Naked thoughts from Shanghai Rail Summit in Shanghai

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Some after thoughts after going to the Shanghai Rail Summit in Shanghai China. The event was Sponsored primarily JP Morgan and the Ministry of Railroads in China.China needs money for further development of the railroads. Sounds simple enough given the amount of investment being thrown at China lately. However since the Chinese helped us build ours the world has changed a bit and so have property rights issues.Established Railroads in the United States own a bunch of land and you cant really invest in that part of the equation in China. Endless you get a substantial rate of return from one of the largest government agencies.Tried to meet with Freddy Bush and Xnihua Finance at this event or there Shanghai office but were unavailable perhaps next time.Warren Buffet took a chunk of Burlington Northern Santa Fe BNSF recently. The play is the inland storage facilities .Not just in China but to our south in Mexico where goods come in. Look for Inland container facilities outside of Chicago and south Dallas. Watch Coffeygrinds live 9am CST on MN1.com

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disassembly of iptv set top box

A few weeks ago John Verges from New Market China [NMCH] stopped in MN1.com for a live interview on his way back to China. He dropped off an IPTV set top box. When I was in Shanghai I visited the Gaozhi office that makes this box. Now I can watch all the Communist propaganda and China love videos one can handle.

How to create a cool job

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This is a mash up video we did for New Market Technology's blog.(more to come) Phil Verges the CEO took me along to China and let me film and document the trade mission. Having this leeway and the trust of a CEO of a publicly traded company is a good feeling and validation of new media techniques deployed to frame up a message. From a small company to a big company like GE rolling out an ecomagination web site its all good.
Now I might not have hit pay dirt and solved the puzzle like WallStrip (yet)but ill take that trip to Brazil, Chile, and Mexico this July 15th collect the memory and put the rest on a gift certificate Vanna White!

Shanghai People coming to MN1 May 14th LIVE

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Shanghai Multimedia Industry Association (SMIA) will stop by the MN1 studio in Dallas live on CoffeyGrinds May 14th 9am CST The US tour presented by New Market China (NMCH) to show case the talents of eight cutting-edge Shanghai-based Chinese multimedia companies into gaming, digital animation, computer graphic design, and film post production. The cool mind bend is that when we go live in Dallas on mn1.com it will be 10pm Live in Shanghai. Tell your friends this should be better then Nixon’s Trip to China. (Only kidding) But look how far we have come since this 1972 Historic trip.

Virginia Tech shooter and Shanghai connection

Went to the US State Department Public affairs office in Shanghai yesterday to ask about VT shooter nut job Cho Seung-hui. Lisa Evans from that office who greated me outside while the Chinese fast food was delivered declined to comment if the student visa was issued came from Shanghai.She did say however that she received many phone calls regarding this inquiry and for me to call the Virginia State Police. I was however the first person to knock on the door to ask in person. Today this story was on the front page of the China Daily. Chicago Sun Time’s Michael Sneed reported the wrong information on this and the media did a pile on. Im sure we will see more of this in the future...dont get faked out.
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New Market team shrunk in Test experiment

Went to the New Market China Offices yesterday and saw some pretty cool satellite trucks being assembled at Gaozhi. Also went to the plant that makes the electric component chip boards for them.. Im missing the exact names so ill let the picture do the talking. Going to a medical device exhibit today and hopefully getting to see the Shanghai stock exchange in Pudong

Poor attempt to make music video

My attempt to make a music video. On bus yesterday I was chatting up one of Katherine new markets girls on the ground here an she turned me on to this song by Tao Zhe or better know as “J” He is hot now an on everyone’s cell phones. I like it because it mixes the old Opera with updated R&B Let me know what you think of the song Thank you Joanna for sending this audio.

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Ehoooo The Eye of the Tiger!

It rained last night so the streets were clean and the air was crisp. This time I got hit up by an “artist’ Chin Sha (Larry David look alike) and bought a water color of a tiger. Followed the hard hats to a construction site and got another version of the Chinese’s breakfast burrito .Morning time really is the best time to walk around an unfamiliar city. Click on the link to the left and see the other snaps I took today

Take the card with two hands

Chinese Breakfast Burito

Morning walk on the bund

Ok they got me!

Took a cab ride down to the bund water front and did the normal early morning walk around. A few people doing Tai Chi. Took some hazy shots of the Pudong district and ate a breakfast burrito off the street. I had one of these many years ago in Beijing and have been craving one ever since. I took a video of this and will post later. The fake watch guy badgered me till I bought this watch pictured about 100 yuan. That’s about 10 bucks I think. cheaper then buying a battery. China Daily has the shooting head lines. Small world we live in. Time to go over to the Starbucks that opens at 7am how lame

Stuff packed for trip!

Not featured in this picture are all the cords and adapters for all this digital equipment. From the top: Toshiba laptop with passport on top next to Microsoft Zune. Historic account of Shanghai by Stella Dong “The Rise and Fall of a Decadent City” External Seagate Hard Drive 100GB. Canon digital EOS camera. Sony remote for HD. Plug converter. Media confirmation to Rail Summit, Mouse. Extra DV tapes, mini tripod, Sure Beta 58 microphone with MN1.com mic flag. Map of Shanghai, airline ticket, telephoto lens attachment, converter chip, Marantz audio recorder

Shanghai Promo on MN1

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This is the promo that we are running on Market News First. I have been asking Fish to set this done for over a month. The B roll will be shot in HD while Im in China

 

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