Sorry for the long absence, folks, but I saved up all my vacation days and in lieu of a proper holiday I went on the road with my band Chunqiu (春秋) to play shows in nine cities all over China — Wuhan, Changsha, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Nanning, Kunming, Chengdu, and Xining, where I’m now writing from. After the weekend I’ll be in Paris for LeWeb ‘08, which promises to be an excellent conference as Loic LeMeur’s conferences always are — or so they say. This one has an all-star cast, with the likes of Fred Wilson, Chris Anderson, Maurice Levy, Joi Ito, Robert Scoble, Michael Arrington, Doc Searls, and Hugh MacLeod. I’ll be sure to do lots of blogging from there.

Again, apologies for vanishing for so long, but believe me it was well worth it! I don’t believe I’ll ever shake the rock habit, alas…