Scott Jamison has an interesting post on the difference between information and knowledge:
My conclusion: Knowledge = information + experience.
As an example: If you described a certain person to me, you could tell me their name, how tall they were, what they look like, etc. I have information. When I meet […]
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Hi everyone, Dave here…. A lot of users have asked for better traditional support so I’m happy to announce the beta release of a browser plugin that:
* works with Mozilla Firefox (versions 1.5 - 2.x)
* replaces simplified characters with traditional ones on the dialogue/expansion/vocabulary pages
* adds traditional character support to vocabulary lists/games/etc.
* replaces the link […]
Spring is here! The thermometer is rising, Shanghai is turning (relatively!) green, Ken keeps whistling around the office, Aric is sporting his new Spring/Summer ‘07 collection, and Jenny is more radiant than ever. We’ve even got over Colleen’s farewell (almost).
All of which has put us in such a generous mood we’ve decided to offer a […]
Dave Lancashire sent me a set of questions today. Essentially, he wanted to know if I felt:
1. confusion with similar-looking Chinese characters;
2. difficulty in understanding that the same Chinese characters can have different pronunciation and meaning;
3. difficulty in understanding that the meaning of a Chinese character may depend on its […]
I think there’s a continuum that describes ChinesePod learners, an axis that stretches from the visionary at one end, to the pragmatist, at the other. No individual is 100% visionary, or 100% pragmatic. Instead, we all tend to fall somewhere along the line. (This type, of classification was first used by Geoffrey A Moore, […]
One of my favorite new features of the new site is the personal feed. Subscribing to your own custom feed of Chinese lessons is a simple 4 step process.
Step #1 - Select which levels of future lessons you would like to receive. These subscriptions are designed to replace the various level feeds in […]
A quick comment on the logic here. We got caught up in a bit of the long-term vision of the product here. The Calendar system was originally designed where named calendars would replace named folders in version 2. This would preserve all the functionality in version 2, but add the extra value of the pacing […]
Some feedback on where we are with developments courtesy of Hank. We’ve been listening and trying to respond to you - Eileen alone answered 170 emails yesterday. (Poor thing.)
1. bookmarked lessons
- hurting usability; user saves but doesn’t understand need to schedule lessons
- solution: changed Lesson List to Scheduled Lessons, adding Bookmarked Lesson to help make […]
As we go through the day you’re welcome to post your ‘discovering V3′ observations.
1. My first insight for you: The Saturday Show can be found here: http://extra.chinesepod.com/
2. A question: “Im having bit of a problem finding my lessons from previous site. If I look at the lessons in the explore section, it shows […]
With something of this scale, I guess there are bound to be bugs in the new system. It would help if you ChinesePod learners could post any bugs you find here. That’d be a systematic way to deal with them.
We’re not going away. The staff are here over the weekend, too. Let’s get […]
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