There's been a big lack of posts on here for a while, and that's made a couple of you sad. The reason why is simple: I am just way too busy. The site I created with the GoKunming guys, China Sports Today is chugging along and the business of keeping it updated and promoting it is very time consuming. We are looking beyond the Olympics, because we believe that the games are just a starting point for a lot of great stuff on the sports scene here. Our chances of having a mega breakthrough before the games are very small, but this is still a key time for us to get our name out there.
We've made significant strides in promotion--I now post to Danwei.org (a news/media/marketing blog based in Beijing) and Shanghaiist.com (part of the Gothamist family of city sites). Working with the people who run these great sites is not just a great way to get publicity, but also an opportunity to get to know some of the most informed laowai in China, who are doing very important work in keeping the public informed here.
I've also had the opportunity to cover some great stories and more are coming. Last week, I started writing a sports column in a Chinese newspaper, the 21st Century Business Herald. Here is a link to the Chinese homepage for my column. Its name, Zhenpin Tiyu, is a play on my Chinese name that sort of means "Rare Sports,"... it's one of those translations that can't really be translated. Maybe if I stay here long enough, I'll understand what it really sounds like to a Chinese person. The English version of my first column is here.
Anyway, all of that should give you some idea how busy I am. If you want to know what I'm up to, the sports site is a better bet than here for a couple of months.
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