Tag Archives: Writing
How to Avoid Confusing Your Global Audience
When people from different cultures collaborate, there are often communication problems, which can be exacerbated when using online platforms. A working knowledge of how different societies use context to convey meaning can help avoid misinterpretations and confusion. Anthropologist Edward Hall … Continue reading
Five Ways to Establish Credibility as a Blogger
As go-to sources for innovative content, amateur bloggers have been teaching mainstream media professionals some new tricks. Once considered the sideshow of journalism, blogging has taken the center ring. Even traditional media outlets have joined the fray, bolstering blogging’s reputation. … Continue reading
Novelists Who Really Phone it in
A recent issue of The New Yorker had an interesting article on cell phone novels in Japan. Popularized about five years ago, these novels are posted to the Web by authors who write them on their phones, constrained by the … Continue reading
Txtng: The Gr8 Db8: Bk Rvu n NYer
While recently catching up on my traditional media, I came across this book review of David Crystal’s “Txtng: The Gr8 Db8” in the October 20 issue of The New Yorker. Among other things that interested me was the idea that … Continue reading
Blogs are like, so, totally 2004, yo.
Don’t have a blog? Don’t bother starting one. Go Twitter, Facebook or Flickr. This from Wired Magazine correspondent Paul Boutin in a recent post. “Writing a weblog today isn’t the bright idea it was four years ago. The blogosphere, once … Continue reading
Who to sue?
Today, when I was browsing through the weblog: http://asianfanaticfans.blogspot.com/2008/10/jay-chous-leaked-new-album-being-dealt.html, I found a very interesting news article that I think might worth our attention. One of the latest album “Capricorn” of Jay Chou, one of the most popular singers and musicians in Taiwan, … Continue reading
Shiny Things
As a young kid, back when I had a pre-Internet attention span and actually enjoyed reading words of ink printed on paper, I went through a phase of reading ‘A Boy and His Dog’-genre stories. Which kind of made sense, … Continue reading
One good thing about Twitter
Mark and I were discussing Twitter pros and cons the other day and agreed one positive aspect is it forces people to be concise. As I was catching up on my RSS feeds, I saw Craig Stoltz beat us to the … Continue reading
