The Barking at the Sun/蜀犬吠日 blog (“Blogging from China, Sichuan, Chengdu. 中国. 四川. 成都”) has a good post in English by Mark Hiew on “Big media, citizen journalists, and the May 12th earthquake”. Web 2.0 aiding coverage of this terrible tragedy.
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Good blog post on “citizen journalism” coverage of Chengdu earthquake
Posted in CNN, Chengdu, China, Sichuan, Web 2.0, citizen journalism, crowd sourcing, earthquake, user-generated content on Wednesday, 4 June 2008, 10:32 am | Leave a Comment »
Give the people what they want: “Unofficial” iPhones in China
Posted in Apple, China, Hong Kong, Web 2.0, iPhone on Tuesday, 19 February 2008, 11:52 am | Leave a Comment »
The IHT has finally reported on what those of us living in China have known to be a fact for a long time: it’s easy to get an iPhone in Hong Kong or China, even though Apple’s only officially released the iPhone in the U.S. and Europe. It’s a dirty little secret: Apple’s sold 3.7 [...]
Kung Hei Fat Choi! Google maps tracked annual migration for sad Chinese New Year in China for many
Posted in China, Hong Kong, Web 2.0, economics, google, maps on Friday, 8 February 2008, 8:49 am | Leave a Comment »
Happy Chinese New Year from Hong Kong! It’s the second day of the lunar new year today. And the holiday’s the reason I’ve been able to blog so much. The holiday is the only time over 200 million migrant workers get home to visit their family in their hometown–often the only time in the year [...]









