Posts Tagged ‘david wolf’

I’ve been part of a great series of recent exchanges for a recent post of mine that was subsequently briskly picked up by the English-language Chinese blogosphere (heretofore to be known as the E-bang) and over at my Posterous page.

I’m reproducing several of those comments here which will form the topic of today’s post. So without further ado, here’s what David Wolf and others had to say about my initial remarks:

Adam, I think you make some good points, but I would say, with regards to China blogs a) better too much discussion than too little, b) any blog who does not offer unique news, great insight, pretty photos, or great discussion will likely die for lack of attention anyway, c) great blogs are made, often over time, they are not all born that way.

Whereupon I returned with:

@D | a) I stand corrected. Too true. b) true, though it makes the triage all the more difficult if go-to sites like Hao Hao Report don’t engage in at least a modest level of moderation/pre-approval. Otherwise the English-language Chinese blogosphere (dang, I’ve got to invent a better way of terming this! — perhaps in tomorrow’s post?) risks being flooded by pretenders and reams of copy that don’t contribute anything constructive to the conversation, c) too true, again, and there are standout examples of that, like Silicon Hutong […] Thoughts?

So David retorted by writing:

ADM, I think the answer is that at some point, if the blogosphere is to be more than a fleeting blip in the history of media, a set of standards are going to emerge that will define the minimums of what a blog should be. We aren’t quite there yet: we are in the latter stages of the experimentation phase with this medium, and I think debates like this bring us closer to those standards.

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I owe you all an apology…I’ve been away for too long, and for that I’m sorry.

Truth be told, I’ve been feeling like pterodactyl guano about it all weekend, but I just didn’t have something halfway intelligent to blog about and the heart to lay it on y’all. I basically fobbed off the would-be post thinking how practically anything I was going to come up with would basically make zero sense – even to yours truly – so I took a well-deserved festive in the Bat Cave and begged off writing.

An aside: you know, this whole online thing is funny. Whether we like to admit it or not, we’re all something of a tightly-woven community, resilient like canvas. Remarkably, we depend upon each other, inspire each other, look out for each other when – for one reason or another due to life’s interminable swoons and setbacks – someone goes uncharacteristically e-AWOL. The blogosphere suddenly goes into hyperspace because we somehow imagine the absolute worse, the sum of all fears. Invariably, it turns out the poster in question has merely sauntered off to live la vida loca in the “real” world for a wee while. A breather from the interweb’s echo chamber.

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Well almost “A-Team”…and it’s going to demand a standout on-screen performance from Liam Neeson to supplant George Peppard’s memorable cigar-chomping steely image in our minds as the no-b.s., Wilkinson-sword sharp, always resolute under Katrina-force hurricane pressure, Col. John “Hannibal” Smith. Remember that dude? I certainly do. There I go dating myself again…

Anyways, the following sites are the five hot spots I check in with daily for my regular fill of Chinese blogging dish.

Thanks to the magic of global time zones coupled with the fact that the People’s Republic is well into early afternoon by the time I hunker down at the desk, mornings here in the Sketch Republic are usually flush with RSS content treasure as I kick off my daily grind at the warren. That means, I’ve got a heap of catching up to do within as short a stretch as possible, and believe me, every day it’s a delectable challenge.

Reading posts at these sites makes blogging all the more worthwhile. So come with me and learn why the following five are the gold standard of the English-language Chinese blogosphere.

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Most of my regular readers here at ADM.com are well-aware of colleague Damjan DeNoble’s Sino-following pedigree and of our strong China-centric collaborations. For those others of you who are relatively fresh to this piece of online real estate, you might want to click on through to Asia Health Care Blog, its sister China Health Care Blog, or Damjan’s LinkedIn profile to acquaint yourself a wee bit better with the man behind the lexical magic and a hint of an explanation why I am honored to call myself Damjan’s friend and fellow China traveler.

Warning: don’t shoot the messenger (read: me) if you end up spending more than a couple of hours at any of his sites. On offer: a hot heap of snappy content like news, videos, opinion pieces, and a collection of comments of general interest to the blogging professional.

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I was thinking about some of my more prolific blogging friends lately, truly prolific and consistent e-scribes like Dan Harris, Chris Brogan, Julien Smith, Damjan DeNoble & James Flanagan, Marc van der Chijs, Jeff Wasserstrom, Will Moss, and David Wolf. It got me wondering what exactly differentiates the frequent writers from the occasional dabblers? Why do certain bloggers maintain such a torrid pace while others can’t be bothered to lift a typing finger, when lightning-quick dispatching is the very thing they do best?

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It’s not quite Friday here yet, but I’m getting into the rhythm of David Wolf’s “History Fridays” posts at Silicon Hutong. If you’re anything of a WWII history buff (as I am), you will really enjoy this lastest entry from deep inside the ‘hutong.

David Wolf at Silicon Hutong talks about how the Chinese need to stop being so specialty driven in their educational system and more “Medician.” Have a look at this latest well-crafted ‘hutong post for what this entails, since David explains it best.

David Wolf this week describes what’s wrong with the marketing profession for 2010.