http://www.techblog86.com Greater China + Tech + 2.0 + Blog. (Do the maths!). Onboard: David Feng Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:01:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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/ The Chinese may have a PRC ID number already in store for President 2.0. This is a fairly scary bit of "the news" as of late: there's this bit of "fake ID software" on the Chinese Interwebs (which we're going to stay legal and not post a link to) which can ... http://www.techblog86.com/2010/07/is-barack-obama-a-prc-citizen-after-all/ No doubts here: this is Cold War 2.0. (The World Cup, for what it's worth, looks a fair bit like World War II 2.0: last night, Paraguay's two extra goals sent Japan home, much like Little Boy and Fat Man "did their stuff" 65 years ago; England is out and the ... http://www.techblog86.com/2010/06/local-media-descend-upon-google-like-vultures-yet-again/