english on chinese blogs

March 3, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

Chinastic, the English-language China news/info page edited by the smart, funny, young Chinese blogger Hailey Xie (her Flickr photos here) and Erminia, has a new feature: English-language commentary on some of China’s best known bloggers, with links to their blogs. A good place to get a quick sense of a few of the biggest…

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scratching the surface of BBS photos

March 2, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

Picture_2 China Word of Mouth Blog started me on a journey to better understand Chinese BBS (Bulletin Board Service) aggregators. A lot of the most interesting things are happening on China’s BBS, including the circulation of sensationalistic photos and lots and lots and lots of pictures of women with very few clothes on. More on that later. Here’s the #1 photo (for today?…

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learn your Chinese Internet vocab

March 2, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

Check out the stunning set of ppt decks created by Andreas Weigend for a class on Technology, Information, and Innovation
taught at Qinghua (Tsinghua) University in Beijing, 10/05. In addition
to being chock full of data on everything from the Chinese web to the
state of global search to the digital economy, many of the terms…

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Google’s Foray into Women’s Fashion

March 2, 2006 by Jason Li

Perhaps it’s a different Google.
(Location:
杭州，中山北路)

Source: http://www.postshow.net

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separate bodies of content

March 2, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

Rebecca MacKinnon points to a detailed exploration by Steven Murdoch (Researcher in the Security Group
of the University of Cambridge) of how the new Chinese TLDs (top level domain names) are being activated. Murdoch finds that while this may not technically be an attempt to establish an alternate Internet since there is no new root server,

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Chinese celeb superblog

March 1, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

Picture_5 Xu Jinglei’s blog, one of the most popular in China, has received over 14 million hits since she started writing last October. Xu is a wellknown actress and director who has appeared in such films as “Letter from an Unknown Woman” starring herself and Jiang Wen; “Spicy Love Soup”; and “Far From Home”. She writes about what she eats, who she…

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Image for Your Amusement #002

February 28, 2006 by Jason Li

From the wonderful design blog of choc_orange:

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China–the other internet?

February 28, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

3 of the 4 new domain names announced by China’s Ministry of Information Industry yesterday, going into effect as of tomorrow (March 1).

This could be a Big Deal — the beginning of an “alternate root” — the beginning of another Internet, according to some experts.

My colleague Mike Liebhold directed me to an analysis…

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blogging chinese-japanese reconciliation

February 28, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

A group of scholars located in Australia, the U.S., and Singapore have launched an English-language blog for brainstorming ideas on “how relations between Japan and
China can be improved, bilateral conflicts resolved, and problems
ameliorated.” It would be cool to have the site in Chinese and Japanese too, but probably prohibitively expensive to translate.

The site…

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keeping up with the blogs

February 28, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

Without a really good Chinese blog search engine (see previous post), it is going to be difficult to keep up with the Chinese blogosphere. China Daily, reporting from the annual meeting of the
Internet Information Service Commission of the Internet Society of China in
Hainan, says:

Fang Xingdong, chairman and CEO of bokee.com, China’s largest…

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Category: Virtual China

english on chinese blogs

scratching the surface of BBS photos

learn your Chinese Internet vocab

Google’s Foray into Women’s Fashion

separate bodies of content

Chinese celeb superblog

Image for Your Amusement #002

China–the other internet?

blogging chinese-japanese reconciliation

keeping up with the blogs