Category Archives: Internet

对三表老师的采访，2月12日会如期与大家见面

Posted on 2007-02-02 by Jeremy Goldkorn

三表老师: 太TMD夸奖了。 热烈欢迎《不许联想》的读者到我们单位参观。请耐心地等到下周一，就可以看到采访的视频或音频. Editor’s note for non Chinese readers: We recently interviewed Wang Xiaofeng for a Danwei TV show; he wrote some very nice things about us, even though he did compare your correspondent to Da Shan. The interview with … Continue reading →

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MySpace China under construction

Posted on 2007-01-29 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Keso — probably China’s most popular IT blogger — yesterday wrote about the domain name Myspace.cn. Check it out: www.myspace.cn is active, and now belongs to a company called Mai Sibei (my space, geddit? or 北京麦斯贝信息技术有限公司). The image above is … Continue reading →

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Sex and manufactured scandal: The Blood Sex Tape

Posted on 2007-01-24 by Robert Ness

A hoax film ‘Blood Sex Video’ (流血的黄色录象): a documentary crew accompanies Liu Zhimin on his bloody quest for vengeance when his girlfriend falls to her death after the couple’s sex tape is released on the Internet.

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Please go elsewhere for prostitution

Posted on 2007-01-24 by Joel Martinsen

A sign in a Beijing subway station prohibits prostitution at that location. Citizens and media react.

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137 million Internet users in China

Posted on 2007-01-24 by Jeremy Goldkorn

IDG’s Steven Schwankert reports: China Internet market grows to 137 million users China added another 14 million Internet users in 2006, retaining its status as the world’s second-largest Internet market, with 137 million total users, the China Internet Network Information … Continue reading →

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Wang Shuo thought bomb

Posted on 2007-01-23 by banyue

Wang Shuo: ready to reload? Wang Shuo (王朔) is a popular Chinese novelist. He is known as something of a rebel, perhaps the closest thing China has to a counter-cultural icon. His works include novels, TV shows and movies. Most … Continue reading →

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Talking about Japan in the street: reaction to Antiwave video

Posted on 2007-01-23 by Jeremy Goldkorn

The post below this one is a Danwei TV interview with the guys behind the Antiwave podcast, Flypig and Ping Ke. Flypig posted the Youtube version of our video on his blog late last night, soon after we first released … Continue reading →

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China in headlines

Posted on 2007-01-22 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Below are some recent headlines from mainstream media and blogs. If you read a huge variety of English language media, you can get an idea of the complexity of China’s increasingly diverse society. Of course, most people in the West … Continue reading →

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Starbucks in the Forbidden City: some Chinese views

Posted on 2007-01-19 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Rui Chenggang The Starbucks coffeeshop in the Forbidden City might be forced to leave after an online campaign against it started by CCTV anchor Rui Chenggang (芮成钢) on his blogs on Sina and CCTV.com. Jonathan Watts’ article in The Guardian … Continue reading →

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It’s not a real-name system; we just want your real name.

Posted on 2007-01-18 by Joel Martinsen

GAPP plays word games with “real-name system” (实名制) for online gaming.

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