“SOMEONE WANT TO DO AN INTERVIEW WITH YOU WHEN WILL BE AVAILABLE”.

I think I can easily split my life between all the time before I got that SMS from a founding member of the Beijing Mac group — and after that time. Despite the absence of a word in the English language in that message, that SMS was it. It didn’t land me into a headliner on the IHT or so, but it paved my way to making appearances on the BBC, CNN, IDG, Mac magazines and websites, China Central Television, and a whole host of world media.

Since that early 2002 text message, I’ve been interviewed by media the world over about a whole host of things. Things like how Apple is doing in China; why the Apple Store in Sanlitun, Beijing, was such a big deal. Things more IT-related, like why the “Green Dam” project aimed at cleansing content in excess of what the label claims it does, is not a good idea (independent reviewers later concluded that the content control software in question had major security flaws). Things like how the city of Beijing worked — especially in the lead-up to the Olympics. Things like talking to an elite group in Shanghai about why high speed rail in China is a bigger deal than you might think. Things like talking about China’s latest and greatest HSR link — the Beijing-Shanghai HSR — to media both from home and around the world.

“SOMEONE WANT TO DO AN INTERVIEW WITH YOU WHEN WILL BE AVAILABLE”.
(有人想採訪，何時有空?)

我覺得，自從我收到那條短訊起，我就和媒體界越來越有緣了。雖然那場採訪不是和什麼特別知名的媒體進行的，但是將近十年以來，我「積攢」到了和許多世界知名媒體的採訪。這裡有包括英國 BBC、美國 CNN、美國資訊網站 IDG、蘋果電腦方面多國雜誌、中國中央電視台等世界各界各行業的傳媒。

所涉及到的話題也算五花八門，無論是和資訊科技有關，特別是和蘋果在中國有關，還是和北京市有關。2008 年奧運會前夕，我和英國 BBC 曾做了將近一週的電台和網路節目，以一個普通民眾身份客觀全面地介紹中國的首都。此外，我也多次在傳媒活動中討論中國高速鐵路。

話說高鐵: 京滬高速鐵路開通前夕和開通當天，有多家來自各地的媒體，包括紙質媒體、電台媒體和電視台媒體，採訪了我（和妻子），有關京滬高速鐵路。其中，有《南方都市報》的部分旅客專題採訪、中國中央電視台綜合、中文國際和新聞頻道的採訪，濟南《都市女報》頭條採訪，等。