦楚与忍痛,所以她们才会发明最伟大的工具,使得我们躲过封锁,取得最后的胜利。
同志们,你们看到天安门城楼上的毛主席了吗?他说,中华人民共和国,于今日成立了!
让我们拭目以待。
反正blogspot的老窝也是上不去了,索性就在这里猖狂吧。
还好,利用了gladder的插件的火狐还是能上……
2007年9月10日星期一
《电脑毛泽东字体》作者发表公开道歉书
当然,如果我在这里大谈毛笔书法,那简直是不懂装懂。但是这不能否认我认为毛体字很有韵味。所在在《草檀斋毛泽东字体》发布之后,我比较迅速的下载并开始尝试使用。觉的还不错,不过并没有想到过侵权的问题。
网络创意一直以来都存在一个盲点,就是版权问题。目前在全球都在密切关注网络版权问题的时候,我认为实在应该有一个明显的界定,到底什么才是侵权。比如此次的字体事件。
应该说,此次禚效锋先生所开发出来的字体,没有用于商业用途,没有用于违法方面,也不是对故人的不敬,就像有的网友所说的:“毛主席又不在了,那些协会怎么知道毛主席愿不愿意把自己的字体流芳啊。”
所以,当道歉信发布之后,我觉得很是无奈。只好按照要求,将电脑里的字体给删除了。而且我所设计的“远离博客,珍爱健康”的标识,也是毛体字,也得一并删除。本来很有意思的意见事情,最后搞成这个样子,是在是有点无奈和遗憾。
《电脑毛泽东字体》作者发表公开道歉书
经上海中汇律师事务所知识产权律师游云庭友情提供法律支持,《电脑毛泽东字体》(以下简称“字”)测试版,属于侵权行为,虽然免费提供给网友试用,但没有毛主席亲自授权或由后人授权开发研究,已造成实际侵权行为。经过字体开者本人考虑再三,决定现向全国网民发表公开声明,并向毛泽东亲人公开道歉。
一、《字》测试版,属于个人研究行为,对于已经于网络上发布的测试版(2007年08月15日起发布),本人已全部取消下载(2007年08月25日停止所有下载链接),并停止对其升级等等后期研究。网民已经下载的字体文件,请自行删除,不得随意传播。
二、新闻中记者的”申请专利“之词,属于记者的杜撰,本人毫无申请专利之想。
三、《字》测试版,与毛泽东书法作品实际笔迹存在差异,任何人不得随意在不适合的场合使用该字体,电脑字体的显示效果不能等于书法原作。
四、本人所做的关于《字》研究行为,现已全面终止,并清除所有关于《字》的数据资料。并保证以后不对《字》进行研究。
五、 《字》测试版中目前已发现三处显示错误,“玉”字误为“主”,“哺”字误为“补”,“补”字误为“哺”。对于6700余字存在这个错误,作为测试版,是不 可避免的。希望网友不要以讹传讹,有错误的字体测试版,请自行删除。(删除方法:打开“控制面板”,找到“字体”文件夹,选择名称为” maozedong.ttf“的字体文件,直接删除即可) 六、本人希望所有网民,终止使用《字》测试版,尽快删除《字》测试版,并严禁在网络上传播。对于网络上非由字体作者本人发布的下载与链接,本人无法进行有关操作,请有关发布转载者立即停止转载。
《字》开发者本人由于缺少法律知识造成的侵权行为,本人深感内疚,更是愧对于毛泽东及其后人,在此本人向毛泽东及其后人公开道歉,表示深深的歉意!
淘宝打败易趣,阿里妈妈能否打败AdWords?
如果把AdWords比作大象,阿里妈妈真的好像是蚂蚁。AdWords拥有全世界的网站、博客、论坛为其推广,背后依靠的是互联网世界里最受瞩目的巨头,google;而阿里妈妈虽然背后有阿里巴巴这棵大树,但是她毕竟是刚刚起步。
不过刚刚起步的阿里妈妈似乎与其他的网络广告推广服务走的路线不同。目前在国内,网络 推广商都是在向广告主收费,也就是说,如果你想在我的加盟网站上做广告,那你就付我费用,然后我再去付加盟网站费用。对于广告商来说,由于关键词得多少等因素,其需要缴纳的费用不同。但是对于加盟网站来说,相应的点击收到的广告费用却是一样的。比如做adsense推广,新华网一次的点击收到的费用和大白菜一次的费用大体是相当的。
而阿里妈妈则不同。她首先让加盟网站对自己的网站发布广告收费标准,你觉得你的网站广告价值大,你大可以设定一亿欧元/每周,广告商按照你的网站综合考虑是否投放。一旦广告商决定购买你的广告位,他就要通过阿里妈妈付给你相应的费用,而此时,阿里妈妈则从你的广告费中扣除一部分作为她的佣金。
当初淘宝和ebay易趣拼杀市场,易趣坚持在欧美等地的收费模式,而淘宝则完全免费,最终他抢夺了易趣大部分份额。
而在众多网络推广商都在对用户免费的时候,他却另辟蹊径开出向加盟广告收费的模式。真是有点凶多吉少。
因为这样以来,对于其他的广告推广来说,她对于加盟网站的吸引力相对就差一些。而如果没有更多的网站加盟,那么其广告效果也就相对要差。
那是不是对于网站主来说,做阿里妈妈比做google adsense要好呢?著名博客和菜头说他的博客上投放阿里妈妈广告一个月才有10块钱。虽然我不知道他投放adsense的收入,但是绝对要比这个高。
如此一来,阿里妈妈在加盟网站主数量上,拼不过其他推广商,进而其网络推广效果相对就差。推广效果差,又怎么能吸引到广告商投放广告呢?
看来,我的确问了一个好笑的问题。