Category Archives: Blogs

HP Blogger Deletes Another Customer Comment

A few days ago I wrote about HP’s censoring, and then uncensoring, of a comment to its blog. The removal of the comment caused a furore and led to the HP blogger, David Gee, apologising and acknowledging the good learning experience: This was a good learning experience for us and we strive to maintain honest… Read More »

HP Gets Blogging. Or Does It?

I’m looking forward to the history of this period being written. It’s all moving very fast, and it’s sometimes easy to miss moments that could, for want of a less cliched term, be called tipping points. We keep hearing about how companies have got to wake up to the power of blogs, and the idea… Read More »

A Wake, And A Wake-Up Call

Just got back from a ‘wake’ for the Far Eastern Economic Review, which, after 58 years, went monthly last October under the ownership of my employer, Dow Jones. I won’t get into the politics of that decision, but it did occur to me, listening to some eminent former FEER personnel talking this evening, that three… Read More »

Witch-Hunts, The Media and Bloggers

(Updated April 5 2020 to include working link to the Hunting of the President movie. Thanks to Finn of StreamingMoviesRight.com for the info.) I don’t read much in the blogosphere on China, although I’m starting to. But the mere act of exploring what is available in the blogging world on a topic I haven’t looked at… Read More »