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Gold Medal Photoshopping
Photoshop contest website Worth1000 has a competition to create the most dangerous Olympic sports. h/t:TrendHunter...
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Open Web Asia ‘08 Conference in Korea
Thanks to Mobinode just came across a new conference coming up in October in Korea. Looks like an interesting program with a few friends appearing - Andreas and Loic - I wish them all luck! The detail...
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Rebecca MacKinnon: China’s Newly Subtle Internet Censorship
Rebecca MacKinnon writes in today's Wall Street Journal and in her blog on her recent research showing how - despite China's assurances to open up the Internet during the Olympics - censorship continu...
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Don’t email Thailand
Bangkok Post reports on a Thai Internet and email crackdown involving a law that requires data retention for up to 90 days. Want privacy? Don't email Thailand! (That said, they don't offer much compar...
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Netidentity Email Outage: 19 Hours and Counting
I apologize to anyone trying to send me emails, but the company I pay for email service suddenly shut down without warning. Please switch over to my Gmail address (It is my name.surname @ gmail dot c...
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Lau Kin-Wai: Decline of Chinese Cuisine Since the 1950s
Lau Kin-Wai, a well-known Hong Kong chef and restaurateur, laments in this video that the pace of cooking in modern-day China has destroyed the country's cuisine. Kin, who shuns use of MSG and ...
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Opening On Steroids: Fake Fireworks, Mimed Singing
_This list of Zhang Yimou's "Performance Enhancing" techniques to achieve that dazzling Olympics opening ceremony keeps growing. China lawyer Liu Xiao Yuan considers suing (Someone care translate it?)...
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David Brooks: China Collectivism trumps US Individualism
After witnessing the Olympic opening ceremony, David Brooks has a column in today\'s New York Times concluding that China's collectivism will trump US individualism. In addition to what he saw at the ...
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Jeremy Goldkorn and Danwei exposed
_Roland Soong translates Southern Weekend's story detailing Jeremy Goldkorn's travails in running Danwei.org, one of the most popular English-language blogs in China. (DISCLOSURE: I occasionally blog ...
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Phnom Penh Post launches daily edition
_Congratulations to the Phnom Penh Post for launching its first daily edition on Friday. In this era of newspaper downsizing, it is great to see The Phnom Penh Post expanding from two times per month ...
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Fake Mickey Mouse Joins the Olympics
Forget those athletes, Japanese media has been going heavy on the appearance of fake Mickey Mouse at the Olympics. Classic denial translated by Pink Tentacle from the Yomiuri: When asked about the re...
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Amusing Coverage of Opening Ceremony
The Globe and Mail ran the above amusing cartoon while, elsewhere in Canada, the Edmonton Sun\'s Terry Jones could not praise the opening ceremony highly enough. Wonder if even the China Daily had a ...
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Cross-postings to Danwei from this blog
This e-mail just arrived: HI - I RECENTLY DISCOVERED YOUR BLOG AND ENJOY YOUR WAY OF DOING THINGS. HOWEVER, SINCE YOU\'RE NOW ALSO POSTING ON DANWEI, I FIND IT REDUNDANT BECAUSE I FOLLOW BOTH BLOGS WI...
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Athlete-Bloggers at Beijing Olympics - Updated List
To follow the Olympics via the participants, I have been searching for Olympic bloggers and have found a few sources, largely thanks to help from the ever-lively crowd on Twitter at #080808.US ROWING ...
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2 Parent Policy for Chinese Olympic Athlete
Funny story by Geoffrey Fowler in the Wall Street Journal revealing an official Olympic sponsor with advertisements that are not entirely truthful (_Cue: sounds of pained shock and horror_). Turns out...
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Best way to follow the Olympics
In case you are not already doing so, Twitter has been a great way to follow (and participate in) Olympics coverage. For the opening ceremony a large group of us wrote 140 character postings with the ...
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UBS Economist: Olympics “No Big Deal”
Jonathan Anderson, an economist at UBS, today released a study using Olympic history and population to assess likely economic impact of the Beijing Olympics on China's economy. HIS CONCLUSION: THE OLY...
