Isaac Mao (Mao
Xianghui) is a software architect, entrepreneur and social technology
researcher. He was one of the earliest bloggers in China and was
the co-founder of CNBlog.org which is set up to deploy open collaborative
research on the Internet, its technologies, and its impacts on
society and business.
One of his initiatives include urging his compatriots
to translate content from Global Voices and other sites to avoid
a "one way world" in which all content in China comes
from Chinese media and where US media characterizes China and
Chinese people don't talk back. His ideas on harnessing blogs,
peer-to-peer and grass-roots technologies to empower the Chinese
people have made him a respected voice in the global blogosphere.
Issac Mao is also a part of Global Voices, an
international effort to diversify the conversation taking place
online by involving speakers from around the world, and developing
tools, institutions and relationships to help make these voices
heard. He also led the team that developed Creative Commons China,
which is part of the Creative Commons, co-founded by Stanford
Law Professor Lawrence Lessig to expand the range of creative
work available to share.
He was also one of the major organizers of the
recent Chinese blogger's conference in Shanghai, China. The aims
of the conference are to explore the further growth of Chinese
blogs, and to provide a forum facilitating deeper exchanges among
Chinese bloggers.
Today, Issac Mao is a partner in a venture capital
firm that funds Chinese internet startups, including a blog-hosting
service.
Mao's original domain is: http://isaacmao.blogbus.com/index.html
but that website has been blocked. His alternative domain can
be found in http://isaacmao.blogbus.com/index.html.
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