Occasional Observations on Chinese Online Media and Other Topics
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 Realm of Thought on Dec 26th, 2007
“You westerners take copyright issues far too serious. The web is not about intellectual property, it’s all about spreading ideas!”
(A Chinese ideasmith, in conversation)
(… and I couldn’t agree more!)
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 Market on Dec 14th, 2007
Global Voices have a disconcerting piece about the current run on job fairs in China. It seems that even before graduation chinese students have to not only enter but fight their way into a cut throat white collar labour market. With university graduates now as abundant as industrial workforce used to be (2.4 million graduates […]