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Jewish Shanghai Worth the Visit
I highly recommend Dvir Bar-Gal's entertaining and informative walking tours of Jewish Shanghai. You will see a side of Shanghai that most people don't know exists and gain a greater understandi...
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Shanghai To Cruise Ships: Duck
Matthew Crabbe's Access Asia newsletter reports a rather unfortunate piece of planning in Shanghai.It appears that cruise ships headed for Shanghai's much vaunted new cruise terminal first need to duc...
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China (and Asia) ideas for Le Web in Paris?
Le Web has turned into one of Europe's best tech conferences, but there remains a very weak representation from Asia. Can you help?I recently spent some time in Silicon Valley with my friend Loi...
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4 Reasons Podcasting Failed in China
Chinese podcaster Steven Lin writes a great guest post on Kaiser Kuo's China Digital Watch explaining why podcasting has never taken off in China. Lin is a senior editor at Sohu.com and one of the fou...
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Rebecca Fannin: Silicon Valley Moves East?
Rebecca Fannin, author of the recently published Silicon Dragon, adds her voice to the debate between William Bao Bean - Expect more Digital Garages in China - and Vivek Wadhwa - China is NOT th...
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Truly Odd Anti-Obama Ad by John McCain
Does anyone understand the point they are trying to make? The only use of photoshop-ing I see here is the somewhat unskillful work by John McCain's advertising team....
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Twitter’s China Link: The Fail Whale
Regular users of the microblogging site Twitter have experienced the service's many failures, but they are not likely aware of the Chinese link. Twitter - for anyone unfamiliar - is a San Francisco-ba...
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3 China journalism jobs
1- INTERNET REVOLUTION www.internetevolution.com is looking for opinionated technology writers to compose 500-word blogs on Internet-related topics at the Beijing Olympics. Some pay is involved here. ...
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Why Neil Young hates iTunes, Apple and the Steve Jobs effect
One highlight of the Fortune Brainstorm conference for me was the final speaker, Neil Young, the musician. I knew Young would be obsessed with music, but I did not know technology was an obsession as ...
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3 steps to launch a successful IPTV Channel
Quick notes I took from Kenneth Wong's presentation at Broadband World Forum on how PCCW launched what is now one of the world's most successful deployments of IPTV (along with Iliad in France). PCCW ...
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Arthur Kroeber: China Needs Proof of Democracy
China is ready for democracy, Arthur Kroeber argues. Instead of moving towards democracy at the behest of the rising middle class, however, the nation's elite and middle class are fighting against suc...
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BBC Busted for Outdated China Oppression Image
The anti-CNN community busted the BBC for using a photo on July 29 showing Chinese police looking at a monitor that has been used by the BBC on multiple stories reaching back to at least August 26, 20...
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Nick Swanson: How to do Internet Radio
Fed up with Hong Kong's limited offering of all-music radio, Nick Swanson - an A330 pilot - launched Hongkongfm.net on July 1, 2007. He now claims more than 10,000 listeners and hopes to give up his d...
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Erick Schonfeld: How to TechCrunch
_Erick Schonfeld, TechCrunch co-editor, last week explained to me how TechCrunch works, in a mere six minutes. Formerly a magazine writer for Fortune and Business 2.0, Erick embraced blogs highly succ...
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Bad China Advice for Obama and McCain
Systemic corruption of the US foreign policy elite colors advice given to Obama and McCain about China, Ken Silverstein warns in this month's Harper\'s (subscription only). TODAY MOST OF AMERICA\'S SO...
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Why Japan and Korea Dominate in Mobile TV
Government incentives in Japan and Korea boost mobile TV penetration, but also distort the market, according an article in the latest issue of The Asia Media Journal. JAPAN: Regulation decreeing that ...
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50-cent Watchlist
I have decided to start a list of commenters who are possibly 50-cent propagandists paid by the Beijing government. Alternately, they are just unpaid Chinese nationalists who degrade themselves by usi...
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Obama’s Brother Runs Internet Company in China
Barack Obama has a half-brother living in Shenzhen who runs an Internet company that helps Chinese companies export to the US. The company, called Worldnexus, assists Chinese companies set up websites...
