Involver Social Application and Olympic Documentary Join Forces
Discovery Channel Director and Producer Siok Siok Tan has made her Boomtown Beijing Documentary available to us… It is great News! Click on the video buttons above or head to the first of two...
View ArticleChinese Twitter and the #080808 Twolympics
A 4th year Chinese student in IT dropped by today and laughed at me spending as much time delighted by news appearing on my i-Phone as on the television. It took a long time to explain to someone, who...
View ArticleChina Bloggercon I
I have spent the last two days at China’s Bloggercon. Hundreds joined the community for lectures by Web devotees from Asia, Europe and the Americas. HKU professor of Journalism Rebecca Mackinnon...
View ArticleTwitteronandonandon: A Twelve Step Program for Compulsive Micro-Bloggers
I happened to see a note twish by me the other day by one of the new young guns in the China Blogosphere. He expressed concern that if he engaged in a ridiculously fun and multicultural exchange about...
View ArticleSocial Media Leadership: It profits a man nothing….
They opened a pawnshop near my apartment building this week. I had an immediate visceral reaction to the sign that gives them what I think to be only the illusion of mercantile legitimacy. I have...
View ArticleAdTech, AdGate and Blue Collar Blogging
Returning in the plane from the AdTech conference in Shanghai I remarked to a colleague that I thought blogger, author and social media icon Shel Israel to be a wonderful writer. My associate replied...
View ArticleBlue Feather Tweeters
Forget all the incestuous top Tweeter lists, the rankings of the most re-tweeted, the scores for the most influential, the “find a MLM spammer to add to your follower cool twitter application” lists...
View ArticleA day in the life
“Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.” -Bill Moyers I am glad to be back writing again after a long hiatus….This is not a regular fare for those of you who have read me in the...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to the #140conf
Jeff, I hope this finds you well and not too overwhelmed by the hundreds of nominations folks have sent in for the #140conf –especially after your carb-laden drive back from IHOP today and what was...
View ArticleTurning Hashtags into Plowshares
There were “Nine Black Categories” during the Cultural Revolution: Landlords, rich farmers, anti-revolutionaries, bad influences (the catch-all available in any culture), right-wingers, traitors,...
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