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We’ve recently been receiving a few blog comments that are spam messages from WoW gold farms. Such as this and this. (Funnily enough, neither of these are attached to a post related to WoW.) They are in English and one’s URL even has “US” in its title. But they are actually Chinese; the…
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For those who haven’t seen it yet, Danwei TV now has its own website here. Danwei TV is the brainchild of the authors of the excellent Chinese media blog, Danwei, and features smart, well-produced, fast moving video clips. The clip that’s up now is well worth watching: it’s on Mu Zimei, the famous, sexually outspoken blogger who…
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The Economic Intelligence Unit and IBM have released their 2005 E-readiness Rankings, a report which assesses various nations’ and regions’ abilities to “promote and support digital business and information and communications technology (ICT) services.” The ranking system in and of itself, as well as the notion that e-practices will evolve along some known continuum (at one point…
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Check out the works on Chinese 华语 CGFeel, a BBS forum for digital art that’s apparently modeled on CGTalk, the forum of the Computer Graphics Society. CGFeel has 4058 members and you just have to poke around and see what you can find. Aside from the section titled “Original Works,”…
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Soul of the Ultimate Nation (SUN) 奇迹世界, a South Korean “action” massively multiplayer role-playing game developed by Webzen and licensed to leading Chinese game operator The9, was recently voted “Most Anticipated Online Game of 2006” by Chinese gamers. (Link to Chinese article). SUN is currently in closed beta…
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Chinese blogger Xu Jie says Baidu’s Baike wikipedia (see earlier post on its launch) is a disappointment:
Baidu’s Baike [an alternate Chinese wikipedia] has finally formally launched. but it’s nothing to get excited about…I looked around a bit and most of the articles are naked plagiarism. They’ve hypocritically put links to reference material at the…
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