Four days after Andrew’s post about Launchbox Digital’s efforts to seed promising start-ups in the Washington area, The Washington Post followed with its own story. Reporter Jordan Weissman brought dimension, detail and personality about an event that attracted investors and entrepreneurs throughout the East Coast. The Post is a Launch Box sponsor. But does anyone […]
Geoff Wade points out that Gavin Menzies’ works have been debunked firmly and repeatedly at an “exposed” site. So Menzies, with two best sellers on China’s role in civilization, looks and sounds a bit like Dan Brown, author of The Da Vinci Code. 1421 and 1434 remain good reads, though, for a fresh perspective of […]
Like many of you, I’ll be glued to the tube for the Olympics and fresh glimpses of the world’s oldest civilization. Fortunately, there are other ways to look at a four-leaf clover. China has more than 30 million bloggers, by some estimates. A few are political. A few have been imprisoned. Some are unusual, such […]
Much of the world will form opinions about China from the legions of mainstream broadcasters and journalists descending on Beijing for the Olympics. A lot of it is an exercise in first impressions, Western perspective and cultural context. Thirty years ago I toured China as a young reporter covering the first U.S. trade mission to […]
Trying to close a huge gap in the blogosphere, John McCain’s campaign is offering reward points to webbies who place favorable comments on blogs and websites. The points can be traded for prizes such as books autographed by McCain, a preferred seat at campaign events or a ride on the campign bus. The comments are […]
Just when you vowed never to set foot in a commercial airplane again, the carriers go ahead and do something like this. First, fifteen bucks for a checked bag. Then, $7 for a pillow or blankie. Now $9.95 for Wi-Fi on flights of three hours or shorter, $12.95 for longer flights, sometime in the foreseeable […]
To: ESPN broadcasters and producers: So I’m watching bonus coverage of the Yankees-Rangers game. There’s all this annoying stuff on the screen as Michael Young comes to the plate with two men on and Rangers trailing by two runs. In an instant, Young crushes a Joba Chamberlain fastball for a three-run homer. The Rangers take […]
Last night’s Teen Choice Awards on Fox — okay, you caught me doing research– provided a glimpse into an activist generation that just may be remarkable. The Do Something Awards (formerly the BRICK Awards) recognized ten teens— or, like, seriously amazing young people, you know — who identified and tackled big problems in their small […]
Social networking is the fastest-growing activity on the user-centric Internet. The idea is that most anyone can join a large, loosely connected network of “friends” to share personal or professional information, establish contacts, communicate, align social activities, establish a personality or brand, and vicariously act-out life online. You pass your profile to your friends, who […]
A long time ago we helped give We Media its name, so a lot of people ask why it’s taken so long to launch a blog about it. Others ask a more relevant question: Ah, why? I was thinking about those questions and the arrogance of blogging when the old joke, told by Woody Allen […]