by Tom | Jun 13, 2011 | Hong Kong / China
Public Diplomacy Fail: In Which I Visit The Repellent U.S. Embassy In Beijing, Have Words With a State Department Employee and Learn A Possible Way To Short-Circuit The Onerous New Passport Form paints a depressing picture of modern authoritarian infrastructure. Who...
by Tom | Jun 13, 2011 | Reading
Why are there so few archives of non-rare, non-specialist books, films, TV? A “someone else is doing it” problem? Well, one person is. A prudent society keeps at least one specimen of all it makes, forever. It still amazes me that after 20 years the only...
by Tom | Jun 11, 2011 | Hong Kong / China, Personal
Asia-Pacific barbarians vs a world XV (Lewsey, Bastauread, Gollings etc). Not bad free entertainment for a Saturday. And the Dragon Boat Pool Party to follow.
by Tom | Jun 10, 2011 | Business, Tech
The Story of W&L carefully distinguishes the middle classes which can afford the internet and its related gadgets (smartphones, tablets) and the working classes which can afford a phone and paid applications for it. Very useful to bear in mind in many Asian and...
by Tom | Jun 9, 2011 | Business, Tech
Innovation Extravaganza. Lots of good stuff from trendwatching.com as always. My take outs: Isn’t it brilliant how many new products and services there are coming on to the market. They are mostly going to fail, of course, but great to see so many people try...
