I’ve discovered that there is life beyond V3. Here’s an audio interview I did for Danwei’s China businesscast series. They asked me to talk about the ChinesePod business model.
Btw, if you don’t know Danwei, well you should. Great source of information on media-related things in China.
Ken Carroll
Archive for April, 2007
We have started a separate page for “known issues.” The issues listed there are not typos or individual lesson issues, but larger site issues. Take a look at it before reporting a bug. We will be updating this page frequently.
Check it out: V3 Known Issues
-John
As we go through the day you’re welcome to post your ‘discovering V3′ observations.
1. My first insight for you: The Saturday Show can be found here: http://extra.chinesepod.com/
2. A question: “Im having bit of a problem finding my lessons from previous site. If I look at the lessons in the explore section, it […]
With something of this scale, I guess there are bound to be bugs in the new system. It would help if you ChinesePod learners could post any bugs you find here. That’d be a systematic way to deal with them.
We’re not going away. The staff are here over the weekend, too. Let’s get […]
Today is V3 day. We’re working right now on the new servers, migrating data and so on. My hope is that we’re done within a few hours, but please don’t take this as gospel.
Logging in will be exactly as before. We have given you all new user names, but you will be able to change […]
Browbeating, seduction, and chaos
Published by April 12th, 2007 in Innovation and Learning. 0 Comments
Bob Garfield has a piece in Advertising Age about the coming chaos in the advertising industry (and the denial amongst many of its executives). It’s a fascinating article, with observations like this:
The online space isn’t remotely developed enough — nor will it be anytime soon — to absorb the advertising budgets of the top […]
A revealing article on the realities facing old media. Replace ‘training media’ for ‘media’ and the implications are very similar.
For old (training) media, the magnitude of changes equates to Galileo pointing out that the universe doesn’t revolve around the Earth. Traditional (training) media are being rapidly decentred as the key source of (training […]
There has been some concern over the new style of PDF transcript. Let me explain:
1) The traditional characters will be back soon. We are switching things over to V3 where the 2 versions of the PDF transcripts will be in separate files.
2) Copying and pasting from the PDFs: […]
Stephen Krashen
Formal learning involves the type of courses we take in school or on training programs. In school, it is mostly done to us (while we sit passively). It is explicit and presented in structured, generic packages, on a pre-ordained schedule, etc.
Informal learning, by contrast, constitutes everything beyond the formal - anything we learn […]
A termed coined by Jyri Engeström meaning the ability to have your finger on the pulse of your friends, family, and colleagues. Jyri is a founder of Jaiku a similar service to Twitter, Groovr and Dogdeball, which are ‘micro-blogging’ systems enabling the distribution of short-messages between peers. The result is essentially a stream of life-activity […]
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