Catshanghai

What choices do we have for sharing videos with friends and family in other countries given that Facebook, Youtube, Yahoo Video and Blip TV have stopped working? I’ve been using Vimeo recently. It has a basic free service that lets you upload upto 500 mb of videos each week. All video hosting sites display uploaded [...]

Our six week old son Jake has a Chinese mother and a British father. This presents us with both amazing opportunities and challenges. Textbook parenting differs between China and Europe. According to Chinese custom, postpartum women should observe bed rest for a month after the baby is born (yuezi). The child should not go outside [...]

I am not happy that Facebook and Twitter are blocked in China at the moment. I am not a political activist. I am not interested in telling the Chinese government how to run their affairs. Given the widespread availability of non sanctioned reports about the recent race riots in Urumqi what exactly is the point [...]

Below are two videos of Jake, which I shot and edited in recent days. Jake Crosses The Bridge from Matt Seigal on Vimeo. The most recent was shot yesterday.It’s the Chinese tradition to mark a month of a baby’s life by crossing a bridge. In this case we crossed Nanpu Bridge and two at Century [...]

Image supplied by nubui on Flickr I’m a big fan of Leo Laporte who single handedly created the Twit technology podcast network. His shows keeps me informed and stop me going insane during long commutes home through Shanghai rush hours. Leo is coming to China at the end of this week to participate in a [...]