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From a strip entitled 傻妹子日記 (Diary of a Silly Little Girl). I’ve only translated the first panel, which I feel is pretty representative of the entire strip.
As always, translations in maroon:
Link to original comic on sina.
(This post is my interpretation/summary of two ESWN articles entitled Red Rubber Ball & Freedom of Identity, Speech and Assembly on the Internet.)
This all began when someone, somewhere thought that a Japanese company bought some Netease shares. The same certain someone (or some people) then noticed that one of the…
Continue readingMMORPG love for Japan
From a strip entitled 都市王老五 (Urban Bachelor). As always, translations in maroon:
Link to original strip on sina.
On June 25, 2006, blog ESWN reported on an incidence of Kiddie Porn in Hong Kong, saying that “while this story has occupied Hong Kong headlines for days, the English-language media is doggedly determined that its readers do not need to know.”
By July 1, 2006, ESWN reports that SCMP (the South China…
Continue readingKiddie Pr0n in HK & the Power of a Blog
Rebecca MacKinnon and Hong Huang (洪晃) are gently sniping at each other on their blogs.
Both are writing about their attendence at the Chinese Internet part of the Fortune Brainstorm Conference, and the really juicy bits come out in their reflective blog posts. First, Hong Huang writes (and I’m taking the translation from Rebecca’s blog):…
Continue readingA blog dialogue on 老外 idealism
For our coverage of netbars today, we visit iResearch for some statistics.
Our appetizer: there are a decreasing number of netbars.
(green = 10,000s of netbars)
For our main course: the 2nd-tier cities have the most netbars.
(left = # netbars, green = first-tier city, yellow…
Continue readingSome stats, some dubious
Danwei discusses the latest issue of Scandals Exposed (丑闻揭秘), an unregistered newspaper which takes its scandalous, tabloid-esque articles from many sources, both on and offline.
Joel Martinsen @ Danwei: “The paper’s layout suggests that the editors merely downloaded the articles from one of the many sites republishing them, added in some clipart and ads, and called…
Continue readingblog to print, but not what you’d expect