June 14, 2007
Comments: A Note to Readers
Over the years, those who have added their comments directly underneath a post have been in the large part agreeable and positive.
On the other hand, readers with ideas contrary to my own, seem to send email directly to me. Sadly, they do not, for some reason, choose to post directly on the weblog. Without your permission, I will not take the comment you've sent me personally, and tack it onto the blog. The readership in general loses the opportunity to learn from you.
Any comment, whether in agreement or not, made in the positive spirit of debate, is valid. You are encouraged to disagree.
Posted by Richard at 1:14 PM | Comments (0)December 27, 2006
China Blocks Access to Asia Business Intelligence Weblog
UPDATE (Dec. 28): The earthquake that disrupted internet access in Korea, Taiwan and parts of China may have caused the block reported below. This article describes the damage to undersea cables in detail, stating that "China Telecom, one of the mainland's main telecommunication and broadband service providers, said that at least six of its cables in the sea area 15 kilometers south of Taiwan had been cut, affecting telecommunications between the mainland and Taiwan, U.S. and Europe."
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Reports from Chinese subscribers confirm that this weblog is no longer accessible in several of China's largest cities. Well over a thousand readers visit this site from China daily. Is the block uniform throughout the country?
Readers in China who receive this post in their e-mail are kindly asked to email in reply their physical location and whether the weblog or an error message displays.
We are now among the list of sites considered too sensitive or offensive for viewing within the Golden Shield (金盾), including the Voice of America, the BBC and several thousand others.
Tools for circumventing blocked access include:
* Freenet
* Psiphon
* The Google Mirror, here or here.
Other methods may work -- please comment directly to this post if you know of any.
August 11, 2006
[Thanks to a number of readers who have asked about podcasts. Technical problems, as well as projects at hand, have delayed the recording of new podcasts. Apologies! We should have new podcasts available shortly. Past podcasts remain available for listening here].
Posted by Richard at 6:31 PM | Comments (0)May 19, 2006
ABI Podcast Downloads More Popular Than Ever
Our podcasts are downloaded nearly 1,500 times each day. We get especially heavy usage through iTunes. A heartfelt thanks to all of our podcast listeners! To listen to the podcast archive, click this link.
Posted by Richard at 6:16 PM | Comments (0)March 30, 2006
Yours Truly, Interviewed
As part of his series on international business, Wayne Turmel, host of The Cranky Middle Manager Show, interviewed me recently on the state of Chinese business management. It was an honor to have been asked and a pleasure to have been interviewed. We hope you find it worthwhile as well. Here it is at Wayne's site on The Podcast Network. Alternatively, click this link to listen to an mp3 of the show. After Wayne's preface, we begin conversing at around the 5 minutes and 40 seconds (05:40) into his show.
May I also say that, during the lengthy hiatus from blogging, I was amazed and grateful to many readers for their kind email asking where I had gone to. It was only the rush of pressing projects that kept me away from this site, and I will be back writing within the next few days.
Posted by Richard at 7:26 PM | Comments (1)March 6, 2006
Request for Articles
欢迎任何在中国商业界法律界人士或在学研究员，若有兴趣将您的文章刊载此网站，请直接把文稿或摘要email给总编辑。文章内容必须有助于让美国商人了解中国商业环境且要适合网站的题材。Posted by Richard at 10:36 PM | Comments (1)Do you have an article, in either Chinese or English, that would help Americans understand the way business is done in China? If you are a Chinese national, currently working or studying in the PRC, we'd like to hear from you. Send us an email with the text of your essay, or with an idea for an essay, and， if we think it's suitable for this website, we'll publish it.
October 16, 2005
Comments Re-Enabled After Lengthy Hiatus
After a summer of comment spammers, we've upgraded the blogging software and, we hope, to greater protection. Comments have been re-enabled. You're welcome to comment, as long as you sign in through the Typekey authentication system. Register for Typekey here.
Posted by Richard at 7:17 PM | Comments (0)February 20, 2005
Prior Posts Still Available at Salon
Archived posts are available at this address.
The new address of the Asia Business Intelligence weblog is www.asiabizblog.com, which supercedes the former blogspot.com domain, due to inconsistent access to the blog in China.
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