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special.globaltimes.cn — The father of the Great Firewall of China (GFW) has signed up to six virtual private networks (VPNs) that he uses to access some of the websites he had originally helped block. "I have six VPNs on my home computer," says Fang Binxing, 50, president of the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. "But I only try them to test which side wins: the GFW or the VPN.

www.readwriteweb.com — There's no doubting the impact of social media on our day-to-day lives in 2010. In the western world, most big brands have Facebook and Twitter accounts nowadays, many TV journalists "write a blog" about their beat every day, and services like YouTube are widely consumed. However it's the rise of social media as a tool for social activitism that has really brought these technologies to the fore.

www.danwei.org — Michael Anti (安替), is a well-known Chinese blogger who used to work for the New York Times as a researcher and made headlines when his Windows Live blog was deleted by Microsoft for its content, he warns that twitter might have the same blocking as does youtube.com..

shanghaiist.com — The Shanghaiist's James Creegan spends an afternoon of Chinese net celeb "Red Laowai/红老外" - shopping for Chinese communist memorabilia while talking about the now (in)famous videos that show him singing Chinese nationalist anthems.

www.bizcult.com — Why YouTube could be a cheap, highly visible savior to any Games-sponsoring company in China trouble