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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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China and Hong Kong: World’s Most Dangerous Websites
McAfee, the company that makes money protecting Microsoft customers from viruses, warns that the .hk and .cn domains are the world's most dangerous to surf.19.2% of all Web sites ending in the ".hk" d...
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Congrats to Asian Editorial Award Winners
Congratulations to the many winners of awards at the SOPA editorial awards tonight.SOPA honored Asia's best journalists for their outstanding work.(Apparently, however, the SOCIETY OF PUBLISHERS IN AS...
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Ivy Wong: 4 reasons Yahoo beats Google in Asia
Ivy Wong joined Yahoo in 1999 as Hong Kong employee number one. (The office was so small when she came to interview that at first she did not believe it was the famed Yahoo of San Francisco.)From that...
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World of Warcraft invades Hello Kitty online
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Michael Wolf: Join an Attacker or a Defender?
Until January 2007, Michael Wolf was president and COO of MTV Networks and before that lead partner in McKinsey's global media and entertainment practice. He is also author of The Entertainment Econom...
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James Nachtwey: Praise for Journalist Fixers in Foreign Lands
Great words from James Nachtwey, one of the greatest living photojournalists, in his acceptance speech for the President's award at the Overseas Press Club in New York. Nachtwey praised those who help...
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Old Media’s Effect on Reputation and Action
Blog writing has a different effect on people from printed media, Martin Varsavsky observes in a post. I agree.Martin finds postings in blogs like TechCrunch or GigaOm about him or his company - Fon -...
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Adventures in PR: Singapore stops mock protest
How do you say Irony in Singaporean? (Irony-lah?) A mock-protest in Singapore by bone nutrient brand Anlene backfired when police intervened, Adoi reports. About 20 men marched in ’mock protest’ a...
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Joi Ito: Twitter makes money in Japan
THE US/EUROPE-BASED TWITTER CRAZE HAS PLENTY OF USERS, BUT NO APPARENT REVENUE STREAMS For those not aware, Twitter is the most successful micro-blogging/presence product in the world of Web 2.0. By a...
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Twitter in China (Cloned of course)
The Pacific Ocean appeared to protect China from the Twitter craze hitting the US and Europe over the last year. NO MORE! (_Note for Luddite friends:_ Twitter is a San Francisco micro-blogging phenome...
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Amusing anti-Facebook videos
Recalling my experience posted on this blog of HOW FACEBOOK ENDED MY MARRIAGE, these videos about Facebook are worth a minute. Technorati Tags: Facebook, videos Technorati Tags: facebook, video...
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Future of Media in Asia Lunch in Hong Kong
UPDATE: Change of speaker. I have organized a luncheon gathering on the future of media in Asia timed to coincide with The Society of Publishers in Asia 2008 Awards for Editorial Excellence dinner in ...
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Mao meets Web 2.0: China’s User Generated Propaganda
The Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs invited me to join a panel today on Business, Civil Society, and Politics During the Beijing Games. New York was a little far for lunch, so I j...
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Where best for tech entrepreneurs: Europe US or Asia?
Three veteran tech entrepreneurs with global experience - Martin Varsavsky, Loic Le Meur and Joi Ito - discuss with me whether it is better to start a tech company in the US, Europe or Asia. All three...
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Back from TechTalk Menorca 08
Just returned from TechTalk Menorca, a gathering organized on a small island in the Mediterranean by my friend Martin Varsavsky. Martin brought together 70 new media and technology entrepreneurs from ...
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Tom Doctoroff: Paul French is wrong about China (and Tom Doctoroff)
Tom Doctoroff, CEO of J. Walter Thompson for Greater China, accepted my invitation to respond to the critique of his book by Shanghai-based writer and businessman Paul French. In a nutshell, French sa...
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Paul French: Why Tom Doctoroff is wrong about China
Shanghai-based writer/businessman Paul French rants (and froths a little) in this video about why China marketing guru TOM DOCTOROFF IS WRONG ABOUT CHINA. Doctoroff is CEO Greater China of J. Walter ...
