Hong Kong Phooey

a tech junkie from Hong Kong

Bloggers Unite For Human Rights Day - Today - 15 May 2008


It’s coming, the Bloggers Unite For Human Rights Day is this Thursday, 15 May. Please help spreading the work out and blog about a human rights issue, also add a badge to your blog and help promote the event. Badges can be found here on this link.

For more information on the event, please check out the Bloggers Unite for Human Rights Day page at, http://unite.blogcatalog.com/#amnesty.

May 15, 2008 Posted by hongkongphooey | Bloggers Unite, Blogroll, Event | , , , | No Comments

Revamp on the Blog

Will be doing some minor revamp to the site and adding another sction on “DSLR & Gears” as I had taken this expensive hobby up for quite some time and cannot leave it out of the blog, :).

New posts will be a bit slow, bear with me for the time being.

May 9, 2008 Posted by hongkongphooey | Blogroll | | No Comments

IDC A/P Panel: “Generation Y and the Emerging Power of User-Generated Content”

The video on the panel discussion, “Generation Y and the Emerging Power of User-generated Content” at the IDC conference which I attended last month was finally uploaded. Looking back at it, I do look kind of goofy, hehe.

Watch it at your risk.

May 7, 2008 Posted by hongkongphooey | Blogroll, Event, Video | | No Comments

CNET Asia Community Blog Entry - HTC Touch Diamond annoucing this week?

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My new entry over at CNET Asia Community Blog is up. This week’s entry, “HTC Touch Diamond annoucing this week?”. Click here for the read.

May 5, 2008 Posted by hongkongphooey | Blogroll, CNET, Gadgets n Gizmos, HTC, Mobile Phone | , , , | No Comments

CNET Asia Community Blog Entry - The ASUS Eee PC 900 Mess

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My new entry over at CNET Asia Community Blog is up. This week’s entry, “The ASUS Eee PC 900 Mess”. Click here for the read.

April 27, 2008 Posted by hongkongphooey | Blogroll, CNET, Eee PC, Gadgets n Gizmos, Notebooks, UMPC | , , , , | No Comments

CNET Asia Community Blog Entry - My Trip to Singapore

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My new entry over at CNET Asia Community Blog is up. This week’s entry, “My Trip to Singapore”. Click here for the read.

Spoke at the panel discussion on Generation Y and the Emerging Power of User-generated Content at the IDC conference alongside some prominent bloggers from Asia. Amongst them, Kenny Sia of kennysia.com, Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan from the Compulsive Confessor; and Daryl Tay from Unique-Frequency.

Check out the post for more details and picture recap on my trip to CNET Singapore as well.

Introduction from the panel moderator, see my logo on the slide? cute right?

Me in the middle

April 22, 2008 Posted by hongkongphooey | Blogroll, CNET, Event | , , , | 1 Comment

CNET Asia Community Blog Entry - The Radio Saga of Hong Kong’s very own Citizens’ Radio

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[14 January] My new entry over at CNET Asia Community Blog is up. This week’s entry, “The Radio Saga of Hong Kong’s very own Citizens’ Radio”. Click here for the read.

[Updated: 23 January] Following to my post on the Citizens’ Radio, I received the following mail from Stephen Dunifer,

Hi!

Thank you for providing the background on the struggles of Citizens Radio. Their saga is remarkably similar to what myself and other Free Speech activists went through in the United States some years ago. For details, please use my name, “Stephen Dunifer”, and Free Radio Berkeley as search terms. Also, check out these two websites - www.freeradio.org and www.radiotupa.org. I have continued to promote the cause of Free Speech on the airwaves since Free Radio Berkeley was shut down by a court injunction in 1998 by aiding and encouraging communities to put their own radio stations on the air. Currently, I am in Shenzhen visiting a friend and checking out the local electronics scene which is quite amazing - looking to source parts from here and possibly have mass assembly done for a 10 watt FM transmitter PCB. We design and manufacture our own line of transmitters and other related gear. Kind of low tech compared to CDMA cell phones and the like but they get the job done. I will be headed to India on Sunday for a week. Community radio is just getting off the ground there. Then it is back to Hong Kong for a couple of days and then returning to San Francisco on Feb. 5th.

