In reply to EastSouthWestNorth...plus some thoughts...

Click on the title and read it (if you want), what EastSouthWestNorth (ESWN) said about the emergence of free paper in HK (& bridge blogging). What interested me isn't what ESWN said about my previous post, but what he said afterwards:

"As an individual person, I think that the more interesting blog post would be about my meeting with the Metro managemet in Santiago de Chile in which they explained their business model and distribution strategy to me. And I can also tell you more than two or three things about the readership characteristics of free vs. paid newspapers that may affect their survivability."


I personality found that very interesting, and should ESWN decided to write about the two topics he outlined, I will certainly be the first one to read them. I was interested by this topic, that's the sole reason why I wrote those posts.




Something else that is interesting is Bridge blogging - "usually the project of a single blogger, or a small group of authors. Bridge bloggers write for an audience outside their everyday reality - for instance, when Ory Okolloh writes about corruption in Kenya, reaching family at home and readers at Harvard, she is bridge blogging. And when people comment on her blog from outside Kenya, they're bridging back." (from this Global voices Wiki page here)

As for bridge blogging, by definition, it's how I intend to write my more serious blogs in the first place - to inform, with english, others about what's happening, in Hong Kong, UK or otherwise, since we don't live in a society where we all have perfect access to information. However, I never had such definite concept in mind, until now; and the fact is - everytime I write such posts, it's as much an intellectual journey for me as informing other bloggers about what's happening, what's behind it, and what the consequences are. the advent of internet and blogging allowed and motivated me, basically, to carry out research on topics which I was interested, had no previous knowledge, and otherwise wouldn't be able to for one reason or another.

Two more things to say to ESWN: blog whichever way you want, and can; also, the link to my post is wrong.