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Have You Ever Felt This Way About Business Cards? | Chris Brogan has…
You don’t convert business from every business card you collect…so why do you collect them at all? Here’s Chris Brogan with another “Kitchen Table Talk” about the merits of being a business card busybody:
North Korea vs. South Korea: Who Wins If They Go to War Once More?
I’ve been gunning through the final pages of Bradley K. Martin’s Under the Loving Care of the Heavenly Father: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty, blowing through the sections about potential wartime scenarios between the two rival Koreas.
Martin’s chats with North Korean defectors have been extremely revealing. His several interviewees, the majority of them former staff members of the DPRK’s million-man army, offer up their experience on why North Korea might have the decisive edge over the more affluent south if push comes to shove and the guns suddenly start to rumble.
CHINA | Is Access to the Internet a Fundamental Right? Many Chinese Youth Say “Yes!”
Sage Kai Pan of china/divide writes about the results of a BBC survey which demonstrates that 78% of respondents feel that internet access is part of a citizen’s bundle of fundamental rights and freedoms.
To The World’s “Freedom Fighters” | Are You Sure Those Kalashnikovs You’re Using Weren’t Made In North Korea?
Hands in the air to NKeconWatch again for their Choson Ilbo catch on how DPRK goes about exporting its weapons internationally, despite the embargo which hems the hermit kingdom in.
BONUS: Here’s a satellite image of Bam Bam (aka Kim Jong-il’s) private train station alongside the Kanggye AK-47 manufacturing facility.
On Taking VC Money | When At the Hors D’œuvres Table, Always Take Two
Educational entertaining post by Mark Suster which answers the following question: “How much VC money do you take when it’s offered?“
Weekly Korean | Your Second Lesson
Joop Dorresteijn (of “Joop in!” — that’s “Jump in!” in the Dutch dialect of English) and life partner extraordinaire Dame Suna Cho have teamed up to bring us their weekly Korean podcast. If you’re down with learning Korean, spoken properly with the right pitch and accent and not like it’s gutturally spoken up in the Kim Farm (DPRK), you’ll want to tune into this pod. I’ve been having a good time.
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How To Succeed In China | Here Are the Rules
Excellent elaborated-upon post by Dan Harris at the always-informative China Law Blog following-up on a h/t from Rich Brubaker (why do I always think of that cereal Boo-berry of Count Choc-ula fame when I read Rich’s last name? It’s not like his name is Rich Boo-baker, right?) of All Roads Lead to China. Tight list. The eighth rule: “Shut up and get busy.” Amen, brudda! Can I get a wit-ness?
More “I’m a China blogger” Tomfoolery…
Damjan brings it home yesterday with his final word about so-called “China blogging” and the elusive wraith of a thing that it can be. I repeat: there is no such thing as a China blogger!
North Korea As China’s First Full-Service, Fully-Fledged Colony
My take on a possible future scenario involving North Korea and China in colonial matrimony.
Huang Hung Goes On An Anti-Foreigner Chinese Tirade in China Daily http://post.ly/RSXf4 days ago from Posterous
Why Western Journalists Have All the Wrong Answers About China http://post.ly/RRt04 days ago from Posterous
And Of Course There's Cristoph Waltz's Acceptance Speech Too... http://post.ly/RREq4 days ago from Posterous
Kathryn Bigelow's Acceptance Speech for Best Director at the 82nd Oscars... http://post.ly/RRBT4 days ago from Posterous