2010-04-17
2010-03-20
2010-02-07
Van Gogh Exhibition「燃燒的靈魂‧梵谷」特展
The tickets are sold by choosing not only a particular date but also a time period of entering-morning, afternoon or evening. The purpose seems to control the number of visiting people for fear of crowding and it really saved our queuing time.
Based on Vincent's(1853-1890) route to artistic creation, the exhibition space is divided into seven areas with the time phases-Borinage, Etten, Hague, Nuenen, Paris, South of France (Arles and Saint-Remy) and Auvers-sur-Oise with 77 drawings and 21 oil paintings. Before we get to see those masterpieces, a person who should be respected first is Theodorus, Vincent's younger brother. Without his support to Vincent's living, Vincent could not have finished so many artworks. He was a great man for cherishing the brotherliness and appreciating his brother's talent. The reason why I admire Vincent very much is he had the courage to start the interest as his career although he was already 27 years old at that time. About his love sotry, it is a pity that he had not met his true love in his whole life. Love is always the energy for people to move on especially for very lonely people like him.
Back to our visit, Jessica and I looked over all the art pieces though my favorites-the starry night-is not showned. Both of us thinks it's still a very valuable opportunity as this is the very first time that Kroller-Muller Museum in Netherlands shared those artworks to Taiwan. Still, I hope I'll have the chance to Netherlands, France or New York to visit the museums for other famous masterpieces in the near future.
2010-01-31
my school life in 2009

2009-12-26
Web 2.0 Marketing
To start with the difference between 1.0 and 2.0 some people are curious about, here I quote Joe Drumgoole's a little comparative analysis:
- Web 1.0 was about reading, Web 2.0 is about writing
- Web 1.0 was about companies, Web 2.0 is about communities
- Web 1.0 was about client-server, Web 2.0 is about peer to peer
- Web 1.0 was about HTML, Web 2.0 is about XML
- Web 1.0 was about home pages, Web 2.0 is about blogs
- Web 1.0 was about portals, Web 2.0 is about RSS
- Web 1.0 was about taxonomy, Web 2.0 is about tags
- Web 1.0 was about wires, Web 2.0 is about wireless
- Web 1.0 was about owning, Web 2.0 is about sharing
- Web 1.0 was about IPOs, Web 2.0 is about trade sales
- Web 1.0 was about Netscape, Web 2.0 is about Google
- Web 1.0 was about web forms, Web 2.0 is about web applications
- Web 1.0 was about screen scraping, Web 2.0 is about APIs
- Web 1.0 was about dialup, Web 2.0 is about broadband
- Web 1.0 was about hardware costs, Web 2.0 is about bandwidth costs

Then, what is metadata? Metadata is "data about data" and can be text, voice, or image that describes what the audience wants or needs to see or experience. Metadata is important because it aids in clarifying and finding the actual data. (from wiki)
E.g. Metadata that document data about data elements or attributes, (name, size, data type, etc) and data about records or data structures (length, fields, columns, etc) and data about data (where it is located, how it is associated, ownership, etc.). Metadata may include descriptive information about the context, quality and condition, or characteristics of the data.
The most important issue here is does meta help your ranking in web marketing? Some people give postive answers while some say no. However, Google do recommend using Meta description tage. I did not have any concepts of meta until one of my team members in Marketing recommended making use of it to raise the ranking of IMBA of NTHU. To summarize, from my understanding, Goolge will use Meta information as associated keywords to search for the required relevant resources and it aids the ranking.
2009-10-24
梵谷星月夜

去年開始心中就一直有個幻想,想說一定要有這麼一次飛到荷蘭、法國追隨Vincent足跡來趟藝術巡禮。
而今年12月中開始至3月底歷史博物館即將展出「燃燒的靈魂.梵谷」特展!雖然沒有我最愛的星月夜,但還是真的很興奮。無論如何都一定要去看展~真的太開心啦!
有興趣的朋友可以參考官網:http://vangogh.ishow.gmg.tw/meet.html
一起來去吧 :)