Just finished watching CCTV.com’s coverage of China’s 60th Anniversary Parade in Beijing on Chang’An Jie in Beijing. I was tweeting along with a number of other people in China (including @imagethief @granitestudio @davesgonechina @goldkorn @beijingboyce @kaiserkuo @christinelu @chjis and a certain Eric A.) – let’s say in not the most sombre of ways (i.e. lots of it was hilarious). Everything from the pink skirt wearing “fembot” female soldiers to the prepensity for rainbows to how much hairspray must have been used, to yes, tanks and such was…discussed. Continue reading “China’s 60th Anniversary Parade Twitter Coverage Goes Ballistic”
CCTV just announced that it will live broadcast Thursday’s parade in Beijing in six languages, as well as live stream all of the pop and circumstance starting at 8am Beijing time on CCTV.com. My experience with CCTV.com has generally been a good one, with often high quality streams (I’ve listed the HD stream below as well – so stand by your monitor, wave a little red flag and you’ll feel like you’re right there!), so if you’re not planning on catching the parade on TV, the stream should be reliable enough. Although the English streams/URLs are listed on the CCTV site I’ve linked to above, I’ve added them below just in case that page disappears before Thursday.
Live Coverage of the PRC’s 60th Anniversary Parade
Live HD Coverage of the PRC’s 60th Anniversary Parade
Yesterday in Longyan in Fujian Province, another rash of lead poisoning cases in children was reported. The 120 cases reported in Longyan come after nearly 2400 children in total were sickened in similar incidents in Hunan and Shaanxi within the last month and a half. Most of the children poisoned came from households very near to the factories that were the cause of the poisoning, some only a few hundred meters away. Continue reading “Bringing out the Lead (Poisoning) – China needs strict rural zoning now”
Today, a day after MMS was finally released for the iPhone in the US (I like the quote “now you can do what you did with your Razr in 2003!”), I was just using the Yahoo Instant Messenger iPhone app (yes, I still have some friends and relatives that hangout there so I go on once and a while begrudgingly), and it got me to thinking about what the iPhone means for IM-focused companies in China. Continue reading “QQ and the iPhone 3G & 3GS – the penguins are aligned”
This is somewhat in response to Ben Parr’s Mashable article and the subsequent comment stream, and following up on a thought I had last night after hearing about Twitpic being GFW’ed. In case you haven’t heard, after yesterday’s explosion, Maggie Rauch posted a few images of the rubble and the police response to Twitpic. The images quickly made the rounds on Twitter and soon thereafter Twitpic itself was blocked in China. Continue reading “Is Twitpic the first Twitter app to be GFW’ed? And should anyone care?”
