Yahoo.com was unreachable here in China for more than 12 hours. It’s up again. The question is, is it accesible again because of a glitch in the Chinese firewall or is it allowed in again for good:)
The Chinese internet, never a dull moment…
Yet again an announcement to control the internet in China more.
It can be summed up with one phrase. An Internet Culture with Chinese characteristics
I guess it’s about time each and any country will start doing the same.
I like to see an Internet culture with:
French characteristics,
one with Indian characteristics,
a Fiji version and […]
Microsoft has a new product, a youtube clone, called soapbox.
The definition of a soapbox is
A soapbox is a raised, improvised platform on which one stands to make an impromptu speech, often about a political subject.
Well, no surprise here that Microsoft deems it appropriate not to make it available in China.
Interestingly enough the Chinese text […]
It isn’t any news that the Internet in China is still slow and it bugs a lot of people I noticed .
My previous article about the slow speed of the Internet gets a lot of visitors searching for terms related to the incompetent structure of the Internet in China.
People ask the search engines:
“Why is […]
I like watching boats sail by. The best spot for this is the Starbucks on the Pudong riverbank.
I fantasize where they go, where they’re going from and what it is like to spend 24/7 on limited square meters.
In Shanghai Outdoor and Indoor lcd and led advertising is Wild West. There don’t seem to be […]
Excerpts from an interview with China’s top Internet cop, Mr. Li Wufeng.
We don’t censor, we don’t know how
“We have neither the technology nor the manpower to censor or filter the Internet”, Li told us. “We have just dozens of people in the Internet affairs bureau. Half of them are here today [in the room],” […]
Update:
Well, it seems that the wordpress.com website is still unblocked but the sub domains are again unavailable. What a pity.
Yet another blog service is accessible in China. Not so long ago it were the blogspot blogs that had the honour of passing the great firewall unharmed.
Wordpress.com, another host for blogs, is (for now) available. Curiously […]
A small little tidbit of bureaucrat reality I found in an article that was actually about a newsconference about the eased restrictions on access to the mainland market for Hong Kong’s film and television industry. (sorry, long sentence)
Zhao Shi, deputy director of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (aka SARFT), told the […]
Since March 2006 Google has again added China to their monthly zeitgeist.
Zeitgeist is described by Google as:
a cumulative snapshot of interesting queries people are asking – some over time, some within country domains, and some on Google.com – that perhaps reveal a bit of the human condition.
The queries show trends and are not […]
A must read for anyone considering doing business in China
Unsettling, and insistently gripping story of 3 generations of Chinese women
