Thanks to our APOC alumnus Jeremiah Abraham, many APOCers including myself got a chance to volunteer at one of the biggest technology industry events, Twiistup, this past Thursday. This event aims to provide a platform for many entrepreneurs in the industry to showcase their innovation and ventures. It seemed to me that everybody in the [...]
Archive for January, 2010
Twiistup!
Posted in APOC, Start-Ups, Technology Industry Event, Twiistup on January 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Hair Is A New Way To Charge Your Cellphone
Posted in Fun Stuff, Innovation on January 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This piece of news from Engadget.com, “Stanford University shows that clothes make good batteries too“, talks about how a Stanford science group has invented a kind of cloth that can store electricity in it. This reminded me of a recent episode of ABC’s “Modern Family”, where a young girl, Alex, tricked her sister Haley into [...]
Three Very Distinctive Communities
Posted in Daily Digest, Go Local, Online Community on January 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In the past two days, three very distinctive communities came into my view: Amish Community The first one is the Amish community in the U.S, introduced by Professor Dmitri Williams in the Thursday night’s class. We watched part of a documentary movie, ” Devil’s Playground”, which depicted this community’s lifestyle and beliefs. It was the [...]
China’s Image Change In American Pop Media
Posted in China on January 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Today, by accident, I stepped in to a GE (general electives) class at USC, and the topic was “The Change of China’s Image in American Pop Media” in the past couple of decades, led by Professor Stanley Rosen. When I told him my Chinese name is “Chao” (usually this means nothing but a syllable to [...]
What Do Chinese People Think of Google’s Potential Exit?
Posted in China, Chinese Tech Industry, Foreign Company in China, Google, Google Leaves China, Government Media Censorship, Illegal Sending Flowers on January 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
(Google’s office in Beijing, China) Since Google made a public statement on Tuesday afternoon that it is considering pulling out of the Chinese market due to cyber attacks it suffered from a source originating in China, in the past two days, this incident has drawn huge attention from the global media and society. Many media [...]
APOC and Kung Fu
Posted in Annenberg Center for the Digital Future, APOC, Charles Annenberg Weingarten Program on Online Communities, Chinese Martial Art, Digital Media, Newspaper Industry Consolidation, USC on January 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Today, the long awaited APOC program finally started! When I arrived at the class building atSanta Monica in the afternoon, I could not help but peek at the busy people passing by on the street, wondering: is he or she another APOCer? When I entered the classroom, a group of APOCers were already sitting there [...]
