Isaac Mao () is a

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architect, and social media researcher. He is doing research in social learning and for developing the philosophy of

Sharism Sharism is a philosophy on sharing content and ideas, developed by Isaac Mao. Inspired by user-generated content, sharism states that the act of sharing something within a community produces a proper value for each of its participants: "the mor ...

Life and work

Mao is a blogger, software architect, researcher in learning and social technology. Mao has written about on-line journalism. Mao's essay "Sharism: A Mind Revolution" appeared in the

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book project.

Blogging and blog advocacy

Mao has visited some conferences (such as

Wikimania Wikimania is the Wikimedia movement's annual conference, organized by Wikimedian, volunteers and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. Topics of presentations and discussions include Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia, other wikis, open-source ...

about Internet culture, in China and more broadly and other global events on Internet culture. In 2009, he was a speaker at the 40th anniversary of The Internet Conference held at

UCLA The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Its academic roots were established in 1881 as a normal school then known as the southern branch of the C ...

As a trained software engineer, he has a long history of developing both business and consumer software. He worked as a Chief Architect in the Intel HomeCD project and

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BackSchool suite.http://www.linkedin.com/in/isaacmao
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/ref> As of 2008, Mao published an open letter to Google, challenging the search engine giant to support anti-censorship efforts and change its strategy on China.http://www.picnicnetwork.org/page/7681/en

References

External links

an article on New Scientists, November, 2004.
Isaac Mao's blog

English entries in Isaac Mao's blog

Not Losing Facebook in China - The Economist
on Internet in China and Isaac Mao views. {{DEFAULTSORT:Mao, Isaac Chinese male bloggers Chinese bloggers Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Shanghai Jiao Tong University alumni