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From a strip called 铁头日志 (Ironhead Journal).

This one’s a pun, so I’ve added some pinyins in (look for the non-English words with numbers at the end). Translations in red.

Link to original strip on Sina.

From BBC News:

“Earlier this week, Microsoft senior counsel Fred Tipson said concerns about repression in China might make it reconsider its presence there.

Mr Tipson was speaking at the first Internet Governance Forum held in Athens which debated many issues of internet policy.

But now Microsoft has said it is “committed” to staying in the country.”

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Continue readingMicrosoft Press Blunder

UPDATED: See part two of this post here.

PostShow links to 十八摸’s article on the etymology of “我顶你个肺” (“I hit your lung”), which I’ve translated below:

”’In the Crazy Stone 《疯狂的石头》movie, the catchphrase of the Hong Kong bandit in the movie, “我顶你个肺” (“I hit your lung”) has come into vogue. No longer confined within…

Continue readingThe Etymology of 顶你个肺 (“Hit Your Lung”)

ESWN has a post on Star Maps of Chinese Media.

From Roland’s “translation of a description of a talk given by the renowned mainland media verteran Qian Gang (錢剛).”

“Here is how Qian Gang descibed the mainland media through this star map.  He believes in the past, the stars that represent the mainland…

Continue readingChinese Media Maps!

Who else but Sister Furong 芙蓉姐姐?  On QQ BBS’s weekly top photo picks, over 200,000 have viewed Furong’s latest public appearance, at a hospital in Hangzhou over the weekend to celebrate the 7th annual “Men’s Health Day.”  (Do you think she went to the China Blogger Conference? Um, no).  Personally, I think Furong takes a lot more interesting photos than, say, Paris…

Continue readingFurong: they love to hate her but they watch all the same

Brady over at O’Reilly Radar has a post about Anothr, a Skype-based RSS reader that was launched at the recent Chinese Blogger Conference. It IMs you through Skype whenever a feed is updated.

He also offers this observation, “unlike many other bots it is using Skype, reflecting it’s popularity in
China.…

Continue readingAnothr, Skype-based RSS reader, Made in China

Reader David sent us this article on VentureBeat that quotes Mercury News as saying:

“‘Silicon Valley is a hotbed’ of economic espionage, said Don Przybyla,
who heads a FBI counterintelligence unit in San Jose. The valley is
home to many of the estimated 3,000 Chinese front companies nationwide
set up to steal secrets and acquire technology,…

Continue readingChinese spys in Silicon Valley – do you buy it?

If simply keeping up on the virtual world weren’t enough, there’s the real world as well!  Here’s a quick update on a couple of recent/ongoing important meetings shaping the future of Virtual China:

The first ever Internet Governance Forum (IGF), defined by Wikipedia as “a global venue under the auspices of the United Nations, established to
accommodate…

Continue readingkeeping up with conferences: Internet governance; Chinese bloggers

From a strip entitled 男人三十 (Man at Thirty).

As always, translations in maroon.

Link to comic on Sina.

Interlocals.net analyzes “the politics of spoof culture” by looking at the role of censorship in China, the tradition of spoof culture (“Lu Xun’s Old tales retold can be understood as an ironic spoof, Cui Jian’s Red Rock can be read as wild reflection, Stephen Chow’s Western Journey…

Continue readingThe Politics of Egao (spoof culture) & The Egao Gang