Kristie and Jack

One of the unexpected benefits of a heavy business travel schedule in Asia is that you can wake up to CNN's morning news show which is co-hosted by the talented Kristie Lu Stout. She has just posted an interesting first blog from China which includes impressions of an interview with Alibaba.com's Jack Ma.

Highlights include:

He's been deemed China's new Internet King. But Jack is staying clear of the crown. "I don't consider myself a king, but a teacher," said Jack. "I am China's Chief Education Officer for the Internet." Since the Yahoo deal, Jack concedes that his life has indeed changed. He jokes that he's getting busier, getting thinner. And that a lot of strangers on the street give him a pat on the back for his dot-com coup.

The thought of Jack getting thinner is a bit of worry for anybody who has ever met him.

It seems that Kristie, a veteran of Wired magazine and Reuters in the dotcom heyday, is not a stranger to weblogs. The page includes a link to a five day blog posted earlier this year from Silicon Valley.