I can’t believe the crowd attending this month Wedwednesday. It was really packed. Maybe because of the two power guests or Napoleon is doing something different.

The one in the middle is Michael Logan (Editor, Multimedia - SCMP.com) and the one on the right is Sam Hui (Business Director - atnext.com)

Took a pix with Michael Logan of SCMP.com

Michael talked about providing podcast at scmp.com and some other technology they are looking into.

Well, most of the companies that are under the Tan Sri’s usually are very conservative. They don’t try new things. Podcast is cheap to produce. So, that is why it’s easily available at SCMP.com. Moreover, SCMP.com is the dominate newspaper in town. Why do something new that cost money and has practically no ROI.

Do I download podcast?

NO…Why? Sorry Michael..no offence. I am very selective…what can I say. I will download podcast when these two criteria satisfy me.

First, I will only accept two distinct native english accent such American and British. All other is no good and no pseudo american accent (like me…heheee).

Second, the tone of the voice. If I don’t hear something closer to a TV or Radio broadcast tone of voice, it’s no good.

Imagine me, a malaysian with heavy malaysian accent doing podcast and the listeners are American or British. They won’t accept my accents, my enunciation and my tone of voice.

Me and Sam Hui

Atnext.com seems pretty innovative with their portal. They let real time comments on certain feature news. This is a good way to gauge the public opinion. Another thing was webcast and Sam spoke about a webcast they did with Kelly Chen (the singer), some of fan was so ecstatic because they can chat with their idol.

Question is why webcast and not Web-TV? the rumour on the street was the cost was too high, so the boss cut short on the Web-TV goal. I would not blame them because you really could not see where to make money while maintaining such a big team.

I heard OnTv has about 200 personnel on ONTV team. That is a lot of manpower.

To me, the destination of newsprint is web-tv. Web-tv will will complement and provide new channel of revenue. The question is when they can achieve respectable revenue. Only time will tell…

Me and Rebecca McKinnon (Rconversation.blogs.com)

This second time I met her. The last time was during Barcamp.

Its a quick snap of Belle Liu of Beansbox.com

Need to thks Aaron of cubiclemuses.com and Ed of Dookaz.com for taking some of pix for me.

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