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Hu Jintao's jet trails From Wired : The investment arms of the CIA and Google are both backing a company that monitors the web in real time — and says it uses that information to predict the future. The company is called Recorded Future, and it scours tens of thousands of websites, blogs and Twitter...
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Protests against factory before blast, broken windows after; source Today is the 34th anniversary of the Tangshan earthquake, but the Chinese Internet has been buzzing the whole day with news of a different disaster. State-owned news agency Xinhua reports: A powerful explosion at a factory in eastern...
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China Computerworld , July 26, 2010 The current issue of China Computerworld (计算机世界) features a cover story on Tencent, the Internet giant that runs the QQ web portal and Internet messaging software and has its fingers in practically every other sector of the online economy. The report is written from...
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Baidu results Google results Maomy, who runs the blog Oh My Media, posted screenshots of two sets of search results, from Baidu and Google, along with the following blog post: The Tragedy of Temperature * by maomy / Oh My Media On Friday my desktop inexplicably shut down on its own again. According to...
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Some numbers to watch: From Xinhua: China has 18.08 mln 3G users The number of China's 3G mobile telecommunication users reached 18.08 million in March, an increase of 4.83 million from the first quarter, said a senior official with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) Thursday...
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Signal distribution for broadband around the world Controls over the Internet have been getting worse recently, prompting some blog writers to react to Google's retreat as well as the state of the GFW. One not-so-famous writer for the blog host my1510, Incomplete Mountain (不周山), wrote an ironic blog...
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China: A tiny piece of a massive pie The Wall Street Journal reports : Analysts at Calyon Securities offered a blistering take on Google Inc.’s threat to walk away from China, saying the “decision to stop filtering searches, though maybe moral, may turn out to be a poor one.” In a note, subtly entitled...
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Teng Biao's forwarding address Teng Biao, who lectures on law at the University of Politics and Law in Beijing and is involved in human rights issues in China, blogged today about unexpected settings on his Gmail account: DON’T BE EVIL 1. Today, acting upon the instruction of a wise Twitter user...
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Baidu.com, China's leading search engine, was hacked sometime this morning, apparently by a group calling itslef Iranian Cyber Army. It's not clear why they hacked Baidu. There's a little more information at the links below. Baidu is still not working properly as of 11:55 am today. Links...
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Image source: Beijing News Yesterday Chinese media reported on the cases of website closures due to copyright infringement. China Daily wrote: Movie fans were surprised recently when they visited popular websites that offer free entertainment downloads and found them closed by regulators after China...
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Ai Weiwei in Chengdu ( Wen Yunchao via EZ) Ethan Zuckerman reads a Twitter update claiming that Ai Weiwei has been hospitalized for cranial surgery related to a scuffle with police in Chengdu a month ago, which leads him to muse on newsgathering in an Internet era: My friend Michael Anti posted a tweet...
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Kokang: an ethnic Chinese-inhabited region in northern Burma In the late 1960s, when the frenzy whipped up by the Cultural Revolution hit its peak, thousands of young Chinese crossed the border to join Burmese Communist Party guerillas. Indoctrinated with Maoist ideology, they believed they were fighting...
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Boss, do you think I'm crazy if I go online six hours a day? The Ministry of Health (卫生部) might release the official definition for Internet Addiction Disorder (IAD) during the first half of next year, reported major media outlets such as The Beijing News and China Youth Daily on Friday August 28...
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Yeeyan's founder Jiamin Yeeyan.com (译言) has 5,000 community translators and claims to have published nearly 30,000 translations. In terms of numbers it is the biggest translation website in China － also collaborating with The Guardian 's website to make a Chinese version where users select articles...
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Academic Criticism (学术批评网) is a useful website founded in 2001 by Yang Yusheng (杨玉圣), a historian and critic. The website aggregates commentary by and about academics: newspaper op-eds, book reviews, forewords to anthologies, and other similar material. It's a way to find a wide variety of opinion...