BBS today: your favorite poisonous snacks
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more on online housing protest
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It will be very interesting to see where this goes. China Digital Times tagged a longer Pacific Epoch Epoch Times article here. Zou Tao, the founder of the NotBuyHouse movement, has a blog here and a general website for the NotBuyHouse Alliance here. A couple of important points. First, Zou Tao…
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Virtual China Sightings in Beijing
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Reporting from Beijing.
I didn’t see QQ noodles at the local supermarket, but I did see Hong Lee’s Internet Snack:
Also spotted, at a mall, was a Popkart store, selling many adorable large-size plush dolls.
Protest Against Real Estate Prices
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An online movement to not buy a house for three years has been started here. Its goal is to stem the recent sharp rise in real estate prices, and particularly to stop real estate agents who are only in it only to make a quick buck at the expense of others.
Via PostShow.
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Hong Kong enlists kids in p2p monitoring
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bloggers on China’s love of BBS: how come?
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the Chinese Olsen twins: Sandy and Mandy
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Taiwanese girls with their own website and large online fanbase on the mainland. Well known enough that the release of recent photos on China’s BBS was noted on top Chinese tech blogs Postshow and IT news site Donews. The photos are passed on, posted on blogs, sent to cellphones, and so on. Look…
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find, download, link, share: check out playlists at Baidu 掌门人
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Now THIS is what I’m talking about. Wanna hear what’s on playlists generated by Chinese young people? Here’s a song from a playlist called “Perfect World,” put together by Ah Yang. Ah Yang’s playlists are number one on the user-generated Top 20 list (however, it’s not like we’ve got hundreds of thousands of voters. It’s not SuperGirl. He…
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Bus Uncle Media Explosion
Posted on by Jason Li
Beep beep: reporting from Hong Kong.
Bus Uncle (巴士阿叔) has managed to break into the mainstream media in Hong Kong. For example, ESWN posts a cover scan of the current issue of Next Magazine featuring a giant mug shot of Bus Uncle:
Inside the magazine is an interview with him (ESWN translation here…
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microfinance + computers and internet for Chinese farmers
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If you haven’t seen them yet, do check out the two-part video documentary, “Broadband for Barefoot Bankers: Zuoquan County” on YouTube, from the European Commission and PlaNetFinance’s “Broadband for Barefoot Bankers” program. The videos document a process undertaken with poor farming families in Shanxi province wherein already existing local microfinance loan officers are set up with a computer/Internet system to…
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