You’ve been asking for it, and we’ve been preparing it. The 500 lesson torrent file is now ready for download. We hope you downloaders have reasonably large hard drives, because this baby is bursting with 3.1 GB of pedagogical pleasure. In it you will find:
500 ChinesePod podcast lessons of all levels, spanning our entire history
An […]
Squidoo: SKWID-OO, n. v., adj., addiction.
ChinesePod now has a nice little Squidoo lens on Learning Chinese. These are some of the things you can Squi-do on our lens:
- use, vote on, and contribute to a list of the best places on the web for Chinese learners
- view the latest ChinesePod lessons and some of our […]
Steve Rubel suggests a ‘definition of web 2.0 that we can all agree on’. Maybe.
Ken Carroll
Microsoft are rushing to get their new iPod killer media player, the Zune, to market before the Christmas shopping season picks up. Apparently, however the name ‘zune’ in Quebecois sounds embarrasingly close to a certain taboo word. I’m not sure parents there will be asking their kids if they’d like a ‘zune’ for Christmas.
Ken Carroll
According to this article, the ratings for last night’s MTV awards were abysmal. Two years ago it had 10.3 million viewers. Last night it was 5.7 million. Ouch!
It’s probably obvious where the audience is. The same youth audience who were watching TV 2 years ago are now online. The Nielsen ratings indicate some of […]
You may be one of those people who talks a lot about Web 2.0 pretending to really understand it (I know I am). Now there’s a way to prove your lack of web 2.0 savviness. Take this test and put the matter to rest.
Ken Carroll (14% on the test)
Steve Rubel at Micropersuasion has some data on social media adoption in the US. Apparently, only 8% of the population listen to podcasts and 5% use RSS feeds. Podcasting is not yet what we would call mainstream. Does this mean that ChinesePod is likely to only reach 5% or so of the total number of […]
Hank, our head tech guy, has been dutifully scouring the Chinese internet and found this story (in Chinese). A summary of the story:
China Enters the Age of Broadband; Gradeschool Surfers Reach 30 Million
July 19th, 2006, Chinese Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) reported that China has entered a new age of rapid internet development it dubs […]
The ChinesePod weblog is an important part of everything we do here at ChinesePod. The Weblog is a place where we share ideas, answer questions and gather feedback, and have a little fun (pictures, video hotpot, etc.). We encourage (read require) all of the people involved with ChinesePod to participate in the Weblog. […]
We have started to notice a number of bloggers writing about their experiences learning Chinese and using ChinesePod. We feel that this information is quite valuable and have been trying to find ways to bring this knowledge back into the community as a whole.
So, we have added the ability for subscribers to link […]
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