Meet Thomas Crampton – Reports from the Asian media landscape

Thomas Crampton is a journalist and blogger who left the big newspapers like The Herald Tribune and New York Times to work with Next Media in Hong Kong. You can watch him in an interview with Michael Oreskes of The Herald Tribune from SIME 07 here. He thinks all the exciting action is in Asia, and his blog reports from mostly the Asian web 2.0 and entrepreneurial environment with the tagline “Internet, media and new ideas seen from Asia”. Some recent very interesting posts include a discussion about Chinese twitter clones with over 600 000 users and the fact that the Japanese version of Twitter has ads integrated from the start and so actually makes money, as well as reflections on how web 2.0 and new media is putting the tools of propaganda in the hands of citizens and what kind of sentiments are then produced.

Watch this short clip from TechTalk where Ola Ahlvarsson and Thomas met. Thomas introduces himself and points out the scale of what’s going on in the Asian market right now. Then subscribe to his blog for interviews and insights from the area.

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