Micro Space of Oliver Ding

What are you doing ? It is interesting question. Maybe you konw Twitter this month. After launched for three months, it is very hot  now.

It is my homepage at Twitter.com  (http://twitter.com/OliverDing)

Now I am working on translating PledgeBank.com to Chinese version with other people.

This project is the localization of PledgeBank.com to Chinese version. PledgeBank.com is a social project with non-profit promise from mySociety.org. It now in over ten languages alerady. Now, Social Brain  Foundation  (SocialBrain) organized  a local team in China to work on the Chinese version.

I am working on this project with Isaac Mao, Danny Yu, Nan Yang and Jacky Peng.
Danny made a slogan  Learning by Translating  for  EduTranslating project which is a group blog on education information and knowledge translation. Yes, I am have same  experience in PledgeBank project.

I also made a pledge at  PledgeBank.com main website. See here:

I will write an English book with 15 stories about Chinese Internet users who done unrelated to entertainment but only if 14 other local people will do the same with me.”

— Oliver Ding

Deadline to sign up by: 8^th May 2007
2 people have signed up, 12 more needed

Yes. It is not a test pledge, it is real pledge. I have many stories about Internet in China. I thought people are doing something with unique way.But many mass media don’t  know them.
The New York Times has published an article named “Internet Boom in China Is Built on Virtual Fun, the article said that currently Chinese Internet users are mainly for entertainment and fun, foreign Internet companies need to understand this culture.

But in other side, I believe many Chinese Internet users are doing some thing unrelated to entertainment. They organizing conference with social network tool, making online community of art practice, translating foreign blogger’s posts by Creative Commons license, creating open learning community, create non-profit publishing for country Children, development open sources software, translating MIT’s open course into Chinese, and etc.

So I want to write a book called Their Internet to spread their unique experience to the world. But I am poor on English, so if you like to do same, sign up and let’s create a team to do it.

I made this pledge, hope you could sign up this pledge and support me. If you also could tell your friends my pledge.

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