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Chinese online sports feeds: a meeting place of sorts

April 2, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

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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…

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Chinese Web 2.0: yes or no?

April 2, 2006 by Jason Li

From FontShop, via Design Observer:

“Web 2.0 sites nearly always feel open and friendly and often use small
chunks of large type. The colors are bright and cheery — lots of blue,
orange, and what we jokingly call the Official Color of Web 2.0: lime
green.”

Does this apply to the Chinese…

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BBS photos today: street crime

April 1, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

BBS posts may be like talk radio in the US: an easy place to connect with an ongoing conversation about rapid social change. The following story seems like the kind of issue that would make the rounds in American talk radio.

Someone on Sina.com BBS has posted a series of photos detailing a mugging on the street in broad daylight. A…

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China’s top keyword searches: hard to find on english language web

March 31, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

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]…

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Play on Cosplay

March 31, 2006 by Jason Li

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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aesthetics of abundance, cont.

March 31, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

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).

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aesthetics of abundance

March 30, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

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…

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a list of favorite Chinese blogs

March 30, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

The folks at Danwei have done us all a good deed by listing their favorite Chinese-language blogs–and a few of the most popular BBS. You’ll have to read them in Chinese. If not, you can at least check them out to see if you spot anything that’s visually interesting.

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Stripper-Blogger Bids Farewell

March 30, 2006 by Jason Li

Stripper-blogger 木木 bids her farewell. See the (very) lengthy post about it at her blog. Hats off to PostShow, for both the link and the image below:

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CyberAsia conversations

March 29, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

There is a series of conversations being organized in the Netherlands on Chinese online politics and culture, which appear to be things you can stream live and participate in via IRC, or at the least, download and view after the fact. One took place last night (ahem…should have read those emails earlier!), but the others are happening tomorrow and later in the month. Here goes:…

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