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Long time readers will remember that Imagethief started a blog for CNET on the China technology scene called ''Little Red Blog'' back in 2006, and ran it for about a year. My archived posts can be found under the ''CNET Asia'' tag in my tag cloud, at right. When I ran short of time I handed the blog over to the excellent Rick Martin, who improved ...

Below is my final post (number 81) for CNET Asia: A new chairman for the Little Red Blog 30/05/2007  No need to worry, it's not some kind of back room putsch. This is, in fact, a peaceful transition of power. I've very much enjoyed watching the China technology scene for CNET Asia over the past year. One thing for ...

As regular readers will have observed, I have got lazy about cross-posting my CNET posts in the last couple of months. This is largely because I am winding down the CNET gig and partially because I am just, well, lazy. Anyway, here is the last big batch. My swan-song post for CNET will be this Wednesday, during which I hand over to a new Little ...

God bless the contradictions. And thanks to the people who have volunteered as potential LRB authors. I've passed your info onto the editor. Also worthy of a general read is this IHT article on how more countries are looking askance at YouTube. I remain convinced that it's blocking is only a matter of time in China, but I've felt that way for a ...

I've been lazy about cross-posting the updates, so here are the last few, going clear back to the emergence of the Nail House story. On a related note, I will be retiring from the CNET gig at the end of May for a variety of reasons, most of which are related to me not having any time and thus not the level of inspiration that I'd like. China geeks ...

Perry Wu of China Tech News does. And he has a convincing case. A mining company that has suddenly decided it wants to be in the video sharing business:On March 5, 2007, Admax Resources changed its name to China YouTV Corporation. I'm not joking when I relay the following from the company's release: ''The company intends to participate in ...

HiPiHi: China's Second-LifeMarch 13, 2007 China is well known for picking up western ideas and gleefully running with them. They've certainly been doing this in the Internet industry, where they have launched successful search engines (Baidu), auction sites (Taobao), e-commerce sites (Joyo), and more video-sharing sites than can be counted. ...

Latest Internet cafe ban an exercise in futilityMarch 13, 2007 As usual, the annual full session of the National Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (NCPPCC) is proving a fertile time for crackdowns on things seen to be damaging to Chinese society. As ever, the Internet is in the sights, and one of this year's brainstorms is a ...

Yeeyan translates Chinese tech news and blogs into EnglishMarch 4, 2007 Yeeyan is a new Chinese blog that runs a great two-way translation service, translating English blog posts and articles on a number of topics into Chinese and vice-versa. ''Yeeyan'' (译言) is an amalgam of the Chinese words for translation and speech. Tech news is one ...

Does it matter if Google can't have Gmail.cn?March 3, 2007 A few days ago Reuters published an article about Google's attempts to buy the Gmail.cn domain from a Chinese company. It seems that Google has been frustrated in its attempts to get its hands on the domain, which was first registered back in 2003, before Google announced Gmail, ...