A group blog about Chinese tech, media and design
Presenting the latest social networking site: 出气筒, the Venting Bin!
Share your misery, frustration and pain, and make friends doing so! Also great is the set of Flash games they have down of side, two of which involve naming a puppet and beating the hell out of it:
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Continue readingCommiseration As Social Networking
I’ve seen other photos on Chinese BBS of little kids smoking, but this one appears to be substantiated.
Jian Bing smoked his first cigarette at the age of 3 when a friend of
his father’s gave him one to try. The boy often spends time with his
father and his colleagues, who give him cigarettes for fun.…
Continue readingmaking the rounds of Chinese internet: smoker, aged 4
I wonder how many non-Chinese speaking sports fans around the world are watching Chinese TV broadcasts of sporting events (especially soccer) online? One way to watch soccer on the Internet:
Some smart Chinese people have worked out how to use P2P to stream a
live TV signal – and the most watched shows are the Chinese coverage of…
Continue readingChinese online sports feeds: a meeting place of sorts
The leading Chinese search engine, Baidu, lists top searches of the day just the way Google Zeitgeist does. Link to today’s top keywords. Arrow indicates growth rate, followed by number of searches, and my translations.
1 mp3 ↑ 99199
2 qq ↑ 78692 [QQ is China’s most popular instant messaging platform]
3 电影 ↑ 72689 [movies]…
Continue readingChina’s top keyword searches: hard to find on english language web
Cao Fei (blogged about here) explores the interplay between cosplay and the real world in a set of clever photographs. For example:
Which alludes to the manga/anime Saint Seiya:
The set of photographs can be found here. (Sidenote: they use Macs!?)
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Continue readingPlay on Cosplay
Check out the difference in number of categories to search at the very top of the page for 2 major American portals (Yahoo and MSN) and 2 major Chinese portals (Sohu and Sina).
Hans Juergen-Bucher (Media Studies, University of Trier) has a provocative 2004 paper titled Is There a Chinese Internet? which reports the results of user studies he conducted in Germany with Chinese Internet users. One of his most interesting points is about what he calls an “aesthetics of abundance” that shapes Chinese website design and interface.
In…
Continue readingaesthetics of abundance