T-Salon

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"Jiwai.de (the "Chinese Twitter") and the big screen dynamic BBS are hits at this meeting." Via blognationChina, who is doing live conference micro-blogging in Twitter.

This is one of the most interesting and surprising thing I find about the conference. The freewheeling spirit in all these public "back channel" chatters adds so much more fun to the conference.

Update: Messages posted on Day 1 are archived here and Day 2 here.
See also Thomas Crampton's Will China Twitter for more about this twitterish-like phenomena at cnbloggercon and in China.

Anyone who is interested in saying a hello or sending a message to the audience viaat the conference can simply do so by adding wo@jiwai.de in GTalk or msn008@jiwai.de in MSN Messenger and then send an instant message jiwai in the following structure: @cbc +[space]+[your message]

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img_0339. Bruce and Zola distributing conference proceedings over multiple internet channels.
Originally uploaded by ZhangYining

"I wish I was at Chinese BloggerCon," Robert Scoble wrote.

"Next year I want to do a BloggerCon here at the same time and build a video bridge so we could talk about the same issues. Heck, let’s do it."

I like the idea. Yes, let's try to do this next year and we can have more cross-cultural conversations in two continent over the internet.

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This year's Chinese Blogger Conference will take place in Beijing as well as virtually on the internet this coming weekend.

As in previous years, there are a wide variety of topics that would appeal to anyone interested in the latest trends and application of new media in Chinese media, education, business, etc. sectors.

Here are my picks (in no particular order) from this year's conference program:

Zhang Lei's talk on How does Social Collaboration Change the Practice of Translation? (社会协作力量如何改变翻译格局)

Art 1.5: "Digital" Art (艺术1.5:"电子"艺术).

NGOs in the Internet Era: Understanding and Realizing the Impact and
Value of Information Technology / Web 2.0 on Social Work (互联网时代的NGO——了解和实现IT/WEB2.0对于社会性工作的影响和价值)

Grassroots Media and Professional Media (草根媒体与专业媒体)

Micro-blogging and Its Potential (微Blogging和潜力)

Watch this space and space for live transcript which you may also subscribe to for live streaming transcripts and conference tidbits over any major instant messaging services.

Update: Conference transcript (in Chinese) will be broadcast over on IRC channel at irc://chat.freenode.net/#cnbloggercon

See also:
3rd Annual Chinese Blogger Conference - Fact Sheet for a quick overview in English about the conference.
Cnbloggercon on Netvibes to find out the latest photos, conference news, blog posts from the conference.

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