by Tom | Sep 1, 2011 | Hong Kong / China, Reading
Arab Spring, Chinese Winter. Valuable if inconclusive discussion about dissent in China. One party seems to be losing regularly to democracy elsewhere in the world, so I would imagine it will do so in China as well. As the article says, it is the timing that is...
by Tom | Sep 1, 2011 | Business, Reading
The Local-global Flip, Or, “the Lanier Effect” is a long, wide-ranging muse on some potentially negative effects of the rise of the internet, “free” services and information concentrators. Some thoughts: I like the idea that what Google is...
by Tom | Sep 1, 2011 | Reading
The Technium: Why the impossible happens more often. I hadn’t thought through the full implications of the new social structures we are creating such as globally distributed reputation, massive collective collaboration. That these are the start of something is...
by Tom | Aug 31, 2011 | Business, Reading
The Post-it wars – in pictures. Thanks to wiffy for this. All offices should have one. Especially in HK where so many offices face so many others.
by Tom | Aug 29, 2011 | Hong Kong / China
Lots of horticultural lightning in clouds directly above and dull rumbles while people get on with football practice. Who needs fireworks? Amazing.
