Tag: Site News

  • Transpacifica's New Blogging Project: Sinobyte at CNET

    They said this day would never come. Perhaps the biggest fight I’ve ever picked in the blogosphere was when I wrote an opinion piece while a writing intern at Editor & Publisher in 2005 arguing that newspapers should get over blogging and put more energy into innovation. It ran under the provocative headline “Forget Blogs,”…


  • New Banner Image: A Wall Near Shanghai's Moganshan Lu

    Today I’m introducing Transpacifica’s third banner image. This wall near the Moganshan Lu (莫干山路) art district in Shanghai caught my eye. That placard advertising English tutoring is hanging several yards off the ground. We’re also saying goodbye to the previous image. Here it is full-frame below, in a wallpaper-worthy high resolution version.


  • Hitting the Road: Nanjing, Shanghai, and ???

    I’m going to be bouncing around China a bit after more than four months in Beijing. I am flying tomorrow (Tuesday) from Beijing to Nanjing, where I will be doing some reporting and research. I’ll be heading to Shanghai around Friday for a week or so, and may keep moving to some other destinations as…


  • This Blog's Reading Level: Why a Bit Lower is Better

    China Economics Blog finds that it’s reading level is quite high. In fact, according to this automated rating site, you’d have to be a “genius” to understand their work. I don’t know how these ratings are generated, but I did get a little curious about how bright (or educated) someone’s algorithm thinks you should be…


  • The Transpacifica Link Feed is Back

    We’ve re-introduced the link feed. Unlike before, when link posts crowded out the writing, when you visit transpacifica.net, there is now a (nearly) live feed of the links direct from the Transpacifica del.icio.us page (right). In order to keep the links searchable here, and to make sure RSS readers get the daily links as well,…