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Monday, November 20, 2006
Apple Daily on Taiwan English Bloggers
The Chinese-language tabloid Apple Daily had an article on the excellent blog initechnology.com as well as podcaster Gem at Misadventures in Taiwan today on page A14. I can;'t find the story online, unfortunately.
Nobody reads the Apple Daily. They just look at the pictures :)
Seriously, I noticed a sudden unexplained spike in traffic on my blog yesterday. I wonder if it got mentioned in the Apple Daily or some other newspaper as well.
More people "read" the Apple than any other newspaper in Taiwan. As it has only been in circulation for three years, it must be a fine publication indeed to catch the eye of Taiwan's discerning public.
Apple Daily appals and sickens me on a near-daily basis, but I trust their reporting more than some of other media outlets out there.
A media watchdog group named China Times and United Daily News as the papers who carried the most number of misreported stories this august and september, including a real howler from UDN, which stated breathlessly that Japan's shinkansen bullet train can come to an emergency halt in 3 seconds. Wow! Going from 300 km/h to zero in three seconds. As a snarky letter to the editor pointed out, that's better than Spiderman can do.
YOU READ THE APPLE DAILY?!?!?!?
ReplyDeleteHaha, good to know what's out there I guess.
No! I was alerted by others. LOL. Now I'll have to be nice to them.
ReplyDeleteMichael
Alerted by others? Sure. Which others. Nobody reads that rag....
ReplyDeleteHey, I never diss and tell... :) Actually a couple of people who knew about the article in advance alerted me.
ReplyDeleteMichael
Everybody reads the Apple Daily. It's the most entertaining publication in town!
ReplyDeleteNobody reads the Apple Daily. They just look at the pictures :)
ReplyDeleteSeriously, I noticed a sudden unexplained spike in traffic on my blog yesterday. I wonder if it got mentioned in the Apple Daily or some other newspaper as well.
More people "read" the Apple than any other newspaper in Taiwan. As it has only been in circulation for three years, it must be a fine publication indeed to catch the eye of Taiwan's discerning public.
ReplyDeleteApple Daily appals and sickens me on a near-daily basis, but I trust their reporting more than some of other media outlets out there.
ReplyDeleteA media watchdog group named China Times and United Daily News as the papers who carried the most number of misreported stories this august and september, including a real howler from UDN, which stated breathlessly that Japan's shinkansen bullet train can come to an emergency halt in 3 seconds. Wow! Going from 300 km/h to zero in three seconds. As a snarky letter to the editor pointed out, that's better than Spiderman can do.
Here is the article: My wife just found it online somewhere!
ReplyDeleteNovember 20, 2006 / APPLE DAILY
老外看台灣(轉自蘋果日報)
【楊桂華╱台北報導】
老外也掀起哈台風。
來自美國紐約、旅台近20年的馬克龍（Marc Plumb），有感於台灣文化之美，耗時兩個月架設展示早期台灣風貌圖片與影像網站，搜羅1300張包括總統府、監察院、台大醫院日據時期舊照片，與台灣歷年紙鈔與硬幣圖像等，極具文化價值。
馬克龍感嘆，台灣人對自己歷史很冷漠，就連一般圖書館也缺乏早期台灣史料。在他蒐集的影像中，最喜歡的是北市圓山公園舊照片，背景就是現在的中山北路，這張日據時代舊照片還可看到繁忙街道上，有穿著和服的日本婦人穿梭，一旁還有當時的黑頭計程車等，別有風味。
瀏覽過馬克龍網站的侯先生說，很佩服馬克龍的用心，一個外國人能對台灣文化如此執著，他覺得很感動。
而來自菲律賓的Gem架設「Misadventures in Taiwan」網站，記錄旅台生活與觀察，最近她也拍了一段有關台灣數學作業簿的影片，吸引不少人瀏覽；她在影片中提到，台灣的筆記本與作業簿都很便宜，尤其數學作業簿設計不少空格，很適合用來畫分鏡表，讚美這些便宜作業簿比昂貴筆記本好用很多。
旅台20年的美國人馬克龍蒐集台灣舊照片
http://initechnology.com
菲律賓華僑 GEM 將日常所拍影像放上網
http://web.tnnua.edu.tw/~g920713/blog.1.html
The Apple Daily printed:
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... 旅台近20年的馬克龍（Marc Plumb）...
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Marc's been "traveling" in Taiwan for nearly 20 years, or does "旅" have another meaning with which I'm unfamiliar?
Tim Maddog
>>Marc's been "traveling" in
ReplyDelete>>Taiwan for nearly 20 years,
>>or does "旅" have another
>>meaning with which I'm unfamiliar?
It's actually an abbreviation for "旅居"...means something like, take impermanent residency?