Category Archives: Internet

On the other side of the “wall”

Posted on 2010-01-19 by Alice Xin Liu

Incomplete Mountain uses ironic wit and puts bloggers and Internet activists in a landscape where isn’t censorship of the Great Firewall. The result he draws is that no-one would have their blood boiling at the sense of injustice because there would be no mistreatment and civil cases.

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China’s puny online ad market, and Google

Posted on 2010-01-15 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Why should Google bother to fight a dirty fight that they will never win, for a fraction of a total market of 4.3 billion dollars?

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Legal activist discovers a hacked Gmail account

Posted on 2010-01-14 by Joel Martinsen

Teng Biao, an activist law professor, discovers that his Gmail account is secretly forwarding mail to another address.

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Baidu hacked by Iranian Cyber Army

Posted on 2010-01-12 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Search giant Baidu was hacked, apparently by Iranians.

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VeryCD.com may be closed for not having a license

Posted on 2009-12-09 by Alice Xin Liu

Today, one of the more popular music, film and TV series sharing sites, VeryCD.com, displayed “Network Timeout” and failed to connect. An article from the entertainment section of The Beijing News today ran an article about VeryCD and its application for a license to share content, the license is the “Information Network Broadcast Audio Visual Programming Permission Certificate” (信息网络传播视听节目许可证), which VeryCD does not have.

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Verifying reports of Ai Weiwei’s surgery

Posted on 2009-09-15 by Joel Martinsen

Is Ai Weiwei having brain surgery in Germany? Ethan Zuckerman muses on a Twitter update. Liu Xiaoyuan blogs about the issue.

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Escape from a Net addiction center

Posted on 2009-09-11 by Joel Martinsen

A BioHazard parody that skewers Yang Yongxin’s Internet Addiction Treatment Center.

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A call for Chinese to take up arms in Burma

Posted on 2009-09-08 by Eric Mu

A mass letter, signed by an organization called the Global Chinese-Kokang United Alliance, calls for the Chinese volunteers to follow earlier generations in taking up arms to save Kokang from the brutal rule of Burmese government.

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The stigmatization of Internet Addiction Disorder: searching for a definition

Posted on 2009-09-02 by Alice Xin Liu

News reports on August 28 highlight the possibility than an official definition for Internet Addiction Disorder (IAD) will be released in the first half of next year. Star media blogger and PKU professor Hu Yong wrote a blog post in July expressing a liberal disdain for the current recognition of what IAD stands for.

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Doing our best to choose articles and reports based on facts: Yeeyan and translation

Posted on 2009-07-13 by Alice Xin Liu

Jiamin is the founder of Yeeyan. Danwei interviews him below about work with The Guardian, publishing books and the facts of translation.

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