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Beijing Olympics Advice from ex-CNN journalist
Journalists coming to cover the Beijing Olympics must balance convenience and paranoia when it comes to their digital security, according to Rebecca MacKinnon, former Beijing Bureau Chief of CNN who n...
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My Copyrights Violated by French TV
The video below, broadcast on the French TV news channel France24 and now loaded onto their YouTube, violates my copyrights. The reporters I dealt with were excellent (They included Julien Pain, who k...
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Joi Ito: Why you need a local partner in Japan
Interesting posting by Joi Ito about why companies need a local partner in Japan.His examples:eBay went it alone and had to leave and now don't exist in Japan having lost net auctions to Yahoo Japan a...
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2 Journalist jobs in Asia: TIME and ADB
Two more journalism jobs in Asia. Who said journalists are unemployable? TIME Magazine Online Responsibilities: Originating, assigning, editing and producing Asia-based stories for TIME.com; managing ...
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Fortune Brainstorm: Good for a Snooze?
Members of the featured band at Fortune Brainstorm - The Go - passed commentary on the Silicon Valley crowd by crashing on chairs beside the restroom. The distant member of the band in this photo clea...
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Duncan Clark: Beijing forces creation of WeTube
Beijing's control and censorship instincts risk making China's video sharing platforms into a WeTube model of highly controlled video on demand instead of YouTube model of User Generated Content, Dunc...
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Shanghai Photog Seeks MultiMedia Fixer/Assistant
This help-wanted advert is a sign of the times and should be a lesson to all young people looking to enter journalism. You NEED those multimedia skills! Shanghai-based photographer Sharron Lovell, who...
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Uncensored Printing Presses in China
Quick video tour of newspaper presses on the soil of China that run without asking authorization from Beijing or any other government before publishing. These presses, in Hong Kong at Next Media, wher...
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Bound for Fortune Brainstorm
Preparing to board a flight to SFO. Will attend Fortune Brainstorm and see a few people after the conference. Anyone else attending?...
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Japanese Don’t Care About the Olympics
A survey released by Mindshare shows Asia - Japan especially - is not so excited about the Olympics as China. - For Japan, Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, Australia, Taiwan and Hong Kong, the FIFA WORLD...
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8 Ideas from Broadband World Forum Asia 2008
1- Shanghai Media Group is looking at 3-D TV. (A real Bandwidth hogger.) Others are working on it too, so it should be in most markets by 2017. - Ron Westfall, Current Analysis 2- PIRACY OF SATELLITE ...
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Ross Pollack Differentiates Internet TV Types
This chart nicely differentiates emergent types of Internet TV.Source: Ross Pollack, Senior Vice President, distribution in Asia for Sony....
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Chart Summarizing Asia’s potential IPTV markets
This chart neatly summarizes potential IPTV markets in Asia. Taiwan and Korea fall into the zone I identified in this video pitch and this posting. The IPTV wildcard zone also offers great potential.S...
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Preston Lau: Update on YouTube
PRESTON LAU, GENERAL MANAGER OF GOOGLE IN HONG KONG PRESENTED AN UPDATE ON YOUTUBE AT THE BROADBAND WORLD FORUM ASIA 2008.- YouTube's BIGGEST CATEGORIES: Humor (75%), Music (54%) News (46%). (I think ...
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Microsoft Exec: Chinese will, in fact, pay for content
This photograph was used by Chinnee M. Tong of Microsoft TV to illustrate how - despite China's famed-penchant for piracy - Chinese consumers are in fact willing to pay for content. The yellow dots hi...
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Broadband World: IPTV is tough
IPTV, a recent obsession of mine, has been a recurrent theme at the Broadband World Forum 2008 in Hong Kong, but not everyone thinks implementation is easy.John Reister of Big Band Networks:ENTERING I...
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China’s 50-cent Army of Internet Astroturfers
Relating to my earlier video posting with Oi Wan Lam about China's methods of manipulating the Internet, below extract is from a _Far Eastern Economic Review_ article by David Bandurski of Hong Kong U...
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Journalism Jobs: Vietnam Stringer and Thailand Instructor
VIETNAM STRINGER, THE STRAITS TIMES The Straits Times is looking for a stringer to cover principally Vietnam, and also occasionally the wider region. The stringer should ideally be based in Vietnam. I...
