Artman Talks: Recent Episodes
John Artman
Recorded on July 13, 2012 The settlement has been made: Apple paid 60 million USD to get Proview off their back. The IP case of the century (that had nothing to do with intellectual property) is finally over. I talked with Stan Abrams a few months ago and he speculated on some of the possible […]
Updated to include link for download. Downloading now works. Recorded on May 21, 2011 For this edition of Artman Talks, we’re speaking with David Wolf about his new book Making the Connection: The Peaceful Rise of China’s Telecommunications Giants. In our discussion, we focus on the importance of China’s telecom history, the role of client-centered innovation, […]
Update: Jeremy has recommended some users on Weibo. Find list below. Recorded on May 1, 2012 For this edition of Artman Talks, we’re speaking with Jeremy Goldkorn, of Danwei fame, about weibo’s positioning in the Chinese market as well as some speculation over Sina Weibo’s future and how real name registration plays into this. The […]
Recorded Tuesday, February 21, 2012 If you’re a fellow China watcher, then more than likely you’ve come across Stan Abrams, AKA chinahearsay. As we allude to at the beginning, Stan has been here a long time. I like to (with full knowledge of falsity in most cases) boast that I’ve been in China longer than […]
Recorded on February 4, 2012 Google gives quite a few definition of brands and I’ll give you a few: A type of product manufactured by a particular company under a particular name – a new brand of detergent A brandname – the company will market computer software under its own brand An identifying mark burned […]
Artman Talks is going through some changes parallel to changes in my personal and professional life. For China Radio International, I will still be covering technology, but as an commentator and analyst, not as a reporter or feature producer. This comes as the program I work on, China Drive, is going through some major changes. […]
Okay, this took waaay too long to get up. Actually, I’ve had it edited for the last week or so, but just couldn’t get around to uploading and posting it. So, if you’ve been wondering where Artman Talks went, well, nowhere. This is the problem when your passion has to take a backseat to that […]
Episode 2 of the podcast yet to be christened is here. Update: The No Name podcast podcast is now called China Punks. Find our new blog here. We get a better internet connection (kind of) and stay a little bit more on focused when it comes to topics. We talk about some of the biggest […]
Update: The No Name podcast podcast is now called China Punks. Find our new blog here. Charlie and I are starting a new podcast series in which we discuss current events in tech, China, and culture (especially books, video games, and TV series.) For the first episode, we discuss exactly those topics: namely (roughly in […]
For this episode, we are joined by Kaiser Kuo, international communications director of Baidu. My first encounter with Mr Kuo was his regular column at the back of The Beijinger when I first arrived in 2008, known at the time as That’s Beijing or “the magazine about stuff I can’t afford”. And since then, I’ve […]