January 2011
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I remain deeply suspicious of anyone who tweets on the weekends
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Google Earth. all I can say is Holy Crap
Good reason to kill yerself: you’re listening to germans doing opera
The problem with email is that it doesn’t solve a basic human need: to let everyone else know just how cool we think we are
Mr. Esmat, my driver a few years ago in #Cairo, explained to me what was simmering in #Egypt - Naguib #Mahfouz would be proud
Hosni, oh Hosni, what have you done. You’re doing a Hilary Clinton after wikileaks, just the whole damn thing http://bit.ly/f8hAwL
Stunning photo of #Shanghai Pudong 1990 and 2010 http://bit.ly/fEa9y5 #china
Today is Drink your coffee slowly and definitely not while walking, you are wearing a white shirt Day. Among other things
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"Can't beat 'em, ok, join 'em!": How the...
A good report was published recently in the Wall Street Journal online’s China Real Time Report, about how government authorities and agencies in China - of varying influence and nature - have embraced Sina’s Weibo microblogging service. Weibo, as all China net watchers know, is a service that has caught on like wildfire in 2010, with over 50 million users by October, and a projected...
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At The Codfather, the oyster and seafood bar on Hoi Wan street, having a very late lunch - garcon!
My LinkedIn InMap: The folks in purple are the sketchy ones http://goo.gl/BGd3I
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Jugalbandi
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The incredible surge of the Chinese internet
TNS released an interesting infographic recently on the surge of the Chinese internet over the current largest, English. In terms of sheer size, not much can compete with China’s 440 million strong internet population (and growing by an estimated further 3 million each month - that’s 36 million each year). Projections show that at this rate of growth, the Chinese internet is set to...
Sting / all this time @tahilramania
RT @carlosrowles: Somehow ‘seems right’ that art has become impossible
At the Hong Kong Football Club, next to St Margaret’s Church in Happy Valley, watching the Sunday match - Jardine 1, Swire 0
Blissful transmissions
Rib eye steaks from Kumamoto, Japan, for dinner, with Gimenez Rilli’s 2007 Perpetuum all the way from Mendoza, Argentina - so, so elegant
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Blissful transmissions
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A Multi-Polar Online Presence for Business – A...
In 2011, the internet will be a key driver in managing corporate reputation and brand sentiment in China. With over 420 million Chinese citizens online in 2010, using the internet for a staggering average of almost 5 hours per day, China is by far the largest and most dynamically active internet market in the world. These numbers are only set to grow – with over 750 million of China’s...
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“Elitism’s good. Most things are rubbish.”
http://www.rickygervais.com/newstatesmandec2010.html
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Watchd’Eon
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The power of virtuality http://goo.gl/3uCr
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Alain de Botton, On Knowing Less
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12191104
reasons for temporary lulls in productive thinking.
http://www.radiohead.com/Archive/Site2/
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Zoo station
不實信息曝光
I’m right now thanking the universe for hanggai and zhan dan
Crossing the border, everything’s a race against time, including time
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Listening to Carsick Cars do 他们的一员, thinking of 2007, and smiling
We’re eating shrimp dumplings and watching Lee Ang’s “Eat Drink Man Woman” - what a beautiful film!
From the morning.
Trekking up to the Peak in a while for a look down at the Harbour at dusk. #HK
Politburo: Mao’s hairstyle “70% right, 30% wrong”. @chinadailyshow
On Japan and the ancient art of shrugging http://nyti.ms/ef6zRW
With the prices that Starbucks charges, I am beginning to think of McCafe as a champion of the poor.
Like Phillip Shultz, I practise the art of insouciance