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Spontaneous Olympic joy by decree and other news

Posted Monday, June 16, 2008 6:28 AM by will
Cliff Coonan has a story in showbiz trade Variety that examines the broadcasting problems I posted about last week. The article is something of an omnibus piece on current Olympic issues. Among other things, it gets into the organizers' efforts to develop Read More...
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Facebook provides a Chinese take on the source of Western media bias

Posted Saturday, April 05, 2008 2:17 AM by will
Imagethief has been interested to receive in the past two days a couple of notices through Facebook account referring him to a new group (you must be a logged in Facebook user) called "The North Eastern Chinese American Protest." I'll let the group describe Read More...
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YouTube blocked, unsurprisingly

Posted Saturday, March 15, 2008 9:53 PM by will
Since last night, most likely due to the posting of video of the Tibet demonstrations, some of which is reposting of material from major news organizations (such as this, from CNN ). Via Danwei and Shanghaiist . CNN and BBC have been regularly blacked Read More...
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China Mobile knows where you are -- should you care?

Posted Monday, January 28, 2008 5:19 AM by will
One of the hallmarks of bad China journalism is reacting hysterically when China is found to be doing things that everyone else is doing. Unfortunately, it happens rather a lot, presumably because hysteria shifts more units than thoughtful, reasonable Read More...
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A few stories to start the new year

Posted Wednesday, January 02, 2008 5:56 AM by will
I am ringing in 2008 by being officially too lazy to write anything original. But here are a few interesting stories from the past few days that are worth a read: And I thought Aussies were relaxed Controversy in Australia, which has announced the implementation Read More...
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Was the China corruption website collapse story "newsiness"?

Posted Monday, December 24, 2007 11:59 PM by will
The greatest contribution that comedian Stephen Colbert has made to modern society is the concept of "truthiness". Reading from the Wikipedia definition , truthiness is: ...a satirical term to describe things that a person claims to know intuitively or Read More...
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Is Google News Alerts trying to tell me something?

Posted Thursday, December 20, 2007 1:13 AM by will
Today's Google News Alert for "BOCOG": Is Google sending me a message? This same story has appeared in this alert fifteen times in the past eight days (and it's a December 1st story). By the way, I hear BOCOG has replaced their ticketing chief . Read More...
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The last word on "Incorruptible Warrior"

Posted Tuesday, September 11, 2007 10:26 PM by will
The Wall Street Journal yesterday ran a story on the brief life and quiet death of the computer game "Incorruptible Warrior", which was developed by Ningbo City government to help educate wayward youth about proper civic values. Apparently proper civic Read More...
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