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Ivan Chew takes a day off to bring Michelle Thorne from Creative Commons on a tour of Singapore’s Chinatown. We started off with an hour long Chinese tea session (video to come soon), lunch at People’s Park hawker center, and rounded it off with some Bubble Tea. Our last stop was [prologue] at Orchard Ion ...
Scene from an upcoming short video I did with John Larkin…Please help us spread the word about our talk this Wednesday at the Nanyang Technological University. Do note that the $80 fee is a norm of NTU’s edUtorium series, not by us speakers. Thanks to Senior Assistant Director, Alan Soong, for organizing this special event. ...
Last Saturday, I was invited to talk about online campaign strategies at the 7th Annual Planned Parenthood Advocacy Conference in Rochester, NY. Being an all-women event, I was given a glimpse into a world rarely witnessed by men. Curiosity took the better of me, as I interviewed everyone from student advocates to regional leaders in ...
Leaving Buffalo on a jet plane…It’s been two years since I last returned to Singapore. This time I’m back for my sister’s wedding, and will be staying for the month of October. Rather than pouring out a lyrical diatribe of my arrival, I’m pouring out buckets of sweat as I write this. In short, let ... 
Everyone’s been asking me, “So what have you been up to?” It used to be the terrifying “Wow, you’re still here?”, so this has been a much needed improvement now that I’ve graduated. And no, just because I’ve received my doctorate doesn’t mean I’m being sought after just yet. I’m still pretty much a “naked … 
Media activist, educator and human-connector, Trebor Scholz, has opened registration for his present-future conference, The Internet as Playground and Factory. If you haven’t guess it, this conference is based on the idea of digital networked labor as it questions whether we are being exploited through our everyday online activities. I often get asked how web ... 
Before summer fizzed away, this month’s Buffalo Tweetup was held at Cabana Sam’s in Sunset Bay (see Google map). It’s my first time at a beach in Buffalo, even though it’s technically a lake beach. At last… sun, sand, and “sea”.Many of us local twitterers were there, including Jim Milles (@JimMilles), Kristina Lively (@KLively), … 
GoPro Hero Cam: Driving from Triads apartment to the airport. This exciting wearable camera is actually meant for extreme sports, so I’ll try to be creative in pushing it later. They’ve got tons of mounts for it, including ones for the helmet, surfboard, suction cup for race cars and so on. I need to fashion ... 
My colleagues at the Teaching & Learning Center (TLC) threw me an awesome graduation party. Big thanks to @RobinSullivan and Becky for making it happen, and for my friends at the University at Buffalo for coming by, including @ssperson @sunrisesomeday @bschu1022 @jhsu @ChrisVanPatten and @denidzo.Watch on Youtube or download the iPhone version (.mp4 / 25mb).Watch ... 
Beautiful illustration by @jhsu reminding me that I’m now “Dr. Kevin Lim”What seemed like an eternity ended up being nine years in the University at Buffalo, with last six years being in the doctoral program. These last few years felt the longest, with each passing day no different from the last…Writing, eating, sleeping,Alone, ashamed, angry.While ... 
To celebrate Singapore National Day alone in Buffalo, I decided to make Hainanese Chicken Rice so I wouldn’t forget what home tasted like. On the other hand, it’s also because Prissyhan’s specially packed PrimaTaste mixes were going bad. Twitter friends @jhsu, @BuffaloPundit, @nimbupani all approved of my semi-homemade creation. Even @ramblinglib made me …
As promised, here’s a video of the talk I gave yesterday at PRSA Buffalo/Niagara to kick off their Sunrise Seminar series. Since it’s hard to see the slides in the video, view or download them from Slideshare.net while watching me take fifty communication professionals on a thinking journey through the strategic uses of social media.You ...
Thanks to Jess Manocchio, I’ve been re-invited to speak at PRSA Buffalo, kicking off their Sunrise Seminar series on social media. While my previous talk in February focused on listening in social media (Part 1 & Part 2), this time I’ll be bringing folks on a journey through how social media strategies are created. Along ... 
As seen in the Encyclopedia of New Media by Steve Jones (2002)MIT wearable-computer researchers (1998). They were easy to spot. Today, with the proliferation of smartphones augmenting our lives in real-time/real-space, the cyborg has disappeared into the everyday.Similar Posts:theorycast 52 :: Real Space Electronic Art ShowSocial Cyborg: Coming soon to Buffalo NewsKami the …
On 12th June 2009, producer @NishaPatel invited me onto CBC Business News to talk about the eBook phenomena. I think I talk a little slow for television, but oh well, that’s that.I initially passed this opportunity to Dr. Alex @Halavais, whom I knew was in the process of digitizing his entire personal book library. He ...
If you’re on a Mac and find yourself bookmarking the entire Internet on Delicious, you’ll want to check out Justin Miller’s upcoming Pukka 1.8. While it’s easy enough to use the Delicious bookmarklet to tag sites you love, having a desktop app integrates Delicious with your entire Mac OSX experience.The BasicsUpon launch, Pukka may look ...
I’ve never been huge on weddings, let alone imagine myself being anyone’s best man. That’s life taking us into unexpected places. Yet, instead of being consumed by change, we’ve to learn to ride it. This is perhaps the best quality I’ve seen from my friend, Kelvin (aka MrBig).Serendipityby Kevin LimAs the “Best Man”,I’d like to ...
Over lunch at the UB Commons, Jim Milles, Kristina Lively, Joe Hsu and I chat about our Amazon Kindles. We casually discuss our user experiences with each version of the Kindle, and make quick predictions on the future of books. I couldn’t resist a family portrait of our entire line of Kindles…Similar Posts:Chart: Amazon’s Kindle ...
This weekend was a real shocker…As some of you already know, I received a $1084.40 GPU overage charge from Media Temple last week. Quite an adventure this turned out to be… one that I was fortunate enough to walk away from scot-free. This whole incident really showed me how lucky I was to have great ...
The Tank Man: Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 - Jeff Widener (The Associated Press). Also see NY Times “Behind the Scenes: Tank Man of Tiananmen“You might be aware that I’ve been on a blog hiatus since I writing on my dissertation on Cyberactivism in China. With the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square this week, ...
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