There are lots of sites that aggregate other sites online, whether it be blog aggregators or news aggregators, but this one is worth browsing.  You’ll learn something.  You’ll find something new.

It’s the MCLC Resource Center, "maintained by Kirk A. Denton at the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, The Ohio State University, in…

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Andrew Lih has an excellent post reminding us what’s important about the news that Wikipedia has suddenly, and unevenly, been "unblocked" in China: 

It’s important to know there is no monolithically operating Great Firewall of China, even though it is a cute and useful moniker.

The “GFW system” depends on a distributed system of…

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Jason dubbed him the Chinese Star Wars Kid due to his ubiquity on the PhotoShop spoofing scene in China, but I’m glad to see that the child wasn’t scarred in the way that the original Star Wars Kid was.  Indeed, he’s set up his own website.  Reader Fergus points us to “Little Fatty…

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Apparently no-one in business is immune from the innovation imperative these days, and one must be seen to be creating the conditions for innovation, if not actually being innovative — yet it’s one of those words that have been bleached of practically all meaning through overuse. Still, there’s an important cultural battle going on regarding what innovation is and who…

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The latest McDonalds ad campaign, in China, launched on the Web, in Flash. It gives us a good look at the anatomy of Chinese web advertising, with much more pop star/idol and cell phone emphasis than we’re used to in the US.

The guy grimacing at us center stage is a popular, young Taiwanese pop star. The site…

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Several recent events in the megacorporational front, in no particular order:

Google launches Google Camp, an outreach program to Chinese university students, which includes a overall googlecamp.org social space as well as local university pages, presentations and activities.

Lenovo launches a design blog, Design Matters. It’s in English. It’s licensed…

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China Web2.0 Review points us to the top Taiwan blog, Wan’s Comic Blog (彎彎～用漫畫寫日誌). At least, according to Blog Look (部落格观察).

Below is a sample post. Translations in maroon, as always:

Nokia Mooncakes (for the Mid-Autumn Festival last Friday).

Design by Nokia. Culinary skills provided by Starbucks.

Via Postshow, via Engadget(CN), via alexwutw’s post on PalmIsLife.

Have you ever been forced by a client to copy an English language website?
Have you ever been blamed by a leader for producing something “unsophisticated”?
Have you ever felt unsure when the “English” website you copied keeps on looking wrong?

For those of us who are interested in how people from different cultural contexts “see” things online differently–a…

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After having used Babelfish for all this time, I finally checked out online dictionary Dict.cn, which Jay Dautcher told me about a year or two ago. It’s really good, especially if you read Chinese, because it provides you with the word you’re looking for in various sentences.  You can get a sense of how the word works.  Another nice touch…

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