Monthly Archives: February 2010
Google Buzz is the Prius of Twitter Clones, will it shut down your China gmail sooner or later than 50 days from now?
Since everyone in the China blogosphere is giving their two cents about Google Buzz I’ll throw my hat into the ring, too. Here are my thoughts and the thoughts of some friends as discussed on….Google Buzz. Damjan DeNoble - Did Google threaten to pull out of China partly because they anticipated that Google Buzz would [...]
Want an example of culture specific mental illness in China? What about when 100s of healthy Chinese think they have HIV.
In early January Ethan Watters of the New York times wrote an article called the “Americanization of Mental Illness,” in which he explores the possibility that by exporting it’s modern knowledge of mental illness around the world, America may, in fact, also have exported many of its mental diseases. Researchers, he says, ” have amassed [...]
Wanna be doing health in China? Beware of red flags (of the minesweeper variety), expect lots of improvisation.
If Stephanie had told me any of this prior to going to Chengdu (I don't think she knew) I would have told her to run for the hills. There are so many red flags in this paragraph that I could write another dozen about them. They are no obvious to people who haven't been in China before, or worked with real world start ups in under regulated regions before; I'm not even sure that they are obvious to people who have had the prior experiences. But, believe me, they are red flags.
Know what you’re breathing in when going outside
When living in an area where the air is obviously polluted with something checking the air quality index (AQI) should be the first thing that you do. But how does one read the AQI? Is it as simple as red and orange mean really bad, and the rest should be ok? It’s not, and if you [...]
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