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Stock market analysis site Seeking Alpha‘s China section has a summary of research on Chinese blogs done by China Market Research, a group in Shanghai. CMR estimates that 80% of Chinese online urban youth 18-25 (50 million people) are actively blogging OR participating in BBS. Add in another 25 million between the ages…
Continue readingChina’s blog portals: expanding public communication space
Our Taiwanese contributor Nydia Chen pointed us to a blog that has taken the Chinese blogosphere by storm over the past few months. Acosta’s blog launched in early March, and current traffic rates stand at 15,555,589 visitors since then. “Acosta’s” poetic prose, celebrity name-dropping, fashionable clothing and artsy photos depict a wealthy yet casual lifestyle that seems attractive to many…
Continue readingChinese young man-of-mystery blog phenom
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…
Continue readingKiddie Pr0n in HK & the Power of a Blog
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):…
Continue readingA blog dialogue on 老外 idealism
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…
Continue readingblog to print, but not what you’d expect
Imagine MySpace pages MSN Spaces with the search functionality of Google and all its features, and you’ll see what Baidu is trying to create: BaiduSpace 百度空间, now in beta in China. Blogger Xiong Jiezeng has an analysis (in Chinese) of what works and what doesn’t, which should be of great help to the feature’s developers.
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Continue readingMSN Spaces + Google = BaiduSpace 百度空间
Our Taiwanese contributor Nydia Chen points out that the famous “Asian Backstreet Boys,” aka the “Backdorm Boys” 后舍男生, have a lot going on these days. They’ve become celebrities in China with many videos beyond the original “As Long As I Love You.”
They have their own blog, with all of their…
Continue readingAsian Backdorm Boys 后舍男生 update