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The images of the "Beijing Internet Police", one male and one female dressed in uniform and saluting, will from Saturday start popping up every 30 minutes on computer screens run by 13 major portals based in the Chinese capital.

The president of Students for a Free Tibet is in Beijing right now, exactly one year ahead of the 2008 Olympics, vlogging and blogging about Tibetan sovereignty and being a general pain in the ass to the Chinese government.

Lhadon Tethong's liveblogging experiment is incredibly ballsy or incredibly foolhardy, depending on how you look at it.

Reporter-blogger ProState in Flames writes today of Deputy Director General of China's National Copyright Administration Xu Chao's recent statement that the filming of Olympic events for the purpose of blogging has been banned and will be considered copyright violation.

Asks the second commenter on the post: “May I know to whom it is that copyright for the Olympics belongs?”

All the bloggers you know showed up for AmCham's "Digital Influence" panel on how the internet is changing business in China.

I have heard from my colleagues and friends over and over again how they want to start a new business, do this and that, and talk about their product and target audience. No one, however, plans ahead to what to do if the business is successful aside from saying, “we want to get bought out by [insert big company name here]”

Traditional one-dimensional barcodes have been with us for over thirty years, and can now be found on the packaging of almost any product. But while they make checkout lines move faster and have been a great boon to logistics, they’re relatively useless for marketing purposes. The true power of barcode marketing lies in two-dimensional barcodes.

A general introduction to the music business in China from a western industry perspective.

A nice intro to Dalian in general and finding work in 2nd Tier cities in particular. Have a niche and exploit it, 2nd tier cities are wanting.

Loose quote: "If you have skills in IT, business, communications, or something remotely related, you just may be qualified to join the ranks of former English teachers now gainfully employed in real jobs."

Imagethief warns PR practitioners about the hazards of not inviting blogging journalists to press conferences, citing Ogilvy's snub of Tim Johnson as an example.