Posted on Monday, November 14, 2005 11:09 AM
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update: simon world - collaborative blogging
a detailed report on ESWN and his eswn blog, simon of the simon world was interviewed and commented:
Roland was one of the first to provide good interface between the Chinese online world and the English- speaking online world," said Masnick.
He's got a Western eye and a Chinese eye. He really is in a class of his own. Eventually there will be some imitators, but he was the first, he's the best and will be for a long time.
i'm not sure how many chinese blog in english, it's hard to find people who like eswn have the bilingual ability, a journalistic nose and a strong desire to bridge the two worlds. there is an imitator now, the anti's english blog. i like the idea that anti's english blog recruit a few chinese contributors and has a native english sepaker to help polish the original translations before they are posted.
either too busy or want something bigger, eswn decides to expand his blog by inviting "like-minded" guest bloggers:
...but he'd welcome some collaborators and would like to expand his coverage.
"Maybe the time has come for Version 2.0 to go to Version 3.0," he said. "To find some like-minded people to do a group blog. ... "But if I have a group blog someone else can do that. If it becomes big enough maybe it can make a real difference."
he needs to be more specific as what are the definitions of "like-minded" and how they are supposed to collaborate. anyway, great idea, go ahead and i wish him the best luck in his wonderful job.