A big congratulations to Seesmic's Vin Vin and Giselle on their new show The Great Village. The second episode focused on learning more about reasons behind the protests in the leadup to the Beijing Olympics.

Rick Martin and I make cameo appearances in minute 5:45 and 6:20 of the video. :D

Here's Rick's thoughts on what might happen after the Olympics.

For reference, here was my original full length post that they extracted comments from.

Just wanted to note that my "business as usual" comment might have been taken out of context so I did jump back on to clarify by saying the following:

...while I remain a big fan and early adopter of Seesmic (i've met tons of great people who I now count as RL friends), I'm still waiting for a few things to happen so that the China community can start jumping into the conversations and really get a dialog going that is relevant to them.

• Group feature to allow those with similar interests to develop communitites.
• Lighter faster loading interface.
• Ability to record and view Seesmics from Twhirl (who they've acquired)
• Plugin for Joomla so that I can add video commenting to The China Business Network in much the same way as TechCrunch now has.

I'm sure it's on the way so I'll keep you all posted!