The Global Twestival, celebration of Twitter, is coming to Hong Kong and I am very pleased to say it is supporting the FCC Charity Fund. A great scholarship and language training program that I have been involved with for 7 years. Here’s the details: Following the success of the first global Twestival on 12th February,

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It is now fully confirmed that the Charlie Daniels Band will be coming out to Hong Kong for a charity concert on Saturday, September 19! This is a blatant promotion for the Foreign Correspondents’ Club Charity Ball, the best charity event in Hong Kong. This is our 8th ball and so far we have raised

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For anyone interested in going digital, Hong Kong University is offering a series on workshops this summer. The HKU program has uber-blogger Rebecca MacKinnon on staff and offers some excellent digital classes. Diane Stormont will be teaching the online skills training and Rob McBride will be teaching the course on digital storytelling. Here’s the summer’s

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It gives me great pleasure to announce that Marko Ahtisaari will be in Hong Kong tomorrow appearing at an event to discuss Dopplr, his start-up Web 2.0 travel service. Well beyond Dopplr, the philosophy professor-turned Web 2.0-er has long been at the leading edge of thinking about digital. Marko Ahtisaari has worked previously as Director

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This Saturday I will have the pleasure of moderating a great design-focused event in Hong Kong: HKDUG’s Nicholas Wang is proud to have the opportunity to gather two leading luminaries of Asian design to share their experiences with you. Kohei Nishiyama, founder of the Tokyo-based online design company cuusoo.com and Douglas Young, founder of Hong

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Amy Ma, food writer for the South China Morning Post, recently interviewed me about Hong Kong’s food scene. I’m not sure what Amy expected, but as Amy’s story reflects (it is behind the SCMP firewall), I went into a bit of a rant about the Disney-fied restaurants that afflict Hong Kong. So many Hong Kong

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At yesterday’s WordCamp in Hong Kong I had the pleasure of interviewing WordPress.com founder Matt Mullenweg about blogs, blogging and how he came to found one of the world’s largest blog-hosting companies. (WordPress.org is the open source blog and WordPress.com is one of Matt’s companies) While it was difficult to take notes while interviewing Matt,

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Normandy Madden reports about media and marketing developments in Greater China as a foreign correspondent and Asia Editor for the New York-based Ad Age Group. Normandy bases herself in the tranquillity of outlying Hong Kong village Shek O with her husband, voice-over artist Reuben M. Her passion for photography and travel is showcased on her

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When I heard Matt Mullenweg would be passing through Hong Kong, I immediately urged him to speak to a broader audience than the Internet crowd. The result is this American Chamber of Commerce luncheon that I will moderate on April 7. In case you have never heard of Matt, he was recently named alongside Steve

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