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My friend Nod has some new work up on the Behance network. It’s a pretty mix of the traditional and modern, of analog and digital.

See the rest of the series here.

For your viewing pleasure: the homepage of some of the players in The Lost Ring (see previous post).

Mei Hui, China

Diego, Spain

Markus, Germany

Lucie, UK

Monica, Spain…

The Lost Ring is an early and important multi-language, multi-cultural collaboration in China, and a gorgeous lab for experimenting with culture and virtual expression.  My colleague at the Institute for the Future, Jane McGonigal, is the puppetmaster for an alternate reality game (ARG) called The Lost Ring which is…

Spotted on the web, a luxury concept hotel in Guilin: the Hotel of Modern Art (HOMA) Libre.

They are the only Chinese hotel that is part of the global Relais & Chateaux (luxury hotel and gourmet restaurants) alliance.

Book one of the 46 individually-designed rooms now…

Click for full-sized image with translations.

There’s more here. Via Longyin Review.

As someone who struggles with a nicotine habit, I have a love-hate relationship with cigarettes. But you could, and probably someone already has, write a book or two on the social role of cigarettes in post-’49 China. Cigarettes were everywhere when I first came to China in 1985, and were a powerful currency, something you could use to get things done, or to warm…

This plopped into my inbox like a piece of anonymous spam, but who could resist such a beautifully crafted piece of spam:

Title:
创业要简单！创业要面试！创业更要学习！
(Entrepreneurship made simple! Entrepreneurship needs interviews! Entrepreneurship needs to be studied!)

The website given is hosted on Baidu’s blog platform and is titled:
华人第一创业系统—-在家创业系统，让创业变得更简单！
(Chinese people’s first entrepreneurship…

The 6th Chinese Internet Research Conference is themed, “China and the Internet: Myths and Realities.”

It takes place on June 13-14 in Hong Kong. Topics are interesting, and registration only costs 300 HKD.

Go here for full details.