DISQUS

Good to finally meet you too Chris!

That's pretty damn slick.
Nice work.

Twhirl's Seesmic capability makes it more than just a twitter client.
It can do video messages and twitter messages.

Tweetdeck cannot.

If Seesmic ever goes mainstream, as twitter did once it was liberated from the browser, Tweetdeck will be a distant memory.

That's awesome. I especially liked the Elvises. (Or should I pluralize that at Elvi?)

Nice one man.
Keep up the good work. :)

Rick

Hey Chris.

When I was in China we had a Twitter account called @chinalist, and if you wanted to follow China you simply followed everyone that Chinalist was following.

Maybe make a @japanlist twitter account, and follow all the people you just mentioned?

Awesome list though, regardless of format.
Thanks!

Rick
http://www.twitter.com/1rick

Been using them for a month of so now. Very impressed.

Agreed on the climate change concerns. I'm mostly worried about a pervasive apathetic attitude that I see in China. People I know are mostly indifferent to problems that face the world as a whole.

Yes, apathy and indifferent people are common in all countries. But I've been here in Northeast China about 5 years, and I can't think of any exceptions off the top of my head.

Agreed on the climate change concerns. I'm mostly worried about a pervasive apathetic attitude that I see in China. People I know are mostly indifferent to problems that face the world as a whole.

Yes, apathy and indifferent people are common in all countries. But I've been here in Northeast China about 5 years, and I can't think of any exceptions off the top of my head.

You said:"Keep the Yahoo! brand but turn it into a search engine. Use the bookmarks as described above, as an engine to help provide more meaningful searrch results."Methinks that already happened... Jan 19th.

That is somewhat of a headache. Glad you got it sorted out alright.

Happy New Year!

Fanfou.com, iLaoDao.cn, TaoTao.com are other examples of lively Chinese twitter-like sites.

People are already using SMS, and IM clients like QQ, MSN, Gtalk to update their feeds.

So Chinese people are already twittering. I guess the only question is are they doing it as much as we expected they would, given the population size and mobile phone use.

Personally, I'd just chalk it up to the fact that most 2.0 services require more time to catch on in China.

Fanfou.com, iLaoDao.cn, TaoTao.com are other examples of lively Chinese twitter-like sites.

People are already using SMS, and IM clients like QQ, MSN, Gtalk to update their feeds.

So Chinese people are already twittering. I guess the only question is are they doing it as much as we expected they would, given the population size and mobile phone use.

Personally, I'd just chalk it up to the fact that most 2.0 services require more time to catch on in China.

Yeah, I noticed that little iPhone option on the bottom of the videos too. 6.cn seems to be improving their service a lot these days. It's interesting that they are targeting their mobile delivery specifically for the iPhone, and not for all mobile handsets.

I think if any video site will replace youtube, it should be tudou. Although youku is looking pretty competitive these days. I'd go so far as to say their site runs a little quicker than tudou for me on my "ancient" laptop.

Speaking of Heroes, http://tinyurl.com/2u2bp3

I get a kick out of the "I-want-to-study-at-a-famous-university" attitude. It's odd to me that most chinese people hold where they study as a greater priority than what they study.

Puts things in perspective for sure.
And here I came home all in a bad mood just because I was still in China. Not so bad after all.

delicious tags are good for keeping up to speed on this: http://del.icio.us/tag/fires

Dude, you play tennis?
We should play tennis.

@Yay yo

I doubt the Japanese will bother.

As they likely don't care about the face to be gained by a pointless 3rd place trip to the moon.

Looks excellent man.
And yes, Ryan is a ninja.

Yeah man, welcome back.

:)

Hey man. Sounds very cool.

In the meantime me and my brother have been eating up a storm here in Dalian, and I'll probably resemble a whale when you return.

Enjoy the rest of your trip!

Take good care of Leo for me!

Yahoo released a statement saying the block came down due to pictures of Ti@ananmen being posted on flickr.

But that doesn't make sense.

If you go to youtube and search for ti@ananmen, you can watch a ton of videos, none of which seem to be blocked. But they have blocked a bunch of the Xiamen videos.

If it was Tiananmen photos, they'd have blocked youtube as well.

If you have a realistic shot at covering BJ2008, you might want to shoot for that. In order to do that well, I'd recommend studying like a mad bastard for 1 year, starting now.

Starting now might mean the difference in skipping or not skipping one/both of the 2 beginner semesters. And that makes the difference of getting in a beginning class with a few semi-serious english speaking westerners -- or getting into a slightly more advanced class where the less serious students have dropped out, and there's little/no english spoken between classmates.

(note: At least, that was my experience, having joined Dongcai at the intermediate level with mostly serious students, after the not-so-serious ones had dropped out or gone home)

If you decide to live off campus, get a Chinese roommate.

And keep writing good stuff on your blog, so you have something tangible to show for the year. If you're strapped for cash, tutor koreans. Or maybe teach part-time in the software park once or twice a week.

Just my thoughts. But as Kevin said, yes, those are nice choices. Weigh 'em carefully. But don't sit and do nothing while you decide. I tend to do that sometimes.