Censorship veil lifted up some more

August 16, 2006 by Jason Li

Danwei reports that Blogspot and Blog City have been unblocked in Beijing. (Reader Andy Yates reports that they are also accessible from Xiamen.)

This follows the unblocking of Google.com that occured about two months back.

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Belated Sunday Strip: 西米小屋

August 15, 2006 by Jason Li

A selection from a children’s illustrator’s blog: 西米小屋, which has comic blog posts.

As always, translations in maroon.

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I Want to Get Rich Web

August 13, 2006 by Jason Li

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我要发财网 (I Want to Get Rich Web) offers free gifts. These free gifts come from new startups who are trying to get their product out into the market, as part of their advertising campaign. Thus, users sign up for gifts, and your profile will determine your chance of getting a gift.

Via 无极 blog & …

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A peek inside Google’s China HQ

August 12, 2006 by Jason Li

Neatease gives us a peek inside Google’s Beijing office:

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And now, a meme from the Western blogosphere…

August 10, 2006 by Jason Li

One of the latest China meme circulating around on the western blogosphere: Kid’s Republic Bookstore, Beijing.

And we’ve tracked down the Chinese name (蒲蒲兰书店), their website (http://www.poplar.com.cn/) and the address (courtesy of Frame).

Via BoingBoing, originally from the Cool Hunter.

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She lives!

August 4, 2006 by Jason Li

To ensure that FuRong doesn’t disappear from the public consciousness, we have her latest offering (and yes, we kind of caught it late):

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Bid, on eBay, for dinner with FuRong. She prefers a guy 8 years her junior, more than 180cm tall, with pale skin and a nice butt. (I did not make any of that up.)

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HK’s Civilian Youtube Journalists

August 2, 2006 by Jason Li

ESWN tells of a forum post about an alleged assault at the HK ComicCon involving the Cosplay winner’s friend and the runner-up’s boyfriend. At least two people began shooting videos just after the event conspired, and posted the results onto Youtube.

While Roland suggests this “is a demonstration of how YouTube works”, I would like to add that this event is similar to…

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城市吧 CityBar

August 2, 2006 by Jason Li

城市吧 CityBar looks like a cool Web2.0 map hack that uses photographs to show what the street would look like if you stood there, facing that direction. Unfortunately, I haven’t got the site to load properly and so I couldn’t test it out myself.

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Microsoft in Asia: we’re watching and learning

August 1, 2006 by Jason Li

My friends and superiors here at Microsoft Beijing have blogged about some of their work:

In a post entitled “Pirated XBox 360 Games in China – we’re watching and learning”:

“Pirated content is readily available and we track both prices and duplication quality of certain titles. When new modchips come out we ask the modders how they get around copy protection…

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