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Ge Jin, a Ph.D candidate in communications at UC San Diego, whose video clips on Chinese gold farmers and farm owners you might have seen on Youtube, has a full length documentary on the topic, called Gold Farmers. Check out the film’s website. It sounds amazing. Gold farmers, for those readers who…
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Want to find out what good that company is up to in China? Check out this useful English language database of CSR (corporate social responsibility) efforts of organizations in China, officially called the China CSR Map 中国企业社会责任机构指南. You can search the database by type of organization (business, academic, NGO, government, media, etc.) or field of interest (environment, arts…
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OneWebDay is planning to create an historic event to mark the launch of
OneWebDay by facilitating the largest global online photo collaboration
resulting in a visualization of the web made up of photos posted by
millions of people around the world. This visualization will show the
power of online collaboration. OneWebDay is working…
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Pacific Epoch noted in a small item on Tuesday 9/12 that the very popular South Korean Kart Rider 跑跑卡丁车 game hit 700,000 concurrent Chinese users recently. We’ve written about Kart Rider before, mostly to say that it’s a big, big deal in online China and yet remains almost invisible in the English language…
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Just came across the mobilemonday beijing blog, which I got from the excellent Read/WriteWeb post on best Chinese Web apps. MobileMonday has a set of archived presentations, some pdf, some ppt, which might be of use to some of us. Things like:
YeePay – Payment in China (on…
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Some of you will already have seen this story, but it’s really worth taking a closer look at it to understand some of the ways that online “community” gets stuck at the border, and at how online “mobs” turn to the oldest and ugliest stereotypes in the book once they’re mobilized.
It all started on September 2 when …
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From the blog of mainland Chinese blogger Flypig, this September 1 post and its comments describe some of the context around an instance of downloading pirated music — in this case, the anticipated “Still Fantasy” 《依然范特西》from Jay Chou 周杰伦, one of Asia’s most popular singers. The album was released three days earlier than scheduled after…
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This might be fun, but I can’t get it to work in Chinese on my Mac. : ( I can use the English, however. It’s called woocall (available in both English and Chinese), and has been in beta at Sina for the past few months. Woocall, as Jason reminds me below, is similar to Gabbly: it allows…
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