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Twitter is a tool, and so is Maureen Dowd
I was cruising the blogs here at CNET Asia when I came across Isabella Chen’s recent post “Twitter? Why not?“. Isabella, a fantastic blogger out of Singapore, opens her post by explaining: “To be honest, I don’t really get Twitter.” A lot of people seem to share this lack of understanding about the world’s current “it” topic.
Certainly, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd does, as she so comprehensively illustrated in her recent twinterview with Twitter founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams. “I would rather be tied up to stakes in the Kalahari Desert, have honey poured over me and red ants eat out my eyes than open a Twitter account. Is there anything you can say to change my mind?”
A few changes around here
For a few months now I’ve wanted to change the look of this site, but never seem to have the time to do it. So, in an effort to at least get the site partly doing what I want it to, I’ve started making some changes. I’ll be tweaking some design elements over the next …
CNET Asia’s The Tech Dynasty – A new blog under my care
Many of you likely know my friend Rick Martin and his excellent blog, PandaPassport. You may also know Rick from his writings at the Little Red Blog on CNET Asia. Well, in an effort to hone his ninja skills, in about two weeks Rick leaves China and moves to Japan. After I wiped away the …
Redesigning The Duck
Back in 2004 when I decided to come to China I immediately hit the blogs to get a “feel” for what life for expats was like there. There were three blogs that immediately became my favourites, and have largely remained so in the nearly four years since. Mask of China Sinosplice The Peking Duck That …
Got a China-centric blog? Check out the China Blog Network
As I know many folks that meander by here are bloggers like myself, I wanted to make sure you all heard about the China Blog Network. I’ll not reiterate it all here again, as I’ve already posted about it at Lost Laowai, but bare bones: In an effort to tie together all us sinobloggers, we’re …
The Humanaught v3 Has Arrived
My eyes are cooked, my ass is numb, my fingers are cramped… the redesign is done!
For anyone not reading this in their RSS feed reader or on a splog, the changes should be pretty apparent. But I’m going to run through some of them anyway 
First, I should mention, I’m not a big fan of switching themes. I think a blog develops some of its character from the look of it, and if it’s changing all the time, I feel it takes something away from it all.
That said, I really wanted to have a design that was all mine. Design, coded and styled from the ground up by me. It’s actually a little pecular that this site, my first, was the last one to get its own custom design.
Well, I should give some credit to Chris Murphy at Far From Fearless for giving me some healthy inspiration. His excellent design played a heavy influence in how I wanted my new look to look.
So, what’s new?
