Portnoy Zheng
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GV Chinese editorHi, I am Portnoy Zheng, a Taiwanese. Right now my larger part of attention is on building a new Chinese science media “PanSci.tw”. Besides that, I am also the project manager of “Nomad Green“, which is a Mongolian citizen media that focus on environmental issues in Mongolia. In GV, I am a humble contributor and the editor of Global Voices in Chinese. Contact me if you have any question about Project Lingua, GV Chinese, Nomad Green in Mongolia, Taiwan(of course) or other interesting ideas(highly welcome!)
Check my personal blog in Traditional Chinese and my rarely-updated English blog here. Or maybe you want to follow my twitter here, plurk here.
Latest posts by Portnoy Zheng
18 March 2011
Japan
The Association of Digital Culture, Taiwan(ADCT) starts to curate and translate latest information from Japanese and English into Chinese[zht] in order to provide worried Taiwanese netizens a trustworthy source of information upon the media turbulence. They have done the same effort in 2009 when Typhoon Morakot hit Taiwan. (Disclosure: I am a member of ADCT)
12 March 2011
9 March 2011
Taiwan (ROC)
Recently, Facebook suspended or closed many Taiwanese users' profiles or pages, including some celebrities', due to claimed misuse or using pseudo/nicknames. Billy Pan explains his experience in 2009 and how he got his account back.
Taiwan: Social Media Makes Indigenous Voices Loud and Clear
Stories about the Taiwanese indigenous population's struggle for identity, sustainability and dignity are missing from the country's public sphere, as a result of relative social and political domination by the majority Han Chinese population. Now, thanks to social media, indigenous youth are making their voices heard and reconnecting with their traditions.
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22 February 2011
Taiwan (ROC)
The National News Agency-Central News Agency of Taiwan is suspected to censor related news about China's Jasmine Revolution yesterday. Jou Ying-Cheng, blogger and former reporter of CNA, accused CNA for not syndicating the second and further interview with Tan Lan-Yin(談蘭英)' son due to political sensitivity, and such news blocking has happened before when he was working for CNA. Tan is a famous petitioner in Shanghai, and her missing might be related to China's Jasmine revolution.
17 February 2011
Taiwan: Debate Over the ‘Light Novel' Phenomenon
Light novels - manga and cosplay books which originated from Japan - are hyper popular in Taiwan, where they have conquered the book market.
9 February 2011
Taiwan (ROC)
WoFOSS (Women in Free and Open Source Software in Taiwan) is a community of females in free and open software development and movement. Traditionally, in the field of information/engineering, men are always in charge, however, for many years, women have been stepping in from various directions, including developers, promoters, or end users who simply love FOSS. The community wishes to aggregate women in information field to amplify their voices and to construct a friendly, free and comfortable information environment for Taiwanese women.
30 January 2011
Taiwan (ROC)
Boogier warns facebook users to think twice before clicking “like” or “share” button on those pitiful stories and photos of stray dogs and poor dog carers. He criticizes this kind of tactics used to allure people by fake animal protectors-who he'd rather call “cockroaches”, and argues that more dogs are mistreated because of these “cockroaches” are simply using people's sympathy to ask for illegal donation.
28 January 2011
Taiwan (ROC)
President Ma Ying-jeou of Taiwan(Republic of China) opens his official facebook fan page today. At the “About” session it says that the goal of the fan page “…is not to be trendy, but to exchange ideas with all of you, share experiences through wall posts, think together, click ‘like' for Taiwan…”. Twitter user @irrenhaeusler soon tweeted his comment:”Ma's joining Facebook immediately shows a severe defect in the site's design: there's no ‘fuck' to click”.
25 January 2011
Taiwan (ROC)
Citizen journalist Zhu Shu-juan(朱淑娟) reports that even though all reviewers from the Wetland Review Committee of the Ministry of Interior suggested Dacheng Wetland in Changhua County to be listed as national or even international wetland, due to resistance from local politicians and consortia who support petrochemical project to be built there, the wetland was not listed and therefore there is an obvious empty field on the map of Important Wetlands in Taiwan(zht).
I want to ask, there is not software to change from letter to letter Latin...