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China's first blogger on his country's rapidly expanding blogsphere | Asia New Zealand Foundation
"The number of bloggers in China has exploded in the past seven years to over 40 million and that number is continuing to grow, says the man who was there at the beginning when the scene was a nascent one in 2002.
Isaac Mao is the man credited with being one of the very first Chinese internet users to set foot in what has since become the country’s massive blogosphere. He’s a kind of godfather to the movement which is becoming increasingly self aware of its power to circumvent the Chinese government’s centralised efforts to control news and social media content.
Mao was in New Zealand for a week to talk to journalism students in Auckland, Hamilton and Wellington and to meet with journalists and bloggers. In his presentations at AUT, Wintec and Whitireia, Mao illustrated the explosive growth of blogging and social media in China from 2002 when there were about 1000 bloggers, all of whom he says he knew personally, to the staggering number we see today.
The Shanghai-based Mao travels constantly. He is very much in demand as a speaker and commentator on the internet and social media trends. His visit to New Zealand was organised by Jim Tucker at the Whitireia Polytechnic Journalism School who had met Mao at a regional media forum in Jakarta last year. The Asia New Zealand Foundation provided funding to enable the visit to happen.
Mao says he chose his English name from two pioneering individuals who inspired him when he was growing up – the scientist Isaac Newton and the science fiction writer Isaac Asimov. He says it is impossible to prove if he and another person whom he met online were the first bloggers. “Mr Zheng and I were called the first bloggers in China. But it is very hard to track who is the first one.”
As an alumni of the Berkman Centre for Internet and Society at Harvard University in Massachusetts, he divides his time between researching social media trends and his work as a blogger, venture capitalist, educationalist and public speaker. The common denominator of all aspects of his work is being
blogaderas: Knowledge is power
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Chinese blogger Isaac Mao came to speak at Wintec today to inform us about social media in general. I found it immensely fascinating when he said that 80% of the general populace in China are not aware that their internet system is censored and is separate to that of the rest of the world.
Changing the world, one byte at a time
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It's part of a movement that social media researcher Isaac Mao (@isaac) calls "sharism," a digitally enabled culture of sharing that has emerged among China's global voices. "The underground has embraced the community norms of the Internet and digital media" -- particularly, says Mao, the notion that creative content should be distributed without restriction or license.
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In the area of e-commerce, Sandy Hails from her early post-university days with www.etransfar.com, a well-known and Chemical Logistics enterprise in Zhejiang Province. Not long after those formative first two years, in 1999 she took a chance as she was brought aboard a small fledgling company with big dreams of Dominating the Internet-based commerce. Working from Mr. Isaac Mao’s house as the 47th employee, Sandy took part in leading the charge to develop this company - named Alibaba.com - and to promote its growth as China’s most revered and respected commercial trade site, which currently employs over 300.000. After five years of spearheading the design and implementation of Alibaba’s core feature set, example trade leads, product showroom, and company profile, she decided to make a break from the industry giant and start her own private company in 2004. Anyone who considers themselves a key player in the industry should be watching to see where Sandy Liu’s enormous experience in B2B e-commerce, product management, and online marketing takes her in the future.
- Isaac Mao on Sharism, Religion and Culture
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When I first read Isaac’s gentle “manifesto” about Sharism I was instantly pulled into to the clarity and intent of his writing. I thought here is a man contemplating the enormous cultural and technological development that he himself is thriving inside of and he has perspective and keen insight. I know that Stuart Kauffman is looking for a new global ethic and right in front of us is a powerful new tool and sensibility that is emerging.
SonntagsZeitung | Multimedia
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Stimmt. Früher war ich Programmierer, hatte eine Softwarefirma, war Geschäftsmann - ein Leben, das viele Chinesen heute führen. Seit ich blogge, kenne ich viele Leute auf der ganzen Welt, ich begann über «Sharism» nachzudenken und wurde zu einer Art Mental Power für viele, die auf der Suche nach Internationalität sind; und ich forsche heute in Harvard. Vor dem Blogging war ich Chinese, heute bin ich Weltenbürger.
南昌强令网吧转系统软件 收费五千遭各界质疑
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大陆的互联网研究人士Issac Mao 认为推广Linux、挑战微软垄断局面原本是件好事，但将其列为政策不但剥夺了消费者选择权；而且对于维护知识产权方面是否有效也值得商榷：“完全可以免费使用的操作系统，但它强行推销了一个服务红旗Linux,包括安装这些，是不是人们都愿意接受？最重要的是它装了之后，用户会不会去用这些软件，像网吧的用户们要去学怎样使用，会不会回头又切换到盗版的windows呢？政府强行推广并非按照用户需求，其实夹带着私利，也可能是某公司的利益在里面。”
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Isaac Mao, who is often referred to as China’s first blogger (pictured right) and has watched bloggers slowly facing China’s media landscape for the better, found the absence of livebloggers and users of microblogging sites such as Twitter surprising. -
“We have millions of bloggers now; millions doing the same makes it tough for the government to monitor it. I am waiting for the tipping point: we are now at a crossroads. Many journalists have started their own blogs now, some even blog more than they write for the traditional media outlets they work for.
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FREESOULS: Captured and Released is a new book by the entrepreneur and photographer Joi Ito, which brings to print the best of his landscape and portrait photography. The book features hundreds of superb portraits of many of the leaders in both Technology and Creative industries. The book also includes important new essays by Howard Rheingold, Lawrence Liang, Yochai Benkler, Cory Doctorow and Isaac Mao, with a foreword by Lawrence Lessig and a special interview with Joi Ito. FREESOULS marks an important new step in free culture publishing, as all of the portraits in the book will be available for re-use. The book should be of special interest to digital photographers, Internet enthusiasts and free culture theorists.
LiteraryMinded: Join the Revolution! An interview with Antony Loewenstein on <i>The Blogging Revolution</i>
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The bloggers and dissidents that Antony Loewenstein meets up with in The Blogging Revolution are from repressive regimes Iran, Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Cuba and China. Some face torture and imprisonment for speaking out - not just about political issues, but on details of their social or personal lives and beliefs. Some use the medium to garner an audience beyond their own country - to express frustration of their situation, and give others better opportunities for understanding their culture and the individuals within it. Some bloggers utilise the medium to educate others in their own area - on topics like women's rights and sexual health.
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