年少轻狂，幸福时光。

It's been a long time since I posted my last entry. Such a result was like a complication of several inter-related causes: schoolwork, fanfou/twitter era and the national internet block. Busy preparing for the final may not be a good-enough plea. When I wrapped myself up in books, it was a simple world away from others' unrest, in which I only care for my own anxiety. Then, a glimpse of the updates on Fanfou or twitter reveals a terrifying picture that haunts me of why people are still calmly living the routine without ever worrying about losing the freedom (or, never getting it). Watching public speech on how twitter can make history and reading TIME's cover story on how twitter will change the way we live thrilled me to be a part of that picture.

Quote (Steven Johnson): Earlier this year I attended a daylong conference in Manhattan devoted to education reform. Twenty years ago, the ideas exchanged in that conversation would have been confined to the minds of the participants. Ten years ago, a transcript might have been published weeks or months later on the Web. Five years ago, a handful of participants might have blogged about their experiences after the fact. But this event was happening in 2009, so trailing behind the real-time, real-world conversation was an equally real-time conversation on Twitter."

I've also been unintentionally pushed forward by the surge. API softwares saw me blurting out several 140-word tweets every day instead of integrating them into one blog. During the past three years that I've been touched by Web 2.0, I first found Douban a great platform to exchange appreciation of the cultural products. Then it was the Douban Recommandation applications that impressed me of the idea of sharing. Afterwards comes the RSS subscription enabling me to get all the concerned information within a breakfast break. Now, all of these can be replaced or improved by the innovation of Twitter. That's why, in face of a more restricted internet environment here, I see a bleak future of Twitter-alike form of communication surviving in China. The Ministry of Truth have already started accusing Twitter of  inciting protests in Iran. It wouldn't take long till they treat Twitter with the same excuse as with Google. This exam week ended with an oral test topic on Green Dam Project. Can I see this as a sign of hope that awareness have been aroused and hopefully a favorable turn can be created or at least people are beginning to learn how to break the wall?