It’d be really nice to be able to SMS my friends in other countries. I thought it might be possible using this service, Free SMS @ SMS.ac, which Joi Ito recently mentioned, but I couldn’t find out whether it’d work in Korea till after I signed up. Unfortunately, it doesn’t, and I can’t see that changing anytime soon. Argh.
Month: February 2005
Chinese SF mags
A while back, Cory Doctorow posted about one of his stories being pirated for a Chinese magazine. Well, it seems there’s a boom in SF magazine publication now, and Jeremy Goldkorn of Danwei is on the story: here’s a post about new mags, and an interview with the editor of one of them. I wonder if any non-Chinese authors are getting more than just authorial credits… but I figure if it’s popularlizing SF in China, it might be worth the loss. As an added bonus, here’s the blog of the editor interviewed, who goes by zhwj; it has all kinds …
Right To Freedom Of Religion?
Just a question, but does the Korean government actually recognize freedom of religion? Is one free to reject Confucian beliefs, for example, and is this freedom explicitly recognized in any critical legislation? Because this news report passed on by KimcheeGI suggests you may forfeit your rights to own property if you aren’t a good Confucian. Well, actually, if you fail to be a good Confucian after promising to be one: A son who failed to mow the grass around the graves of his ancestors and properly show respect to his ancestors will forfeit his rights to a valuable patch of …
Download Crackdown?
The KimcheeGI reports a coming mess: SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Yonhap) — The government’s planned crackdown on rampant illegal online downloading of music, movie and games has driven the country’s Internet users into a state of confusion. In South Korea, about 36 million people use Internet, or 68.2 percent of the country’s population. Many of them have personal homepages or blogs containing downloaded music files and lyrics of pop songs and postings from other Internet sites. It has become a part of their daily life to swap music and movie files using peer-to-peer (PSP) programs. I have to wonder if it …
Blog Posting Styles
Amy Gharan over at Contentious has some posts up about Blogging Style: The Basic Posting Formats (Series Index) which are worth a read for some people out there. I know I got at least one good idea from them. via Blinger. After reading blogs for awhile, I?