Posted in CNN, Chengdu, China, Sichuan, Web 2.0, citizen journalism, crowd sourcing, earthquake, user-generated content on Wednesday, 4 June 2008, 10:32 am | No Comments »
The Barking at the Sun/蜀犬吠日 blog (”Blogging from China, Sichuan, Chengdu. 中国. 四川. 成都” 
has a good post in English by Mark Hiew on “Big media, citizen journalists, and the May 12th earthquake”. Web 2.0 aiding coverage of this terrible tragedy.
Posted in China, Cyworld, Japan, Korea, Mixi, QC, Web 2.0, facebook, social networking on Sunday, 30 March 2008, 5:26 pm | No Comments »
[UPDATE, 22 April 2008, 9:30am HK Time: While speaking with Benjamin Joffee yesterday, he updated me on the latest and most accurate QQ statistics: There are now 220 million internet users in China. 70% of these (approx. 154 million people) have QQ accounts. Many people have multiple QQ accounts, thus the total number of QQ [...]
Posted in Apple, China, Hong Kong, Web 2.0, iPhone on Tuesday, 19 February 2008, 11:52 am | No Comments »
The IHT has finally reported on what those of us living in China have known to be a fact for a long time: it’s easy to get an iPhone in Hong Kong or China, even though Apple’s only officially released the iPhone in the U.S. and Europe. It’s a dirty little secret: Apple’s sold 3.7 [...]
Posted in China, Hong Kong, Web 2.0, economics, google, maps on Friday, 8 February 2008, 8:49 am | No Comments »
Happy Chinese New Year from Hong Kong! It’s the second day of the lunar new year today. And the holiday’s the reason I’ve been able to blog so much.
The holiday is the only time over 200 million migrant workers get home to visit their family in their hometown–often the only time in the year they [...]
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