David: @kenworker agrees: being a host is hard because you’re never assured if the content is good or not. But today, we’ve good stuff!
Introduction from @kenworker: The Socialization of Blogs
Why socialize blogs? We’ve gone on over from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0. Everyone’s a provider of information, so to speak. As someone proving info, we need to provide content, but we also need to talk. In doing so we can get more info and improve quality. The birth of SNS threatened blogs a little, but at the same time gave a good platform with blogs. It used to be that you got all your content in a one-way manner from the Web. Then we started 2.0.
This prezo right now is Students 2.0.
Students 2.0
Blogs and socialization. Shows Xiaonei. Ads make things a bit more uncomfortable. Mentions Twitter. Not a lot of tweeters; more use local variants a la Zuosa and gang. Adding different modules of content, if we may, into a page. Microblogs, AV, other widgets. Also flickr, etc… No games?…
Talking about comments and trackbacks
Mentions utilities such as Twitter, FriendFeed, Last.fm, Facebook, Google, Pownce, Digg, del.icio.us. Now on about OpenID. Blog socialization in China at the moment — we’ve BlogBus, yo2.cn, yculblog, Qzone (?), China Blogger Network, Bullog, Feedsky, more…
A blog circle: the best SNS. Hi quality of friends, low communication cost, better privacy, more freedom (“true harmony”!!
www.mcgeek.cn – homepage of Students 2.0 presenter. Good stuff
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China social media and the world: US 220M Netizens; CN 253M; 74M bloggers in US, over 100M in China. Blogs and how they reacted to the Wenchuan earthquake. Prayers...
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Social Learning in Theory and Practice Speaker: Jean Chow, aka. GoldRed Learning and Educating Through Social Media: “Sustained-improvement process” through...
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From @kenworker: The next topic is a panel regarding online word-of-mouth marketing: @Tangos moderating panel. Others taking part: @WebLeOn, Grey Chan, Nathan...
CIC “Blog Content Mining & Analysis” at CNBloggerCon 2008 Guangzhou 
