Having just resent the headline of a press release about a new air route linking Bangkok to China, I have come up with a conundrum: What do you call a tweetable press release? Some candidates: Press Releet Press Tweet Tweet Release Press Tweelease (My favorite. Sounds a little like tweety bird). Now, how do you

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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 agreed tag #080808. Lonnie Hodge – who also Twitted – blogged about the outcome: And yesterday’s hash mash (a

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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 Global Voices and Inmediahk, says in this video. Some of Oiwan’s friends have done stints as online censors, getting paid 50 cents per comment, to earn

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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 allowing message postings of only up to 160 characters and delivering messages over SMS systems, Twitter has gained an influential user base created huge

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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 that has thousands of people sending 160 character sms messages to each other. It is weird, yes, but also somewhat addictive.) China

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