A group blog about Chinese tech, media and design
37signals, the creators of Basecamp and other slick Web2.0 wares, has a post on their blog about how their software links up trendy, vinyl toy designers from Kidrobot in New York with Chinese manufacturers for cheap.
For 100 US dollars per month, “his team uses
Basecamp to share Illustrator files with engineers in China who…
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Was poking around Chinese video-sharing website 6rooms today and discovered a link (shown above) to the Chinese Animated Shorts Oscars!
I hunkered down and watched quite a few of them, which I’ll highlight before moving onto my conclusion:
生活原来是这样的 (Life is Actually Like This), by…
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From Chinese IT guru Keso’s Flickr stream, a t-shirt with the latest rallying cry against Chinese Internet censoring, most recently of Flickr itself: Fuck GFW (Great Firewall). Above, in Chinese, followed by “Please use Tor”. Tor is an anonymity network — a free service that, according to Tor’s website, works like this:
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From citizen journalism site Moobol.com, this glimpse of parents and caretakers sleeping outside the doors of Beijing Children’s Hospital. Translated text and selected comments below:
Late night, June 12 2007, over 100 parents of sick children, and some children themselves, sleep on the ground in the underground parking garage and on the disabled ramp…
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Introducing: 漫漫看 (loosely translates as Read A Comic). The site allows you to view, online, page by page, the latest manga (= Japanese comic) releases. The text within these manga has already been translated into Chinese. There are similar sites in English, though they are much more underground than their Chinese counterparts.
The translated text is often traditional…
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I was looking for something else on Flickr, when I came across a bunch of photos posted by someone named “missing person net” 寻人网. Since April 21, 2005, “missing person net” has been posting photos of missing mainland Chinese people on Flickr.
The most recent was posted on May 28, 2007:
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