shorts | interview w/ carol lin ::
:: this video is the tenth in a Danwei.org series of short interviews conducted at this year’s Chinese blogger conference (cnbloggercon 2008, Guangzhou, November 15 & 16th).
In this interview, Carol Lin (林凯洛) (a.k.a. The Carol), a prolific Taiwanese blogger, , social activist, and an all-around digital maven, who is also well known for her photography, shares her thoughts on the lack of development in the Chinese web 2.0 / Internet industry, Taiwan’s uncensored Internet, the opportunity average Chinese people got to “taste the flavor of freedom in an unblocked Internet” during the Olympics, and digitally savvy Chinese netizens.
This video is also available on Tudou for faster loading in China.
To see other interviews from this series, link here.
Filming, editing, and interviewing: Adam J. Schokora
Subtitles: Alice Liu
Music: B6
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March 13th, 2009 at 3:18 pm
oh wow you got to interview Carol Lin? I used to follow her boyfriend, a famous travel blogger for few years.He made the sweetest birthday gift for her!
March 13th, 2009 at 3:49 pm
@ Leslie,
Thanks for your response. Do you happen to have a link to his blog? Thanks. // AjS
March 16th, 2009 at 4:40 am
Nice work Carol. The futility of blocking citizens’ access to the internet is the same as the futility of blocking their access to mainstream media. Or blocking freedom of speech of any kind. One day the governments of Singapore, Malaysia and China will finally realise this futility and how it is simply holding back the progress of their own nations’ “collective conversation” – the conversation that has allowed other counties that support free speech to grow and flourish. As the free-media-world debates the economic crisis, the debate may not be pretty, but it allows solutions to emerge and be adopted much more quickly. The only thing censorship does is ultimately hurt the censor. It doesn’t work anyway, because the people don’t believe anything that the official media says – credibility and trust are totally wiped out in a controlled media state.