Category Archives: Internet

Viacom vs Youtube: good for the small guys?

While your correspondent believes that traditional media companies should find constructive ways of meet the realities of new media rather than suing Youtube for copyright infringement issues as Viacom has just done, the case may have a beneficial trickle down … Continue reading →

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Beijing Newspeak

Beijing Newspeak is a new blog about China written by a foreign journalist working as a sub-editor for state-owned news agency Xinhua. He seems a little more willing to spill the dirt than Positive Solutions, another foreign blogger who works … Continue reading →

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Monday reading

A random selection of Monday reading: China.org: Police Threaten to Prosecute Wang Shuo Police have threatened to prosecute bad boy novelist Chinese author Wang Shuo after he confessed he takes drugs and visits prostitutes during an interview on a Phoenix … Continue reading →

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Bitching about expatriate men of China

Here’s a newish blog: China Dirt. It seems to be written by a few Western women who are living in China and finding the expatriate men a little tiresome. It describes itself thusly: Fuck! Could the men living in China … Continue reading →

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Livejournal blocked in China?

Blog and online diary platform Livejournal seems to be blocked in Beijing, and also in Shenzhen, according to Mary Ann O’Donnel, author of Shenzhen Field Notes. Can readers elsewhere in the country confirm? Please leave a comment or send email … Continue reading →

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Exploitation and The Blood of Yingzhou District

Xinhua journalist Xiong Lei (熊蕾) eviscerates the academy-award-winning AIDS orphan documentary The Blood of Yingzhou District (颍州的孩子). Cinematographer Qu Jiangtao (曲江涛) responds.

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Kaiser redux

Rock musician, writer and China technology maven Kaiser Kuo is blogging again: Ich Bin Ein Beijinger. Excellent.

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China Businesscast: mobile web and marketing with Naviblog

Mobile marketing firm Naviblog With about 140 million PC Internet users and 450 million mobile subscribers, people are questioning whether or not the mobile device will surpass the PC as the primary means for accessing the Web in China. Naviblog … Continue reading →

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Picking apart the 2007 Gala

Spring Festival 2007 Gala videos and controversy.

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China Businesscast: Henry Winter of SmartClub

Henry Winter, CEO and founder of Shanghai-based online company SmartClub, gives insight into the economics of loyalty points and virtual currency, such as why it is better to make a prize out of a Black Eyed Peas T-shirt than an Ipod.

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