Category Archives: Internet

Google: No news in China today

No news in China today, according to Google.

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Web 2.0 unites around #080808 campaign

August 8, 2008 is here and so is the latest Twitter hashtag (#tag) campaign: #080808. Twitter is a “microblogging” platform that allows users to post updates to their profiles in 140 characters or less, about the length of typical English … Continue reading →

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China’s first blogger on the Chinese blogosphere

Chairman Mao Yesterday, The Guardian published an article written by Isaac Mao titled “China’s First Blogger: It Was Just Like a Fairy Story.” Mao also recently spoke at the Guardian’s Future of Journalism Conference. In the article, Mao talks about … Continue reading →

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Radovan Karadzic’s favorite Chinese proverbs

The favorite “Chinese” proverbs of suspected war criminal Radovan Karadzic’s.

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Neocha.com in English on Twitter

Neocha.com, a social networking site for Chinese musicians, designers, filmmakers, photographers, animators and those interested in Chinese creative communities, has an English language Twitter page. As Neocha’s Web site is almost entirely in Chinese, its Twitter page helps non-Chinese language … Continue reading →

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253 million Internet users and counting

39.2% of Chinese online go to Internet cafés CNNIC is a state-owned organization that put out official figures about China’s Internet. CNNIC counter-intuitively stands for China Internet Network Information Center, and is pronounced ‘cynic’, which is what you should be … Continue reading →

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Six websites criticized for being “vulgar”

The Internet Society of China released a blacklist of six Internet portals and forums that are found “spreading low and vulgar content”.

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Cops and lady boys

Drive by comments

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Guizhou riots: an overview

Links to the best articles about the mass incident in Weng’an, Guizhou Province on Saturday June 28, 2008.

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Celebrities on Sina write fake fan comments

China’s biggest blog sever Sina has recently upgraded its blogging system and a bug has caused some revealing and laughable result.

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