It was my great honor to meet Robert Scoble on BIL conference in Monterey California early Mar. 2008. We remembered that Robert blogged that he wished he was in the Chinese Blogger Conference last year, so we took the opportunity to bring up CnbloggerCon 2008 to him in Monterey. Later I contacted Isaac Mao and learned the timing might not be good for Robert to synch up with his plans to go to the World Economic Forum in China. What a pity!
But if you are interested in coming to the China blogger conference this year in China, who would you want to meet up with?
This is a graph I got from Aether’s (in the middle) Facebook album. I met Aether in Hangzhou in 2006 where he was an very active volunteer. It is a great start point to know who you should meet and talk to:
- Isaac Mao: Co-founder and organizer of CnBloggerCon.
- Keso: A pioneer of Chinese bloggers, an IT reviewer with sharp insights.
- Carol: The Twitter Queen of Taiwan, she has 1,306 followers on Mar. 26, 2008.
- Tangos and Luyi : Key contributors of China Web 2.0 Review.
- Awflasher: Guo is running a blog network called IfGoGo – an English blog written by Chinese.
- Bruce Wang (a.k.a Number5 or #5): Bruce is passionated about SNS and now is developing a SNS product for Linkist.com.
- Herock: Herock is an typical example of great blogger who then became an entrepreneur. He has been mentioned in many “top 10 bloggers” list, now in Feedsky, an RSS feed syndication service.
- Vista: One of the first few Taiwanese bloggers to CnbloggerCon. IT blogger.
- Zola: Independent news/media blogger reporter; he first reported the famous “Dingzi Hu”(nail household, 钉子户) news. (Note: “dingzi hu” refers to the residents who defy the local government’s order of moving out of their homes for settlement. These households are usually dislocated by some commercial projects and are compensated by the developers (or government) but in many cases the compensation is hardly enough to start a new home. Therefore they refuse to move, even when construction is proceeding around (literally) their homes.)
Of course, there are many more great bloggers to meet, in art, music, education or even NGO areas, such as as Jianshuo Wang (Wangjianshuo) and Jeremy Goldkorn from Danwei.
BTW, don’t forget to eat some authentic Chinese food when you are in China!
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I’d love a twitter version of this – social graph of people based on Followed, Followers, @Replies, and # of people that co-Follow or are co-Followed by any given 2 people.
Hi, thanks for your mention about ifgogo.
However, the authors are not so “professional” like me, so the post-frequency is really not so high. Anyway, I will try to find some solutions. You know they are all great people with DIFFERENT backgrounds.
When the bloggers are from different backgrounds rather than just coders or programmers, it’s the really victory for all bloggers.
sound like a great opportunity