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A city wall tower and very clearly, the moat, Beijing, 1840-1860: just one of the many photos from around the Pacific, circa 1840-1940, now to be found online at the National Gallery of Australia’s Picture Paradise exhibition.  Well worth browsing through this eclectic collection of shots of everything from Australian aborigines to Javanese dancers,…

Kind of gorgeous, isn’t it?

(Regin@s photostream on Flickr, via beijingolympics FriendFeed stream)

You’ve all seen the Beijing National Stadium by now…

But have you seen this farmer creation?

(Actually, Aw Guo guesses that a farmer made it. We don’t know for sure.)

Via IfGoGo (originally from Xiaonei).

Global Lives wants to film 24 hours in the life of a rural person somewhere in China.  Want to join them?

全球生活计划 英文名字Global LivesProject (http://www.globallives.org计划于2008年9月于中国拍摄. 我们是一个非盈利教育艺术组织,与超过100个合作者于8个国家进行拍摄,我们寻找志愿于中国拍摄的志愿者。我们具体地需要以下几种类型的志愿者与组织机关.

在中国的团体与伙伴-对与大学的通信部门,博物馆,绿影生产演播室,或是其他文化团体合作感兴趣的志愿者. 中国副导演/制片-从事拍摄准备的相关工作,大约6-8个工作天. 平面摄影师-拍摄当天+运输时间,两人作业的状况,作业时间为8小时
摄影师-拍摄当天+运输时间,8-12小时的作业时间. 生产助理-于拍摄过程中协助导演/制片. 翻译-于拍摄当天配合翻译的相关工作.

我们已经募集到四名志愿者加入拍摄工作Nobuhiro Awata, Ya-Hsuan Huang, Ron Carr 和David Harris。Nobuhiro 和Ron筹画并且拍摄过GL于东京, David Harris于巴西和美国筹划并且拍摄过GL,Ron从日本带来照相摄影设备,但附加设备仍需要当地相关人员提供以及协助

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If you join new social networking/web 2.0 things as research for work, you tend to find the same friends and acquaintances there.  For me that group includes Howard Rheingold, my IFTF colleague Sean Ness, Jerry Michalski, and a group of Chinese/China-focused digerati who are a bridge across the Chinese- and English-language internet.  Some of these people I know personally: Isaac Mao, Keso, Frank Yu,…

Two calls to sign this petition have been floating around my inbox recently:

Being from Hong Kong, I quickly submitted my name to support this cause. Thoughts stirred in my head: What was the UN doing? Is this a signal for Taiwan? Does this mean Hong Kong will switch to simplified Chinese soon?

Upon further…

I’m interested in virtuality, experience, and culture; Zafka Zhang is a metaverse researcher, blogger, and evangelist, directs research at China’s virtual world HiPiHi, and according to his Twitterstream, recently started his own youth insights and marketing company, China Youthology青年志; Li Feng is an Instructional Technology Specialist at University of Massachusetts Lowell…

I’m doing some interviews with people who are playing with different reality media, and Justin.TV is a great example. The site recently got its one millionth user.  Most are like me, I’m guessing, and just sign up so they can navigate the site better.  But some are doing what Justin.TV is set up to do: broadcasting some…

We reported over a year ago on the release of the first mini-PC based on a China-developed processor. But according to Fool’s Mountain, it seems like that it either didn’t really ship or perhaps it didn’t register on his radar. So, there is a supposed new release that is the “second” first-ever commercial product based on an indigenous Chinese…