Persephone Books, from a marvelous publisher in London, are rediscovered 20th century novels written by neglected women authors. Not only are they wonderful reading, each one is published with a distinctive dove-gray cover and a beautiful "fabric" endpaper (see above). You also get a matching bookmark.

I'm currently reading one of their newest re-issues: The Shuttle by Frances Hodgson Burnett.

If that name is familiar, it should be. Burnett is the author of one of my favorite books as a child, The Secret Garden. But she also wrote adult novels. The Shuttle, 504 pages long and first published…

I'm on a panel with Des Walsh of Business and Blogging fame at Ad-Tech Beijing. This is a mega event being held at the China World Hotel, adjacent to the China World Trade Center. Des is moderating our panel, one of the last of the two-day conference. Joining us will be Jason Ge, National Sales, GM Sina.

Panel is from 1625h - 1725h. 

That's what has happened to me lately. I've been busy with clients, traveling for work, traveling a bit for pleasure and just generally... busy in my First (non-virtual) Life.

Although I must admit that I did set up a Facebook page recently. I'm easily addicted to fun stuff and that took up quite a bit of time for several days. At first, my 20-something daughter was absolutely horrified. Apologies, that links to a registration page.

But do go there to read Michelle Slatalla's very amusing June 7, 2007 column in The New York Times on joining Facebook.