Games Over, London-bound, and offline until 2 Sept. [Repeat: Idle until 2 September.] For years, I’ve been saying that there’s no escaping the Olympics in China, and now - in a cosmic joke of sorts - I’m the living proof: twelve hours after the closing ceremonies, I’m getting r
Rush Hour, Hengshan and Gao An Early this morning I was awakened by some pretty spectacular thunder claps (effects of Typhoon Nuri, I learn). Then, I fell back asleep, lulled by a really nice sounding, steady rain. Little did I expect to find the streets of Shanghai (well, my stre
Shanghai’s Cathedral Windows in Bloom. Frankly, after getting drenched in the swirling downpour that followed Thursday’s Olympic sailing in Qingdao, I declared my Olympics to be officially over (still drying out). No more deadlines, no more tickets. I’ll likely have something
The Vancouver Sun’s Douglas Todd is a Thief and an Idiot [UPDATED!] [UPDATED AT END OF POST!] [SECOND, BREAKING NEWS UPDATE: Douglas Todd/Vancouver Sun probably stole from Getty Images, too! SEE END OF POST FOR COMPLETE DETAILS!] Imagine this blogger’s delight when his news feed picked up a Vancouver Sun artic
The China Vortex
Excuse Me! How To Regulate Micropayments? In China, you know something has become big when the government starts worrying about how to regulate it. (Come to think of it, that’s the way it is with most governments, not just China’s.) China’s central bank, the People’s
The Value of Independent Statistics for Online Media in China Victor Koo, CEO of Youku, recently wrote an article, Internet Measurement in China: How to Get Out of the Dark Ages, where he highlighted the major challenge for Internet companies in China: the lack of reliable metrics for performance measurement. I
Apple’s App Store Shows Early Financial Success for Devs Several months ago I wrote about how Apple’s opening of the iPhone SDK and its App Store would create a whole new business ecosystem for application developers for that platform. Apple offers globally accessible hosting and payment clearance in
CN Reviews
Hotel Review of Jade Palace Hotel (Cuigong) in Zhongguancun Beijing I have some UpTake U.S. colleagues who are going to visit the UpTake Beijing R&D team in September. They asked me for some hotel recommendations. I will probably just introduce them to Winser Zhao (Twitter) of SinoHotelReservation who has help
What next? China in the post-Olympics age From The Independent’s slideshow of Olympic photographs. Now that the Olympics are over, the foreign media and China observers are all quick to speculate about what will happen in the post-Olympic era. Here’s a brief sampling of what
More than just adding oil (加油) Photo originally found on Mop here. “Add fuel?” “Let’s go?” “Olé! Olé! Olé?” “Come on?” One of the quirkier news stories that has come out of the Beijing Olympics is how to translate the u
Danwei.ORG
Southern Daily: 9 out of 10 new mothers don't have enough breast milk Mommy's stressed and on a diet This is a translation of an article that appeared in the Southern Daily (南方日报) which is the Guangdong Province Party newspaper, sister to the more lively and commercial Southern Metropolis Daily and part o
Counterstrike in yuppie Beijing This video shows a gun battle with characters from the popular game Counterstike, in Beijing's yuppie office and apartment complex Jianwai Soho. It's from Youku's monthly roundup of interesting web videos, which you can read in the e
Shanghaiist
Shanghaiist Happy Hour: Usain Bolt Appreciation Party, Sept. 4 Yeah yeah, we know. We're sick of the Olympics, too. But who can say no to the Boltman? What: Shanghaiist Happy Hour at Sasha's (11 Dongping Lu, near Hengshan Lu, 东平路11号 近衡山路, Tel: 6474-6628). When: Thursday, September
Finally, a quick way to get famous in Shanghai From Reuters:Shanghai police will post photos and videos of jaywalkers in newspapers and on TV in a bid to shame them out of breaking traffic rules, local media reported on Thursday. Offending pedestrians, moped riders and cyclists would be snap