Twitter Madness

I have had a Twitter account for a few months now but I have rarely used it here in China. Recently, this has changed. More and more of my friends in the expat community in Shanghai are using the service to share various types of information. I noticed the recent growth around the incidents happening in Tibet this month.

Twitter is an easy way to pass along information to a large group of people and also it is NOT blocked in China. Most of the major blogging sites are blocked here in China (despite an argument I had with a local last week who did not believe me) and in order to pass information quickly we need a service like Twitter. As more and more of my friends and contacts out here use the service it becomes even more useful.

If you are not using it yet I suggest you give it a try and look me up: http://www.twitter.com/johnwrede

Other Places I am Writing

It has been way too long since I have written here but I have been trying to get our new Nankeen blog up and running over at http://www.nankeenstyle.com/blog. I have added a new weekly photo series to the site and also commenting a lot on my "on the ground" experiences with China design as a response to the China Design Now Exhibit going on in London.

I will try to update this more frequently...