Occasional Observations on Chinese Online Media and Other Topics
Posted in Blogosphere, Realm of Thought on Nov 30th, 2008
Trying to understand Zuola’s old and new roles as citizen reporter or network engineer, we should consult another important contributor to CNBloggerCon, the Hongkong-based Sino-American Roland Soong. Unfortunately, Soong had to cancel his trip to the conference for private reasons, so he published his announced talk on his blog, the legendary EastSouthWestNorth.
Soong is one of […]
Posted in Blogosphere on Nov 30th, 2008
Blogger Zhou Shuguang (周曙光) a.k.a. Zuola or Zola, who some days ago was barred from going to Germany by the chinese authorities, has also been one of the more conspicuous participants at this year’s chinese blogger conference CNBloggerCon, two weeks ago in Guangzhou. In front of the entrance to the conference venue, Zuola sold t-shirts […]
Posted in Blogosphere, Regulation on Nov 29th, 2008
Rebecca McKinnon has a highly interesting posting on her blog about recent research she has done at the University of Hongkong. (Unfortunately her blog cannot be easily accessed in mainland China. Even the RSS Feed in Google Reader is blocked.)
Following up on a conversation McKinnon had last year with BOB 2008 award winning Beijing lawyer […]
Posted in Blogosphere, Market on Nov 28th, 2008
CIC has published the first two parts of their white paper “The Internet IS the Community”. Over the last years, Sam Flemming and his team in Shanghai have done a lot to bring the importance of the chinese Internet community to the attention of their target group, which consists, of course, mostly of business people […]
Posted in Blogosphere, Market, Realm of Thought on Oct 8th, 2008
China’s Internet community is ablaze these days with the Social Networking phenomenon. Whereas the Facebook hype seems to finally deflate (at least according my own subjective observations), the Chinese have just discovered the joys of six degrees social graphs and buddy functionality. Big portal providers and bloghosters like Blogbus are adding SNS features to their […]
Posted in Blogosphere, Market on Dec 28th, 2007
From the “Survey Report on Blogs in China 2007″ press release, published on December 26, 2007, by the “China Internet Network Information Center”:
[B]y the end of Nov. 2007, the number of blog spaces has reached 72.82 million in China, and with 47 million blog writers, it is reaching one fourth of the total netizens. […]
Posted in Blogosphere on Dec 26th, 2007
On December 23 I was witness (always painfully conspicuous as a foreigner) to the year-end meeting of Sohu’s featured bloggers. All the big chinese portal providers also serve as blog hosters, some with millions of bloggers each. Most of the active bloggers in China have several blogs, hoping to be featured here and there by […]
Posted in Blogosphere on Dec 26th, 2007
The Mindmeters website was founded in May 2003, originally as an online magazine providing space for contributions made to the Book Review supplement of the Economic Observer weekly (english). In Chinese the name of the website is 思维的乐趣, sī wéi de lè qù, The Delights of Thinking. The wonderful english title was coined by Qin […]
Posted in Blogosphere on Nov 6th, 2007
If I interpret this news correctly, Chinese portal provider Sina.com has registered 1.5 million entries as yet in its blogs related to Ang Lees movie “Lust, Caution”, making it the most commented-upon movie in the history of Sina.com.
God knows how many entries that would have been had the Chinese been allowed to see the unpurged, […]