Blogging – A great evening with Rebecca and Isaac

 

Foreign correspondents, webloggers and other communicaters gathered for an informal meeting of the Shanghai Foreign Correspondents Club with Rebecca MacKinnon on the future of foreign correspondence, weblogging and the internet. Rebecca’s own transfer from CNN to weblogging is a good illustration of the media revolution taking place, but then in a very personalized way. She for sure took also her presentation skills along from CNN. Isaac Mao came with the latest war stories from the Chinese blogosphere.

On a question on whether money could be made with blogging, Isaac told that he as a VC had just put money in the first Chinese host of weblogs.

He came also with a great example on the growing influence of China’s weblogs. One of the more popular webloggers, Topku, had revealed how the new logo of Lenova, China’s largest computer manufacturer, had interesting similarities with another website. A few days ago the website was taken out of the air ‘for technical reasons’.

Of course the question came up about the reliability of weblogs. But that did not matter anymore, argued Rebecca. “It is out there nobody can stop it, so we should deal with it.”