January 2012
2 posts
UNTITLED
This trumpeter of nothingness, employed To keep our reason dull and null and void. This man of wind and froth and flux will sell The wares of any who reward him well. Praising whatever he is paid to praise, He hunts for ever-newer, smarter ways To make the gilt seen gold; the shoddy, silk; To cheat us legally; to bluff and bilk By methods which no jury can prevent Because the law’s not...
November 2011
4 posts
WatchApple
Managementlitteratur #2
Before globalization reached today’s levels, being a supplier nation did provide opportunities for reasonably stable foreign income, even if it was seldom a recipe for great wealth. But in a globally networked world, where brand-owning companies are free to shop around the world for their raw materials, their manufacturing and labour, and instantaneously locate the best combination of...
Managementlitteratur
The real success story of branding in recent decades has been the way in which companies have used their brands to turn the satisfaction of complex and even spiritual needs into commercial transactions. Once people have reached a level of wealth where all their simple needs are fully met, where they lack nothing which is essential for the satisfactory continuation of their daily lives, one...
October 2011
3 posts
ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF REVOLUTION | 艺术界 LEAP →
中国万岁！
September 2011
2 posts
August 2011
10 posts
Mårten Ekenberg: Morgontrött? →
För mig har brunchrapporten liknande effekt. En pladdrande bondlurk med noll kunskap om någonting använder just sin dumhet som någon sorts bakvänd USP för att göra karriär inom ungdomsradio.
martenekenberg:
Mitt bästa trick för att gå upp på morgonen: Ställ in din radio (jag använder, såklart, en PAL) på P3. Direkt när du vaknar ska radion slås på.
Om du är en white collar worker så börjar...
July 2011
4 posts
Operation UnManifest: As Anders Behring Breivik wants to use the cruel action of killing over 90 young people to promote his 1516-page manifesto, also with the help of the internet, Anonymous suggests following action: 1. Find the Manifest of Anders Behring Breivik : 2083 – A European Declaration of Independence 2. Change it, add stupid stuff, remove parts, shoop his picture, do what you like...
Taiwanese food through mainlander eyes.
I just finished reading the amazing Chinese magazine “Restaurant Review”. The standard of the images, texts, interviews, is equal or above any similar magazine I’ve stumbled upon before. This reassures me that if the Chinese were allowed to voice themselves freely, then I’m sure the creative industry would bloom as well. But that’s sort of a sidetrack of what...
June 2011
7 posts
Kinesiskt "världen är liten"-moment
Frågade min vän, en journalist på den mest inflytelserika nyhetsbyrån här i landet, vilket företag som gett henne den största mutan någonsin. Hennes svar, att det var ett <stort multinationellt läkemedelsföretag> som hade gett henne <en halv månadslön> fick mig att tappa hakan. Det visade sig nämligen att personen som (indirekt) utfärdat mutan är en annan kompis som av en händelse...
Unrest in Hubei and Guangzhou (with Video and... →
Armored vehicles against protesters in Hubei, and all out riots in Guangzhou. The same wee as the second bombing of a government building in China this spring, this time in Tianjin. China is not stable.
China's online warfare may lead to IRL/AFK-war.
[I wrote this for kicks a couple of days ago after reading some Chinese news stories about online warfare, I was going to pitch it for a newspaper or magazine but I sort of forgot about it, and now it’s already semi-old news. Anyway. Hope you enjoy]
China’s People’s Liberation Army recently announced that they will be forming an online army in order to ensure their national...
“From a Provincial Internet Administration Office: Reporting of news related to...”
– Directives from the Ministry of Truth: May 1-31, 2011 | China Digital Times (CDT)
Above quote is an example of censorship instructions, issued to the media and/or Internet companies by the central government in China, that has been leaked (they are routinely being leaked). The above quote is extra...
Chinese illustrator, "Garfield"
May 2011
14 posts
“The best way to think of the Party is to imagine the human resources department...”
– Jaha, nähä. Men i mitt land så är vi faktiskt övertygade om att Kina snarare är en marknadsekonomi med diktaturiska drag. Vår största tankesmedja lyfter fram kinesiska ekonomiska “frizoner” som en förebild.
Primer on China’s Leadership Transition « Patrick Chovanec
Nytt!!!!
Eftersom att jag inte har någon riktig dagbok längre, och har vuxit upp med att skriva dagbok på internet (Skunk) snarare än att spara mina hemligaste hemligheter djupt ned i hårddisken så tänkte jag börja skriva lite mer personligt, och lite mer stream of consciousness:ish. Börjar nu. Eller snart. Vi får se.
““You are NOT allowed to commit suicide: Workers in Chinese iPad factories...”
– Workers in Chinese Apple factories forced to sign pledges not to commit suicide | Mail Online
April 2011
10 posts