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User Generated Dubbing: American Idol in Hmong
Proof that User Generated Dubbing has now reached landlocked Laos: American Idol dubbed into Hmong. Really amusing interpretive noises for emotion. ...
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Lonnie Hodge: Praise for Baidu selling search results
UNLIKE GOOGLE, CHINA\'S DOMINANT SEARCH ENGINE - BAIDU - SELLS ITS RESULTS PAGE. Lonnie Hodge, a search engine optimization expert (see video here about his departure from academics after many years),...
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John Berthelsen on the future of Asia Sentinel
I recently met with John Berthelsen, the founding editor of the website Asia Sentinel to hear about the site's plans and aspirations. Launched in August 2006 by a group of veteran and prominent Asia c...
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Sexy User Generated Propaganda Hero for China
Lei Feng, icon of Mao's Cultural Revolution, please meet Second Right Brother, your Web 2.0 counterpart. LEI FENG was a selfless and modest soldier devoted to Chairman Mao who was killed by a truck ba...
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CNN, now a four-letter word in China
In continuing fallout from the travails of the Olympic torch, CNN now appears to be entering the Chinese vocabulary in a less than complimentary manner. A university teacher here in Hong Kong reports ...
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China 2.0: User Generated Propaganda (Hip hop-style)
The Olympic Torch controversy has inspired a web 2.0 take on national pride: User Generated hip hop propaganda in support of the Beijing Olympics. (There is also a subcategory of VIDEO ARGUMENTS ABOUT...
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William Bao Bean: China’s one child policy and the Internet
I discussed the impact of China's one child policy on the Internet with William Bao Bean of Softbank China & India.Growing up in a one-child household makes Chinese children lonely and keen to conn...
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Steve Jobs on the frustrations of focus
A quote on the difficulty of focus from a recent feature in FORTUNE MAGAZINE on Steve Jobs struck a chord with me. Jobs' frustration with focus resonates with this journalist entering business. Why? B...
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Reverse outsourcing: Facing forced layoff at NY Times? Telecommute to Singapore!
In a case of reverse outsourcing, THE STRAITS TIMES in Singapore has issued a recruiting appeal to copy editors facing layoffs at The New York Times. (Image credit: Page 1 of Straits Times April 17 we...
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Paul Ginocchio: Should Newspapers and Dotcoms flirt or marry?
Spoke with Paul Ginocchio of Deutsche Bank, one of the few remaining newspaper stock analysts in the United States, about newspapers and dotcoms on the sidelines of IFRA's Publish Asia 2008 conference...
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My platform for the board of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Hong Kong
I am running for the board of the Foreign Correspondents\' Club of Hong Kong, perhaps the world's greatest press club. (Having served as president or board member on three such organizations, I do hav...
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Dietmar Schantin of Newsplex on Newspapers’ New Channels
Had a great discussion today with Dietmar Schantin, director of IFRA's Newsplex. IFRA is a global association of newspaper publishers and Newsplex is a consulting operation intended to help the associ...
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Lera Auerbach on the meaning of music
The morning after I heard her in concert, I had a chance to do a video quizzing composer, pianist and poet Lera Auerbach about the meaning of music. As a non-musical person, this quest for the meaning...
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Rebecca MacKinnon’s call to arms against Internet censors in China and Asia
Rebecca MacKinnon has published a thoughtful essay on Asia's fight against Internet censorship in this month's Far Eastern Economic Review. Yahoo's transition from assisting China imprison four dissid...
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Angela Mackay on ftchinese.com reaching one million users
Angela Mackay, executive director of the Financial Times Asia Pacific, announced today that the Chinese-language ftchinese.com, which was launched in mid-2005, has now reached one million registered u...
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Thomas Jacob on Mail Today’s launch into India’s booming newspaper market
Thomas Jacob, Singapore-based International Development Director of Associated Newspapers, described Mail Today, a newly launched JV newspaper in India to the IFRA conference today. For more on India'...
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