Back from Boston

Wow.

That’s already one week in Boston and 4 more weeks before London? I only have a month in Hong Kong and I already start missing the place. But I know I will have fun in London… Just gotta round up my thesis now. Lok gave me some good advice in the importance of having a coherent framework, and by presenting in Wikimania I get to see how to explain the organizational issues using social capital as the framework. Basically there are bridging and bonding social capitals, which exert dynamic impacts on the level of transparency and rationalization that determines the efficiency in information flow and decision-making. Will elaborate more on the thesis. I know, they sound like crap right now. /smile

Wikimania was great this year for the guest speakers. I was absolutely blown away to nowhere by Lessig’s presentation. He is really talented in convincing people – the slices followed his speech and hammer the words into the audience with content, audio and video here.
One big difference between Wikimania 1.0 and 2.0 here is the concentration of the crowd. Since there is no central social arena, like an open space with cafe, conveniently located somewhere in the heart of the conference location, people were always floating around making it harder to chill with one another. But of course, Harvard is nice place to be. I was so relieved that after the first two days the weather got back to normal again.

Today studied with mom on her exam. The stuff was – dense. I never know exactly what the heck auxilary transitive bare infinitive verb froms are. I’m so proud of her, really, that’s just one amazing sweet woman there. I am lucky to have her in my life.

Okay enough bs. Got to work on the cultural studies thing tonight. Well. Three more minutes tonight. It’s now 11:53 pm already.

Finally I need to thank Andrew, Lok, Delphine, Sj, James, Austin, Erica, and PHOEBE for making this event so unforgettable to me I love you guys!!!!

with jimbo in the middle… Photo Courtesy to Andrew Lih