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(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…
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Our Taiwanese contributor Nydia Chen pointed us to a blog that has taken the Chinese blogosphere by storm over the past few months. Acosta’s blog launched in early March, and current traffic rates stand at 15,555,589 visitors since then. “Acosta’s” poetic prose, celebrity name-dropping, fashionable clothing and artsy photos depict a wealthy yet casual lifestyle that seems attractive to many…
Continue readingChinese young man-of-mystery blog phenom
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
Maps help non-technical people like me conceptualize the Internet (if you know of China-specific Internet maps, please do let me know and I’ll blog them). Geoffrey Mack has a great new graph posted on the blog at Alexa.com, done by Alexa’s Applications Engineer, Derrick Pallas. It shows the distribution of top level domains (TLDs) by traffic. Dot-com (medium…
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Another reverse shift of direction between virtual and physical. ChinaTechNews reports that Taobao.com, China’s largest online auction site, has opened a digitally augmented mall in Shanghai and plans to open 11 more by year’s end. It looks like this is not so much a move to create a new physical retail empire as a nod…
Continue readingChinese e-commerce: from clicks to bricks
The last stretch of the Qinghai-Tibet railway between Golmud and Lhasa has now been completed. The first train left from Goldmud, Qinghai on Saturday the 1st of July after president Hu Jintao cut the ceremonial ribbon. The day of the opening was the same as the 85th anniversary of the Communist Party of China.
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Continue readingRailway on the roof of the world