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so my twitter addiction has gotten the b …

so my twitter addiction has gotten the better of me and now i even want my blog, which was supposed to have some kind of depth, has been polluted by that ubiquitous microblogging platform addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fpeijinchen.com%2Fblog%2F2009%2F04%2F05%2Fso-my-twitter-addiction-has-gotten-the-b%2F’; addthis_title = ‘so+my+twitter+addiction+has+gotten+the+b+%26%238230%3B’; … Continue reading

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An easy way of updating Twitter in China via SMS

So everyone knows there are a bunch of twitter clones out there in CHina, such as fanfou, jiwai, etc. There were ways, rather circuitous ones that is–of syncing updates, which involved using fanfou and RSS’s…for the most part, most people … Continue reading

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The two year old cigarette smoking boy of Chongqing

This is one that has been making the rounds on the internets. Most people are understandably pissed off about it. Not sure what to say about this: not really the moment for cultural criticism. Most of what can be said … Continue reading

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Gong Li became a Singaporean and some Chinese people are pissed

What, so this is news today? Well, news in China is always of the form “event+internet reaction,” which itself is some kind of recursive phenomenon, especially when there are naked or scantily clad people involved–with violence, corruption, repression following behind … Continue reading

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Nanyang: Man fined 1900 yuan for having porno on his computer

Man, I’d hate to see what I would get fined if they … Poor Ren Chaoqi, you really have to feel for this guy — he got his fifteen minutes of fame for being fined 1900 RMB for having some … Continue reading

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An internet speed test in Shanghai

This shows the result of the internet speed test I just took on Speed.io and it looks like that although the PING speed isn’t hot, the rest is OK. I have noticed, and this is a purely subjective judgment, that … Continue reading

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Journalism needs more explanations and less “information”

PressThink: National Explainer: A Job for Journalists on the Demand Side of News I noticed something in the weeks after I first listened to “The Giant Pool of Money.” I became a customer for ongoing news about the mortgage mess … Continue reading

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我可不是一个阿陆仔

Nien 生活紀錄 – 阿陸仔呀阿陸仔呀 via kwout The Taiwanese are always fulla hate for the mainlanders, with good reason at times. However, it’s gotten a bit out of hand–maybe not in the case talked about in the blog above, but because … Continue reading

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Google China has some nifty Olympics features and functions

Clicking around Google China, I found some stuff that might be of some help as I prepare to head up to Beijing later today. One of them is the SMS alert function, where you can subscribe to stuff like overall … Continue reading

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