Category: Personal
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I was shocked at the price of a cup of the “Super Dahongpao” tea: 118 yuan (about $20). Granted, the markup is assured here in the lobby of the shiny new Crowne Plaza Beijing. But I had to order it, especially after reading in this morning’s China Daily how this very rare tea is changing…
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I was jarred by the familiar Apple chime from the table adjacent, as I sat down for lunch with my wife in the shadow of the Pantheon in Paris last week. Across the street, was the scene of the crime from two decades past: a place where I attended a single mind-numbing class in European…
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It’s a constant struggle — that balance between bragging/TMI (Too Much Information) and the need to promote our abilities and presence in this chaotic communications ecosystem. We’ve discussed this on several occasions in our “Narrative & Networks in Digital Media” class, driven especially by our reference to Networked: The New Social Operating System. That given…
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“Can girls do that too and stuff?” my daughter Rose asked me, for the second time. We were both glued to the live YouTube feed of Felix Baumgartner’s awe-inspiring freefall jump from the edge of space, even as we were visiting Seattle’s Museum of Flight (which curiously, wasn’t screening the historic event anywhere). My four…
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