It would be great to meet some of the folks in Citizens Radio and swap stories. Perhaps you would be able to convey this to them.

Best regards,

Stephen Dunifer

[Updated: 15 April] Woot, the Citizens’ Radio will be back on air this Sunday.

April 15, 2008 Posted by hongkongphooey | Blogroll, News Related | , , | No Comments

Off to IDC Annual Conference in Singapore

I will be off to the IDC Directions 2008 Conference tomorrow and on the afternoon of 18th April, I will be participating in a panel discussion together with a few prominent Asian bloggers on the topic of Generation Y and the emerging power of user-generated content.

During the panel discussion, IDC will host a live Internet feed where non-attendees can follow the debate and submit questions to the panellists in real-time. Questions from online viewers will be fed to the panellists via the moderator.

The live feed can be found on http://www.idc.com.sg/directions2008/gen-y_live.html

For more information about the agenda, please log on http://www.idc.com.sg/directions2008/agenda.asp

To register to attend the event, please log on http://www.idc.com.sg/Events/press_sg.asp

So expect updates to be light the next few days and I will blog from the event wherever possible.

April 15, 2008 Posted by hongkongphooey | Blogroll | , | 1 Comment

CNET Asia Community Blog Entry - First Look at iPhone Firmware 2.0

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My new entry over at CNET Asia Community Blog is up. This week’s entry, “First Look at iPhone Firmware 2.0″. Click here for the read.

April 10, 2008 Posted by hongkongphooey | Apple, Blogroll, CNET, Mobile Phone, Video, iPhone | , , , , | No Comments

WOOT, Blog Ding over 400,000 Hits in 18 Months

Yet another milestone, another 100,000 hits since 13 January 2008. Thanks to you all out there.

Will try to stay sober and blog a bit more, LOL.

April 7, 2008 Posted by hongkongphooey | Blogroll | , | 1 Comment

CNET Asia Community Blog Entry - Hippiest new gadget - BELL+HOWELL Genie III Keychain Camera

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My new entry over at CNET Asia Community Blog is up. This week’s entry, “BELL+HOWELL Genie III Keychain Camera”. Click here for the read.

April 6, 2008 Posted by hongkongphooey | Beyond Geekiness, Blogroll, CNET, Cameras/Camcorders, Gadgets n Gizmos | , , , | No Comments

CNET Asia Community Blog Entry - Earth Day 2008 @ Cyberport on 22 April 2008

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My new entry over at CNET Asia Community Blog is up. This week’s entry, “Earth Day 2008 @ Cyberport, Hong Kong”. Click here for the read.

March 31, 2008 Posted by hongkongphooey | Blogroll, CNET, Event, Websites | , , , | No Comments

Bummer - No Rugby Sevens Tickets

[22 March 2007] So, sitting here pondering. A little more than a week from the Rugby Sevens and still no luck in getting tickets (last offer I got off some forum was $2,800 for 3-day pass, gee). I am now starting to make up stupid excuses for myself for missing the event and I came up with the best one, SMOKING is banned in the stadium, LOL.

[Updated: 25 march 2008] Hmm… where are all my CX friends when I needed them. Hopefully I can grab a few tickets fast before Friday. What’s the going rate for 3-day pass these days BTW? anyone?

Email me at gadget@hkphooey.hk if you know anyone selling, thanks in advance.

March 25, 2008 Posted by hongkongphooey | Blogroll, Sports | | 3 Comments

CNET Asia Community Blog Entry - The Ultra-Portable Laptop PC Fever

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My new entry over at CNET Asia Community Blog is up. This week’s entry, “The ultra-portable laptop PC fever”. Click here for the read.

March 23, 2008 Posted by hongkongphooey | Blogroll, CNET, Mobility, Notebooks, UMPC | , , , , , , | No Comments