Comments on: The Time of Han Han (2) +Ulterior Rant http://chinayouren-free.com/2010/04/12/3580 Of China changing the World Thu, 17 May 2012 01:40:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: transliterationisms http://chinayouren-free.com/2010/04/12/3580/comment-page-1#comment-23509 transliterationisms Sat, 08 May 2010 07:16:30 +0000 http://chinayouren-free.com/2010/04/12/3580#comment-23509 I know I'm not the first to point this out, but Time magazine, like its partner Newsweek, is not an important or influential magazine in America, by a long-shot. The collapse of the perennially-on-deathwatch Newsweek this week (US News and World Report died so long ago it's hard to even remember when) only makes this reality more clear. Hopefully, I pray, this will force whatever part of the world that still looks to old standards like Time, Newsweek, Nytimes, as their "window into America" to come to grips with the incredible changes happening in America, particularly with regards to the media. I could write a book on this here, but to many Americans, even writing this much about it seems like a waste of time. I know I’m not the first to point this out, but Time magazine, like its partner Newsweek, is not an important or influential magazine in America, by a long-shot. The collapse of the perennially-on-deathwatch Newsweek this week (US News and World Report died so long ago it’s hard to even remember when) only makes this reality more clear. Hopefully, I pray, this will force whatever part of the world that still looks to old standards like Time, Newsweek, Nytimes, as their “window into America” to come to grips with the incredible changes happening in America, particularly with regards to the media. I could write a book on this here, but to many Americans, even writing this much about it seems like a waste of time.

]]> By: Julen Madariaga http://chinayouren-free.com/2010/04/12/3580/comment-page-1#comment-22430 Julen Madariaga Tue, 13 Apr 2010 01:31:30 +0000 http://chinayouren-free.com/2010/04/12/3580#comment-22430 Well, there are different ways to campaign for something. Openly asking for votes is just one of them, another more subtle one would be to mention this in more posts, or even let some fan websites or BBS know that it is important... Whatever. The point is that by number of fans, Han should be able to win easily. But this only works if there is some kind of campaign - by him or by others - that motivates his millions of readers to open an English language website and work out how to vote on it. Koreans have very good results at this because the Korean internet is very concentrated and already used to this kind of campaigning. But looking at the raw numbers there is no doubt that Chinese fans would quickly outnumber them if they tried. Well, there are different ways to campaign for something. Openly asking for votes is just one of them, another more subtle one would be to mention this in more posts, or even let some fan websites or BBS know that it is important… Whatever. The point is that by number of fans, Han should be able to win easily.

But this only works if there is some kind of campaign – by him or by others – that motivates his millions of readers to open an English language website and work out how to vote on it. Koreans have very good results at this because the Korean internet is very concentrated and already used to this kind of campaigning. But looking at the raw numbers there is no doubt that Chinese fans would quickly outnumber them if they tried.

]]> By: Joel http://chinayouren-free.com/2010/04/12/3580/comment-page-1#comment-22419 Joel Mon, 12 Apr 2010 16:02:32 +0000 http://chinayouren-free.com/2010/04/12/3580#comment-22419 But he already campaigned for it in his last post hasn't he? still the south Korean ski girl is getting more votes. He'll never simply tell fans to go vote for him. No one does that. But he already campaigned for it in his last post hasn’t he? still the south Korean ski girl is getting more votes. He’ll never simply tell fans to go vote for him. No one does that.

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