{"id":24,"date":"2007-11-08T11:47:21","date_gmt":"2007-11-08T03:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.outblaze.com\/2007\/11\/08\/the-interview-with-chairman-mao\/"},"modified":"2007-11-08T11:47:21","modified_gmt":"2007-11-08T03:47:21","slug":"the-interview-with-chairman-mao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.outblaze.com\/?p=24","title":{"rendered":"The interview with Chairman Mao"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Isaac_Mao\">wikipedia<\/a> entry:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Isaac Mao is one of the pioneers of blogs in the People&#8217;s Republic of China. He is co-founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/cnblog.org\/cnblog.html\">CNBlog.org<\/a> and a researcher in social learning&#8230;<br \/>\nAs one of the earliest bloggers in the Chinese community, Isaac is not only co-founder of CNBlog.org which is the earliest evangelizing site in China on grassroots publishing, but also the co-organizer of Chinese Blogger Conference (2005 in Shanghai, 2006 in Hangzhou).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Isaac Mao is the co-organizer of the <a href=\"http:\/\/cnbloggercon.org\/2007\">3rd Chinese Blogger Conference<\/a> in Beijing that I attended this past week-end on November 3-4. I was lucky enough to be able to do a video interview of him.<\/p>\n<p>I have known <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isaacmao.com\/\">Isaac Mao<\/a> for over 3 years. When I started blogging, I found <a href=\"http:\/\/cnblog.org\/cnblog.html\">CNBlog.org<\/a> and meet a lot of Chinese bloggers there, including Isaac, and I began to learn more about China&#8217;s issues through blogging, in addition to newspapers and magazines and similar media.<\/p>\n<p>In the interview Isaac introduces the concept of CnBloggerCon; this is a good chance to understand why Isaac and other volunteers worked so hard to form and maintain the conference the last 3 years. I admire them very much for it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/video.sanriotown.com\/flaon\/us\/loader.swf?key=9be7ca58fa130e0d\">http:\/\/video.sanriotown.com\/flaon\/us\/loader.swf?key=9be7ca58fa130e0d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Note: people referred tongue-in-cheek to Isaac Mao, as &#8220;Chairman Mao.&#8221; (via <a href=\"http:\/\/rconversation.blogs.com\/rconversation\/2007\/11\/chinese-blogger.html\">Rebecca McKinnon<\/a>), so I named this post &#8220;The interview with Chairman Mao&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/cnbloggercon\" rel=\"tag\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.technorati.com\/static\/img\/pub\/icon-utag-16x13.png?tag=cnbloggercon,\" alt=\" \" \/>cnbloggercon<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/outblaze\" rel=\"tag\">outblaze<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/isaac+mao\" rel=\"tag\">isaac mao<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the wikipedia entry: Isaac Mao is one of the pioneers of blogs in the People&#8217;s Republic of China. He is co-founder of CNBlog.org and a researcher in social learning&#8230; As one of the earliest bloggers in the Chinese community, Isaac is not only co-founder of CNBlog.org which is the earliest evangelizing site in China [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,21,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-interview","category-web-2-0"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.outblaze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.outblaze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.outblaze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.outblaze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.outblaze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.outblaze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.outblaze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.outblaze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.outblaze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}