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Broadband World Forum Asia 2008 - You there?
I will blog at the IEC's Broadband World Forum Asia this week in Hong Kong. Many interesting people there, so should be a good place to get a sense of the state of the Internet. Anything you want to k...
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Beijing Camel Traffic Jam
This Camel Traffic Jam in Beijing in the 1920s is just one of the many great photographs by Sidney D. Gamble recently put online by the Duke University Archive of Documentary Arts. Without the Intern...
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Oiwan Lam: China’s 50-cent Twitter Censors
The Chinese government hires a small army of freelance censors to manipulate opinion in chatrooms, blogs and now even Twitter, Oiwan Lam, a prominent Chinese-language blogger currently writing for Glo...
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Language Training Program at the Po Leung Kuk Orphanage
This project, which I helped launch, assists Hong Kong's neediest children in learning to speak English and Mandarin. These languages, key for any Hong Kong resident entering the workforce, are often ...
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Yay, I’m 254th on Wikio
The Internet is all about metrics, so while blog rankings have never obsessed me, I do pay attention. Traffic over my blog has steadily increased as I post more regularly, but funny things seem to hap...
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China votes for Barack Obama
At least that is the conclusion of the Asia Society. The Asia Society compiled a nicely presented video of policy leaders from across Asia saying which US presidential candidate is viewed most favora...
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Sophie Richardson: Olympics Coverage Guide for Journalists
Sophie Richardson, Asia advocacy director of Human Rights Watch, interviewed by Hugo Restall, Editor of The Far Eastern Economic Review about the Chinese government's attitude towards media. Ric...
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Can Taiwan change China?
A recent article by Jonathan Adams in the International Herald Tribune described a certain cult unpopular with Beijing that was recruiting mainlanders visiting Taiwan thanks to the cross-straits deten...
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HK Economic Journal gets a website
In the era of newspaper downsizings, somebody is stepping up to launch:For the first time in its history, the Hong Kong Economic Journal, a small but highly respected Hong Kong newspaper, today launch...
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Stephen Vines: Hong Kong’s schizophrenic China patriotism
Eleven years after Britain returned the crown colony of Hong Kong to China, Stephen Vines, a longtime Hong Kong-based journalist and entrepreneur, highlights the territory's schizophrenic patriotism i...
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IPTV service for Taiwan and China?
When I pitched this business idea about a week ago in a blog post, I received numerous emails of encouragement and some with helpful suggestions. This is a refined version of the business plan pre...
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Leo Horn: China developed by luck, not planning
Economist and Beijing-based national coordinator for the UK-China Sustainable Development Dialogue, Leo Horn-Phathanothai, attacks the notion that China offers a new model for economic development. CH...
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Hong Kong Govt to citizens: Drink More Wine!
Today I had lunch with Hong Kong's Financial Secretary, John Tsang, who presented the Hong Kong's government's plan for turning the territory into a hub for wine.As improbable as this may sound for a ...
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Vivek Wadhwa: China is NOT the new Silicon Valley
While William Bao Bean said in a recent interview that we should Expect More Digital Garages in China, Vivek Wadhwa disagrees, asserting that China is not innovating and has still has not moved beyond...
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More Searches from China, but Koreans Search more often
South Korea's Internet searchers conducted an average of 104 searches in April, nearly twice as many as Malaysians, who clocked in at 54 searches per searcher in April, according to Comscore\'s latest...
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Journalism jobs in Shanghai
Maria Trombly, whose company covers a range of topics from Asian securities to payments and technology for trade magazines, is constantly on the lookout for freelance COPY EDITORS and REPORTERS.Now, s...
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Govt: No blogger accreditation in Hong Kong
Hong Kong does not recognize bloggers for accreditation to official media events, Betty Fung, the Hong Kong government's Director of Information Services, told me today.(Fung, the top spokesperson for...
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Ken Carroll: How to learn Chinese using Web 2.0
The Internet - and Web 2.0 tools in particular - are extremely well suited to language teaching, explains Ken Carroll, co-founder of Chinesepod.com in this video. Carroll's Shanghai-based company (whi...
