Archive for January, 2006

New Hong Kong blog

Friday, January 20th, 2006

I lived in Hong Kong for three years in the early 90s, and still like to keep in touch with current events there, so I was pleased to come across Wandering Jew, a new blog from Richard, a Jewish (presumably), British (also presumed) expat in Hong Kong. So far, it hasn’t exactly been updated very [...]

Media Bistro: why blogs don’t get any respect from the MSM

Thursday, January 12th, 2006

Despite all the accolades Engadget has received for our coverage of CES, the mainstream media are generally reluctant to give blogs a whole lot of credit. Greg Lindsay has a good item about this over at Media Bistro, in which he discusses the issue, highlighting a recent case where The Wall Street Journal picked up [...]

My CES reporting

Wednesday, January 11th, 2006

The feed on this site only shows my most recent blog posts, so by now everything I did at CES is buried under newer items. But, if you really want to read everything I wrote at CES, this Google link will get you there.

One more

Tuesday, January 10th, 2006

After this one, no more CES ego trips:

Engadget did a spectacular job covering the Consumer Electronics Show. – Jeff Jarvis

Back from CES!

Tuesday, January 10th, 2006

Just returned from covering CES with Engadget (full coverage here). It was exhausting, but I have to say I’m very proud of the work we did. And judging from the comments out there, it looks like others have taken notice as well. I particularly like these, from none other than Microsoft’s Robert Scoble:
[I]f you really [...]