Occasional Observations on Chinese Online Media and Other Topics
Posted in Blogosphere, Realm of Thought on Nov 30th, 2008
Trying to understand Zuola’s old and new roles as citizen reporter or network engineer, we should consult another important contributor to CNBloggerCon, the Hongkong-based Sino-American Roland Soong. Unfortunately, Soong had to cancel his trip to the conference for private reasons, so he published his announced talk on his blog, the legendary EastSouthWestNorth.
Soong is one of […]
Posted in Blogosphere, Market, Realm of Thought on Oct 8th, 2008
China’s Internet community is ablaze these days with the Social Networking phenomenon. Whereas the Facebook hype seems to finally deflate (at least according my own subjective observations), the Chinese have just discovered the joys of six degrees social graphs and buddy functionality. Big portal providers and bloghosters like Blogbus are adding SNS features to their […]
Posted in Realm of Thought on Mar 7th, 2008
“China’s New Intelligentsia”, this month’s Prospect title story by Mark Leonard, provides for some highly fascinating reading. Even though Leonard does not cash in its headline’s ambitious promise, he quite efficiently places the thought of some Chinese intellectuals into the context of The Middle Empire’s recent internal and external actions and development.
In my eyes the […]
Posted in Realm of Thought on Dec 26th, 2007
“You westerners take copyright issues far too serious. The web is not about intellectual property, it’s all about spreading ideas!”
(A Chinese ideasmith, in conversation)
(… and I couldn’t agree more!)