Category Archives: Internet

The Guardian newspaper has a blog. Yesterday they published an entry called Beijing’s bitch that summarizes reactions on English language blogs to the news about Microsoft’s blog software censoring words like ‘democracy’. There are a lot of earnest people in … Continue reading →

Chaile is an English language blog about live music in Beijing. Most of the postings are reviews of recent shows, and notices about of future shows. There is also a calendar of upcoming events, and a directory of live music … Continue reading →

Sohu, via Eastnet, today publishes a breathless account of the increasingly popular phenomenon of wife-swapping in Guangdong. An “insider” tells a suspiciously-eager reporter that his particular swinger group involves lawyers, businessmen and administrators, that they are – on the whole … Continue reading →

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Xinhua, the Chinese Government’s official press agency, reports that “China has successfully shut down more than 1,800 pornographic Web sites in one year in a nationwide campaign.” China launched the current campaign in June last year. Liu Zhenrong, director of … Continue reading →

Yo, yo, yo; Work Unit editor here: As you may have noticed, Danwei is playing around with design and format, and also with the Dark Side: Google ads. This is necessary, in order to devote more time to this website … Continue reading →

The Financial Times is reporting that Microsoft’s new Chinese internet portal has banned the words “democracy” and “freedom” from parts of its website in an apparent effort to avoid offending Beijing’s political censors. Posters on Slashdot are, predictably, blaming Microsoft … Continue reading →

Some experiments are going to occur on Danwei during the next week or so, including playing around with the dreaded Google ad program. Please bear with us as we adjust the set. Feel free to bitch if you don’t like … Continue reading →

State-owned news agency and lads magazine Xinhua outdoes itself with a “story” titled ‘Model Victoria Silvstedt enjoys vacation’. The photo essay starts off with some paparazzi photos of Silvstedt getting it on with her boyfriend in a yacht, and ends … Continue reading →