Overview of articles about 'Chinese Multi Media' Category

Search engines have been in the news lately for their preference to filter their results to please the Chinese government.
I don’t want to go into that discussion again.
I want to point you to a nice project by Mark Meiss and Fillippo Menczer from the University of Indiana School of Informatics.

They have created a […]

It’s Wednesday morning, March 15, and it seems things are back to normal, as far as that means anything.
Update 2:
Down, Down, Down

Update:
It’s 10 minutes after my post and guess what… G is there again…

It’s one of these days. Gmail….. no access, Google.com … no access. Google.cn … yes, that’s soo available I start thinking it’s […]

The Washington Post has a nice series of articles on China and the Digital Revolution.
The writer, Philip P. Pan, who is based in Beijing, will be online Today, Feb. 21, at 11 a.m. ET to discuss the digital revolution’s presence in China, the government’s efforts to censor Internet content, see Wikipedia and the rise […]

Baidu is still very much in the lead and expanding it’s reach in the Chinese war of the search engines. At least according to Shanghai based company Iresearch.
The data used to come to this conclusion is based on address bar search, Alexa data and a survey they did themselves.
It’s hard to interpret the data […]

A nice piece on the infamous censors of the Chinese internet, found and translated by Zonaeuropa.
The job description of a chinese internet police woman can be summed up like this:
The principal work of the (China) Internet police is to look around the Internet to catch criminals. They monitor the Internet bars (to check […]

A very funny cartoon made by Mark Fiore about the big three American tech companies in China.
Click here
(found through threadwatch.org)

Google does no evil. It doesn’t want to comply with the American Justice Department to hand over a couple of weeks of searches. Let’s show the world we have principles, let’s show our users that we really value their privacy and we only use it for ourselves.
But that’s the US. China is a different […]

I wanted to check the website of Pudong Airport. That Chinese High-tech, Scientific and International example of progress in China.
If you search on Google for shanghai airport it’s the number one result.
Clicking on that result ends up on a white page. Nothing, nada, zilch for at least the last 2 days. Do they […]

I like people with smart ideas. Although they make me envious as I wish I had come up with them myself, I like the creativity of them a lot. Some time ago, September 2005, a guy from the UK started a website selling 1 million pixels. One dollar a pixel and he has achieved […]

Apparently there is a “Care for the Next Generation” organization here in China that came up with the luminous idea to educate the younger generation about the perils of playing computer games too much and too long.
In co-operation with some other friends the Care people have produced a 38-episode Internet addiction themed television show, […]