A group blog about Chinese tech, media and design
Some of you will already have seen this story, but it’s really worth taking a closer look at it to understand some of the ways that online “community” gets stuck at the border, and at how online “mobs” turn to the oldest and ugliest stereotypes in the book once they’re mobilized.
It all started on September 2 when …
Continue readingweb 2.0 cross-cultural mobs: Digg battles
From the blog of mainland Chinese blogger Flypig, this September 1 post and its comments describe some of the context around an instance of downloading pirated music — in this case, the anticipated “Still Fantasy” 《依然范特西》from Jay Chou 周杰伦, one of Asia’s most popular singers. The album was released three days earlier than scheduled after…
Continue readingsupporting Jay Chou: fans and leaks
This might be fun, but I can’t get it to work in Chinese on my Mac. : ( I can use the English, however. It’s called woocall (available in both English and Chinese), and has been in beta at Sina for the past few months. Woocall, as Jason reminds me below, is similar to Gabbly: it allows…
Continue readingwoocall: sina’s new embedded website chat tool
Check out one of the most popular musicians in northwestern China’s Xinjiang province: Murat Muhtar. Thanks to Michael Manning on his blog The Opposite End of China, who has digitized and uploaded two of Muhtar’s videos. One selection is a typical music video of two beautiful people dancing together against…
Continue readingUighur dance party video