by Tom | Sep 5, 2011 | Hong Kong / China, Reading
Ai Weiwei Has The Last Word. For Now has a slightly downbeat take on the reasonably forthright Grauniad coverage. The full Newsweek article is also worth a read. He’s certainly set a challenge to the government. Will it bite?
by Tom | Sep 2, 2011 | Reading
xkcd: I’m Sorry. Cracking.
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.
