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Some quick practical advice on what to do if your website gets blocked in mainland China, and precautions to take to prevent a block happening.
An interesting post on Danwei regarding Google's translation engine making some pretty serious goofs in English/Chinese translation. This all just furthers my view that online translation continues to suck more than Jenna Jameson working overtime.
The AFP recently ran an article about the growth of e-commerce in China, arguing that it is “gaining a foothold” in China. The law in this area needs a lot of development, which is where lawyers can come in. But the article already hints at the problems with e-commerce...
From Thomas Crampton: Only six percent of the Chinese Internet’s hyperlinks leave China’s webspace.
A post (in translation via ESWN) from professor and blogger Zhang Jiehai where he makes a call-to-arms for all Chinese netizens to "hunt down" the blogger behind the popular Sex In Shanghai blog for his crimes against morality (towards the virtues of Chinese women).
.BIZ allows Chinese characters to be entered in domain names. .CN already does it and .COM, .NET and .ORG don't seem far away. Has 好好.com been registered yet? Don't get screwed, stay informed.
China Vortex has an interesting article on some of the reasons online productivity applications (think your basic Office apps, plus CRMs and ERPS) are falling behind in China - blame the damn gamers, or rather the lack of foresight from development funding.
I've been having problems getting onto Chinese websites all day. Now I know why.
It's funny how those stupid emails from Africa trying to scam you have moved to China. I guess they follow corruption, or perceived corruption anyway.
Eric Rosenblum, GM of Global Strategy for RealNetworks, Inc gives us insight into why the market entry strategies of American tech companies often fail in China.
Rebecca McKinnon profiles blogger Liu Xiaoyuan, who is suing his blog host for censoring content. He says the Chinese constitution doesn't allow such censorship (good luck with that one). In looking at Liu, McKinnon outlines some of the complexities that make China's information control regime so
The 88s describes a personal friend of his that works for the internet police in Beijing. Then a long debate follows in the comments about whether it is moral to have friends like this.
A Global Voices round up.
I wrote this article for an expat magazine that is widely distributed here in the top-tier Chinese cities. The idea was to chat about what is going on in the Chinese internet blogosphere. We ran with this topic, but this didn't get past the publisher's Government censor despite what I would would
This story features national pride, controversy, clash of ideals, Yao Ming and Zhang Ziyi. A recipe for a sure fire hit.
One should be careful to equate fast growth, large numbers, and impressive actions with that of how China will overtake other first world nations in the near future. Strong growth now, does not mean it will continue to do so in the future.
Yes, the growth and money put into China has been tremen
Real name identification for netizens is at last officially here
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