Jetlagged... so won't try to be witty. Just a huge thanks (xiè xiè) to Sabrina Dorr with Edelman Beijing for picking me up at the airport. A fun dinner tonight at the cool, crowded and noisy Jin Ding Xuan restaurant near the Lamah Temple.

Photo left to right: Bao Lei, director of corporate communications for Johnson & Johnson's Olympics Sponsorship; Sabrina (aka Sabs) with Edelman; yours truly and Sharon Zhang, also with J & J. Full

Jetlagged... so won't try to be witty. Just a huge thanks (xiè xiè) to Sabrina Dorr with Edelman Beijing for picking me up at the airport. A fun dinner tonight at the cool, crowded and noisy Jin Ding Xuan restaurant near the Lamah Temple.

Photo left to right: Bao Lei, director of corporate communications for Johnson & Johnson's Olympics Sponsorship; Sabrina (aka Sabs) with Edelman; yours truly and Sharon Zhang, also with J & J. Full disclosure: J & J is an Edelman client.

This was a purely social evening but we did discuss corporate blogging and how or why it could benefit a company like Johnson & Johnson, with multiple brands. (See video of Bao signing the new Chinese edition of my book!) Interestingly, neither Bao nor Sharon had heard about J & J's new BTW (By the Way) corporate blog, launched…

Riddle: they're a global phenomenon. But most of them are in English and in Roman characters. What are they?

Answer: You guessed it; domain names like www.debbieweil.com. 

The U.S. has long been accused - rightly so - of digital colonialism. Interestingly, the technology for creating multilingual domains was created ten years ago. But it's never been put to the test.

This week ICANN decided to start experimenting with domain names written

Riddle: they're a global phenomenon. But most of them are in English and in Roman characters. What are they?

Answer: You guessed it; domain names like www.debbieweil.com. 

The U.S. has long been accused - rightly so - of digital colonialism. Interestingly, the technology for creating multilingual domains was created ten years ago. But it's never been put to the test.

This week ICANN decided to start experimenting with domain names written entirely in native script or characters. So instead of reaching the Google China blog by typing in www.googlechinablog.com you would type in: [Chinese text].[Chinese text].

I'll try and post a URL typed entirely in Chinese characters when I get to China. Can't do it from here.

[via A Script for Every Surfer -…

This seems like the perfect way to get back into blogging. Today's Wall Street Journal has a great article that, I suspect, will resonate with many readers: How I Spent Squandered My Summer Vacation (registration required). One of the things at the top of my list was to learn Chinese (OK, a few phrases) via fluenz (a DVD) and chinesepod (a podcast and online lessons). Confession: I didn't do it.

But heck, according to the WSJ, neither did

This seems like the perfect way to get back into blogging. Today's Wall Street Journal has a great article that, I suspect, will resonate with many readers: How I Spent Squandered My Summer Vacation (registration required). One of the things at the top of my list was to learn Chinese (OK, a few phrases) via fluenz (a DVD) and chinesepod (a podcast and online lessons). Confession: I didn't do it.

But heck, according to the WSJ, neither did comedian Andy Borowitz learn Italian before a planned trip to Italy next month. Instead, he ate pizza several times as a way to "practice Italian."

Onward... I'll land in Beijing on Sunday, Oct. 14th, Chinese phrases memorized... or not.

Technorati chairman Peter Hirshberg gave a fab opening keynote at last week’s conference on corporate communication and technology held by The Conference Board in New York.

Apologies for taking so long to get this post up. I’ve been going non-stop. I was on the blogging panel for The Conference Board, did blog training with a corporate client and then was on another panel for the Annual ASJA meeting. Fun week in nyc.

Here are a few

It’s always nice to have a "brain" when your name is Brain and I can truthfully report that David Brain, president and CEO of Edelman Europe, is scary smart. Had the pleasure of having tea with him yesterday afternoon in London.

After we chatted for an hour, he pulled out his cool new mini video camera (from Pure Digital, if you’re interested) for a 60-second video interview. I’m more comfortable on a blog then in front of a camera so it was