Shanda’s MMORPG and casual games
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Sunday Strip: 都市王老五
Posted on by Jason Li
From a strip entitled 都市王老五 (Urban Bachelor). As always, translations in maroon:
Link to original strip on sina.
Baidu bias: nationalism and CCP hatred
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Kiddie Pr0n in HK & the Power of a Blog
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On June 25, 2006, blog ESWN reported on an incidence of Kiddie Porn in Hong Kong, saying that “while this story has occupied Hong Kong headlines for days, the English-language media is doggedly determined that its readers do not need to know.”
By July 1, 2006, ESWN reports that SCMP (the South China…
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mapping the Internet
Posted on by Lyn Jeffery
Maps help non-technical people like me conceptualize the Internet (if you know of China-specific Internet maps, please do let me know and I’ll blog them). Geoffrey Mack has a great new graph posted on the blog at Alexa.com, done by Alexa’s Applications Engineer, Derrick Pallas. It shows the distribution of top level domains (TLDs) by traffic. Dot-com (medium…
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Chinese e-commerce: from clicks to bricks
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Another reverse shift of direction between virtual and physical. ChinaTechNews reports that Taobao.com, China’s largest online auction site, has opened a digitally augmented mall in Shanghai and plans to open 11 more by year’s end. It looks like this is not so much a move to create a new physical retail empire as a nod…
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Railway on the roof of the world
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The last stretch of the Qinghai-Tibet railway between Golmud and Lhasa has now been completed. The first train left from Goldmud, Qinghai on Saturday the 1st of July after president Hu Jintao cut the ceremonial ribbon. The day of the opening was the same as the 85th anniversary of the Communist Party of China.
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A blog dialogue on 老外 idealism
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Rebecca MacKinnon and Hong Huang (洪晃) are gently sniping at each other on their blogs.
Both are writing about their attendence at the Chinese Internet part of the Fortune Brainstorm Conference, and the really juicy bits come out in their reflective blog posts. First, Hong Huang writes (and I’m taking the translation from Rebecca’s blog):…
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Some stats, some dubious
Posted on by Jason Li
For our coverage of netbars today, we visit iResearch for some statistics.
Our appetizer: there are a decreasing number of netbars.
(green = 10,000s of netbars)
For our main course: the 2nd-tier cities have the most netbars.
(left = # netbars, green = first-tier city, yellow…
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blog to print, but not what you’d expect
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Danwei discusses the latest issue of Scandals Exposed (丑闻揭秘), an unregistered newspaper which takes its scandalous, tabloid-esque articles from many sources, both on and offline.
Joel Martinsen @ Danwei: “The paper’s layout suggests that the editors merely downloaded the articles from one of the many sites republishing them, added in some clipart and ads, and called…
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