Thanks for Professor Urs Gasser’s invitation. I am allowed to sit in his course of “Online Law and Business in a Globalized Economy” at Harvard Law School, and get an opportunity to present some understanding to Chinese websites. Because of the limited time slot, I just partly introduced the slides in the class. Therefore, here [...]
Following the last post on the 10 websites that lead you understanding Cinternet, I’d like to share more specific observations to two of them. One is Douban.com , a “2.0″ site but unique from other web 2.0 sites in English web sphere, and the other is Tianya.cn, a huge BBS that is also different from [...]
As Google’s abrupt leaving from China, the splitting of the Internet seems faster and faster. I think the following ten websites can lead observers understanding the Chinese Internet. All of them survived China’s censorship, and are developing rapidly. Compare to the websites that has been blocked (that I listed on Wednesday here), they are the [...]
From December 14th to December 20th, 2009, seven new Chinese entries have been posted to the Blawgdog. Here are the brief one-sentence abstracts for the English readers’ reference: Top Ten 2009 Copyright News in ChinaChosen by the China Copyright Journal. I added the referral links to those news that had been commented at blawgdog. It’s [...]
To control the pornographic websites, China’s Minstry of Industry and Information annouced today five measures that the registrar (CNNIC) and domain name registration service providers shall do, . 1. Establish a blacklist of the the domain name holders whose website has been shut down by the government. 2. The applicants of domain names must provide [...]
A “Map of Internet Encirclement Compaign in China” was released by some Chinese netizens yesterday. It is very interesting and has been switfly spreaded to BBS and weblogs in Chinese Internet sphere. Here is an English translation of the map (click the picture for a better view): [Background] “The Wars of (anti-)Encirclement Compaign” [...]
