Let’s do a fun little exercise.

Let’s compare profile pictures of MySpace.cn’s China and international users.

Note, however, that we hold the international users classification on MySpace.cn suspect — the one profile link that DID work (for me) in the international profiles section led to a white American woman who’s profile didn’t hint at any interest in China.

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非常真人，非常娱乐 (Very Real People, Very Entertaining) is a blog that posts short, amusing photo-comics of every day life in Beijing. Whose life? In most cases it’s the middle-class youth. Even though I don’t find every comic funny, the photography and the postures employed in each scene are pure gold.

Here’s an example of an entry I found particularly funny (translation in…

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Two interesting features I noticed on 花花世界 (roughly translated as “Beautiful World”), the blog of 原小娟, a well-known food critic and magazine editor:

1. As she was diagnosed with cancer, her blog’s focus went from food & drink to her illness. Interestingly enough, some of the new posts meld the two topics together — for example, a post about a…

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Gwen Yip (an HK artist / advertising art director) has recently begun to blog, in the form of a visual diary, her time in London. Here’s an excerpt from her entry about her conversation with someone from Wieden + Kennedy:

This type of illustrated blog and even the line-art style seem particularly popular with creatives…

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Uploaded onto 看图说话 (crudely transliterated as “See Picture Say Stuff”), cartoon renditions of Beijing Opera characters. (Unfortunately the text is too small to see!)

Original post, with more!

The 走走看看—赵静的BLOG is a great photoblog that includes photos from Tibet, surgeries, as well as the biggest rice pile in China:

“March 16, 2007: HeiLongJiang HuLin remote car station, China’s largest rice company – BeiDaHuang rice industry group’s primary food storage site.”

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Kissing contests are spreading throughout China, with one popping up every few months. They’ve already hit SiChuan, NanJing,QianWei, and most recently Shanghai!

A kissing contest involves couples who compete to see who can hold their kiss the longest. The latest winners from Shanghai hit 5 hours and 40 minutes. And of course, the contests are documented on blogs and BBS’s. From 走走看看—赵静的BLOG…

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The nail house incident blogged here earlier has made it way into the English blogosphere: BoingBoing linked to Ananova about it (before we caught it actually), ESWN linked to Danwei’s post, and Peering Into The Interior translated an interview with the owner.

Meanwhile, as Global Voices Online points…

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From VH1’s “40 Greatest Internet Superstars”:

40. Joanna Repsold — ate a praying mantis
39. Ethan Chandler — Bank of America singer
38. Cindy Margolis — World’s Most Downloaded Woman
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7. Chinese Backstreet Boys
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3. Denny Blaze — The Average Homeboy
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Highlighted on the front page of QQ’s [Sensationalist] News in Photos:

女孩公交上出手打亲妈 乘客劝阻遭其大骂
(Girl Hits Mother on Bus, Helpful Passengers Scolded)

Photo Caption: Girl leans on front of #70 bus. Prevents bus from moving.

What transpired:

• Teenage girl and mother get on bus…

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