MSN China has initiated an MSN Messenger campaign allowing Chinese netizens to express their “prayers and blessings” toward the “Wenchuan earthquake disaster area” by changing their MSN signatures to display a rainbow.
This campaign follows in the footsteps of the recent “(L) China” MSN and QQ IM campaign. For every MSN users who add msn-rainbow to their nickname, MSN-China will donate 0.2 yuan to the victims of Sichuan earthquake. It might seem little but every important.
According to MSN, the rainbow represents hope and a good things to come: “We (MSN) believe that there is always a rainbow after the wind and rain.”
Participation in the campaign only requires adding an “(R)” before your MSN Messenger screen-name.
Today, my friend ask me whether mobile phone is the future for newspaper, because mobile also could used to surf Internet, people could review news headline and the whole article frequently. Newspaper may also play some kinds role. However, mobile would be brief way to get news.
That makes me think about evolution of mobile phone. When I was a child, mobile in China did not popular, only rich people bought it. At that time, the mobile is very cumbersome, and function was limited. The mobile just was a phone.
Compare with my mobile, it turns to a small Internet. Check weather, review news, chat with friend, download music, game and videos, all of the basic thing which we could do in computer can also be done in our mobile. meanwhile, it combines function of camera, DV. It makes our life becomes to portable than we have ever been.
However, I could not say that mobile can instead of, such as, newspapers. Newspapers hoping to evolve into local and international information. Although mobile reveal those information quickly. because of technology issue, surf Internet through mobile is not very fast, and people can not review news in any time and any place with reality situation.
Generally, mobile Internet is worthy of praise and expect. What is next in mobile Internet and mobile technology?
The quake, with a magnitude of 7.8, struck close to densely populated areas of Wenchuan in Sichuan province county. With the newest report, about 13,ooo people in the area have been killed by the 7.8-magnitude quake.
My parents live in a county of Sichuan province. It is only 200 km far from Wenchuan county. I try to contact with them in time. However, I could not, because of the breakage of earthquake. All of Lines of Communication are destroyed. Thanks for QQ, the most popular online chat software in China. It is the only one way which could still be used around Sichuan province after the quake. It is the first time which I heartfelt thank the new technology. Lots of people use it to connect their family and friends. They also use internet to get new infor about fare of succor. At this time, for me, I could appreciate QQ which help me to be concerned about my parents from Australia without hesitation.
It is time to start with personal online documentary. I have lots of ideas. However, how to organize them? Or how should I choose the most interesting points? Dean suggested that we should first sketch out our site on a site map. It is useful. But I think it is not enough. Site map would be useful after we have clear idea about the content. So, which one should be the first step?
from theage.com in May 6, 2008 – 5:47PM
The Japanese government will propose this week a plan to charge copyright royalties on sales of iPods and other portable digital music players, as well as on digital hard disk recorders, a major daily newspaper reported Tuesday.
The Agency of Cultural Affairs has not yet decided the amount of the fee, but it would likely be around 100 yen (95 cents) per device for an annual total about 1 billion yen (about $9.5 million), according to the Asahi Shimbun. The proceeds would go to recording companies, songwriters and artists.
Older devices, such as minidisk and DVD recorders, are already subject to a copyright fee.
Representatives for the agency and Apple Japan Inc. could not be reached for comment, as offices were closed Tuesday for a national holiday.
Despite an aggressive push by the Japanese recording industry, a similar proposal to impose an “iPod tax” fell apart in December 2005 after a government committee failed to reach consensus on the issue.
Electronics makers are expected to mount strong opposition to the new levy, as they did on the earlier proposal.
The inclusion of hard disk recorders in the proposal comes less than a month before the start of new digital content protection rules in Japan. Under the “Dubbing 10″ standard, Japanese consumers will be able to make up to nine copies of a recorded digital TV broadcast.
This campaign follows in the footsteps of the recent “(L) China” MSN and QQ IM campaign. For every MSN users who add msn-rainbow to their nickname, MSN-China will donate 0.2 yuan to the victims of Sichuan earthquake. It might seem little but every important.
