For Chinese folks experiencing information overload, there is lifebang — a Chinese lifehacking site that contains mostly translations of productivity and Getting Things Done literature, such as Networking for People who Hate Networking or Ten More Ways to Create a Breakthrough in Your Life (from lifehack.org).

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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Go here to see a real-time map of Twitters–short messages from random people who are letting us all know what they are doing. Warning: it’s hypnotic.  You can see the different Twitters popping up nonstop all over the world…people in the middle of the night, just leaving the house in the morning, getting ready to go to bed, pondering.  The map isn’t…

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Recently came across this running drama (apologies if it’s been covered to death elsewhere); I’m so cynical these days about online reality that it did cross my mind that it’s a very clever, extremely well acted online soap opera masquerading as a real situation.  However, it does seem real since one of the clips is a TV interview. …

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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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Check out the new Chinese weekly online magazine, Memedia, a cooperative effort among over 100 (and counting) prominent Chinese bloggers.  It looks like a blog but at present is a weekly, with hopes to eventually become a daily.  So far, issues no. 1 and 2 offer super condensed, link-heavy news about web, tech, media, and international events–it’s a mirror of…

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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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