Creative Commons Photo Awards ever held worldwide at the National Library in Beijing. I was invited, and there was a wide range of overseas guests, including Joichi Ito, president of Creative Commons and Dr. Catharina Maracke, director. The whole event was put together by Prof. Wang Chunyan, who is the project lead for the Creative Commons Mainland China. She also serves as assistant professor of law at Renmin University of China.

There were some 4,000 photographers who submitted their photos for judging. The judging panel was made up of independent photographers and photo editors at Xinhua News Agency. There were some excellent speeches in Chinese about the development of Chinese photography. Joichi Ito spoke about Creative Commons licenses and about how to select them, while Dr. Maracke made an introduction to the CC licensing model, and how it has been implemented in some 80 countries, giving content creators some level of control over the degree of licensing they wanted to give. (more…)

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Yesterday, the new national aquatics center was unveiled in Beijing. This will become the venue for the leading water events of the Beijing Olympics. After the Olympics are over, it will be converted to a shopping mall for Beijing’s masses.

Beijing is now the site for some of the most exciting architecture in the world. For many Chinese though, there is an underlying uneasiness. Is all this dramatic futuristic architecture the beginning of a new and exciting future of wealth and prosperity which Chinese have never experienced in their long history? (more…)

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