Adam Daniel Mezei

Have You Ever Felt This Way About Business Cards? | Chris Brogan has…

ADM — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:00:23 +0000

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?

ADM — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:38:54 +0000

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.

CHINA | Is Access to the Internet a Fundamental Right? Many Chinese Youth Say “Yes!”

ADM — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:04:40 +0000

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?

ADM — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:09:29 +0000

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

ADM — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:51:53 +0000

Educational entertaining post by Mark Suster which answers the following question: “How much VC money do you take when it’s offered?“

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Weekly Korean | Your Second Lesson

ADM — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:30:41 +0000

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.

How To Succeed In China | Here Are the Rules

ADM — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:51:52 +0000

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…

ADM — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:26:30 +0000

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!

ADM — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:24:15 +0000

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North Korea As China’s First Full-Service, Fully-Fledged Colony

ADM — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:21:15 +0000

My take on a possible future scenario involving North Korea and China in colonial matrimony.

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