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From a typical ''Great Firewall'' article from The Canadian Press, this delicious quote on the Power of the Interweb:''We face so many shared global problems right now, you need some kind of global communications medium through which citizens around the world can communicate and share ideas,'' says Ronald Deibert, director of the University of ...

For those who are a bit weary of the whole idea of corporate pavilions, Media magazine has a witty review of the pavilions of all of the Olympic TOP sponsors. Each is helpfully compared to the Olympic athlete or icon that it most resembles. Two examples:China MobileSMS a vote on your favourite Olympic photograph and receive a set of stickers and ...

Having heard much about the new legit apps available for the iPhone (in addition to the apps already available for unlocked iPhones through Installer.app), I decided to take the plunge and upgrade my jailbroken 2G iPhone on Sunday. Here are the steps that were required. You'll see where this went horribly wrong:Download latest Pwnage ...

This probably counts as an abuse of blogging, but for posterity, here is the stream of 40-odd tweets I posted during last Friday's opening ceremony for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. I've flipped them back into chronological order and removed the extraneous material (and some typos):Well, here we go. Good luck, Beijing! 7:52pm Alright. Gotta ...

Seeing all the headlines about how China now has more Internet users than the US has given Imagethief the same unpleasant feeling that he gets when he runs a strip of nylon cordura between his teeth. Imagethief has no problem with China having more Internet users than the US. China has four times more people than the US, so this is as it should ...

From the Sydney Morning Herald:Organisers had repeatedly claimed that internet would not be censored during the Games but at the press conference a Wall Street Journal journalist produced his laptop and showed that sites such as the BBC in China and Hong Kong's Apple Daily were being restricted. BOCOG media director Sun Weijia initially ...

Via Thomas Crampton, Duncan Clark, of telecoms consultancy BDA, has written an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal Asia on the recent regulatory woes of China's video sharing sites:[In] a sign of the ebb and flow of Chinese Internet regulation, regulators evidently concluded they also had to include some successful video sites on the ...

Via the Wall Street Journal's China Journal, Paul Denlinger at China Vortex has translated an internal e-mail that Alibaba founder and CEO Jack Ma wrote and distributed to his staff recently. The e-mail promptly found its way to Sina and was duly published. The e-mail is interesting because it is very candid about Ma's expectation of hard ...

...says Paul Denlinger at China Vortex, reacting to Thomas Crampton's recent online video discussion with Oiwan Lam on the 50 Cent Tribe:The biggest difference between astroturfing and censorship: astroturfing is a PR term and censorship is a political term. Astroturfing is a PR tactic which can be used for either political or commercial ends; ...

David Churbuck with the best angry response to Associated Press' ill-conceived pay-to-quote-us policy (and follow the chain of links there for more info):Here’s the deal: The Associated Press, a coprolite concept of a global news syndicate used by newspapers to fill their editorial holes with standard news (bus plunges, fungible coverage of the ...