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Category Archives: Internet
Print and Internet media woes
China’s Internet portals are not allowed to gather their own news, so since the start of the dot com boom, they have republished news stories from state-owned news agency Xinhua, and from China’s thousands of newspapers. The newspapers have been … Continue reading
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Science fiction for summer reading: translations and criticism
Isaac Asimov’s Empire novels (帝国系列) and Stephen King’s Dark Tower (黑暗塔) series come to mainland China. Also, a new Chinese science fiction criticism journal, Edge Review (边缘).
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Beijing Midi Music Festival video podcasts
Bokee.com has uploaded a series of 28 videos of last week’s Midi Music Festival. The videos were shot with a handheld DV camera. It seems that most of the performers are included. All the videos are in Windows Media Player … Continue reading
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Technorati not blocked in China
Technorati.com is functioning again for users in China. Was it a Nanny problem or a Technorati problem? Who knows? And why is the New York Times homepage still behaving strangely? Who knows? Also in the flaky Internet department, Youtube.com, which … Continue reading
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Chinese rock podcasts and Midi music festival
No cops, music, pogo, dye your hair, be yourself. Chaile.org is a blog about “underground music from China” written by Adam, an American who used to live in Beijing. He has started podcasting. There are two episodes so far, including … Continue reading
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Bilingual brands: Google China’s GuGe yarn continues
Google, the world’s largest media company, doesn’t seem draw much comfort from its activities in China. Earlier this year, Google copped some flak over the launch of Google.cn, a local version of its search engine that saves people the trouble of clicking through links that are inaccessible from China. A recent Keynote survey declared Google to be China’s “best search engine” as far as user experience goes, but the American giant is still trailing behind local rival Baidu, which controls roughly 50% of the local market.
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Technorati blocked in China?
Technorati.com, the favorite tagging and search site of many bloggers, seems to be blocked in China. Perhaps all the American blog coverage of Hu’s visit triggered a spike in Chinese readers interest in Technorati’s ‘China’ tag. Causing someone at Nanny … Continue reading
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The Chinese media market is “absolutely open”
GAPP sets the record straight From a Reuters story on the Washington Post, China defends latest controls on media freedom: The State Administration of Radio, Film and Television reissued notices restricting local broadcasters’ use of foreign news footage and the … Continue reading
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The Daily Telegraph: Danwei is “nerdy”
Richard Spencer, The Daily Telegraph’s Beijing correspodent pays Danwei a back-handed compliment on his blog: [Danwei.org is] a bit nerdy, designed by people working in media and advertising in Beijing mainly for, er, people working in media and advertising in … Continue reading
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Boom! ESWN down.
The essential China blog ESWN is down, because its server’s bandwidth limitations have been exceeded. In other words, too many people are reading the website, and the server can’t handle the traffic. At last! The English reading world is interested … Continue reading
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