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Crazy Chinese Pilots Test Home-Brew Aircraft
Videos posted recently of crazy Chinese pilots testing their homemade flying machines. The helicopter's tail almost hits the ground on takeoff, while the ultralight - which is held together by bailin...
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Nokia acquires Felix Petersen’s Plazes
Congrats, Felix! For anyone unfamiliar with Plazes, the service allows mobile telephones to know their location and interact with others on the basis of that information. In other words, this buy will...
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Copy editor jobs at Cambodia’s Phnom Penh Post newspaper
Are you young (or young at heart), ambitious and ready for a newspapering adventure? Here's your chance to follow in the footsteps of Southeast Asia's great foreign correspondents at Cambodia's most p...
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Obama McCain advisors for China and Asia. Know them?
Anybody know them? BARACK OBAMA:Directly in charge of the Asia team is Amb. JEFF BADER, ex-State, NSC, USTR, also in charge of China, and administering the team via MONA SUTPHEN, of Stonebridge Intern...
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Chinesepod: Rare backstage tour with Hank Horkoff
This quick tour of the Chinesepod offices in Shanghai with Hank Horkoff reveals many secrets of the highly popular Web 2.0 Chinese-language learning service.Launched by a web expert (Horkoff) and a la...
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William Bao Bean: Expect More Digital Garages in China
_Long belittled for ripping off Silicon Valley's successes pixel-for-pixel, China's web entrepreneurs are now starting innovate, argues William Bao Bean, former analyst at Deutsche Bank and now partne...
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Inma Martinez: 7 tips for tech entrepreneurs
_Had a great day hanging out with entrepreneur Inma Martinez this Sunday. In addition to being one of the few people I know with a favorite pet dinosaur, Inma founded and CEO-ed a number of tech start...
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Business Pitch: How to profit from Taiwan’s digital TV deficit
THE BUSINESS CASE FOR SELLING A NEW TYPE OF DIGITAL TV BOX IN TAIWAN _ Having left journalism to take up business development with one of Asia's more successful serial entrepreneurs, I'm always on th...
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Marketing publisher trash-talks rival Media Magazine
Justin Randles, founder of Marketing Magazine, trashtalks the competition in this video below, saying why you should read his recently launched publication and ignore his highly established main compe...
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Should you read The Asia Media Journal?
Today my tour of English language publishing in Asia brings us Mike Savage, editor of The Asia Media Journal, explaining why we should read his publication. Mike has covered media for more than ten ye...
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Asia Media Journal seeks media reporter
Mike Savage, editor of The Asia Media Journal wants to hire a business journalist interested in writing about media to join him on the magazine. Based in Hong Kong, The Asia Media Journal is a publica...
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Future of Media in Asia - blogosphere reacts
Thanks to the blogosphere, we have a full audio recording and blog reactions to last week's sold out lunch on the Future of Media in Asia.Audio blogger Matthew Driskill recorded a full version of the ...
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NY Times and the difficulties of going digital
I remain convinced that the NY Times, my former employer, will be one of the few newspaper companies to successfully make the leap into digital. That does not, however, mean the shift will be easy. Th...
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Alexis Bonte: eRepublik reverses gaming entry strategy
Alexis Bonte, who today announced a 550,000 euro angel investor round of funding for eRepublik, has a unique reversed-entry strategy for his online strategy game. Players in eRepublik collaborate to d...
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Beijing vs TV Networks: Olympic Media Showdown
Let the games begin! With the August 8 opening of the Olympic games only weeks away, confidential meeting minutes reveal ongoing battles between TV networks and Beijing Olympic organizers. In the meet...
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CNN seeks freelance reporters on Digital China
Kevin Drew, supervising editor Asia Pacific for CNN International's website, is looking for good freelancers out of China to report for the CNN Olympics microsite.He is particularly keen for stories a...
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Chinese Internet Conference in Hong Kong June 13 and 14
Rebecca MacKinnon has organized a conference next weekend on China's Internet with some great participants, including Jeremy Goldkorn of Danwei, Duncan Clark of BDA, bloggers Isaac Mao and Roland Soon...
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