First, this info:
DPP RALLY IN TAICHUNG MAR 16: Information here. Gonna be huge! On to the posts:
KUDOS TO: Taiwan's baseball team, qualifying for the Olympics.Old stuff from the days when US military personnel were here. Taoyuan Nights wonders how to socialize here. Don't miss The Foreigner's fantastic rundown of the KMT invasion of DPP HQ. J Michael rips the Taiwan-Israel analogy again. Black American Lawyer blogs on Taiwan not getting it. David on the Taipei Cycle Show .The Wild East has a piece on Cloud Gate. That's Impossible has so many good posts this week, it is impossible to catch up. Read them all. Global Voices Online collects Twitter posts that respond to 6 election questions. Save the Dolphins on allegations of under the table payments to EPA members in exchange for the construction of the coal burning power plant. Yes, that's right, our idiot government is building coal-fired power generators. Todd, as always, has awesome photos of his latest hike, on Yangmingshan. ROC the Boat on the State Department and China's human rights violations. The Foreigner on the KMT's boycott of the referendums. Battlepanda translates a great article on red light running here. Scott points to GLINT, the journal of the Taichung Writer's Association. Jeff on Keelung's historic forts and batteries. Maddog has video links to the second presidential debate.
SCIENCE: Taiwanese researchers demonstrate that global warming is pushing up sea level even faster than thought, since much of the rise is trapped behind dams.
MEDIA: A Taiwan student wins a Japanese award for his butterfly tracking system. In addition to the abysmal decision to build coal-fired power plants, the EPA also gave the Suhua Highway the green light, to public protests. The connection is that a group of a half dozen people sits on both committees. Ralph Jennings on the rising profile of aborigines as an election tactic. A senior defense official in Japan says a crisis here is a Japan security issue. Rob McFarland in the NZ Herald on visiting the nuns at a Buddhist monastery here. Jon Adams with a nice piece on the election prediction markets here.
SPECIAL: Transcript of Kathrin Hille interview of Chen Shui-bian in the Financial Times. And they put almost all of it in, too.
COLLECTIVE PIMP: Fotoblogs out the wazoo here, people, go have a look at 35togo amateur commune andres Barking Deer News battphotos Ben Huang Chez Wang Closer Look Craig Ferguson Images The Daily Someone the forgetful's photo gallery Formosa Birding Fotozon Daily Freeflying in Taiwan Joanna Rees Photography Lief in Taiwan Lomicus Dorkus (The Daily Lomo) Love Songs (Are for Losers) Fotologging Taiwan leftmind MaMaHuHu The New Hampshire Bushman in Taiwan and The World Photoactionboy Photoblogging Taiwan photogale Roger in Taiwan Scenes Tagging Taichung Taiwan: One Perspective Taiwanphotographers Taiwan Troll's Galleries Unplugged
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6 comments:
The posts summarized on GV are on Twitter, not blogs. Twitter is sometimes called a "microblogging" platform, but it is really a whole different beast. What was interesting about this exchange is that it was not the kind of "I'm having coffee now." type of fare which is stereotypically associated with twitter. Twitter can be much, much more!
About this KMT intrusion, the thing that keeps shocking me, besides the balls of the whole thing is this:
How were they expecting to find out anything about the 13th floor lease anyways? Were they expecting to just head up to floor 13, find the smiling floor attendant, ask for the proof, and happily head on their merry way?
This is the type of thing you need to break in at night to do. Geez... even Nixon knew that! So now they are ballsy AND stupid.
Check out the loaded language on the otherwise intriguing Ralph Jennings article:
"About 98 percent of Taiwan's 23 million people trace their ancestry back to China, which has claimed Taiwan since it broke away during the Chinese civil war in 1949 and pledged to take it back by force if necessary."
*eyeroll* Well, you can't get everything right. Co-opting minority culture has always been a key tool in politics. Just ask any politician in California, or a member of any one of China's "recognized minorities".
Hey, that Science paper was a good catch... actually haven't seen it in the local news, but it should be getting bigger coverage than it is.
Kind of a homerun for the authors--a tight, simple, creative paper with grand implications. Nice.
Thanks for your advice and for posting the links on your blog. I'm sure I will see you around.
Thanks for the heads up Michael. This semester I have to organize a conference at NTNU in addition to teaching at Huafan and doing my PhD course work- so life is busy.
My PhD will probably be about visual culture and how it encourages learning. Who knows, perhaps once I start doing my research it would be good to talk to you about your own teaching and how you use images to encourage fluency in EFL teaching.
Take care,
Jo
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