Floating Island

As text editor, I reviewed the text portions of the projects and provided general comments and suggestions on the overall direction of the stories. The bulk of my work involved thorough line editing of each student’s text for spelling, grammar and clarity. For most of the stories, I copied the text into a Word document […]

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For her final project, Eileen is focusing on the preservation of Hong Kong’s built heritage and how consciousness of this heritage has developed over the last ten years.
Eileen is particularly interested in the changes taking place around Hong Kong Island’s Central district and the area known as Soho (South of Hollywood Road), which has […]

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Test Pod

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Not much time for posting this week because we were busy making video. Have a look at the finished product by our team of three:
HK Street Markets - Here Today, Gone Tomorrow?

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Hong Kong, 7 March 2007

This is Hong Kong ArtWalk 2007.

The Hong Kong ArtWalk recently wrapped up its seventh successful year. ArtWalk in Hong Kong is an annual event organized by the the Hong Kong Commercial Art Galleries Association (HKCAGA) and it’s billed as the city’s largest art charity event. The regular admission price is not […]

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This week we look at the legal implications of new media for our work as journalists.
Like Heavens, the thought of licenses didn’t cross my mind when I started posting photos on flickr. Before flickr, my point of reference for photo-sharing was ofoto. Since ofoto required an invitation from a friend to view individual […]

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After looking around our classmates’ del.icio.us pages, I subscribed to those of aiyahenator, ejong, radiocat and janeho. I also subscribed to a technorati feed of the tags “hongkong art” and a couple of flickr feeds for photo pools of Hong Kong’s art, street art, heritage, and music performances.
From these feeds, I picked up a couple […]

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This week, we are using tags and debating the pros and cons of this online filing system.
At first glance, tagging appears to involve complex and intricate procedures that can be intimidating to a newbie like me. Overall, I see it as a basic trade-off: I can make a sizable investment of time and effort now, […]

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This week, I created an entry on Wikipedia and lived to recount the experience.
To be honest, I’m utterly exhausted after travelling to India, getting sick and spending an insane amount of time putting together an entry on Hong Kong’s cultural policy. Hong Kong’s arts and culture scene is poorly represented in the wiki world, so […]

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