New Member Introduction - Welcome to Sri Min Yee

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Namaste:

 

Let us welcome Sri Min Yee, a new member to the list.

We can look forward to his active participation with

his thoughtful insights,

 

Warmest regards,

>

> Namaste,

>

> I am fairly old, now 64, and have been a seeker in

> Vedanta (you might call

> it serious dabbling) since the mid-1970s, having

> attended the temple on

> Vallejo St. in San Francisco and the one here in

> Seattle. I was a religion

> and philosophy major in college. I was raised as a

> southern Baptist in my

> childhood in Maryland.

>

> I have a ready-made 3 paragraphs, not one, so it's

> easier to just paste:

>

> Min Yee is a pioneer of new media who began his

> career as a journalist,

> covering the Vietnam war and East Asian political

> and economic developments

> for Time Magazine and the Far East Economic Review.

> In the late 1960s, he

> was one of the founding editors of Ramparts, a

> leading voice of political

> dissent and one of the first important alternative

> news publications in the

> United States. He authored six books on subjects

> ranging from Soledad Prison

> to the Jim Jones cult in Guyana to Chinese art.

>

> After serving nearly eight years as Editorial

> Director of the Ortho Books

> series of home and garden publications, Min was

> recruited by Bill Gates to

> launch Microsoft Press in 1985. He soon expanded

> from technically-oriented

> publications into the then-new medium of CD-ROM,

> organizing some of the

> industry's first symposia and international

> conferences on the potential

> applications of interactive media in education,

> entertainment, and business.

> As Microsoft Vice-President for Multimedia, he

> developed and brought to

> market the first generation of Microsoft's

> best-selling CDs, including

> Bookshelf, Encarta, Cinemania and then, jointly with

> American Express,

> created the multimedia set, The Great Cities of

> Europe.

>

> Min retired from Microsoft in 1991 and served as

> creative visionary for a

> series of companies that pushed the boundaries of

> digital and Web-based

> technologies. He founded several of his own

> ventures, including CineWorld, a

> top-10 travel site in the mid-90s, and spearheaded

> the publishing and

> production efforts of AdvanceOnline, a Web-based

> distance-learning firm, and

> PublishingOnline, an eBook publisher. At

> PublishingOnline, he traveled

> frequently to China, developing relationships with

> political, intellectual

> and business leaders as part of the company's

> efforts to license Chinese

> content and establish digital media production

> facilities throughout China.

> He has deep connections to China and the Oversees

> Chinese community. He is

> conversant in Mandarin and has recently been

> developing online Chinese

> language classes to teach the children of overseas

> Chinese the language and

> culture of their ancestral home.

>

 

 

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