Tag Archives: Internet

Blogspot unblocked and Nanny’s Little List

Blogs on Blogspot, the Google-owned blog hosting service, are accessible again in China today. This is the latest episode the Net Nanny’s long and silly on-again off-again harassment of Blogspot. The RSS feed managing site Feedburner, also owned by Google, … Continue reading

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Digging for porn in China

Some enterprising Chinese web master has started a site at Saohuang.cn that purports to be an aggregator of user complaints about immoral Chinese web pages.

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Cinema meets Web 2.0 in Beijing

A post about Ruzuo.com — a service that lets movie lovers get together online to request cinema screenings of their favorite films.

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Shanghai Beat: Neo Shanghai

A video interview with the founders of creative social networking website Neocha.com.

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Antiwave listener survey results

Danwei’s favorite Chinese podcast series Antiwave has just published the results of their Fall 2007 Listener Survey, compiled from more than 1,000 online responses. Their demographic is similar to Danwei’s — a high concentration of people in media, technology and … Continue reading

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Blogspot unblocked

Blogspot unblocked, again!

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The Green Brothers

Found via Responsible China, China’s Green Beat is a website and video series about the environment. Above is episode one, about collecting trash and recycling, hosted by the, er, ‘Green Brothers’ who are cute but could do with a little … Continue reading

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Louise Blouin in Beijing

A fabulously wealthy philanthopist comes to Beijing to launch her new website.

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Danwei FM interview with Bill Bishop of Red Mushroom

An interview with Bill Bishop, CEO of Red Mushroom, the company responsible for children’s virtual world Baobaobengbeng

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Proof that China censors online content?

China’s one, young netizen In mid-November, Financial Times ran an excellent piece by Mure Dickie about China’s censorship of online content. In it, Wang Guoqing, the vice-minister of the State Council Information Office, was quoted saying: “As I understand it, … Continue reading

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