http://www.techblog86.com Greater China + Tech + 2.0 + Blog. (Do the maths!). Onboard: David Feng Sun, 19 Sep 2010 13:58:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've been the owner of an iPad for about a few weeks now — and it's got all the bells and whistles. I'm off to Sanlitun again tomorrow to get the long-awaited Bluetooth Keyboard for the thing... it's a tall order trying to type on the virtual keyboard and I ... http://www.techblog86.com/2010/09/techblog86-spin-can-the-ipad-replace-a-mac-laptop/ Rain and the added traffic hell didn't stop a fair number of people from queuing outside the Sanlitun Apple Store today, where the new iPad debuted. Although store staff would not disclose how many iPads were sold or when the line really started piling up, your blogger on an afternoon ... http://www.techblog86.com/2010/09/ipad-lands-in-beijing-at-sanlitun-apple-store/ First, a "responsible" alert from this website: Always be careful when there's a T-storm around!NEVER LISTEN TO MP3 PLAYERS OR HAVE HEADPHONES STUCK IN EARS DURING THUNDERSTORMSFAILURE TO DO SO MAY RESULT SERIOUS OR EVEN FATAL CONSEQUENCES There... now onto the news. A 14-year old Miss Zhang, whom you could hardly tell ... http://www.techblog86.com/2010/08/nanjing-girl-listens-to-mp3-player-%e2%80%94%c2%a0and-gets-hit-by-lightening/ What's to like about Internet cafés in China? There's no opportunity to link up to "reroutes" (so to speak; that's if you must be so reactionary as to tweet or plurk in China), the place is dark, dank, and nicotine-laden, and there's a good chance that official censors are just ... http://www.techblog86.com/2010/08/1927-internet-cafes-in-beijing-at-most/ It's no longer illegal for individuals to grab a .cn, but this time you must register the thing with the Chinese government. As if that wasn't enough, there's also all that red tape to sift through just to do a website. And while the official People.com.cn's bragging about the Chinese ... http://www.techblog86.com/2010/07/domain-update-less-cn-more-com/ If you're interested in posting reactionary propaganda indirectly — as in the form of discrete links — you're in trouble. Quite a number of microblogs — of note Sina and especially Sohu — are now double-checking your links that you embed into your tweets (or "microblog messages", in 2.0-speak with Chinese ... http://www.techblog86.com/2010/07/chinese-microblogs-censoring-links-now-are-we/ Ever wonder why Twitter's doing great with just 205 personnel and still manages to crank out 190 million pageviews a month? Here's something to ponder about: along the same lines of that stat we've just thrown out, Chinese "Twitters" (retermed "microblogs"), being on less libre PRC territory, has way less people ... http://www.techblog86.com/2010/07/chinese-microblogs-less-users-more-censors/ 14:59 update: Tweep @multiple1902@ is now heading out live to the scene of the blast. First, tragedy: A powerful blast likely caused by a gas leak rocked a plastics factory in eastern China on Wednesday, killing at least six people and injuring hundreds, state media reported.The explosion happened about 10 a.m. in ... http://www.techblog86.com/2010/07/nanjing-explosion-cans-new-phrase-who-let-you-broadcast-it-live/ Noted Chinese mainland blogger Han Han seems to be in Hong Kong today, and despite reports that the Q+A is going ahead "the old fashioned way" using pieces of paper instead of a microphone (probably for fear of folks being censored?), that hasn't stopped Han from pulling out his legendary ... http://www.techblog86.com/2010/07/han-han-on-getting-married/ Let's just say that @DavidFeng took the first half of this month to further studies in the mediasphere, so to speak. One's never too old to learn, and we're hoping the readership's learning new and interesting things about the Chinese web every day through techblog86. techblog86 is now back, and the ... http://www.techblog86.com/2010/07/hold-it-%e2%80%94-techblog86-is-back/