After wandering the halls of the China blogsphere for a few years now, it generally takes a pretty unique China-themed site to raise my eyebrow. ChinaSMACK is just such a site. Essentially the site digs up, translates and reposts all the shit and sludge, peppered liberally with the plain weird, that are hot (or “viral”) [...]
China Tech Posts
Social(ism) Network – Wen Jia Bao on Facebook
I’m not sure what amuses me more, that Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jia Bao has a Facebook profile, or that he has more supporters on his profile than US President George W. Bush. That’ll teach George not to respond to natural disasters in a timely manner. Still, the PM is just below Arnold Schwarzenegger – [...]
Access Flickr (in China) Upgrade
If you’ve been using the Firefox addon Access Flickr, which allows you view Flickr photos while being behind the Great Firewall, you may have noticed some photos display just fine and some wont at all. Since posting last june about the fantastic solution for us shutterbugs in China, Flickr has added a new “farm” for [...]
YouTube’s Back, with BBC News thrown in too
Now with the troubles in the West mostly harmonized, and Taiwan’s newly-elected president certified as China Friendly, it looks like YouTube has returned to its previous sluggish-but-accessible self. As a freebie, the powers that free also appear to have unblocked BBC News, a site that to the best of my knowledge has been blackballed near [...]
The China Blog Network
China bloggers unite! The China Blog Network has arrived. In an effort to tie together all us sinobloggers, we’re launching the China Blog Network, a (appropriately enough) network of China blogs that all link together in a ring-around-the-rosie style (we’re praying we don’t all fall down). Though most of us link to each other through [...]
Slouching toward Beijing
China wouldn’t be my first guess of places American lawmakers would look for legislative ideas. But Mashable points to a proposed law in Kentucky that would make it illegal for websites to allow anonymous comments and fine site owners $500 for the first offense. Tim Couch, the state representative who sponsored the bill, says it’s [...]
Getting the basics on Baidu
Think Baidu‘s just a Google copy? Think again. The Chinese search engine that dominates domestic searches may have a lot in common with the “do no evil” American search giant, but it is in itself a whole other animal. On March 10th my good friend and business partner, Professor Lonnie Hodge, will be joining Grace [...]
