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Has Antiwave run out of puff?
I have noticed that the quality of podcasts offered by the Chinese site Antiwave has declined recently. For those interested in learning more about Antiwave, you can view Danwei’s interview with Fei Zhu and Ping Ke here. It may be that they are moving away from my preferred content of media-related podcasts and moving towards a more technologically-minded approach. Since the May holidays, they’ve introduced a series of podcasts that only go for one minute, which is far too short for my liking. And I have noticed that Ping Ke doesn’t seem to record any of his own podcasts anymore. My favourites were the ones where Ping Ke analysed things such as Virginia Tech shootings and the omission of pig pictures from the Spring Festival Gala. A lot of Fei Zhu’s work is commendable as well, e.g. his high-profile interviews with Eric Ellis and Samuel Freedman. However, it is Pingke’s voice and ideas that I really like to listen to. The podcasts featuring Jeremy Goldkorn and Keso seemed to be missing something.
Another site that seems to have lost its way is the blog of Ben Ross. After finishing his stint at a Fuzhou barbershop, Ben seems to be lacking direction. He wrote another couple of posts about different barbershops, but it seemed that he was attempting to recapture past glories. I actually enjoyed what Ben wrote about before his stint at the barbershop, which were basically casual observations about life in China. Ben also has an advantageous position because not many foreigners are writing while based in Fujian. Having a lull after the fertile patch of writing that emerged during his barbershop days is completely understandable and I am looking forward to more stuff from Ben soon. It also must be said that Ben has recently been working on a new website.
While on the subject of blogging and podcasting, Danwei posted a rather mysterious message today. Written entirely in Chinese, it appealed for interesting 10-minute videos to be forwarded to the site for the consumption of Danwei’s sizeable foreign readership. The message was tagged in the jobs available, so I assume that Danwei will be paying for the honour of publicising people’s digital videos. If this is the case, then why can’t they publish the message in English and encourage foreigners to film their own videos about China? |
Posted: 7:05 PM, 25/7/2007 in Blogging and the mediaShare on Facebook |
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I wonder if Pingke may have been too busy recently with Wang Xiaofeng's movie.
Anyway, there's a new podcast up with Lao Luo - 13 minutes of interesting conversation. |
Posted by zhwj at 10:32 AM, 26/7/2007 |
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Good post
Nice post. Interesting to see someone blogging on the Chinese blogosphere. I would love to see more posts like this.
www.chinalawblog.com |
Posted by Anonymous at 10:25 AM, 31/7/2007 |
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