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Jason Li is an independent designer, artist and educator. Once upon a time, he studied engineering and ran a news site about fan translations of video games.
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Hong Huang on why net publications may overtake print ones

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Interesting snippet from the Danwei TV Hard Hat Show’s episode on “Hong Huang, Media Mogul and Blogger“.

FYI, Hong Huang, 洪晃, is a high-flying “media mogul” who runs several magazines here in China, including the Beijing and Shanghai editions of Timeout. (Her mother was also Mao Zedong’s translator.)

In the middle of the episode, she comments on why…

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Draft law to further push breaking news onto the net

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ESWN tells of a draft law that “will make it a punishable offense (50,000 yuan to 100,000 yuan in fines) for the media to publish independent reports on suddenly breaking incidents.”

Lyn has blogged about the special role of the internet, specifically the BBSs, for breaking news. If passed, will this new law further push breaking news onto…

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520 Netbar, Beijing

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Reporting from an up-scale netbar (520数码天地) in Chaoyang, Beijing.

Here, seats are grouped into single-computer cocoons & round-table group-play canopies on top of the usual cluster-rows. The Saturday-afternoon clientele includes expatriate youth.

Below are the top 10 shows watched, all free once you pay the hourly computer usage fee:

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They are, in order:

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