Category Archives: Internet

Louis Cha has a blog! Or not.

Posted on 2007-04-18 by Joel Martinsen

Someone opens a Sina and Bokee blog pretending to be Louis Cha (查良镛, aka Jin Yong 金庸).

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Video sharing sites going down the Youtube?

Posted on 2007-04-14 by Jeremy Goldkorn

A recent article by Reuters journalist Sophie Taylor looks at China’s video-sharing websites and concludes that their prospects are not good: Investors leaving China’s video-sharing sites …Investors, spurred on by the Google-YouTube deal, have made big bets on China, the … Continue reading →

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Danwei TV outperforms Budweiser TV

Posted on 2007-04-14 by Jeremy Goldkorn

In an article titled Traffic Plummets at Struggling Bud.TV, Advertising Age gives some figures for American beer giant Budweiser’s online video channel Bud.tv. Bud.tv’s statistics are indeed underwhelming: Bud.TV drew 152,000 unique visitors last month, 40% fewer than February’s 253,000 … Continue reading →

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Fast-paced lives of film subtitlers

Posted on 2007-04-13 by Joel Martinsen

YWeekend (北京青年周末) has a story about online subtitle groups that translate American TV into Chinese.

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Boycott Linked In and Plaxo — a rant

Posted on 2007-04-13 by Jeremy Goldkorn

This rant is not particularly related to China, except that your correspondent’s inbox is alway overflowing because of email related to Danwei, and because my anger is directed towards two online services that are popular amongst China’s resident foreigners. I … Continue reading →

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Gay Internet talk show

Posted on 2007-04-12 by Jeremy Goldkorn

A new video podcast claiming to be China’s first gay online talk show launched last night. Called Tongzhi Yi Fanren 同志亦凡人 which is the common translation for TV series Queer As folk, the show is hosted by Steven and Xiaogang, … Continue reading →

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CNboo spam

Posted on 2007-04-11 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Spam about CNBoo, China You TV (a shameless Youtube knock-off) and their spamming stock emails.

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Online forums report about a bank shooting in Shenyang

Posted on 2007-04-11 by Joel Martinsen

The net reports on a guard shooting a bank customer in Sujiatun, Shenyang (沈阳市苏家屯).

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Pirates are not insulting, say netizens and academics

Posted on 2007-04-08 by Joel Martinsen

Chow Yun-fat is a pirate in Pirates of the Caribbean. This insults the Chinese people, say some. Will SARFT block the film’s release?

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A new look for The Economic Observer

Posted on 2007-04-03 by Joel Martinsen

The website of The Economic Observer (经济观察报) gets an updated. Yu Hua interview featured.

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