Catshanghai

Micah Sittig rightly raised a concern that the Learning2.008 conference is expensive at $350 a head for non Acamis members. The reason for this is that it costs a lot to fly out world class presenters to Shanghai and the audience will be international school educators. I’ve been brainstorming ideas for a nearly free local [...]

John C Dvorak’s recent ranting and raving about China is highly entertaining, but his analysis has more holes in it than a lump of Swiss cheese.

To those who are unfamiliar, John C Dvorak is a well known tech writer, blogger (http://www.dvorak.org/blog), podcaster and curmudgeon who hosts Cranky Geeks and NoAgenda. No Agenda is an hour [...]

My video did not get as many hits as Sarah Silverman singing expletives about Matt Damon, but my rough Youtube movie about the Shanghai flash mob has been viewed more than 12 000 times since I uploaded it on Saturday.It feels good to be the number one video on Youtube for travel and events,  even if [...]

Everybody is writing reviews of the past year so I will join in too. 2007 has been a great year for us, although it has not been without struggle and frustration. I have just been scanning this year’s blog posts as a prompt for the some of the highlights, which I will summarise below:
Personal Stuff
We [...]

I spend many hours every week listening to and watching various technology podcasts from Twit, ZD, Revision 3 and CNET. They are all written and presented by former TechTV employees so it little wonder that they are almost exclusively focused on Silicon Valley and North American issues? Occasionally, Europe will get a brief mention and [...]

I have just finished this week’s column for our school newsletter, which is basically a campaign to get everyone writing blogs, largely inspired by Jeff Utecht’s forays at SAS Pudong.
You may have noticed that we’ve been getting our secondary students to set up blogs or weblogs as part of their ICT classes. I want to [...]

I love these pictures!
See this link.
Contrast this with Will Richardson’s recent impressions of Shanghai.
And then there is the old part of Shanghai, the “real” China, the part where a restaurant may be a couple of chairs and a table on a street corner where people can sit after buying some type of meat or fish [...]

If Twitter and Dreamhost can have cats on their website then so can I.
Yes, we have a new resident in our house. He is a young spunky cat that we have named Chog, short for Chinese mog. Do you get it? He had been living on the landing outside Jenny’s shop for a few [...]

Recently I have been thinking quite a lot about this blogging lark without writing very much. I originally setup Catshanghai to write about technology, films, music, books and everyday life from my expatriate Shanghai perspective. More and more I am writing about general technology issues that have little to do with Shanghai so they don’t [...]

Critics are going to use these stories to argue that modern technology is being used by teenagers to accelerate society’s moral decline.

Story 1: Bogus Craigslist Ad Leads to Destruction of a House
Craigslist is a free and popular Internet classified advertising service that was recently abused by a tenant who posted a fake ad in retaliation [...]