Spotted on the streets of Hong Kong:

“Wifi available here,” it says

Unfortunately, it’s just a convenient place for the telecom company to advertise that they are offering wifi… for a fee.

Correction: From a comment by Alex:

“Actually this is not true.  PCCW had been offering paid Wifi access at…

The Olympic torch protests have caused quite a stir online and offline, and that on the whole, I’ve found a lack of balanced viewpoints or real voices from real people. So here is my attempt to mitigate that:

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Famous Chinese Journalists Oppose the Carrefour Boycotts

“I would like to tell those…

Headline image from 玩聚 on ju690 (with my translation in white):

The story goes that an officer within Chong Qing city administration (城管) looked up 城管 (city administration)”on Baidu Baike (= Baidu’s Wikipedia competitor) and found the following:

“City administration… A mafia (黑社會) that bullies storekeepers unable to pay their rent or economically…

Cool: TBWA’s Olympic ad for Adidas.

Makes sense? I don’t know — yes, there are many people in China and so I’m guessing the theme is something grandiose along the lines of “standing on the shoulder of billions.” But it’s looks a bit like they’re competing somewhere in hell…

Alibaba ads spotted at the Hong Kong International Airport.

I’m back in Hong Kong for a few weeks, so if anyone here is interested in picking my brain (or chatting) over a cup of tea/coffee, drop me a line.

Previously blogged, China’s Internet Police, and now back with new animated, region-customized imagery. They float on-screen, on the bottom left, to show they’re watching. They also sometimes get in the way of the text (which I don’t quite understand).

Click on them will bring you to the their BBS, like this (please bear with my…

This looks like a very cool undertaking. Collabor8 (C8) is an 8 week project that will run from the 28th of April to the 20th of June, bringing together Chinese and Australian designers in a series of online courses and discussions. It’s being put on by the Omnium Research group at the College of Fine Arts. It’s…

Twifan.com is a Chinese mashup that searches posts and users on two of China’s microblogging sites, Jiwai.de and Fanfou. Someone there also had a great idea — a comparison of the top 100 most-followed users of Twitter, Jiwai.de, and Fanfou.
As an independently operated webpage, we do not have any direct connection with FanFou and Jiwai.de, so this…