Key Observations From The Blogosphere

Posted by Joel

Inside Observers

Silicon Hutong, “Speak, Baidu, Speak.”

Unless Baidu can demonstrate to advertisers that it is improving its search product faster than Google is, that it continues to deliver better and more meaningful search results, and that the company can do all of this while pursuing credible efforts in online TV, e-commerce, and whatever else it wants to do, the advertising cash from the big spenders is going to start to leak away…

China Law Blog, “China Kills Recycling! Waste Monster Keeps Growing!”

Like many in the recycling business, this company has a comparatively long term contract with its city and it must continue to pick up recyclable materials. It has had to secure additional warehouse speace to store it. This situation is repeating itself across the world. Recycling companies are geting squeezed…

Danwei, “CCTV underpants and hemorrhoids in the Shanghai press”

Wags in Beijing and on the Internet have been joking about the name of the new CCTV building being a pun on the word for hemorrhoids and calling it the ‘Big Underpants” building.

Shanghai’s press, often eager to mock the aspirations of Beijingers who also want their city to look like a Bladerunner set, have joined in..

Outside Observers

(These posts are a few weeks old, but they offer an outsider’s view of China from their writing on traveling in this great country)

mbites, “China. Wow.”

I had plenty of pre-conceived ideas. But almost all of these were blown away, especially after encountering a tech sector with an astonishing amount of sophistication, ‘in-built innovation and a people far more qualified and nimble than I had previously imagined. It was pretty clear that when they operate within the envelope set by this society, then the sky is pretty much the limit…

Global Neighborhoods, “China’s Web 2.0 & CENSORSHIP”

While I was in China, the top subject people in west asked me about was censorship. It was difficult to fully answer because we were talking mostly on Twitter. Many people have obvious misconceptions about how bad it is. At one point someone tweeted: Are you being filtered from saying sensitive things?” I Tweeted back and said…

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