A friend of mine recently said, to the ultimate questions in Life, only Art can provide the answers. Death is the ultimate question we all have to confront. Many great literary works have been created in attempt to cope with the fear of Death. I find quite moving, therefore this tribute to the Swedish poet and [...]
December 16, 2007
Personalization. Customization. Localization. The British Broadcasting Company has launched a beta version of their new homepage. BBC – Homepage You get to drag and drop content modules as you wish. Sounds familiar. The homepage cites as its sources of inspiration, Netvibes and iGoogle. It is another piece of evidence that traditional media companies are taking more cues [...]
December 16, 2007
Keel over the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Move aside, the Twin Towers of Kuala Lumpur. Here come the Twin Leaning Towers of Beijing. The new CCTV (China Central TV) building is one of the growing number of icons designed by international architects in the city of Beijing. I passed by this building almost every [...]
December 14, 2007
What we search for online might well reveal our deepest desires. In fact, one can attempt to construct a hierarchy of values based on the most frequently searched keywords and questions. If so, this China Digital Times story, contrasting the top ten most searched questions on Baidu, China’s top search engine and Google, is sobering. Top Ten Lists: [...]
December 14, 2007
I have been amazed by how much my reading habits have changed over the past two years. I no longer read hard copies of daily newspapers and magazines on a regular basis. Instead I subscribe to news feeds using the Google Reader. I scan through hundreds of articles electronically on a daily basis to imbibe the [...]
December 13, 2007
I recently presented my documentary about the Beijing Olympics at the Guangzhou International Documentary Festival. Boomtown Beijing is my first independent film and making the festival poster for it was a big thrill. Mainly because of how last minute it all was. I got them printed the day I arrived in Guangzhou at a [...]
December 1, 2007
I love this term that has been coined to describe the future of multimedia content — “micro-audience” world. TV 2.0 — a micro audience world? « Scobleizer — Tech geek blogger It succinctly describes the immense opportunity and the intractable difficulties confronting content creators. A micro-audience world implies that anyone can create their own media platform, using a [...]
December 1, 2007
In an era where even TV is becoming passe, I find it real cool that the National Book Critics Circle has its own blog. http://bookcriticscircle.blogspot.com The web seems to be a perfect means to spread the word about a good book. Now the NBCC blog is asking award-winning novelists, historians, poets, critics and biographer to vote for their [...]
December 17, 2007