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Category Archives: China
Chinese / simplified / traditional / fonts – yey
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internet penetration
White guy in a suit
“And so I became a fake businessman in China, an often lucrative gig for underworked expatriates here. One friend, an American who works in film, was paid to represent a Canadian company and give a speech espousing a low-carbon future.”
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/07/rent-a-white-guy/8119
iPad in China! Yeh aheahhaheh…
The announcement:
- The China iPad trademark will be auctioned off at the Shenzhen eBook Forum on April 10.
- The iPad mark starting price will be US $3.65 million, based on what Apple reportedly paid to Hanwang for the iPhone mark.
- The ipad.cn domain name will also be part of the auction, with the starting price set at US $30,000.
Proxy for Facebook
Hong Kong’s big dirty little secret
Who would have thought?
Harinder Veriah’s death helped to expose an ugly truth in Hong Kong: that racism is a serious problem. In its coverage of the case, a report in the Asian Wall Street Journal entitled “Hong Kong’s big dirty little secret” acknowledged that racism was so ingrained that derogatory terms for ethnic minorities such as gwei lo (“ghost people”) for whites and hak gwai or (“black ghost”) for blacks were barely noticed. In 2008 the Hong Kong government introduced an anti-racism bill that marked a milestone in the relationship between the predominantly Chinese population and its minority citizens.
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/31/hospital-pays-compensation-racism-death
…and in other news:
280,000 pro-China “atro-turfers” (hoo-haa)
The government increasingly combines censorship and surveillance measures with pro-active efforts to steer online conversations in the direction it prefers. In 2008 the Hong Kong-based researcher David Bandurski determined that at least 280,000 people had been hired at various levels of government to work as “online commentators.” Known derisively as the “fifty cent party,” these people are paid to write postings that show their employers in a favorable light in online chat rooms, social networking services, blogs, and comments sections of news websites. Many more people do similar work as volunteers—recruited from among the ranks of retired officials as well as college students in the Communist Youth League who aspire to become Party members.
Other: Researcher: China pays 280K people to boost its Web image
The rules of censoring Google in China
A. News section:
1. Only use Central Government main media (website) content; do not use content from other sources.
2. Reposting must not change title.
3. News recommendations should refer to Central government main media websites.
4. Do not produce relevant topic pages; do not set discussion sessions; do not conduct related investigative reporting.
5. Online programs with experts and scholars on this matter must apply for permission ahead of time. This type of self-initiated program production is strictly forbidden.
Website Analysis of sina.com.cn
Photo by Natalie Behring @ www.nataliebehring.com
When designing websites in other languages, there are a few important factors to take into consideration which goes beyond the design of the website. These differences are amplified when you start to design for Asian languages, specifically Chinese.
In this article I discuss sina.com.cn, and look behind the pages to see what’s going on with their Home page and their article page. How does China’s biggest internet player create pages?