Category Archives: Internet

Lu Jinbo: Marketing the Wang Shuo brand

Larry Lu Jinbo (路金波) talks about how he markets books by Wang Shuo (王朔), Han Han (韩寒), and Annie Baobei (安妮宝贝).

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Ebay’s China joint venture to waste money

Don’t mean to burst your bubble Madison Boom is a blog about the Chinese advertising industry, subtitled ‘The world, filled with egos”. It seems to be written an industry insider and covers ad agency scuttlebutt, news about hirings, firings and … Continue reading →

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More Chinese mockery of Net Nanny

Danwei recently reported on a virtual voodoo doll that Chinese netizens have been using to ‘torture’ the Net Nanny or GFW (Great Firewall). Yesterday the excellent online news roundup website Memedia posted this week’s summary. It included the following graphic … Continue reading →

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Infomercial: A Rolls Royce on your wrist

Boss Hou 侯总 of Rosdenton (劳斯丹顿). He advertises on late-night infomercials.

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How much freedom of speech do Chinese netizens have?

Xiong Peiyun (熊培云) on La République des Esprits (思想国) writes about Netease and comment pruning in the Shanxi brick kiln slave case.

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Chinese Internet responses to slave children case

The case of the children enslaved at a Shanxi brick factory has been widely reported in the Western and Chinese media, and is all over the Internet in both Chinese and English languages (a good summary by Chen Peijin of … Continue reading →

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Copyright protection for online content

Beijing Business Today recently reported on China’s accession and ratification of two U.N. Internet-related treaties, the WIPO Copyright Treaty and the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty. Together, the two treaties require signatory countries to provide copyright protection for computer programs, … Continue reading →

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Further developments in the case of the polite pronoun

More comments on 您 from Ding Qizhen (丁启阵) and Qian Shiming (钱世明).

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Official media on popular opinion in the Xiamen PX affair

China Newsweek (中国新闻周刊) weighs in on the use of SMS and online media in the Xiamen PX case.

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A Flickr fix

Nanny may not willingly take her meds, but nothing’s stopping the kids from slipping her a mickey. Regarding Nanny’s recent filtering of Flickr.com, Stewart Butterfield, co-founder and general manager of Flickr.com, offered some advice on a recent CNET News.com blog … Continue reading →

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