Fili’s world

Wikipedia this, Wikipedia that. Those who know me or have been following me for a while know that I adore social web and information collaboration, and that I refer to Wikipedia on almost every topic I want to know more about. For those still not familiar with the concept (?) a Wiki allows every person, [...]

I had enough of the very limited flickr account with 200 photos and 3 albums, so I took up on Ori's advice for building a new gallery.
So, the new fiLi gallery is up at : http://www.filination.com/gallery .
The fiLi gallery RSS feed can be grabbed at : http://feeds.feedburner.com/FilinationsPhotos (which I imagine will be updated while I'm [...]

What does it mean to be an Asian? in the "Grace Lee project" - Grace Lee, a very self-aware Korean origin American,  tries to track down other Korean Grace Lees across the US in the pursuit of her own identity. Are all Grace Lees the same? are all Asian American the same? Are all Asians [...]

Jonathan Ansfield, a Jewish guy writing for Spot-on in Beijing, has a very interesting article about the Chinese response to the war currently going on between Israel and the Hezbollah forces in Lebanon. Jonathan opens up with a funny introduction of what it means to be a Jew in China :

It’s not typed on my [...]

(This is the second part of a post started here )
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I couldn't help myself, I just had to go take a look. So, on the way back from a really bad day I stopped by to see what the new "far-east market" near Abu-Gush was all about.
Coming in, I met the owner and straight up [...]

My sister has been telling me about the "far east market" for a while. This week she brought me the ad they published in the weekend paper "Kol Ha-ir". Looking at the ad, I thought there was something a bit strange about it.
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Maybe it's just me, but I have a weird feeling that there's a [...]